Inyang Essien
Inyang Essien is a Nigerian-American lens-based artist from Dallas, TX. Her work is based in photography, cultural textiles, video installations, and mixed media art to explore identity through culture, sexuality, and personal transformation. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows throughout the United States in Calabar Gallery at New York, the Colorado Photographic Art Center, as well as Washington DC and Virginia and was awarded the Nasher Artist Grant. She was an inaugural recipient of the Juanita J. Craft House Residency (2021).