| Fatimah Tuggar (b. 1967) is a Nigerian-born artist who creates alluring digital photomontages that juxtapose scenes from African and American daily life. Her works comment on potentially sensitive themes such as ethnicity, technology and post-colonial culture, although the artist chooses not to extend a didactic message, but rather to elucidate cultural nuances that go beyond obvious cross-cultural comparison. The earnest yet vibrant colors of the photo-collages enhance the deadpan effect of her technically savvy works. | | Tuggar completed her MFA at Yale University in 1992. Since then she has exhibited internationally at venues such as the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2003), Centre Georges Pompidou (2005), Paris and the Bamako Biennalle, Mali (2003), to name a few. She has received numerous grants from distinguished institutions such as The Rema Mann Hort Foundation, New York, the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and the The Wheeler Foundation, Brooklyn. |
