Meet Nsenga Knight, an interdisciplinary artist based in Egypt whose work includes geometric drawings, text paintings, and photographs.
Nsenga’s upbringing as a first-generation Black American Muslim informs her work as she makes critical contributions to conversations on Black America, politics, culture, and Islam in the 21st century. Nsenga has received numerous grants including Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and exhibited work at the Drawing Center New York, Project Rowhouses, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, and PS1 MoMA among others.
Join us as we discuss how she’s navigating the art industry as a black woman creative, her strategy to find art collectors, and how she’s building a sustainable creative business based on her own rules.
3:56 - How Nsenga started her creative path.
12:39 - How Nsenga balances building a business and maintaining her art.
26:37 - What drives Nsenga.
33:22 - Challenges Nsenga faces as a creative entrepreneur, and how she overcomes them?
Nsenga’s links:
IG: @nsengaknight
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