1999
Biography · Visual Arts
Taiba Akhuetie
Biography
United Kingdom
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Biography
Taiba Akhuetie (born 1991/1992) is a British artist of Nigerian descent who creates art using synthetic hair. Akhuetie grew up in a Nigerian household in Kingston, Surrey. Living in "a very white middle-class area", she learned about societal preferences for European hair.
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1914–2003