Fatimah Tuggar


Fatimah Tuggar is a Nigerian visual artist and now based in the United States.

Tuggar was born in Kaduna, Nigeria in 1967. She studied in London before receiving a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in the USA. Tuggar completed her MFA at Yale University in 1996. Since she has shown her work in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art , the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and international biennial exhibitions such as the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art , Palais des BeauxArts, Brussels , Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris and the Bamako Biennal, Mali, 2003. She has received grants from institutions such as The Rema Mann Hort Foundation of New York, the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and The Wheeler Foundation, Brooklyn.

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