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BLACK ART
NEAR + FAR
Miami MoCAAD is dedicated to presenting contemporary art of the African Diaspora and the mother continent, Africa. The global diaspora reaches outward from Africa to the world. Black ARt Near+Far brings you exhibitions featuring black artists in Miami, nationally and internationally.
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Everything All At Once
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North America
Everything All At Once
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North America
Everything Now All at Once reflects on the conditions of contemporary life shaped by immediacy, constant connectivity, and the collapse of temporal distance. Drawing from the Nasher Museum’s collection and contemporary works, the exhibition investigates how artists visualize and critique the sensation of living in a state of perpetual “now.”
Through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and mixed media, the exhibition foregrounds artistic strategies that address acceleration, fragmentation, and the overwhelming flow of images and information. Artists engage themes of technological mediation, political upheaval, environmental urgency, and social transformation, questioning how meaning is constructed in a landscape where everything appears to happen simultaneously.
Presented by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Everything Now: All at Once invites visitors to slow down and reflect within an environment that mirrors and resists the speed of contemporary experience. The exhibition runs through November 1, 2026, in Durham, North Carolina.
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
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North America
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
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North America
“Giants” features masterpieces by artists such as Jean‑Michel Basquiat, Kehinde Wiley, Amy Sherald, Gordon Parks and many others from the Black diaspora. The exhibition weaves together works of painting, sculpture, photography and installation to show how Black artists have shaped visual culture and laid artistic foundations. It underscores the couple’s dedication to highlighting art by Black creators and challenging art-historical exclusion.
From the Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence
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North America
From the Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence
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North America
From the Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence traces the history, impact, and future of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Artist-in-Residence program, first proposed in 1968 and launched in 1969. Envisioned by artist William T. Williams as an “intimate community of artists working and learning from each other,” the program has played a catalytic role in advancing the work of visual artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent. As one of the Museum’s three founding initiatives—alongside the Film Unit and the Studio Program—the AIR program embedded artistic production directly within the cultural and social fabric of Harlem. From the Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence runs through February 15, 2026, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York, NY.
The Fire This Time
Paris, France
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Europe
The Fire This Time
Paris, France
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Europe
Titus Kaphar: The Fire This Time presents new works that extend Kaphar’s sustained investigation into the rewriting of art history and the visibility of marginalized narratives. Known for his practice of physically altering canvases—cutting, obscuring, layering, and reconstructing images—Kaphar challenges traditional portraiture and historical painting to reveal what has been omitted or silenced.
Through painting and mixed media processes, Kaphar disrupts canonical imagery to foreground questions of race, authorship, and historical memory. His interventions expose the mechanisms through which visual culture shapes collective understanding, positioning painting as a site of both critique and reclamation. The exhibition title evokes urgency and transformation, underscoring the artist’s engagement with cultural reckoning and renewal.
Presented by Gagosian in Paris, The Fire This Time situates Kaphar’s work within an international context, emphasizing the global resonance of his inquiry into representation and power. The exhibition runs through 7 March 2026 at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris.
A Harvest
New York City, NY
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North America
A Harvest
New York City, NY
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North America
In A Harvest, LaKela Brown transforms familiar and historically loaded materials—casts of currency, everyday objects, agricultural references, and symbolic motifs—into sculptural works that speak to extraction, inequity, and the lived experiences of Black communities. Through casting, assemblage, and repetition, Brown interrogates how objects accrue meaning across time, revealing the intersections of memory, value, labor, and social history. The exhibition considers how what is “harvested” from communities—whether labor, culture, or resources—shapes collective identity, resilience, and ongoing struggles for equity.
Dead Letter
New York City, NY
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North America
Dead Letter
New York City, NY
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North America
Dead Letter is a solo exhibition by Jennifer Packer that emerges from sustained reflection on loss, memory, and the limits of representation. The exhibition is shaped by the passing of April Freely four years prior and by Packer’s ongoing effort to rebuild a practice profoundly indebted to Freely’s love, life, and work. Rather than attempting to render grief literally, Packer positions the exhibition as an acknowledgment of what art cannot fully contain. Dead Letter is on view at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, 530 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, from October 18 through December 13, 2025.
18th International Triennial of Textile: Deconstruction / Reconstruction
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Europe
18th International Triennial of Textile: Deconstruction / Reconstruction
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Europe
The 18th International Triennial of Textile: Deconstruction / Reconstruction continues the Central Museum of Textiles’ historic commitment to presenting innovative and experimental textile art from around the world. This edition examines how artists engage with processes of dismantling and rebuilding—whether materially, conceptually, or symbolically. Through weaving, fiber sculpture, installation, mixed media, and expanded textile practices, participating artists investigate the structural properties of fabric and thread as sites of rupture and repair.
By framing textile as both a physical material and a conceptual strategy, the exhibition considers how acts of deconstruction can generate new forms of visibility and meaning. Themes of labor, history, identity, memory, and transformation emerge across the works, positioning textile practice within broader contemporary discourses. As an international platform, the triennial highlights the evolving role of fiber-based art within global contemporary art contexts.
Presented at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland, the exhibition runs through April 12, 2026, reinforcing the museum’s role as a leading institution for textile innovation and research.
Portals to Place: Three Papunya Tula Artists
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Portals to Place: Three Papunya Tula Artists
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Portals to Place: Three Papunya Tula Artists brings together new, previously unseen works by Yukultji Napangati, Lorna Ward Napanangka, and John West Tjupurrula—three senior artists associated with the Papunya Tula movement. The exhibition situates their practices within the broader history of the Western Desert art movement, which emerged in the early 1970s and has since become one of the most internationally recognized Indigenous Australian art traditions.
Through dense, undulating compositions of dots and lines, the artists translate ancestral narratives and sacred knowledge tied to specific sites within their Country. These works function as visual maps that encode spiritual, geographical, and ceremonial information. The shimmering surfaces and rhythmic mark-making evoke both landscape and cosmology, collapsing distinctions between abstraction and cartography.
Presented by Edel Assanti in London, Portals to Place underscores the continued vitality of Papunya Tula painting and its capacity to articulate enduring relationships to land, memory, and intergenerational transmission. The exhibition runs through 16 May 2026 in London.
To Improvise a Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates
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Europe
To Improvise a Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates
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Europe
To Improvise a Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates presents an exhibition conceived through the lens of Yiadom-Boakye’s expansive artistic and literary practice. Known for her enigmatic figurative paintings and her engagement with language and storytelling, Yiadom-Boakye brings together works that emphasize mood, atmosphere, and the possibilities of visual improvisation.
The exhibition title suggests a generative act—improvisation as both construction and discovery. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the exhibition invites viewers into a space of association and reflection, where works converse across different contexts. Through careful selection and arrangement, Yiadom-Boakye highlights affinities between artists and mediums, revealing shared concerns with perception, memory, and the poetic potential of form.
Presented at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, To Improvise a Mountain underscores the role of the artist-curator in shaping dialogue and expanding institutional frameworks. The exhibition runs through 25 January 2026.
Late at night, early in the morning, at noon
New York City, NY
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North America
Late at night, early in the morning, at noon
New York City, NY
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North America
late at night, early in the morning, at noon is conceived as a two-part presentation that examines how language dissolves into atmosphere and sensation through color and material process. The exhibition’s title is drawn from James Baldwin’s 1964 introduction to a Beauford Delaney exhibition in Paris, in which Baldwin reflects on light filtered through leaves and describes blue as a condition of perception—“as blue as the blues when the last light of sun departed.” For Ligon, this description becomes a conceptual framework for thinking about how color and language merge to form a kind of figuration.
In the front gallery at 18th Street, Ligon presents Blue (for JB), a new series of large-scale works on paper that build on ideas first explored in his Stranger paintings, which drew text from Baldwin’s 1953 essay Stranger in the Village. For this new body of work, Ligon begins with rubbings made on thin sheets of Japanese kozo paper placed atop earlier studies. These rubbings capture fragments of words and shapes, recording moments where text and image converge. Ligon enlarges the rubbings as silkscreens on blue grounds and applies water to the surface, allowing ink to flow and blur. The resulting compositions oscillate between legibility and abstraction, transforming Baldwin’s words into atmospheric fields of light, mood, and emotion.
Glenn Ligon: Break It Down
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North America
Glenn Ligon: Break It Down
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North America
The show gathers diverse works — from early print series like Runaways (1993) and Narratives (1993), to later screenprints and text-based drawings — that explore themes of race, migration, identity, and memory. Ligon appropriates texts from writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Genet, and others, stenciling them onto canvas or paper to highlight how language shapes perception and history. The exhibition invites viewers to confront how identity, visibility, and history are constructed and contested through words and images.
Do pranto o oceano, e nadamos no amor
Salvador
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South America
Do pranto o oceano, e nadamos no amor
Salvador
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South America
The exhibition features a range of works created between 2022 and 2025, including 21 paintings, a sculpture, six installations, one mural, and an inflatable banana sculpture. It marks the artist’s first solo institutional museum show in Brazil and includes an original series paying homage to key Bahian artists.
Do pranto o oceano, e nadamos no amor
Salvador
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South America
Do pranto o oceano, e nadamos no amor
Salvador
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South America
The exhibition features a range of works created between 2022 and 2025, including 21 paintings, a sculpture, six installations, one mural, and an inflatable banana sculpture. It marks the artist’s first solo institutional museum show in Brazil and includes an original series paying homage to key Bahian artists.
From Now: A Collection in Context
New York City, NY
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North America
From Now: A Collection in Context
New York City, NY
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North America
This exhibition recontextualizes key works from the Studio Museum’s collection to explore identity, history, abstraction, figuration, and Black cultural production. Through rotating installations and curatorial framing, the exhibition reflects the museum’s long-standing commitment to artists of the African diaspora while engaging present-day artistic discourse.
NEWS FROM THE NEAR FUTURE. 30 YEARS OF FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO
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Europe
NEWS FROM THE NEAR FUTURE. 30 YEARS OF FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO
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Europe
News from the Near Future: 30 Years of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is conceived as both a retrospective and a speculative gesture, tracing the foundation’s role in supporting emerging and established artists since its establishment in 1995. Rather than presenting a linear institutional history, the exhibition assembles artworks that speak to moments of rupture, anticipation, and change—mirroring the evolving conditions under which contemporary art is produced and received.
The exhibition includes works across a wide range of media, including installation, sculpture, painting, video, photography, and performance-based practices. Artists represented reflect the international scope of the foundation’s program and its long-standing commitment to experimentation, critical inquiry, and global dialogue. Many of the works address themes such as political power, technology, identity, migration, environmental transformation, and the role of art in shaping public consciousness.
By positioning the exhibition as “news” from a future that is always approaching, News from the Near Future emphasizes contemporary art’s capacity to respond to the present while imagining alternative futures. Organized by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the exhibition underscores the foundation’s curatorial ethos: sustained engagement with artists over time and a belief in art as an active force within society. The exhibition is presented at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Via Modane 16, Turin, Italy.
Richard Hunt: Pressure
Miami, Florida
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North America
Richard Hunt: Pressure
Miami, Florida
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North America
The show features seminal pieces such as Opposed Linear Forms (1961) and Linear Peregrination (1962), which illustrate Hunt’s early explorations of line and spatial extension, as well as Hero’s Head (1956), a welded steel work reflecting on the murder of Emmett Till near the artist’s Chicago neighborhood. Other significant works include I Have Been to the Mountain (1977), a maquette referencing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, and models for ambitious public commissions like Freedmen’s Column (1989) and the unrealized Middle Passage Monument (1987), which speak to collective historical memory. Through these varied works, the exhibition underscores Hunt’s mastery of metal, his command of abstraction, and the enduring relevance of his artistic vision.
Rush
Denver, Colorado
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North America
Rush
Denver, Colorado
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North America
For Rush, Gary Simmons transforms the gallery into a vast chalkboard-like environment, drawing and partially erasing imagery and texts to question how history and cultural memory are constructed — and what gets erased. The exhibition evokes the mythology of westward expansion, nodding to frontier motifs like covered wagons and cabins, while using sepia tones, shooting-star imagery, and partly erased visuals to interrogate the promises and erasures embedded in American identity. Works include large-scale wall drawings, paintings, and a building-facade mural, blending popular-culture references and historical critique.
The Woman Question: 1550–2025
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Europe
The Woman Question: 1550–2025
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Europe
“The Woman Question: 1550–2025” is organised into thematic chapters that address key trajectories in women’s artistic production: heroic allegories (“Femmes Fortes”), self-portraiture as agency (“Palettes & Power”), barriers to education and canonisation (“Education & the Canon”), identity and motherhood (“A Muse of Her Own” / “Of Woman Born”), mysticism and dream imagery (“Surreal Selves”), the unleashed erotic imagination (“No Gate, No Lock, No Bolt”), and women’s roles in conflict (“Wartime Women”). The exhibition juxtaposes works from figures like Artemisia Gentileschi and Sofonisba Anguissola with those of contemporary artists such as Faith Ringgold and Sonia Boyce to produce a reframing of art-historical narratives.
Coming Forth By Day
Miami, Florida
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North America
Coming Forth By Day
Miami, Florida
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North America
In coming forth by day, De Othello invites viewers into an immersive environment where clay-painted walls, subtle herbal scents, and sculptural works co-exist to explore the primordial relationship between body, earth, and spirit. He draws on materials and motifs like nkisi power figures, Dogon ritual objects and Egyptian pyramids to animate everyday domestic items—mirrors, clocks, vessels—transforming them into anthropomorphic figures rich with memory and emotion. As the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Miami, the show underscores his connection to the city and delves into how objects become vessels of history, spiritual resonance, and human feeling.
For All At Last Return
London, Great Britain
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Europe
For All At Last Return
London, Great Britain
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Europe
For All At Last Return at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is conceived as a global expedition through marine habitats. Drawing on the foundations of ecological art practice, the exhibition traces the shifting boundaries between land and sea, surface and depth, and human impact versus natural agency. Works in the show examine coral reefs, intertidal zones, open waters and deep-sea ecologies through diverse media including sculpture, photography and expanded installation formats. 
Artists participating in the exhibition investigate multiple facets of human-ocean entanglement: environmental violence, resource extraction, indigenous and local ecological knowledge, and potential pathways for regeneration. The works reflect collaborations with scientists and communities, situating artistic inquiry alongside marine biology, oceanography, and climate data. 
By juxtaposing historical narratives with contemporary environmental crises, the exhibition encourages visitors to consider the ocean as both participant and witness in human history. Themes of extraction, resistance and memory are interwoven with aesthetic explorations of form and material, making For All At Last Return both a sensory and intellectual encounter with the pressing realities of global marine systems.
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Africa
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Africa
This exhibition showcases Matloga’s signature practice of combining charcoal, ink, and photographic elements with painterly techniques to construct layered, fragmented domestic interiors. Each composition presents moments of connection, tenderness, and resilience, transforming ordinary spaces into sites of memory, reflection, and storytelling. The works reflect on post-apartheid Black life, capturing both the vulnerabilities and joys of intimate spaces.
Boesky in Paris
Paris, France
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Europe
Boesky in Paris
Paris, France
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Europe
This intimate exhibition brings together a dynamic selection of works by Sanford Biggers, Pier Paolo Calzolari, the Haas Brothers, Jammie Holmes, Dora Jeridi, Nathalie Khayat, Celeste Rapone, and Hannah van Bart. Boesky in Paris highlights both the formal and personal connections these artists share with Paris while showcasing the gallery’s commitment to global artistic dialogue.
Featuring sculpture, painting, and mixed-media works, the exhibition blends established and emerging voices whose practices reflect contemporary currents in art. Notable works include Untitled [detail] (1976) by Pier Paolo Calzolari—crafted from lead, copper, and iron—and new pieces that explore materiality, identity, and form. Positioned to coincide with Art Basel, Boesky in Paris offers visitors a vivid cross-section of today’s international art landscape.
Nanette Carter: A Question of Balance
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North America
Nanette Carter: A Question of Balance
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North America
Nanette Carter (b. 1954), a Montclair native, is renowned for her large-scale collages constructed from painted Mylar. Her work delves into the concept of balance as a visual element and a metaphor for navigating societal and personal challenges. The exhibition includes early prints and paintings as well as recent monumental works from series such as Cantilevered, Destabilizing, and Shifting Perspectives.
A highlight of the exhibition is Afro Sentinels III, a site-specific installation featuring abstract "warrior" figures that address global issues impacting Black and Brown communities. Additionally, visitors can view Carter's video piece The Weight, which offers insight into her creative process.
Jack Whitten at Dia Beacon
New York City, NY
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North America
Jack Whitten at Dia Beacon
New York City, NY
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North America
In the 1970s, Jack Whitten transitioned from gestural abstraction to a more systematic approach in his art, focusing on process and experimentation. He began working on flat surfaces, utilizing custom-designed tools and materials to create images that minimized the artist's hand. Embracing contemporary technological language, Whitten described his new method as "developed" rather than "designed." This exhibition at Dia Beacon showcases a selection of these black-and-white works on paper, offering insight into the evolution of Whitten's artistic practice during this transformative period.
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love at BARNES Foundation
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North America
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love at BARNES Foundation
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North America
"Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is the first major international tour focused on the work of pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas (American, b. 1971), whose influences range from 19th-century painting to popular culture. Co-organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, and The Broad, Los Angeles, and in partnership with the Barnes and Les Abattoirs, Musée–Frac Occitanie Toulouse, All About Love is being shown as a series of independent presentations, with further venues to be confirmed.
The Barnes presentation of All About Love showcases a selection of vivid artworks—paintings, collage, photography, video, and site-specific installation—that celebrates Thomas’s distinctive artistic practice from the late 2000s to the present day."
Firelei Báez
Des Moines, Iowa
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North America
Firelei Báez
Des Moines, Iowa
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North America
Báez’s richly layered work draws from colonial archives, folklore, science fiction, geography, and materials like architectural plans, star maps, and tarps. She challenges narratives of race, gender, and nationality through saturated color, pattern, and sculptural environments. Highlights include immersive installations and early, powerful self-portrait series on Yupo paper that reference the historical paper-bag test
A Superlative Palette: Contemporary Black Women Artists
Charolette, North Carolina
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North America
A Superlative Palette: Contemporary Black Women Artists
Charolette, North Carolina
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North America
A Superlative Palette: Contemporary Black Women Artists, curated by Dexter Wimberly, showcases the groundbreaking work of twelve contemporary Black women artists from across the globe. These artists have redefined artistic expression, challenging conventional narratives and advocating for social justice and empowerment. Despite historical marginalization, they have persevered, offering diverse perspectives, mediums, and styles that enrich the cultural landscape. Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture at Levine Center for the Arts 551 South Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28202. Runs through July 28, 2024.
SUMMER SUMMER
Nassau, Bahamas
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North America
SUMMER SUMMER
Nassau, Bahamas
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North America
"SUMMER SUMMER is a group exhibition focused on abstract figuration within three distinctive Caribbean practices. The exhibiting artists are Leonardo Benzant (Dominican-American), Ronald Cyrille (Guadeloupe), and Steven Schmid (The Bahamas). SUMMER SUMMER focuses on the artists’ unfettered yet encompassed figurative approach in their respective mediums." -Press Release Excerpt
An Uncommon Thread
Bruton, Great Britain
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Africa
An Uncommon Thread
Bruton, Great Britain
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Africa
An Uncommon Thread brings together ten artists who reimagine materials in unexpected ways, using fabric, found objects, and sculptural forms to create deeply textured works rich in symbolism. The exhibition highlights the transformative nature of textiles and unconventional materials, exploring how they can convey history, resilience, and interconnectedness. A highlight of the show is Lindsey Mendick’s I Asked You Not to Hurt Me (2025), an immersive installation inspired by Greek mythology that critiques exploitation and overconsumption. Accompanying the exhibition is a dynamic public program exploring process, materiality, and storytelling, inviting viewers to engage beyond the gallery walls. Hauser & Wirth (Somerset), Durslade Farm, Dropping Ln, Bruton BA10 0NL, United Kingdom. Runs through April 21st, 2025.
Deadweight
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Deadweight
London, Great Britain
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Europe
"A thought-provoking exploration of rebellion and transformation, Deadweight comprises four large-scale sculptural works which continue the artist’s interest in creating new worlds for ‘Blackness’ and fascination with the metaphoric potency and regenerative power of the sea.
The title Deadweight derives from a nautical term which collapses everything on a ship into a single unit which determines the ship’s ability to float and function as intended. White deliberately inverts this, offering disruption as opposed to stability – a reckoning with the tipping point of the ship to offer the possibility of emancipation through abolition.
The works combine force and fragility: undulating angular structures formed from metals manipulated into forms evocative of anchors, a ship’s hull, mammal carcasses or skeletons – lost or abandoned material forms that, through White’s treatment, become symbols of defiance." -Excerpt from Press Release.
Amy Sherald: Four Ways of Being
New York City, NY
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North America
Amy Sherald: Four Ways of Being
New York City, NY
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North America
Amy Sherald, celebrated for her intimate and psychologically rich portraits, presents Four Ways of Being, an exploration of the human experience through her unique visual language. This installation builds upon Sherald’s signature approach—monumental figures rendered in grayscale, set against bold, dreamlike color fields. Each of the four new paintings offers a distinct perspective on how individuals move through time and space, reflecting on themes of Black identity, self-possession, and cultural memory. Through this work, Sherald continues her commitment to challenging historical narratives and reimagining portraiture as a means of empowerment and storytelling.
Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection Group Exhibition
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North America
Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection Group Exhibition
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North America
Silver Linings is a landmark group exhibition that brings together nearly 40 works from the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s permanent collection, celebrating the power, vision, and cultural contributions of Black women and Black artists across the 20th and 21st centuries.
Organized to honor the museum’s 25th anniversary, this exhibition spans a wide range of artistic practices and themes — from early figuration and abstraction to cutting-edge contemporary photography and mixed media. The works on view reflect Black life, history, identity, and imagination, shedding light on the challenges and triumphs of Black artists, especially women.
With themes such as spirituality, activism, beauty, resistance, and belonging, Silver Linings serves as both a historical survey and a call to engage in nuanced conversations about race, gender, and representation in American art.
The title “Silver Linings” underscores optimism and reflection — a nod to the museum's legacy and the enduring creativity of the artists it has uplifted.
UNATHI MKONTO: ‘TO LET’
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UNATHI MKONTO: ‘TO LET’
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"Consisting of photographs, drawings, maquettes, sculptures, and installations, ‘TO LET’ is an open investigation that uses the physicality of space to engage and implicate the people who will encounter it. The artist questions the ways in which architecture encourages a particular performance from the people living, working and playing in and around it. The artist will create “movable platforms” – structures that will have varying purposes, inspired by the corner stores, vendors, and people in his local community. In line with the program’s vision as an exploratory space, Mkonto plans to collaborate with the vibrant community of artists and creatives who have been part of his career." -Press Release
Devan Shimoyama: Rituals
Wichita, Kansas
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North America
Devan Shimoyama: Rituals
Wichita, Kansas
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North America
"Rituals" contextualizes Devan Shimoyama's artworks as contemporary devotional objects, drawing parallels to historical religious imagery such as Byzantine icons, Baroque altarpieces, and Renaissance chapel commissions. Shimoyama's pieces incorporate neon colors, rhinestones, sequins, feathers, glitter, and fabrics to build alternative dream worlds that serve as both counterpoints and interrogations of present realities. These materials pay homage to both drag performance and the churchgoers of his childhood, reflecting themes of vulnerability and transformation.
The exhibition invites viewers to engage with the gallery space as a sacred environment, encouraging reflection and new understandings of the complexities of race, gender, and sexuality. By situating Shimoyama's works within the framework of devotional icons, "Rituals" highlights the spiritual and contemplative aspects of his art.
Zanele Muholi: Sawubona
New York City, NY
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North America
Zanele Muholi: Sawubona
New York City, NY
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North America
Sawubona—a Zulu greeting meaning “I see you”—captures the essence of Muholi’s photographic practice: an insistence on recognition and dignity for Black queer and trans communities. The exhibition brings together selections from key series including Only Half the Picture, Being, Beulahs, and Faces and Phases, each documenting lived experiences of intimacy, gender expression, vulnerability, and strength. Through carefully staged and candid imagery, Muholi reclaims visual narratives often excluded from dominant cultural archives. Their portraits act as both personal testimony and political statement, inviting viewers to confront structures of erasure and inequality while offering space for empathy and connection. With a visual language that is direct yet deeply poetic, Muholi affirms Black queer life as both ordinary and extraordinary—deserving of recognition, memory, and reverence.
I Do Not Come to You by Chance
London, Great Britain
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Europe
I Do Not Come to You by Chance
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Amoako Boafo's I Do Not Come to You by Chance marks his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, showcasing a new body of work that continues his exploration of Black identity, intimacy, and self-determination. The exhibition incorporates paintings into a transformative and involving design conceived by the artist in collaboration with architect and designer Glenn DeRoche.
Boafo's distinctive technique of finger-painting brings a tactile quality to his portraits, capturing the essence of his subjects with expressive strokes. The exhibition includes a recreated version of his childhood courtyard, symbolizing community and memory, and serving as a central element that ties together the themes of the show.
Through this immersive installation, Boafo invites viewers to engage with his personal journey and the broader narratives of the African diaspora, challenging stereotypes and celebrating the richness of Black culture.
Spotlight: Tau Lewis
San Francisco, California
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North America
Spotlight: Tau Lewis
San Francisco, California
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North America
Tau Lewis’s works channel ancestral memory and advocate for collective healing through labor-intensive artistry. Her sculptural practice weaves together recycled textiles, quilted and dyed fabrics, leather, and found objects to create immersive, layered forms steeped in ancestral resonance and environmental consciousness. Each piece—such as Opus (The Ovule) from the imagined world of T.A.U.B.I.S—fuses the human, botanical, and spiritual within richly textured, gender-fluid structures. Through her meticulous craftsmanship, Lewis channels African diasporic practices of material reuse while envisioning utopian futures of love, healing, and justice. Her installations evoke lineages of Black storytellers and cultural makers, animating space with embodied narratives that transcend traditional sculpture.
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
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North America
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
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North America
Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "Giants" marks the first major showcase of the Dean Collection, owned by Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys. The exhibition highlights nearly one hundred significant works by Black diasporic artists, reflecting the Deans’ passion for supporting established and emerging artists while fostering important dialogues about art, culture, and identity.
A Tesseract, A Talisman
Miami, Florida
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North America
A Tesseract, A Talisman
Miami, Florida
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North America
In A Tesseract, A Talisman, Sanford Biggers explores the intersection of past, present, and future through a striking new body of work. His handwoven wool tapestries, created in collaboration with Taller Mexicano de Gobelinos, extend his practice of painting on antique quilts—infusing them with fresh narratives and geometric patterns. Meanwhile, his ceramic sculptures, crafted at the renowned Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, evoke movement and fluidity, transforming rigid materials into dynamic, billowing forms. Drawing from his ongoing Codex series, Biggers continues his investigation of quilts as historical artifacts—once rumored to be coded guides on the Underground Railroad—by reshaping them into objects that blur time and space. This exhibition, marking twelve years of collaboration with David Castillo Gallery, highlights Biggers’s ability to craft “future ethnographies,” bridging ancestral wisdom with contemporary dialogue.
Entryways: Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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North America
Entryways: Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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North America
"Entryways: Nontsikelelo Mutiti" is the inaugural project for a new series that commissions artists to activate the façade of ICA’s building in partnership with Maharam, North America’s leading creator of textiles for commercial and residential interiors. For the 2024 edition, ICA invited Nontsikelelo Mutiti, a Zimbabwean-born visual artist and educator, to reimagine the windows. In the resulting work, Mutiti combined African hair braiding patterns and hair clips with symbols often found in ironwork.
Mutiti is deeply interested in the cultures and communities that are formed in hair salons globally, and often incorporates braids in her work as markers of identity, migration, and culture. Similarly, the use of symbols in ironwork, particularly Adinkra symbols from West Africa, are present visually almost everywhere these decorative architectural features are found. These forms were first created by enslaved blacksmiths from West Africa and have become a shared diasporic visual language. The designs are now found across the African diaspora including in Philadelphia and the broader United States. In the same way that hair braiders continue the practice of these braiding systems, ironworkers, and now restoration workers, ensure the survival and persistence of these symbols as important cultural markers." -
Antonio Obá: Rituals of Care
Geneva, Switzerland
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Europe
Antonio Obá: Rituals of Care
Geneva, Switzerland
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Europe
Antonio Obá’s exhibition at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève presents a deeply introspective and politically charged body of work that interrogates Brazil’s colonial past and its lingering effects on contemporary identity. Through textured paintings, sculptures, and mixed media installations, Obá reimagines religious and historical figures, intertwining personal and collective memory with the complexities of Afro-Brazilian heritage. His practice subverts traditional iconography, revealing hidden tensions between faith, power, and resistance. By engaging with themes of race, sexuality, and historical erasure, Obá’s work fosters a dialogue on identity, belonging, and the resilience of marginalized communities.
Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities]
Antananarivo
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Africa
Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities]
Antananarivo
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Africa
Through Dutch-wax textiles, hybrid masks, and sculptural installations, Shonibare reinterprets European art forms through African aesthetics.
The exhibition features major pieces such as: The African Library (2018) – 6,000 books wrapped in Dutch-wax fabric, embossed with names of post-colonial thinkers and leaders. Hybrid Mask Series (2021–2024) – sculptures combining African and European cultural references. Alien Man/Woman on Flying Machine (2011) – works symbolizing the migration of ideas and bodies. The exhibition examines how histories are woven together — neither erased nor pure, but hybrid.
Adiskidan Ambaye Solo Exhibition
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Africa
Adiskidan Ambaye Solo Exhibition
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Africa
Ambaye’s paintings are constructed from countless small circles that expand outward to form amorphous, semi-figurative shapes. These layered circles create movement, depth, and texture, while recalling earlier works in which she used eggshells as material. The figures merge background and foreground in dazzling colors, endlessly intertwined. Complementing the paintings are three sculptures composed of slivers of plywood fused together to transform driftwood into gestural, dancer-like forms that defy gravity. The works together open a meditative space between visibility and absence.
Tides of Being
New York City, NY
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North America
Tides of Being
New York City, NY
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North America
Water in these works is both literal and metaphorical—it is the medium through which the human form is reshaped, mirrored, or submerged. The figures, mostly women known to the artist (friends, family, muses), are shown in states of movement, dance, or meditative stillness. The white (negative) space remains central, evoking openness, infinity, possibility; but now water intrudes into or emerges from that space, causing distortion and reflection. The paintings aim for a poetic blending of the self with the natural world, inviting viewers into liminal spaces between clarity and abstraction.
Geographic Bodies
New York City, NY
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North America
Geographic Bodies
New York City, NY
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North America
Minaya’s Geographic Bodies features several interconnected series:
- Containers (2015-2020): women in full-bodied spandex suits printed with tropical flora, set in landscapes that seem natural but are often manipulated or artificial; the suits both camouflage and constrain.
- Cloaking (from 2019 onward): covering monuments (e.g. statues of colonial figures) with her own fabric designs, to intervene in public spaces and colonial memory.
Minaya uses camouflage and concealment not simply for aesthetics but to critique exoticization, visibility versus invisibility, colonial control over bodies and landscapes, and the tension of living under external projections.
Mythologies
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Europe
Mythologies
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Europe
Ayón’s visual language centers on the Abakuá mythology, particularly the story of Sikán, a woman whose fate within the society became a metaphor for themes of secrecy, exclusion, gender, and power. Through collography, Ayón developed dense, textured surfaces that evoke both ritual and myth, giving voice to a figure traditionally silenced in Abakuá lore. Works such as Sikán (1985), La cena (The Supper), La familia, and La consagración I–III exemplify her shift from color to a restrained palette of black, white, and gray, which heightened the symbolic and emotional intensity of her art.
Across the Universe
Houston, Texas
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North America
Across the Universe
Houston, Texas
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North America
Jackson’s work in “Across the Universe” spans a variety of media and modes of presentation. Some artworks are large abstract‐geometric paintings with halftone lines, crosshatching, washes and opaque color fields; others are sculptural or textile works that incorporate awning-style structures extending into the space, vinyl strips casting colored shadows, and layered papers and ephemera. Video installations appear, often drawing on local histories (e.g., events in Houston, court cases, stories from Black communities) to overlay archival footage, interviews, reenactments, or staged performance. An example is Vibrating Boundaries (Law of the Land) (Self Portrait as Tatyana, Dajerria, and Sandra), which layers video clips from incidents of racial violence (McKinney pool party; Sandra Bland case) with images of local artists in positions that mirror both aggressors and the vulnerable. Another work, Minute by Minute (Juneteenth in Five Points Denver, CO 2023 / Leaves Study by my Mother in COVID Isolation in Bakersfield, CA 2020), interweaves personal and family history (including recordings, photography) with broader themes of grieving and memory during the pandemic. Through such work, Jackson creates immersive environments that ask the viewer to reckon with history—not just as backdrop, but as active force shaping identity, loss, and resistance.
2025 Annual Exhibition at The Campus
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North America
2025 Annual Exhibition at The Campus
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North America
The exhibition showcases a diverse array of artworks, including painting, sculpture, video, installations, photography, and ceramics. Artists have responded to the spatial rhythm of the site, layering new meaning atop existing associations. The exhibition is developed through a yearlong, artist-driven curatorial strategy, embracing a collaborative model that fosters cultural exchange and community building in upstate New York.
The Waiting Room
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Europe
The Waiting Room
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Europe
The exhibition features paintings that evoke interiors, architectural elements, or liminal spaces suffused with dispersed light and vibrant, fleshy hues. Working from sensory cues—especially scent—Inniss tries to render what memory feels like: how light behind closed eyes appears, how atmosphere lingers, how emotional resonance remains even when clarity fades.
Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe
Houston, Texas
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North America
Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe
Houston, Texas
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North America
The exhibition presents works inspired by local and national histories of activism, layered with bold colors, collage-like compositions, and textured surfaces. By merging aesthetic experimentation with archival research, Jackson creates powerful visual narratives that uncover overlooked struggles and resistance movements. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue and public programs, the show invites audiences to reflect on the connections between art, community, and civic life.
Mestre Didi: In Spiritual Form
New York City, NY
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North America
Mestre Didi: In Spiritual Form
New York City, NY
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North America
The exhibition features Didi’s transformative sculptures alongside a richly illustrated catalogue that includes newly translated writings by the artist. Curated by Rodrigo Moura (Chief Curator), Ayrson Heráclito (Guest Curator), and Chloë Courtney (Curatorial Fellow), the show celebrates Didi’s legacy and his contributions to preserving Afro-Brazilian traditions. Related programming includes roundtable discussions and lectures on Afro-diasporic art and spirituality.
Raio de sol
Lille, France
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Europe
Raio de sol
Lille, France
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Europe
This exhibition showcases the evocative sculptural practice of Sonia Gomes (b. 1948, Minas Gerais, Brazil), who transforms found textiles, fabrics, cords, and everyday objects into vibrant, dynamic assemblages. Her work draws from Afro-Brazilian traditions and personal memory to explore themes of transformation, resilience, and the poetry inherent in discarded materials.
Across the galleries, Raio de Sol presents a selection of recent and mid-career works that highlight Gomes’s signature approach—stitching, tying, and suspending materials to create forms that are both intimate and monumental, reflecting the histories and textures embedded in each object.
For Raio de Sol, Gomes presents several large-scale suspended installations and floor-based assemblages that invite viewers to experience the rhythm, color, and movement of her sculptures. The works resonate with notions of sunlight, energy, and renewal, echoing the exhibition’s title (“Ray of Sun”) and evoking a sense of communal celebration and connection to nature.
Organized by Fiesta Lille 3000, the exhibition runs September 6 – November 10, 2025, at Fiesta Lille 3000, Lille, France.
Kunst & Zwalm 2025
Zwalm (Flemish Ardennes), Belgium
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Europe
Kunst & Zwalm 2025
Zwalm (Flemish Ardennes), Belgium
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Europe
Curated by Kunstenplatform PLAN B (coordinated by Ewoud Vermote, Leontien Allemeersch, and Vivi Focquet), Kunst & Zwalm 2025 enlists multidisciplinary, international and local artists to create site-responsive works that reflect on the land—its soil, histories, and entanglements. The program includes a letterpress workshop alongside local schools, performance dinners, film screenings paired with conversations (“Ten Gronde”), theatrical moments such as Boerenpsalm, and an in-situ “maize-cinema,” among other engaging interventions that weave together art, agriculture, and community.
Telling Overtown Stories, Saying Their Names
Miami, Florida
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North America
Telling Overtown Stories, Saying Their Names
Miami, Florida
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North America
The Mobile Interactive Mural Exhibition is part of Miami MoCAAD’s mission to merge art, history, and technology. The project transforms public spaces into cultural storytelling hubs where murals serve as interactive canvases. Each artwork layers historical memory with augmented reality, offering audiences immersive access to Overtown’s rich cultural legacy.
"Telling Overtown Stories, Saying Their Names" uplifts communities by spotlighting the contributions and untold stories of Overtown’s people. Visitors can engage with the murals not only visually, but also digitally, experiencing recorded histories incorporated in QR Codes, curated narratives, and artist insights. This fusion of tradition and innovation reflects Miami MoCAAD’s vision for art that educates, connects, and inspires.
Nationhood: Memory and Hope (Glasgow, UK)
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Europe
Nationhood: Memory and Hope (Glasgow, UK)
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Europe
At the heart of the exhibition is The Necessity of Seeing, a series of vibrant, surreal images by Aïda Muluneh that transform urban and historic sites in Bradford, Belfast, Cardiff, and Glasgow into symbolic stages for exploring race, history, and identity. These works are paired with A Portrait of Us, a set of intimate black-and-white photographs celebrating local “unsung heroes” — people whose everyday contributions strengthen their communities. In the Glasgow edition, new works by Miriam Ali focus on grassroots activism, portraying individuals whose efforts drive social change, while Haneen Hadiy reimagines Scottish landscapes through Islamic visual traditions, creating a cross-cultural dialogue between place and identity. The exhibition’s combination of internationally acclaimed artistry and fresh, local perspectives offers audiences a rich, multifaceted reflection on what unites — and diversifies — the UK today.
Nationhood: Memory and Hope (Cardiff, UK)
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Europe
Nationhood: Memory and Hope (Cardiff, UK)
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Europe
Through bold, surreal imagery (The Necessity of Seeing) and intimate black-and-white portraits (A Portrait of Us), the exhibition captures the stories of individuals and communities often overlooked in mainstream narratives. Each city’s emerging photographers contribute locally-rooted perspectives on belonging, diversity, and resilience. Commissioned by Bradford 2025 in partnership with Impressions Gallery and partner galleries in each city, the project serves as both an artistic statement and a cultural bridge.
“Iliana Emilia García & Scherezade García: Landed” – Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, New York, NY (June 5 – September 6, 2025)
New York City, NY
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North America
“Iliana Emilia García & Scherezade García: Landed” – Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, New York, NY (June 5 – September 6, 2025)
New York City, NY
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North America
Iliana Emilia García & Scherezade García: Landed" transforms childhood memory into sculptural poetry at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, New York (June 5 – September 6, 2025).
Sisters in diaspora reimagine shared spaces like La salita, weaving family history into installations that pulse with the power of storytelling.
"When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting" brings over 120 Black artists from around the world to Bozar, Brussels (February 7 – August 10, 2025).
Witness a landmark exhibition organized by Zeitz MOCAA—150 figurative paintings redefining artistic vision, shown in Belgium for the first time.
Howardena Pindell: Circles of Memory, Acts of Transformation
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Howardena Pindell: Circles of Memory, Acts of Transformation
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Pindell's revolutionary approach extends beyond personal healing to collective awakening. Her systematic deconstruction of traditional compositional structures mirrors her dismantling of racial and gender hierarchies, revealing how artistic conventions can be reimagined to serve more inclusive narratives. Through painstaking accumulation and subtraction, addition and erasure, she creates works that pulse with the rhythm of survival and the poetry of persistence.
"I endeavoured to change the circle in my mind... to take the sting out of the memory," Pindell has said. This exhibition reveals how she has done far more than remove the sting—she has transformed it into honey, creating art that is both deeply personal and universally resonant, proving that our greatest wounds can become our most powerful sources of creation.
Luana Vitra - Amulets
New York City, NY
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North America
Luana Vitra - Amulets
New York City, NY
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North America
As noted in a recent New York Times article by Siddhartha Mitter, she emphasizes the significance of iron in her life, stating, “What our ancestors lived inside the mines made us the way we are now.” Through her installations, Vitra seeks to forge a connection between humans and minerals, highlighting the narratives that lie within the earth. She encourages viewers to engage with the materials, recognizing their histories and the impact of human interaction with these natural resources. “The people in Minas Gerais,” she reflects, “were shaped by a legacy of watching out for others and forming survival strategies in mines where labor was exploited and collapses were frequent.
Emma Prempeh: Belonging In-Between
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Emma Prempeh: Belonging In-Between
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Belonging In-Between marks the opening of Tiwani Contemporary Lagos's 2025 exhibition program, featuring new works by London-based artist Emma Prempeh. The exhibition delves into Prempeh's exploration of landscape as both physical and emotionally charged sites, drawing upon the memories and experiences of her grandmother and mother, Carmen. Central to the series is Carmen's return to St. Vincent,
capturing the emotional landscapes tied to familial experiences and diasporic belonging
Prempeh's paintings are characterized by their rich, cinematic quality, often depicting figures, interiors, and natural elements that blur the lines between memory and reality. She employs materials such as oil, acrylic, and schlag metal—a brass alloy imitative of gold leaf—which oxidizes over time, symbolizing the fluidity and transformation of memory.
Noah Davis
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Noah Davis
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Noah Davis’s deeply atmospheric paintings explore everyday Black experiences through a lens that is both tender and surreal. Influenced by artists like Peter Doig and Francis Bacon, Davis developed a distinctive style where figures dissolve into hazy, fragmented landscapes, evoking memory, spirituality, and the passage of time. His works—often depicting family life, urban interiors, and moments of solitude—carry an emotional weight that lingers beyond the canvas. Alongside his paintings, the exhibition highlights Davis’s groundbreaking role in establishing the Underground Museum a space dedicated to making museum-quality art accessible to underserved communities in Los Angeles. This exhibition not only honors Davis’s artistic genius but also his dedication to cultural accessibility and social change.
New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations
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North America
New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations
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North America
New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations" at NOMA provides an in-depth exploration of contemporary masquerade traditions in West Africa, emphasizing the unique contributions of individual artists. Unlike typical presentations that generalize masquerades as cultural products, this exhibition focuses on the nuanced stories and creative processes of Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa (Nigeria), Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah (Sierra Leone), David Sanou (Burkina Faso), and Hervé Youmbi (Cameroon).
The exhibition features an array of masquerade ensembles crafted from materials such as wood, fabric, sequins, feathers, gourds, raffia, and cowry shells. These pieces represent a variety of masquerade practices and societies, reflecting the dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation in contemporary African art. By situating these works within their specific social, economic, and religious frameworks, the exhibition offers visitors a comprehensive understanding of the artists' creative visions and the cultural significance of their work.
Free as They Want to Be: Artists Committed to Memory
Boston, Massachusetts
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North America
Free as They Want to Be: Artists Committed to Memory
Boston, Massachusetts
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North America
Originally presented at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, Free as They Want to Be brings together artists whose works serve as acts of remembrance and resistance. The exhibition highlights how Black artists use visual culture to assert agency over historical narratives, engaging with themes of memory, identity, and liberation. Through photography, archival interventions, and experimental media, the featured artists examine how the past informs contemporary Black life, offering new pathways for understanding history as a living, evolving force. Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art. Runs through June 30, 2025.
Jack Whitten @ Dia Beacon
New York City, NY
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North America
Jack Whitten @ Dia Beacon
New York City, NY
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North America
In the 1970s, Jack Whitten transitioned from gestural abstraction to a more systematic approach in his art, focusing on process and experimentation. He began working on flat surfaces, utilizing custom-designed tools and materials to create images that minimized the artist's hand. Embracing contemporary technological language, Whitten described his new method as "developed" rather than "designed." This exhibition at Dia Beacon showcases a selection of these black-and-white works on paper, offering insight into the evolution of Whitten's artistic practice during this transformative period.
poemas de sal y tierra (poems of salt and soil)
Miami, Florida
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North America
poemas de sal y tierra (poems of salt and soil)
Miami, Florida
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North America
"poemas de sal y tierra" serves as an evolving space where sentiment, symbolism, and memorabilia converge to be celebrated and reimagined. The exhibition functions like a prose-written diary, with artworks acting as entries that preserve feelings and memories beyond physical artifacts. Artists weave new layers of meaning into inherited stories, places, and objects, transforming memory into an active, unfolding conversation.
homework
The exhibition explores the concept that individuals both come from and become the places they move through, with salt and soil symbolizing ancestral geographies. Through painting, drawing, sound, film, photography, and sculpture, artists translate ephemeral histories and shifting landscapes into tangible artworks, akin to how poetry reveals the invisible threads of existence.
Psalms, Sermons & Rituals (1981)
Los Angeles, California
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North America
Psalms, Sermons & Rituals (1981)
Los Angeles, California
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North America
In this intimate 1981 solo exhibition, William Pajaud channels his New Orleans roots and deep spiritual heritage through a stunning series of watercolor paintings. Raised in a vibrant city shaped by jazz, gospel, and active Black church traditions, Pajaud draws on these cultural rhythms to infuse each work with the musical cadences of sermon and song. His signature watercolors—which notably capture jazz funeral processions and communal worship—are reimagined here as meditative visual sermons, layered with biblical symbolism, hymn-like repetition, and ritual significance. Through fluid brushwork and vivid color, Pajaud invites viewers into a contemplative space where sacred texts, collective memory, and personal faith converge. The result is a celebration of resilience, community, and the transcendent power of Black spiritual life—an evocative homage to ritual as both artistic subject and lived experience.
The Sights and Sounds of My New Orleans (2000)
Los Angeles, California
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North America
The Sights and Sounds of My New Orleans (2000)
Los Angeles, California
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North America
Pajaud’s deeply personal reflections of New Orleans come alive in this collection, rooted in the artist’s own upbringing in the Crescent City. His father, a professional jazz musician, and the rich cultural tapestry of his childhood served as enduring inspirations for this body of work. Through vibrant watercolors, Pajaud captured the rhythm and soul of New Orleans—the joyous energy of street parades, the solemn dignity of jazz funerals, and the everyday moments that define a community. Each piece reverberates with music, movement, and emotion, portraying the city not only as a physical space but as a living, breathing cultural experience. His works transcend nostalgia, offering a tribute to resilience, heritage, and the enduring power of Black cultural expression. The exhibition invited viewers to step into scenes that celebrate both the beauty and complexity of African American life in New Orleans, uniting personal memory with collective identity.
Lessons of the Hour
Washington D.C.
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North America
Lessons of the Hour
Washington D.C.
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North America
Julien’s cinematic installation interweaves reenactments of Douglass’s life, inspired by his speeches such as “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” and “Lecture on Pictures.” It connects historical and contemporary imagery, from 19th-century photography studios to modern scenes in Baltimore and D.C., emphasizing Douglass’s belief in photography as a tool for liberation and justice. The rich visuals and layered soundscape invite viewers to reflect on both the legacy of Douglass and the broader fight for racial equality. Julien’s poetic editing style makes this a meditative and moving experience that resonates deeply with contemporary issues.
Isaac Julien: I Dream a World
San Francisco, California
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Isaac Julien: I Dream a World
San Francisco, California
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“I Dream a World” brings together seminal works such as Looking for Langston (1989), Baltimore (2003), Ten Thousand Waves (2010), and Lessons of the Hour (2019), among others. These films address complex topics such as Black and queer identity, African diaspora, colonial legacies, and the restitution of African cultural heritage. Through lush imagery, poetic storytelling, and experimental structure, Julien invites viewers to become active participants in his visual explorations. The exhibition is curated by Claudia Schmuckli, who has reimagined the gallery space to accommodate the artist’s distinct multimedia approach, including acoustically-insulated screening rooms for deeper engagement.
Black Earth Rising Group Exhibition
Baltimore, Maryland
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North America
Black Earth Rising Group Exhibition
Baltimore, Maryland
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North America
The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, films, and mixed-media by artists from the African diaspora, Latin America, and Native communities.
Explores colonial extraction, environmental decay, and acts of reclaiming through artistic expressions rooted in joy and resilience.
Earth Pictures
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Africa
Earth Pictures
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Africa
The exhibition introduces a powerful new suite of quilts called "Nature Works," depicting extractive industry fallout: mining in the DRC, gas flares in Nigeria, and more, rendered in lush yet foreboding needlework. Complementing these are hybrid ancestral masks and sculptures painted with Shonibare’s signature Dutch-wax batik, embodying traditional spiritual figures while symbolizing environmental guardianship. Shonibare raises compelling questions about climate justice and unequal burdens borne by the Global South in works that form a visually stunning yet urgent commentary on how post‑colonial extractivism creates ecological and cultural upheaval across the continent.
Ilé Oriaku
New York City, NY
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North America
Ilé Oriaku
New York City, NY
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North America
Organized by Jack Shainman Gallery, “Ilé Oriaku” centers on an imaginary Mbari house (a sacred Igbo ceremonial space) as a stage for narratives that process grief and cultural lineage in tribute to her late grandmother and uncle. Through charcoal, pastel, graphite, chalk, and colored pencil, the works blend intricate patterns, vibrant colors, and architectural fragments to evoke themes of language, spirituality, and ancestral memory. The exhibition presents figures in transition, gesturing, turning, veiling, suggesting a dialogue with the past, and includes moments like Nwanyeruwa (Aba Women’s Rebellion) and an immersive diptych that brings forth the artist’s familial voice.
Light Within Ourselves
Des Moines, Iowa
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North America
Light Within Ourselves
Des Moines, Iowa
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North America
Organized in partnership with the Waterloo Center for the Arts, the exhibition draws from that institution’s 2,000+ piece Haitian art collection, the largest public holding in Iowa and the U.S. Co-curated by Beth Gollnick and Chawne Paige, the exhibition traces Haitian creative traditions alongside themes of diaspora, spirituality, and everyday life. It presents diverse media: painting, metalwork, sculpture, ritual objects, and drapos that weave together colonial history, African diaspora influence, and spiritual traditions within Haitian visual culture. Through generational artworks, it highlights the intersection of spiritual symbolism and daily life, positioning Iowa as an unsuspected center for preserving Haitian cultural heritage.
Ficciones Patógenas
New York City, NY
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North America
Ficciones Patógenas
New York City, NY
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North America
The show interrogates colonial pathologizing—branding certain existences as “possession,” “deviant,” or “sick”—and examines how these narratives have persisted from 1492 to today. It draws inspiration from the 2018 book Ficciones Patógenas by Guaxu trans writer and artist Duen Neka’hen Sacchi, whose medical journeys echo systemic bodily control and colonial violence. Through hybrid visual practices, the artists propose new modes of resistance and reimagining of land, body, and knowledge ― aligning with the Mellon Foundation’s “Dispossessions in the Americas” initiative.
Maïmouna Guerresi: Aishah (Los caminos del alma)
Mexico City, Mexico
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North America
Maïmouna Guerresi: Aishah (Los caminos del alma)
Mexico City, Mexico
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North America
In Aishah (Los caminos del alma), Maïmouna Guerresi continues her intimate exploration of Black Muslim identities through evocative images and sculptural pieces that merge figure, architecture, and landscape. Drawing upon her practice of Sufi mysticism and influence from Senegalese and broader Islamic traditions, Guerresi crafts compositions in which veiled figures often float or blend with nature, roots, light, milk, and cloaks symbolizing spiritual unity and healing. The exhibition underscores themes of ancestral belonging, gender, and shared humanity, presenting a poetic visual journey across the spirit’s terrain.
Situation Comedy
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Situation Comedy
London, Great Britain
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Europe
Derrick Adams’ Situation Comedy delves into the intersection of humor, identity, and representation, drawing inspiration from television sitcoms and their influence on collective memory. His signature use of vibrant acrylics and fabric collages transforms familiar scenes of domestic life, social gatherings, and leisure into layered reflections on race, performance, and personal agency. Adams plays with the comedic structure of conflict and resolution, using fragmented compositions that suggest both the comfort and complexity of these narratives. By reimagining sitcom aesthetics within the fine art space, Situation Comedy offers a fresh perspective on how entertainment shapes cultural consciousness and the portrayal of Black life.
Black Paris
Paris, France
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Europe
Black Paris
Paris, France
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Europe
Paris Noir delves into the vibrant and cosmopolitan art scene of Paris, emphasizing the city's role as a hub for artistic innovation and anti-colonial discourse. The exhibition traces the evolution of Black artistic presence in France, from the inception of the Présence Africaine review to the establishment of Revue Noire. Visitors will encounter a diverse array of artistic practices, including Afro-Atlantic abstractions, surrealism, and free figuration, underscoring the pivotal role of artists of African descent in redefining modernisms and postmodernisms. Contemporary installations by Valérie John, Nathalie Leroy Fiévee, Jay Ramier, and Shuck One provide modern perspectives, enriching the historical narrative.
Carnival
New York City, NY
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North America
Carnival
New York City, NY
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North America
Carnival at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery delves into the multifaceted world of carnival, presenting artworks that embody its celebratory essence and social commentary. The exhibition showcases pieces that range from the whimsical to the provocative, highlighting how carnival serves as a space for both joy and critical reflection. Through vibrant colors, dynamic forms, and interactive elements, the artists invite viewers to engage with themes of identity, community, and transformation inherent in carnival practices. The exhibition underscores the enduring influence of carnival on contemporary art and its role in challenging societal norms.
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
New York City, NY
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North America
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
New York City, NY
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North America
"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" offers a comprehensive examination of Black dandyism, highlighting its role in the formation of Black identities within the Atlantic diaspora. Curated by Monica L. Miller, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Barnard College, the exhibition draws inspiration from her 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. The term "dandy" historically refers to an individual, often a man, with an exceptional devotion to style, approaching fashion as a disciplined art form.
The exhibition traces the origins of Black dandyism to 18th-century Europe, where the Atlantic slave trade and burgeoning consumer culture led to the emergence of fashionably dressed Black servants. Over time, Black individuals harnessed dandyism as a means to challenge imposed identities, utilizing clothing, gesture, irony, and wit to envision new social and political possibilities.
Visitors will encounter a diverse array of media, including garments, accessories, drawings, prints, paintings, photographs, and film excerpts. The collection features works from historical figures to modern designers such as Pharrell Williams and Virgil Abloh, illustrating the evolution and global influence of Black dandyism. By showcasing these narratives, "Superfine" underscores the complex interplay of power, race, and fashion in the Black diaspora.
Lina Iris Viktor: Red Season
New York City, NY
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North America
Lina Iris Viktor: Red Season
New York City, NY
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North America
Liberian-British artist Lina Iris Viktor presents "Red Season," showcases Viktor's unique visual language that intertwines contemporary artistic expression with historical resonance, exploring themes of time, culture, and human experience. Her use of deep reds and burgundy hues taps into the archetypal significance of red, particularly inspired by the Dogon people of Mali, where the color is associated with femininity, transformation, and spirituality. Drawing on influences ranging from Babylonian cosmologies to Dogon architectural principles, Viktor's compositions incorporate ancient symbols and motifs, utilizing traditional materials such as 24-karat gold, jute fiber, banana yarn, and silk. Her limited palette, anchored by deep reds and rich burgundy hues, emphasizes the spiritual and cultural significance of these elements, reflecting her exploration of red, particularly rosso pompeiano or Pompeian red, and its historical and symbolic meanings. This exhibition continues Viktor's exploration of color symbolism and materiality, offering viewers a rich, immersive experience that bridges ancient traditions with contemporary artistic expression.
Amy Sherald: American Sublime @ SFMOA
San Francisco, California
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North America
Amy Sherald: American Sublime @ SFMOA
San Francisco, California
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North America
"Amy Sherald: American Sublime" marks the artist's first mid-career survey, offering an extensive exploration of her work from 2007 to the present. The exhibition is organized thematically, with each gallery presenting a crucial idea in her work and explaining her detailed approach to making paintings. Highlights include her celebrated portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor and new works debuting for the first time. Sherald's art invites viewers to engage with themes of identity, representation, and the nuanced experiences of Black Americans, positioning her within the lineage of great American artists who redefine cultural narratives.
To Scatter Seeds
Nassau, Bahamas
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The Caribbean
To Scatter Seeds
Nassau, Bahamas
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The Caribbean
"To Scatter Seeds" brings together the artistic visions of Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Kachelle Knowles, and Jodi Minnis, each exploring the multifaceted concepts of heritage and identity within the Bahamian context.
Cydne Jasmin Coleby's contributions focus on family dynamics, interpreting "seeds" as children through the lens of childhood imagery. Her works incorporate elements of the home, including colonial iconography, overgrown plants, and vintage family portraits. Through graphic collages, Coleby examines personal and ancestral relationships to trauma and conditioning, offering a reflective narrative on familial ties.
Kachelle Knowles investigates intergenerational fashion, particularly among Millennial and Generation Z schoolboys. Her detailed graphite works portray Black men and boys with sensitivity, highlighting the coexistence of masculine and feminine traits. Knowles' art suggests that the "scattering of seeds" represents the evolution of fashion across generations, where each builds upon or reinterprets the styles of the previous.
Jodi Minnis explores the concept of "scatter" in relation to the diaspora, interpreting "seeds" as symbols of children and heritage. Her work involves the intentional breaking and reassembling of Bahama Mama salt shakers into forms resembling islands and continents. This process reflects on the fragmentation and reconstitution inherent in diasporic experiences, critically examining traditional representations of Bahamian women.
Lorraine O’Grady
Paris, France
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Europe
Lorraine O’Grady
Paris, France
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Europe
This exhibition marks Lorraine O’Grady’s first solo presentation in Paris and her second with Mariane Ibrahim Gallery. It celebrates the artist's profound legacy following her passing in December 2024. The exhibition features works from 1981 to 2021, highlighting O’Grady’s innovative use of performance and persona to interrogate themes of race, gender, and colonialism. Central to the show is Rivers, First Draft (1982), a performance piece that weaves together Caribbean and New England heritages through a "collage-in-space" format. O’Grady’s approach, influenced by surrealism and literary traditions, advocates for an anti-hierarchical view of identity, embracing multiplicity and complexity.
EXPO CHICAGO 2025- Solo Exhibition by Moses Salihou
Chicago, Illinois
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North America
EXPO CHICAGO 2025- Solo Exhibition by Moses Salihou
Chicago, Illinois
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North America
His gestural compositions invite viewers to engage with themes of friendship, cultural heritage, and the transmission of values across generations. Moses Salihou’s BOND series reflects on personal and collective memory through thick layers of oil paint, evoking the emotional depth of human relationships. Drawing from photographic references and lived experiences, Salihou’s figures are intentionally abstracted—allowing identity to remain fluid and open to interpretation. His compositions celebrate the ties that bind families and communities while highlighting the evolving nature of cultural heritage. Presented at EXPO CHICAGO, this exhibition marks an important milestone for both the artist and Tanya Weddemire Gallery, introducing Salihou’s dynamic practice to an international audience.
Ghost Images
New York City, NY
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North America
Ghost Images
New York City, NY
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North America
In "Ghost Images," Mitchell returns to his Southern roots, capturing the ethereal beauty and complex histories of Georgia's Jekyll and Cumberland Islands. Through images of serene beaches, weathered ruins, and veiled figures, he explores the lingering presence of the past in contemporary landscapes. Mitchell's innovative techniques, including printing on mirrors and fabric, challenge traditional perceptions of photography, inviting viewers to reflect on the layers of history and memory embedded within each scene.
Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen
Washington D.C.
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North America
Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen
Washington D.C.
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North America
Adam Pendleton is renowned for his distinctive and conceptually rigorous paintings that blur the lines between painting, drawing, and photography. His process involves starting with paper compositions featuring drips, splatters, geometric shapes, words, and phrases, which he then photographs and layers using a screen-printing technique. This exhibition features several of Pendleton's significant series, including Black Dada, Days, WE ARE NOT, and new Composition and Movement paintings. Additionally, the exhibition debuts Resurrection City Revisited (Who Owns Geometry Anyway?), a new video work projected floor to ceiling. This piece incorporates still and moving images of Resurrection City, the 1968 encampment on the National Mall associated with Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign, interspersed with found footage and geometric forms, accompanied by a score from composer Hahn Rowe.
Jack Whitten: The Messenger
New York City, NY
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North America
Jack Whitten: The Messenger
New York City, NY
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North America
From his experimental techniques to his deeply personal reflections on Black identity, Whitten’s work challenges and redefines the boundaries of contemporary art.Jack Whitten (1939–2018) was a relentless innovator who reshaped the language of abstraction over six decades. Beginning his career in the 1960s amid the Civil Rights Movement, Whitten moved away from gestural painting toward experimental techniques that merged sculptural and painterly processes. This exhibition showcases his transformative journey, from the textural, dragged-paint compositions of the 1970s to his mosaic-like acrylic paintings, which pay homage to Black cultural and political figures. Also included are Whitten’s sculptural works, many carved from wood and infused with historical and spiritual meaning. Jack Whitten: The Messenger highlights his legacy as an artist who continuously pushed the boundaries of materiality, memory, and form, offering profound reflections on history, identity, and technological change.
Bodies of Water: Black Geographies and Maternal Legacies
New York City, NY
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North America
Bodies of Water: Black Geographies and Maternal Legacies
New York City, NY
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North America
In Bodies of Water: Black Geographies and Maternal Legacies, Debra Cartwright employs fluidity as both a visual and conceptual tool, weaving together themes of migration, birth, and caregiving. Her delicate yet powerful paintings depict Black female figures emerging from and dissolving into translucent waterscapes, symbolizing the movement of memory and heritage across time. Through archival research and personal reflections, Cartwright examines the waterways of Virginia as both physical landscapes and historical markers of Black survival. By embracing watercolor’s ephemeral qualities, her work embodies the ever-shifting boundaries of identity and place, reinforcing the resilience of Black maternal legacies.
Barthélémy Toguo
Tokyo, Japan
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Asia
Barthélémy Toguo
Tokyo, Japan
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Asia
Barthélémy Toguo’s multidisciplinary practice explores themes of migration, identity, and social justice. In this exhibition, Toguo presents new works developed during his residency in Yoshino, where he engaged with local artisans and the natural environment. Collaborating with Japanese ceramist Osamu Morimoto, Toguo created a series of ceramic pieces that reflect a fusion of Cameroonian and Japanese aesthetics. The exhibition also includes paintings and installations that address global issues such as the movement of people and goods across borders, environmental concerns, and political challenges. Toguo’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He is also the founder of Bandjoun Station, a cultural and artistic hub in Cameroon supporting emerging African artists.
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love (Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse)
Toulouse, France
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Europe
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love (Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse)
Toulouse, France
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Europe
All About Love offers an unprecedented exploration of Mickalene Thomas's artistic journey, highlighting her commitment to portraying Black women in states of leisure, empowerment, and self-possession. encompassing paintings, collages, photographs, videos, and installations. Her opulent portraits, adorned with rhinestones and vibrant patterns, engage in dialogues with canonical works of art history and popular culture, reimagining beauty and desire through a Black feminist lens. The exhibition delves into themes of identity, representation, and intimacy, inviting viewers to consider love as an active process rooted in care and liberation. Thomas's work challenges traditional narratives, positioning Black women at the center of contemporary art discourse. This exhibition marks the final stop of an international tour that included The Broad in Los Angeles, The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and the Hayward Gallery in London
Malick Sidibé: Regardez-moi
New York City, NY
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North America
Malick Sidibé: Regardez-moi
New York City, NY
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North America
Regardez-moi (“Look at Me”) offers an intimate glimpse into the vibrant social life of Bamako during the 1960s and 70s, a period marked by newfound freedom and cultural renaissance following Mali's independence. Malick Sidibé’s black-and-white photographs immortalize the spirited youth culture, from lively dance parties to serene riverbank gatherings, reflecting a society in the midst of redefining its identity and capturing the exuberance, identity, and cultural pride of a newly liberated Mali.
The exhibition highlights Sidibé’s Painted Frames series, where he collaborated with local Malian artists to encase his photographs in colorful, hand-painted glass frames. This fusion of photography and traditional art forms enhances the visual appeal and underscores the communal and artistic synergy prevalent in Malian culture. These works serve as a testament to the dynamic interplay between modernity and tradition.
Mildred Thompson: Frequencies
Miami, Florida
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North America
Mildred Thompson: Frequencies
Miami, Florida
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North America
Mildred Thompson’s artistic journey traversed continents and disciplines, resulting in a body of work that bridges science, music, and abstraction. Thompson's multifaceted practice draws from scientific research and a poetic pursuit of abstraction to explore the limits of perception, visualizing extremes of scale—from the human body and built environments to microscopic particles and the vastness of the cosmos. After relocating from the United States to Germany in the late 1950s, Thompson created surreal, figurative drawings and etchings, often depicting female figures. In the late 1960s and 1970s, her focus shifted to built environments, as seen in her “Wood Pictures” series—abstract minimalist compositions made from found wood, reminiscent of architectural features and facades. Her explorations continued with the “Window Paintings” (1977), where brightly colored, abstracted spaces appear framed by windows. Thompson's works on paper from the 1970s and ’80s highlight her inventive approach to printmaking and drawing, including the intricate intaglio prints of the “Death and Orgasm” series (1978) and expressive watercolors of celestial constellations like Pleiades III (1988). In the 1990s, she delved into invisible forces with paintings inspired by particle physics and quantum mechanics, such as “String Theory” (1999) and “Magnetic Fields” (1991). A significant selection of her “Heliocentric Series” (c. 1990–94) is on display for the first time in over three decades, presented alongside her monumental “Music of the Spheres” (1996) paintings, each depicting a different planet and accompanied by Thompson's original electronic music compositions titled Cosmos Calling.
Myrlande Constant: The Spiritual World of Haiti
New York City, NY
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North America
Myrlande Constant: The Spiritual World of Haiti
New York City, NY
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North America
Myrlande Constant has revolutionized the traditionally male-dominated drapo Vodou art form by incorporating her expertise in tambour embroidery, learned during her time in the wedding dress industry. Her works, characterized by vibrant materials and textures, transcend conventional religious artifacts, positioning them within the global fine art sphere. Despite Haiti's current challenges, Constant's art serves as a testament to resilience and cultural pride, offering viewers a profound insight into the spiritual and communal facets of Haitian life.
Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection
Chicago, Illinois
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North America
Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection
Chicago, Illinois
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North America
"Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection" offers an in-depth look into Jafa's artistic evolution over the past ten years. Key video works such as "APEX" (2013), "Love is the Message, The Message is Death" (2016), "The White Album" (2018), and "Akingdoncomethas" (2018) are featured, alongside select sculptural and photographic pieces. Jafa's innovative approach blurs the lines between popular and high culture, intertwining personal experiences with political commentary to explore the diverse realities of Black existence.
“The ways of the underworld are perfect”
London, Great Britain
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Europe
“The ways of the underworld are perfect”
London, Great Britain
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Europe
The sculptures, assembled as peaceful emissaries from the spirit realm, invite introspection during Venus retrograde—mirroring her withdrawal from the sky and re-emergence. Inanna (the Sumerian Venus) guides the underlying narrative of descent, challenge, release, and calm. Lewis employs experimental and playful processes in mask-making, sourcing natural pigments (beetroot, hibiscus, turmeric) and applying repurposed textiles, beads, leather, and fragments from earlier works. These materials underscore renewal and multi-layered storytelling. The exhibition’s title echoes a chant meant to comfort Inanna during her descent: “The ways of the underworld are perfect.” These intangible, body-less talismans embody chaotic yet magnetic energies tied to mythic, psychological, and spiritual realms.
When We See Us
Brussels, Belgium
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Europe
When We See Us
Brussels, Belgium
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Europe
When We See Us delves into a century of Black self-representation in painting, highlighting how artists from Africa and its diaspora have depicted daily life and experiences. Inspired by Ava DuVernay's series When They See Us, the exhibition's title signifies a shift towards self-perception and agency. Curated by the late Koyo Kouoh and Tandazani Dhlakama, the exhibition features works by artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Chéri Samba, and Roméo Mivekannin. Accompanied by a soundscape composed by South African artist Neo Muyanga and architectural design by Wolff Architects, the exhibition also features a historical timeline that contextualizes Black artistic and intellectual movements.
Lorna Simpson: Source Notes
New York City, NY
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North America
Lorna Simpson: Source Notes
New York City, NY
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North America
Source Notes marks a significant moment in Lorna Simpson’s artistic journey, highlighting a decade of her painting practice that extends her incisive explorations of identity and representation. Transitioning from her pioneering conceptual photography of the 1980s, Simpson's recent works incorporate screen-printed collages using imagery sourced from vintage Ebony and Jet magazines, as well as archives from the Associated Press and the Library of Congress. These found images—her "source notes"—are layered with washes of ink and acrylic on materials like fiberglass, wood, and clayboard, creating compositions where figures emerge and dissolve within abstract landscapes.
The Alchemy of Colour and Matter
Accra, Ghana
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Africa
The Alchemy of Colour and Matter
Accra, Ghana
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Africa
Jack Whitten: The Messenger
New York City, NY
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North America
Jack Whitten: The Messenger
New York City, NY
,
North America
From his experimental techniques to his deeply personal reflections on Black identity, Whitten’s work challenges and redefines the boundaries of contemporary art.Jack Whitten (1939–2018) was a relentless innovator who reshaped the language of abstraction over six decades. Beginning his career in the 1960s amid the Civil Rights Movement, Whitten moved away from gestural painting toward experimental techniques that merged sculptural and painterly processes. This exhibition showcases his transformative journey, from the textural, dragged-paint compositions of the 1970s to his mosaic-like acrylic paintings, which pay homage to Black cultural and political figures. Also included are Whitten’s sculptural works, many carved from wood and infused with historical and spiritual meaning. Jack Whitten: The Messenger highlights his legacy as an artist who continuously pushed the boundaries of materiality, memory, and form, offering profound reflections on history, identity, and technological change.
Myrlande Constant: DRAPO
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North America
Myrlande Constant: DRAPO
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North America
With over 35 years of experience, Myrlande Constant has transformed the traditional Haitian art of drapo by expanding their scale and complexity. Her works, rich in color and texture, offer a contemporary twist on deeply rooted traditions, providing insight into Haitian life's spiritual and communal aspects. There are two corresponding events, on March 20th, Artist and scholar Dr. Petrouchka Moïse will present a history of Haitian drapo and its connection to Myrlande Constant's art practice. In addition, on April 12th, the museum will offer FREE admission from 10am-5pm as part of the Second Saturdays programming.
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Africa
Europe
North America
London, Great Britain
Lorna Ward Napanangka — Untitled (2025)
Portals to Place: Three Papunya Tula Artists
Lorna Ward Napanangka
March 20, 2026
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May 16, 2026
Portals to Place: Three Papunya Tula Artists presents new works by three leading Pintupi artists whose practices are rooted in the Western Desert tradition. On view at Edel Assanti in London from 20 March to 16 May 2026, the exhibition explores themes of Country, lineage, and the shimmering visual languages of Papunya Tula painting.
London, Great Britain
Europe
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Panama City, Panama
Other mountains, Adrift beneath the waves
Tessa Mars
March 5, 2026
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August 16, 2026
This exhibition is part of a long-term collaborative project developed through TBA21–Academy’s The Current IV: Caribbean fellowship, continuing a presentation first shown in Venice and expanded for Panama.
Panama City, Panama
North America
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New York City, NY
Glenn Ligon — Blue (for JB) #4 (2025)
Late at night, early in the morning, at noon
Glenn Ligon
January 15, 2026
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April 11, 2026
late at night, early in the morning, at noon explores the intersection of language, color, and perception through Glenn Ligon’s works on paper. On view at Hauser & Wirth, 18th Street, New York, from 15 January to 11 April 2026, the exhibition brings together new works alongside prints from the past three decades, tracing the evolution of Ligon’s printmaking practice.
New York City, NY
North America
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Sonia Boyce — Rice n Peas (1982)
The Woman Question: 1550–2025
Sonia Boyce
Jordan Casteel
Vanessa German
Lubaina Himid
November 21, 2025
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May 3, 2026
Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, this ambitious survey exhibition brings together nearly 200 works by women artists across nearly five centuries—from Renaissance painters to contemporary practitioners—to challenge the myth of women’s absence from art history.
Europe
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St. Louis, Missouri
Julie Mehretu — Epigraph, Damascus (2016)
Courtesy of the artist, Saint Louis Art Museum, Eliza McMillan Trust and Friends Endowment Fund
Unsettling the City: Julie Mehretu’s “Epigraph, Damascus”
Julie Mehretu
November 21, 2025
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April 12, 2026
"Unsettling the City: Julie Mehretu’s Epigraph, Damascus" centers on Julie Mehretu's monumental print Epigraph, Damascus, which reimagines urban landscapes through layered mark-making techniques. Employing photogravure, sugar lift aquatint, spit bite aquatint, and open bite, Mehretu reflects on the complexities of city life and the impact of conflict on urban environments. Saint Louis Art Museum, One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110. Runs from November 21, 2025, to April 12, 2026.
St. Louis, Missouri
North America
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Miami, Florida
Woody De Othello — Untitled Works (2025)
Coming Forth By Day
Woody De Othello
November 13, 2025
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June 28, 2026
The exhibition presents Miami-born artist Woody De Othello’s new series of ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works, and a large-scale bronze, rooted in precolonial and diasporic African spiritual traditions at Pérez Art Museum Miami running from November 13, 2025 to June 28, 2026.
Miami, Florida
North America
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London, Great Britain
For All At Last Return
Nadia Huggins
November 8, 2025
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June 7, 2026
For All At Last Return is a major group exhibition at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art that foregrounds the intricate relationships between humans and marine environments. Spanning from 8 November 2025 to 7 June 2026, the show brings together sculpture, video, photography and installation across multiple gallery spaces, offering an expansive survey of artistic engagements with ocean ecologies.
Participating artists — both British and international — explore life from near-shore ecosystems to the open ocean and deep sea, addressing pressing issues such as climate change, overfishing, colonial histories, extraction and ecological memory. The exhibition positions water not only as a material and metaphor but as a living archive that connects communities and cultures across the globe.
The programme also includes newly commissioned work — like a Lightbox presentation by Nadia Huggins — broadening the dialogue between artistic practice and environmental science. Overall, For All At Last Return offers an immersive experience that situates art within urgent conversations around environmental degradation and resilience.
London, Great Britain
Europe
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Denver, Colorado
Rush
Gary Simmons
November 8, 2025
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May 9, 2026
At Cookie Factory (425 W 4th Avenue, Denver, CO), Rush showcases Gary Simmons’ immersive installation and wall drawings that engage with mythologies of the American West and the politics of memory. On view November 8, 2025 – May 9, 2026.
Denver, Colorado
North America
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New York City, NY
Jack Whitten — King’s Wish (Martin Luther’s Dream), 1968 (1969)
Courtesy of the artist
Jack Whitten at Dia Beacon
Jack Whitten
October 24, 2025
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May 18, 2026
Dia Beacon is set to present an exhibition of recently acquired black-and-white works on paper by Jack Whitten, opening on October 24, 2025. These pieces, created in the 1970s, highlight Whitten's experimental shift towards systematic processes and innovative techniques in image-making. The exhibition will open on October 24, 2025.
New York City, NY
North America
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Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien — Take Care #1 (2024)
18th International Triennial of Textile: Deconstruction / Reconstruction
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
October 11, 2025
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April 12, 2026
The 18th International Triennial of Textile explores themes of fragmentation, transformation, and renewal through contemporary textile practices. On view at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź from October 11, 2025 to April 12, 2026, the exhibition foregrounds textile as both medium and metaphor for social, political, and artistic reconstruction.
Europe
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Stockholm, Sweden
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
Neo Matloga
Jacob Lawrence
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Amy Sherald
October 10, 2025
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August 30, 2026
The exhibition features over 148 works from institutional and private lenders across 16 countries, showcasing a century of Black figurative painting by artists of African descent around the world.
Stockholm, Sweden
Europe
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Barkley L. Hendricks — Bahsir (Robert Gowens) (1975)
Everything All At Once
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August 21, 2025
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November 1, 2026
Everything Now All at Once explores the sensory and cultural experience of living in an era defined by simultaneity and digital saturation. On view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from August 21, 2025 to November 1, 2026, the exhibition considers how artists interpret urgency, overload, and interconnectedness in the contemporary moment.
North America
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Miami, Florida
Richard Hunt — From the Ground Up (1989)
Richard Hunt: Pressure
Richard Hunt
May 30, 2025
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March 29, 2026
This major survey traces Hunt’s artistic evolution from early experiments with welded metal and found materials to monumental works in bronze and stainless steel. Known for his innovative approach to sculpture—often described as “drawing in space”—Hunt’s works combine abstraction with a sense of motion, organic form, and historical resonance. The exhibition contextualizes Hunt’s practice within modernist sculpture and highlights his deep engagement with themes of resilience, cultural heritage, and public memory.
Miami, Florida
North America
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Houston, Texas
Tomashi Jackson — Blessed Be the Rock (1920s Dearfield Group, 1970s Ruth Flowers in The Little Rectangle, & the 1972 Second Baptist Church Choir) (2023)
Courtesy of the artist
Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe
Tomashi Jackson
May 30, 2025
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March 29, 2026
Across the Universe highlights Jackson’s expansive body of work, centering on the intersections of systemic inequities, civic participation, and cultural memory. The exhibition contextualizes her practice within broader social and political histories, drawing on themes of voting rights, education, housing, and racial justice.
Houston, Texas
North America
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Houston, Texas
Courtesy of the artist
Across the Universe
Tomashi Jackson
May 30, 2025
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March 26, 2026
“Across the Universe” offers a comprehensive look at Tomashi Jackson’s artistic practice over roughly the past ten years, spotlighting how she uses visual art to unearth under-recognized histories and patterns of resistance, power, and marginalization. Her work intertwines vibrant color theory, abstraction, and layered materials with archival research and personal story. Central themes include racial injustice, community empowerment, grief and loss (including personal loss), migration, and spatial politics—how geography, law, and policy shape who gets seen and who remains silenced. The exhibition also has a strong emotional core, as Jackson returns to Houston—the city of her birth—for this major survey, bringing into view her roots and the resonances of place, memory, family.
Houston, Texas
North America
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Washington D.C.
Adam Pendleton — WE ARE NOT (2024)
Courtesy of the artist
Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen
Adam Pendleton
April 4, 2025
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January 3, 2027
"Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen" is a landmark exhibition showcasing new and recent paintings alongside a single-channel video work. This marks Pendleton's first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C., emphasizing his unique contributions to contemporary American painting within the context of the museum's architecture and the National Mall's history. Hirshhorn Museum, Independence Ave SW & 7th St SW, Washington, D.C. Runs through January 3, 2027.
Washington D.C.
North America
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New York City, NY
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Rosana Paulino — Gêmeas (from the “Jatobás” series) (2023)
Courtesy of the artist
From Now: A Collection in Context
Rosana Paulino
Benny Andrews
Romare Bearden 40198
Jordan Casteel
Carrie Mae Weems
November 15, 2024
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August 16, 2026
“From Now: A Collection in Context” presents selections from the Studio Museum’s permanent collection, highlighting artists of African descent across generations and geographies, and placing historical works in conversation with contemporary practices.
New York City, NY
North America
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Washington D.C.
Isaac Julien — Lessons of the Hour
Courtesy of the artist
Lessons of the Hour
Isaac Julien
December 8, 2023
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December 6, 2026
Lessons of the Hour is a five-screen immersive video installation by Isaac Julien, reflecting on the life and ideas of 19th-century abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass. It is the first joint acquisition by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, co-curated by Saisha Grayson and Charlotte Ickes. This work underscores Douglass’s enduring influence and relevance in ongoing conversations around race, democracy, and visual culture.
Washington D.C.
North America
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