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Exhibits and Events

This page is dedicated to Black art exhibitions and events, locally, nationally, and internationally.  Come back often to see what's happening! 

South Florida

 Miami, FL

An Elegy to Rosewood ​

An Elegy to Rosewood explores the struggle for public recognition of the region’s legacy of white supremacy and state-sanctioned terrorism, featuring new work by Miami-based artists—Rhea Leonard, Charlisa Montrope, Chire  Regans, and Tori Scott. In January 1923, when Jim Crow laws mandated racial discrimination, a white mob that included Ku Klux Klan members killed and permanently displaced Black residents of Rosewood, FL. State officials suppressed reports of the massacre.   Rosewood, Florida, marks 100 years since the race massacre. Here’s what happened. Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Modesto Maidique Campus, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami, FL.  Runs from Jan. 25 — April 16, 2023.
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From Top Left to Right: Rhea Leonard, Tori Scott, Chire Regans(VantaBlack), Charlisa Montrope

Hampton Art Lovers Presents: Charles White, Move On Up!

Charles White, Move on Up features artwork  from The Christopher Norwood Collection and Florida Memorial University Special Collection, including work of  Charles White as well as Benny Andrews, Hale Woodruff, Henry Tanner, John Biggers, Samella Lewis, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Ernie Barnes, Barrington Watson,  Marvin Weeks, and more.  Historic Ward Rooming House, 249 NW 9th Street Miami, FL Runs through March 31,  2023.

Rembrandt Reframed: Charles Humes, Jr., Jennifer Printz, and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz

Rembrandt Reframed :Charles Humes, Jr.,  presents  the expansive visual art practice of Charles Humes, Jr.   For over fifty-years, the artist has centered Black experiences, racial inequities, historic atrocities and celebrated Black families, Black lives, and daily life experiences.  Humes, a Miami native, is experiencing a local renaissance as a featured contemporary artist in the Rembrandt Reframed exhibition at The  Patricia and  Philip Frost Museum, Modesto Maidique Campus 10975 SW 17th Street, Miami, FL. 33199, running through  January 8, 2023;  and with solo shows at Oolite Walgreens Windows, 7340 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL, USA 33141, which runs through November 13, 2023, and  Center for Global Black Studies,  University of Miami, Merrick Building, Room 305 5202 University Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146, which runs through  May 1, 2023.
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Charles Humes, Jr.

Miami MoCAAD: OVERtown: Our Family Tree

OVERtown: Our Family Tree is part of a mural series, Veo Veo, I See I See, Mwen Wè Mwen Wè, an interactive public art project exploring Overtown through visual art, storytelling and technology commissioned by Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD) and curated by Donnamarie Baptiste. The mural, created by Miami-based artist Anthony “Mojo” Reed II,  honors the late Judge Lawson E. Thomas, who as a lawyer fought fearlessly for civil rights of Black people during the 1940s and 1950s Jim Crow era.   Judge Thomas  owned the Overtown law office building  where the mural incorporates QR codes containing oral  history videos about Judge Thomas and Overtown.  On view at 1021 NW Second Ave, Miami, FL.
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Courtesy of Miami MoCAAD

Charles White: A Little Higher

Charles White: A Little Higher is a solo presentation that features nearly fifty works by Chicago-born artist Charles White (1918–79), all drawn from the Primas Family Collection.  Best remembered for meticulously rendered drawings and paintings of his fellow African Americans, White's “images of dignity” invite us to contemplate his subjects' humanity, self-worth, and agency while also acknowledging the nefarious effects of systemic racism.  Lowe Art Museum 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33124. Runs through February 26, 2023.
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Charles White

Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè ​

Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè  is the largest retrospective of Didier William’s career. Translated as “We’ve Left That All Behind,” the show presents an in-depth look at the North Miami-raised artist’s career and memory among the very neighborhood where he once grew up. Curated by Erica Moiah James, Ph.D, the exhibition features over forty works spanning multiple mediums, and including some of his newest paintings. Complementing the painted work, and speaking to the close relationship of painting and printmaking in William’s practice, are new drawings and artist books. The show also includes William’s first monumental sculpture: a 12-ft.-tall wooden body emblematic of a religious column present in Haitian worship rituals.  MOCA North Miami, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami. Runs through April 16, 2023.
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Didier William

Leah Gordon: Kanaval

  Kanaval , a retrospective by photographer, filmmaker, curator, collector and writer Leah Gordon that documents twenty years of Carnival in Haiti. Curated by MOCA Curator Adeze Wilford, the exhibition consists of a series of black-and-white photographs taken on a mechanical medium format camera that are contextualized by a series of oral histories.  MOCA-North Miami, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami. Runs through  April 16, 2023.
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Leah Gordon

Boston, MA

Touching Roots Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas

Touching Roots Black Ancestral Legacies​ in the Americas exhibit focuses on artworks that derive from rich legacies of the African Continent. The exhibition brings to the forefront artists from the Americas, including Allan Rohan Crite, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Ifé Franklin, Bryan McFarlane, Karen Hampton, and Stephen Hamilton.  Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA.  Runs through May 21, 2023.
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John Wilson, maquette for Eternal Presence, modeled 1985, cast 1998 Bronze. William Francis Warden Fund. © John Wilson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Hartford, CT

My Heart is Light in the Void

New Haven-based photographer and artist Merik Goma, art creates opportunities to look at things from different perspectives. In My Heart is Light in the Void. Goma tells a story through a photograph, carefully manipulating the placement of each object and the lighting, creating captivating and thought-provoking images. The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main Street Hartford, CT 06103. Feb 9 through March 31, 2023

Los Angeles, CA

Henry Taylor: B Side

Henry Taylor : B Side surveys thirty years of Henry Taylor’s work in painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation.  This retrospective celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision, and freewheeling experimentation and is the largest exhibition of Taylor’s work to date. The Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012. Runs through Apr 30, 2023.
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Henry Taylor, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo credit: Fredrik Nilsen.

New York, NY

Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces

In Young Lords and Their Traces, Theaster Gates honors radical thinkers who shaped Chicago and the United States as a whole in an exhibition comprising paintings, sculptures, videos, performances, and archival collections that memorialize both heroic figures and more humble, everyday icons. New Museum, 235 Bowery New York, NY 10002. Runs through  Feb. 5, 2023.
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Theaster Gates portrait by Sara Pooley

Xaviera Simmons: Crisis Makes a Book Club

Crisis Makes a Book Club is a comprehensive presentation  of Xaviera Simmons’ practice including photography, painting, video, sculpture, and installation. Featuring new monumental projects, Simmons examines how conditions of the United States’ empire and the art industry are shaped by the construction of whiteness, labor politics, and institutional failures that are both intentional and deep-rooted. Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, Runs through March 5, 2023.
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Courtesy of Xaviera Simmons

The African Origin of Civilization ​

The African Origin of Civilization exhibition features collections from west and central Africa alongside art from ancient Egypt for the first time in The Met’s history. The exhibit allows introspection of different African cultures and eras while providing a rare opportunity to appreciate the extraordinary creativity of the continent across five millennia. The Met Fifth Avenue 136, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY.   Ongoing.
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Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s 
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The Brad Johnson Tape, X – On Subjugation



​Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s The Brad Johnson Tape, X – On Subjugation beacons Brad Johnson (American, 1952–2011), a Black gay poet whose “embrace of violence, sex, cruising, and, more importantly, his investment in love” shaped his work.   Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, The David Geffen Wing. The exhibit is ongoing.
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Tiona Nekkia McClodden at Brooklyn Museum during Black Lunch Table's Wikipedia Editathon for We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85 with guest photographer Noelle Théard

​Everyone


​Nick Cave’s glass mosaics in his installation, Every one, at the 42nd St shuttle in New York capture motions of  his “Soundsuits”.   Colorful  “figures on the wall are depicted leaping and twirling in mosaic Soundsuits”—Cave’s full body costumes that make noise when they move. “ ​​It’s almost like looking at a film strip,” Cave said. “As you’re moving down that from left to right, you see it in motion.” MTA New York, 42nd St Subway Connector.  Permanent installation
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Nick Cave

Norfolk, VA

Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club

Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club explores connections between African American artist Jacob Lawrence and his contemporaries based in the Global South through the Nigerian journal Black Orpheus. The exhibit  features over 125 objects, including Lawrence’s little-known 1964–65 Nigeria series and also presents the work William H. Johnson, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Uche Okeke, Malangantana Ngwenya, Jacob Afolabi, Colette Oluwabamise Omogbai, Francis Newton Souza, Twins Seven-Seven, Wilson Tibério, Genaro de Carvalho, Agnaldo Manoel dos Santos, Susanne Wenger, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Demas Nwoko, and Avinash Chandra, among others. Chrysler Museum of Art, One Memorial Place, Norfolk, Virginia.   New Orleans Museum of Art February 10–May 7, 2023 and Toledo Museum of Art June 3–September 3, 2023
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Jacob Lawrence

Sewanee, TN

No Color Lines

No Color Lines is a multimedia exhibition, featuring Marielle Plaisir, a French Caribbean artist based in South Florida. Plaisir invites viewers into an imagined world without prejudice, discrimination, or acts of domination, creating a poetic and egalitarian utopia. Sewanee University, The University Art Gallery, 735 University Avenue, Sewanee TN. Runs through Mar  31, 2023. Plaisir will present her work in conversation on March 1 at 5 p.m. Runs through 31 31 March 2023 Guerry Auditorium, 68 Georgia Ave, Sewanee, TN 37375

St. Louis, MO

Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents the first retrospective of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939, Philadelphia) in over forty years, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes. This exhibition is the largest monographic exhibition of her work to date, tracing the artist’s full career from the 1950s to the present moment. The Pulitzer features both celebrated and never-before-seen works, highlighting the artist’s groundbreaking role in the field of contemporary sculpture. In addition to twenty five sculptures, the exhibition includes twenty works on paper as well as a selection of Chase-Riboud’s internationally acclaimed poetry. Runs through Feb 5, 2023. Pulitzer Arts Foundation 3716 Washington Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63108

Venice, CA

​Uproot

Uproot,  Alison Saar employs historical memory and media as a lens to view the contemporary and delves deeper into the realities, histories, and layers of Black womanhood in the United States. The  exhibition excavates the intersection of racialized gender inequity and reproductive rights, taking as inspiration images of the Sable Venus and the use of herbal abortifacients as a means of resistance and revolution.  L.A. Louver, 45 North Venice Blvd, Venice, CA. Runs through March 11,  2023

​Washington, DC

​“Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.”

 Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience explores the Black Lives Matter Movement, social protests and the struggle for equality.  Amy Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor in a magnificent  blue flowing gown stands regally as the sole artwork in a gallery room.  The Breona Taylor portrait, which first appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair’s September 2020 issue, is buttressed by 27 newly exhibited images and artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sheila Pree Bright, Bisa Butler, Shaun Leonardo, David Hammons and more.  Bisa Butler’s, I Go To Prepare A Place For You  depicts a quilt of multiple bright-colored cotton, silk and velvet fabrics depicting Harriett Tubman seated against a dark floral background majestically gazing down at the viewer.  The exhibit offers an augmented-reality experience allowing visitors to use their mobile devices to connect the artwork with other objects and themes in the museum to create an interactive, immersive, digital experience. National Museum of African American History and Culture, 1400 Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC Ongoing. ​
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On loan from Amy Sherald, © Amy Sherald

Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South

Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South features: Thornton Dial, James “Son Ford” Thomas, Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Purvis Young, and other artists in the South who worked with little recognition, often using recycled materials as their art supplies and yards, porches, or boarded-up storefronts as their galleries. This exhibit brings their works to the public as prominent focal points within the National Gallery of Art. The National Gallery of Art West Building 6th St and Constitution Ave NW. Runs through March 26, 2023, then travels to Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD, Runs from 17 March 2023 — 18 June 2023.
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International 

London, UK
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THE NEW BLACK VANGUARD: PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN ART AND FASHION

The New Black Vanguard features 15 international Black photographers contributing to a new vision of the Black figure and reframing representation in art and fashion. This exhibition celebrates Black creativity in-front of and behind the camera, featuring works of stylists, models, make-up artists and creative directors who are bringing a radically new set of references and experiences to image making. Antwaun Sargent, curator, explores a new aesthetic of Black portraiture while examining the cross-pollination between art, fashion and culture in the making of images. Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, London SW3 4RY, United Kingdom. Runs through January 22, 2023.
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Africa Fashion

Africa Fashion, the largest ever exhibition on African Fashion, takes visitors on an iconic tour of fashion from the mid-20th century to current contemporary trends. The exhibit showcases fashion through photographs, textiles, music and visual arts. Africa Fashion implores the viewer to see fashion as a global phenomenon viewed through lens that are as diverse as the African continent. Victoria & Albert Museum South Kensington, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL, United Kingdom.  Runs through April 16, 2023.
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Mbeuk Idourrou collection, Imane Ayissi, Autumn/Winter 2019, Paris, France. Photo: Fabrice Malard / Courtesy of Imane Ayissi

Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South

Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South brings together sculpture, paintings, reliefs, drawings, and quilts, most of which will be seen in the UK and Europe for the first time. It will also feature the celebrated quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama and the neighboring communities of Rehoboth and Alberta. Artists featured include Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Hawkins Bolden, Bessie Harvey, Charles Williams, Mary T. Smith, Purvis Young, Mose Tolliver, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary Lee Bendolph, Marlene Bennett Jones, Martha Jane Pettway, Loretta Pettway, and Henry and Georgia Speller.  Working in near isolation from established practices, they have created masterpieces that articulate America’s painful past – the inhuman practice of enslavement, the cruel segregationist policies of the Jim Crow era, and institutionalized racism. Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers. Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD.  Runs  March 17, 2023 — June 18, 2023.
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Décadrage Colonial: Unframing Colonialism

​ Unframing Colonialism  reviews photographic images in the 1931 Paris Colonial Exhibition, Vincennes France. "French supporters of the colonial enterprise looked upon the exposition as an opportunity to furnish proof to the world that colonialism was accomplishing its noble goals."  Unframing Colonialism explores tensions and ambivalence running through the pseudo-scientific fascination for so-called “exotic” cultures, fetishisation and eroticization of black bodies.  Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France. Runs through Feb 27, 2023.
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