Exhibitions

COLAB: Art and Music from Baltimore and Beyond

Eubie Blake Cultural Center 17 May - 16 Aug 2025 Presented by the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, COLAB showcases works on loan from major collections of African American art. Visual Art Curator Hilary Pierce has selected a diverse range of styles, subjects, and mediums, creating a digital catalog to guide collaboration with musicians and producers across... Read more

William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 15 May - 31 Aug 2025 This exhibition presents 20 years of work by New York-based artist William Villalongo , including figural and narrative paintings, works on paper, and sculpture that incorporate flocking, cut paper, and collage. His practice is informed by research in the natural and social sciences, mythologies and folklore, popular culture imagery, and... Read more

Paris Noir: Artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance, 1950 – 2000

Centre Pompidou 19 Mar - 30 Jun 2025 From the creation of the Présence Africaine review to that of Revue noire, “Black Paris” retraces the presence and influence of Black artists in France from the 1950s to 2000. The exhibition celebrates 150 artists coming from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, whose works have often never been displayed... Read more

YoYo Lander: Between the Quiet, Selected Works from 2019 to 2024

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture 31 Jan - 11 May 2025 Organized by Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture. Known for her portraits of solitary African diasporic subjects, contemporary artist YoYo Lander captures visual form via a psychological and empathetic drive to understand her subjects, not only through the features of their physical bodies but also through moments... Read more

Acts of Art in Greenwich Village

Hunter College 7 Nov 2024 - 29 Mar 2025 The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Acts of Art in Greenwich Village, the first comprehensive account of the six-year history of Acts of Art, a gallery dedicated to showcasing the work of Black artists in downtown Manhattan. Benny Andrews, James Denmark, Reginald Gammon, Harlan Jackson, Nigel Jackson,... Read more

Robert Peterson: Somewhere in America

Wichita Art Museum & Green Family Art Foundation 29 Sep 2024 - 14 Sep 2025 In his portraits, contemporary artist Robert Peterson renders African American life beautifully and joyfully, rejecting stereotypes to celebrate the “Black experience as [he] knows it.” The artist’s first major museum exhibition, Somewhere In America features key paintings from Peterson’s existing works, as well as over 20 new works, many painted... Read more

Unblocked: Improvisation and Identity in Contemporary Quilts

Hunterdon Art Museum 22 Sep 2024 - 12 Jan 2025 Quilts have existed as domestic textiles for many years and across many cultures. Made for warmth, comfort, or ceremony, these objects have also conveyed important ideas and emotional connections—memorializing people and events, celebrating marriages and births, and sometimes even providing shrouds for burial. Today, contemporary artists recognize the rich potential... Read more

Styling Identities: Hair's Tangled Histories

Wadsworth Atheneum 21 Mar - 11 Aug 2024 Hair is an integral part of us. It is personal and intimate while also being one of the most visible ways we express our identity to the world. We use it to reinvent or disguise ourselves. We style our hair to make a statement: to follow trends and conform, or... Read more

Entangled Pasts: 1768-now

Royal Academy for the Arts 3 Feb - 28 Apr 2024 This spring, we bring together over 100 major contemporary and historical works as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism – and how it may help set a course for the future. Artworks by leading contemporary British artists... Read more

Norma Morgan: In the Land of the Moors and the Catskills

Woodstock Artists Association & Museum 21 Apr - 10 Sep 2023 This is the first solo exhibition of an African-American woman artist in the Towbin Wing, WAAM’s historical gallery. This exhibition and its accompanying publication and programming aim to return Morgan (1928-2017) to public view and acknowledge her contribution to Woodstock’s rich history as a Colony of the Arts. The presentation... Read more

The Hope of Radiance by Imo Imeh

The August Wilson African American Cultural Center 17 Feb - 31 May 2023 The Hope of Radiance brings together art works and texts created between 2020 – 2022 that are part of Dr. Imo Nse Imeh’s developing project titled Benediction. The exhibition addresses Imeh’s emotional and spiritual tumult during the pandemic period, when the world went silent under lockdown and became an unwitting... Read more

Visions: A Study of Form

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture 27 Jan - 21 May 2023 Curated by Leandra-Juliet Kelley, Collections + Exhibitions Manager, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture Visions: A Study of Form examines African Americans of the 20th century and their explorations of natural and abstract forms through various media. The techniques employed by these artists demonstrate not only their mastery, but... Read more

CodeNumber Safe [un]Safe

Bucks County Community College, Hicks Art Center 18 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 The premise of the exhibition 'Code Number Safe [Un]Safe' was built around the concept of numbers and numeric systems holding values for safety and stability or on the contrary- impermanence and oppression. The cohort of artists participating in the exhibition use numbers and numeric identifiers to describe personal, process and... Read more

Retrieving James Edwards and a Forgotten Circle of Black Artists

Arts Council of Princeton 14 Oct - 3 Dec 2022 Curated by Judith Brodsky and Rhinold Ponder, “Retrieving James Edwards and a Forgotten Circle of Black Artists” focuses on five late 20th century master artists who lived and worked within 25 miles of each other between Princeton, NJ and New Hope, PA. This exhibition is the first to bring light... Read more

Feels Like Freedom: Phillip J. Hampton

Telfair Art Museum 7 Oct 2022 - 9 Jan 2023 Telfair Museums presents Feels like Freedom: Phillip J. Hampton , the first large-scale museum retrospective of American painter Phillip J. Hampton (1922–2016), an artist long overdue for continued research and recognition. For 17 years, between 1952 and 1969, Hampton served as an influential visual arts professor and eventual department head... Read more

PRESENCE: A Survey of North Carolina Figurative Artists

GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art 23 Jul - 25 Nov 2022 PRESENCE is a major survey exhibition of two and three dimensional figurative works in a range of approaches from realistic to symbolic, used to explore experiences and emotions that reach to the heart of the human condition. The exhibition presents 25 North Carolina artists from across the state who employ... Read more

Charles White: Influences

Rockland Center for the Arts 2 Apr - 11 Jun 2022 Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA) is proud to present for its 75th Anniversary year, Charles White: Influences, an exhibition in partnership with the Gordon Center for Black Culture & Arts and the CEJJES Institute. Charles White: Influences will open on April 2nd , 2022 in honor of the artist’s... Read more

Richard Mayhew: Reinventing Landscape

The Heckscher Museum of Art 20 Jan - 24 Apr 2022 Born on Long Island in 1924, Richard Mayhew grew up in Amityville, NY, where he formed a deep connection to the natural world. Featuring vibrant landscape paintings created over the last six decades, this exhibition places Mayhew’s paintings in the context of Long Island’s diverse cultural history. The show explores... Read more

Changing Lanes: Mobility in Connecticut

The Amistad Center for Art & Culture 9 Dec 2021 - 3 Apr 2022 Exhibition Location The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Read more

Black Artists in America: 1929-1954

Dixon Gallery and Gardens 17 Oct 2021 - 2 Jan 2022 Exhibition Location 4339 Park Ave. Memphis, TN 38117 Read more

Arrivals

Katonah Museum of Art 3 Oct 2021 - 23 Jan 2022 Arrivals call forth origin stories. How did we get here? Where did we come from? Americans have remarkably varied stories to share, having come to call this country home in so many different ways: by conquest, displacement, colonialism, the slave trade, voluntary migration, and more. The exhibition is organized around... Read more

Creating Community. Cinque Gallery Artists

The Art Students League of New York 3 May - 3 Jul 2021 The Art Students League of New York partnered with the Romare Bearden Foundation to present “Creating Community. Cinque Gallery Artists.” Organized by guest curator and arts administrator Susan Stedman, alongside Cinque’s first artist in residence, Nanette Carter, this special exhibition is the first introductory survey to focus on Cinque Gallery.... Read more

Syd Carpenter: Portraits of Our Places

James A. Michener Art Museum 16 Oct 2020 - 21 Feb 2021 This showing of sculptor and ceramicist Syd Carpenter investigates issues of identity, memory and ownership of land through sculpted portraits of African American gardens and farms. This is the first solo exhibition of Carpenter’s work at the Michener Art Museum. This exhibition of 11 large-scale pieces highlights Carpenter’s connection between... Read more

Freedom and Fragility II

The Amistad Center for Art and Culture 23 Mar 2020 - 8 Feb 2021 Hartford, CT Read more

Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition 1 Mar 2020 - 30 Dec 2022 Robert Blackburn (1920-2003) was a key artist in the development of printmaking in the twentieth century. His innovative, masterful expertise with the medium helped define the overall aesthetic of the American “graphics boom.” This new exhibition examines Blackburn’s life and work, which touched the Harlem Renaissance and the WPA; the... Read more

Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery 9 Nov 2018 - 5 May 2019 Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 features four remarkable artists who challenge the conventional definitions of craft, imbuing it with a renewed sense of emotion, purpose, inclusiveness, and activism. Tanya Aguiñiga transforms natural materials into textiles, furniture, and more that reveal raw personal narratives and universal feelings of vulnerability often using... Read more

Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971

Hunter College 5 Oct - 25 Nov 2018 Organized by Howard Singerman and Sarah Watson with Agnes Gund Curatorial Fellows Clara Chapin, Marie Coneys, Miles Debas, Jazmine Hayes, and Tess Thackara Acts of Art and Rebuttal revisits the 1971 exhibition Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition: Black Artists in Rebutta l , which was organized by members of... Read more