The Artistic Odyssey

Moridja Kitenge Banza opens up about the pivotal moments and evolving landscapes of his career.

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Davi Pontes, Wallace Ferreira | Repertório N. 2

29 February–27 April 2024
Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira
Repertório N. 2
Zizipho Poswa | Indyebo yakwaNtu (Black Bounty)

22 February – 27 April 2024
Zizipho Poswa
Indyebo yakwaNtu (Black Bounty)
Alanna Airitam | New Histories - Where Present Meets Past

3 February – 2 March
Alanna Airitam
New Histories – Where Present Meets Past
Theaster Gates | Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me

26 January – 2 March 2024
Theaster Gates
Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me
Davi Pontes, Wallace Ferreira | Repertório N. 2

29 February–27 April 2024
Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira
Repertório N. 2
Zizipho Poswa | Indyebo yakwaNtu (Black Bounty)

22 February – 27 April 2024
Zizipho Poswa
Indyebo yakwaNtu (Black Bounty)
Alanna Airitam | New Histories - Where Present Meets Past

3 February – 2 March
Alanna Airitam
New Histories – Where Present Meets Past
Theaster Gates | Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me

26 January – 2 March 2024
Theaster Gates
Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me
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Artists Exhibiting Now
Zizipho Poswa | Artist Overview

Zizipho Poswa
Until 27 April
Alanna Airitam | Artist Overview

Alanna Airitam
Until 2 March
Theaster Gates | Artist Overview

Theaster Gates
until 2 March
Merikokeb Berhanu | Artist Overview

Merikokeb Berhanu
16 February – 23 March
Karina Sharif | Artist Overview

Karina Sharif
Until 30 March
Peju Alatise | Artist Overview

Peju Alatise
until 23 March
Marilyn Nance | Artist Overview

Marilyn Nance
Until 27 April
Gerald Lovell | Artist Overview

Gerald Lovell
Until 9 March
Stanley Whitney | Artist Overview

Stanley Whitney
Until 26 May 2024
Oumar Ball | Artist Overview

Oumar Ball
until 9 March
Gary Simmons | Artist Overview

Gary Simmons
until 28 April
Patrick Eugène | Artist Overview

Patrick Eugène
17 February – 23 March 2024
Tammie Rubin | Artist Overview

Tammie Rubin
Until 8 March
Pol Taburet | Artist Overview

Pol Taburet
Until 16 March
Amoako Boafo | Artist Overview

Amoako Boafo
Until 4 May
Yinka Shonibare | Artist Overview

Yinka Shonibare
until 28 April
Lubaina Himid | Artist Overview

Lubaina Himid
until 28 April
Hew Locke | Artist Review

Hew Locke
until 28 April
Artists Exhibiting Now
Zizipho Poswa | Artist Overview

Zizipho Poswa
Alanna Airitam | Artist Overview

Alanna Airitam
Theaster Gates | Artist Overview

Theaster Gates
Merikokeb Berhanu | Artist Overview

Merikokeb Berhanu

Regen Projects Now Represents Artist Sable Elyse Smith

Regen Projects is pleased to announce representation of Sable Elyse Smith.  Working in video, sculpture, photography, and text-based artworks, Smith draws attention to American systems of inequity. Her work focuses on the largely unseen ...

American Painter, Raymond Saunders joins David Zwirner

David Zwirner, in collaboration with Andrew Kreps Gallery, announces their joint representation of esteemed American artist Raymond Saunders. The partnership coincides with the unveiling of a two-part solo exhibition titled "Post No Bills," curated ...

Highly Acclaimed Artist Radcliffe Bailey Dies At The Age of 54

The art world mourns the loss of Radcliffe Bailey, a world-renowned artist who passed away at the age of 54 in his adopted hometown of Atlanta. Known for his mesmerizing works that elegantly summoned the past, present, and future of Black Americans, ...

White Cube Now Represents American Sculptor Richard Hunt

White Cube has recently announced its global representation of American sculptor Richard Hunt, marking a significant moment for both the gallery and the artist. Known for his thought-provoking sculptures, Hunt will make his debut at Art Basel Miami ...

Otobong Nkanga Awarded $100,000 Nasher Prize for Sculpture

The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has awarded Antwerp-based artist Otobong Nkanga its Nasher Prize, which comes with $100,000 and an exhibition at the museum. Nkanga’s exhibition, which will be accompanied by a monograph, will ...

9 Los Angeles Exhibitions by Black Artists to See In August 2023

We’ve curated a list of 9 shows that offer new ways to experience Black art & culture in the City of Angels, from Honor Titus's new artworks at Gagosian that reframe formal social traditions by depicting people of color in the contexts of leisure ...

Grace Wales Bonner will curate MoMA’a “Artist Choice Show”

London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner has been tapped to curate the sixteenth iteration of the Museum of Modern Art’s Artist’s Choice exhibition series. The designer will select fifty works from the New York institution’s collection which will ...

New Gallery Space BWO Opens in Cameroon

Cameroon's burgeoning contemporary art scene is gaining global recognition, with its vibrant blend of traditional motifs and contemporary themes striking a chord on the international stage. Notably, Cameroonian artists have graced global platforms ...

10 Art Shows by to See in New York This July

In this article, we will guide you through the captivating art scene of New York City, highlighting ten unmissable art shows happening this July. As the city awakens from its slumber, galleries and exhibition spaces burst with life, showcasing a ...

20 Art Shows to See in London This Summer

Summer is a great time of year to enjoy London’s arts and culture scene. Below is a list of indoor shows, outdoor installations, and art events to help you plan your summer. Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections For Now Barbican Art Gallery ...

Lubaina Himid Awarded 2023 Maria Lassnig Prize

Lubaina Himid, a visionary artist known for her profound exploration of themes such as colonialism, slavery, identity, and gender, has been awarded the prestigious Maria Lassnig Prize. This mid-career artist award, now in its fourth edition, ...

Egypt Bans Dutch Archaeologists Over Afrocentric Exhibition

The archaeological community was recently taken aback by the news that a team of Dutch archaeologists from the Leiden National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands has been banned from conducting future excavations in the Saqqara necropolis. This ...

Dr. Esther Mahlangu: Where Two Rivers Meet

Dr Esther Mahlangu is globally acclaimed for her bright and bold abstract paintings with vivid, geometric patterns that are rooted in Ndebele artistic tradition, a South African community. She was a disruptor from an early age, becoming the first ...

Black Art & Design Spring 2023 London Art Guide

Spring is a season of rejuvenation and renewal, and what better way to celebrate it than by exploring London's vibrant art scene. The city is home to some of the most renowned museums and galleries in the world, and this spring, they are showcasing ...

Khanyisile Mbongwa to curate the Liverpool Biennial in 2023

Cape Town-based curator, artist and sociologist Khanyisile Mbongwa has been announced as the organizer of the Twelfth Liverpool Biennial, to take place from June to September 2023. Mbongwa, who most recently served as chief curator for the ...

Belinda Zhawi on Creativity and Rest

Belinda Zhawi is a Zimbabwean born writer, sound artist & educator based in London. Her work explores Afro-diasporic research & narratives; how art & education can be used as intersectional tools. She was the 2016/17 Institute of ...

Daniela Yohannes

Daniela Yohannes (b. 1982) lives and works in Guadeloupe, in the French Caribbean. Yohannes’ latest body of work is a response to contemporary migration discourse, rendered through a personal, emotive, and Diasporic lens. These paintings meditate on ...

Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley is an American artist best known for his portraits that render people of colour in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings. Most famously, in 2017, he was commissioned to paint Barack Obama, becoming the first Black artist to ...

Márcia Falcão

When looking at Márcia Falcão's recent paintings, perhaps the one element that draws the spectator's attention most is the floors onto which her narratives unfold. They are often red and fragmented as if we were looking at the representation of ...

 Lubaina Himid

This large-scale exhibition will debut recent work and include selected highlights from Lubaina Himid’s influential career. Taking inspiration from her interest in theatre, the exhibition will unfold in a sequence of scenes designed to place ...

Alison Saar

Alison Saar has developed a body of work consisting of sculptures, engravings and paintings focused mainly on black female identity in the United States. She was born into a family of artists–her father Richard Saar is a renowned ceramicist and the ...

Body Vessel Clay

In our 10th annual exhibition, Two Temple Place will showcase the ceramic medium through artworks by three generations of Black women artists working in clay.  The Art Newspaper is already calling it, “…one of the most eagerly anticipated ...

Roy DeCarava: Selected Works

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) at its London location. This will be the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in London in over thirty years and the first presentation of his ...

Being More Yourself

Musician, artist and creative, Sarina Leah reflects on the last year, resilience, leaning into yourself and truly being more yourself.   2020 was quite a year. A part of my illustrative work is centred on wellbeing however I noticed ...

Addis Fine Art Gallery To Open Space In London

Block Party by Studio Barnes in collaboration with Shawhin Roudbari and MAS Context Studio Barnes created two structures on a plot in North Lawndale that are "born from Chicago's rich history of annual block parties". The first is ...

Fashion Retailer Asos Publishes First Ethnicity Pay Gap Data

Multibrand retailer Asos has released its first Ethnicity Pay Gap (EPG) data report, stating the 2021 median pay for ethnic minorities is 5.9 percent higher than their White counterparts. According to the report, the result is a 21.2 percent ...

RELEASE OF DISSIDENT CUBAN ARTIST

Artists Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, John Akomfrah, Julie Mehretu, and Carrie Mae Weems are among those calling for the release of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who has been in police custody at a hospital in Havana for over three weeks. The Cuban ...

KASMIN NOW REPRESENTS VANESSA GERMAN

Vanessa German, whose practice spans installation, photography, performance, sculpture, assemblage, and more, has joined Kasmin, which will present her work at Art Basel OVR: Portals and its High Line Nine space in New York this month. german ...

PRESTON PAVLIS REPRESENTED BRADLEY

Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce the representation of Preston Pavlis. His first solo exhibition, titled Still ready to curse and rage, will take place from June 23 to July 31, 2021, in the bunker space. Preston ...

Christina Quarles Joins Hauser & Wirth

Los Angeles–based artist Christina Quarles, who is known for exploring notions of identity through her brightly colored painting of segmented and contorted bodies, has joined Hauser & Wirth. The mega-gallery will represent the artist in ...

Curator Joy Bivins Is Named New Director

By Colin MoynihanJune 4, 2021 Joy Bivins, who joined the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem last year, has been named director of the center. Bivins joined the Schomburg — a division of the New York Public Library and ...

Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend

Textile and social practice artist Sonya Clark (b. 1967) is renowned for her mixed-media works that address race and visibility, explore Blackness, and redress history. This exhibition—the first survey of Clark’s 25-year career—includes the artist’s ...

Igshaan Adams

Kicking Dust Adams' cross-disciplinary practice combines aspects of weaving, sculpture and installation whilst exploring concerns related to race, religion and sexuality. Drawing on the material and formal iconographies of Islam, his ...

Joyce Foundation Names 2021 Joyce Awards Recipients

The Chicago-based Joyce Foundation has revealed the 2021 recipients of its annual Joyce Awards, which support emerging and mid-career BIPOC artists and arts organizations in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and ...

Chester Higgins

The exhibition Chester Higgins: The Indelible Spirit at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery charts the early course of Higgins’s journey from the late 1960s through the 1990s with a selection of images that highlight his career from his ...

Upstate New York Village Wants Nick Cave Artwork Removed

When American artist Nick Cave created the 160-foot-long, 25-foot tall art piece, "Truth Be Told", on the facade of The School, an art space operated by Jack Shainman Gallery in Kinderhook, New York, he hoped to inspire a conversation ...

Santiago Mostyn- Your Shadow is a Mirror

Press Release It is with great pleasure we announce the opening of Your Shadow is a Mirror, Santiago Mostyn's second solo-exhibition at the gallery, opening on Thursday 7 January between 2–8 pm. Santiago Mostyn (b. 1981) makes films, ...

Tschabalala Self- Cotton Mouth

Press Release Eva Presenhuber is delighted to present Cotton Mouth, an exhibition of new works by the American artist Tschabalala Self. Cotton Mouth is Self’s debut solo exhibition with Eva Presenhuber and features paintings, ...

A British Museum Will Return Artefacts To Indigenous Australians

Manchester Museum is returning 43 ceremonial objects from the UK under an Australian government-funded project to repatriate items of cultural heritage 250 years after Captain James Cook’s voyage. The first artefacts, ranging from traditional ...

Adrienne Edwards Will Co-Curate the 2021 Whitney Biennial

Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art announced the names of the two curators in charge of organising the museum’s next Biennial, which will take place in 2021. The curators are David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, ...

Jessye Norman, International Opera Star, Dies Aged 74

Jessye Norman thrilled the opera world for decades, with a voice that has always been described in superlative terms: shimmering, rapturous, sumptuous, magnificent. The soprano who won accolades while helping artists of colour see a place for ...

The Louvre Will Train Refugees As Museum Tour Guides.

In 2015, 19 refugees in Berlin were recruited and trained as museum guides to provide native-language tours for fellow refugees, with the aim of helping newly arrived people foster connections between Germany’s cultural heritage and their own. The ...

Frieze London appoints Eva Langret as new artistic director

Frieze London has announced that Eva Langret will take over as artistic director from Jo Stella-Sawicka. Langret joins Frieze from London gallery Tiwani Contemporary , where she curated Maren Hassinger’s first exhibition outside the US. ...

Congo Stars

The conceptual starting point for the exhibition is Fiston Mwanza Mujila's novel Tram 83, in which the author describes an imaginary place that starts from the social reality of Congolese metropolises but can not be concretely assigned to any ...

The Black Body As A Site Of Magic

Nigerian-Swedish photographer, Mikael Owunna uses fluorescent body paint and ultraviolet light to transform the black body into celestial beings, magical and otherworldly. Owunna says he grew weary of the barrage of violent, dehumanizing imagery of ...

Nigeria And Tradition

In Capetown, WHATIFTHEWORLD presents e wá wo mi (*come look at me) – a new photographic series by Nigerian artist Lakin Ogunbanwo. Central to Ogunbanwo’s latest exploration, is the culture surrounding Nigerian brides and marriage ...

BLACK ART FUTURES FUND AWARDS $21,000 In GRANTS

Black Art Futures Fund (BAFF), a Brooklyn-based collective of emerging philanthropists who strive to promote and preserve black arts and culture, has announced the recipients of its spring 2019 grants, totaling $21,000. Established by DéLana R.A. ...

Queer And Comfortable In The American South

Growing up in the South isn’t easy. Not only do you have to deal with the overbearing humidity during the summers, but there’s also the sea of neighboring red states which blanket the United States map each election cycle, the conservative attitudes ...

Young Ethiopian Photographers Changing the Gaze

Ethiopia is home to some of the fastest rates of development in the world and a changing political landscape. Two young local artists, Girma Berta (b. 1990) and Eyerusalem Jirenga (b. 1993) aim to tell its story through their photography. They ...

Galerie Lelong & Co. Now Represents Barthélémy Toguo

New York’s Galerie Lelong & Co. has added artist Barthélémy Toguo to its roster. The French-Cameroonian artist’s first show with the gallery, set to open on March 15, will be his first New York solo exhibition in a decade. Toguo, who is ...

Smithsonian Museums Closed Until Further Notice

The US federal government's partial shutdown has forced the Smithsonian museums, including the  National African American history museum in Washington DC, to close temporarily. President Trump met with congressional leaders at the White ...