

Exhibitions
Alabama
Mobile Museum of Art
Posing Beauty in African American Culture
October 6, 2017- March 4, 2018
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Arkansas
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Soul of a Nation
February 3, 2018 – April 23, 2018
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California
Pomona College Museum of Art
Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and Tete-a-tete
January 25, 2017-May 13, 2018
California African American Museum
Lezley Saar: Salon des Refuses
October 25, 2017 – February 18, 2018
Gary Simmons: Fade to Black
July 12, 2017 – July 31, 2018
Shinique Smith: Refuge
March 14, 2018 – September 9, 2018
Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for Black Longevity
February 1, 2018 – August 26, 2018
How Sweet the Sound: Gospel Music in Los Angeles
February 8, 2018 – August 26, 2018
Nicole Miller: Athens, California
March 14, 2018 – September 9, 2018
Charting the Terrain: Erick Mack & Pamela Smith Hudson
March 14, 2018 – September 9, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
MOCA Mural: Njideke Akunyili Crosby
Ongoing MOCA Grand Avenue
Lauren Halsey: We Still Here, There
March 4, 2018 – September 3, 2018
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Axe Bahia: The Power of Art in Afro-Brazilian Metropolis
September 24, 2017 – April 15, 2018
Dining with Kings: Ceremony and Hospitality in the Cameroon Grassfields
December 17, 2017 – April 18, 2018
Meleko, Mokgosi, Bread, Butter, and Power
February 11, 2018 – July 1, 2018
Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths
June 3, 2018 – December 30, 2018
USC Fisher Museum of Art
Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures
January 20, 2018 – April 14, 2018
Oakland Museum of California
Question Bridge: Black Males
September 29, 2017 – February 25, 2018
Crocker Art Museum
Faith Ringgold: An American Artist
February 18, 2018 – May 13, 2018
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Edgar Arceneaux: Until, Until, Until
December 1, 2017 – March 25, 2018
Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art
Africa Through Its Sculpture: Highlights from the Lifshitz Collection
February 28, 2018 – March 24, 2018
Stanford University Cantor Arts Center
In Dialogue: African Arts
Ongoing
Connecticut
Yale University Art Gallery
Jefferson, Pinder, Lazarus
December 15, 2017 – February 18, 2018
Delaware
Biggs Museum of American Art
African American History Live
February 2, 2018 – March 4, 2018
Delaware Art Museum
Danny Lyon: Memoirs of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
June 30, 2018 – September 9, 2018
The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Drawings by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman
June 30, 2018 – September 9, 2018
Hank Willis Thomas: Commission (Title TBD)
July 19, 2018 – September 30, 2018
The Delaware Contemporary
Guardians of the Image Maker: Group Exhibition Commemorating the 1968 Riots
April 6, 2018 – June 29, 2018
Florida
Southeast Museum of Photography
Sheila Pree Brigt: #1960 Now
January 9, 2018 – March 3, 2018
Harn Museum of Art
History, Labor, Life: The Portraits of Jacob Lawrence
February 13, 2018 – August 5, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami
Lionel Smit: Obscura
March 8, 2018 – May 6, 2018
MOCA Jacksonville
Dark Place of Dreams: Louise Nevelson, with Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fenster Stock and Kate Gilmore
April 28, 2018 – September 2, 2018
The Ringling
Hank Willis Thomas: Branded/Unbranded
Februrary 11, 2018 – June 10, 2018
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts
Decolonizing Refinement: Contemporary Pursuits in the Art of Edouard Duval Carrie
February 16, 2018 – April 11, 2018
Georgia
Albany Museum of Art
From Heart to Hand: African American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
November 30, 2017 – February 24, 2018
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Tau Lewis
January 11, 2018 – February 25, 2018
Sandra Mujinga: ILYNL (It’s Like You Never Left)
March 6, 2018 – April 1, 2018
MOCAGA
WAP: Michi Meko
December 1, 2018 – January 26, 2019
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi
January 25, 2018 – May 19, 2018
SCAD Museum of Art
Toyin Ojih Odutola: Testing the Name
February 20, 2018 – September 9, 2018
Telfair Museum
Carrie Mae Weems: Sea Island Series 1991-1992
January 26, 2018 – May 6, 2018
Paul Stephen Benjamin: Reinterpreting the Sound of Blackness
January 26, 2018 – May 6, 2018
Illinois
DePaul Art Museum
Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite 1968-1975
January 11, 2018 – March 25f, 2018
Loyola University Museum of Art
Her Story, My Dreams: The Images of Della Wells
February 6, 2018 – June 2, 2018
Tonika Lewis Johnson: Everyday Englewood
February 6, 2018 – June 2, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen
February 24, 2018 – May 20, 2018
Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again
March 31, 2018 – September 9, 2018
Virgil Abloh
June 9, 2018 - September 22, 2019
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University Galleries Of Illinois Sate University
Ebony G. Patterson: They Were
February 23 -April 1, 2018
Indiana
Herron School of Art and Design
Ronald Hall
January 10, 2018 – February 24, 2018
Louisiana
LSU Museum of Art aa the Shaw Center for the Arts
Broken Time: Sculpture by Martin Puryear
October 19, 2017 – February 11, 2018
Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects
April 12, 2018 – October 14, 2018
Louisiana State Museum
Reel to Reel: The Louis Armstrong Collages
November 23, 2018 – March 31, 2018
Maine
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Portland Museum of Art
Painter and Poet: The Art of Ashley Bryan
August 3, 2018 – November 25, 2018
Maryland
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Baltimore Museum of Art
Beyond Flight: Birds of African Art
December 20, 2017 – June 17, 2018
Head Back and High: Senga Nengudi, Performance Objects (1976-2015)
December 5, 2017 – May 27, 2018
Front Room: Nideka Akunyli Crosby | Counterparts
October 25, 2017 – March 11, 2018
Black Box: Kara Walker and Hank Willis Thomas
June 28, 2017 – March 18, 2018
Stephen Towns: Rumination and A Reckoning
March 7, 2018 – September 2, 2018
Mary Reed Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We are Ghosts
April 4, 2018 – August 19, 2018
Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 – 2016
April 22, 2018 – July 29, 2018
Massachusetts
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The Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
Wangechi Mutu: A Promise to Communicate
January 20, 2018 – December 31, 2018
Mass MOCA
Steffani Jemison: Plant You Now – Dig You Later
Until March 4, 2018
Rosa Art Museum | Brandeis University
Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded
March 2, 2018 – July 8, 2018
The Davis at Wellsley College
Soulful Stiching
February 13, 2018 – June 10, 2018
Michigan
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Cranbrook Art Museum
Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 125th Street 1979 -1980
November 17, 2017 – March 11, 2018
Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theatre Performance Films
November 17, 2017 – March 11, 2018
Flint Institute of Arts
Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence
January 21, 2018 – March 31, 2018
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA and Harlem Redux
January 13, 2018 – April 11, 2018
Weisman Art Museum
Prince from Minneapolis
December 9, 2017 – June 17, 2018
Mississippi
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Mississippi Museum of Art
Hank Willis Thomas: Flying Geese
December 9, 2017 – July 8, 2018
Joe Overstreet: Justice, Faith, Hope, and Peace
January 12, 2018 – July 8, 2018
Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer
September 8, 2018 – January 20, 2019
Missouri
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
January 18, 2018 – April 5, 2018
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Amy Sherald
May 11, 2018 -August 9, 2018
Sanford Biggers
September 7, 2018 – December 30, 2018
New Jersey
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Montclair Art Museum
Philomena Williamson: In the Studio
September 16, 2017 – July 29, 2018
Noyes Museum of Art – Stockton University
Kimberly Camp – Paintings
February 1, 2018 – March 25, 2018
New Mexico
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Albuquerque Museum
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
February 3, 2018 – May 6, 2018
New York
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University Art Museum
Hank Willis Thomas: Black Righteous Space
February 1, 2018 – April 7, 2018
Albright – Knox Art Gallery
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85
February 17, 2018 – May 27, 2018
Hofstra University Museum | Emily Lowe Gallery
Romare Bearden: Storyteller
January 23, 2018 – August 17, 2018
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art: State University of New York at New Paltz
Abstract Minded: Works by Six Contemporary African Artists
January 24, 2018 – April 15, 2018
MoMA
Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965 – 2016
March 31, 2018 – July 22, 2018
Charles White: A Retrospective
October 7, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Museum of the City of New York
King in New York
Through June 1, 2018
Whitney Museum of American Art
Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined
October 20, 2017 – February 25, 2018
Brooklyn Museum
One Basquiat
January 26, 2018 – March 11, 2018
Grey Art NYU Gallery
Baya: Women of Algiers
January 9, 2018 – March 3, 2018
Museum of Arts and Design
Derrick Adams: Sanctuary
January 25, 2018 – August 12, 2018
Columbia University | Wallach Art Gallery
Arthur Mitchell: Harlem’s Ballet Trailblazer
January 13, 2018 – March 11, 2018
Everson Museum
Love, Peace and Soul
January 16, 2018 – March 31, 2018
North Carolina
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Asheville Art Museum
Making a Movement: Selections from Hear Our Voice
January 8, 2018 – March 13, 2018
Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture
By and About Women: The Collection of Dr. Dianne Whitfield-Locke and Dr. Carnell Locke
February 3, 2018 – July 29, 2018
A Creative Journey: The Collection of Judy and Patrick Diamond
February 3, 2018 – July 29, 2018
Lillian Blades: Mirrors of Life
February 3, 2018 – July 29, 2018
Frankhavemercy: Frequency
February 3, 2018 – July 29, 2018
Mint Museum of Art
Romare Beaden Gallery: Sing on the Canvas
African Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
October 6, 2018 – April 28, 2019
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Sanford Biggers: Falk Visiting Artist
December 16, 2017 – April 8, 2018
Ohio
Canton Museum of Art
African American Masterpieces: Permanent Collection Highlights
November 24, 2017 – March 4, 2018
Elijah Pierce: An American Journey
November 24, 2017 – March 4, 2018
Columbus Museum of Art
Family Pictures
February 16, 2018 – May 20, 2018
William L. Hawkins: An Imaginative Geography
February 16, 2018 – May 20, 2018
I, Too, Sing America
October 19, 2018 – January 20, 2018
Miami University Art Museum
Telling a People’s Story: African American Children’s Illustrated Literature
January 30, 2018 – June 30, 2018
Pennsylvania
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston
Through July 15, 2018
Woodmere Art Museum
Jerry Pinkney: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Great American Heroes
January 13, 2018 – April 8, 2018
Dox Thrash, Black Life and the Carborundum Mezzotint
January 16, 2018 – May 20, 2018
South Carolina
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Columbia Museum of Art
Renee Cox: Soul Culture
December 15, 2017 – April 22, 2018
Bridge/Refrain: A Film by Roni Nicole Henderson
January 15, 2018 – February 25, 2018
Texas
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McNay Art Museum
Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 years of African American Art
February 8, 2018 – May 6, 2018
Haiti’s Revolution in Art: Jacob Lawrence’s Touissant L’Ouverture Series
February 8, 2018 – May 6, 2018
Virginia
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
More than a Month VMFA
February 1, 2018 – February 28, 2018
Like a Study in Black History: P.H. Polke, Chester Higgins and The Black Photographers Annual Vol. 2
October 2, 2017 – May 6, 2018
Taubman Museum
Sacred Sources: Hip Hop Roanoke
July 28, 2017 – February 25, 2018
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Washington
Seattle Art Museum
Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas
February 15 - May 13, 2018
Wisconsin
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Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University
Resistance, Protest, Resilience
February 2, 2018 – May 20, 2018
Washington D.C.
National Gallery of Art
Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series
September 12, 2017 - May 18, 2018
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
October 13, 2017 – March 11, 2018
Smithsonian Museum and Sculpture Gardens
Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge
November 8, 2017 – November 12, 2018
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Jim Chuchu’s Invocations
June 21, 2017 – July 2018