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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

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