This page, Select Black Art Exhibitions in 2019, highlights African American exhibitions across the country. This list includes exhibitions that are on view the last quarter of 2019 with a closing date that may extend into 2020. The goal of this featured page is to provide a select, but comprehensive coverage of current exhibitions.
Atlanta, Georgia
"In 1978, Romare Bearden launched an autobiographical project organized by the decades of his life. The Profile series begins with Bearden's earliest memories as a boy in North Carolina in the 1910s and concludes with his life as a young artist in Harlem in the early 1940s."
Austin, Texas
Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Charles White and the Legacy of the Figure: Celebrating the Gordon Gift is on view through November 30, 2019.
Baltimore, Maryland
Binghamton, New York
Brunswick, Maine
Charleston, South Carolina
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, The College of Charleston, Katrina Andry: Over There and Here Is Me and Me is on view through December 7, 2019.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Detroit, Michigan
Greensboro, North Carolina
Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Reckoning with "The Incident": John Wilson's Studies for a Lynching Mural is on view through December 6, 2019.
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| John Wilson, Compositional study for The Incident, 1952. Opaque and transparent watercolor, ink, and graphite, squared for transfer. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund. © Estate of John Wilson |
High Museum of Art, Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden's Profile Series is on view through February 2, 2020.
"In 1978, Romare Bearden launched an autobiographical project organized by the decades of his life. The Profile series begins with Bearden's earliest memories as a boy in North Carolina in the 1910s and concludes with his life as a young artist in Harlem in the early 1940s."
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| Johnny Hudgins Comes On, 1981, Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, White Plains, New York |
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years: 1986 - 2003 is on view through December 7, 2019.
In 1986, Mildred Thompson "accepted an invitation to be a artist-in-residence at Spelman College. She resided in Atlanta for the remainder of her life where her painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, writing, and musical explorations expanded into the dynamic oeuvre for which she is now becoming acclaimed."
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| “Magnetic Fields,” 1991. Oil on canvas. 70.5" x 150". Courtesy the Estate of Mildred Thompson and Galerie Lelong and Co., New York |
Austin, Texas
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Charles White: Celebrating the Gordon Gift is on view through December 1, 2019.
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.
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| Charles White Sound of Silence II, 1978 (detail), Color lithograph, 25" x 35 ¼" Gift of Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon to the units of Black Studies and the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. 2014. ⓒ The Charles White Archives |
Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Charles White and the Legacy of the Figure: Celebrating the Gordon Gift is on view through November 30, 2019.
Charles White and the Legacy of the Figure "examines White’s influence on his students, in particular Kerry James Marshall, as well as on younger generations of artists -such as Deborah Roberts, Michael Ray Charles, and Vincent Valdez -who also portray the human body. Particularly compelling is why these artists depict minoritized individuals and what political work such representations do."
The UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum, Michael Ray Charles is on view through January 3, 2020.
The UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum, Michael Ray Charles is on view through January 3, 2020.
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| Every World is a Head, Every Head is a World #3, 2018, lithograph, Courtesy of Flatbed Press |
Baltimore, Maryland
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art is on view through January 19, 2020.
This exhibition "offers a sweeping new perspective on the contributions black artists have made to the evolution of visual art from the 1940s to the present moment."
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| Shinique Smith. Black, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink. 2015. The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection. © Shinique Smith, Courtesy David Castillo Gallery. Photography by John Schweikert |
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton University Art Museum, not but nothing other: African-American Portrayals, 1930s to Today is on view through December 7, 2019.
This exhibition "presents depictions of and by Black Americans, providing a wide-ranging survey of how artists over the last eighty years have responded to the challenge of picturing African-American selfhood."
Brunswick, Maine
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, African American: Two Centuries of Portraits is on view in Becker Gallery from November 7, 2019 through February 9, 2020.
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| Portrait of a Man (Abner Coker), 1805–1810, oil on canvas by Joshua Johnson, American, 1763-1826 |
Charleston, South Carolina
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, The College of Charleston, Colin Quashie: LINKED is on view through December 7, 2019.
SEE Video with Artist.
SEE Video with Artist.
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| Installation view. |
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, The College of Charleston, Katrina Andry: Over There and Here Is Me and Me is on view through December 7, 2019.
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| Installation view. Photo: Rick Rhodes. |
Cincinnati, Ohio
Contemporary Arts Center, Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is on view through January 12, 2020.
This is "the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America's most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009). The exhibition will reveal 85 total works throughout 53 years of his career that both bring to the surface and challenge diversity and racial stereotypes."
This touring exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue.
This is "the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America's most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009). The exhibition will reveal 85 total works throughout 53 years of his career that both bring to the surface and challenge diversity and racial stereotypes."
This touring exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue.
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Robert Colescott, Sleeping
Beauty, 2002, Acrylic on Canvas, 85 ¼” x 145 1/8”.
©2019 Estate of
Robert Colescott/ Artists Rights Society
(ARS), New York.
Courtesy of the
Estate and Blum and Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Toyko.
Photo Credit:
Joshua WhiteAdd caption |
College Park, Maryland
The David Driskell Center, [Un]Common Collections: Selections from Fifteen Collectors is on view through November 22, 2019.
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| Installation Shot |
Detroit, Michigan
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Queen: From the Collection of CCH Pounder opens January 20, 2020.
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| Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun (detail), 55"x 67" |
Greensboro, North Carolina
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, Mirror, Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation is on view November 2, 2019 through February 23, 2020.
Related Program: Conversation with Alison Saar and Nancy Doll on Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 6:30 PM.
This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
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| Alison Saar, Coup de Grâce, lithograph, edition 6/16, 19 1/4 x 25 in. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer. |
Hartford, Connecticut
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Afrocosmologies: American Reflections is on view through January 20, 2020.
Jackson, Mississippi
Mississippi Museum of Art, Nick Cave: Feat is on view October 26, 2019 through February 16, 2020.
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| Nick Cave. Architectural Forest, 2011. Bamboo, wood, wire, plastic beads, acrylic paint, screws, fluorescent lights, color filter gels, and vinyl, 136" x 372" x 192". Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Nick Cave. Photo: James Prinz Photography |
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem is on view through December 8, 2019.
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| (RIGHT) Wangechi Mutu, Hide 'n' Seek, Kill or Speak, 2004, Paint, ink, collage, mixed media on mylar, 48"x 42 ". The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum Purchase made possible by a gift from Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn 2004.13.3 ©Wangechi Mutu Courtesy of the artist and American Federation of Arts (LEFT) Jordan Casteel, Kevin the Kiteman, 2016. Oil on canvas 78" x 78". The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee 2016.37. Photo Credit: Adam Reich ©Jordan Casteel Courtesy American Federation of Arts |
Los Angeles, California
California African American Museum, Timothy Washington: Citizen/Ship is on view through March 1, 2020.
"This exhibition presents Washington's very first installation project, Citizen/Ship (2019), a powerful yet playful collection of works that meld American patriotism with Afrofuturistic narratives of fantasy and science fiction. Through references to technology, utopia, and mysticism, Timothy Washington: Citizen/Ship speaks to both the negative and positive aspects of American culture, emphasizing issues that affect black lives: violence, racism, and displacement, but also survival, hope, love, and reconciliation."
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Betye Saar: Call and Response is on view through April 5, 2020.
"This exhibition presents Washington's very first installation project, Citizen/Ship (2019), a powerful yet playful collection of works that meld American patriotism with Afrofuturistic narratives of fantasy and science fiction. Through references to technology, utopia, and mysticism, Timothy Washington: Citizen/Ship speaks to both the negative and positive aspects of American culture, emphasizing issues that affect black lives: violence, racism, and displacement, but also survival, hope, love, and reconciliation."
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Betye Saar: Call and Response is on view through April 5, 2020.
"Betye Saar:
Call and Response looks at the relationship between preliminary sketches
in small sketchbooks, which Saar has made throughout her career, and finished
works. In addition, the show will include approximately a dozen small travel
sketchbooks with more finished drawings - relating to leitmotifs seen throughout
Saar’s oeuvre - that she has made over a lifetime of journeys worldwide."
Medford, Massachusetts
Tufts University Art Galleries, Sanford Biggers' BAM Series "in which the artist seeks to memorialize and
honor unarmed black victims of police gun violence in America."
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Jordan Casteel: Returing the Gaze is on view through February 2, 2020.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
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| Sanford Biggers, "Pink Seated Warrior," 2017. (Courtesy the artist; Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen; and Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong) |
New Orleans, Louisiana
Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires is on view November 2, 2019 through June 14, 2020.
Purchase, New York
Stanford, California
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| Mickalene Thomas, Le Dejeuner su l'herbe: Les trois femme noires, 2010. Rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel on wood panel, 120" x 288". Courtesy of the Artist. © Mickalene Thomas |
Purchase, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, "Art Got Into Me": The Work of Engels the Artist is on view through December 22, 2019.
"This monographic exhibition features more than fifty works created by Engels the Artist over the past ten years."
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| Engels the Artist, I Cannot Paint, 2011, Mixed media, 16"x 16". Photo by Lynda Shenkman Curtis. |
Stanford, California
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| Artist Jordan Casteel in front of her painting Yahya (2014) at the Cantor Arts Center. (Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center) |
St. Paul, Minnesota
Minnesota Museum of American Art, A Choice of Weapons, Honor and Dignity: The Visions of Gordon Parks and Jamel Shabazz is on view January 20 through April 19, 2020.
"A Choice of Weapons, Honor and Dignity explores how Parks (left image) and Shabazz (right image) have both used photography to empower communities and lift up Black voices."
"A Choice of Weapons, Honor and Dignity explores how Parks (left image) and Shabazz (right image) have both used photography to empower communities and lift up Black voices."
Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman is on view through December 8, 2019.
This exhibition features nearly eighty works of art, and is the first to reassess Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta Savage's "contributions to art and cultural history in light of her role as an "artist-activist."
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| Augusta Savage, Portrait of John Henry, c. 1940, patinated plaster, 6 5/8 x 3 ½ x 4 ¾ inches. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The John Axelrod Collection—Frank B. Bemis Fund, Charles H. Bayley Fund, and The Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection, 2011.1813. |
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