Sentences with phrase «african diaspora»

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists explores thematic sequences of Dante Aligheiri's epic poem through new works by more than 40 contemporary artists from 19 African countries, as well as the African diaspora.

2012 LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945 - 1980: From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from The David C. Driskell Center, organized by Smithsonian Institute of Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH Breaking in Two: Provocative Visions of Motherhood, Santa Monica Art Center, Santa Monica, CA Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, FL Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY From Nothing to SOMEthing: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA To be a Lady: Forty - five Women in the Arts, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD African American Visions: Selections from the Samella Lewis Collection, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Baila Con Duende: Group Art Exhibition, Watts Towers Art Center, Watts, CA We the People, Robert Rauschenberg Project Space, New York, NY The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA INsite / INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

Through her collage - based paintings depicting intimate, personal scenes, Nigerian - born, L.A. - based artist Akunyili Crosby is pulling focus onto a larger trend, what's become known as «Afropolitanism»: the shifting multicultural identity of African citizens and members of the African diaspora as they move to more urban centers across the globe.

Her artwork and experimental writing has been exhibited and performed at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Project Row Houses, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, the Made in LA 2012 Biennial and the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

On the other hand, Christoper Martin creates tapestry pieces that display the experience of the African Diaspora, telling a surreal story of religion, slavery and freedom.

Six or seven years ago we began to buy work from the global African diaspora: South African artists, say, or artists of African descent who were born in South America.

A Matter of Fact at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) presents a new body of work from Toyin Ojih Odutola.

To the past honorees, however, among whom I feel especially humbled and privileged to share this honor, I'd like to thank you for your example and achievements that have enriched us all: Andrea [Barnwell Brownlee], whose ambitious and inspired curatorial work gives voice to women artists of the African Diaspora; Jerry [Cullum], a visionary writer whose genius lies in his ability to synthesize the experience of art with poetic complexity; Louis [Corrigan], a trailblazing community leader whose innovative ethos and generosity has rekindled the boundless spirit of Nexus; Lisa [Cremin], a leader of responsible and responsive philanthropy who personifies the idiomatic true north for the arts in Atlanta; Lucinda [Bunnen], a brilliant artist and pioneering collector who established photography as an essential feature of contemporary visual culture in our city... and at the High Museum; and Susan [Bridges], den mother to us all, whose generosity of spirit is set off by her unshakable personal integrity.

EXHIBITION «Liminal Space,» opens June 17 at Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in New York.

Images of the African Diaspora and classic Americana punctuated Basquiat's work at this time, some of which was featured at the prestigious Mary Boone Gallery in solo shows in the mid «80s.

Calabar Gallery showcases contemporary African Artists and African Diaspora artists globally.

Curated by the internationally acclaimed Simon Njami, this monumental exhibition explores the thematic sequences of Dante Alighieri's epic poem through works by more than 40 contemporary artists from 19 African countries as well as the African diaspora.

She has displayed work in spaces like Oakland Museum of California, Betti Ono, SOMArts, Luggage Store, and The New School and has worked with institutions such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of the African Diaspora, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

The Goodman Gallery, located in Johannesburg, South Africa, is passionate about making the influence of artists from Africa and the African diaspora on global art culture felt in South Africa and internationally.

Born in Zanzibar and raised in the UK, she has focused on a range of subjects related to race, from matters of the African diaspora to the visibility of black creatives in museums.Whether working on Guardian newspapers or directly onto porcelain tableware, Himid continually subjects painting to the material of everyday life in order to explore Black identity.

The catalogue also includes a glossary, a comprehensive timeline, and a bibliography focusing on the visual art of African diaspora based on the holdings of the Tate library as well as publications from Iniva's Stuart Hall Library.

D.C. (2012), FotoFest 2010 in Houston, Texas, at the Winter Street Studios (2010), Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta (2009), Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco (2008), Yuma Art Center Museum in Yuma Arizona (2008), Wadswoth Museum in Hartford CT (2006) and Sculpture Center in New York City (2003).

In his flag paintings, Wilson removes the color from the flags of African and African diaspora countries.

Greene's work has been featured in national exhibitions in galleries and museums including The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C, DePaul Museum of Art, Williams College of Art, The New York Public Library, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, and Sculpture Center in New York City (2003).

The Tate recently announced the acquisition of Wilson's Grey Area (1993), Ota Benga (2008), and a suite of twenty - nine paintings from 2011 representing the flags of nations of Africa and the African diaspora.

The intricate symbols and patterns that this Dominican - born New York artist weaves into her pieces — whether it's a 14 - by -12-foot painting or a small book - size drawing — are loaded with references from Caribbean history and the African diaspora.

Several African American artists opened exhibitions this week including Kerry James Marshall at The Met Breuer, Carrie Mae Weems at Jack Shainman Gallery, Melvin Edwards at Oklahoma Contemporary, Toyin Ojih Odutola at the Museum of the African Diaspora, Yinka Shonibare at Stephen Friedman Gallery, and Charles Gaines at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.

The Gallery at Calabar showcases contemporary African Artists and African Diaspora artists globally.

Houston - based Jamal Cyrus's body of work began from revisionist approaches within American history, particularly studies dealing with the African Diaspora and the formulation of Black political movements.

Moon, who is the founder and creative director for Richmond's Afrikana Independent Film Festival, which celebrates the works of artists in the African diaspora, will join the ICA team in January 2018.

2004 African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA Continental Drift: Installations by Ilya Kabakov, Joan Jonas, Juan Muños, Yinka Shonibare, Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, FL, USA Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden The Fabric Workshop and Museum, New York, NY, USA Flexible 4: Identities, Landes Museen, Linz, Austria Between The Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo - Kuti, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA, (catalogue) 2003 Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, The Museum for African Art, New York, USA (catalogue) Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo - Kuti, New Museum, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue) Flexible 4: Identities, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA (doublures), vêtements de l'art contemporain, Musée national des beaux - arts du Québec, Québec, Canada (catalogue) Independence, South London Gallery, London The African Exile Museum, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland Somewhere better than this Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Among the recent exhibitions Gant has curated or co-curated are Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam Through Time & Place (The Newark Museum, 2016); A Lifelong Adventure: Brandywine Workshop Prints from the Green - Christian Collection (University of Texas, John Warfield Center for African & African Diaspora Studies, 2013); De-Luxe, and New Works: April Woods (The Contemporary Austin, 2012); and There is No Looking Glass Here: Wide Sargasso Sea Re-Imagined (Deutsche Bank America, New York, 2010).

Continental Shift - Artists from the African continent in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London South Meets West, Accra, Ghana and Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland 1999 From where - To here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers» Gallery, London In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 1998 Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F. Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham Ethno - antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USA Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA Global Vision; New Art from the»90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?

He is currently the director of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC).

2004 Turner Prize, Tate, London Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, MA Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Selvedge... The Fabric of Your Life; The Architecture Issue, London The Culture Game, University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota, MN Continental Drift, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, FL Double Dutch, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria 2003 Doublures, Musée national des beaux - arts du Québec, Canada Looking Both Ways - Art of the African Diaspora, edited by Laurie Ann Farrell, published by the Museum for African Art, Long Island City, Queens, New York 2002 Attitude, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan Double Dress, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Yinka Shonibare, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

She will bring her expansive knowledge of film detailing the experience of the African diaspora to the ICA, while also developing film programs that complement the ICA's exhibition program and institutional vision more broadly.

It conceptually and aesthetically ties together the sociopolitical conditions, multiple experiences, creative practices, imaginations and cultural expressions of black people in the United Sates (mainly the south) and throughout the African diaspora.

2005 Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Contemporary Art Collections, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, USA Woman Women, Ville de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland; toured to the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy; Palais des Beaux Arts / Entrepõt Royal Tour & Taxis (curated by Adelina von Furstenberg) Take Two.

MONTAUK LIBRARY - «Images of the African Diaspora Lecture» by Jane Weissman has been cancelled.

Rising from intern to associate curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Naim J. Keith has succeeded in her mission to secure a place for contemporary art of the African Diaspora within the Western canon.

2003 Kultureflash.net, No. 70, 17 December Lack, Jessica, The Guardian, 15 December Buck, Louisa, The dandy highwayman strikes again, The Art Newspaper, December Cotter, Holland, An African Diaspora Show Asks: What is Africanness?

In 2016, she launched The Gallery at Calabar in Harlem focused on contemporary African Artists and African Diaspora artists globally whose work is inspired and influenced by black and global African culture globally investigating dynamic ideas about art, culture and society.

Her work has been exhibited at the Architectural Association in London, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Institute for the Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC), the Bronx Museum of Art and the City College of New York.

Edwards is a renowned curator, scholar, and writer with a focus on interdisciplinary art, performance and artists of the African diaspora and the Global South.

The exhibition aims to examine the basis of post-colonialism, and also contemplate on the meaning of African diaspora art, which can be traced back to Western colonialism and slavery.

He co-edited a book based on papers from the symposium, for Liverpool University Press, entitled Contemporary Art and the African Diaspora.

Since its inception in Fitzrovia in 2011, Tiwani Contemporary has offered a platform for artists from Africa and the African diaspora.

Now in its third edition, the satellite fair focuses on local African American art and artists of the African diaspora.

Born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Ms Himid, a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire and the oldest artist on the list at 62, has worked over three decades on paintings, drawings and installations that «celebrate black creativity and the people of the African diaspora», the judges said.

Kongo Across the Waters at the Carter Center, offered an unparalleled look at the total range of artistic production of the Kingdom of Kongo and its successors over the course of some 300 years, alongside a parallel examination of the Kongo - influenced artistic production of the African Diaspora in North America and the Caribbean.

His key focus is on voicing the experience of the African diaspora in Europe and the USA.

Since the Civil Rights Era, it has become commonplace for marginalized ethnic communities to instate their own institutions of sociological and cultural study such as university Ethic Studies departments and museums like Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts.

2009 Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies, University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland College Park, MD Highlights from The David C. Driskell Center Permanent Collection, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

2012 African American Art in the 20th Century, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC After Tanner: African American Artists since 1940, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA To be a Lady: Forty - five Women in the Arts, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from The David C. Driskell Center, organized by Smithsonian Institute of Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH INsite / INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

This exhibition offers the chance to examine «the conditions of our time» through the eyes of twelve contemporary British artists, whose practices have often been informed by their African diaspora heritage.