Sentences with phrase «contemporary african»
The announcement of the Fair's expansion to the continent last year has left aficionados of contemporary African art in eager anticipation of this «homecoming» — this author included.
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Acting as a site for voices, ideas and propositions, the album, and its accompanying listening room, present a sampling of disparate modalities of sonic lineages and experiences from within the contemporary African diaspora.
MoCADA Museum (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts) 80 Hanson Place Brooklyn, NY 11217 www.mocada.org
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) uses the visual arts as a point of departure for exploring new artistic production across a variety of disciplines.
Exhibitions curated by Dr. Montague include Becoming at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; head room at the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto; CONTACT 2010 exhibition Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography from the Wedge Collection at Gallery 44, Toronto; and the upcoming Position As Desired / Exploring African - Canadian Identity: Photographs from the Wedge Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Fall 2010).
In 2008, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts presented Dread Scott: Welcome to America.
Lorraine O'Grady's «Sisters I - IV,» is four sets of side - by - side portraits that show the physical similarities between ancient African queens and contemporary African - American women.
Thankfully, we have things like the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair (held May 6 through 8 at Pioneer Works in Red Hook) at our fingertips to keep us in the know about the incredible (and, ahem, marketable) art work coming out of the 54 countries on the African continent.
Fabri's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at Sequences Real - time Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland; the Nordic Biennale: Momentum, Moss, Norway; Gallery Open, Berlin; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Real Art Ways, Hartford; the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, New York.
Lisa Corrin, Deputy Director of Art, Seattle Art Museum, USA Marlene Dumas, artist based in the Netherlands Okwui Enwezor, publisher and editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art Issey Miyake, artist and designer, based in Japan Michael Tooby, Director of the National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
The 26th Annual Colloquium titled «Sheroes and Womanists: An Examination of Feminist (s) Subjectivity in Modern and Contemporary African American Art».
Learn what you need to know and where you need to be for Frieze New York, Collective Design, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Art New York, CONTEXT, WantedDesign, ICFF, and TEFAF New York Spring.
Exhibitions include a / wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Memoirs of A Watermelon Woman (2016) and A Subtle Likeness (2016) at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, S / Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, where she previously served as Curator, and baby boy (2017) at Transmission gallery, Glasgow.
The Amref Health Africa ArtBall is a premier contemporary African art auction and philanthropic event on Saturday, April 28, 2018 in New York City.
She was the curator of 1:54 FORUM, the educational program at the Contemporary African Art Fair in London and New York.
Is the occasion to discover during an urban wandering the contemporary African art scene through all the media: paintings, photos, installations, videos, sculptures, sound creations...
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) had this question in mind in February, when it acquired 62 works from the Atlanta - based Souls Grown Deep Foundation, which promotes contemporary African - American artists of the South from beyond the gallery or art school system.
She is the Exhibitions Director at MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts) in Brooklyn, New York.
The Foundation holds the largest and foremost collection of works of contemporary African American artists from the Southern United States, encompassing over 1,200 works by more than 160 artists, as well as a collection of archival photographs, videos, and documents relating to the artists in the collection.
About the Souls Grown Deep Foundation The Souls Grown Deep Foundation is the only nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, exhibiting and promoting the artwork by contemporary African - American artists from the American South.
Based in Baltimore MD, Sherald documents contemporary African - American experience in the United States through arresting, otherworldly portraits, often working from photographs of strangers she encounters on the streets.
16 October: 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House — The art fair welcomes over 100 artists and exhibitors from all 54 countries that compose Africa.
30 Americans highlights the work of 31 contemporary African American artists in an exhibition organized by and drawn from the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida.
London's biggest festival of contemporary African culture has returned with a bang for its fourth edition; taking place at Somerset House, one of London's most iconic venues, 1:54 has established a reputation as a place of discover and the key place to acquire contemporary African art in Europe.
On Friday, Spring / Break: BKLYN IMMERSIVE,, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair and Cultural Traffic print fair open.
Congolese dancer Faustin Linyekula is a leading contemporary African choreographer and the founder of Studios Kabako.
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Recent acquisitions have broadened the collection's geographic scope to include works by contemporary African, Indigenous Australian, and Native American artists.
The fourth edition of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London opened Wednesday morning at Somerset House, the neoclassical palace overlooking the River Thames.
«Contemporary African art is continuing to rise and it is time for it to get the attention it duly deserves,» El Glaoui, the fair's director, and the daughter of one of Morocco's most prominent artists, Hassan El Glaoui, explains.
The Foundation holds the largest and foremost collection of works of contemporary African - American artists from the Southern United States, encompassing over 1,200 works by more than 160 artists as well as a collection of archival photographs, videos and documents relating to artists in the collection.
Knight Webb Gallery will present THE UNDERDOG, a solo exhibition by Cameroon born artist Adjani Okpu - Egbe at 1:54 The Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House, 16th - 19th October 2014 stand G1B.
A reference to fifty - four countries that constitute the African continent, the title of 1 - 54 establishes the parameters of the fair's ethos: as a platform that strives to represent multiplicity and showcase the diversity of contemporary African art and cultural production on an international stage.
«The goal is visibility and to show how diverse the contemporary African art scene is today.»
He is the founder and director of the African Artists» Foundation (AAF), a non-profit organization based in Lagos, Nigeria, and dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary African arts and artists.
They also discussed the collecting of African American art in general and the rise of contemporary African American artists.
If Frieze doesn't appeal, spend the Sunday at Somerset House, which is hosting the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair this weekend.
Select group exhibitions and biennials featuring her work include Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Surrealist: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015); Picasso & Contemporary Art, Le Grand Palais, Paris (2015); Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, traveled to Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, GA, and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2014); The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2013); Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2011); The Spectacle of the Everyday, and Black Womanhood, San Diego Museum of Art, CA (2009).
At Somerset House for its fifth consecutive edition, the showcase will include 42 leading international galleries specialising in contemporary African art with more than 130 established and emerging artists.
«Souls Grown Deep Foundation has been a steadfast advocate for contemporary African American artists from the South since our founding,» stated Maxwell L. Anderson, President of the Foundation.
Her specialty is African - American and modern and contemporary African art history / visual culture and gender studies.
The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair has announced the 40 galleries from 18 countries that will be exhibiting at the fair's fourth London edition, to be held at Somerset House from October 6 to 9, during Frieze Week.
In Context 2016 is a partnership between Goodman Gallery; The Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University; Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University; Wits School of Arts at University of the Witwatersrand; United States Mission to South Africa; La Pietra Dialogues / New York University; New York University Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities and Diversity; and Hank Willis Thomas Studio, in association with Phillips; Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts; Studio Museum in Harlem; Wiser Institute; Center for African American Studies / Princeton University; Johannesburg Art Gallery; Contemporary And, and Art Africa.
Her scholarly and curatorial work focuses on artists of the African Diaspora and the Global South, including the Blackness in Abstraction exhibition and catalogue for Pace Gallery and 1:54 PERFORMS for the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair.
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Pioneer Works 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 May 5 - 7, 2017 Hours: May 5, 12 - 8 pm May 6, 12 - 8 pm May 7, 12 - 8 pm Highlights: Installation view, work by...
From the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, to artists» films at the BFI London Film Festival, there's plenty to see outside of Regent's Park
«Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from the Walther Collection,» edited by Edited by Daniela Baumann, Joshua Chuang and Oluremi C. Onabanjo (Steidl / The Walther Collection, 304 pages).
Although its primary emphasis is on the arts of regions south of the Sahara Desert, the department has recently expanded to include North African and contemporary African works.
The combined gift and purchase features paintings, sculptures and works on paper by 33 contemporary African - American artists from the Southern United States, including 13 works by Thornton Dial (1928 — 2016) that span four decades of the artist's career.
«When you look at her work,» says curator Eugenie Tsai, «you «re thinking of Foxy Brown but also of contemporary African photographers.»