He's interested primarily in the investigation of the construction
of black identity through popular culture in the 17th and 18th century but also in the more recent times.
American artist Hank Willis Thomas discusses his work and the construction
of black identity through popular culture.
Not exact matches
Her work explores representations
of black male sexuality and
identity,
through exceptional craftsmanship and embellishments.
Anti-blackness and Islamophobia structure American
Black Muslim subjects
through opposing regimes
of identity and visibility.
Thanks to leaked pictures
of the film, we already knew that Sam Wilson / Falcon is going to be at Steve's side
through thick and thin, and that a now - very blonde
Black Widow — who is likely hiding under a new
identity — will join the duo.
In
Black Ops 4, we're incorporating narrative gameplay experiences directly into MP and giving players the ability to learn and master each
of the Specialists
through solo missions that give hands - on intros to each Specialist, while exploring the stories behind their
identities.
Debuting in a time where discussion on race in American cinema is at an absolute fever pitch, Morris From America explores the idea
of cultural and personal
identity through the lens
of a 13 - year old
black aspiring free - styler living with his father (Craig Robinson) in the little white - washed German village
of Heidelberg.
While white students may have their
identity and self - worth constantly reinforced by the media and their white teacher, they may, at the same time, harbor negative images
of Black people
through the media, literature, or in school.
You are invited to join us for the third annual Women's History Month conversation where we will discuss racial
identity and healing
through the lens
of the
Black female educator experience.
You are invited to join us for a timely Women's History Month conversation where we will discuss racial
identity and healing
through the lens
of the
Black female educator experience.
Through his exploration
of black male
identity, Smith challenges the reader with truths that are powerful and urgent.
Errors and stolen
identities can lead to enormous
black marks on your credit report
through no fault
of your own.
In
Black Ops 4, we're incorporating narrative gameplay experiences directly into MP and giving players the ability to learn and master each
of the Specialists
through solo missions that give hands - on intros to each Specialist, while exploring the stories behind their
identities.
Saar, who explores history and
identity through sculpture and mixed - media works, is among a handful
of Black artists invited to serve as commencement speakers this spring.
This spring, the Serpentine presents the first European solo exhibition
of American artist Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey), who explores the intersection
of black identity, digital culture and power structures
through video, media, installation and performance.
Through compelling portraiture and both intimate and disquieting scenes
of domestic life, Kerry James Marshall comments on contemporary and art historical depictions
of black identity.
Black is the Day,
Black is the Night is a conceptual exploration into the many facets
of human
identity using notions
of time, accumulation, memory and distance
through personal correspondence with men serving life and death row sentences in some
of the most maximum security prisons in the U.S., all
of which had served between 13 - 26 years at point
of contact.
Four
of the works — Andrews» Mississippi River Bank, Gibson's Sharecropper, Binion's DNA:
Black Painting: IV, and Saterstrom's Road to Shubuta — are currently on view
through July 8, 2018, in Picturing Mississippi, 1817 2017: Land
of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, the landmark exhibition interpreting Mississippi
identity curated by the Museum on the occasion
of the state's bicentennial.
Her work often explores important topics such as contemporary
black identity, queer theory, and the power
of human language, seen
through video, performance, writing and other new media.
The Ogden's display materialises
through its acknowledgment
of this tension: those who have considered their art as framing their own unique sense
of self, and those who have used it for the purposes
of forging a collective
black identity.
The show reflects on a number
of interesting notions: the ways in which postwar
black artists have constructed their
identity through their reliance on abstraction; the formal affinities between artists
of different generations; and the role
of non-figurative art as both personal expression and political impetus.
In White Girls, his critically acclaimed collection
of essays from 2013, he examines his
identity as a gay
black man
through the white women who have caused him pain.
Today, when you eat Thai curry (Rirkrit Tiravanija) or walk
through a garden
of black flowers (Jenny Holzer), you understand that the
identity of artists has become inseparable from questioning their practice; ontological Conceptualism has become so totally invasive that it is no longer possible to speak about it in terms
of influence.
«Still unresolved and very much ongoing» is a quote from an essay by British art historian Kobena Mercer entitled «Iconography after
Identity» (2005) in which he discusses Black British art and the importance and complexities of apprehending identity - based, and by extension socio - politically oriented art, through the prism of iconography and ic
Identity» (2005) in which he discusses
Black British art and the importance and complexities
of apprehending
identity - based, and by extension socio - politically oriented art, through the prism of iconography and ic
identity - based, and by extension socio - politically oriented art,
through the prism
of iconography and iconology.
Working around issues
of black male
identity in the exhibition Tailor, Singer, Striker, Dandy (2011) at the Gallery
of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester Art Gallery she selected from the large West African textile collection in the gallery's stores and reinterpreted the materials to express contemporary and historic male
identity through appearance and clothes.
Lorraine O'Grady, born in 1934, probes
identity through paired images
of Michael Jackson and Charles Baudelaire — who called his Haitian mistress his «
black Venus.»
, an exhibition that examines evolving perspectives
of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016
through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary works
of art.
Subject
of Escape Route, a solo exhibition at Bronx Museum
of the Arts, Jeffery Spencer Hargrave (presented by Ethan Cohen New York, New York) filters art history
through Black history and queer
identity, manifesting a refreshing directness and witty honesty throughout.
Highlighting the exceptional work
of some
of the most dynamic and thought provoking African American visual artists in the last three decades 30 Americans provides visitors new and different lenses to view
black identity through their art.
As a
black man born in Manchester and now living in Trinidad, half a world away from the endless machinations
of the London art world and London's art dealers, how has Ofili defined his own experience
of being alive, and succeeded in establishing his own
black cultural
identity through his art?
In 1997, Montague founded the non-profit Wedge Curatorial Projects, which promotes themes
of culture and
identity in art — particularly within the diasporic African and
Black communities —
through exhibitions, lectures and discussions.
The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, France «Eye to I... 3,000 years
of Portraits» Katonah Museum
of Art, Katonah, NY 30 Americans, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Through the Eyes
of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections, The Blanton Museum
of Art, Austin, TX 2012 Looped, Utah Museum
of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, RedLine Gallery, Denver, CO The Soul
of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art, Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, Memphis, TN 30 Americans, Chrysler Museum
of Art, Norfolk, VA All I Want is a Picture
of You, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA BAILA con Duende: Group Art Exhibition, Watts Towers Arts Center and Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Collection, The Scottsdale Museum
of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ 2011 Parallel Perceptions, NYC Opera, New York, NY Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, The Nasher Museum
of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) at Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, (LACMA) Los Angeles, CA Beyond Bling: Voices
of Hip - Hop in Art, Ringling Museum
of Art, Sarasota, FL 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C.. For a Long Time, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA RE-Envisioning the Baroque, I.D.E.A. at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CA 2010 Size Does Matter, FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY Passion Fruits, Collectors Room, Berlin The Global Africa Project Exhibition, Museum
of Arts and Design, New York, NY Personal
Identities: Contemporary Portraits, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma, CA Patter ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA Summer Surprises, Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Individual to Icon: Portraits
of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND The Library
of Babel / In and Out
of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England Searching for the Heart
of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American Experience, Kentucky Museum
of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY The Gleaners: Contemporary Art from the Collection
of Sarah and Jim Taylor, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO From Then to Now: Masterworks
of Contemporary African American Art, Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH 2009 Enchantment, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820 - 2009, National Academy Museum, New York Creating
Identity: Portraits Today, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY Other People: Portraits from Grunwald and Hammer Collections, Curated by Cindy Burlingham and Gary Garrels, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2008 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Recognize: Hip Hop amd Contemporary Portraiture, Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Macrocosm, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA 21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Selected Drawings, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, OH Down, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Detroit, MI
Amidst the 1963 March on Washington,
black artists from Harlem to Los Angeles were focused on creating spaces where they could flourish, and
through the lens
of creativity,
identity could be explored.
«Creative Time Global Residency: Reports From the Field», New York, NY, December 3, 2013 «Urban Imprint: The Art and Science Shaping Our Cities,» hosted by The University
of Chicago, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York, NY, November 14, 2013 «Cultural Investment: Creating a Civic
Identity Through the Arts,» CityLab: Urban Solutions for Global Challenges, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, October 7, 2013 «One State Together in the Arts» One State Illinois Conference, Quad Cities, IL, June 24, 2013 «Theaster Gates in Conversation with Romi Crawford,»
Black Collectivities, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 4, 2013 «LINC Legacy and Advancements in the Field,» hosted by the Ford Foundation, May 2013 «Constituency Engagement — Culture - Initiated Redevelopment: Strategies in Innovative Constituent Engagement,» Association
of Black Foundation Executives, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, April 6, 2013 «Creating Heat - The Artist as Catalyst: Theaster Gates at TEDxUNC,» University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, February 9, 2013 «Building CapaCity Session,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2013 «Creative Resilience Session,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 «Transformative Art: Theaster Gates,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2013
A program
of video - based works that used television technology to bring public attention to
Black American
identity,
through intervention, documentation, and parody, as in Anthony Ramos's About Media, in which the artist uses his Portapak camera to turn a news crew's visit to his home into media critique.
Known for his collages and videos that offer commentary
through the lenses
of black and queer sub-cultures, Rashaad Newsome utilizes his artwork as a means to explore the concept
of identity in numerous permutations.
examines evolving perspectives
of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016
through contemporary works
of art and rare historical printed media.
Simultaneously visceral and abstract, the installation explores
black identity in relation to capitalism and colonialism
through an uncanny superimposition
of the histories
of these two systems upon the present day.
Traveled to Grazer Kunstverein, Austria and The Studio Museum, New York Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2000 Made in California: Art, Image and
Identity, 1900 - 2000, Section 5, 1980 - 2000, Los Angeles County Museum
of Art (catalogue) 1999
Through the Looking Glass, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY 1995 In a Different Light, (co-curator), University
of California, Berkeley Art Museum (catalogue) Into a New Museum - Recent Gifts and Acquisitions
of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art 1994 Body and Soul, (with Cindy Sherman, General Idea and Ronald Jones), Baltimore Museum
of Art Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age
of AIDS, National Gallery
of Australia, Canberra (catalogue)
Black Male, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York (catalogue) 1993 Building a Collection: The Department
of Contemporary Art, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston I Love You More Than My Own Death, Venice Biennale 1992 Translation, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw California: North and South, Aspen Art Museum, CO Recent Narrative Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI Facing the Finish, Art Center College
of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalogue) Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Art Museum, OR The Auto Erotic Object, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York 1991 Third Newport Biennial: Mapping Histories, Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA (catalogue) Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art Louder, Gallery 400, University
of Illinois, Chicago The Interrupted Life: On Death and Dying, New Museum
of Contemporary Art, New York Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna.
Hank's interest in commodity culture and
identity through multiple perspectives shows viewers how images / objects can diverge from common understandings
of Black life in the Western tradition.
This exhibition examines evolving perspectives
of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016
through contemporary works
of art and rare historical printed media.
He is best known as one
of the founders
of the
Black Audio Film Collective, which was active between 1982 and 1998, and which was dedicated towards examining issues
of Black British
identity through film and media.
Through artful composition, these portraits poignantly contrast Frazier with her matriarchs, her family with portrayals
of Black identity in the media, and their bodies with the town
of Braddock.
Mickalene Thomas «Origin
of the Universe» at the Brooklyn Museum
through Jan. 20, 2013 A solo exhibit
of new paintings that explore
black female
identity, sexuality and beauty and evoke power and femininity.
Through special handling
of time and space, Julien reflects on
Black identity in a global culture.
Curated by the American artist Glenn Ligon and inspired by Ellsworth Kelly's sculpture Blue
Black (2000) which is permanently installed at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the exhibition explored questions about language,
identity, and perception
through the lens
of these two colors.
Through this project — positioned on billboards in Toronto and eight major cities across Canada — the artist critiques the lacuna
of black women from visual culture while asserting their empowered presence and
identity in the very spaces from which they have been historically excluded.
The exhibition (1 October - 3 December 2016) examines evolving perspectives
of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016
through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary works
of art.