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7 Exhibits For Black Women To Visit This Year

Make sure to see these exhibits featuring the work of Black artists and curators.
7 Exhibits For Black Women To Visit This Year
By Rayna Reid Rayford · Updated March 9, 2023

After the injustice of George Floyd’s murder, the art world also underwent a racial reckoning. As one esteemed Black Curator Dr. Madeleine Haddon, of V&A East in London said, “it is of the utmost importance to me to pave the way for future generations of people of color to know that they belong within museums,” she said, “not only as visitors but as directors, curators, educators and more.”

In 2017, the National Endowment for the Arts commissioned a survey which “found that 27% of adults in the US had visited a museum or gallery over the previous year, compared with 17% of Black adults.”

Medium pointed this out, discussing “the simultaneous exclusion and exploitation of Blackness in so-called intellectual spaces…And [how] in museums, Blackness is often categorized under the ‘history’ label, while Whiteness is categorized as ‘high art’ — one that sometimes glamorizes the ownership of Black people.”

Exhibit by exhibit, the narrative is changing, and ESSENCE has curated a list of seven must-see exhibits with Black organizers and curators for you to check out this year. 

01
The Guggenheim- New York City, NY

Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, organized by Ashley James

7 Exhibits For Black Women To Visit This Year
02
Kunsthal- Rotterdam, Netherlands

In the Black Fantastic, curated by Ekow Eshun

7 Exhibits For Black Women To Visit This Year
LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 24: Ekow Eshun, Chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group is interviewed as six proposals go on display at the announcement of the Fourth Plinth shortlisted artworks at the National Gallery on May 24, 2021 in London, England. The public are invited to have their say about the proposed artworks to help inform the decision of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group who will announce two winning sculptures in late June, 2021. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)
03
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art- Atlanta, GA

Black American Portraits, co-curated by Liz Andrews

7 Exhibits For Black Women To Visit This Year
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA – NOVEMBER 29: Bisa Butler attends the 2022 ABMB Art Fair Preview on November 29, 2022 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
04
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA 

Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver

7 Exhibits For Black Women To Visit This Year
MUNICH, GERMANY – NOVEMBER 26: Artist Isaac Julien during the PIN Party – Let’s party 4 art’ at Pinakothek der Moderne on November 26, 2016 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Gisela Schober/Getty Images)
05
Brooklyn Museum- Brooklyn, NY

A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, curated by Ryan N. Dennis and Jessica Bell Brown

7 Exhibits For Black Women To Visit This Year
Jessica Bell Brown, Kimberly Drew (Photo by Amy Sussman/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
06
MoMA- New York City, NY

Projects: Ming Smith, organized by Thelma Golden and Oluremi C. Onabanjo

7 Exhibits For Black Women To Visit This Year
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 16: Thelma Golden attends New York Arts Live & Bill T. Jones Anniversary Gala on May 16, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)
07
Museum of Science and Industry- Chicago, IL

Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, originally organized by the Black newspaper Chicago Defender’s staffers and local artists.

7 Exhibits For Black Women To Visit This Year
Work of California-based artist Leslie Adkins

TOPICS:  black artists
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