Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Color print of ten African American people raising their fists. They stand in two diagonal lines that converge in the middle. In the background, "unite" is repeated diagonally in yellow, purple, blue, and red block letters.

Unite (AfriCOBRA), 1971

Barbara Jones

A work made of silk, cotton, and rayon, 27 narrow woven strips of plain weave with bands of weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave and bands of plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; joined.

Kente Wrapper (Nsaduaso), 1925-75

Asante

Woman's Apron

Woman's Apron, Mid–20th century

Grasslands

A work made of oil on wood panel.

The Drying After, 1961

Bob Thompson

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Invisible Man (Harlem, New York), from the series "A Man Becomes Invisible" (1952), 1952

Gordon Parks

A self-portrait oil painting of American artist Archibald John Motley, Jr. He wears a white shirt, a black tie with a diamond horseshoe pin, and a brown jacket; in his left hand he holds a palette, upon which are splotches of paint arranged according to the order of the color wheel; in his right hand he holds a long, slender paintbrush. Motley’s eyes are directed towards the viewer, he has a small mustache, and his light brown skin is contrasted by the black background.

Self-Portrait, c. 1920

Archibald John Motley Jr.

An oil painting of a large, male African American figure who looks left into the distance. He holds his hand out towards the dark blue sky, and he appears to break free from a pile of rubble in the background.

This, My Brother, 1942

Charles White

A work made of internal dye diffusion transfer print.

Shakeia, 2013

Dawoud Bey

A work made of carbon transfer, graphite pencil, watercolor, and colored pencil on cream japanese paper.

A Family Choice?, n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of internal dye diffusion transfer print.

Spatial poem reply 2, 2015

Kemang Wa Lehulere

A work made of blue fountain pen and pastel on cream wove paper.

A Cyclone in Action at Iola Kansas in the Year of 1920, 1969

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of pen and brush and black ink on cream wove paper with pink fibers.

Coming Home from Work, 1938/43

Eldzier Cortor

Àdìre Oniko Wrapper

Àdìre Oniko Wrapper, 1901/1993

Yoruba

Abstract painting in bright yellow, green, and orange. Undulating, visible brushstrokes give the surface a bright yet dusty and layered effect.

Untitled, 1965

Beauford Delaney

Black-and-white woodcut of an abstracted sunset. On the top is the sun rising from a straight horizon line, and on the bottom is an upside down sun-like form, connected to curving lines and dots.

Avey, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A work made of wood, silver, copper, amber, silk, and carnelian.

Prayer-String Necklace, Early 20th century

Tekna

A work made of charcoal with smudging, erasing and red crayon on ivory wove paper.

Drawing from "Zeno Writing" (landscape, text fragments), 2002

William Kentridge

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Robe, from the series "Born Hip", 1962

Billy Abernathy

A work made of single-channel color video, with sound.

Untitled (the Great Society) I, 2006

Rodney McMillian

A work made of sixteen silver dye bleach print diptychs, framed
1) sisters i (l: nefertiti, r: devonia)
2) sisters ii (l: nefertiti's daughter merytaten, r: devonia's daughter candace)
3) sisters iii (l: nefertiti's daughter maketaten, r: devonia's daughter kimberley)
4) sisters iv (l: devonia's sister lorraine, r: nefertiti's sister mutnedjmet)
5) ceremonial occasions i (l: devonia as matron of honor, r: nefertiti performing a lustration)
6) ceremonial occasions ii (l: devonia attending a wedding, r: nefertiti performing an aten ritual)
7) a mother's kiss (t: candace and devonia, b: nefertiti and daughter)
8) motherhood (l: nefertiti, r: devonia reading to candace and edward, jr.)
9) young princesses (l: nefertiti's daughter ankhesenpaaten, r: devonia's daughter candace)
10) wordly princesses (l: nefertiti's daughter merytaten, r: devonia's daughter kimberley)
11) crowned heads (l: nefertiti's husband akhenaten, r: devonia's husband edward)
12) young queens (l: nefertiti, aged 24, r: devonia, aged 24)
13) progress of queens (l: devonia, aged 35. r: nefertiti, aged 36)
14) cross-generational (l: nefertiti, the last image, r: devonia's daughter kimberley)
15) hero worship (l: devonia at 14 and lorraine at 3, r: devonia at 24 and lorraine at 13)
16) sibling rivalry (l: nefertiti, r: nefertiti's sister mutnedjmet).

Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/94

Lorraine O'Grady

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