Exhibitions

Past

Kwame Brathwaite | Things Well Worth Waiting For 25 Feb - 24 Jul 2023 This exhibition focuses on Brathwaite’s passion for music, for it not only ignited his photography career and led to his writing music reviews for numerous international publications in the 1970s, addressing the distinct sounds of soul, R&B, and funk, but his love of music also informed his pictures and his... Read more

Pocket Universe 14 Feb - 11 Mar 2023 Philip Martin Gallery is pleased to present, 'Pocket Universe,' an exhibition celebrating Philip Martin Gallery's new location and the artists with whom it is honored to work: Ericka Beckman, Kwame Brathwaite, Brian Bress, Carl Cheng, Holly Coulis, Katy Cowan, Tomory Dodge, Daniel Dove, Jackie Gendel, Sky Glabush, Pamela Jorden, Kristy... Read more

It's Time: Kwame Brathwaite, Kwesi Botchway, Genevieve Gaignard, Rodney McMillan, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Mpagi Sepuya 14 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to present 'It's Time,' an exhibition of works by Kwesi Botchway, Genevieve Gaignard, Rodney McMillan, Wangechi Mutu, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya in conversation with works by legendary New York-based photographer Kwame Brathwaite (b. 1938, Brooklyn NY). Anchored by Brathwaite's influential images, the exhibition creates a... Read more

A Time of Gifts - Santa Barbara Museum of Art 16 Oct 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 Featuring over 80 superb works by Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Kwame Brathwaite, Nell Campbell, Awol Erizku, Janna Ireland, Aaron Siskind, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, among many important artists, A Time of Gifts celebrates the generosity of numerous Santa Barbara Museum of Art donors whose gifts of photographs and funds have allowed... Read more

Black is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite - New York Historical Society 19 Aug 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 One of the minds behind the "Black Is Beautiful" movement, Kwame Brathwaite has long deployed his photography as an agent of social change. This exploration of his work features 40 stunning studio portraits and behind-the-scenes images of Harlem's artistic community. Read more

My Village | New York - Philip Martin Gallery 6 - 20 Jul 2022 The village, in this instance is New York, mostly the neighborhood of Harlem. In this series of newly released images, we explore the viewpoint of the subject and the responsibility that connected image making entails. This online show, presented by Philip Martin Gallery is July 6 - July 20, 2022.... Read more

Black Is Beautiful : The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite - Reynolda House 5 Feb - 8 May 2022 Throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the transformative idea that 'Black is Beautiful.' This exhibition-the first dedicated to Brathwaite's remarkable career-tells the story of a central figure of the second-wave Harlem Renaissance. In addition to his work in photography, Brathwaite co-founded two key organizations: the African... Read more

This Tender, Fragile Thing - Jack Shainman Gallery 15 Jan - 30 Apr 2022 Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present This Tender, Fragile Thing, a group exhibition on view through April 30, 2022. The show shines a contemporary lens on the gallery's 2005 exhibition The Whole World is Rotten, which juxtaposed Black Panther materials from the gallery collection alongside works by contemporary artists.... Read more

Black American Portraits - LACMA 7 Nov 2021 - 17 Apr 2022 Black American Portraits To complement the presentation of The Obama Portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald on tour from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery (NPG), LACMA presents Black American Portraits. Remembering Two Centuries of Black American Art, guest curated by David Driskell at LACMA 45 years ago, this exhibition... Read more

Changing Times - Philip Martin Gallery 2 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 Philip Martin Gallery is proud to present, 'Changing Times,' an exhibition of never-before-seen works by photographer Kwame Brathwaite (b. 1938, Brooklyn, NY). Shot between 1965-1975, Brathwaite's thoughtful, strikingly beautiful images depict love and unity across the Black diaspora. In photographs exploring Black subjectivity and viewership, Brathwaite, a leading architect of... Read more

Facing Forward: Photographic Portraits from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art 15 Aug - 19 Dec 2021 Drawn from SBMA's distinguished collection of photography, this installation features 25 modern and contemporary works featuring the human face as central and absorbing subject matter. Highlights include: the renowned American photographer Kwame Brathwaite's engagingly direct and vivid 1964 self-portrait from the era he and his colleagues popularized the still influential... Read more

Voices of Fashion : Black Couture, beauty & styles - Centraal Museum 5 Jun - 15 Aug 2021 A major new fashion exhibition entitled Voices of Fashion. Black Couture, Beauty and Styles. is set to open at the Centraal Museum. The show will be the first ever staged by an art museum in the Netherlands to query the white gaze as the default vantage point from which to... Read more

The Struggle Continues, Victory is Certain - Philip Martin Gallery 19 Sep - 9 Oct 2020 Philip Martin Gallery is proud to present, "Kwame Brathwaite: The Struggle Continues, Victory is Certain." The exhibition will include large-scale works and new prints released this past fall and spring by The Kwame Brathwaite Archive. Read more

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