Exhibitions

Past

Black Is Beautiful : The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite 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 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 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 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 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 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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