Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM | Installation View
Danny Simmons The Long Migration is on view in "Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM" at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ.
Century is organized around six major themes that highlight how art has long been a living, generative force in Black life. We explore the importance of Black Portraiture over the past hundred years and its central role in the project of crafting Black identities while subverting reductive, often racist, portrayals of Blackness.
Artists in the exhibition include Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Camille Billops, Sanford Biggers, Robert Blackburn, Chakaia Booker, Beverly Buchanan, Nanette Carter, Nick Cave, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Willie Cole, Adger Cowans, Roy Crosse, Lisa Corinne Davis, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Thornton Dial, Sr., Louis Draper, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans, Adama Delphine Fawundu, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, Todd Gray, Tomashi Jackson, Carmen Cartiness Johnson, Ben Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Deana Lawson, Norman Wilfred Lewis, Whitfield Lovell, Alvin Loving, Julie Mehretu, Wardell Milan, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Janet Taylor Pickett, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Betye Saar, Joyce J. Scott, Danny Simmons, Jr, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, James Van Der Zee, Kara Walker, Bisa Washington, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, Jack Whitten, Kehinde Wiley, Philemona Williamson, Deborah Willis, Saya Woolfalk.
Century is curated by Adrienne L. Childs, Ph.D, Senior Consulting Curator, Phillips Collection, and independent curator nico w. okoro, MA. and accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with multiple essays.
Century is on view through July 7, 2024.
