African Modernism in America, 1947-67

The first major exhibition to examine the complex connections between modern African artists and American patrons, artists, and cultural organizations in the postwar period.
Featuring the work of 50 African and African American artists-including David Driskell, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Ben Enwonwu, Jacob Lawrence, Demas Nwoko, and Uche Okeke-the exhibition reveals a transcontinental network of artists, curators, and scholars that challenged assumptions about African art in the United States, and thereby encouraged American engagement with African artists as contemporaries. Additionally, the exhibition includes a newly commissioned work by Ndidi Dike, "The Politics of Selection" (2022), which investigates the presence and absence of women in the story of African modernity.
OPENS OCTOBER 7, 2023: www.phillipscollection.org/ev...