Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is proud to present Bienvenue: African American Artists in France, a historical survey of seventeen Black American artists who lived and worked in France from the late nineteenth century through the present.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. A selection of photographs from the personal collection of Portland, Oregon based photographer and curator, Christopher Rauschenberg. Over five decades, Rauschenberg has compiled a truly distinctive archive of photographs encompassing a wide array of themes, styles, uses of the medium, and range of subjects and content.
The Museum of Modern Art. Jack Whitten created visionary beauty from righteous anger. Born in Bessemer, Alabama, amid the violence of the segregated South, he joined the Civil Rights movement, then made his way to New York in 1960. There, he decided to become an artist.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This presentation of work by New York–based artist Lorna Simpson is the first exhibition to consider the entirety of her painting practice. Simpson came to prominence in the early 1990s with her pioneering approach to conceptual photography. Since then, she has produced works in multiple media that continue to probe the nature of images and how they construct meaning.
Centre Pompidou. Paris Noir at the Centre Pompidou in Paris brings together over 150 artists, writers, and thinkers of African descent associated with and responsive to the cultural, political, and intellectual milieu in Paris between the establishment of the quarterly Présence Africaine in 1947 and 2000. Included in the show are four pieces by the late Pennsylvania-based artist, William R. Hutson.
“As Monica L. Miller and Andrew Bolton have been busy preparing “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the new show at The Met’s Costume Institute, Vogue made a parallel effort: a tribute to the exhibition and a celebration of its themes of menswear, identity and history, the Black dandy in fashion, and his many expressions and forms.
Whitney Museum of American Art. Amy Sherald: American Sublime brings together some fifty paintings by one of the foremost artists of our time. In her first major museum survey, Amy Sherald (b. 1973, Columbus, Georgia; lives and works in the New York City area) presents work from 2007 to the present, from her poetic early portraits to the incisive and moving figure paintings for which she is best known.
Venus Over Manhattan. Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to present Elizabeth Colomba, the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition provides a comprehensive look at Colomba’s distinctive approach to figurative painting, featuring a selection of new and recent paintings and works on paper—most of which have never been shown publicly.
Mariane Ibrahim. Mariane Ibrahim is honored to present Lorraine O’Grady, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Paris and her second with the gallery. This special presentation, the first since O’Grady’s passing in December 2024, aims to celebrate the artist’s extraordinary legacy.
Reception & Artist in Conversation with Makeda Best, May 10, 2025. Wendel A. White’s inaugural exhibition, Schools for the Colored & Manifest, presents photographs carefully selected from a larger portfolio of the same name. Schools for the Colored looks at the physical structures – both standing and demolished – of segregated schools of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.