Visual Arts

• Ekene Ijeoma |  Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination | Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA | Through January 4, 2025
• Brandon Ballengée, Mel Chin, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Sandy Rodriguez, Sarah Rosalena | Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA | Through January 5, 2025
• Sherrill Roland | Processing Systems: Numbers by Sherrill Roland | Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC | Through January 12, 2025
• Tanya Aguiñiga, Sandy Rodriguez, Sarah Rosalena, Dyani White Hawk | Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Art | Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA | Through January 12, 2025
• Alan Ruiz | Creative Capital Premiere | Risk Management | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT | Through January 19, 2024
• Simone Leigh | Simone Leigh | LACMA, Los Angeles, CA | Through January 20, 2025
• Erica Lord | No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor | Hudson River Museum. Yonkers, NY | Through January 26, 2025

Carmen Amengual, A Non-Coincidental Mirror, film still, 2024. Courtesy the artist.

• Avram Finkelstein, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Narcissister, Guadalupe Maravilla, Samora Pinderhughes | The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition | Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY | Through January 26, 2025
• Andrea Carlson, Mel Chin, Abigail DeVille, Meleko Mokgosi, Karyn Olivier | Prospect New Orleans Contemporary Art Triennial: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home | New Orleans, LA | Through February 2, 2025
• Cassils | Movements | Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM | Through February 3, 2025
• Titus Kaphar | The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA | Through February 9, 2025
• Carmen Amengual | Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror | Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY | Through February 9, 2025
• Ralph Lemon, Mickalene Thomas, Trajal Harrell, Sarah Michelson, Okwui Okpokwasili, Peter Born, Will Rawls, Ronald K. Brown | Edges of Ailey | Whitney Museum, NYC | Through February 9, 2025
• Liz Cohen, Madeline Jiménez Santil, Karyn Olivier, Sarah Rosalena | Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024 | El Museo del Barrio, NYC | Through February 9, 2025
• Jamal Cyrus, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Steffani Jemison, Simone Leigh, Lorraine O’Grady, Kamau Patton, Robert Pruitt | Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now | The Met Fifth Avenue, NYC | Through February 17, 2025
• Anna Tsouhlarakis | YOUR REFUSAL TO SEE: A Native Guide Project | East Window and Gallery, Boulder, CO | Through February 21, 2024
• Stephanie Dinkins, Kite, Sarah Rosalena | All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace | REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA | Through February 23, 2025
• Tanya Aguiñiga, Cassils, Raven Chacon, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Elisa Harkins, Guadalupe Maravilla, Mario Ybarra Jr. | Broken Boxes | Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque | Through March 2, 2025
• Andrea Carlson, Jes Fan, Xandra Ibarra, Gala Porras-Kim, Cauleen Smith, Chris E. Vargas | Scientia Sexualis | Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | Through March 2, 2025
• Ralph Lemon | Ceremonies Out of the Air| MoMA PS1, Queens, New York | Through March 24, 2025.
• A.K. Burns | What is Perverse is Liquid | The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA | Through May 4, 2025
• Jeffrey Gibson | POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT | MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA | Through May 2026
• Black Quantum Futurism | The Memory Vortex Inn | Performance Space, NYC | Through June 30, 2025
• Jesse Krimes | Creative Capital Premiere | Jesse Krimes: Corrections | The Met, New York, NY | Through July 13, 2025
• Heather Dewey-Hagborg | Making Home: Cooper Hewitt Triennial | Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY | Through August 10, 2025
• Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Edgar Arceneaux | Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics | LACMA, Los Angeles, CA | Through August 3, 2025
  

Performance view, Elisa Harkins, Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines: Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, On the Boards, 2022. Photo © 2022 Bruce Clayton Tom.

Performance

• Ahamefule J. Oluo, Cynthia Oliver, Joseph Keckler, Stephanie Dinkins, Wakka Wakka | Under the Radar Festival | January 4–19, 2025 | Multiple venues, NYC
• Elisa Harkins | Elisa Harkins: Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ | MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL | January 31 & February 1, 2025, 7:30PM CT
• JJJJJerome Ellis | Aster of Ceremonies | The Nimoy Theatre at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA | February 22, 2025

Homegrown (2024). Directed by Michael Premo.

Film

• Michael Premo | Homegrown | DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, New York, NY | December 6-12, 2024
• Titus Kaphar | Exhibiting Forgiveness | Streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube
• Jasmín Mara López | Silent Beauty | Creative Capital project | Streaming on Amazon Prime
• Elaine McMillion Sheldon | King Coal | Streaming on PBS Documentaries Amazon Prime
• Cyrus Moussavi, Camae Ayewa and Rasheeda Phillips (Black Quantum Futurism) | Moor Mother: Jazz Codes | Mubi x Chanel Next Prize Collection | Streaming on Mubi 

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