Visual Arts

• American Artist | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Shaper of God  | Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY | January 24–April 13, 2025
• Wafaa Bilal | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me | MCA Chicago, Chicago | February 1–October 19, 2025
• Avram Finkelstein | Creative Capital Project Premiere |  Something Terrible Has Happened (Corpus Fluxus) | Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY | February 22-April 27, 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

Avram Finkelstein at the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. Photo by Kay Hickman.

• 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.
• Jennie C. Jones | Ensemble for the 2025 Roof Garden Commission | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | April 4–October 19, 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

Faye Driscoll: Weathering. Photo by Maria Baranova.

Performance

• Elisa Harkins | Elisa Harkins: Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ | MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL | January 31 & February 1, 2025, 7:30PM CT
• Faye Driscoll | Weathering | REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA | February 6–8, 2025
• JJJJJerome Ellis | Aster of Ceremonies | The Nimoy Theatre at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA | February 22, 2025
• Martha Redbone | Guardian Spirit: The words of bell hooks | The Apollo Theater, New York, NY | March 29, 2025
• Will Rawls | [siccer] | ICA and REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA | April 5–August 2025. Live performances at REDCAT on April 10, 11, 12, 2025
• Mariana Valencia | Jacklean (in rehearsal) | REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA | April 24 & April 25, 2025

Gregory Dugan leads a group of protestors against doctor-assisted suicide in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, January 8, 2015. Mike Theiler/REUTERS.

Film

• Reid Davenport, Cherien Dabis, Jamie Gonçalves, Kaneza Schaal | Sundance Film Festival 2025 | Park City, UT | January 23–February 2, 2025
• 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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