Visual Arts

• Paola Prestini | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Sensorium Ex | Common Senses Festival, Omaha, NE | May 22–May 25, 2025
• Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Backside | Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY | June 7–June 14, 2025
• Karthik Pandian | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Surrendur | Midway Contemporary Art | Minneapolis, MN | Through June 10, 2025
• Wafaa Bilal | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me | MCA Chicago, Chicago | Through October 19, 2025

Papercuts by Beatriz Vasquez and Xiaoqing Shi via Kearny Street Workshop.

• A.K. Burns | What is Perverse is Liquid | The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA | Through May 4, 2025
• Bebe Miller | Bebe Miller Company for E-Moves Festival: A Movement | Harlem Stage, New York, NY | May 8–May 9, 2025
• Jeffrey Gibson | POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT | MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA | Through May 2026
• Brent Michael Davids |  Lenapehoking | Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY | May 30, 2025
• Christine Wong Yap | Twin Windows: Papercuts by Beatriz Vasquez and Xiaoqing Shi curated by Christine Wong Yap | Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA | May 10–June 7, 2025
• Jordan Ann Craig |The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket | Hales Gallery, New York, NY | Through June 21, 2025
• Futurefarmers (Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine) | Silicon Forest: Understories of Trees and Data | Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR | Through June 21, 2025
• Lucy Kim | Pigment Spells | Praise Shadows, Brookline, MA | May 15–June 27, 2025
• Artemio Rodriguez | Lotería de la Vida (The Daily Gamble) | Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA | May 1–June 28, 2025
• Black Quantum Futurism | The Memory Vortex Inn | Performance Space, NYC | Through June 30, 2025
• Cannupa Hanska Luger | Speechless  | Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC | Through July 6, 2025
• Tanya Aguiñiga | Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga: Border Fall Height  | BAMPFA | Berkeley, CA | Through July 13, 2025
• Jesse Krimes | Creative Capital Premiere | Jesse Krimes: Corrections | The Met, New York, NY | Through July 13, 2025
• Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Edgar Arceneaux | Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics | LACMA, Los Angeles, CA | Through August 3, 2025
• Jennie C. Jones | Year of Construction | Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada | Through August 3, 2025
• Heather Dewey-Hagborg | Making Home: Cooper Hewitt Triennial | Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY | Through August 10, 2025
• Sandy Rodriguez | Currents of Resistance  | The Ringling Museum of Art | Sarasota, FL | Through August 10, 2025
• Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel | Breathing Matter(s) | silent green, Berlin, Germany | July 18–August 24, 2025
• Garrett Bradley | Revolutions | Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands | June 14–September 7, 2025
• Jennie C. Jones | Ensemble | 2025 Roof Garden Commission | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Through October 19, 2025
• Carlos Motta | Pleas of Resistance  | Museu d’Art Contemporarni de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain | Through October 26, 2025
• Simone Leigh, Will Rawls, Charisse Pearlina Weston | Group exhibition: Once Within a Time: 12th International | Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM | June 27, 2025–January 13, 2026

Purpose by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 2025. Photo by Marc J. Franklin.

Performance

• Miguel Gutierrez | Super Nothing | On the Boards, Seattle | May 1–3, 2025, 8PM PT
• Suzanne Lacy| Uncertain Futures  | n.b.k. Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Through May 4, 2025
• Los Angeles Poverty Department | The Covid Hotel Welcomes You to the Future | The Grand Annex, San Pedro, CA | May 7, 2025
• Joseph Keckler | A Good Night in the Trauma Garden | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | May 9 & 10, 2025, 7:30PM ET
• Ethan Lipton | Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra | The Public Theater, New York, NY | May 14, 2025
• Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | Purpose on Broadway | Helen Hayes Theater, New York, NY | Through July 6, 2025
• Black Quantum Futurism (Moor Mother, Rasheedah Phillips), Vijay Iyer | Blacktronika Festival in SummerStage 2025 | Central Park, New York, NY | August 17, 2025
• Larissa FastHorse | Fancy Dancer | Seattle Rep, Seattle, WA | September 18–November 2, 2025

Still from Raúl Paz-Pastrana’s film Backside (2025).

Film

• Michelle Handelman | BloodSisters featured in Queer and Uncensored | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | May 31 & June 11, 2025
• Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana, Michèle Stephenson, Ry Russo-Young | Premieres in 2025 Tribeca Film Festival | New York, NY | June 4–June 15, 2025
• Ry Russo-Young | Streaming premiere of Call Her Alex | Hulu | June 10, 2025
• Alison O’Daniel | A Disaster | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | June 13, 2025
• Shola Lynch | Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood | Streaming on Apple TV
• Ramona S. Diaz | And So It Begins | National broadcast premiere on Independent Lens (PBS) | May 12, 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 | Creative Capital project | 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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