PIGMENT INTERNATIONAL’S MUST SEE EXHIBITIONS FOR 2025
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Time to make your travel plans for the new year and ensure they coincide with some amazing exhibitions of Black art both here and abroad. From the ATL to Chicago; From Marrakech to Paris; from New York to California; From Houston to Little Rock there is something for everyone.
Explore the works of Black masters and ancestors like Edmonia Lewis, Richard Hunt, Joyce Owens and Elizabeth Catlett; to today’s masters Betye Saar, Rashad Johnson, Torkwase Dyson, Robert Paige, Kwame Brathwaite; to international stars like Ange Dakouo.
If you missed Giant in New York, you have a short time to catch it at the High Museum in Atlanta. Want to get up close and personal with your favorite artists, then visit the Harlem Fine Art Show at the Glass House in NYC from February 21 – 23.
In the mood for some international travel? Then visit 1-54 Marrakech this February followed by 1-54 London. Paris Noir at Centre Pompidou will feature works of Beauford Delaney.
The five decades long juried art exhibition Black Creativity kicks off in Chicago this month. Here you can find both seasoned, mid-career and on the rise artists.
Pigment International hopes to run into you at one of the shows. Here’s to an artful and art filled 2025!
Additional Exhibitions
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
Featuring artists Jamel Shabazz, Amy Sherald Odili, Donald Odita, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Nick Cave
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
Through January 19th
1-54 Marrakech
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Over 50 artists and galleries
La Mamounia
Marrakech
January 30 – February 2
ROBERT EARL PAIGE: Give the Drummer Some!
The Art of Robert Paige
Smart Museum
Through July 2025
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“The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines, for the first time, the role of sculpture in understanding and constructing the concept of race in the United States over nearly three centuries. Featuring 70 artists whose work crosses time, scale and media, the exhibition brings together American sculpture in its many forms to explore the ways in which it has shaped and reflected attitudes and understandings about race, and has served as an expression of resistance, liberation and a vital means for reclaiming identity. The exhibition includes 82 sculptures created between 1792 and 2023 ranging in size from palm-sized coins to monumental statues created from diverse media such as bronze, marble, shoes, paper and hair.
“The Shape of Power” will be on view through Sept. 14, 2025. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the sole venue for this groundbreaking exhibition.
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BLACK METROPOLIS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA COMMISSION HOSTS EXHIBITION CELEBRATING PURVIS YOUNG
The Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Commission is hosting an exhibition of works by Purvis Young, that tells the story of how a wall on Chicago’s South Side was at the heart of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in the United States. Further it explores how Chicago’s South Side, now a National Heritage Area, continues to influence Black Art and culture today.
2025’s Black History Month (BHM) theme is African Americans and Labor, focusing on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled and unskilled, vocational and voluntary – intersect with the collective experiences of Black people. Young’s work “I Have a Job! I Have a Job” captures the 2025 Black History Month theme.
Young (February 4, 1943 – April 20, 2010) was an American artist of Bahamian descent who was one of the artists whose work was featured on Chicago’s The Wall of Respect. The Wall was spearheaded by muralist/artist William Walker and is recognized as the first community mural highlighting African American achievement. Young credited his work on the wall throughout his life as his creative inspiration.
Young's work is celebrated at the museum and institutional level at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MOMA), Paris’ Centre Pompidou, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Among the private collectors of his work are Brice Marden, Jane Fonda, Damon Wayans, Jim Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and others. In 2006 a feature documentary titled Purvis of Overtown was produced about his life and work.
The opening night of the exhibition will support the work of the Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Commission
Exhibition Dates: January 28, 2025- March 1, 2025
Location: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery 325 W. Huron
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