Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in 'Imagining Black Diasporas'
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in the group show Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Illuminating aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are among the first to examine nearly a quarter century of production by Black artists.
Imagining Black Diasporas debuts new acquisitions for LACMA and expands the Pan-African exhibition canon, historically focused on the Black Atlantic, by showcasing artists working along the Pacific Rim. Nearly 70 works of painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and time-based media are organised into four themes: speech and silence, movement and transformation, imagination, and representation.
The exhibition presents artists across generations including established makers Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Igshaan Adams, Mark Bradford, Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Deana Lawson, Ibrahim Mahama, Abdoulaye Ndoye, Wangechi Mutu and Lorna Simpson.
The works of emerging and mid-career artists Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Josué Azor, Samuel de Saboia, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Chioma Ebinama, Chelsea Odufu, Zohra Opoku, and Alberta Whittle are presented with L.A.–based artists including Edgar Arceneaux, Widline Cadet, Patrisse Cullors, Awol Erizku, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
The exhibition is curated by Dhyandra Lawson, Andy Song Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at LACMA.
