Accra! The Rise of a Global Art Community | Featuring Amoako Boafo and Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
October 6, 2023 – January 28, 2024
Accra! The Rise of a Global Art Community showcases the work of 18 artists who have deep connections to Accra, Ghana and their impact on global art discourse. Portraits, abstraction, textiles, works on papers and sculpture explore cultural identities, political histories, mythology, trauma and healing.
Queer Nature | Featuring Jeffrey Gibson
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, London, England
September 30 - October 29, 2023
In Queer Nature, New York based artist Jeffrey Gibson celebrates the beauty of plants and fungi with House of Spirits, an installation fusing vibrant colour and pattern. This large-scale, suspended artwork is intricately crafted to form a collage of printed fabrics, incorporating botanical illustrations alongside language and patterns informed by Gibson’s own perspectives on queerness, and the endless diversity of plants and nature.
Cowboy | Featuring Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver, CO
September 29, 2023 - February 18, 2024
The exhibition Cowboy will bring together loans and new commissions from 27 artists representing a wide range of perspectives including Asian American artists, Latinx artists, and Native artists. The exhibition aims to shift the narrative of this figure’s cultural power and significance to be both historically accurate and creatively imaginative.
Kehinde Wiley | A Maze of Power
The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
September 26, 2023 – January 14, 2024
Kehinde Wiley unveils an exclusive series of portraits of African heads of state. A project exploring the staging of power, on which the artist has been working confidentially since 2012. It was as a result of the election of Barack Obama in 2008 that Kehinde Wiley began to ponder the question of presidential leadership. In 2012, the American artist, whose work reinterprets representations of power and prestige in the history of portrait painting, imagined an original series dedicated to African heads of state.
Presidential Portraits by Kehinde Wiley, This Time From Africa
The New York Times
September 25, 2023
The American artist Kehinde Wiley shot to fame in 2018 with his unconventional presidential portrait, at least as far as U.S. presidential portraiture goes: Barack Obama seated amid a brightly colored, flowery background. Now, Mr. Wiley is again breaking the mold with a series of portraits of 11 current and former African presidents in an exhibition that opened Monday in Paris.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction | Featuring Jeffrey Gibson
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
September 17, 2023 – January 21, 2024
Featuring Jeffrey Gibson, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction foregrounds a robust if over-looked strand in art history’s modernist narratives by tracing how, when, and why abstract art intersected with woven textiles (and such pre-loom technologies as basketry, knotting, and netting) over the past century.
“Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight” debuts at The Huntington on November 11
Pasadena Now
August 29, 2023
Renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work Drifting Toward Twilight—commissioned by The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens—will go on view November 11, 2023, in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art.
Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art | WSU, Spokane, WA
August 22, 2023 – March 9, 2024
Jeffrey Gibson asks us to co-envision a future and to move toward it. Ceaselessly prioritizing collective imagination as a tool toward manifestation and realization, the artist has stated, “Don’t accept the circumstances you are in; acknowledge that you are in them and then find a future.” Gibson’s form of hard-earned optimism evokes a time frame that unites and collapses past, present, and future into a flowing and responsive mindset, rooted in the belief that a critical engagement with the past can help us shape a brighter horizon.
Black American Portraits | Featuring Wangari Mathenge, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Betye Saar, Kehinde Wiley
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
August 17, 2023 - January 7, 2024
Featuring more than 100 works drawn primarily from the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the exhibition spans more than two centuries and includes nineteenth-century studio photography; portraits from the Harlem Renaissance; images from the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Lives Matter eras; pictures of Black celebrities and political figures; and artists’ self-portraits.
New Publication | An Indigenous Present
Edited with Introduction by Jeffrey Gibson
This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey Gibson, a renowned artist of Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee descent, An Indigenous Present presents an increasingly visible and expanding field of Indigenous creative practice. It centers individual practices, while acknowledging shared histories, to create a visual experience that foregrounds diverse approaches to concept, form and medium as well as connection, influence, conversation and collaboration. An Indigenous Present foregrounds transculturalism over affiliation and contemporaneity over outmoded categories.
Jeffrey Gibson to Represent United States at 60th Venice Biennale in 2024
July 27, 2023
U.S. Pavilion Presented by Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe; Co-Commissioned by Kathleen Ash-Milby, Louis Grachos and Abigail Winograd
Roberts Projects congratulates Jeffrey Gibson who will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale. The Portland Art Museum in Oregon and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, announced today that Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia, the 60th International Art Exhibition.
Ashmolean NOW | Featuring Daniel Crews-Chubb
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
July 8, 2023 – January 14, 2024
This summer, the Ashmolean launches its contemporary exhibition series Ashmolean NOW. The museum’s Gallery 8 will become a laboratory for contemporary artists who have been invited to create new work inspired by the Ashmolean’s historical collections.