New Year, New list of Black Exhibitions to check out
It’s the new year and we’re back with a new list of art shows to check out, with some ending this month.
Black British Dynasties in Music: A Family Affair
A Barbican Music Library Exhibition
27 Oct 2022 - 25 Jan 2023
Barbican Music Library, London, UK
A celebration of the huge contribution made to music and culture by Black British musical families, curated by the Black Music Coalition.
The Black Music Coalition was formed in 2020 to challenge and raise awareness of racism against black artists and professionals in the UK music industry. This exhibition contains specially commissioned photographs taken by Nathaniel Bailey and Dennis Morris, best known for his images of Bob Marley and The Sex Pistols. It will be complemented by interviews with the subjects, conducted by Capital Xtra DJ, Robert Bruce.
Photo Credit: Barbican
Fly In League With The Night
"24 Nov - 26 Feb 2022
Tate Britain, London, UK
Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. This exhibition brings together around 70 works from 2003 to the present day in the most extensive survey of the artist’s career to date.
Photo Credit Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A Passion Like No Other, 2012, Collection Lonti Ebers © Courtesy of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Photo: Marcus Leith
YOU NAME IT
11 Nov 2022 - 25 Mar 2023
London, UK
AUTOGRAPH presents Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT, curated by Renée Mussai, Mark Sealy and Bindi Vora. Sasha Huber explores how colonial histories are imprinted into the landscape through naming and acts of remembrance - asking what actions it might take to repair the inherited traumas of history.
Photo Credit: AUTOGRAPH
the COLLECTIVE exhibition
Limited access 9 - 28 January 2023
Upstairs at the Ritzy, London, UK
About the collective
A group of four London-based photographers all passionate about art and expression.
The exhibition
This will be the collective's debut exhibition; an opportunity to introduce their practises and engage with art lovers.
THE NEW BLACK VANGUARD
PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN ART AND FASHION
28 Oct 2022 - 22 Jan 2023
SAATACHI GALLERY, London, UK
The NEW BLACK VANGUARD is curated by American writer and critic Antwaun Sargent who explores a new aesthetic of Black portraiture while examining the cross-pollination between art, fashion and culture in the making of images.
Features 15 international Black photographers contributing to a new vision of the Black figure and reframing representation in art and fashion. This exhibition is a celebration of Black creativity both in-front of and behind the camera. Featured works include Black stylists, models, make-up artists and creative directors who are bringing a radically new set of references and experiences to image making.