This National Portrait Gallery exhibition (22 February–19 May 2024) showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life.
As well as surveying the presence of the Black figure in Western art history, we examine its absence – and the story of representation told through these works, as well as the social, psychological and cultural contexts in which they were produced.
Image: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens, 2021
Acrylic, transfers, colour pencil and collage on paper
243.84 x 274.32 cm
96 x 108 in
© Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, and Victoria Miro
January 19 2024