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Martine Syms

b. 1988 — Los Angeles, California, USA

Notable Works: 

The African Desperate (2022)

Incense Sweaters & Ice (2017)

Laughing Gas (2016)

Notes on Gesture (2015)

Lessons I-CLXXX (2014-2018)

Video:

Martine Syms on her conceptual project She Mad

Moviegoing Memories | In conversation with Martine Syms

Martine Syms | HOW TO SEE Projects 106 with Martine Syms

Publications:

“The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto”

Further Reading:

The New York Times | The Many Lives of Martine Syms

Artnet | ‘There’s This Illusion That It’s an Equalizer’: Artist Martine Syms on How Her New Film Explodes the Myth of the MFA Education

Interview Magazine | Martine Syms and Precious Okoyomon Need Space to Breathe

See Also:

Afrofuturism

Golden Age

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Chase Hall

b. 1993 — St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; based between New York & LA

Notable Works: 

Clouds in My Coffee | Exhibition (2022)

Black Birderers Association (2020)

A Great Day in Harlem (2020)

Running from Yesterday’s Acquittal (2019)

fishermans boy I & II (2018)

don’t forget to turn the white off (2018)

Milk & Honey I & II (2016/2017)

Video: 

Chase Hall | Videos

Chase Hall | Painting black and bi-racial America

Chase Hall artist presentation and Q&A with PSU Studio MFA - February 10th, 2021

Books:

Chase Hall — Books

Milk & Honey

Milk & Honey II

Mug

Gaucho

Irie Jesus

Come

Further Reading:

SSENSE | “Troubled Waters: Meet Painter Chase Hall”

W Magazine | “Artist Chase Hall’s Artworks Closely Consider Life’s Gray Areas”

Vogue | “The Awesome Audacity of Chase Hall”

Galerie Eva Presenhuber | “Chase Hall: Clouds in My Coffee” 

Cultural Identity & Diaspora, Hall, Stuart, 1996.

See Also:

Antwaun Sargent

Stuart Hall

Kerry James Marshall

Roy DeCarava

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Garrett Bradley

b. 1986 — New York, New York, USA; based in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Notable Works:

SAFE (2022)

Time (2020)

A.K.A (2019)

America (2019)

Alone (2017)

Below Dreams (2014)

Video: 

Garrett Bradley’s Closet Picks | Criterion

Best Documentary Nominee 2021 "Time" | Q&A with Director Garrett Bradley | MoMA FILM

Garrett Bradley on Time, the Bonds of Family & Capturing a 20-Year Fight for Justice | NYFF58

Filmmakers Julie Dash and Garrett Bradley at BAM

Garrett Bradley’s “America” | Virtual Views

Watch Now: Arthur Jafa and Garrett Bradley in Conversation with Mark Godfrey | Frieze

Further Reading:

MoMA | “Projects: Garrett Bradley”

MoMA | “Re-Imaging America”

SSENSE | “Documenting America with Garrett Bradley”

Frieze | “Garrett Bradley’s Cinema Takes a Leap of Faith”

C Magazine | “‘Safe’ — Garrett Bradley”

See Also: 

Arthur Jafa

Julie Dash

Legacy Russell

Studio Museum Harlem

Thelma Golden

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Grace Wales Bonner

b. 1990 — London, United Kingdom

Notable Works:

Sunlight Reverie (2022)

Hold (2022)

Volta Jazz (2022)

Volta Jazz — Film (2022)

Black Sunlight (2021)

The Light of Black Sunlight (2021)

Thinkin Home (2021)

Essence (2021)

Lovers Rock (2020)

Mumbo Jumbo (2019)

A Time for New Dreams | Serpentine Gallery (2019)

Ecstatic Recital (2019)

Finding Saint (2018)

Blue Duets (2018)

Spirituals II (2017)

Ezekiel (2017)

Malik (2016)

Spirituals (2016)

Ebonics (2015)

Videos:

Grace Wales Bonner: A Time for New Dreams

Devotional Sound (2019) | Wales Bonner

Prophecy (2019) | Wales Bonner

Finding Saint (2018) A Film by Jordan Hemingway | Wales Bonner

The Love in Which I Wash (2016) A Film by Harley Weir and Grace Wales Bonner | Wales Bonner

Meet the Wrestlers of the Pink Lake, Senegal (2015) A Film by Harley Weir | Wales Bonner

Lake Bosomtwe | Grace Wales Bonner

Grace Wales Bonner: Portrait of a Muse

Publications:

A Magazine Curated By...Grace Wales Bonner

Everythings for Real Volume I and II

Further Reading:

Dazed | “Grace Wales Bonner’s new exhibition is a magical space for reflection”

Serpentine Galleries | “Grace Wales Bonner: A Time for New Dreams”

SSENSE | “Earth Tones”

The New Yorker | “Grace Wales Bonner’s Visions of Black Style”

Wepresent | “For Grace Wales Bonner, research is an art”

See Also: 

Harley Weir

Tyler Mitchell

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Liz Johnson Artur

Ben Okri

Laraaji

Jeano Edwards

Sampha

Rashid Johnson

Kapwani Kiwanga

Ishmael Reid

Kerry James Marshall

Silvia Rosi

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Wolfgang Tillmans

b. 16 August 1968 — Remscheid, West Germany

Notable Works: 

To look without fear | MoMA Exhibition (2022)

2017 | Tate Modern Exhibition (2017)

Anti-Brexit Campaign (2016)

Device Control (2016)

Truth Study Center (2005 - ongoing)

Central Nervous System (2008 - 2013)

Freischwimmer (2001 - 2003)

Paper Drop (2001 - ongoing)

Concorde Grid (1997)

Lutz & Alex (1992)

Videos: 

Wolfgang Tillmans, Hasselblad Award

Wolfgang Tillmans – 'What Art Does in Me is Beyond Words' | Artist Interview | TateShots

Q&A with Wolfgang Tillmans & Gregory Crewdson 

Books:

Wolfgang Tillmans — Books

Tillmans Reader

Wolfgang Tillmans: Neue Welt

Wolfgang Tillmans: Lighter

Wolfgang Tillmans: Freischwimmer

Wolfgang Tillmans: What’s wrong with redistribution?

Wolfgang Tillmans (Phaidon)

Wolfgang Tillmans: Truth Study Center

Wolfgang Tillmans: Portraits

Wolfgang Tillmans (Taschen)

Further Reading:

Artspace | “Wolfgang Tillmans Opens Up on His Art, His Influences, and His Personal Tragedy.”

Frieze | “Wolfgang Tillmans’ Ways of Seeing”

The Guardian | “Wolfgang Tillmans”

The New Yorker | “The Life and Art of Wolfgang Tillmans”

See Also: 

Between Bridges

i-D

Turner Prize

Frank Ocean

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Cecilia Vicuña

b. 22 July 1948 — Santiago, Chile

Notable Works: 

Brain Forest Quipu (2022)

Quipu Womb (2017)

Kuntur Ko (2012)

Kon Kon (2010)

Quipu Menstrual (2006/2021)

What is Poetry to You (1980)

Precarios (1966-2017)

Precarios: Objects of Resistance for the Chilean Resistance (1973-4)

Videos:

Vimeo – Cecilia Vicuña

Meet the artists | Cecilia Vicuña 

Living Quipu | Cecilia Vicuña

Disappeared Quipu | Cecilia Vicuña

Further Reading:

“Precarious Resistance: Weaving Opposition in the Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña”

“The Material Etymologies of Cecilia Vicuña: Art, Sculpture, and Poetic Communities”

The New York Times | “Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines”

Wallpaper | “Cecilia Vicuña: the artist reclaiming oppressed histories with vigour, resilience and love”

Frieze | “A Form of Praying’: The Performances of Cecilia Vicuña”

Frieze | “The Sound and Feel of Cecilia Vicuña’s Art”

Art Review | “The erotic socialism of Cecilia Vicuña”

See Also: 

Tribu No

Soft Sculpture

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Solange Knowles

b. 4 June 1986 — Houston, Texas

Notable Works:

In Past Pupils & Smiles (2019/2022)

When I Get Home (2019)

Album

Witness (2019)

Metatronia (Metatron’s Cube) (2018)

A Seat at the Table (2016)

Album

Further Reading:

Blackplanet Dossier | Solange

Wepresent | “When I Get Home”

Harper’s Bazaar | “Solange Knowles: Reflections on Stillness, Joy, and the Year That Changed Everything”

The Face | “Grace Wales Bonner in conversation with Solange”

See Also:

Saint Heron

Rothko Chapel

Carlotta Guerrero

Chinati Foundation

Grace Wales Bonner