Dread Scott American, b. 1965

As the first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica gathers together some 350 objects,...

How does a nation or city or neighborhood decide what to collectively remember? Who gets to decide what museums’ collect, display and commemorate and what...

The American Academy in Rome presents Artists Making Books: Pages of Refuge, an exhibition looking at the relationship between arts, graphic design, publishers, and books—ultimately...

Réunir les bouts du monde est une rencontre avec des oeuvres artistiques, littéraires et critiques, étatsuniennes et caribéennes, qui portent en elles la mémoire de...

The National Academy of Design is pleased to present Past as Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment, a two-part exhibition conceived as a call and response between...

BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY) champions bodily autonomy, with a specific emphasis on intersecting themes of Reproductive Justice, Queer Liberation, and Trans Joy through contemporary art....

Join the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Visiting Artists Program for a new season of artists talks by today’s most influential makers and...

The Western formation of what has become the Americas was born through water. The symbolic birth of a nation, nor its often violent formation, is...

25 September 2024, 14:00 – 15:15 BST Online — Part of Constellations ° Assemblies 2024 Operating at the intersection of art and activism, artist...

Artist Dread Scott's family photos date back to the 1880s. Among the archive are portraits of Dread's great grandparents who lived around the corner from...

Art at a Time Like This (ATLT) and Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) are joining forces to host “ Dangerous Art/Endangered Artists ,” a summit...

Since their inception in 2004, they've produced public art projects that reflect the concerns of New York communities, and are rooted in the transformative power...

This spring, the Worcester Art Museum will present New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography, a new exhibition focused on how 21st-century artists use different photographic processes...

Cristin Tierney Gallery is delighted to announce Dread Scott’s conceptual artwork, the All African People’s Consulate, as a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art...

Featuring a variety of historic, modern, and contemporary works, this collection-based exhibition explores evolving concepts of family and community in relation to themes of belonging,...

“It is relatively easy to accept that money is an intersubjective reality. Most people are also happy to acknowledge that ancient Greek gods, evil empires...

The prints, drawings, and illustrated books on display on the museum’s fourth floor represent only a handful of the extraordinary objects added to the collection...

LAWRENCE — The Spencer Museum of Art has acquired major works by artists Dread Scott and Fahamu Pecou. The two paintings are currently on view...

The Old Stone House & Washington Park (OSH) is pleased to announce the opening of its latest contemporary art exhibition, Picturing the Constitution, the weekend...

Co-curated by Jack D.M. Green, Jeffrey Horrell ‘75 and Rodney Rose Director and Chief Curator and Jason E. Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions Representations of the...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the History of Black Writing, a research center at the University of Kansas that specializes in the recovery...

Drawing as Practice will focus on drawing as the medium and practice that connects many divergent points of interest in the founding and history of...

How might the Weatherspoon better engage with museum participants to share fuller and more inclusive stories of American art? This question sparked an eighteen-month-long curatorial...

Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds is a public artwork by Fred Wilson, commissioned by More Art and currently on view in Columbus Park, Downtown Brooklyn....

This public discussion centers on the recent publication of A Sourcebook of Performance Labor (Routledge 2023) by curator Joey Orr, which reorients well-known works of...

Cristin Tierney Gallery congratulates Dread Scott on winning the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize in Visual Arts for 2023-24. The American Academy in Rome awards the...

Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to announce that the full suite of Dread Scott's Slave Rebellion Reenactment Performance Stills has been acquired by Muson-Williams-Proctor Arts...

The New York Civil Liberties Union today officially announced the upcoming Museum of Broken Windows, a free pop-up exhibition in New York City from April...

Then Is Now: Contemporary Black Art in America explores how Black artists of our time critically engage with the past and present. Over generations,...

Two historic museums come together for a transformative exhibition of contemporary art. Join the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the...

WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired two photographs by the multimedia artist Dread Scott (b. 1965), whose work engages with some of...

Munson opens the vaults to present rare works in photography from its collection in InSight, an exhibition that examines contemporary life through the lens of...

Ai Weiwei, Dread Scott, Santiago Sierra, Andrei Molodkin, and the late Vivienne Westwood are among the artists ensemble also featured in the upcoming exhibition. Titled...

Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to announce that Dread Scott's I Am Not A Man Performance Still has been acquired by Memphis Brooks Museum.

Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to announce that Dread Scott's Slave Rebellion Reenactment Performance Still 1 and Slave Rebellion Reenactment Performance Still 5 have...

Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to announce that Dread Scott's Slave Rebellion Reenactment Performance Still 1 has been acquired by Montclair Art Museum.

Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to announce that Dread Scott's #WhileWhite and #WhileBlack screen prints have been acquired by Worcester Art Museum.

Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to announce that two of Dread Scott's I Am Not A Man Performance Stills have been acquired by Ackland Art...