Installation view of “She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New ” at Gracie Mansion, 2019. © Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office. Courtesy of Michael Appleton.
Ross Little, still from My Body a Weapon as Yours Is, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Falte Projects.
Marguerite Humeau, installation view of “FOXP2” at Palais de Tokyo, 2016. Photo by André Morin. Courtesy of the artist and Palais de Tokyo.
Installation view of “Crush” at Para Site, Hong Kong, 2018. Courtesy of Para Site.
Visual art, she believes, has the power to generate…a more radical understanding of the world—and perhaps to radical action itself.
Pia Camil, installation view at Clark Center. © Pia Camil. Photo by Art Evans. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
Kevin Beasley, installation view of Movement V: Ballroom at Project Row Houses, 2017. Courtesy of Project Row Houses.
Ruth Root, installation view at Carnegie Museum of Art, 2019. Photo by Bryan Conley. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art.
Installation view of “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” at Brooklyn Museum, 2018-19. Photo by Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum.
Installation view of “Abortion is Normal Part 2” at Arsenal Contemporary Art, 2020. Photo by Coke O’Neal. Courtesy of Downtown for Democracy.
“It sounds idealistic, and perhaps a little cliché, but I genuinely think that art is a conduit for change.”
Pascale Marthine Tayou, installation view of “Beautiful” at The Bass, 2017-18. Photo by Zachary Balber. Courtesy of The Bass, Miami Beach.
Installation view of “In the Open or in Stealth” at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2018. Photo by Miquell Coll. Courtesy of Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
Faustin Linkyekula, still from My Body, My Archive, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Tate Modern.
Isuma, installation view at the Canada Pavilion for the “58th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia,” 2019. Photo by Francesco Barasciutti. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada and Isuma Distribution International.
Installation view of “Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era” at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, 2018. Photo by Erika Bornman. Courtesy of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.
She wants to demystify the art space in a way that engages historically disadvantaged groups in a new way.
Ligia Lewis, Water Will (in Melody), 2018, at Performance Space New York, 2019. Photo by Maria Baranova. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view of “The Exhaustion Project” in Forecast Festival, HKW Berlin, 2018. Photo by Laura Fiorio. Courtesy of Forecast .