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Elizabeth Catlett

40s-75 best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience.

Afrofemcentrism

It focuses on the black woman subject as depicted by the black woman artist, exploring the distinct manner in which the latter envisions and presents black women's realities.

Faith Ringgold

1995-now painter and quiltest activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.

Where We At (WWA)

was a collective of Black women artists affiliated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It included artists such as Dindga McCannon, and, Faith Ringgold,

Dindga McCannon

illustrative quilt artist

Betye Saar

assemblage artist

Emma Amos

painter

Carrie Mae Weems,

American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video,

BECC

Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) was founded by a group of artists as an art strike to protest New York museums for their exclusion of black artists and curators in major art exhibitions.

United Daughters of the Confederacy,

The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is a hereditary association founded in 1894 for female descendants of Confederate soldiers

Equal Justice Initiative

National Monument to Freedom, the park includes various sculptures created by Alison Saar, Kehinde Wiley,

Gees Bend Quilts

renowned, vibrant, and improvisational textile artworks created by generations of women in Boykin, Alabama

Whitfield Lovell

internationally renowned for his installations that incorporate masterful Conte crayon portraits of anonymous African Americans

Fred Wilson

"Mining the Museum" (1992), he rearranges museum collections to highlight overlooked social, racial, and historical narratives, often focusing on black history and institutional critique.

David Hammons

traces the politicization and commodification of the Black body and identity through an array of multimedia and performance works.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience

Kerry James Marshall

HE is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing:paintings of black figures

Howardena Pindell,

profoundly personal and politically charged work delivers a dynamic materiality to the canons of painting.

Carrie Mae Weems

staged and photographed a fictional drama in which she plays the lead.

Lorna Simpson

Lorna Simpson burst onto the art scene with photographs of unidentified Black figures accompanied by text.

Post-black

a philosophical and artistic term, coined by Thelma Golden and Glenn Ligon in the 1990s, referring to African American artists who create art "black as subject, but not as brand

Martin Puryear

American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in a variety of media, but primarily wood

Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates is an American social practice installation artist

Afrofuturism

a cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical movement that blends elements of science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology to reimagine the Black experience and envision liberated futures

Nick Cave

Nick Cave is an American sculptor, painter, dancer, performance artist, and professor. He is best known for his Soundsuit series: wearable assemblage fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly, often made with found objects.

Renee Cox

Renee Cox is a Jamaican-American artist, photographer,

Renée Stout

American sculptor and contemporary artist known for assemblage artworks dealing with her personal history and African-American heritage.

Allison Saar

Los Angeles-based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and black female identity

Kehinde Wiley

naturalistic portrayals of Black people, often referencing Old Master paintings.

Bisa Butler

creates arresting portraits—composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics—that reimagine and celebrate narratives of Black life. 

Amy Sherald,

2000s-2020s Amy Sherald is an American painter. She works mostly as a portraitist depicting African Americans in everyday settings. met gala lady

Sonya Clark

90- 2020s Sonya Clark Listen is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials to address race, culture, class, and history.

Kara Walker

90-2020s Walker is most well known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that interrogate romantic narratives of the antebellum South of the United States.