Reclamation! Pan-African Works

from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection

Exhibition Website

Mar 3 2018 - Sep 2 2018

The Taubman Museum of Art is pleased to present Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection that features over one hundred works from various media highlighting the global migration of peoples across the world. The exhibiting artists create work that investigates the universal conversation of migration, history, race and representation in art being made today. The exhibition captures the personal stories and collective histories of artists reflected through installations, videos, paintings and sculptures. Drawn from DeWoody’s significant contemporary African diaspora collection, it features world renowned artists such as Willie Cole, Hank Thomas Willis, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Romare Bearden, Kehinde Wiley, Sandford Biggers, and Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) among others working in a broad reach of media and conceptual approaches. Presenting over 100 significant examples from her collection, the exhibition aims to represent artists whose work references ownership of their own home countries while developing narratives that embrace global histories.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

  • Various Media
  • International
  • Contemporary
  • Indigenous
  • Willie Cole
  • Hank Thomas Willis
  • Kerry James Marshall
  • Kara Walker
  • Romare Bearden
  • Kehinde Wiley
  • and others

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