April 16 – June 15, 2026
Cohen & Atrium Galleries, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts

As a critical engagement with contemporary Black queer visual art, Exposure examines the dynamic interplay between figuration and abstraction, highlighting the formal indeterminacy that shapes photography, film, sculpture, and new media. The exhibition interrogates ruptures within the conventions of contemporary art-historical discourse and methodology that circumvent narratives of transcendence and uplift. In the context of intensifying surveillance practices and anti-trans rhetoric, Exposure critically addresses themes of contamination, communicability, and consent, as they are refracted and unsettled through the intersecting lenses of Blackness and queerness in the field of the visual. By convening a chorus of Black queer artists from the Americas, Europe, and the African continent, the exhibition tends to the aesthetic leaps that amplify the urgency of contemporary Black diasporic art and erotic cultures.

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Symposium | May 8, 2026
Pembroke Center, Room 305
Schedule TBA

ARTISTS:

• Alanna Fields
• keyon gaskin
• Eric Gyamfi
• Deborah-Joyce Holman
• Nadia Huggins
• Clifford Prince King
• Carlos Martiel
• Patric McCoy
• Sabelo Mlangeni
• Zanele Muholi
• Shikeith
• Texas Isaiah
• Tourmaline
• Ajamu X

CURATORIAL TEAM: 

Lindiwe Makgalemele, Jordan Mulkey, J.M. Nimocks, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, and Gee Wesley