How do we find potential in a conflicted present informed by legacies of oppression? Made within the last 10 years, the work gathered here suggests that despite divergent backgrounds and approaches, these artists share a strong affinity in daring to reimagine history. Employing a range of forms and materials, some of these works address historical traumas and their present-day echoes, while others imagine a more hopeful future rooted in multiplicity and diversity. Purposefully open-ended, this grouping of works refuses a tidy summation of the art of our time.
Collection 1970s–Present
215
Worlds to Come
215
Worlds to Come
Fall 2019–Spring 2021
MoMA
- MoMA, Floor 2, 215
9 works online
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Nairy Baghramian Maintainers A 2018 -
Trisha Donnelly Untitled 2014
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Michaela Eichwald Duns Scotus 2015 -
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds Surviving Active Shooter Custer 2018 -
Deana Lawson Thai 2009 -
Deana Lawson Nation 2017 -
Kara Walker 40 Acres of Mules 2015 -
Kara Walker Christ's Entry into Journalism 2017 -
Jack Whitten Atopolis: For Édouard Glissant 2014
Artists
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Jack Whitten
American, 1939–20189 exhibitions, 7 works online -
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations, born 19545 exhibitions, 1 work online -
Kara Walker
American, born 196922 exhibitions, 84 works online -
Nairy Baghramian
German, born Iran. 19712 exhibitions, 3 works online -
Trisha Donnelly
American, born 19747 exhibitions, 21 works online - There are 7 artists in this collection gallery online.
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