See the show that the New Yorker called “visionary” in the final destination of its U.S. tour. The DMA is proud to present Afro-Atlantic Histories, an ambitious exhibition that charts the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies in the African Diaspora.
Composed of around 100 works of art and documents produced in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe from the 17th century to today, this exhibition engages visitors in a series of dialogues that reexamine histories and stories of enslavement, resilience, and the struggle for liberation from a global perspective.
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Enslavements and Emancipations
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Images: Zeferina, 2018. Dalton Paula. Oil on canvas. Museu de Arte de São Paulo, gift of the artist on the occasion of the Afro‐Atlantic Histories exhibition, 2018. © Dalton Paula; A Place to Call Home, 2020. Hank Willis Thomas. Stainless steel with mirrored finish, edition 1 of 3, with 2 APs. Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Hank Willis Thomas. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Conversation, 1981. Barrington Watson. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Jamaica; Slave Rebellion on a Slaveship, 1833. Édouard-Antoine Renard. Oil on canvas. Musée du Nouveau-Monde, Collections d’Art et d’Histoire, La Rochelle, France; Into Bondage, 1936. Aaron Douglas. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Corcoran Collection (museum purchase and partial gift from Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr., the Evans‐Tibbs Collection). © 2021 Heirs of Aaron Douglas / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Bahian Market, 1956. Djanira da Motta e Silva. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Salvador, Bahia.
Afro-Atlantic Histories is co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
At the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the exhibition was curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director; Ayrson Heráclito, Curator; Hélio Menezes, Curator; Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Adjunct-curator of Histories; and Tomás Toledo. The coordinating curators at the Dallas Museum of Art are Katherine Brodbeck, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, and Ade Omotosho, The Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art.
This exhibition is presented by Bank of America. Free General Admission to the Dallas Museum of Art is made possible with generous support from the Robert Gerard Pollock Foundation. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and donors, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.