Explore the complexities of visibility in our latest exhibition, When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History. The exhibition aims to broaden and complicate official histories and their corresponding visual strategies to allow for richer representations of those who have been traditionally excluded or erased. When You See Me features nearly 60 works by a diverse, intergenerational group of 50 artists who contend with visibility both socially and formally. Their works explore invisibility, hypervisibility, the desire to be seen, and the right to be private.
The multivocal nature of this show is reflected in its co-curation by the Museum’s entire Contemporary Art Department, which comprises Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Dr. Vivian Li, Ade Omotosho, and Veronica Myers.
Artists in the Exhibition: Pacita Abad | Michael Armitage | Hernan Bas | Kevin Beasley | Mark Bradford | Garrett Bradley | Willie Cole | Anthony Cudahy | Kyle Dunn | David Drake | Lizzie Fitch | Theaster Gates | Jameson Green | Jenna Gribbon | Chase Hall | David Hammons | Sky Hopinka | Peter Hujar | Rashid Johnson | Samuel Levi Jones | Rachel Jones | Shigeko Kubota | Yowshien Kuo | Simone Leigh | Marisol | Wangari Mathenge | Senga Nengudi | Ren Light Pan | Anna Park | Pope.L | Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) | Noah Purifoy | Christina Quarles | Marc Quinn | Gerhard Richter | Deborah Roberts | Ilana Savdie | Tschabalala Self | Tavares Strachan | Krzysztof Strzelecki | Salman Toor | Ryan Trecartin | Danh Vo | Nari Ward | Susan Weil | Charles White | David Wojnarowicz | Carrie Yamaoka | Michaela Yearwood-Dan
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When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by generous DMA Members and donors, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.
Images: The Ascendants XVIII (She Is Here And So Are You), 2021. Wangari Mathenge. Oil on canvas. Dallas Museum of Art, TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Fund, 2022.27. © Wangari Mathenge. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London; When you see me, 2019. Deborah Roberts. Mixed media and collage on canvas. Dallas Museum of Art, TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Fund, 2020.20. © Deborah Roberts. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York; True Westerners for One Strange Hour, 2023. Yowshien Kuo. Acrylic, bone ash, glitter, and plastic on aluminum. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Fund, 2023.58. Courtesy of the artist and Luce Gallery; Iron Heavens II, 1995. Nari Ward. Oven pans, ironed sterilized cotton, and burnt wooden bats. Dallas Museum of Art, The Rachofsky Collection Acquisition Fund, 2021.48.A–C. © Nari Ward Studio. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London, and GALLERIA CONTINUA; Pocket Rocket, 2020. Tschabalala Self. Digital print on canvas, denim, fabric, thread, painted canvas, dyed canvas, acrylic and hand mixed pigments on dyed canvas. Dallas Museum of Art, gift from Collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman, 2022.91.2. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich / Vienna and Pilar Corrias, London.