Ming Smith, Acid Rain (“Mercy Mercy Me” Marvin Gay), circa. 1977
Congratulations to Ming Smith on the opening of ‘Ming Smith: Feeling the Future’ at the International African American Museum, Charleston, SC. The exhibition will be on view until 28 April 2024.
This solo exhibition explores Ming Smith’s career from the early 1970s through the present. ‘Feeling the Future’ places works from the artist’s five-decades of creation in conversation with one another, exploring themes such as Afrofuturism, Black cultural expression, representation, and social examination.
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In 2023 Smith was honoured with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, and the Lucie Awards 2023 Achievement in Portraiture. She was also recently the subject of two major solo exhibitions: Projects: Ming Smith, curated by Thelma Golden, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY (2023) and Ming Smith: Feeling the Future, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2023), now at the International African American Museum, Charleston, SC (2024). Other recent exhibitions include Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA; touring to Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA and Mechanical Hall, Newark, DE (2021-23); The Power of Portraiture: Recent Acquisitions, The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (2023); BLACK VENUS, curated by Aindrea Emelife, Fotografiska New York (2022); Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2020); touring to The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2020-21); The J. Paul Getty Museum, LA (2022); Cincinnati Art Museum (2020-22); We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2017); Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbably, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo, and Missylanyus), Serpentine Galleries, London (2017); and Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY (2010).
This solo exhibition explores Ming Smith’s career from the early 1970s through the present. ‘Feeling the Future’ places works from the artist’s five-decades of creation in conversation with one another, exploring themes such as Afrofuturism, Black cultural expression, representation, and social examination.
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In 2023 Smith was honoured with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, and the Lucie Awards 2023 Achievement in Portraiture. She was also recently the subject of two major solo exhibitions: Projects: Ming Smith, curated by Thelma Golden, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY (2023) and Ming Smith: Feeling the Future, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2023), now at the International African American Museum, Charleston, SC (2024). Other recent exhibitions include Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA; touring to Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA and Mechanical Hall, Newark, DE (2021-23); The Power of Portraiture: Recent Acquisitions, The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (2023); BLACK VENUS, curated by Aindrea Emelife, Fotografiska New York (2022); Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2020); touring to The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2020-21); The J. Paul Getty Museum, LA (2022); Cincinnati Art Museum (2020-22); We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2017); Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbably, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo, and Missylanyus), Serpentine Galleries, London (2017); and Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY (2010).
31 January 2024
