EXHIBITIONS

Curated Exhibitions

Recent Exhibitions Sponsored During Founding Directorship, Art Galleries at Black Studies

Made in Texas, September 4–December 5, 2026, the Christian–Green Gallery and the Idea Lab. Curated by Phillip Townsend. 

Carrie Mae Weems: Something Grander Still, January 30–May 9, the Christian–Green Gallery and the Idea Lab. Curated by Ariel Evans. 

The Klein Collection at the Gordon-White Building, academic year 2025-2026, the Gordon-White Building. 

“World”-Traveling: Black Studies Research in Relation, August 29–December 6, 2025, the Idea Lab. Curated by Joy Scanlon, with research assistance from the Summer 2025 ABGS interns. 

Rahim Fortune: “Hardtack” and Other Stories, September 12–December 6, 2025, the Christian-Green Gallery. Curated by Kaila T. Schedeen. 

Transcendence: A Century Of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924–2024, January 24–May 9, 2025, the Christian–Green Gallery, the Idea Lab, and the Visual Arts Center. Curated by Phillip Townsend. 

Rashaun Rucker: Patron Saints of a Black Boy, August 30-December 7, 2024, the Idea Lab. Curated by Phillip Townsend.

Nicole Awai: In the thick of it, September 20-December 7, 2024, the Christian-Green Gallery. Curated by Phillip Townsend.

Alicia Henry: (un)knowing, February 9-May 18, 2024, the Christian-Green Gallery. Curated by Phillip Townsend.

Michael A. Booker: WAVE PATTERNS, January 18-May 3, 2024, the Idea Lab. Curated by Phillip Townsend.

Travelogue Series: Un-Tying Our Cosmic Ancestry, September 15-December 9, 2023, the Christian-Green Gallery. Curated by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones.

Travelogue Series: Falling into Language, September 7-December 1, 2023, the Idea Lab. Curated by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones.

Melvin Edwards: WIRE(D) AND CHAIN(ED), September 16-December 11, 2022, the Christian-Green Gallery. Curated by Phillip Townsend.

Wura-Natasha Ogunji: earth, body, spirit, August 25, 2022-February 10, 2023, the Idea Lab. Curated by Phillip Townsend.

NEVER ALONE, April 7-July 1, 2022, the Idea Lab. Curated by Deb Olin Unferth and Jessica Vacek, Pen City Writers.

Not Only Will I Stare, February 3-May 21, 2022, the Christian-Green Gallery. Curated by Simone Browne.

the way back home: Work by Ariel René Jackson, October 28, 2021-March 4, 2022, the Idea Lab. Curated by Kendyll Gross.

Collecting Black Studies, January 21-June 15, 2021, the Christian-Green Gallery. Curated by Lise Ragbir.

With New Eyes: Adrian Armstrong, January 21-May 16, 2021, the Idea Lab. Curated by Phillip Townsend.