The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
February 22 – May 19, 2024
National Portrait Gallery, London

The exhibition, curated by writer Ekow Eshun, showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including Michael Armitage, LUBAINA HIMID, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald, and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. As well as surveying the presence of the Black figure in Western art history, we examine its absence—and the story of representation told through these works, as well as the social, psychological and cultural contexts in which they were produced.

For more information, please visit the exhibition website.