ARIA DEAN and WALTER PRICE in Hard Art

Opens November 5, 2026

MoMA PS1
Queens, NY

From the museum:
"This fall, MoMA PS1 will present Hard Art, a major exhibition that examines the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. Hard Art features over forty artists and juxtaposes historical paintings by practitioners who came to prominence in the 1970s with recent conceptually driven practices that incorporate sculpture, video, sound, and painting.

Together, these cross-generational conversations emphasize the enduring relevance and increasing urgency of abstraction in shaping the current political imaginary. The exhibition’s title derives from Bradley’s description of The DeLuxe Show, which leveraged abstraction’s perceived opacity and complexity as a prompt for deepened engagement with art. The presentation will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring essays by Connie Butler, Jessica Bell Brown, Aria Dean, Torkwase Dyson, Rindon Johnson, and Erich Kessel, among other contributors."

The exhibition is organized by Connie Butler, The Agnes Gund Director of MoMA PS1, with Sheldon Gooch, Curatorial Assistant and support from June Kitahara, Research Assistant.

To learn more, visit the museum's website.