The Year in Black Art: Six Group Exhibitions
The year 2025 saw several solo exhibitions by well-known Black artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, Jack Whitten, Lorna Simpson, and Elizabeth Catlett. Following his exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, Marshall is now lauded as one of America’s most important artists. Sherald resisted “a culture of censorship” at Washington, D.C.’s National Portrait Gallery and moved her show to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Johnson made the entire r
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