Ming Smith, Untitled (Self-Portrait with Camera), New York, NY, ca. 1975. Gelatin silver photograph, 20 x 16 inches. Image and work courtesy the artist.
Touring Exhibition
Ming Smith: Feeling the Future
August 23 - December 7
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
About
This special exhibition explores artist Ming Smith’s unparalleled and under-recognized career from the early 1970s through the present. The exhibition encompasses a multitude of artistic expressions to represent Smith’s vibrant and multi-layered practice, which is grounded in portraiture, and amplifies the heartbeat of Black life in the United States. 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.