Fade

Seventeen early-career artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent explore spirituality, surrealism, and nonlinear time to locate spaces of possibility.

Why go

The sixth edition of the Studio Museum's landmark "F" show series (begun in 2001 with Freestyle), Fade gathers emerging artists engaging ancestral lineages, the built environment as memory repository, and the body and spirit through diverse media and installation methods.

What to expect

A multi-media group exhibition on the fourth floor featuring newly commissioned and loaned works by seventeen artists working across various media, united by themes of spirituality, abstraction, material transformation, and reverence.

Things to know

• Sixth edition of the Museum's "F" shows series, which began in 2001 with Freestyle, a landmark in defining contemporary Black art.
• Features seventeen early-career artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent from across the United States.
• Exhibition catalogue designed by Caroline Washington, with commissioned essays by sixteen writers, scheduled for summer 2026.
• Organized by five curators: Adria Gunter, Habiba Hopson, Yelena Keller, Jayson Overby Jr., and Kiki Teshome.
• Support provided by Alice L. Walton Foundation Exhibitions Endowment, Bob and Jane Clark, and Charina Endowment Fund.

Plan your visit

Plan your visit at studiomuseum.org/visit for hours and ticket information. The museum is open until 6:00pm today.