December 2025 BAG
Your curated Black Art Guide for this month.
Los Angeles
West side
Made in LA 2025 group exhibition at the Hammer (5 Oct to 1 March)*
(Not black, but you should see it) Edmund de Waal: if you came this way at the Gagosian (13 Nov-20 Dec)
Midtown/Central LA
J.J. Anderson: Sometimes I Feel Like I Am Almost Home at CAAM (19 Aug until 22 Mar)
Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began at LACMA (12 Oct until 29 Mar)** (highly recommended)
Kwame Braithwaite: Giving You The Best That I Got at Art + Practice (11 Oct until 7 Mar)
Kohshin Finley: Still Life at Jeffrey Deitch (8 Nov-17 Jan) (highly recommended)
Alteronce Gumby: Walk on the Moon at Jeffrey Deitch (15 Nov-17 Jan)
Driftwork Group exhibition at Southern Guild (13 Nov-10 Jan)
East Side/DTLA
Monuments at Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (23 Oct until 3 May)
New York City
Brooklyn
Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens at Brooklyn Museum (10 Oct-8 Mar)
Chelsea
Kader Attia: Shattering and Gathering our Traces at Lehmann Maupin (30 Oct–13 Dec)
Kandy Lopez: Textile Truths: Faces of Resilience at ACA Galleries, 173 10th Avenue, New York, NY (13 Nov-17 Jan) (highly recommended)
LES
Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies at the ICP (16 Oct-12 Jan)
Midtown
Arthur Jafa: Less is Morbid at The Museum of Modern Art (19 Nov-5 July) (highly recommended)
Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination at the Museum of Modern Art (14 Dec until 4 Apr)
New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging at MoMA (until 17 Jan)
Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life at MoMA (through Spring 2026; 1st floor)
TriBeCa
Lola Flash: Believable at Jenkins-Johnson inside of Marian Goodman gallery (8 Nov-20 Dec)
UES
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers at the Guggenheim (until 18 Jan)*
Lauren Halsey at Gagosian Uptown (14 Nov-20 Dec)
Queens
Gabrielle Goliath: Personal Accounts at PS1 (6 Nov-16 Mar)
Elsewhere
Berlin
Kara Walker: Kara Elizabeth Walker presents Dispatches from A— and the Museum of Half-remembered Histories at Sprüth Magers (14 Nov– 4 Apr)
Hamburg
Toyin Ojih Odutola: U22 – Adijatu Straße at the Hamburger Bahnhof (until 4 Jan; courtesy of Diane Jean-Mary of BTA)
London
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories at the Royal Academy of Art (until 18 Jan; courtesy of Diane Jean-Mary of BTA)**
Nigerian Modernism at the Tate (8 Oct until 10 May)*
Miami
Language and Image: Conceptual and Performance-Based Photography from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection at the Perez Art Museum Miami (15 May until 11 Jan)
Woody De Othello: coming forth by day at Pérez Art Museum Miami (13 Nov until 28 Jun)
Washington
Lindsay Adams: Ceremony at Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg Center (29 Oct until 7 March)
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 at the National Gallery of Art (21 Sep until 4 Jan)
McArthur Binion: Notes on Form (Intimate Structures) at the Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Gallery at Georgetown University from (until 7 Dec)
Upcoming
Have I missed anything? Let me know!
*Indicates I have seen the show and can personally recommend it!
