The Outset Partners Grants Programme 2022 awarded an Impact Award to LACMA's Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics, opening at LACMA in Spring 2025. The exhibition will draw aesthetic connections between 55 Black artists working around the world today and examines Black Diaspora as a way to conceptualise the forced movement, migration, and exchange of Black peoples, their collective vulnerability to racism, and their struggles against forms of oppression. Featuring a stunning array of 60 works of photography, video, painting, and sculpture, Imagining Black Diasporas represents the first museum exploration of the last two decades of artistic innovation by Black artists.
Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of LACMA, said:
"We are grateful and honoured to be the recipient of an Outset Partners Grant in support of LACMA's forthcoming exhibition Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics. This important show will be the first to explore the last two decades of artistic innovation by Black artists. Organised by curator Dhyandra Lawson, the exhibition will draw aesthetic connections between established and emerging Black artists working around the world today. The Outset Partners Grant arrived at a pivotal moment in the project's development and this early investment allowed us to move forward with a dynamic, multifaceted publication."
ON VIEW: 15th December 2024 - 3rd August 2025
