Ideas of Africa:Portraiture and Political Imagination

December 14, 2025 – July 25, 2026, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sanlé Sory. Le Voyageur (The Traveler). 1970–85. Gelatin silver print. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Photography Fund. © 2025 Sanlé Sory. Courtesy of the artist and Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

"The exhibition considers the transatlantic call and response that constructed Africa as a political idea, due to the “winds of decolonial change” that swept the African continent in tandem with the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Ideas of Africa is the third exhibition organized at The Museum of Modern Art in celebration of the 2019 gift of modern and contemporary African art from prolific collector Jean Pigozzi. The exhibition features core works from this gift, alongside a selection of recent acquisitions and key loans."

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.