From large scale sculptures, photography and paintings to mixed mediums to 3D renderings to NFTs, black artists, curators and gallerists have contributed an unsurmountable number of vital, expansive and diverse selection of works around the world, that the very essence of the black experience finds its influence woven in almost every medium of the art world today. From fashion to music, food, beauty, and lifestyle, there has been no medium left untouched or uninfluenced by black artists. There is undoubtedly a shortage of works by Black artists being exhibited, sold, and auctioned as well as a disparity of the number of Black people in positions of power within institutional walls to get the works shown as quickly as their white counterparts. In that regard, it is not just the importance of museums redefining the black experience of joy, success, anguish, or oppression but it is the black owned gallery that holds a significant importance in the sustainability of black arts and culture.
Black gallerists in the United States have been hugely influential. Black dealers have launched the careers of artists who are now considered canonical and have worked with collectors intent on lifting up the voices of individuals from historically underrepresented communities. The work that Black dealers do is absolutely vital and must be recognized and supported by the art community at large.
Below are black founded and owned art spaces starting with the continent of Africa. These are some, just to name a few that we think you should know about:
CAMEROON
Galerie MAM
ETHIOPIA
Zoma Museum (Addis Ababa, ET)
GHANA
Berj Art Gallery (Labone, GH)
Nubuke Foundation (Accra, GH)
NIGERIA
Retro Africa (Abuja, NGA)
Thought Pyramid (Abuja, NGA)
Artyrama (Lagos, NGA)
G.A.S. (Lagos, NGA)
Mydrim Gallery (Lagos, NGA)
SMO Contemporary Art (Lagos, NGA)
Nike Art Gallery (Lekke, NGA)
SENEGAL
Black Rock (Dakar, SN)
SOUTH AFRICA
Gallerie MOMO
UGANDA
Afriart Gallery (Kampala, UG)
UNITED KINGDOM
Ramp Gallery (London, UK)
198 Contemporary Arts & Learning Addis Fine Art (London, UK)
Autograph ABP (London, UK)
Black Cultural Archives (London, UK)
Guest Projects (London, UK)
Institute of International Visual Arts Tafeta
FRANCE
Gallery Nosco, (Marseille, FR)
(S)ITOR (Paris, FR)
GERMANY
Savvy Contemporary (Berlin, GR)
Sakhile Malthare (Frankfurt, GR)
USA
GEORGIA
Hammonds House Museum (Atlanta, GA)
ZuCot Gallery (Atlanta, GA)
Arnika Dawkins (Atlanta, GA)
September Gray Fine Art (Atlanta, GA)
ZuCot Gallery (Atlanta GA)
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Sabree’s Gallery of the Arts (Savannah, GA)
MARYLAND
Waller Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Galerie Myrtis (Baltimore, MD)
The Gallery About Nothing (Baltimore, MD)
Annie’s Art Gallery (Upper Marlboro, MD)
NORTH CAROLINA
BlkMrkt (Charlotte, NC)
Dupp & Swat (Charlotte, NC)
ILLINOIS
Anthony Gallery (Chicago, IL)
Gallery Guichard (Chicago, IL)
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery (Chicago, IL)
Rebuild Foundation (Chicago, IL)
Southside Community Art Center (Chicago, IL)
COLORADO
ILA Gallery (Denver, CO)
KENTUCKY
E&S Gallery (Louisville, KY)
LOUISIANA
Terrance Osborne Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
Stella Jones Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
PENNSYLVANIA
Rush Arts Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
The Museum of African American Art (Philadelphia, PA)
The Colored Girls Museum (Philadelphia, PA)
The Spite Haus (Philadelphia, PA)
Moody Jones Gallery (Glenside, PA)
WASHINGTON
Northwest African American Museum (Seattle, WA)
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery (Seattle, WA)
TENNESSEE
Woodcuts Fine Art Gallery (Nashville, TN)
FLORIDA
N’Namdi Contemporary (Miami, Florida)
NEW YORK
Dorsey’s Art Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
Ground Floor Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (Brooklyn, NY)
Richard Beavers Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
s.k.Artspace (Brooklyn, NY)
Welancora (Brooklyn, NY)
Medium Tings (Brooklyn, NY)
Jenkins Johnson Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
Housing (Brooklyn, NY)
Essie Green Galleries (New York, NY)
The Studio Museum (New York, NY)
Black Gotham (New York, NY)
Cindy Rucker Gallery (New York, NY)
Essie Green Galleries (New York, NY)
Long Gallery (New York, NY)
Peg Alston Fine Arts (New York, NY)
Skoto Gallery (New York, NY)
Mackey Twins Art Gallery (Mount Vernon, NY)
Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick (New York, NY)
Heath Gallery (New York, NY)
June Kelly Gallery (New York, NY)
The Compound (Bronx, NY)
Akwaaba Gallery (Newark, NJ)
NEVADA
Left of Center Art Gallery (Las Vegas, NV)
CALIFORNIA
The Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum (Culver City, CA)
The Underground Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
Thinkspace Projects Art Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
California African American Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
The William Grant Still Arts Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Band of Vices (Los Angeles, CA)
Nous Tous Community Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Dreamhaus LA (Los Angeles, CA)
Paulson Fontaine Press (Berkeley, CA)
Betti Ono (Oakland, CA)
Thelma Harris Art Gallery (Oakland, CA)
SOUTH CAROLINA
Gallery Chuma (Charleston, SC)
Neema Gallery (Charleston, SC)
Lybenson Gallery (Beaufort, SC)
OKLAHOMA
Black Wall Street Gallery (Tulsa, OK)
ARKANSAS
Hearne Fine Art (Little Rock, AR)
VIRGINIA
The Well Art Gallery (Richmond, VA)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
11:Eleven Gallery (Washington D.C.)
Art of Noize (Washington D.C.)
Homme DC (Washington D.C.)
Mehari Sequar Gallery (Washington D.C.)
MUSEUMS
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN DIASPORA
THE GANTT CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS AND CULTURE
THE CHARLES H. WRIGHT MUSEUM OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
AUGUST WILSON AFRICAN AMERICAN
CULTURAL CENTER
STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
THE CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN
MUSEUM
THE JACK HADLEY BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM
THE KING CENTER
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
BUFFALO SOLDIERS NATIONAL MUSEUM
STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC
MISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
THE LEGACY MUSEUM
THE MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC
NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
THE AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM
THE NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM
THE IOWA MUSEUM FOR BLACK HISTORY
THE CHARLES H. WRIGHT MUSEUM OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN HISTORY
MOTOWN MUSEUM
NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM
CENTER
DUSABLE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
THE COLORED GIRLS MUSEUM
THE REGINALD F LEWIS MUSEUM
AUGUST WILSON CENTER
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (NEW
ENGLAND)
WEEKVILLE HERITAGE CENTER
STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
This list is just a small list of galleries and museums that we have gathered from research. Please let us know if there are any that should be added. We are in continued search of all galleries and museums globally and will update the list periodically.
