The April 2026 Cherry Basket is ripe and ready for picking! This series shares noteworthy art exhibitions with an emphasis on Black artists. I hope you find something sweet ❤️ 🍒
New York
- What: “Nicola Vassell is pleased to present Wrought, an exhibition by Abigail Lucien, the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery. The exhibition features a constellation of recent and new sculptures that capture the evolution of Lucien’s practice over the last few years and is grounded in a poetic meditation on memory and placemaking through an architectural vernacular….Each sculpture—bent, cast, and fused by the artist’s hands—calls upon a greater lineage of blacksmiths from the Caribbean and the African diaspora whose legacies reverberate in the formation of each piece. The grates, grills, and breezeblocks transform into liminal thresholds where past and present converge and echoes of ancestral memory are rendered fixed in metal”
- Who: Abigail Lucien
- Where: Nicola Vassell (138 10th Avenue|New York, NY)
- When: March 12 – April 18
- What: “For her first solo show with the gallery, Gomez presents a suite of new paintings that layer the rich, sensory experiences of Black worship spaces and queer nightlife as a lens for examining the manifold possibilities of identity…Working in continuous layers—applying painted gestures and graphic marks before wiping them back, repeating the process again and again—Gomez produces dense, atmospheric visions and sweeping migrations across abstract emotional terrains…The new paintings on view in Set the Atmosphere linger in the heady, mystic spaces where music and movement operate as primary forms of expression.”
- Who: Kwamé Azure Gomez
- Where: Marianne Boesky Gallery (509 West 24th St | New York, NY)
- When: March 5 – April 18
Jessica Taylor Bellamy: Semblance
- What: “Jessica Taylor Bellamy employs elements of surrealism and pop art, composing dreamy images from fragments of mass-media clipped from newspapers, bureaucratic documents, mail, along with personal identity markers such as signatures, private letters, and fingerprints. These are layered together with hand painted imagery of luminous skylines, sunsets, and cloud formations. Working through what she describes as “trying to bridge a distance,” Bellamy’s hybrid approach examines archives and memory through their circulating physical material—keepsakes, paperwork, and photographs…Each sculpture—bent, cast, and fused by the artist’s hands—calls upon a greater lineage of blacksmiths from the Caribbean and the African diaspora whose legacies reverberate in the formation of each piece. The grates, grills, and breezeblocks transform into liminal thresholds where past and present converge and echoes of ancestral memory are rendered fixed in metal.”
- Who: Jessica Taylor Bellamy
- Where: Anat Ebgi (372 Broadway | New York, NY)
- When: March 13 – April 25
A Language We Share: Beverly Price and Gordon Parks
- What: “A Language We Share: Beverly Price and Gordon Parks, an exhibition featuring an intergenerational dialogue between Beverly Price (2023 Center Fellow) and Gordon Parks, one of the most significant and impactful American artists of the 20th century. By placing their works in conversation, A Language We Share considers how photographs function simultaneously as historical documents and symbolic forms, transmitting meaning across time. Rather than positioning the artists as past and present, the exhibition understands their images as occupying a shared continuum, speaking both forward and backward through enduring ethical commitments to dignity, truth and social responsibility.”
- Who: Beverly Price and Gordon Parks
- Where: The Center for Art and Advocacy (22 Bancroft Place | Brooklyn, NY)
- When: March 20 – June 19
- What: “Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid atmospheric survey of contemporary American art shaped by a moment of profound transition. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, this Whitney Biennial foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease. Together, the works capture the complexity of the present and propose imaginative, unruly, and unexpected forms of coexistence.”
- Who: Kelly Akashi, Kamrooz Aram, Ash Arder, Teresa Baker, Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Zach Blas, Leo Castañeda, Nani Chacon, Maia Chao, Joshua Citarella, Mo Costello, Taína H. Cruz, Carmen de Monteflores, Ali Eyal, Andrea Fraser, Mariah Garnett, Ignacio Gatica, Jonathan González, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Kainoa Gruspe, Martine Gutierrez, Samia Halaby, Raven Halfmoon, Nile Harris with Dyer Rhoads, Aziz Hazara, Margaret Honda, Akira Ikezoe, Mao Ishikawa, Cooper Jacoby, David L. Johnson, Young Joon Kwak, Michelle Lopez, José Maceda, Agosto Machado, Oswaldo Maciá, Emilio Martínez Poppe, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Kimowan Metchewais, Nour Mobarak, Erin Jane Nelson, Precious Okoyomon, Aki Onda, Pat Oleszko, Malcolm Peacock, Sarah M. Rodriguez, Gabriela Ruiz, Jasmin Sian, Jordan Strafer, Sung Tieu, Julio Torres, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Johanna Unzueta, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien, CFGNY (Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Kirsten Kilponen, and Tin Nguyen), and kekahi wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and Drew K. Broderick)
- Where: Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort St | New York, NY)
- When: March 8 – August 23
New Humans: Memories of the Future
- What: “New Humans: Memories of the Future will inaugurate the New Museum’s expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes. New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the work of more than 150 international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and social changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its possible futures.”
- Who: Sophia Al-Maria, Lucy Beech, Meriem Bennani, Cyprien Gaillard, Pierre Huyghe, Tau Lewis, Daria Martin, Wangechi Mutu, Precious Okoyomon, Berenice Olmedo, Philippe Parreno, Hito Steyerl, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Andro Wekua, and Anicka Yi
- Where: The New Museum (235 Bowery | New York, NY)
- When: March 21 – Ongoing
Los Angeles
- What: “In David Alekhuogie’s latest presentation with Commonwealth and Council, the artist gathers a remix of works from A Reprise, a series that co-opts the 1935 Walker Evans commissioned photographs of African sculptures featured in the exhibition African Negro Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.”
- Who: David Alekhuogie
- Where: Commonwealth and Council (1200 Getty Center Drive | Brentwood, LA)
- When: April 4 – May 16
London
- What: “Working across drawing, printmaking and textile, Alexandria Couch constructs images that resist resolution. Her compositions often centre figures of colour who appear and recede within layered environments. In It Ain’t About the Weather, a new series spanning works on paper and woven tapestries, Couch continues her exploration of perception and the instability of the image…For the artist, moving between memory, dream and the present requires what she describes as a condition of multiplicity—being in more than one place at once. The works reflect on the distortions that arise through this process, where perception shapes how we understand both ourselves and others.”
- Who: Alexandria Couch
- Where: RHODES (Arkwright Road | NW3 6DG)
- When: April 10 – May 20
- What: “The exhibition is a tender meditation on the many forms love takes in our daily lives. For Berhanu, love is not just a fleeting emotion but an active, ongoing gesture, something we choose, nurture, and embody through presence, empathy, and quiet devotion. At the heart of the exhibition is the human need for support. Working with transparent layers, Berhanu creates dream-like spaces where unseen emotional currents surface. Hands and faces speak the language of empathy; gestures carry meaning beyond words.”
- Who: Tizta Berhanu
- Where: Tiwani Contemporary (24 Cork Street | W1S 3NG)
- When: April 1 – May 16
- What: “This exhibition of London-based composer, artist, and DJ Ain Bailey, presents her ongoing trilogy of films. Rooted in her biography and relationship to Jamaica, the show culminates in the series’ latest installment, specially commissioned for the occasion…Presented in an immersive environment, the exhibition’s newly commissioned work was recorded in Jamaica during the artist’s first visit to the country in 2025.”
- Who: Ain Bailey
- Where: Camden Art Centre (Arkwright Road | NW3 6DG)
- When: April 10 – June 14
PARIS
Buried Roots Up in the Air Part 2
- What: “With this new body of work, Oluwaseyi uses doorways, windows, external gardens and architecture as means to access the other worlds. Using the everyday life, depicting family and friends within domestic interiors that are at once familiar, remembered, but yet reimagined. Drawing from personal archives, he reflects on the interplay between memory and lived experience, exploring how identity is shaped through both personal and collective histories. As a Nigerian artist now living in the Netherlands, he approaches domestic life with an instinctive desire to document, using nostalgia as a means to evoke memory and belonging.”
- Who: Eniwaye Oluwaseyi
- Where: Zidoun‑Bossuyt Gallery (51 rue de Seine | Paris, France)
- When: March 19 – May 2
- What: “For his exhibition Who’s Gonna Save the World? at Lafayette Anticipations, Ladji Diaby presents an installation built from furniture found on the street or sourced second-hand. Each piece has been transformed by the artist, echoing his mother’s habit of decorating and embellishing furniture in her home to imbue it with spirituality and a closeness to God…Ladji Diaby uses furniture as vitrines for discarded objects, each work becoming a symbolic collaboration between the artist and an object’s unknown former owner. While these objects and artifacts carry little material value, they are perceived differently installed in an art space. Through the act of exhibition, the artist interrogates the systems which determine cultural value in the West.”
- Who: Ladji Diaby
- Where: Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation Galeries Lafayette (9, rue du Plâtre | Paris, France)
- When: April 1 – July 19