The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has announced “Faith Ringgold: American People.” This exhibition will be Ringgold’s first solo presentation in Chicago. “With a career that spans six decades, artist, author, educator and organizer Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation. This major retrospective presents a comprehensive assessment of the artist’s impactful vision, which bears witness to the complexity of the American experience.”
The exhibition “will showcase many of her best-known pieces, including paintings, quilts, and sculptures, as well as archival materials from her activist work in the late 1960s and 1970s. It will examine Ringgold’s art as it evolved in response to politics and society, including the artist’s indelible works of the civil rights era, her radical explorations of gender and racial identity, and her focus on collective struggles for social justice and equity.”
The MCA presentation of Faith Ringgold: American People is curated by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, with Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator. The exhibition was originally organized by the New Museum, New York, and curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator, with Madeline Weisburg, Curatorial Assistant.
The exhibition is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art on the museum’s fourth floor.
November 18-February 25, 2024
Photo credit: Faith Ringgold, “The French Collection Part I, #4: The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles,” 1991, acrylic on canvas with pieced fabric border, 74″ × 80″. Private collection. © 2023 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.