Kudzanai Chiurai (b. 1981, Harare, Zimbabwe) is a multi-disciplinary artist focused on cycles of political and economic inequality, and conflict resolution in post-colonial societies. He has exhibited widely since 2003, including at the V&A Museum, London Zeitz MOCAA and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Most recently, his work was included in A World in Common at Tate Modern, London.

Nolan Oswald Dennis (b. 1988, Zambia) is a para-disciplinary artist who explores what they call ‘a black consciousness of space’: the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonisation. Their work featured at the 2023 Liverpool Biennial, and unveiled new commissions at Kunsthalle Basel and Van Abbe Museum in the same year.

Ravelle Pillay (b. 1993, Durban, South Africa) is a Johannesburg-based painter whose practice mines haunting the reverberations of history, extracted from archival photography and inherited memories. Pillay is the first prize recipient of the 2022 African Art Galleries Association’s Emerging Painting Invitational, and opened her first institutional solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, in 2023. Her work is included in Soulscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition.

Faith Ringgold’s soft sculptures were created during the early 1970s during a heightened political period when Ringgold instigated performances as an activist and campaigner for Women’s Rights. In 1983, Faith Ringgold created four abstract paintings which she named the Dah series. 

Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, Harlem, New York) is a pioneering artist and activist whose work sits at the intersection of art, feminism, and the Civil Rights movement. She has had solo exhibitions at Serpentine Galleries, London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Museum, New York, and Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami. Her touring retrospective ended this winter at MCA Chicago.

New works from Yinka Shonibare CBE RA’s intricate, hand-painted hybrid masks series consider how African aesthetics have shaped western modernist expression. Using the African artefacts held in the collections of Georges Braque, André Derain and Amedeo Modigliani as a starting point they are a response to the widely acknowledged influence that African imagery had on major twentieth century artists and on entire western art movements, such as Cubism, Dada and Surrealism. The work exposes the conflicted relationships between ‘western’ and ‘tribal’, appropriation and admiration. 

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b. 1962, London, UK) has become well known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation over his forty year career. Shonibare’s work examines race, class, and the construction of cultural identity through a sharp political commentary on the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories. In April 2024, Shonibare will hold a solo exhibition at Serpentine, London. He will also participate in Nigeria’s Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

Tavares Strachan (b. 1979, Nassau, The Bahamas) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice asks us to reconsider our received knowledge of the world. In 2023, he presented a major commission at the Royal Academy Courtyard for “Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now” and a solo exhibition will take place at Hayward Gallery this Summer. 

Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976, New Jersey, United States) is an American conceptual artist, widely known for his investigation of themes relating to mass media, identity and popular culture. Thomas has exhibited widely, including at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, and the International Center of Photography, New York. He will be presenting a new work at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 2024 through 2025.

Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953, Portland, Oregon, United States) is considered one of the most influential contemporary artists, celebrated for her exploration of identity, power and social justice. Recent exhibitions include a survey at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, and solo exhibitions at Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland took place in 2023.