15 Artists are having the biggest moment at US museums. Almost half of Ben Davis’ quarterly list for ArtNet are indigenous. Roughly half are African Americans. Twelve of the fifteen are women.
Jeffrey Gibson, Raven Halfmoon, Wendy Red Star, Rose B. Simpson, Marie Watt, Dyani Whitehawk (indigenous in alpha order)
Dawoud Bey, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems (African American in alpha order)
Firelei Baez was born in the Dominican Republic. Yayoi Kusama is from Japan. Shahzia Sikander is Pakastani-American.
100% of the artists on this national art critic’s list are people “of color”.
So much for ignoring America’s rich tradition of diversity.
Corinne of SavvyCollector.com