FALL 2026/27 EXHIBITIONS
Explore our new exhibitions coming this fall, on view from September 30th, 2026 through May 30th, 2027.
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An Invitation to Experience MoAD’s 2026/27 Exhibitions
On View September 30, 2026 through May 30, 2027 by Chief of Curatorial Affairs & Public Programs, Key Jo Lee
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Chief of Curatorial Affairs & Public Programs, Key Jo Lee
This fall, I invite you to experience a season that reflects what I believe museums can be at their very best: places where art expands our understanding of ourselves, our histories, and one another.
Across three exhibitions and a major initiative, MoAD explores how artists of the African Diaspora transform inherited histories into new ways of seeing.
Dewey Crumpler's extraordinary retrospective reveals more than fifty years of artistic inquiry into Black consciousness, memory, time, and spirituality.
After the Island brings together three remarkable ceramic artists whose work traces the enduring cultural lives of the Jamaican diaspora through ornament, clay, and ancestral knowledge.
Dorian Reid's exuberant Calling All Cats! reminds us that joy, humor, community, and political imagination are deeply connected, inviting us into a world where family stories, neighborhood histories, and beloved black cats become acts of liberation.
This season also marks the launch of SANCTUARY: Art as Care, a museum-wide initiative grounded in a simple but increasingly urgent question: What becomes possible when we create space to slow down and truly look?Through exhibitions, conversations, artist-led experiences, and moments of quiet reflection, SANCTUARY explores the role museums can play in cultivating attention, connection, and collective care.
Although each exhibition stands on its own, I hope you'll experience them together. They speak across galleries and across disciplines, revealing the extraordinary breadth of contemporary artistic practice while asking enduring questions about memory, belonging, creativity, and our shared future.
Whether you spend an afternoon with us or return throughout the season, I hope these artists leave you seeing the world, and perhaps yourself, just a little differently.
Welcome. I look forward to seeing you at MoAD this fall.
---Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs
Across three exhibitions and a major initiative, MoAD explores how artists of the African Diaspora transform inherited histories into new ways of seeing.
Dewey Crumpler's extraordinary retrospective reveals more than fifty years of artistic inquiry into Black consciousness, memory, time, and spirituality.
After the Island brings together three remarkable ceramic artists whose work traces the enduring cultural lives of the Jamaican diaspora through ornament, clay, and ancestral knowledge.
Dorian Reid's exuberant Calling All Cats! reminds us that joy, humor, community, and political imagination are deeply connected, inviting us into a world where family stories, neighborhood histories, and beloved black cats become acts of liberation.
This season also marks the launch of SANCTUARY: Art as Care, a museum-wide initiative grounded in a simple but increasingly urgent question: What becomes possible when we create space to slow down and truly look?Through exhibitions, conversations, artist-led experiences, and moments of quiet reflection, SANCTUARY explores the role museums can play in cultivating attention, connection, and collective care.
Although each exhibition stands on its own, I hope you'll experience them together. They speak across galleries and across disciplines, revealing the extraordinary breadth of contemporary artistic practice while asking enduring questions about memory, belonging, creativity, and our shared future.
Whether you spend an afternoon with us or return throughout the season, I hope these artists leave you seeing the world, and perhaps yourself, just a little differently.
Welcome. I look forward to seeing you at MoAD this fall.
---Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs
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Learn MorePoets-In-Residence
MoAD’s Poets-in-Residence program was founded in 2018 to provide writers with opportunities to respond to contemporary art of the African Diaspora and extend the reach of the museum through programming and educational workshops with local high school students.
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Launched in January 2023, MoAD’s Cultural Critic-in-Residence program connects film, scholarship, and visual and pop culture in an exciting and novel approach. The Museum’s inaugural Cultural Critic-in-Residence is acclaimed filmmaker, author, and scholar Dr. Artel Great.
Learn MoreAfrican Literary Award 2023
MoAD is thrilled to announce that the 2023 African Literary Award finalist is Eloghosa Osunde, author of Vagabonds!. African Book Club discussed Vagabonds! as the book selection for July 2022. Osunde was honored at the virtual Award Ceremony on December 3rd, hosted by African Book Club co-founder Faith Adiele.
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