Black Art by African artists: from 1882-now. Survey to date of modern and contemporary African-born or Africa-based artists.
Wangechi Mutu: I am speaking, are you listening?: "An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, Mutu moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist and sexist worldviews with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, posthumanism and feminism."
Afro-Atlantic histories: "... brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe".
Ali Cherri: If you prick us, do we not bleed?
No humans involved: "The term "no humans involved" emerged after the 1991 beating of Rodney King, when it was discovered that the Los Angeles Police Department was using the term as a shorthand for casework that involved Black and Latino men and sex workers." This work showcases contemporary artist repsonses.
Designing a new tradition: Lois Mailou Jones and the aesthetics of blackness
Black experience in design: identity, expression, & reflection: "an anthology centering a range of perspectives, spotlights teaching practices, research stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens."
Anicka Yi: In love with the world
Congoville: contemporary artists tracing colonial tracks: "the concept Congoville is the starting point for 15 contemporary artists to address colonial history and ponder its aftereffects as black flâneurs walking through a postcolonial city."
Sadie Barnette: Legacy and Legend: Situates her father's activism (Black Panthers) and FBI surveillance, in the social history of California and global histories of resistance against racial injustice.
We are here: Visionaries of color transforming the art world. Profiles and portraits of 50 artists and art entrepreneurs challenging the status quo in the art world, with a particular focus on queer, trans and nonbinary artists.
Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to civil rights by Black experiences in Canada: open text book that focuses on an analysis of various art forms including literature, poetry, music, and theory.
Black art matters: Fourteen Canadian artists to know: Art Canada Institute online exhibition
Here we are: Black Canadian contemporary art: online exhibition at the ROM
CanCulture: 10 black Canadian artists to follow and celebrate
Nelson, C., et al. (2019). Towards an African Canadian art history : art, memory, and resistance. Examines art, artists, and visual and material culture from the eighteenth century to the present ... with a focus on African Canadian Art History.
Making history: Visual arts and blackness in Canada
Lacharite, Y. (2019). When and Where We Enter: Situating the Absented Presence of Black Canadian Art. Queen's MA thesis.
Blk art : the audacious legacy of Black artists and models in Western art. Introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world
African art now : 50 pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century: Overview featuring some of the most interesting and innovative artists working today.
World is Africa : writings on diaspora art: focuses on contemporary artists and their practices, from a range of international locations, who for the most part are identified with the African diaspora.
The Soul of a nation reader : writings by and about Black American artists, 1960-1980. "A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, based on the landmark traveling exhibition. What is "Black art"?"