Fade is the sixth installment of the Museum's “F” show series of exhibitions of emerging artists. Presented in the fourth-floor gallery, Fade features the work of seventeen early-career artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent from across the United States. Comprising newly commissioned and loaned artworks from a variety of media, Fade reflects the concerns of a new generation of artists.
Working across disciplines, the artists in this exhibition embrace feeling, spirituality, and non-linear conceptions of time. Through sculptural and visual interventions that foreground ancestry, spaces of refuge, land as archive, grief, and the surreal, Fade locates the in-between as a space of resistance.
Fade is part of the Museum’s inaugural year of programming in its new building, which opened in November 2025. It is the latest edition of the “F” shows, a series of group exhibitions that began in 2001 with Freestyle, a landmark in defining contemporary Black art. The “F” shows that followed—Frequency (2005–06), Flow (2008), Fore (2012–13), and Fictions (2017–18)—all featured work by emerging artists of African descent and advanced innovative and groundbreaking dialogues within contemporary art.
Artists in Fade
- Turiya Adkins (b. 1998, New York; lives and works in Brooklyn)
- Harlan Bozeman (b. 1992, Central Arkansas, AR; lives and works in New Orleans)
- Kiah Celeste (b. 1994, Brooklyn; lives and works in Brooklyn)
- Antonio Darden (b. 1983, New York; lives and works in Atlanta)
- Emmanuel Louisnord Desir (b. 1997, Brooklyn; lives and works in Los Angeles)
- Jésus Hilario-Reyes (b. 1996, San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives and works in Brooklyn)
- Y. Malik Jalal (b. 1994, Savannah, GA; lives and works between Atlanta and New York)
- Lola Ayisha Ogbara (b. 1991, Chicago; lives and works in Chicago)
- Andina Marie Osorio (b. 1997, the Bronx; lives and works in Brooklyn)
- Utē Petit (b. 1995, Southfield, MI; lives and works between New Orleans and Los Angeles)
- Taj Poscé (b. 1995, Philadelphia; lives and works in Baltimore)
- Amina Ross (b. 1993, New York; lives and works in Brooklyn)
- Coumba Samba (b. 2000, New York; lives and works in New York)
- Shani Strand (b. 1995, New York; lives and works in Los Angeles)
- Malaika Temba (b. 1996, Washington, DC; lives and works in New York)
- Chiffon Thomas (b. 1991, Chicago; lives and works in Brooklyn)
- London Pierre Williams (b. 1998, Milwaukee, WI; lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA)
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, designed by Caroline Washington and published by the Studio Museum in Harlem. Scheduled for publication in summer 2026, the Fade catalogue will include a roundtable discussion with the exhibition curators and commissioned essays on each artist, written by Chenoa Baker, Daniella Brito, Ryan C. Clarke, Akili Z. Davis, Destinee Filmore, Simon Ghebreyesus, Josie R. Hodson, Taylor Jasper, Shameekia Shantel Johnson, Gervais Marsh, Tayler Montague, Amandine Nana, Ade Omotosho, Nzinga Simmons, Diallo Simon-Ponte, LaCharles Ward, and Natalie Willis Whylly. Fade will be available for purchase online and in-person at Studio Store.
