Prospect.5, New Orleans’s contemporary art biennial, has revealed the list of 51 participating artists for its ten-year anniversary edition. The biennial will take place from 24 October 2020 to 24 January 2021 in museums, cultural spaces and various public sites across the city, and feature new commissions by artists including Simone Leigh, Candice Lin, Josh Kun and Neighborhood Story Project.
Curated by Naima J. Keith and Diana Naw under the title Yesterday we said tomorrow, the biennial will reflect on how the city and the sociopolitical context has changed since the first edition of the biennial in 2010, in the post-Katrina context. With a predominantly African-American artist list, the biennial will also explore African diasporas in the context of the city, notably through works by Willie Birch, Mark Bradford, Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu and Nari Ward.
The full list of artists is:
Laura Aguilar
Katrina Andry
Keni Anwar
Felipe Baeza
Kevin Beasley
Ron Bechet
Paul Stephen Benjamin
Dawoud Bey
Willie Birch
Dineo Seshee Bopape
Phoebe Boswell
Mark Bradford
Beverly Buchanan
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Cooking Sections (Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual)
Adriana Corral
Jamal Cyrus
Karon Davis
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
George Dureau
ektor garcia
Sharon Hayes
EJ Hill
Sky Hopinka
Elliott Hundley
Jennie C. Jones
Josh Kun
Mimi Lauter
Simone Leigh
Tau Lewis
Glenn Ligon
Candice Lin
Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Dave McKenzie
Rodney McMillian
Wangechi Mutu
The Neighborhood Story Project
Hương Ngô
Jennifer Packer
Malcolm Peacock
Anastasia Pelias
Naudline Pierre
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Eric-Paul Riege
Jamilah Sabur
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Welmon Sharlhorne
Kiki Smith
Carlos Villa
Nari Ward
Cosmo Whyte
2 March 2020
