Join us for a member-exclusive preview of Ming Smith: Transcendence, Ming Smith: August Moon, and Fragments of Epic Memory.

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Ming Smith, Black Girl Dreaming, from the series Transcendence, 1990. Archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist

Ming Smith: Transcendence and Ming Smith: August Moon

Experience the groundbreaking work of Ming Smith, a pioneering photographer from Columbus and the first Black woman photographer to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1979. Both exhibitions are part of simultaneous solo presentations with the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Gund at Kenyon College.

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Unknown, Martinique Woman, about 1890. Albumen print. Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs. Purchase, with funds from Dr. Liza & Dr. Frederick Murrell, Bruce Croxon & Debra Thier, Wes Hall & Kingsdale Advisors, Cindy & Shon Barnett, Donette Chin-Loy Chang, Kamala-Jean Gopie, Phil Lind & Ellen Roland, Martin Doc McKinney, Francilla Charles, Ray & Georgina Williams, Thaine & Bianca Carter, Charmaine Crooks, Nathaniel Crooks, Andrew Garrett & Dr. Belinda Longe, Neil L. Le Grand, Michael Lewis, Dr. Kenneth Montague & Sarah Aranha, Lenny & Julia Mortimore, and The Ferrotype Collective, 2019. Photo © AGO. 2019/2208.

Fragments of Epic Memory

Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, this multigenerational survey of Caribbean art and visual culture juxtaposes works of contemporary artists with a selection of over one hundred historical photographs from the Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs.

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Main event image: Paul Anthony Smith, Midnight Blue (detail), 2020. Unique picotage on inkjet print, coloured pencil, spray paint on museum board. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, with funds from Friends of Global Africa and the Diaspora, 2022. © Paul Anthony Smith, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo AGO. 2022/12