A FORCE FOR CHANGE - UN WOMEN
TYE DYED |2018, Var.4 & 2Ap, Screenprint on denim, 118x94cm
Benefit Auction and Exhibition
Presented by UN Women and Artsy
Curated by Erin Jenoa Gilbert
July 16 - 30, 2021
UN Women, the agency of the United Nations dedicated to gender equality and women’s empowerment, will host the first all-Black, all-women global selling exhibition and auction titled “A Force for Change”, with proceeds benefiting Black women across the world and the participating artists.
Open to the public 27–31 July 2021 at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, the exhibition includes 26 works by prominent and emerging female artists of African descent to recognize and elevate awareness of the transformative power of Black women’s art in social justice movements, and to support UN Women’s nascent global Black Women’s Programme.
The exhibition includes works by the following artists:
Janaina Barros (b.1979) Brazil
Phoebe Boswell (b.1982) Kenya
Virginia Chihota (b.1983) Zimbabwe
Joana Choumali (b.1974) Ivory Coast
Andrea Chung (b.1978) Jamaica / Trinidad
Ayan Farah (b.1978) Somalia
Selly Raby Kane, Senegal
Cassi Namoda, (1988) Mozambique
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi (b.1980) South Africa
Esther Mahlangu (b.1935) South Africa
Wangari Mathenge (b.1973) Kenya
Joiri Minaya (b.1990) Dominican Republic
Sungi Mlengeya (b. 1991) Tanzania
Nandipha Mntambo (b.1982) South Africa
Zanele Muholi (b.1972) South Africa
Cinthia Sifa Mulanga (b.1997) Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wura Natasha Ogunji (b.1970) Nigeria / USA
Zohra Opoku (b. 1976) Ghana
Akosua Adoma Owusu (b.1984) Ghana / USA
Rosana Paulino (b.1967) Brazil
Deborah Roberts (b.1962) USA
Yelaine Rodriguez, Dominican Republic
Sheena Rose (b.1985) Barbados
Tschabalala Self (b.1990) USA
Shinique Smith (b. 1971) USA
Zina Saro Wiwa (b.1976) Nigeria