#  Exhibitions 

 



       ![Resignifications Opening Image](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/coopergallery/files/cooper_resignifications_opening_melissablackall_4.jpg?itok=H7jlH6xm) 

 

 



 

 



 

##  Explore Exhibitions 

 



  [### Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 Renaissance, Race, and Representation in the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art

 ](/renaissance-race-representation) 

   ![Jitterbugs III by William Henry Johnson, 1941-42.     Courtesy of the Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/jbug.jpg?h=8067e7fc&itok=4byRgjkm) 

 

 

 

  [### Spring 2025 Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory

 ](/free-as-they-want-to-be) 

   ![freethumb](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/freethumb.jpg?itok=wo4liccx) 

 

 

 

  [### Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Day One DNA

 ](/day-one-dna) 

   ![day1dnabutton](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/day1dnabutton.jpg?itok=1r0hy36U) 

 

 

 

  [### Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 El Pasado Mío / My Own Past

 ](/el-pasado-mio) 

   ![Button for Fall 2022 Exhibition](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/fall2022button.jpg?itok=R9KVV-0c) 

 

 

 

  [### Spring 2020 Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness

 ](/somnyama-ngonyama) 

   ![Zanele Muholi exhibition button](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/lion2.jpg?itok=nwuGxX7U) 

 

 

 

  [### Fall 2019 The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart's Life in Jazz

 ](/sound-my-soul-frank-stewarts-life-jazz) 

   ![Sound of my Soul](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/soundsoul.jpg?itok=TRpDtuvK) 

 

 

 

  [### Spring 2019 Gordon Parks: Selections from the Dean Collection

 ](/gordon-parks-selections-dean-collection) 

   ![Gordon Parks](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/gpbutton.jpg?itok=heU39s3i) 

 

 

 

  [### Fall 2018 Nine Moments for Now

 ](/nine-moments-now) 

   ![barack obama](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/nine_moments_square.png?itok=xCEMOS8s) 

 

 

 

  [### Spring 2018 ReSignifications

 ](/resignifications) 

   ![resig globe](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/resig_square.png?itok=Hpj_GGxw) 

 

 

 

  [### Fall 2017 WOLE SOYINKA: Antiquities Across Times and Place

 ](/wole-soyinka-antiquities-across-times-and-place) 

   ![Wole Exhibition](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/wole.jpg?itok=v4n1X27d) 

 

 

 

  [### Summer 2017 Harlem: Found Ways

 ](/harlem-found-ways) 

   ![Harlem](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/harlem_square.png?itok=0SZ382cF) 

 

 

 

  [### Spring 2017 Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present

 ](/diago-pasts-afro-cuban-present) 

   ![Diago](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/diago_square.png?itok=-71yQH0f) 

 

 

 

  [### Fall 2016 Carrie Mae Weems: "I once knew a girl"

 ](/carrie-mae-weems-i-once-knew-girl) 

   ![art by carrie mae weems](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2019-03-25_at_4.27.27_pm.png?itok=K6VNRVuM) 

 

 

 

  [### Summer 2016 The Woven Arc

 ](/woven-arc) 

   ![food faerie by yinka shonibare](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2019-03-25_at_4.29.37_pm.png?itok=_imv_vbO) 

 

 

 

  [### Spring 2016 Art of Jazz: Form/ Performance/ Notes

 ](/art-jazz-form-performance-notes) 

   ![art of jazz painting](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/art_of_jazz_square_2.png?itok=BQHE23kM) 

 

 

 

  [### Fall 2015 Black Chronicles II

 ](/black-chronicles-ii) 

   ![boxer peter jackson in black and white photograph](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2019-03-25_at_4.32.04_pm.png?itok=ZV0CMX_d) 

 

 

 

  [### Spring 2015 Drapetomania

 ](/drapetomania) 

   ![painting of man bleeding](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/drapetomania_square.png?itok=g7O6ryS8) 

 

 

 

  [### Fall 2014 Luminos/C/ity.Ordinary Joy

 ](/luminoscityordinary-joy) 

   ![photo of an african car-shaped coffin](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/luminos_square.png?itok=nPdHKBvI)