The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined

April 23 – November 27, 2022
Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy

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Arvie Smith
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Arvie Smith (b.1938, Houston, Texas) transforms the history of oppressed and stereotyped segments of the American experience into lyrical two‐dimensional masterworks.

Museum Collections (selected):
Delaware Museum of Art
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art
Portland Art Museum
Reginald F. Lewis Museum


2Up and 2Back, 2019
Oil on canvas, 72” x 60”