Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra) by Kerry James Marshall
Art Institute of Chicago

Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra)

Kerry James Marshall · 2003-ongoing

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, One True Thing: Meditations on Black Aesthetics, Oct. 25, 2003 -Jan. 18, 2004, no cat. no.; Miami, Miami Art Museum, Feb. 6, 2004-Apr. 25, 2004; Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, June 20, 2004-Sept. 5, 2004; New York City, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Oct. 13, 2004-Jan. 9, 2005, Birmingham, Birmingham Museum of Art, Feb. 3, 2005-Apr. 24, 2005.

Literature

Published references

  • Elizabeth A. T. Smith and Tricia Van Eck, Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing: Meditations on Black Aesthetics, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003), 12 (ill.), xxiv (color ill.), lxvii.
  • Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., "The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media," eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 122, p. 137 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).
  • Joseph L. Underwood, "A Pan-African Blockbuster Portrays the Continent as a Monolith," Art in America, March 27, 2025, Online, (color ill.), https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/project-black-planet-panafrica-chicago-barcelona-brussels-1234736805/
  • Benjamin Buchloh, Aria Dean, Darby English, Mark Godfrey, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Cathérine Hug, Nikita Sena Quarshie, and Rebecca Zorach, Kerry James Marshall: The Histories, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2025), 16, 17, fig. 7 (color ill.), 87 (color ill.), 89-90, fig. 38, 92, 94 (color ill.), 95, fig. 38, 122, 212.
  • Benjamin D. Buchloh, "Radical Pragmatism: A Conversation with Kerry James Marshall," October 194 (Fall 2025): 76, 77 (ill.), 79.

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