Exhibitions

CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Benny Andrews: Trouble
September 26 - February 7, 2025
RuthArts, Milwaukee, WI
This is the first major showing of Andrews’ artwork and archives together, bolstered by comprehensive research from the Benny Andrews Estate and many collaborators who will shine new light on his legacy as the year unfolds. The opening of the exhibition will also launch the inaugural year of programming in Ruth Arts’ new space, located in the Walker’s Point neighborhood of Milwaukee. Created in close dialogue with the our own foundation, this exhibition combines Andrews’s extensive archive with a selection of his paintings and works on paper to reflect the fullness of the artist’s practice, life, and advocacy, and the ways they are intertwined.

Acts of Art in Greenwich Village
November 7 – March 22, 2025
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
Acts of Art Gallery was founded in downtown Manhattan in 1969 by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Gray to showcase the work of Black artists. This exhibition explores the gallery’s six-year history, featuring works from the late 1960s and 1970s by artists close to the gallery including: Benny Andrews, James Denmark, Lois Mailou Jones, Dindga McCannon, Ademola Olugebefola, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone, Frank Wimberley, and Hale Woodruff.

Edges of Ailey
September 25 - February 9, 2025
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey. The exhibition consists features works by more than eighty artists, including Benny Andrews, and revelatory archival material, and an ambitious suite of performances in the Museum’s third-floor theater throughout the exhibition.

Benny Andrews at the Ogden
An exhibition from the permanent collection, open year-round
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
A selection of Andrews’s work, covering four decades of his career, from the Ogden’s permanent collection. On view year-round.

The Andrews Family Legacy
A new permanent exhibit
The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA
This new permanent exhibition in Andrews’s native Morgan County, Georgia, showcases the artistic and literary contributions of members of the Andrews Family, including those of Benny Andrews, his brother, the author Raymond Andrews, Benny’s father, the artist George, ‘Dot Man’ Andrews, and his mother Viola.

Evergreen: Art from the Collection
Through December 31, 2025
San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
This collection, which highlights the SJMA’s permanent collection, includes Andrews’s 1966 painting Shadow Over the Land.