Noah Davis: In Detail

Lindsay Charlwood is a director at Matthew Marks Gallery in Los Angeles. She worked closely with Noah Davis during his lifetime, organizing multiple exhibitions of his work that include solo shows at Roberts & Tilton in Culver City, California, and Tilton Gallery in New York.

Helen Molesworth is a Los Angeles–based writer, podcaster, and curator. Her major museum exhibitions include: Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957, This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s, and Work Ethic. She has organized monographic exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, and Luc Tuymans. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2022 she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize.

Glenn Ligon is an artist living and working in New York. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Franklin Sirmans is the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Prior to his appointment he was the department head and curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2010 until 2015.

Julie Mehretu is a world-renowned painter who lives and works in New York. In exploring palimpsests of history, from geological time to a modern-day phenomenology of the social, Mehretu’s works engage us in a dynamic visual articulation of contemporary experience, a depiction of social behavior, and the psychogeography of space. She is the recipient of The MacArthur Award (2005) and the US Department of State Medal of Arts Award (2015).

Fred Moten is professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University. He is interested in social movement, aesthetic experiment, and Black studies. Moten has written a number of books of poetry and criticism, the latest of which—co-authored with Stefano Harney—is All Incomplete.