Experience Nexus Bay Area Art Week
Celebrate the richness of the Black artist community in the San Francisco Bay Area this October.
This week-long series of events from October 1 through October 5 will honor Black culture, history, and creativity while positioning the Bay Area as a powerful hub for Black artists. Together, attendees and artists can elevate the Bay Area as a leading force in the arts, recognizing and amplifying the vital contributions of Black artists.
From museums, site-specific installations, galleries, and celebrations like the Afropolitan Ball, do not miss the opportunity to experience Nexus.
Exhibitions
UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe
Museum of the African Diaspora
UNBOUND is a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the intersections of Blackness and the cosmos. Curated by Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs at MoAD, the show invites visitors to reimagine Blackness not as fixed or earthbound, but as infinite—expansive, unknowable, and cosmically rich.
Inspired by Lee’s essay, “Gesturing Toward Infinitude: Painting Blue/Black Cosmologies,” the exhibition asks: What if we approached Blackness with the same wonder we bring to the universe? What if, like a black hole or distant star, Blackness could be a site of mystery, power, and transformation?
Featuring a global and intergenerational group of artists—including Lorna Simpson, Rashaad Newsome, Gustavo Nazareno, Harmonia Rosales, Didier William, and many more—the exhibition spans painting, sculpture, installation, and video. These works traverse the historical and the speculative, the scientific and the spiritual.
Women in Afrofuturism
SFO Museum
Harvey Milk Terminal 1, Departures Level 2, Gallery 1D
Afrofuturism, an artistic and sociopolitical liberation movement, examines the past, questions the present, and reimagines the futures of Black people. The term was first coined in the 1993 essay “Black to the Future” by writer Mark Dery.
Afrofuturism explores the Black experience through a combination of science fiction, magical realism, mythology, history, and technology in genres ranging from literature and music to fashion, film, and visual arts.
This exhibition at the SFO Museum (yes, our airport has its own accredited museum!) celebrates the women of Afrofuturism who continually imagine inclusive, joyful, and luminous futures for Black people while simultaneously addressing present issues and past injustices.
Brenda Tucker is the Director of Arts Marketing at San Francisco Travel. She has lived in San Francisco since 1998, after driving cross-country to a home she secured sight unseen. Brenda enjoys swimming out-of-doors year-round, being inspired by the incredible art scene in the City, and living in the best place on earth.
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