Isaac Julien's work is part of Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics at LACMA

Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics finds aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The exhibition and its catalogue are among the first to examine nearly a quarter of a century of production by Black artists.

This project debuts new acquisitions for LACMA and expands the Pan-African exhibition canon, historically focused on the Black Atlantic, by showcasing artists working along the Pacific Rim. Nearly 70 works of painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and time-based media are organized into four themes: speech and silence, movement and transformation, imagination, and representation.

Isaac Julien's photographic artwork from his True North series was part of the exhibition. The work is in LACMA Collection.

Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, December 15, 2024–July 27, 2025