New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced that London-based fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner will curate an exhibition opening in November.

Wales Bonner will bring together 50 artworks from MoMA’s collection that explore forms of black community style, experiences, performance and sounds of the African diaspora as part of the Museum’s Artist’s Choice exhibition series.

The exhibition “Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner–Spirit Movers” will run from November 18, 2023 to April 7, 2024 and will feature works by artists from around the world and across generations, including Terry Adkins, Man Ray, Agnes Martin, David Hammons, and more.

“It is a huge honor to be involved with the artists and works in MoMA’s collection and I want to express my sincere thanks to the Museum for giving me the space to create so freely,” said the fashion designer.

“I hope that the exhibition and related publication will resonate with the spirit of artists and continue to create new dreams and new visions,” he added.

Wales Bonner has gained recognition in the fields of curation, filmmaking and publishing, as well as fashion. Founder and artistic director of her eponymous brand, she was named 2021 Menswear Designer of the Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).

She curated her first exhibition, A Time for New Dreams, in 2019 at the Serpentine Gallery, London. She is a lead researcher at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she recently launched the four-year project Between Critique and Hope.

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