Liberia Collection

The artists in this collection represent Liberia and its diaspora. Those based back home, who maneuver in the absence of institutional support, alter the conditions of fine art. For those in the diaspora, their access to artistic infrastructure enables their proximities to Liberia to thread through their practices as concepts.

These artists create in the wake of Liberia’s complex history of Black liberation, Black colonization, and Black Atlantic convergences. They are the voices of Liberian contemporary art that urge considerations around developments of lineage and culture in the country. Viewing them collectively stimulates the conceptualization of a twenty-first-century Liberian modernism.