Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
March 19–June 30, 2025
Work by Raymond Saunders is included in the exhibition Paris Noir, retracing the presence and influence of Black artists in France from the 1950s to 2000. The exhibition celebrates 150 artists coming from Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean, some of whose works have never been displayed in France.
“Black Paris” offers a vibrant immersion in a cosmopolitan Paris, a place of resistance and creation that gave rise to a wide variety of practices, from a new awareness of identity to the search for transcultural artistic languages. From international to Afro-Atlantic abstractions via surrealism and free figuration, this historical voyage reveals the importance of artists of African descent in the redefinition of modernisms and postmodernisms.
Learn more at the Centre Pompidou.