# Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes

Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes at Whitney Museum of American Art, Friday 30 October 2026, until 18 Jan.

- Venue: Whitney Museum of American Art, Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York
- Go to page: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/coumba-samba

![Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes](https://noky.io/images/34befa5f08358a417d03e61d50cf1b8c5e6941fe254828b5f4445d189e7530f0-2000.webp)

Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes is an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on view from September 19, 2026 to January 18, 2027 on Floor 1. It features installations by Coumba Samba (b. 2000), organized by guest curator Rujeko Hockley with curatorial assistant Antonia Pocock. In it, sculptures modeled after depleted uranium shells are painted in the colors of the flags of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Namibia, Niger, and the United States, using the shapes and colors of modernist abstraction to examine the entanglement of resource extraction with systems of power. Samba deconstructs the symbols of national identity that uphold the global military-industrial complex, addressing the colonial geography of uranium extraction and its ongoing impact on African people, places, and sovereignty.

## Dates

- Tuesday 27 October until 18 Jan — Whitney Museum of American Art

Written by a model, sources: [whitney.org](https://whitney.org/exhibitions/coumba-samba)

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