Hard Art: abstract painting by Black US artists since 1969.

Hard Art is a major group exhibition at MoMA PS1 that examines the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. Presented by MoMA PS1, it features over forty artists, juxtaposing historical paintings by practitioners who came to prominence in the 1970s with recent conceptually driven practices that incorporate sculpture, video, sound, and painting. Organized thematically, the show traces the legacy of three generations of artists including Frank Bowling, Mark Bradford, Peter Bradley, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ed Clark, Melvin Edwards, Jennie C. Jones, Joe Overstreet, and Raymond Saunders, alongside new and recent works by Aria Dean, Torkwase Dyson, Nikita Gale, Suzanne Jackson, Rindon Johnson, Caroline Kent, Carolyn Lazard, Eric N. Mack, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and SoiL Thornton. Its title derives from Bradley’s description of The DeLuxe Show, and the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication.