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21st-century African-American artists

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Virgil Abloh
American fashion designer (1980-2021)
Elizabeth Catlett
Black American-born Mexican artist (1915–2012)
Kehinde Wiley
African-American painter (born 1977)
Ruth E. Carter
American costume designer
Aaron McGruder
American cartoonist
Carrie Mae Weems
African American photographer (born 1953)
Fatimah Tuggar
Nigerian artist (born 1967)
Charles Burnett
American film director (born 1944)
Barbara Chase-Riboud
African American artist (born 1939)
Adrian Piper
American artist (b. 1948)
Simone Leigh
African American artist (born 1967)
MC Ride
American rapper
LaToya Ruby Frazier
American photographer and professor (born 1982)
Kerry James Marshall
American painter and professor (born 1955)
Lorraine O'Grady
African American conceptual artist (1934–2024)
Candida Alvarez
American visual artist (born 1955)
Norma Merrick Sklarek
American architect (1926–2012)
Larry D. Alexander
American artist and writer (born 1953)
Richard Hunt
African American Sculptor (1935–2023)
Renée Green
American artist, writer, filmmaker (born 1959)
David Hammons
American painter and performance artist (born 1943)
Adrienne Warren
American actor and singer (born 1987)
Nell Irvin Painter
American historian
Eliza Myrie
visual artist, co-executive director of the Black Lunch Table
Glenn Ligon
African American conceptual artist (born 1960)
Kenturah Davis
American artist (born 1984)
Ernie Barnes
African-American painter (1938-2009)
Beverly Buchanan
American visual artist (1940–2015)
Camille Billops
African American artist (1933–2019)
Howard W. French
American academic, journalist, author and photographer
Rammellzee
Rammellzee (stylized RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ, pronounced "Ram: Ell: Zee"; December 15, 1960 – June 28, 2010) was a visual artist, gothic futurist graffiti writer, painter, performance artist, art theoretician, sculptor and a hip-hop musician from New York City, who has been cited as "instrumental in introducing elements of the avant-garde into hip-hop culture".
Nick Cave
African-American fabric sculptor, dancer, and performance artist (born 1959)
Chakaia Booker
American artist (born 1953)
Senga Nengudi
American artist, curator (b. 1943)
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
Nigerian-born British-American artist (born 1982)
Deborah Willis
African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography (born 1948)
Purvis Young
African American artist (1943-2010)
Gail Anderson
American graphic designer
Heather Hart
American visual artist, Co-Founder of The Black Lunch Table Project
Travis Payne
American dancer
Arthur Jafa
American artist and cinematographer (born 1960)
Marta Moreno Vega
Author, professor, arts administrator, expert in Yoruba culture, education and cultural activist on the African diaspora
Theaster Gates
artist (born 1973)
Alvin Baltrop
American visual artist (1948–2004)
Alonzo Clemons
American artist
Sharon Sutton
American architect (born 1941)
Joyce J. Scott
African American artist (born 1948)
Harmonia Rosales
Afro-Cuban American artist
Jerry Craft
American cartoonist
Ted Joans
American artist (1928-2003)
Clarence Major
American poet, painter and novelist
Benny Andrews
African American artist (1930-2006)
Sharon Farmer
American photographer (born 1951)
Mark Bradford
African American painter and installation artist (born 1961)
Synthia Saint James
American artist (born 1949)
Amalia Amaki
American artist and historian (born 1949)
Terry Adkins
American visual artist (1953–2014)
Alma Carlisle
American architect and historian
Barkley L. Hendricks
African American painter (1945–2017)
Jedidah C. Isler
American astrophysicist and educator