Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

Space Is the Place is a Hammer Contemporary Collection exhibition that takes its title from the 1973 studio album and 1974 film by Sun Ra (1914–1993), a Black American experimental jazz composer and musician known for his radical and esoteric views on Black liberation. The selected works in the exhibition consider “space” as a conceptual framework, through the themes of afro-futurism, belonging, placemaking, and the act of taking up space. Space Is the Place comprises installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and multi-media works by nearly thirty artists.

Featuring work by Edgar Arceneaux, Nayland Blake, Mark Bradford, Ben Caldwell, Coleman Collins, Alonzo Davis, Danielle Dean, Fred Eversley, Kohshin Finley, Lauren Halsey, Juliana Huxtable, Arthur Jafa, Forrest Kirk, Rodney McMillian, Arcmanoro Niles, Thomas J Price, Michael Queenland, Jamilah Sabur, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Shikeith, Cauleen Smith, Kara Walker, Eric Wesley, Fred Wilson, Brenna Youngblood, and others.