When visitors walk into Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the first thing that will catch their eyes is Dyson’s painting “A Place Called Dark Black (Bird and Lava).” ...

For Torkwase Dyson, the process of creating new work is a revelation. The Harlem-based artist recently had a weeklong exhibition of new work at Pace’s recently opened gallery in East Hampton. It’s her ...

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Torkwase Dyson thinks a lot about shapes. How, for example, the contours of memory change over time. Or how Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline shifts with rising tides and eroding dunes. She thinks too ...

Installation view of Torkwase Dyson, "Aya" (2024), steel, graphite, and wood, each sculpture: 112 x 225 x 25 inches (284.5 × 571.5 × 63.5 cm) (all images courtesy Gray gallery, Chicago and New York) ...

Yesterday afternoon I found myself barefoot on the beach at the South Shore Cultural Center, where I watched artist (and friend) Torkwase Dyson wrestle an 80-foot piece of metallic bubble wrap in the ...

For American artist Torkwase Dyson, approaching the set design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Costume Institute exhibition ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ was far from an easy feat. It ...

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Torkwase Dyson distills stories of oppression and Black liberation into monumental artworks for her new show at Pace in New York. Torkwase Dyson in her studio in Beacon, N.Y. Art can activate all of ...

Yto Barrada will screen films and cook, and Torkwase Dyson will collaborate with the likes of Arthur Jafa. Torkwase Dyson with installation Nautical Dusk, 2018. Photo by Gabe Souza courtesy of the ...

The Studio Museum in Harlem has named Torkwase Dyson as the winner of this year’s Joyce Alexander Wein Art Prize. The announcement was made last night at the museum’s annual gala. “Torkwase’s work ...