Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) and guest-curated by Allison Glenn, Senior Curator, New York’s Public Art Fund.

Exhibition support provided by Charles Schwab, Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management and Valdes Group of Merrill Private Wealth.

Artist Bios

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
(b. 1992, United Kingdom) lives and works in New York. He attended The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford for his bachelor of fine arts and received his master of fine arts from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited in Dak’Art Biennale 2022, Dakar, Senegal; Charleston, East Sussex, United Kingdom; White Cube, Bermondsey, London; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Morán Morán, Los Angeles, California; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; The Perimeter, London; CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Annan Affotey
(b. Ghana) lives and works in Oxford, United Kingdom. He co-founded the African Young Artist Organization (AYAO) in 2013 and was a member of the Revolution Art Organization in Accra, Ghana. Affotey also lived in Wisconsin from 2014-2019. His work has been exhibited in The Cabin, Los Angeles, California; DeBuck Gallery, NYC and St Paul de Vence, France; Gallery 1957, London and Accra, Ghana; and Lee Ahn Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

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Patrick Alston
(b. 1991, New York) lives and works between New Haven, Connecticut and New York City. He studied Art and Psychology at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. His work has been exhibited at Jenkins Johson Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany; Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Latchkey Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico; and Longwood Art Gallery; Bronx, New York. 

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Hurvin Anderson
(b. 1965, England) lives and works between Cambridge and London, England. He attended Hons Wimbledon School of Art, London, England for his BA and received his MFA from the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been exhibited internationally. Recent exhibitions include Reverb at Thomas Dane Gallery, London; The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois; Rat Hole Gallery, Toyko, Japan; and the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. 

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Michael Armitage
(b. 1984, Kenya) lives and works between London, England and Nairobi, Kenya. He attended Royal Academy Schools in London and received his BA in Fine Art from Slade School of Art, London. His work has been exhibited in Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

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Amoako Boafo
(b. 1984, Ghana) lives and works between Vienna, Austria and Accra. He attended Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Accra, Ghana and received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. In Vienna he was also awarded the 2017 Walter Koschatzky Art Prize and the 2019 STRABAG Art award International. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California; Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Roberts Projects, Culver City, California; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California; and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas. 

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Mark Bradford
(b. 1961, California) lives and works in Los Angeles. He attended California Institute of the Arts for both his BFA and MFA. His work has been exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark; New Museum, New York; and the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina.

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Dominic Chambers
(b. 1993, Missouri) lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Milwaukee Institute for Art and Design for his BFA and received his MFA from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at MIAD Contemporary Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Chambers has been awarded several residences including the New York Studio Residency in Brooklyn and the Yale Norfolk Summer Residency in New Haven. 

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Jadé Fadojutimi
(b. 1993, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. She received her BA from Slade School of Fine Art, London, and her MA from the Royal College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited at The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London; Hayward Gallery, London; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; Tate Britain, London; and Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. She was awarded the Hine Painting Prize in 2017 and was selected to participate in the 2022 edition of the Venice Biennale.

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Derek Fordjour
(b. Tennessee) was born in Memphis to parents of Ghanaian heritage. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Hyperallergic. He has also been featured in several publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and Forbes Magazine. His work appears in several collections including The Studio Museum, Harlem; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California. 

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Alex Gardner
(b. 1987, California) lives and works in Long Beach, California. His work has been exhibited at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California; LOYAL, Stockholm, Sweden; The Hole, Los Angeles, California; König Berlin, Germany; and Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden. 

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Rashid Johnson
(b. 1977, Illinois) lives and works in New York, New York. He studied photography at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and received his BFA from Columbia College, Chicago. His work has been exhibited at Hauser & Wirth, Menorca, Spain; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Musem of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Guggenheim, Bilbao; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany; and Centre Pompidou-Metz; France. 

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Rachel Jones
(b. 1991, Britain) attended Glasgow School of Art for her BFA and received her MFA from the Royal Academy Schools, London. Her work has been exhibited at Chisenhale Gallery, London; Thaddaeus Ropac, France/London; Harlesden High Street, London; Residence Gallery, London; and 48 Virginia Court, Glasgow. She was also awarded residencies at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art in 2016 and at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, in 2019.

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Danielle McKinney
(b.1981, Alabama) lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey. She received her BFA from Atlanta College of Arts and her MFA at Parsons School of Design. Her work has been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; My Secret Garden; Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Fortnight Institute, New York; and Marianne Boesky Gallery, Aspen, Colorado. 

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Wangechi Mutu
(b. 1972, Kenya) lives and works in New York, New York. Wangechi Mutu’s work deals with the very idea of human representation; how we perceive and reproduce images of what we think we are, how we view others and create images of what we think of them. In her ongoing conversations with figuration, what Mutu’s work looks at are value systems in Art and beyond, that either obscure or elevate our image and reflections. 

Internationally renowned for a practice that encompasses various techniques and mediums including sculpture, film, installation and collages, Wangechi Mutu’s work features female hybrid creatures and vivid dystopian dreamscapes. 

Mutu has participated in several major solo exhibitions in institutions worldwide, currently  “Wangechi Mutu” at Storm King Art Center and most recently at The Metropolitan Museum of Art “The Façade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us” and at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum “Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You listening?”.

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Toyin Ojih Odutola
(b. 1985, Nigeria) lives and works in New York, New York. She received her BA in Studio Art and Communications from the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and her MFA in Painting and Drawing from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California. Her work has been exhibited at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has also been awarded several residencies including the Lida A. Orzeck Distinguished Artist in Residence at Barnard College; the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and the Yale School of Art. 

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Chris Ofili
(b. 1968, England) lives and works in Trinidad. He received his BFA from Chelsea School of Art, London, and his MFA from the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been exhibited at Columbia University, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the National Gallery, London; the New Museum, New York; Tate Britain, London; the Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago; kestnergesellschaft, Hannover and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. 

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Naudline Pierre
(b. 1989, Massachusetts) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She studied at Andrews University in Michigan for her BFA and received her MFA from New York Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited in the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; MoMA PS1, New York; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; and Prospect.5, New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2019-2020, Pierre was awarded artist in residence at the Studio Museum in New York.

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Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
(b. 1988, Ghana) lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He studied at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design for Fine Art in Accra, Ghana. His work has been exhibited at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Palm Springs Art Museum, California; and Rubell Museum, Miami. 

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Betye Saar
(b. 1926, California) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Her career spans over sixty years, since the artist was 35 years old. She received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1949 and attended California State University, Long Beach, CA; University of Southern California; and California State University, Northridge, CA for her MFA (1958-62). Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and many more.

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Tschabalala Self
(b.1990, United States) lives and works in the New York Tri-State. Self builds a singular style from the syncretic use of both painting and printmaking to explore ideas about the black body. She constructs depictions of predominantly female bodies using a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, traversing different artistic and craft traditions. The formal and conceptual aspects of Self’s work seek to expand her critical inquiry into selfhood and human flourishing. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include Le Consortium, Dijon (2022); Performa 2021 Biennial New York City, New York (2021); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2021); ICA, Boston (2020); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2019).

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Vaughn Spann
(b. 1992, United States) lives in Maplewood, New Jersey and works in Orange, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers State University, Newark, New Jersey and received his MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut. His work has been exhibited at Kemper Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; The Bass, Miami, Florida; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama; and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Genesis Tramaine
(b. 1983, New York) lives in Maplewood, New Jersey and works in Newark, New Jersey. She received her BS from Utica College of Syracuse University and her MS from Pace University, New York. Her work has been exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, Florida; The Bass, Miami, Florida; and The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

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Zandile Tshabalala
(b. 1999, South Africa) lives and works in Soweto. She received her BA from University of the Wiltwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has been exhibited at SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa; African Artists’ Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria; Unit London; The Project Space, Victoria Yards, Johannesburg, South Africa; mmARTHouse, Randburg, South Africa; Thabo Mbeki Foundation, Turffontein, South Africa; and Art Lovers 1932, Pretoria, South Africa.

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Kehinde Wiley
(b. 1977, California) lives and works between New York, New York and Bejing, China. He received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah Georgia; The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York; Roberts and Tilton, Culver City, California; Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; and more.

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Michaela Yearwood-Dan
(b. 1994, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. She studied at the Art Foundation, University of the Creative Arts, Epsom, UK and received her BA in Painting at the University of Brighton, UK. Her work has been exhibited at Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas; Palazzo Monti, Brescia. Italy; Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco; New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK; Queercircle, London; Tiwani Contemporary, London; Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. 

In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection

The exhibition catalog, In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection, includes a selection of paintings and works on paper collected by Iris and Adam Singer over the span of 16 years. Anchored by the work of 27 contemporary artists living and working in cities such as London, Beijing, New York, New Haven, Los Angeles, Accra, and Nairobi, In Our Time speaks to the immediacy of this moment on a global scale, as well as the key ideas, narratives, and concerns that artists have been exploring over the past 25 years. This selection of 40 paintings and works on paper includes a range of styles and approaches, careers from emerging to established, and themes both personal and ubiquitous. 

Featuring short form essays by eleven contributors: Natasha Becker, Camille Bacon, Alejo Benedetti, Derek Fordjour, Jennifer McCabe, Richard Powell, Kellie Romany, RJ Salley, Keshia Turley, Emily Wilkerson, and Allison Young. Alongside color reproductions of artworks by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Patrick Alston, Hurvin Anderson, Annan Affotey, Michael Armitage, Amoako Boafo, Mark Bradford, Dominic Chambers, Jadé Fadojutimi, Derek Fordjour, Alex Gardner, Rashid Johnson, Rachel Jones, Danielle McKinney, Wangechi Mutu, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Chris Ofili, Naudline Pierre, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Betye Saar, Tschabalala Self, Vaughn Spann, Genesis Tramaine, Zandile Tshabalala, Kehinde Wiley, and Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Special sections on artist Mark Bradford and Merryn Omotayo Alaka.

Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) and guest-curated by Allison Glenn, Senior Curator, New York’s Public Art Fund.

• Full Color
• 245 pages