Frédérick Douglass

Artist Omar Victor Diop Senegalese, born 1980, active in Dakar, Senegal

Date2015

MediumPigment inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo paper

Dimensionsheight and width: 23 5/8 × 23 5/8 in. (60 × 60 cm)
frame: 32 1/4 × 32 1/4 × 3 in. (81.9 × 81.9 × 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Friends of Photography

Object number2020.16.1/dc

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated 2015; collection of the artist; [Galerie Magnin-A, Paris]; sold to NCMA, 2020.
Exhibition HistoryAtlanta, GA, SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, “Omar Victor Diop,” February 17–August 18, 2017.

London, Autograph Gallery – The Association of Black Photographers (ABP), “Omar Victor Diop – LIBERTY / DIASPORA,” July 20–November 3, 2018.

Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, “Posing Beauty in African American Culture,” October 19, 2019–January 26, 2020.

Houston, TX, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, “Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present,” January 25–May 16, 2020.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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