Faith RinggoldAmerican People

While the New Museum brings together all these works, as well as earlier and later pieces, to present the first full retrospective of Ringgold’s work to be staged in New York, the accompanying catalogue represents the most significant collection of scholarship on Ringgold’s work to date, with new contributions by curators, writers, and artists across generations, including Diedrick Brackens, LeRonn Brooks, Jordan Casteel, Bridget Cooks, Mark Godfrey, Lucy Lippard, Tschabalala Self, Michele Wallace, and Zoé Whitley, among others.

Published in the spring of 2022, to coincide with the exhibition’s opening in February 2022, Faith Ringgold: American People is the most comprehensive survey to date of an artist whose groundbreaking art and activism spans five-plus decades, and now, rightly, stands shoulder to shoulder with modern and contemporary greats.