About this Event
SHEER presents artist Mwinga Sinjela’s debut solo exhibition titled GRASSLANDS. The very name of the exhibition represents savannas in Mwinga’s native Zambia, where vast open spaces stretch to the horizon and have come to represent abundant possibilities and life. GRASSLANDS is a celebration of Black and Queer people and is heavily inspired by Afrofuturism, science fiction, animation, and comics which are all mediums that allow Mwinga to tap into a source of boundless possibility and imagination. The very foundations of these genres are all born out of artists taking stock of the world around them and incorporating what they see into their vision of tomorrow which is essential to Mwinga’s art practice.
SHEER is an NYC-based indie media company and virtual art gallery centering the art and stories of multicultural creatives globally.
About the Artist
Mwinga Sinjela is a Zambian painter based in New York. His work depicts heroic, gender-fluid Black figures in otherworldly Afro-futurist terrains. Drawing inspiration from the diverse cultural landscape of Zambia, as well as the dynamism of contemporary global culture, he creates new dimensions unbound from the constraints of the present and propelled by the infinite possibilities of the future. Mwinga’s work has been featured in AFROPUNK and has previously exhibited at Silvermine Galleries and The Affordable Art Fair.
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Sounds by DJ TMLLLS
Refreshments will be served
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1155 Avenue of the Americas, 1155 6th Avenue, New York, United States
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