Photography by Chase Hall

Antwaun Sargent

CURATOR AND DIRECTOR, GAGOSIAN

WHAT’S ONE BOOK THAT GOT YOU THROUGH AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE?

Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, by Thelma Golden, is a fundamental text for any curator working today. The show the book memorializes and expands upon was fundamental to the ways in which the art world has sought to reorganize itself since the early 1990s.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF IN YOUR INDUSTRY? LESS OF?

More thoughtful long-term engagement with Black artistic production.

““My point of view and my dedication and absolute belief in the power and possibility of art and artists.””

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS YOUR BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION TO CULTURE?

My point of view and my dedication and absolute belief in the power and possibility of art and artists.

WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE, WHAT WERE YOU KNOWN FOR?

Being mischievous.

WHAT’S COMING UP FOR YOU IN 2024?

We’ve got an exhibition with Rick Lowe at Palazzo Grimani in Venice, and a summer show entitled “Social Abstraction” in Los Angeles.

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