Collectors Favorite Purchases of 2021 by Kendra Walker

As the year comes to an end, we reflect on the many great exhibitions that have featured work by both emerging and established Black artists from Promise, Witness, Remembrance curated by Alison Glenn early this year, a tribute to Breonna Taylor’s life featuring a portrait by Amy Sherald to Bisa Butler’s iconic textile presentation at the Art Institute of Chicago in early fall, and most recently, Amoako Boafo’s highly anticipated first museum solo exhibition: