Black Art in Japan interviews multimedia artist Sanford Biggers, whose exhibition Sanford Biggers: Drift is on view at The Parrish Museum, New York, through September 13, 2026. Born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1970, Biggers lives and works in New York. He examines the inherent tensions of history, culture, language, symbol, myth and narrative in...
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A conversation with Henry Roy on Building and Bridging Culture, From Haiti to France to Japan
Over the past three decades, the artist Henry Roy has poured himself into a multifaceted practice that fuses photography and writing. Throughout much of that time, he has also published various books: Regards Noirs (1996), Out of the blue (2008), Spirit (2009) Superstition (2017), Ibiza Memories (2022), Impossible Island (2025), and The Land of Haunted...
Rwandan painter Richard Mwizerwa opens solo exhibition in Tokyo
The Kigali-born artist has built a practice rooted in the close observation of nature and everyday surroundings. His latest body of work features textured and layered canvases with abstract forms taken directly from nature—the organic shapes of leaves, the rough textures of tree bark, and the ephemeral ways in which light and weather can radically...


