The SCAD Museum of Art is proud to announce the fall 2024 season of exhibitions, uniting works by forward-thinking creators who represent varied identities, view-points, and artistic movements. Reflecting on the legacies of history while engaging directly with contemporary culture, the nine new exhibitions attune viewers to the power of the human experience—and the dynamic expressions of artists seeking connection to the world around them.
“The SCAD Museum of Art serves as a bold and brilliant beacon for lovers of visual ideation across the globe,” says Paula Wallace, SCAD President and Founder. “The space draws you in, irresistibly. Our fall shows feature a charismatic lineup of contemporary artists from India, Italy, Kuwait, and beyond—and we welcome back SCAD alum Anya Molyviatis for her debut solo museum exhibition in the SCAD MOA Alumni Gallery. If you’re ready to see the world with new eyes, join me at the SCAD Museum of Art this fall. No passport required!”
SCAD MOA is thrilled to welcome George Clinton to Savannah for the first museum exhibition of his wildly unconventional paintings and drawings that defy expectations with an imaginative Afrofuturist aesthetic centering improvisation and joy. Clinton will also present this year’s Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Lecture, placing his work in context with the lineages of African American storytelling. The museum is further honored to partner with Dia Art Foundation on a focused exploration of the innovative practice of Minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933–96), whose pivotal works established a defining formal language of light and space.
In new and recent works, Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola critiques the commercialization of culture while uplifting the nuanced roles of everyday objects within Black life and individuality. Blending myth and purported fact in an evocative, grounding installation, multidisciplinary sculptor and filmmaker Monira Al Qadiri explores the complexities of the Persian Gulf’s past and future. In her debut solo museum exhibition, SCAD alum Anya Molyviatis (BFA, fibers, 2021) merges technology and craft in intricate weavings that augment perception. Artist collaborators Thukral and Tagra contemplate the intersection of the digital and natural worlds in hyperrealistic paintings marked by analog pixels and glitches. Examining the connection between image-making and identity, Pop-Deco illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli transforms her graphic designs into bold portraits for a site-specific installation in the museum’s public-facing Jewel Box vitrines. Beloved fashion designer Isabel Toledo is also celebrated with a posthumous exhibition of her work curated with her husband, artist, and fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo.
“This new season of exhibitions at the SCAD Museum of Art will be unparalleled in the institution’s recent history,” says Daniel S. Palmer, SCAD Museum of Art chief curator. “With creators from across the globe working compellingly in nearly every medium, audiences are sure to be astonished by the art on view. Ranging from a historically significant display of American Minimalist Dan Flavin’s most important series to the first solo museum exhibition of P-Funk cultural icon George Clinton’s paintings and dynamic installations from Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, Monira Al Qadiri, Anya Molyviatis, Thukral and Tagra, Isabel Toledo, and Olimpia Zagnoli, these exhibitions are certain to amaze and inspire.”
The museum’s fall exhibitions season reflects the prestige and relevance of SCAD’s top-ranked degree programs—from painting, photography, and sculpture to fashion, fibers, industrial design, illustration, and film and television. Students, alumni, and visitors can engage with the artists and curators at complementary programming, including an opening celebration, artist talks and conversations throughout the week, and an electrifying performance by George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. For more information, visit scadmoa.org.
