Advisory Committee
Antwaun Sargent is a writer, curator, and director at Gagosian. Recognized for his incisive voice and groundbreaking curatorial work, he has become a leading force in shaping contemporary conversations around art, fashion, and Black cultural production.
His writing has appeared in major publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and GQ, as well as in numerous museum catalogues and artist monographs. His editorial and curatorial practice is rooted in exploring the intersections of identity, representation, and artistic innovation.
He is the author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (Aperture, 2019), a celebrated book and traveling exhibition that introduced a new generation of photographers redefining visual culture at the crossroads of art and fashion. In 2020, he edited Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists, an influential anthology and touring exhibition drawn from the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection, which has amplified the voices of emerging Black artists across the United States.
In 2022, Sargent organized Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” at the Brooklyn Museum, a landmark exhibition that surveyed the visionary designer’s multidisciplinary practice, highlighting his use of fashion, art, and architecture to interrogate race, identity, and cultural systems. Most recently, Sargent curated “Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick,” the Frick Madison’s first-ever exhibition dedicated to a contemporary Black artist, placing Hendricks’s vivid, stylish portraits in dialogue with the museum’s Old Master holdings and recontextualizing the traditions of portraiture.
At Gagosian, Sargent has curated exhibitions that challenge conventional institutional frameworks, including the Social Works series, which examines Black artists’ relationship to space and community, and Social Abstraction, which centers abstraction as a form of Black expressive freedom. He has also organized acclaimed solo exhibitions for artists including Derrick Adams, Awol Erizku, Cy Gavin, Lauren Halsey, Rick Lowe, Tyler Mitchell, Alexandria Smith, and Amanda Williams.
He is the 2023 recipient of the Lucie Award for Visionary/Spotlight Achievement, recognizing his contributions to contemporary visual culture.
