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Announced · Opens 3 Apr 2027

Abdias Nascimento: Interpreter of Brazil

Abdias Nascimento, Invocação Noturna ao Poeta Gerardo Mello Mourão: Oxossi , 1972. Courtesy Instituto Abdias Nascimento de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-Brasileiros / Black Art Museum Collection. Photo: Miguel Pacheco e Chaves.

Abdias Nascimento, Invocação Noturna ao Poeta Gerardo Mello Mourão: Oxossi , 1972. Courtesy Instituto Abdias Nascimento de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-Brasileiros / Black Art Museum Collection. Photo: Miguel Pacheco e Chaves. · License

Abdias Nascimento: Interpreter of Brazil opens at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States, on April 3, 2027 and runs to August 22, 2027.

Last verified October 23, 2026 · Official source ↗

This exhibition provides a comprehensive survey of Abdias Nascimento, exploring his career as a painter, activist, playwright, and intellectual. View rarely seen paintings alongside photographs, archival items, and ephemera. Together, these works highlight his engagement with Afro-Brazilian spiritual traditions, Pan-African ideas, and resistance to racial oppression.

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  1. Walker Art Center
    Minneapolis, United States · April 3 – August 22, 2027
    Opens 3 Apr 2027

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Abdias Nascimento, Invocação Noturna ao Poeta Gerardo Mello Mourão: Oxossi , 1972. Courtesy Instituto Abdias Nascimento de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-Brasileiros / Black Art Museum Collection. Photo: Miguel Pacheco e Chaves.

Abdias Nascimento, Invocação Noturna ao Poeta Gerardo Mello Mourão: Oxossi , 1972. Courtesy Instituto Abdias Nascimento de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-Brasileiros / Black Art Museum Collection. Photo: Miguel Pacheco e Chaves. · License · Source ↗