Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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“Lhola Amira: Facing the Future” is on view at the de Young museum from December 17, 2022 through December 3, 2023. Learn more at famsf.org/exhibitions/lhola-amira

Lhola Amira: Facing the Future launches the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s new African art program, foregrounding the permanent collection as a site of exploration for the evolving nature of African arts and their meanings today. Helmed by Natasha Becker, inaugural curator of African art, the program features contemporary artists whose work draws on and engages the artistic and cultural traditions of Africa. First to present, Lhola Amira (b. 1984, Gugulethu, South Africa) embodies South African Nguni spiritual practices in THEIR* life and work, emphasizing the power of remembering ancestors.