Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week is returning. Here’s what stands out this year

The Bay Area’s weeklong celebration of Black art and culture is returning for a third year with statewide ambitions.
Desiree Luo, San Francisco Chronicle, July 30, 2026

The Museum of the African Diaspora plans to host Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week from Sept. 30-Oct. 4, featuring new collaborations connecting local artists and institutions to communities beyond the region.

 

Most notably, Nexus will unite Los Angeles and Bay Area artists through the four-day exhibition “Art eXodus: From North to South, The Coast.” Presented by Los Angeles gallerist Jac Forbes, the show opens Oct. 1 at Four One Nine in San Francisco. 

 

“For MoAD to properly serve its mission, I knew that we had to build a better bridge between communities,” Monetta White, the museum’s executive director, told the Chronicle. 

 

This year’s Nexus will launch with a trio of exhibitions at MoAD led by “Dewey Crumpler: Sonic Lineages,” the first institutional solo presentation in the city for the former San Francisco Art Institute associate professor. 

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