Nina Chanel Abney
Derrick Adams
Devin Allen
Bisa Butler
Larry W. Cook
Harriet Dedman
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Jammie Holmes
Deana Lawson
Tonika Lewis Johnson
Tyler Mitchell
José Parlá
Guadalupe Rosales
Jamel Shabazz
Andre D. Wagner
Hank Willis Thomas

This exhibition marks the beginning of a yearlong celebration of the twentieth anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation. Drawn from the Foundation’s permanent collection, this exhibition presents works by fellows and prize winners that continue Gordon Parks’s vision of art as a catalyst for visibility and social change.

In 1942, Gordon Parks received the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship to pursue a career in photography in Washington, D.C., where he apprenticed under Roy Stryker at the Farm Security Administration–an opportunity that set the course for his sixty-year career. Today, The Gordon Parks Foundation is dedicated to providing the same vital support to the current and future generation of artists following in his footsteps.

Since 2017, The Gordon Parks Foundation has awarded two annual Fellowships in Art to artists working across disciplines. These fellowships support the research, development, and production of new or ongoing projects that explore social justice and visual storytelling. Likewise, The Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize is a publishing platform for artists whose work is connected to Parks’s legacy. Each Fellowship and publication culminates with an exhibition at the Foundation’s gallery, and works by the artists are actively collected for its permanent collection.

In addition to the Fellowships in Art and The Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize, the Foundation supports artists and writers through its annual Genevieve Young Fellowship in Writing and the Legacy Acquisition Fund. Alongside works by Gordon Parks, the Foundation's collection also includes over 500 works by these and other artists who extend Parks's legacy.