17/01/2026
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of photographer and artist Gordon Parks, who is known for his images that chronicled the segregated South, the civil rights movement, poverty, and the impact that racism had on the lives of African Americans. 2026 also marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Gordon Parks Foundation, which is tasked with preserving the legacy of Parks but also has become known for its work in supporting the next generation of artists and writers whose practices share affinities with that of Parks.
As part of the 20th anniversary year, the Gordon Parks Foundation will help realize three gallery exhibitions focused on Parks. The first of these opens in March at Alison Jacques Gallery in London. Titled “We Shall Not Be Moved,” the exhibition is curated by Bryan Stevenson and will bring together both iconic and rarely seen work by the photographer. April brings “The South in Color,” curated by photographer Dawoud Bey, at Atlanta gallery Jackson Fine Art. Focusing on Parks’s 1956 series “Segregation Story.”. In the fall, Jack Shainman Gallery in Tribeca will mount an exhibition that gathers some of Parks’s best-known works all filtered through people who knew him or the descendants of his images’ subjects.
“This is our 20th anniversary,” Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., the foundation’s executive director, told ARTnews in a recent interview. “To look back on it 20 years later and to see what we’ve done and how we’ve done it—the exhibitions, the partnerships with museums, the publications, the fellowships and scholarships—brings me great joy to see that these aspects of Gordon’s career could be so vibrant and monumental through the work of the Gordon Parks Foundation.”
Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gordon-parks-foundation-20th-anniversary-1234770037/
