Saturday, March 14th, 2026
2:00 PM
Dia Beacon
3 Beekman Street
Beacon, NY
To mark the closing of Senga Nengudi at Dia Beacon and celebrate the recent publication of Senga Nengudi: Populated Air, Dia presents a lecture by scholar Patricia Ekpo. Deploying a black-feminist methodology, Ekpo discusses previously unpublished drawings, anecdotes, and poetry by Nengudi in relation to her sculptures and other media works in the exhibition. Held in the Gerhard Richter gallery, the illustrated talk is introduced by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Dia’s curator and co–department head.
Patricia Ekpo is an assistant professor of African American and African Diaspora Art in the History of Art and Visual Studies department at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Ekpo’s work uses black critical theory, visual art, and psychoanalysis to interrogate the role of antiblackness in constituting modern space, the body, and the psyche. She has written for Parapraxis, where she is a contributing editor, as well as for Studies in Gender and Sexuality, The Georgia Review, and other edited volumes and exhibition catalogues.
