September 18–December 13, 2025
Print Center New York
535 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
Print Center New York is pleased to announce our fall 2025 exhibition Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print, which brings together work by Black contemporary artists who explore expanded modes of printmaking to question the complex interplay between race, technology, and representation in our increasingly data-driven world. The exhibition features Tahir Hemphill, Julia Mallory, Silas Munro, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and William Villalongo and Shraddha Ramani. It will run September 18—December 13, 2025 in the Center’s Jordan Schnitzer Gallery. It is the third and final exhibition in the Center’s year-long celebration of its 25th anniversary.
The exhibition’s title references the concept of double consciousness articulated by the sociologist, historian, and activist W.E.B. Du Bois—the sensation and unreconciled striving of looking at and measuring oneself through the eyes of others. The exhibition also draws inspiration from Du Bois (1868–1963), who, at the 1900 Paris Exposition, presented a series of graphs, charts, maps, and photographs that visualized Black life after Reconstruction. Now considered important contributions to American design history and an early form of visual sociology and data science, Du Bois’s proto-modernist, hand-drawn infographics have had a profound impact in how we measure racial progress, and are of increasing relevance as the presence of data in daily life grows. The works on view in Data Consciousness—including prints, sculpture, installation, textile, and video—reframe Black contemporary art as a critical site for understanding how digital infrastructures amplify and constrain identity and autonomy.
