ON VIEW:

SEPT 30, 2025 – OCT 3, 2027
“Sadie Barnette: How to Fly” California African American Museum, Los Angeles

AUG 1, 2026 — JAN 3, 2027
“Sadie Barnette,” The Joslyn Museum, Omaha Nebraska

Photo by Damien Maloney

TALKS:

VIDEO: Sadie Barnette on “How to Fly,” CAAM, April 2026

VIDEO: “Artists on Artworks: Sadie Barnette with Carvell Wallace,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024

VIDEO: Sadie Barnette on “Space Time,” SFMoMA, 2023

VIDEO: SFMoMA studio tour, 2022

PRESS:

Creative Capital announces 2026 awardees

Juxtapoz, “The Lexicon of Sadie Barnette,” by Shaquille Heath, Spring 2023

SFMoMA, “Libations and Spirits for The New Eagle Creek Saloon,” by Jamal Batts, May 2023

The Creative Independent, “On the importance of telling the story that you know best” May 2022.

Observer, “Sadie Barnette’s ‘The New Eagle Creek Saloon’ Commemorates Black Queer Life,” by Justin Kamp, March 2022

Artforum, “BAR NONE: Sadie Barnette’s bacchanal shrine to queer Black love,” by Jess Barbagallo, February 2022

Artnet News, “Sadie Barnette Has Made Art From the Files the FBI Kept on Her Father. Now She’s Recreating His Path-Breaking Nightclub,” by Melissa Smith, February 2022

BOMB, “The Politics of Sight: Sadie Barnette Interviewed by Emily Zimmerman,” April 2020

e-flux, “Material Matters: Black Radical Aesthetics and the Limits of Visibility,” by Sampada Aranke, February 2017

SFAQ, “Sadie Barnette: in conversation with Rujeko Hockley,” February 2016