13th Annual Art of Transformation in Opa-locka

Ten North Group presents the 13th annual Art of Transformation, an annual showcase featuring artists representing Africa and the African Diaspora.

The 2025 featured exhibition and theme, At the Edge of Entanglement, explores how emerging and established African American artists navigate, resist, and reimagine the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and systemic oppression through decolonial aesthetics.

Featuring:

LORENZO PACE

MICKALENE THOMAS

KIMBERLY M. BECOAT

LAMEROL A. GATEWOOD

VANTABLACK

MR. STARCITY

ARSIMMER MCCOY

AMY ARAUJO

REGINALD JACKSON

CHARISSE PEARLINA WESTON

WHO: Presented by Ten North Group, a nonprofit arts and culture organization based in historic Opa-locka, Florida.

WHAT: The 13th Annual Art of Transformation, part of Miami Art Week and home to an official Art Basel Miami satellite exhibition, spans six powerful exhibits across five venues and two city blocks. The 2025 featured exhibition, At the Edge of Entanglement, explores how emerging and established African American artists navigate, resist, and reimagine the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and systemic oppression through decolonial aesthetics.

WHERE: Opa-locka Arts District & Ten North Group Campus, centered at 675 Ali Baba Avenue, Opa-locka, FL.

WHEN: December 3–6, 2025.

Positioned where historical rupture meets radical invention, At the Edge of Entanglement features painting, sculpture, installation, digital media, and performance—drawing on the ideas of Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Sylvia Wynter, Fred Moten, and Tina Campt to frame Black artistic practice as both witness and architect of liberated futures. Refusing easy resolution, the exhibition invites audiences to dwell in dissonance, confront the tensions of history, and imagine what lies beyond its shadow.

All exhibitions are free and open to the public.

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