A photo of a museum gallery, showing a large painting taking up all three walls. — View of the exhibition "Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys" installed in the rounda and Target Galleries at Minneapolis Institute of Art. Exhibition on view at Mia March 8, 2025 - July 13, 2025.

Artist Talk: Meleko Mokgosi

Meleko Mokgosi is an artist, associate professor, and co-director of graduate studies at the Yale School of Art, as well as the co-director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program based in New York City. Mokgosi is renowned for his large-scale, figurative, and often text-based works that engage history painting and cinematic tropes to uncover notions of colonialism, democracy, and liberation across African history. His monumental work, Bread, Butter, and Power, is a central feature of Mia’s current special exhibition, “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.”

Please join us for a conversation regarding this work and others with Mokgosi and Casey Riley, Mia’s Chair of Global Contemporary Art, at 2 p.m. on June 1, 2025.

This lecture is made possible with generous support from the Mark and Mary Goff Fiterman Fund.

_{View of the exhibition "Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys" installed in the rounda and Target Galleries at Minneapolis Institute of Art. Exhibition on view at Mia March 8, 2025 - July 13, 2025.}