West Indian Day Parade, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
AFROPUNK, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
The Million Man March 2015, Washington, DC
West Indian Day Parade, Brooklyn, NY 2016
AFROPUNK, Johannesburg, SA, 2017
The #feemustfall student protest, Johannesburg, 2015
Black Joy and Resistance debuted at the International Center of Photography Photobook Fest, December 6, 2018
As the first offering from the ongoing project The Fire Next Time: A Call and Response (#TFNTOakland), Betti Ono is proud to present”Black Joy & Resistance The Exhibition” the first solo exhibition by Adreinne Waheed.
Black Joy & Resistance The Exhibition is presented in partnership with Michael Orange and the Matatu Festival Nomadic Cinema and what is sure to be an incredible evening of art and activism featuring POWER: Black Joy & Resistance, a series of fireside chats with Alicia Garza, Daphne Larose, Ericka Huggins, and Fredrika Newton on Wednesday February 20th, with projected images from the newly published picture book Black Joy & Resistance by Adreinne Waheed . An invite-only, VIP, collector and media preview of the exhibition will take place Thursday, Feb 21st at Betti Ono .
The exhibition opens to the public during the Black Joy Parade weekend Saturday and Sunday, February 23rd and 24th from 1-5pm. The opening reception will take place on First Friday, March 1, 2019, from 6-9pm celebrating International Women’s Month. Black Joy and Resistance – The Exhibition will run through June 8, 2019.
Black Joy and Resistance art talk at The Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA on March 10, 2019