Young Gifted and Black

The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection features a range of contemporary artworks in all media. Established and emerging artists of African descent predominate, with a special emphasis on younger voices of the last 25 years. Represented in the collection are: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Kevin Beasley, Jordan Casteel, Chase Hall, Rashid Johnson, Deana Lawson, Eric N. Mack, Kerry James Marshall, Narcisisster, Jennifer Packer, Christina Quarles, LaToya Ruby-Frazier, Jacolby Satterwhite, Sable Elyse Smith, Vaughn Spann, and Henry Taylor.

The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection is the subject of a bestselling book—Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists (DAP, 2020) — and a nationwide traveling exhibition which continues this summer at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, CA.

Bernard I. Lumpkin is a contemporary art collector, patron, and educator whose commitment to both emerging and established artists of African descent is part of a broader mission of institutional advocacy and support. Mr. Lumpkin sits on the Board of Trustees of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. At the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mr. Lumpkin co-chairs the Education Committee and also serves on the Painting & Sculpture Committee. At the Museum of Modern Art, he serves on the Media & Performance Committee and is also Vice-Chair of the Black Art Council. Mr. Lumpkin advises public and private organizations on collecting and patronage, and participates in discussion panels at art fairs, auction houses, and universities. Mr. Lumpkin was educated at Harvard (A.M., Ph.D.) and Yale (B.A.), where he serves on the Task Force at the School of Art.

The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection has been featured in numerous publications, including: The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, Out Magazine, Artsy, Artspace, and Culture Type.

Antwaun Sargent is a writer, curator and director of Gagosian Gallery in New York. He has contributed articles to the New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and various essays to gallery and museum publications. He has curated exhibitions at Aperture Foundation and Jenkins Johnson Projects. His first book, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, was published by Aperture.

Matt Wycoff is an artist, woodworker, and writer living in Brooklyn and Stephentown, New York. For the past ten years he has also worked as collection curator for the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection. Wycoff is a MacDowell Fellow, and has been the recipient of studio fellowships at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha) and The Urban Culture Project (Kansas City). Recent exhibitions of his work include Derek Eller Gallery (New York), Vanity Projects (New York and Miami), Joan (Los Angeles) and Kijidome (Boston). More of his work can be seen at mattwycoff.com.