The Facts
Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes, the first solo museum presentation devoted to Senegalese American artist Coumba Samba, will open at the Whitney Museum in New York. The exhibition features an immersive installation titled Stars and Stripes that critically examines nuclear power development and the African resource extraction that has sustained it, deconstructing symbols and forms upholding the U.S. military-industrial complex. Samba, who is based in New York, is known for site-specific installations that draw on histories of modernist abstraction and minimalism. The exhibition is organized by Rujeko Hockley, Guest Curator, with Antonia Pocock, Curatorial Assistant.
The Signal
The show marks a significant institutional debut for Samba, whose work has previously been shown in non-museum contexts but now gains the visibility of a major American museum lobby gallery. By linking abstract forms from the built environment to colonial and military histories, Samba joins a generation of artists interrogating how design and infrastructure encode power. For collectors and curators tracking the rising prominence of artists addressing global extraction economies, this exhibition signals Samba as an increasingly important voice in contemporary art discourse.
- Artists: Coumba Samba
- People: Rujeko Hockley, Antonia Pocock
- Museums: Whitney Museum
- Locations: New York
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