Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Giants are coming to MCASD.

Join us on Saturday, April 18 for the free public opening of Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.

Public Tours

11AM and 5PM: Join a Highlights of the Exhibition Tour that dives deeper into the works in Giants.

No reservations are required. Meet in Browar Lobby.

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Giants is a celebration of the belief that everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy art, cultivate a relationship with creativity, and build their own artistic community. For Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, all artists are giants.

Musicians, songwriters, and producers Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys have stood as giants in our cultural landscape for decades. As collectors, the Deans have lived their ethos of “artists supporting artists,” acquiring a world-class collection of paintings, photographs, and sculptures by diverse, multigenerational artists. Organized by The Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition offers a focused selection of their holdings, spotlighting the Black diasporic artists in the Dean Collection.

Giants features paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations by nearly 40 Black diasporic artists which include: Nina Chanel Abney, Derrick Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, Ernie Barnes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jarvis Boyland, Kwame Brathwaite, Jordan Casteel, Nick Cave, Hassan Hajjaj, Barkley L. Hendricks, Arthur Jafa, Titus Kaphar, Jerome Lagarrigue, Deana Lawson, Esther Mahlangu, Meleko Mokgosi, Odili Donald Odita, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Zohra Opoku, Frida Orupabo, Gordon Parks, Ebony G. Patterson, Deborah Roberts, Tschabalala Self, Jamel Shabazz, Amy Sherald, Malick Sidibé, Lorna Simpson, Sanlé Sory, Vaughn Spann, Henry Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Qualeasha Wood, Kennedy Yanko and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.