Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, the Harbinger Is Home

The longest running contemporary art triennial in North America presents major artistic projects from more than fifty world-renowned artists, in New Orleans

Now celebrating its sixth edition, Prospect New Orleans is the groundbreaking contemporary art triennial that attracts thousands of people to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana over a 4-month period. Spanning over twenty venues across the city from November 2, 2024, through February 2, 2025, Prospect.6 offers an important point of departure for examining climate change, legacies of colonialism, and definitions of belonging and home through art. This accompanying publication features more than forty newly commissioned works for the triennial, with an emphasis on large-scale installations in institutional, unconventional, and public spaces. The book also includes three original essays, an artist conversation, and contributions by fiction writers and poets.

The wide-ranging exhibition is strongly informed by more than fifty living artists, and by those either based in or from regions around the world connected to Louisiana, including Hannah Chalew, Christian Việt Ðinh, Abdi Farah, L. Kasimu Harris, Blas Isasi, Joan Jonas, Brian Jungen, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, and Amanda Williams.

Miranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. From 2008 to 2014, Lash was the founding Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She was a 2022 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow.

Ebony G. Patterson lives and works in both Kingston, Jamaica and Chicago, IL. Patterson is a widely exhibited international artist and the recipient of several major awards and fellowships. Patterson is a recipient of the 2023 Driskell Award and is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.