Exhibitions

Exhibitions, collaborations, mentions, and research.

A focused archive of current presentations, museum exhibitions, institutional resources, publications, and press connected to Blondell Cummings.

Current exhibition · MIT List Visual Arts Center · Cambridge, MA

Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form

The MIT List Center describes Performing Conditions as a group exhibition examining the vexed relationships between art, labor, debt, and dependency. Its artists engage landscapes of labor that include museums, households, hospitals, factories, plantations, and studios.

Blondell Cummings is highlighted as a featured artist in this current exhibition at MIT’s List Center in Cambridge, MA.

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Institutional record

Exhibitions, publications, and public mentions.

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Getty Research Institute materials · Updated Oct. 2, 2024

Blondell Cummings research guide

The Getty Research Institute offers an independent research guide with selected archives, bibliographies, pedagogical tools, and pathways for studying Cummings’ work across dance, moving image, and visual culture.

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Exhibition · 2025

Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures

Chicago Cultural Center presented a survey of Cummings as a visionary choreographer and multimedia artist.

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Publication · 2021

Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures

X Artists’ Books published the first monograph dedicated to Cummings’ pivotal body of work.

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Press · March 3, 2022

Blondell Cummings transformed choreography by approaching dance like “moving pictures”

The Los Angeles Times revisits Cummings’ experimental practice and her influence across dance, theater, video art, and Black cultural life.

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Remembrance · September 1, 2015

Remembering Blondell Cummings (1944–2015)

Dance Magazine remembered Cummings as a riveting performer who crossed modern dance, postmodern practice, and avant-garde performance.

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