Danielle Mckinney’s solo exhibition, Shelter, at New Orleans Museum of Art brings together works from the last six years of the artist’s practice. Travelling from Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Shelter is Mckinney’s largest museum exhibition to date. It offers a collective understanding of the artist’s gift for weaving together art history, emotionally resonant subjects, and beautifully rendered paintings.

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Danielle Mckinney’s work is the subject of Tra noi, a solo exhibition at Museo Novecento, Florence, curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli. The exhibition brings together twenty works, several of which are previously unseen, in dialogue with paintings and sculptures from the Alberto Della Ragione Collection, part of the museum’s permanent collection.

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Works by Matthew Barney, Glenn Brown, Victor Man, Danielle Mckinney and Albert Oehlen are included in the inaugural exhibition, Don’t have hope, be hope! at Isola di San Giacomo, the new location of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Venice. San Giacomo will become a place for producing artistic projects and hosting research and discussions on art, music, cinema, theatre and contemporary culture. Surrounded by the delicate ecosystem of the lagoon, the island will serve as a laboratory for ecological reflection, where the principles of sustainability and energy transition will be put into practice.

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Danielle Mckinney’s works are presented in the artist’s largest museum exhibition to date at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. Engaging with the history of art, colour theory, and longstanding traditions of portraiture, Mckinney’s depictions of female subjects in intimate domestic spaces transform moments of quiet introspection into timeless meditations on solitude, respite, and shared human connection.

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We are delighted to announce that Danielle Mckinney’s painting Haze, 2024, is now part of the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The work is currently on display. ​​​​​​

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We are delighted to announce that Danielle Mckinney’s painting Moth to a Flame, 2024, is now part of the permanent collection of The High Museum, Atlanta.  

Work by Danielle Mckinney is featured in the travelling group exhibition, When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, at Liljevalchs, Stockholm. The presentation includes over 155 works, on loan from institutions and private collectors from 26 different countries. Created by Black artists from around the world over the past century, the artworks are placed in dialogue with contemporary Black thinkers, writers and poets.

Originally conceived by the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCA), When We See Us has been internationally recognised as one of the world’s most significant exhibitions focusing on Black representation and identity. With a primary focus on painting, the exhibition celebrates how artists from Africa and its diaspora have portrayed, positioned, preserved and highlighted the experiences of people of African descent.

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For the ninth iteration of Dior’s Lady Art project, Danielle Mckinney has put her own spin on the fashion house’s iconic Lady Dior bag. Inspired by moments of quiet introspection, Mckinney’s design features a hand-embroidered silhouette of a woman. Cocooned in her coat, the subject is visited by a butterfly, which is used to convey the ‘flight of imagination.’ 

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