Laylah Ali

American | 1968

Laylah Ali is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1968. Numerous key galleries and museums such as University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst have featured Laylah Ali's work in the past.Laylah Ali's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 64 USD to 29,800 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 29,800 USD for Untitled, sold at Christie's New York in 2008. Laylah Ali has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in October 2022.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Untitled ,2004

By Laylah Ali

-10%

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Untitled ,2000

By Laylah Ali

+33%

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Untitled ,2005

By Laylah Ali

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Recent Auction Results

Brown Heads

By Laylah Ali

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Brown Heads

By Laylah Ali

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comfort with rage (2018 ,2018

By Laylah Ali

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Current Exhibitions

Promised Gifts from the Gerald Mead Collection

UB Anderson Gallery

Buffalo | New York | USA

Apr 25,2025 - Jul 26,2025

Past Exhibitions

Laylah Ali: Is anything the matter?

University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst

Amherst | Massachusetts | USA

Feb 14,2025 - Mar 15,2025

Passion and Patronage: Gifts from the Gerald Mead Collection

Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University

Niagara | New York | USA

Jul 01,2022 - Dec 18,2022

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Articles

ArtDaily 26/04/2025

The University at Buffalo Art Galleries is presenting 25 for 25: Promised Gifts from the Gerald Mead Collection, an exhibition celebrating collector, educator, and independent curator Gerald C. Mead Jr.鈥檚 longstanding relationship with UB Art Galleries.

ArtDaily 03/10/2022

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is considering how art has been used to protest, process, mourn and memorialize racially motivated attacks against African Americans in A Site...

Hyperallergic 13/05/2022

This new exhibition in Evanston, Illinois considers how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence for more than a century.

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Coverage

鈥� .. Widely known for her iconic series, the Greenheads, which was the subject of a traveling museum exhibition from 2012-13, Ali explores power dynamics and interpersonal conflict through compositions that... 鈥�
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Silber Art Gallery, Goucher College

鈥� ..Created between 1996 and 2005, Laylah Ali鈥檚 Greenheads chronicle the development of her dramatis personae鈥攖hin, round-headed two-dimensional beings of indeterminate sex and race鈥攚ho anticipate, respond... 鈥�
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Museum of Art, Williams College

鈥� ..Deceptively whimsical, Laylah Ali`s paintings and drawings offer keenly suggestive analyses of power, oppression, and subjugation - often in ways that implicate gender and racial identity... 鈥�
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University of Arizona Museum of Art

鈥� ..Ali`s figures ask that viewers supply their own stories in response to questions of race, class, gender, and power they raise... 鈥�
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University of Arizona Museum of Art

鈥� ..While the artist`s earlier work (1999 to 2004) delved into the moral turpitude and physical violence of group dynamics and power-plays, Ali has recently shifted focus to the myriad ways in which identity... 鈥�
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University of Arizona Museum of Art