KMAC Contemporary Art Museum
Chapter 3: Be Home Before The Streetlights
November 15, 2024 – March 2, 2025
The final chapter of Horton’s trilogy and his first solo museum exhibition, Be Home Before the Streetlights marks a homecoming to Louisville while bridging personal memory and ancestral influence. Drawing from a transformative journey to Senegal, the exhibition features new drawings, photography, film, and archival material. Divided into two sections—The Great Outdoors and Ova Granny’s House—the work explores vulnerability, protection, and belonging, culminating in a powerful meditation on grace, reconciliation, and cultural inheritance.
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Kennedy Heights Art Center
Chapter 2: A Subtle Farewell To The Inner Child
September 7 – November 2, 2024
Building on Chapter 1, this second installment expands Horton’s visual language into video, cyanotypes, and installation—probing the loss of childhood innocence, familial rupture, and the urgency of healing. Presented during the FOTOFOCUS 2024 Biennial, the exhibition unfolds in four sections and culminates in a collaborative short film, inviting viewers to reckon with generational pressure while holding space for the resilience of the inner child.
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The Alice F. & Harris K. Weston Art Gallery
Chapter 1: Coming of Age Chapter I – In Search of Self…Identity
November 17, 2021 – January 10, 2022
Gee Horton’s debut solo exhibition introduced his acclaimed photorealistic portraits in a personal exploration of Black male adolescence. Centered on themes of identity, cultural perception, and belonging, the work uses graphite and charcoal drawings to examine the emotional complexities of coming of age through an autobiographical lens—laying the foundation for a trilogy that traces the inner child across memory, media, and ancestral longing.
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The Cincinnati Art Museum
New to The Collection Series: Coming of Age
July 6 – October 9, 2022 | Gallery 150
This solo exhibition marked the debut of Gee Horton’s work in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s permanent collection, featuring pieces from his Coming of Age series. Through large-scale portraits of his niece and nephew, Horton explores the vulnerability, duality, and dignity of Black adolescence—drawing from hip-hop iconography and personal memory to reflect on cultural expectations and heal generational trauma.
Gee Horton (American, b. 1983), Black on Both Sides, The Sweetest Thing, and Me Against the World from the series Coming of Age, 2019–2021, charcoal and graphite, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Endowment for Contemporary Art, 2022.13, 2022.14 and Courtesy of the Artist, L10.2022.
Gee Horton (American, b. 1983), Black on Both Sides, The Sweetest Thing, and Me Against the World from the series Coming of Age, 2019–2021, charcoal and graphite, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Endowment for Contemporary Art, 2022.13, 2022.14 and Courtesy of the Artist, L10.2022.