Pre-Order: Robert Pruitt: Infinite Catalogue

Working across drawing, sculpture, photography, and animation, the American artist Robert Pruitt (born 1975) is famed for rendering large-scale drawings of Black subjects in Conté crayon on hand-dyed paper. He places his subjects—who are often modeled after friends and family—within imagined scenarios, narrativized through clothing and accoutrements that reference historical Black struggles as well as hip-hop culture and comic books. The resulting works advance a diverse and radical vision of Blackness past and present.

This substantial monograph surveys his practice of the past twenty-five years, highlighting the works featured in the exhibition, including many lesser-known sculpture, graphic novel and installation works. The most comprehensive volume on Pruitt’s oeuvre to-date, this book delves into the artist’s influences, research, training and legacy through fresh scholarship and an artist interview.

Edited by Ryan N. Dennis with contributions by Rashida Bumbray, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Mat Johnson and Alvia J. Wardlaw.