Edited and co-ordinated by Honey Luard and Elaine ML Tam
Editorial assistance by Miranda Yates
Proofreading by Louise Parfitt
Designed by Kellenberger–White
Texts by Lucy R. Lippard, Rosanna McLaughlin, Howardena Pindell, Christina Sharpe and Courtney Willis Blair

Printed by Robstolk, Netherlands
210 x 148 mm, hardback
214 pages, colour illustrations throughout
ISBN 978-1-910844-82-3
Published by White Cube, November 2025

Published to mark Howardena Pindell’s solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey (November 2025 – January 2026), this monograph charts an extensive body of work made between the 1960s and the present day. Lavishly illustrated and offering compelling full-bleed details, Howardena offers a discovery of the inimitable life and practice of the groundbreaking African American artist.

Designed by Kellenberger–White, Howardena is a pocketable, hardcover book with a hole-punched dustjacket wrapping a manila board. Boasting four new texts, the publication provides the reader with generous insight into the textural nuance and political sensibility that underpins all of Pindell’s work. Introduced by Rosanna McLaughlin, the publication includes a revelatory piece by writer and academic Christina Sharpe that reflects upon Pindell’s persistent use of the circle, and a short essay by the legendary Lucy R. Lippard, a long-time friend of Pindell’s, focusing on the artist’s films. Howardena also features an in-conversation between Pindell and Courtney Willis Blair, Managing Director White Cube New York, which addresses the artist’s use of the grid.

Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, activist, sometimes curator, and author of 30 books. She lives in rural Galisteo, New Mexico, where she has edited the community newsletter for 29 years.

Rosanna McLaughlin is a writer and editor who lives in East Sussex. Her cultural criticism can be found in ArtReview, Granta, The Guardian and The White Review, among other publications, and she is the author of three books.

Christina Sharpe is a writer and professor. Her third book Ordinary Notes (2023) was the winner of the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize in Nonfiction and was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Sharpe is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2024), the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize for the Sciences and Humanities (2024), a Windham-Campbell Prize in Nonfiction (2024) and the Killam Prize (2025).

Courtney Willis Blair is the Managing Director of White Cube New York.