Dindga McCannon grew up in Harlem and began her career studying with Harlem Renaissance artists including Jacob Lawrence, Charles Alston, Richard Mayhew, and Al Loving at the Art Students League of New York and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She went on to become a pillar of the influential African-American art collective Weusi, and later a co-founder (with Faith Ringgold) of Where We At, a groundbreaking collective affiliated with the Black Arts Movement.

A pioneer of mixed-media quilting, the artist’s signature works combine painting, sewing, and found materials, and focus on the stories of women — iconic public figures, unknown heroines, family, and friends who shape her vibrant universe.

McCannon’s works are in the public collections of The National Gallery of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Phillips Collection, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, among others.

She has participated in major traveling museum exhibitions, including Afro-Atlantic Histories at the National Gallery of Art, Pablo-Matic and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-1985 at the Brooklyn Museum; and Black Power at the National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN.

McCannon’s first-ever solo exhibition In Plain Sight took place at Fridman Gallery in 2021, followed by a solo presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach.