Mitochondria Gallery is pleased to announce the inclusion of artist Nedia Were in "We Belong Here: The Gutierrez Collection." at the Cameron Art Museum, North Carolina. This exhibition is on view from April 25, through September 7, 2025.
Installation view at The Cameron Art Museum.
We Belong Here: The Gutierrez Collection is the first public exhibition of a collection of contemporary art built over the past decade by North Carolina–based collectors Onay Gutierrez and Jeff Childers.
Featured in this exhibition is "Untitled I" from Nedia Were's debut solo exhibition "Fragments of Perceptions" at Mitochondria Gallery (May, 2022).
Nedia Were. Untitled I. Acrylic on Canvas. 2022.
The exhibition features over 130 works created in the twenty-first century by some of the biggest names in contemporary art today. Gutierrez and Childers, who began their collection in 2015, describe their collecting philosophy as “revolving around the contemporary cultural landscape of their time through a cross section of artistic voices primarily from underrepresented communities.”
As Gutierrez and Childers state, “The Gutierrez Collection aims to create a space where art becomes a platform for dialogue and understanding across a broad spectrum of identities and perspectives.”
We Belong Here: The Gutierrez Collection features works by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Jerrell Gibbs, Jeffrey Gibson, Ayana Jackson, Hayv Kahraman, Kaws, Jun Kaneko, David LaChapelle, Beverly McIver, Zanele Muholi, Carmen Neely, Zohra Opoku, Angel Otero, Maia Cruz Palileo, Tavares Strachan, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley among many others.
We Belong Here: The Gutierrez Collection is co-organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem, and the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC.
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