The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents Sherman Fleming: Unsettled, the first solo exhibition dedicated to the trailblazing performance and multimedia artist Sherman Fleming, who has long operated on the periphery of the mainstream art world despite his deep influence on generations of performance artists and cultural thinkers. On view from September 13, 2025, through January 18, 2026, the show spans more than four decades of Fleming’s radical practice and marks a long-overdue institutional recognition of an artist whose work has critically shaped conversations around race, trauma, and the Black body in performance art. Based in Philadelphia, Sherman Fleming has forged a powerful artistic language through his use of endurance, vulnerability, and symbolism. From the late 1970s to the present,