To support Black Portraitures: Shifting Paradigms, a major global convening organized by NXTHVN that offers comparative perspectives on the historical and contemporary roles played by artists, intellectuals, curators, practitioners, scholars, writers, and collectors in generating new discourse that centers the Black subject in Africa and its diaspora. It consists of a series of interdisciplinary panels with 20-25 participants to be held in Venice, Italy in April 2024 over two days during the opening week of the 60th anniversary edition of the Venice Biennale titled “Foreigners Everywhere.” The convening is a continuation of the ten conferences staged by New York University in collaboration with Harvard University’s Hutchins Center.