INhairITANCE: Opening Reception

AFTS Gallery is pleased to present INhairITANCE, a group exhibition that expands the global conversation around hair—not with a single narrative but instead offering a layered, collaborative exploration of personal adornment as it intersects with belief systems, gender, colonial histories, and cultural resistance.

INhairITANCE invites viewers to consider hair not merely as an aesthetic choice, but as a living archive—one shaped by ancestry, survival, ritual, power, and self-definition. Through a range of contemporary works, the exhibition examines how hair functions as both an intimate marker of identity and a public site of regulation, projection, and meaning.

“Hair, in some way, shape, or form, affects all of us,” says Gallery Manager Christina White. “It is deeply tied to how we see ourselves, how we present ourselves to the world, and how we are culturally perceived. This exhibition was important to me because it opens up space for hair as a shared experience…