They Said We’re Invisible So They Can’t Hurt Us
2024
Acrylic, steel, magnetite, pigment, soft pastel, charcoal and graphite on wood
96 x 96" / 243.8 x 243.8 cm
They Said We’re Invisible So They Can’t Hurt Us, 2024 (detail)
Water Canals and Circuits (Black Rainbows)
2024
Acrylic, steel, pigment and soft pastel on wood
84 x 144" / 213.4 x 365.76cm
Water Canals and Circuits (Black Rainbows), 2024 (detail)
Land Circuits I
2024
Acrylic, steel, pigment, soft pastel and copper on wood
60 x 48" / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Land Circuits II, 2024 (detail)
Land Circuits II
2024
Acrylic, steel, pigment, soft pastel and copper on wood
60 x 48" / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Land Circuits II, 2024 (detail)
The Rivers are Always Abundant for You
2023
Acrylic, steel, iron oxide, charcoal, soft pastel, graphite on wood
96 x 144” / 243.8 x 365.8 cm
The Child Opens It’s Eyes to the Earth
2022
Acrylic, iron oxide, steel, charcoal, and graphite on wood
96 x 96” / 228.6 x 228.6cm
Installation view: Sydney Cain: Refutations, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, October 20 - December 19, 2021
Installation view: Sydney Cain: Refutations, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, October 20 - December 19, 2021
Baba and Nana
2021
Acrylic, iron oxide, and charcoal on paper
72 x 120” / 182.88 x 304.8cm
At the Corners I Miss #1
2020
Graphite, charcoal, and pigment on dyed paper
22 x 42” / 55.9 x 106.7 cm
Refutations (Water Who Holds Light)
2019
Graphite, charcoal, and pigment on paper
33 x 46” / 83.8 x 116.8 cm
Remember to Cross the River
2021
Acrylic, iron oxide, and charcoal on paper
72 x 120” / 182.88 x 304.8cm
Sydney Cain’s Radio Imagination (2021, acrylic, steel, & chalk on wood, dimensions variable) in Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism at the Oakland Museum of California, August 7, 2021 – February 27, 2022
Sydney Cain’s Radio Imagination (2021, acrylic, steel, & chalk on wood, dimensions variable) in Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism at the Oakland Museum of California, August 7, 2021 – February 27, 2022
And They Are Not Afraid of the Night Because They Are the Color of It
2021
Acrylic, pigment, charcoal and graphite on wood
96 x 144” / 243.8 x 365.8 cm
Installation view: Becoming, St. Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco, CA, May 19 - August 28, 2021
Ancestral Pools #3
2020
Watercolor on paper
35 x 22” / 88.9 x 55.9 cm
Where Water Goes After It Leaves Here
2019
Watercolor on paper
22 x 36” / 55.9 x 91.4 cm
