Sights
2025
Acrylic, pigment and soft pastel on wood
18 x 24” / 45.7 x 61cm
Currents Never Die
2025
Acrylic, pigment, soft pastel, graphite and copper on wood
72 x 48” / 182.9 x 121.9cm
A Reunion
2024
Acrylic, pigment, soft pastel, graphite and copper on wood
48 x 60” / 121.9 x 152.4cm
Installation view: Sydney Cain solo presentation with Casey Kaplan at Frieze New York, February 20-23, 2025
Undercurrents (We Found You and Are Still Searching)
2024
Acrylic, pigment and soft pastel on wood
48 x 60” / 121.9 x 152.4cm
Installation view: Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, January 8 - February 15, 2025
Whirlpools
2024
Graphite on paper
9 x 12" / 22.9 x 30.5cm
Framed: 10.75 x 13.75" / 27.3 x 34.9cm
Currents Unbroken
2024
Graphite on paper
12 x 9" / 30.5 x 22.9cm
Framed: 13.75 x 10.75" / 34.9 x 27.3cm
Land Circuits I
2024
Acrylic, steel, pigment, soft pastel and copper on wood
60 x 48" / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Land Circuits I, 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)
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)
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)
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
