Emory Douglas is former Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, from February 1967 until its discon- tinuation in the early 1980s. Douglas’ art and design concepts were always seen on the front and back pages of The Black Panther newspaper, reflecting the politics of the Black Panther Party and the concerns of the community. Joining forces with Black Panther cofounders Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, Douglas was foundational in shaping the Party’s visual and cultural power and sustaining one of its most ambitious and successful endeavors.
His work has been displayed at the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, Aus- tralia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles California, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the African American Art & Cultural Complex in San Francisco, California, Richmond Art Center, in Richmond California, Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston Texas. Other exhibitions were held at Urbis, in Manchester, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland, New Zealand, the Beirut Lebanon Art Center, and Showroom MAMA in Rotterdam. His work has appeared in Art in America, PRINT magazine, Juxtapoz, American Legacy magazine and the American Institute of Public Arts. His work is featured in the 2007 publication Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, edited by Sam Durant.
Emory Douglas was born in 1943 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has been a resident of the Bay Area since 1951 and attended City College of San Francisco where he majored in commercial art.