Season, Michigan Central, Detroit, MI, September 2025 

Detroit, MI — Season Fair is pleased to present its inaugural edition, taking place from September 25–28, 2025. The fair will transform the sixth floor of Michigan Central into a dynamic exhibition space for contemporary art. As the first contemporary art fair in Detroit, Season will bring together 10 leading galleries from across North America, alongside Detroit Presents —a curatorial initiative featuring 10 artists living and working in the city. The program will also include Off Season, a series of citywide public events and activations. 

Season presents a rigorous, forward-thinking commercial exhibition that fosters cross-cultural dialogue and drives institutional exchange. The fair prioritizes both global reach and local impact, activating new collecting networks in Metro Detroit and amplifying the city’s dynamic contributions to contemporary art. Collectors can acquire works on-site or access them online through Arcual, a secure digital platform offering collectors expanded access during and beyond fair hours.

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To inquire, please email Olivia McManus at olivia@rivalryprojects.com.

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About the ArtistS

Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola (B. 1991, Columbia Missouri) is a first-generation American raised by Nigerian parents in the United States and Nigeria. His layered, richly colored compositions celebrate and signify the distinct cultures that shape his identity. The artist’s signature Camouflage paintings, consisting of single and multi-panel works, utilize the ubiquitous du-rag as their primary material. Throughout his work Akinbola unpacks the rituals and histories connecting Africa and America, addressing the power of fetishization around cultural objects.

Akinbola has exhibited his work in group and individual shows at renowned institutions such as the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; The Queens Museum, New York; the Randall Recreation Center, Washington D.C.; the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria; the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; and the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, among others. His work is included numerous collections, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL; The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK.

Jen Everett (b. 1981, Detroit, MI) is an artist and educator based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her practice moves between lens and time based media, installation and writing. Jen received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis where she was a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Tuskegee University. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA, The Saint Louis Art Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Krannert Art Museum, SCAD Museum of Art, and Kunsthall Stavanger, among many others. She has presented her work during lectures and workshops at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Black Portraitures - Harvard University, and the Luminary. She currently lectures in the photography department at Washington University in St. Louis. Jen recently served as a teaching artist at the Contemporary Art museum. Her work has been published in Oxford American, Color Theory (Wolfman Books, 2019) and Undertow (Silent Face Projects, 2018). Jen has been an artist in residence at the Fire Island Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts and ACRE. She was a 2021-22 Duke University DocX Archive Lab fellow. Her work resides in the permanent collection of the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois.

Clifford Prince King (b. 1993, Tuscon, AZ) documents his intimate relationships in everyday settings that speak to his experiences as a queer black man. In these instances, communion begins to morph into an offering of memory; it is how he honors and celebrates the reality of layered personhood. 

King’s artwork is held in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, ICA Miami, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Studio Museum in Harlem. Recent exhibitions include Gordon Robichaux, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, MassMoCA and Light Work. His photographs have been featured in Apartamento, Aperture, BUTT, Cultured, The CUT, Dazed, Fantastic Man, i-D, Interview, T Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal. 

Tammie Rubin (b. Chicago, IL) is a ceramic sculptor and installation artist whose practice considers the intrinsic power of objects and coded symbols as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics. Her artwork weaves together familial, historical, and literary narratives of Black American citizenry, migration, autonomy, and faith. Rubin has received residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Penland School of Craft, and Pottery Northwest. She is the 2022 Tito's Prize winner and a 2024 USA Artists Fellow in Craft. 

Rubin exhibits widely; selections include Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; AGBS Christian-Green Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin, Mulvane Art Museum, KS; George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX; Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN; The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX; Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX; Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY; and Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX. Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX., represent the artist.

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