Portrait of Kasseem Daoud Dean, 2024, Kehinde Wiley (American, born 1977), oil on linen. The Dean Collection, courtesy of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys. © Kehinde Wiley
Giants at The VMFA
02.2026
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys will be on display through March 1 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition from the collection of musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys is expansive, featuring more than 130 works of art by 36 Black artists from Africa, Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean.
Among the artists featured are legendary photographers, iconic contemporary artists, as well as emerging artists. And among the art on view are monumental works that tower in scale and thought. Giants is also a nod to the collectors' passion for lifting up the human spirit:
As artists who strive to support other artists and collect from the heart, Keys and Beatz are guided by an outward intention that regards their family of acquired works as “by the artist, for the artist, with the people.”
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220