The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) will debut four new exhibitions Friday, Sept. 29, including three solo shows and one celebrating MOCAD’s history as it approaches its 17th anniversary:

• Multidisciplinary artist Mark Thomas Gibson’s first solo museum show, “A Retelling,” explores race in proximity to American culture and identity through a humorous lens.
• Kevin Bernard Moultrie Daye’s “shadowworking” reimagines how Black communities monumentalize intangible heritage and ancestry, creating a new kind of folk art.
• Kesiena Wanogho’s “Transcendence” is an immersive experience that guides viewers from the Deep South to the “North Star” of Detroit — the final stop on the Underground Railroad.
• The historical exhibition, “MOCAD: Doors Open,” looks back at the museum’s rich and varied exhibition history and commitment to expanding the field of contemporary art.

“The three solo exhibitions that we have are headlined by Black artists,” said MOCAD Artistic Director Jova Lynne.

“I’m really trying to build seasons where the stories coalesce and echo in a sort of call-and-response with each other, and these four exhibitions really felt like that call and response. I’m aiming to continue making us really cohesive with our programming. This is on the heels of last season, which featured women artists, so it’s exciting to have that curatorial throughline again.”