Villalongo, Ramani prints created with Island Press on view in New York

Artist William Villalongo and data scientist Shradda Ramani will show their collaborative portfolio, “Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century,” in the group exhibition, “Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print,” at Print Center New York, Sept. 18 – Dec. 13, 2025. The pair were the 2023-24 Prensky Island Press Visiting Artists at WashU.

According to the Highpoint Center for Printmaking — one of six print publishers which contributed to the work, along with Island Press — the project “follows Du Bois’s ground-breaking approach to his iconic data visualization illustrations by using national data on Black life drawn from official records such as the 2020 U.S. Census as well as hyper-local oral testimonies and archives.” The exhibition is a preview to the official release of the portfolio, which is planned for spring 2026.