10 Contemporary Artists Reckoning With Fatherhood

Greta Rainbow, Hyperallergic, June 19, 2026

Not all fathers are biological. At the Bahamas Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale, Lavar Munroe incites an intergenerational dialogue between himself and the late artist John Beadle. When Beadle's obituary suddenly surfaced from a stack of newspapers in Munroe's studio one day, Munroe told Interview, "At that point I knew that there was a real connection between the spirit world, Beadle, and myself. Nobody can tell me otherwise."