Afro Mountain was created by Gallagher in an empty print shop at Harvard University in 1994. The painting was a gift of an anonymous donor, in 1995, to the Whitney. Afro Mountain was exhibited at the Tate Modern's 2013 retrospective about Gallagher titled "Ellen Gallagher: AxME: Room 7." In 2010, the piece was included in the Whitney Biennial.
