Born 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
EDUCATION
BFA, Otis Art Institute, 1978
Honorary Doctorate, Otis Art Institute, 1999
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
EQUISITE CORPSE: This is Not The Game, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
2018
Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting, David Zwirner, London, UK
Kerry James Marshall: Collected Works, Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
Kerry James Marshall: Works on Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2016-2017
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [travels to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York], Chicago, Illinois and New York, NY
Above the Line, The High Line, New York, NY
2014
Look See, David Zwirner, London, England
Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium (Traveled to: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, Spain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain)
2013
Front Room Series: Kerry James Marshall, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
Kerry James Marshall: In the Tower, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Kerry James Marshall: Black holes and constellations, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL
Kerry James Marshall: Who’s Afraid of Red, Black and Green, Vienna Secession, Association of Visual Artists, Vienna, Austria
2011
Everybody’s Autobiography, Millstone Gallery, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Center of Creative Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2010
Kerry James Marshall, Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
2009
Art in the Atrium, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Jack Shainman Gallery, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2008
Black Romantic, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Every Beat of My Heart, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
Portraits, Pin-Ups And Wistful Romantic Idylls, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2005
Along the Way, Camden Arts Centre, London, England (Traveled to: Baltic, Newcastle, England; New Art Gallery, Walsall, England; Modern Art, Oxford, England)
2004
Color Blind: A Selection of New work, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Drawings, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2003
One True Thing: Meditations on Black Aesthetics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY)
2002
Some Mementos, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
1999
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1998
A Narrative of Everyday, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Kerry James Marshall: Mementos, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Traveled to: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Boise Museum of Art, Boise, ID)
1997
Kerry James Marshall: 1980s Unique Woodcut Print, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kerry James Marshall: Looking Back, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Recent Paintings and Drawings, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover Academy, Andover, MA
1995
The Garden Project, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994
Telling Stories: Selected Paintings, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (Traveled to: Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS; Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC)
1993
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1992
TERRA INCOGNITA: Works by Kerry James Marshall and Santiago Vaca, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1991
Koplin Gallery: Santa Monica, CA
1986
Studio Museum in Harlem; Artist in Resident Exhibition, New York, NY
1985
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
1983
James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981
LA Southwest College, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
The Wild, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2022
Being in the World, The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2021
American Verses: Terry Adkins, Mark Bradford & Kerry James Marshall, Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, IL
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Chicago Comics: 1960 to Now, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Alien Vs. Citizen, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020
Protest and Promise, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Young, Gifted and Black, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, NY
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL,
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, NY
Woodcuts: Groove and Grain, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2019 – 2020
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, January 16 – April 14, 2019. Traveling to: Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, May 24 – August 18, 2019; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI, September 13 – December 8, 2019; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, January 17 – April 12, 2020; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, May 9 – August 2, 2020; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, August 28 – December 13, 2020.
2020
Personal to Political, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, CT
2019
Art in Action: Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Dreamweavers, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA
Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Art & Identity: Highlights from the Collections of the Hudson River Museum and Art Bridges, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Parking on Pavement, The School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844-2018, Luma Arles, Arles, France
2018
Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Seattle Art Museum, WA
2017
The Last Ten Years: In Focus, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Dimensions of Black, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum, University of California at Davis, CA
Blue Black, curated by Glenn Ligon. Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO
You Are Going On A Trip: Modern and Contemporary Prints from the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Frans Masereel and Contemporary Art: images of resistance, Kunstmuseum aan zee (Mu.ZEE), WestVlaanderen en de Stad Oostende, Belgium
20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, Heinz Galleries, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Picture Industry, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
You Are Going On A Trip: Modern & Contemporary Prints from the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Regarding the Figure, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
2016-2017
The Window and the Breaking of the Window, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
Non-Fiction, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kerry James Marshall – The Grand Balcony, Biennale de Montréal
The Color Line, African-American Artists and the civil rights in the United States, Curated by Daniel Soutif; Gallery Garden of the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, Netherlands
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Schoonmaker, Travels to Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
2016
Kaleidoscope: The Vanished Reality, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Black Pulp! International Print Center, New York, NY
A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Curated by Laura Dvorkin, The Peninsula Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age (part 2), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Luwig Wien, Austria
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, Met Breuer, New York, NY
Curator’s Choices: The Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom Collection, Museum of Art at Washington State University (WSU)
2015-2016
Winter in America, The School, Kinderhook, New York
Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Black: Color, Material, Concept, Studio Museum Harlem, New York
2015
Forms Biographiques (Biographical Forms), Carré d’Art–Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France
The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Venice Biennale: All the World’s Futures, Venice, Italy
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA): A Story Within a Story, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
Status Quo, The School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
Duo: A Group Show, Paulson Bott Press, Berkeley, California
2014
Sound Vision: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
When The Stars Begin to Fall; Imagination and the American South, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York,NY
For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD
2013
Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2012
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Super Human, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT
The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (Traveled to: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY)
Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
KABOOM! Comic in Art, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
Etched in Collective History, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2011
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Seeing Is A Kind Of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Converging Voices, Transforming Dialogue: Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Go Figure, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
80 @ 80, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2010
At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg in the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Compass in Hand: Selection from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Elizabeth Catlett: Call and Response, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY
Exhibitionism, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld, England
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
PRIVATE FUTURE, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Art from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Take me to Your Leader: The Great Escape into Space, National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway (Traveled to: Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway)
Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Mark, MD (Traveled to: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT)
Stranger than Fiction: Narrative in Works by Selected Contemporary Artists, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
2009
Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Heartland, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Lincoln: Man, Myth, and Memory, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford CT
Slow Movement or: Half and Whole, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2008
Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Collection in Context: Four Decades, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Portraiture Now: Framing Memory, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (Traveled to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC;; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2007
The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and their Influences, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
Cult Fiction Art and Comics, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England
Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery, London, England (Traveled to: Aberystwyth Art Gallery, Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus, Ceredigion, Wales; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England; New Art Gallery, Walsall, England; Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, England; Tullie House, Carlisle, Cumbria)
Taking Possession, UALR University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
2006
A Historic Occasion: Artists Making History, MASS MOCA, North Adams, MA
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
COMPLICIT! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Traveled to: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC)
2005
Drawing from the Modern, 1975 – 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Family Art Collection, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
The Loyolas Collect, Art From the Collections of Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
The Other Mainstream: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Very Early Pictures, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Genside, PA
very early pictures, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2004
African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition:Fade (1990-2003), Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center; University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL)
Hair:Untangling a Social History, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Undiscovered Country, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2003
A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
American Art Today: Faces and Figures, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Hair Stories, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Splat Boom Pow: The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2002
Drawings VI, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Global Priority, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
New Visions of the American Heartland: Alcolm Cochran, Kerry James Marshall, Maya Lin, and Mary Lucier, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Perceptual Experience: Contemporary American Figure Drawings, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Plotting; An Exhibition of Artist Studies, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Group Show, Chicago, IL
2001
The Big Show-‘Healing, NICC, Antwerpen, Belgium
Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
I Love NY, benefit exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Imprint, Philadelphia Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Points of Departure II, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Présent Composé, The Ottawa Art gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Shelf Life, Gasworks Gallery, London, England
2000
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Beyond the Press: Innovations in Print, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
Drawings V, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
ID/Y2K: Identity at the Millennium, Castle Gallery of the College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
Illusions of Eden, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Representing: A Show of Identities, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Virtul Encounters (on-line exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
1999
Beyond the Veil: African American Artists and their Art at Century’s End, Cornell Fine Arts Museum of Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
InSite: Constructing the JCCC Collection, Johnson County Community College,Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS
Other Narratives: Fifteen Years, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
re-righting history, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Trouble Spot: Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MUHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
INIT-Kunst Halle, Berlin, Germany
1998
After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
The Corcoran Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Interpreting, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Postcards from Black America: Contemporary African American Art, De Beyerd, Breda, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Traveled to: MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Holland)
1997
Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany
Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Male, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1996
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Art in Chicago 1945-1995, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Drawing in Chicago Now, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Figurative Impulses, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
No Doubt: African American Art of the 90’s, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Real: Figurative Narratives in Contemporary African-American Art, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995, Mary Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Burning Issues: Contemporary African American Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1995
About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art at the Edge - Social Turf, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
In the Black, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Korrespondenzen/Correspondences, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Under Construction: Rethinking Images of Identity, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
1994
Bridges and Boundaries, Chicago Crossings, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
Different Visions, Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
In the Black, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Korrespondenzen/Correspondences, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Up the Establishment, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Chicago Curators' Choice, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL
Conversations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Daylight Fantasy - Night Dark Side, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Drawings III, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Man, Myth, & Masculinity, Ledisflam, New York, NY
Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York, NY
My Culture Our Culture, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African American Art, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY
43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1992
Basically Black and White, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Drawings II, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dreams & Demons: Modern Mythic Visions, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Social Figuration, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
The City of Santa Monica Art Bank Collection at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
1987
1987 Invitational, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA
1986
The Flower Show, Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Home for the Holidays, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Joining Forces, Gallery 1199, New York, nY
Only L.A., Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985
Collage, Galleria Ocassa, Los Angeles, CA
Common Ground, Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fifth National Black Art Exhibition, Atlanta Life Insurance Co., Atlanta, GA
Fusion '85, Jewish Federation Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Purchase Show, Santa Monica Art Bank, Santa Monica, CA
The Spiritual Eye, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
1984
17 Artists, 17 Self Portraits, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Artists Call, Thinking Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Environs 3, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
The Finals in Painting and Sculpture, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Olimpiad, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Perspectives on Black Art, California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983
Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1980
3 Artists, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
Six Artists from L.A., Cal State University, Dominguez Hills, CA
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979
Certain Attitudes On Paper, Pearl C. Wood Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Newcomers 1979, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS
2015
Featured Artist at 2015 Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards
2014
20th Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Gesselschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig
2011
Yale University Fellowship, New Haven, CT
1998
The Herb Alpert Award
Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, NY
Citivella Ranieri Residency, New York, NY
1997
MacArthur Foundation Grant, Chicago, IL
The Herb Alpert Grant
1992
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (Painting), Chicago, IL
1991
Visual Art Fellowship (Painting), National Endowments for the Arts, Washington, DC
1990
Art Matters Inc. Fellowship (Painting), New York, NY
1985
Resident Fellowship, Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
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