2023
"Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures," 52 Walker, New York, NY
2022
"Us Them We: Race, Ethnicity, Identity," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
"WALK!," Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"When I State That I Am An Anarchist," PLATO Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia
2021
"Zeros + Ones.," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
"Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
"The Principle of Hope," Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Oehlen, Pendleton, Pope.L, Sillman," Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
"The Paradox of Stillness," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
"A Shared Body," FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
"Everyone Is an Artist" Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Push Over, Push Back," CCS Bard Galleries, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
"The Holding Environment," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
2020
"Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2021
"K as in Knight," Helena Anrather, New York, NY
"Old Growth - New Decay," Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA
"Dave McKenzie: The Story I tell Myself," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2020
"Citizenship," Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO.
"Wrecked Alphabet," Broodthaers Society of America, NY, NY
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Rituals of Regard and Recollection," Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
"Stayin’ Alive," ANOTHER SPACE, New York, NY
2019
"Political Affairs: Language is not Innocent," Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"No Thing: Pope.L, Adam Pendelton," Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland.
"Water After All," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 – 2020
"Cro45 to Now," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
"Elements of Vogue (A case of radical performance)," Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
"Small Talk," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
"The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA's Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
"Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s — Now," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
"Men of Steel, Women of Wonder," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2019
"Prisoner of Love," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Embodiment," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2019 – 2020
"Mask: In Present-Day Art," Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2019
"EBSPLOITATION," Martos Gallery, New York, NY
2019 – 2020
"Great Force," Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2019
"Drawn Together Again," FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
"Men of Steel, Women of Wonder," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
"DREAMWEAVERS," UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA
"Uptown to Harlem: African American Works from the collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg," Riverview School, East Sandwich, MA
"From Theory to Practice: Trajectories of the Whitney," University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
2018
"The Land We Live in - the Land We Left Behind," Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK
"Talisman in the Age of Difference," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
"Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance of Stephan Varble," Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
"Becoming American," San Juan Island, Seattle, WA
"Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art's Collection, 1945 to Now," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA,
"Cheeky: Summer Butts," curated by Anthony Iacono and Peter LaBier, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY
"Agora," The High Line, New York, NY
"Other Mechanisms," curated by Anthony Huberman, Secession, Vienna
"Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, and Journeys 1967-2017," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
"Against the Architecture," Refectoire des Nonnes, Lyon, France
"The Enemy of My Enemy," Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
"Adam McEwen Selects: Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
"35 days of film," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
"Black Pulp!" African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
"Counternarratives: Performance and Actions in Public Space," Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
"Learning from the Land and the Water," LookOut! Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
"Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection," Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
"Walking Point," Greene Naftali, New York, NY
"20/20: Influential Artists of the 20th Century," Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
2017 – 2018
"Mechanisms," The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Elements of Vogue," CA2M, Madrid, Spain
2017
"20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
"We Are Here," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"art on the front lines that speaks to the present political and social climate," Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
"Active Ingredients: Prompts, Props, Performance," Williams Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
"Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie," The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
"Punching Up," Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
"You Should be an Artist," Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
"If Not Apollo, the Breeze," Kadist, San Francisco, CA
"Invisible Man," Martos Gallery, New York, NY
"Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967 – 2017," University of Buffalo Art Galleries, Bufalo, New York, NY; traveling to Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
documenta 14, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"The Window and the Breaking of the Window," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2016
"With deepest sympathy: Geopolitics and bodies," Stadtische Galerie, Munich, Germany
"THE PUBLIC BODY.01," Artspace, Sydney, Australia
"Less Than One," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
"The Invisible Body," MASS Art, Boston, MA
"The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music from 1965 to Now," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Do You, Ms. Jones?" Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Body Superficial," Sgorbati Projectors, New York, NY
"The Window and the Breaking of the Window," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Blackness in Abstraction," Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Bienal de São Paolo, Brazil
"Black Pulp!," International Print Center New York, New York, NY; travelled to University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middeletown, CT
2015
"(Counter)Public Art, Intervention, and Performances in Lower Manhattan, 1980-1993," Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, New York, NY
"TOWER," Ibid, London, UK
"Walking Sculpture: 1967 — 2015," deCordova Sculpture Park + Museum, Lincoln, MA
"Identity," Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
"The Works: Artists in and from Chicago," CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
"I Like It Like This: Curated by Drake," Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, New York, NY
"Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Brugges Triennial - Politics and the Productions of Space: The Written City," City Hall, Brugges, Belgium
"Z-ING," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Works on Paper," Greene Naftali, New York, NY
"Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow: Archives 1915-2015," The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
"The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now" Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2014
"Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
"CON/TEXT," Lynch Tham, New York, NY
"Days Inn," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
"Itinerant Belongings," Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
"Pierogi X X," Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
"Poor Working Conditions," Martos Gallery, New York, NY
"Ruffneck Constructivists," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"30 Americans," The Rubell Family Collection, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
"Warm Side of Zero," Overduin & Co, Los Angeles, CA
2013
"African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center," Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; traveled to The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Akron Museum, Akron OH
"Blues for Smoke," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
"Body Language," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art," Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
"Burying the Lede," Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
"Against the Grain; Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design," curated by Lowery Stokes Sims, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
"Cliff and Better," Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
"The Eleventh Hour," DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
"Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, and Again, and Again," Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France
"Kaboom! Comics in Art," Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
"Pull! Reading Room," SPACES, Cleveland, OH
"30 Americans," The Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
"Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art," Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to the The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012
"Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX
"African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center," University of Maryland, College Park, MD
"Blues for Smoke," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Fax," University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI; traveled to DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI; Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"30 Americans," The Rubell Family Collection, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
"Wall Text," Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
"superHUMAN," Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT; traveled to Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2011
"After Images," Musee Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
"Another Kind of Vapor," White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
"The Bearden Project," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"D’un Autre Monde," Le Printemps de Septembre – à Toulouse, contemporary art festival, Toulouse, France
"Fax," Apex Gallery, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; traveled to Saint Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; South London Gallery, London, UK; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
"Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA)," Röda Sten Art Centre, Göteborg, Sweden
"History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present," PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland; traveled to Laznia Center, Gdansk, Poland
"Inti," On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
"The Painting Show," Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Prospect.2 New Orleans. New Orleans, LA
"30 Americans," The Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2010
"The 2010 DeCordova Biennial," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
"At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Fax," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; traveled to Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Barnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China; Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, NY; Museu de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; New Galerie, Paris, France
"History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present," Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus, Denmark
"The Last Newspaper," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
"The Process Show," 37-A Gallery, Portland, ME
"Resurrectine," Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
"Slightly Unbalanced," Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
2009
"Allan Kaprow YARD (to Harrow)," Hauser & Wirth, NY
"30 Seconds Off an Inch," The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
"Self as Disappearance," Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
"Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry," Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
"Carnival Within – An Exhibition Made in America," Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany
"Collected: Propositions on the Permanent Collection," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Fax," The Drawing Center, New York, NY; traveled to Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
"Pour," installation at the Botanical Gardens, Art Projects at Art Basil Miami Beach, Mitchell-Innes & Nash in collaboration with Galerie Catherine Bastide, Miami Beach, FL
"Slightly Unbalanced," Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; travled to Rodman Hall Arts Center, St. Catharines, ON, Canada; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA; Museum London, London, ON, Canada
"Summer Exhibition," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
"Trouble at the Front (Troubles aux Frontieres)," Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2008
"30 Americans," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
"Paul Thek: In the Contexts of Today’s Contemporary Art (PART TWO)," Sammlung Falkenburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Black Is, Black Ain’t," The Renaissance Society at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Brainwave: Common Sense," Exit Art, New York, NY
"Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America," The International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
"Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor," Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
"History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present," Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
"Informal Architectures (Pt. 2)," Winnepeg, CA
"Mergers and Acquisitions," Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; traveled to Retail Value, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2007
"Port City: On Mobility and Exchange," Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
"History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present," Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile
"Keeping Up With the Joneses," Schroeder Romero, New York, NY
"New York – States of Mind," House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany; traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
"Paul Thek: In the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art," ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art," Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL
"Informal Architectures," The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada
"Conceptual Paper," Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
"Plug," Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Silicone Valley," PS-1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
"Get Lost," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2006
"South Bronx Contemporary: Longwood 25th Anniversary," Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
"A Noir, E Blanc, I Rouge, U Vert, O Bleu: Farben," Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
"History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 - Present," Galleria Neon>fdv, Milan, Italy; traveled to MANmuseum at the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
"7e Biennale de l'Art Africaine Contemporaire," Dakar, Senegal
"Civil Restitutions," Thomas Dane Gallery, London
"Newark Between Us," 744 Gallery/Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
"Stories," Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
"Situation Comedy," Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg,Canada; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
"Skowhegan at 60," Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
"Humor Me," H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
"Relics and Remnants," Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York, NY
"Dreaming of a More Better Future," Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2005
"Hero," Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
"History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present," Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
"Looking at Words: The Formal Use of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
"Moving Collection: Body-Con," Tactical Museum at Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan
"Reverse Engineers," Carnegie Art Center, North Towanda, NY
"Landmark," Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"RAPSIDA," Gallery 138, New York, NY
"Double Consciousness," Museum of Contemporary Arts Houston, Houston, TX
"Situation Comedy," Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
"Decarie," Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, Canada
"Defense," Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
2004
"The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
"Watch What We Say," Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
"The Big Nothing," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"5 x 7 Exhibition," Art House Gallery, Austin, TX
"Harlem Postcards: Spring 2004, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Romantic Detachment," PS-1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
"Brown v. Board of Education 1954-2004," Gallery 138, New York, NY
"Republican Like Me," Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, NY
"Moving Collection: Body-Con," Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
"Reverse Engineers," Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
"Only Skin Deep," International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2003
"Moving Collection: Body-Con," Wanakio Festival, Naha, Okinawa, Japan
"distillation," Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
"In Heat," Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
"Motion Studies," Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
"White," Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
"Ameri©an
[email protected]," Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2002
"Art & Outrage," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
"Wallow," The Project, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Reactions," Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY
"Moving Collection: Body-Con," Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
2001
"Video Jam," Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Bach, FL
2000
"Pix," Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY
"Friendships in Arcadia: Writers and Artists at Yaddo in the 90s," Art in General, New York, NY; traveled to The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
"Söma Söma Söma," Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1999
"Out of Actions," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
"The History of the Future," Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
"Paradise 8," Exit Art, New York, NY
1998
"warming," The Project, New York, NY
"Out of Actions," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to MAK, Vienna, Austria
"Apocalypse Now," HERE Art Gallery, New York, NY
"Freedom, Liberation and Change: Revisiting 1968," Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
"A Negro Sleeps Beneath the Susquehanna," Hide and Seek Residency, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
"Peek," HERE Art Gallery, New York, NY
1997
"Available Culture," HERE Art Gallery, New York, NY
"Birdhouses," Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
"Birds of a Feather," Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
"Habitat for Humanity: (bird)Houses," New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ
"Out on a Limb," Midland Gallery, Montclair, NJ
1996
"Exquisite Corpse," Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME
Art in the USA since 1950," Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
"Dysfunctional Art," Tompkins Cove Art Center/Hudson Arts at Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
"Outside The Frame: Performance & the Object: A Survey History of Performance"
"Satellite Choice: Young Curators Explore Diversity," Artists Space, New York, NY
1994
"Art in the USA since 1950," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
"Outside The Frame: Performance & the Object: A Survey History of Performance"
"The Return of the Cadavre Exquis," Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Santa Monica, CA; traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; American Center, Paris, France
1993
"The Return of the Cadavre Exquis," Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Transient Décor," Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
"Various Objects," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1991
"Looking for Aunt Jenny," Art in General, New York, NY
1990
"Action and Artifact," Weatherspoon Gallery at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1985
"Post-Modern Icons," Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1984
"Found Language," Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
"Radical Culture," Fashion Moda Gallery, Bronx, NY
1983
"Rutgers Invitational," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ