Esther Pearl Watson

1973: Born in Frankfurt, Germany
: Lives and works in Los Angeles

2012: MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1995: BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2026: Group Show, ASTROPOLIS, Ostend, Belgium (forthcoming)
: "40th Anniversary Group Show," La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
: "Celestial Road Trip," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "Bombois by Anholt," Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany
2024: "Generating Auras," Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
: "Reading Room: Zines, Comix, and Other Radical Texts," The Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2023: "At Heaven’s Edge: Visions" Museum Krona, Uden, Netherlands
: "Starship Pegasus," Antonio Colombo Gallery, Milan, Italy
: "Sightings," Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID
: "Space Gas," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
: "Rituals of Devotion," McEvoy Family Collection, San Francisco, CA
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Very Luminous Vision," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Guardian of Eden," Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "An Apparent Brightness," Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove, UK
2021: "Esther Pearl Watson," The Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
: "Esther Pearl Watson," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles. CA (Link)
: "Dust it Off," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2020: "Safer at Home: Pandemic Paintings," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "Dream Believer," University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Parkside, WI
2019: "Rural Elements," Contemporary Art Museum of Plainview, Plainview, TX
: "Esther Pearl Watson," Maureen Paley, London, UK
: "April 14, 1561," Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
: "The Moon: Eternal Pearl," Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA
2018: "Tire Universe," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: W+K Gallery, Portland, OR
2017: “Starship Pegasus,” Antonio Columbo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
: Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX (solo)
: "Now More Than Ever," LACE Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles, CA
: "For the Good Times," Sp(a)ce, Pasadena, CA
2016: "The 11th Annual Blab Show," Curated by Monte Beauchamp, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Furies," Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, CA
: "Cocoon," Arts Factory, Paris, France
: "Galactic Plains," Gregorio Escalante Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: "Hearsay," Artists Reveal Urban Legends, LosJoCos Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "Atrium," Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
: "New Works," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
: The Future Arrives, Galleri Galleberg, Norway, (solo)
: Two-Person Exhibition, Family Lexicon, Antonio Colombo Gallery, Milan, Italy (with artist Fred Stonehouse) (catalogue)
2014: "Sky," Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, (curated by DeWitt Cheng and Elizabeth Ferrer)
: "Amazon Solitaire," Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Eagle Rock, CA
: "Explorers," CSC Gallery, McLennan Community College, Waco, TX
: "Hexenhaus," 495 Alameda St, Altadena, CA
: "With Open Eyes," Grafikens Hus, Mariefried, Sweden (with artist Mark Todd)
: "It’s Not a Circus Without a Big Top," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2013: Summer Viewing Rooms, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "Hidden Behind the Stars," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX, (solo)
: Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY
: Cal/Arts MFA Graduate Exhibition, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Catherine Taft)
: Fort Beavatron, CalArts Mint Gallery, Valencia, CA, (solo)
2011: CalArts Main Gallery, Valencia, CA, (solo)
: "Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
: "Land Of Magic," Lesher Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
: "Women in Comics," (Curated) Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2010: "New Works," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX, (solo)
2009: "Visions of the Future," Billy Shire Fine Art, Culver City, CA (with artist Owen Smith)
: "Texas Instruments," Domy, Austin, TX, (solo)
: "When in Texas act like a Texan," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2008: "3rd Annual LA Weekly Biennial," Track 16, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Doug Harvey)
: "Failure," The Lab at Belmar, Lakewood, CO
: "Blab Show!," Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Kansas City, MO (curated by Monte Beauchamp)
: "LA Paint," Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (curated by Phil Linares)
2007: "The Weirding Field," La Luz De Jesus, Los Angeles, CA, (solo)
2006: "What I Remember," Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA (solo)
2005: "Keep On Laughing," Katherine Mulherin Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

Bibliography

2023: Williams, Gisela. "An Exhibition of U.F.O. Art Lands in Idaho," New York Times Style Magazine, September 14 (Link)
2022: Artnet Gallery Network. "5 Talents From the Artnet Gallery Network We’re Keeping an Eye on as the Fall Season Kicks Off," Artnet, September 14 (Link)
2021: Rylah, Juliet Bennet. "Esther Pearl Watson and Pandemic Paintings," The Pool, May 14 (Link)
: "Friday at Frieze New York," Frieze, May 7 (Link)
: McArthur, Roshan. "Pandemic Paintings by Esther Pearl Watson," Boutique Homes, January 22
: Zellen, Jody. "Esther Pearl Watson: ‘Safer at Home: Pandemic Paintings’ Documenting the Everyday," ArtNow LA, January
: Recinos, Eva. "Esther Pearl Watson Channels Strange Pandemic Life in 100 Paintings," Hyperallergic, January 12
2020: Dambrot, Shana Nys "Esther Pearl Watson Paints the Pandemic’s Daily Strangeness," LA Weekly, December 10 (Link)
: Watson, Esther Pearl. "An Artist Captures 4 Months of Sidewalk Chalk Drawings," The New York Times, July 19 (Link)
2019: Drambot, Shana Nys. "ART PICK: THE POST-IT SHOW," LA Weekly, December 6 (Link)
: "Esther Pearl Watson, Mothership, 2019," Elephant, September 4 (Link)
: "Esther Pearl Watson: Mothership," Time Out London, September 18 (Link)
: Biswas, Allie. "Esther Pearl Watson – interview: ‘I really search out moments of awkward humour’" Studio International, September 16 (Link)
: Dawson, Aimee and Ellie Lace, Kabir Jhala. "Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend," Art Newspaper, September 6 (Link)
: Brady, Anna and Margaret Carrigan. "Private view: must-see gallery shows opening in September," Art Newspaper, September 4 (Link)
: Zara, Janelle. "‘Everything Feels More Intimate’: Felix LA Brings New Life to Art-Fair Circuit," ArtNews, February 15 (Link)
: Freeman, Nate. "The Future of Art Fairs Is in a Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard," February 15 (Link)
: Remenchik, Jennifer. "Placing Art in Hotel Rooms Can Yield Genuinely Surprising Results," Hyperallergic, February 16 (Link)
: Smith, Roberta. "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," New York Times, January 8 (Link)
: Womack, Catherine. "The assignment: Design a poster that dispels America’s myths about immigrants," Los Angeles Times, December 24 (Link)
2018: Remenchik, Jennifer, "A Painter Illustrates the Charm and Tragedy of the American Dream," Hyperallergic (web), July 9
2014: Lemke, Meg, "Dear Diary: An Interview with Esther Pearl Watson," The Paris Review (web), June 20 (Link)
: Simek, Peter, "This Week’s 5 Best Art Gallery Openings and Events," D Magazine (web), May 28 (Link)
2012: Laughlin, Jamie, "Puppets And Spaceships Invade Waxahachie," Dallas Observer (web), November 15 (Link)
: Morgan, Kendall, "Wacky and whimsical works from Miss Pussycat and Esther Pearl Watson invade Webb Gallery," Culture Map Dalllas (web), November 16 (Link)
: Farr, Kristin, "Esther Pearl Watson," Juxtapoz, February
2011: Hudgens, Christopher, "Episode 323: Esther Pearl Watson," Badatsports (web), November 7 (Link)
2010: Farr, Kristin, "Big Dreams: Esther Pearl Watson at Sandra Lee Gallery," KQED Arts (web), June 11 (Link)
: Enholm, Molly, "Esther Pearl Watson," art ltd. (web), July 10 (Link)
: O’Toole, Meighan, "Esther Pearl Watson: Space is the Place," My Love For You (web), February 18 (Link)
2009: Weeks, Jerome, "Flying Saucers, Teen Angst and Esther Pearl Watson," Art and Seek (web), August 11 (Link)
: Schroeder, Audra, "Building Spaceships in the Yard, Austin Chronicle (web), June 12 (Link)
: Hamada, Jeff, "Esther Pearl Watson," Booooooom (web), February 27 (Link)
2007: Gray, Emma, "L.A Confidential," Artnet (web), January (Link)

Curatorial Projects

2019: "Post-It Show," Giant Robot/GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Public Collections

: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA

Genevieve Gaignard

1981: Born in Orange, Massachusetts
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2007: BFA, Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2014: MFA, Photography, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024: "Thinking Out Loud," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "To Whom it May Concern," Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
: "Genevieve Gaignard: Strange Fruit," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Genevieve Gaignard, This is America: The Unsettling Contradictions in American Identity," Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2020: "A Long Way From Home," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (online)
: "A Long Way From Home," Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
: "Art in Focus: Genevieve Gaignard," Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
: "Bloom Projects: Genevieve Gaignard, Outside Looking In," Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2019: "I’m Sorry I Never Told You That You’re Beautiful," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "In Passing," The Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX
: "Black White and Red All Over," Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018: "Hidden Fences," Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
: "Counterfeit Currency," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2017: "Grassroots," Prospect.4, New Orleans, LA
: "In Passing," Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
: "The Powder Room," Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
2016: "Smell the Roses," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "Us Only," Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Golden State of Mind," Diane Rosenstein Presents at The Cabin LA, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "We The People," We The People South LA, Los Angeles, CA
: "Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2025: "America (Soy Yo!)," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Coming Into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
2024-2025: "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2024: "In an effort to be held," Library Street Collective, Los Angeles, CA
: "I’d Love To See You: Juxtapoz 30th anniversary show," Rusha & Co, Los Angeles, CA
: "Culture Diaries," Rele Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Collage Culture," Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
: "Stop & Stare," UTA Artist Space, Curated by Genevieve Gaignard, Los Angeles, CA
2023-2024: "Dueling Consciousness," Zidoun-Bossuyt, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
: "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage ," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (2024); The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2024)
2023: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Colliding Visions: Contemporary California Collage," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
: "Resting Our Eyes," Curated by Tahirah Rasheed and Autumn Breon, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
: "Our Lips Are Sealed," University Art Gallery CSU Dominguez Hills, Dominguez Hills, CA
: "It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Adorned," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
: "Continuum," SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA in partnership with Residency Art Gallery and The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
: "51 @ 51," Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
: "From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "Known & Understood," Benton Museum of Art Pomona College, Pomona, CA
: "This is Not America’s Flag," The Broad Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Salvation: A State of Being," Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY (Link)
2021-2022: "Our whole, unruly selves," San José Museum of Art, San José, CA (Link)
2021: The Armory Show, Two Person Presentation with Kennedy Yanko, New York, NY
2021-2022: "Family Album: Dannielle Bowman, Janna Ireland and Contemporary Works from LACMA," Charles White Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA
: "Assembly: New Acquisitions by Contemporary Black Artists," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2021: "Portraits," Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
: "Black American Portraits," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Altered States," Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
: "Facing Forward: Photographic Portraits from the Collection," The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
: "This is America," Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
: "Beyond the Looking Glass," UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
: "Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA", Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Set in Motion," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
: "Visions in Light: Windows on the Wallis," Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA
: "South East North West: New Works from the Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: For Freedoms 2020 Awakening Billboard, Gardner, ND
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Village Motel," Galerie Blanc, Montreal, Quebec
: "Good Trouble," Mint Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
: "Doro Olowu: Seeing Chicago," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: "F as in Frank," Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2019: "Vernacular Interior," Hales New York, NY
: "Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection," El Espacia 23, Miami, FL
: "The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today," Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
: "Presence," Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
: "To Reclaim," Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
: "Shifting Aesthetics: A Selection of 11 Contemporary L.A. Artists," Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
: "Still I Rise," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
: "Politically Private – The interplay of personal identity and public performance," Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
: "In This Imperfect Present Moment," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: "Quiet As Its Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities," Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
: "Lost and Found in America," Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL (Link)
2018-2019: "Parallels and Peripheries," ArtCenter South Florida, Miami, FL
: "Terres de femmes," Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Daegu Biennale," Daegu, South Korea
: "Personal Space," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK
: "Radically Ordinary: Scenes from Black Life in America Since 1968," Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
: "People Get Ready," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
: "Fun House," Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
: ‘Shaq Loves People," Curated by Shaquille O’Neal, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Talisman in the Age of Difference," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "In This Imperfect Present Moment," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: "Industry," dc3 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2017: "Fictions," Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
: "Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Comm | Alt | Shift," Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2016: "Other Spaces," dc3, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
: "Summer School," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2014: "13 Artists," Yale School of Art, Alternative Space, New Haven, CT
: "Deep End," Yale MFA Photography Thesis, Yale School of Art Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Deep End," Yale MFA Photography Thesis, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
: "Deep End," Yale MFA Photography Thesis, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The New New," Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Yale MFA Second-Year Student Exhibition," Yale School of Art Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Yale MFA First-Year Student Exhibition," Yale School of Art Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT

Bibliography

2024: Lee, Ashley and Jessica Gelt. "Grand Ave Arts: All Access and Genevieve Gaignard: The best of L.A. arts this weekend," The LA Times, October 18
: Shana Nys Dambrot and Hijinx Arts. "13ThingsLA: October 9: Arise, Fair Sun for your art calendar," 13 Things, October 8 (Link)
: Artnet News. "A New Show of Collage by African-American Artists Finds Multiplicity in Black Identity," Artnet News, July 4
2023: Tribune Staff. "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage September 15–December 31, 2023," Tennessee Tribune, September 19 (Link)
: Heath, Shaquille. "A Hit to the Head," Juxtapoz Magazine, September
: "Genevieve Gaignard’s Ecosystem of Collecting," Space on Space Magazine, August (Link)
: O’Leary, Erin. "It’s Time | Vielmetter Los Angeles," Photography, March 1
: Mousse Magazine Staff. "“It’s Time” at Vielmetter, Los Angeles," Mousse Magazine, February 18 (Link)
: Nys Dambrot, Shana. "A Pair of Exhibitions Renovate Portraiture and Perfection at Vielmetter Los Angeles," LA Weekly, February 9 (Link)
: Clayton, Dominique. "The Best Black Art Shows in Los Angeles Right Now," Cultured, January 30 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "The New ICA San Francisco Opens Its Doors With an Artist-Curated Show About Black Women and Freedom," artnet news, January 20 (Link)
: Heath, Shaquille. "Women at Rest," The Cut, Janurary 19 (Link)
2022: Murnane, Morgan & Bryant Lopez. "“To Whom It May Concern” Tackles Race and Identity Through Art," The Whit Online, September 21 (Link)
: Rattenbury, Jack. "This Touching Public Art Project In Downtown Atlanta Explores Race, Class & Gender," Secret Atlanta, August 25 (Link)
: Amadour, Ricky. "‘Continuum” Exhibition Bridges a Gap by Bringing Black American Art Into SoFi Stadium," LA Magazine, August 17 (Link)
: Staff, New Jersey Stage. "Genevieve Gaignard’s New Exhibition at Rowan University Art Gallery Confronts Racial and Gender Stereotypes," New Jersey Stage, August 5
: Clayton, Dominique. "The Broad Hosts Its First Opening Reception Since the Pandemic Began," Cultured, May 24 (Link)
: Becker, Stephanie. "’This is Not America’s Flag:’ Artworks challenge what it means to be from the United States," CNN Style, June 2 (Link)
: Lawrence, Gabrielle. "Mixed Feelings for Strange Fruit: Genevieve Gaignard at Vielmetter Los Angeles," Variable West, May 3 (Link)
: Carroll, Angela N. "Genevieve Gaignard: Strange Fruit at Vielmetter Los Angeles By Angela N Carroll Editor at Large," Sugarcane Magazine, April 22 (Link)
: Schulz, Madeleine. "Genevieve Gaignard| ‘Strange Fruit At Vielmetter LA," Flaunt, April18 (Link)
: Fields, Kara. "5 Captivating Art Exhibits to Visit This April," Austin Monthly, April 15 (Link)
: Desalegn, April-Rose. "Exhibition Review: Genevieve Gaignard: Strange Fruit," Musée Magazine, April 12 (Link)
: Herndon, Jessica. "Genevieve Gaignard’s Strange Fruit Means to Spark Tough Conversations About Race," W Magazine, April 1 (Link)
: Guilford, Lauren. "Genevieve Gaignard, Vielmetter Los Angeles," Artillery, March 30 (Link)
: Liou, Caroline Ellen. "Your Concise Los Angeles Guide for April 2022," Hyperallergic, March 29 (Link)
: Feaster, Felicia. "Seduction and searing truth make a headswimming visual brew," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 15 (Link)
: van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. "Blanton Museum’s ‘Assembly’ spotlights new acquisitions by Black artists," Sight Lines Magazine, February 12 (Link)
: McCann, Adron. "Genevieve Gaignard’s new exhibit ‘This is America’ on view at Atlanta Contemporary," WABE, February 10 (Link)
2021: Duron, Maximiliano. "The 10 Best Booths at New York’s Armory Show: Stunning Sculptures, Under-Recognized Pioneers, and ‘Mindscapes’," Artnews, Sept 10 (Link)
: In Collaboration with Jo Malone London, Frieze Magazine. "Dr. V. Joy Simmons’ Los Angeles is ‘a place of possibility’," Frieze, July 23 (Link)
: Pandolfi, Naomi. "UTA Artist Space Crushes Social Constructs of Femininity With Beyond the Looking Glass," The Knockturnal, June 29 (Link)
: Staff, Cultured Magazine. "Los Angeles Art Today Is Dexterous, Incisive and Unafraid," Cultured Magazine, July 2 (Link)
: Fazzare, Elizabeth. "Cultured Collections with Suzanne McFayden," Culture Magazine, June 11 (Link)
: Rabinowitz, Chloe. "UTA Artist Space Presents BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS," Broadway World, June 7 (Link)
: Okoro, Enuma. "Actor and Entrepereneur Taraji P. Henson Makes Mental Health a Priority," Cultured Magazine, February 12
: "Slow Down the Mega-Galleries, Empower Black Collectors, and 13 Other Changes Art-World Insiders Hope to See in 2021," ArtNet News, January 21
: Hernandez, Jasmin. "We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World," Abrams, 2021
2020: Nauphal, Lana. "Exhibition Review: Genevieve Gaignard’s ‘A Long Way From Home’," Musée Magazine, December 2
: Brara, Noor. "What I Buy and Why: Collector Joy Simmons on Where She Hunts for Exciting New Art and What It Has in Common With Radiology," ArtNet News, October 26
: Valentine, Victoria. "Online: 5 Gallery Exhibitions Focus on Artists Amy Sherald, Charles Gaines, Genevieve Gaignard, Edgar Arceneaux, and The Racial Imaginary Institute," Culture Type, October 30
: Clayton, Dominique. "Genevieve Gaignard’s Timely Work Documents Racial Injustice and Calls for Change," Artsy, October 13
: Fontaine, Pearl. "Genevieve Gaignard Showcases Intersectionality at Rockefeller Center," Whitewall, September 10
: Donelan, Charles. "Outside Looking In’ Exhibition Inspires Broad Range of Emotional Responses," Santa Barbara Independent, July 6
: Herndon, Jessica. "’We’re Not Going Anywhere’: Genevieve Gaignard and Her Art Are Ready for This and Every Moment," Vanity Fair, June 17 (Link)
: Easter, Makeda. "Artist gets right to the point with Frieze Los Angeles: Sell to black collectors," Los Angeles Times, February 14
: Sutton, Benjamin. "10 Best Booths at Frieze Los Angeles," artsy, February 14
: Owens, Krystal. "There is Something About Genevieve. Artist Spotlight: Genevieve Gaignard," Eleven Magazine, March (Link)
: Harden, Essence. "How Arthur Lewis Built a Dynamic Collection of Black Art," Artsy, March 16 (Link)
: Fong, Jenelle. "Art Style: What Frieze Los Angeles’s Most Fashionable Fairgoers Wear to Buy, Sell, and Admire Art," artnet, February 14 (Link)
: Herriman, Kat. "Highlights from Frieze Week Los Angeles," Cultured, February 14 (Link)
: Douglas, Sarah. "Kendall Jenner, Ari Emanuel Scoop Up Artworks at Energetic Frieze Los Angeles," ArtNews, February 14 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "4 Breakout Artists From the Los Angeles Art Fairs Who Collectors Would Be Wise to Watch in the Months Ahead," artnet, February 14 (Link)
: Reizman, Renée. "This Year, Frieze Los Angeles Feels Grand, Celebratory, and Actually Kind of Fun," Hyperallergic, February 14 (Link)
: Cion, Nick. "Inside the Second Frieze Los Angeles," Vanity Fair, February 15 (Link)
: Fong, Jennelle. "Art Style: What Frieze Los Angeles’s Most Fashionable Fairgoers Wear to Buy, Sell, and Admire Art," artnet, February 14 (Link)
: Finkel, Jori. "When a Mentor Said Tear Down Your Collection and Start Over, They Did," New York Times, February 12 (Link)
: Kim, Nic Cha. "UTA Artist Space Creative Director Has Personal Collection Fit for a Museum," Spectrum News, February 11 (Link)
2019: Bernabe, Danielle. "Soho House’s New Downtown L.A. Warehouse Does It All: From Hotel to Coworking Space to Dinner and Drinks," Fortune, November 24 (Link)
: Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Best of L.A. Arts: Artist Genevieve Gaignard," LA Weekly, August 16
: Cap, Max King, "Genevieve Gaignard," Artillery, September/October
: Fritz, Anita. "Artist confronts way people judge others," Greenfield Recorder, September 30 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "On View: ‘Genevieve Gaignard: I’m Sorry I Never Told You That You’re Beautiful’ at Vielmetter Los Angeles," CultureType, August 11 (Link)
: Sun, Emily, "Reimagining Home, From the Mundane to Mythic," Hyperallergic, July 19
: Zeiba, Drew. "Vernacular Interior at Hales New York," Artforum, July (Link)
: Gabardi, Vittoria Filippi. "La sindrome del mai abbastanza," Vogue Italia, June
: Vickery, Morgan. "Q&A | Genevieve Gaignard," Flaunt, May 2 (Link)
: Dunson, Danny, "Genevieve Gaignard: Black White and Red All Over," ArtX, May 21
: Yu, Ashley, "Black White and Red All Over: Genevieve Gaignard," Musée Magazine, April 24
: Votang, Thao, "Identity Construct: Genevieve Gaignard’s Alter Egos Make The Personal Political," Sightlines Magazine, April 13
: Keener, Katherine, "Genevieve Gaignard Features New Works in Black White and Red All Over," Art Critique, April 5
: Malley, Clara. "Genevieve Gaignard removes our rose-colored glasses for white Americana," Document, April 5 (Link)
: Reichert, Elliot, "Art Top 5: April 2019," New City, April 2
: Weber, Jasmine, "The Independent Art Fair Embraces Color and Abstraction," Hyperallergic, March 8
: Indrisek, Scott, "From Contemporary Surrealism to Queer Photography, 6 Highlights of the Independent," Garage, March 7
: Dafoe, Taylor. "Best Buys: Eight Artists at Independent to Collect for Under $15,000 (If You’re Lucky and Move Fast)," Artnet, March 7 (Link)
: Lesser, Casey and Cohen Alina, "The 20 Best Booths at The Armory Show 2019," Artsy, March 7
: Simon, Mathilde, "La Vénus Américaine Multifacette," Ubek & Rica, March 1
: Finkel, Jori. "Inside the Dramatic Makeover of LA’s Thriving Art World," W, February 11 (Link)
: Miranda, Cynthia. "Artist Genevieve Gaignard wants her art to speak to different identities," The Daily Texan, January 30 (Link)
: Durón, Maximilíano and Alex Greenberger. "15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch," ARTnews, January 9 (Link)
: Harmon, Erica. "Stepping Into Personal Space," C Magazine, January
2018: Woolridge, Jane, "Art Basel Week Action Goes Beyond Fairs. You’ll Want These Happenings On Your List," Miami Herald, December 1 (Link)
: Banks, Emma, "This Art Basel Show is Challenging Mainstream and Marginalized Dynamics," Milk.xyz, December 6 (Link)
: Cohen, Alina, "The 15 Best Booths at Art Basel in Miami Beach," Artsy, December 6 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria, "Beyond Basel: Where to See, Buy, and Experience African and African American Art During Miami Art Week 2018," Culture Type, December 8 (Link)
: Lavelle, Ciara, "Art Basel and Miami Art Week 2018 Winners and Losers," Miami New Times, December 10 (Link)
: Morais, Pedro, "Feminism and Art, The New Voice," Le Quotidien de l’art, December 14
: Idarraga, Jessica. "FREE! Art Fair Starring Genevieve Gaignard," Cultured, December 4 (Link)
: Greenberger, Alex. "The Browser: Jack Smith, Genevieve Gaignard, and Eckhaus Latta’s Notes on Performance," Artnews, September 12 (Link)
: "9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week," ArtNews, September 17 (Link)
: Drew, Kimberly. "Tina Knowles Lawson on Her Black Art Collection, Beyoncé, Solange, and Creativity," Vanity Fair, August 6 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "There are Enough Damsels in Distress: Artist Genevieve Gaignard Wants to Undermine Your Assumptions About Beauty and Blackness," Artnet, August 3 (Link)
: Morgan, Maybelle. "Genevieve Gaignard: Meet the Artist Exploring Race, Gender, and Identity Through Her Collages," Wonderland Magazine, July 25 (Link)
: Ryder, Katie. "An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines," The New Yorker, July 17 (Link)
: Shepherd, Harriet. "The Bi-Racial Artist Using White-Passing Characters to Talk About Blackness," Sleek Magazine, June 7 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "Editors’ Picks: 16 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week," Artnet, June 4 (Link)
: Eckardt, Stephanie. "The 7 Photographers Proving That the Self-Portrait Is 2018’s Most Exciting Genre," W Magazine, April 6 (Link)
: "‘Hidden Fences’ by Genevieve Gaignard at Praz-Delavallade Paris," BlouinArt Info, March 22 (Link)
: Dayal, Mira. “Fictions” at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artforum, March 1
: Shaw, Cameron. "Take a Closer Look: An Interview with Genevieve Gaignard," Pelican Bomb, March 1 (Link)
: Benoit, Guillaume. "Genevieve Gaignard at Praz-Delavallade," Slash Magazine, March (Link)
: Reynolds, Pamela. "In Forms & Alterations, Artists Use Fashion to Unravel Gender Politics and Identity," The Artery, February 1 (Link)
: Female Artist Who Has Made 2017 “Her” Year, The Art Gorgeous, January 30 (Link)
: Gottesman, Sarah, "6 Art-Historical Poses You Should Know," Artsy, January 1 (Link)
2017: Eler, Alicia. "An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America," Hyperallergic, January 9 (Link)
: Scout, Sabo. "How One Artist Explores Biracial Identity Through Elaborate Self-Portraits," Interview Magazine, December 11 (Link)
: Shang, Danielle. "Collectors of Color on the Importance of Supporting Under-Recognized Artists," Hyperallergic, November 28 (Link)
: Zhong, Fan. "The 4th Prospect New Orleans Triennial Is Full of Black Art, But Does It Make Enough Noise?," W Magazine, November 24 (Link)
: Loos, Ted. "In Prospect New Orleans, A Curator Guides 73 Artists Toward Higher Ground," The New York Times, November 23 (Link)
: Indrisek, Scott. "Prospect. 4 Brings Big Names to New Orleans – But Doesn’t Take Enough Risks," Artsy, November 20 (Link)
: Gotthardt, Alexxa. "With Costumes and Camp, Genevieve Gaignard Is Telling New Stories about Race and Beauty," Artsy, October 6 (Link)
: Myong, Elizabeth. "This Photo Exhibit Asks: Who is Genevieve Gaignard?," Houstonia, October 16 (Link)
: Pasori, Cedar. "At EXPO CHICAGO, Not-for-Profits Make the Running," VICE, October 2 (Link)
: Hernandez, Jasmine. "Playing Dress-Up, Playing With Racial Perceptions," Lenny Letter, September 26
: Louie Sussman, Anna. "What Sold at EXPO Chicago," Arsty, September 17 (Link)
: West, Allyn. Self-Portraits in the Age of Selfies, Houston Chronicle, September 7
: Delaney, Lashea. "Contemporary Black Artists Are Redefining Portraiture in a Show at CAAM," LA Weekly, July 21 (Link)
: "Feminist Artists," Harper’s Bazaar Japan, June
: Slenske, Michael. Take Me to Church, CULTURED Magazine, April
: Sargent, Antwaun. "These Complex Self-Portraits Will Challenge Your Assumptions About Race," Creators Project, May 4 (Link)
: Choi, Mary H.K., "Genevieve Gaignard," VICE News Tonight, April
: Ollman, Leah. "Genevieve Gaignard turns the self-portrait into a mirror of culture yet again," LA Times, March 15 (Link)
: Anderson, Alex. Capturing the Present and Showing Us the Future, The Art Gorgeous, March
: Ongley, Hannah. "Artist Genevieve Gaignard Shatters Biracial Stereotypes," i-D Magazine, January 18 (Link)
: Stevens, Anise. "Genevieve Gaignard," Artillery, January 10 (Link)
2016: Alessi, Andrea. "2016’s Best Artist Interviews," Artslant, December 14 (Link)
: "17 Emerging Artists to Watch in 2017," Artsy, December 13 (Link)
: Davis, Ashlyn. "Rule Breakers: Genevieve Gaignard," Don’t Take Pictures, November 21 (Link)
: Frank, Priscilla and Brooks, Katherine. "What It Means to be an Artist in the Time of Trump," The Huffington Post, November 17 (Link)
: Recinos, Eva. "How Biracial Photographer Genevieve Gaignard is Raging Against Invisibility," LA Weekly, October 11 (Link)
: Anderson, Alex. "Genevieve Gaignard: “You’re Not That, But You’re Not Not That”, Artslant, September 29 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Where My Girls At?: 28+ Opportunities to See and Support the Work of Black Female Artists and Curators This Fall," Culture Type, September 29 (Link)
: Coughlin, Sara. 9 Self-Portraits Challenge Mainstream Perceptions of Beauty & Race, Refinery29, May 26
: Genevieve Gaignard, The Art Gorgeous, April 12
: "5 Questions, 15 Photos: What Makes Genevieve Gaignard Shoot Herself?," The Kindland, April 5 (Link)
: Indrisek, Scott. "Need To Know: Genevieve Gaignard’s Colorblind Character Studies," Out Magazine, March 22 (Link)
: Fortini, Amanda. An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror, The New York Times, January 6 (Link)
: Frank, Priscilla. "Artist Explodes Racial Stereotypes in Shape-Shifting Photographs," The Huffington Post, October 20 (Link)
: "9 Top Art Influencers," Modern Luxury Magazine, November 23
: Vankin, Deborah. "Genevieve Gaignard Tackles Race, Class, and Identity at the California African American Museum," Los Angeles Times, November 17 (Link)
: Slenske, Michael. "After a family death, Genevieve Gaignard escapes with a colourful cast of alter egos," Wallpaper*, October 24 (Link)
2015: Err, Alicia. Genevieve Gaignard: Us Only, Crave Online, November 26
: "This Artist Is Taking a Fresh Look at Femininity Through Drag," Broadly, November (Link)
: Nimptsch, Emily. "I Just Got Mad Seeing the Machines Ripping Up the Woods," Flaunt Magazine, May 9 (Link)
: Knight, Christopher. "Around the Galleries," Los Angeles Times, January 17 (Link)
2014: Deep End: Yale MFA, Artsy Magazine, August
: Out of the Box (The Yale Project), New York Magazine, May 19
: Barnes, Alexis. Yale University is Having Its First All Black Art Show, VICE, April 17 (Link)

Catalogues

2024: Tommasino, Akili. "Look Inside Flight into Egypt Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now," Yale University Press and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2021: Bell, Phillips, and Anna Lena. "Ecotone," University of North Carolina Whilmington, Whilmington, NC
: Moger, Kate & Thorsten Albertz. THIS IS AMERICA, Exhibition catalogue, Kunstraum Potsdam, Published by DISTANZ Verlag, Albertz Benda, pp 13; 40-41; 93.

Residencies & Studio Programs

2023: "The Lunder Institute for American Art," Colby College, Waterville, ME
2020: "MCLA Artist Lab Residency," North Adams, MA
2019: "Fountainhead," Miami, FL

Public Collections

: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
: California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
: The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
: Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
: OZ Art NWA, Bentonville, AR
: Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
: Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art
: Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA
: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Evan Trine

1988: Lives and works in Long Beach, CA

2013: BFA, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA
2015: MFA, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Spotlight – Evan Tine: Ketchup & Mustard," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Niña, Pinta, Santa Maria," Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Real/Not Real Sunday," S Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017: "New Photographic Portraits," Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
2016: "Trending," Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
: "aaeegnrrr," Keller Gallery, Point Loma University, San Diego, CA
2015: "Belly," Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
: "ULTRA," Robert Bullock Gallery, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA
: "Everything in its Right Place," Heritage Gallery, Azusa Pacific University, Claremont, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024: "SUPERBLOOM," The Pit, Palm Springs, CA
: "Color Fields," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2020: "Magic," Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Aggregate as Self," Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
: "Formless and Fragile," soft.core., Los Angeles, CA
: "One Way Or Another," Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Vantage," Finishing Concepts, Los Angeles, CA
2017: "ARTBandini Los Angeles," Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
2016: "Artificial Realities," Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2015: MFA Graduate Exhibition, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
: "Photo Shop," curated by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
: "Party," Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
: "GLAMFA," California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
: MFA Biennial, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
2014: "Electron Salon," Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Show Number One," Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
: "Depends on Content," Gallery P Three, Pomona, CA

Bibliography

2026: "Evan Trine: Ketchup & Mustard," All About Photo.com, July 11 (Link)
2019: Family Pictures USA. "Photo Day Series," Family Picture USA, September 5
2017: Staff, Meer. "Evan Trine," Meer Art, June 23
2016: Zellen, Jody. "Roberts & Tilton: Evan Trine," artillery, March 10
: Zevitas, Steven. "16 (+2) Artists to Watch in 2016," Huffington Post, February 16

Edgar Arceneaux

1972: Born in Los Angeles, CA
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2001: MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2000: Fachhochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany
1996: BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "We Are Gods," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "Edgar Arceneaux," A Joyner/Giuffrida Visiting Artist Program, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "Edgar Arceneaux: Viewing Room," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "Until Until, Until…" Performance, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Boney Manilli" Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2022: "Skinning The Mirror," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: Sneak Peek of Boney Manilli Performance, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Skinning The Mirror," Greenhouse, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Edgar Arceneaux: Until, Until, Until… The Presidential Bookend Series," (online), Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "Edgar Arceneaux," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2018: "Library of Black Lies," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017: “Until, Until, Until…,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Edgar Arceneaux," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Link)
: “Library of Black Lies,” The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016: “Cockeyed Eddie,” Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris, France
: “Written in Smoke and Fire,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (Link)
2015: "Until, Until, Until…" Performa 15, New York NY
: Papillion Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014: "A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012: "Building Loving and Distrustful Relationships", Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
2011: Hopelessness Freezes Time 1967 Detroit Riots, Detroit Techno and Michael Heizer’s Dragged Mass Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
: "Blind Pig City," Praz-Delavallade , Paris, France
: "Miracles and Jokes, Circle Disk Rotation and 22 Lost Signs of the Zodiac," The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
2010: "The Algorithm Doesn’t Love You", an ongoing series, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009: "Disfigurement in the Face of Illusion: The Detroit Riots, Michael Heizer and Drexciya, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
: Albion Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008: "Correlations and Isomorphisms," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "The Agitation of Expansion," Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
2007: "Jesus and Dinosaurs," PrazDelavallade, Paris, France
: "The Agitation of Expansion," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2006: "Alchemy of ComedyStupid," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
: Snake River, REDCAT, Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria, curated by Clara Kim and Stella Rollig, Collaboration with Charles Gaines and the LA Philharmonic
: "Alchemy of ComedyStupid", Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, collaboration with David Allan Grier
: Edgar Arceneaux- New Work, – Alchemy of Comedy,Stupid, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
: "An Arrangement without Tormentors," Lentos Kunstmuseum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, curated by Stella Rollig
2005: "Borrowed Sun," The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Debra Singer
: "Borrowed Sun," San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA,curated by Jill Dawsey
: Adamski Gallery of Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
: ArtBasel Miami Beach, Project Booth, presented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2004: "Borrowed Sun," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Negative Capability. The Michael Jackson Project," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
: "An Arrangement Without Tormentors," Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2003: "Drawings of Removal," Project Space, UCLA Hammer Museum, Santa Monica, CA
: "Library as Cosmos," Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
: "Library as Chaos," Frehrking Wiesehoefer, Cologne, Germany
: "107th Street, Watts," Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany
2002: "Rootlessness," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Drawings of Removal," Studio Museum Harlem, NY
: "The Trivium," Gallery Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2001: "The Trivium," Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, curated by Rebecca McGrew
1999: The Project, New York, NY
1998: "The Remnants Project," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Mindset Los Angeles – Frank Gehry, the Cool School and the Followers," Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
: "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Material Abstractions," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: "Weather Stress Index," The Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
: "Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "A Wing and a Prayer," The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL
: "Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
: "In Memory," Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
: "RETROaction," Curated by Kate Fowle in collaboration with Homi K Bhabha, Charles Gaines, and Ellen Tani, Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
: "Re-Iterative II," curated by John David O’Brien, Terminal 5, LAX Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2023-2024: "Small World," The 13th Taipei Biennial, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2023: "Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner – Spirit Movers," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Exercises in Imagination," National Academy of Design, New York, NY
: "The Collection," Haubrok Foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany
2022: "Boil, Toil & Trouble," Curated by Zoe Lukov, West Palm Beach, FL
2022-2023: "A Gateway to Possible Worlds. Art + Science Fiction," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (Traveling Exhibition) (Link)
2022: "Enter the Mirror," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (Link)
2021: "Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
: "ALI to LA," Transformative Arts, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: COLA Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles CA (Link)
: "Pushing the Margins: A Survey of LA Artists," curated by Charles Gaines, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
: "Land Art: Past, Present, Futures ," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "A New Iconography: Artists Raising Children," The Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "The Biblical Imagination," Mission Gathering, Pasadena, CA
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "An Earth Song, A Body Song: Figures with Landscape from the OCMA Permanent Collection," Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
: "Countermythologies," NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
: "In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "NINETY / THREEHUNDRED," ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019: "Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "26 on 3rd," LBMAx, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
: “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press,” Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2017: “Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: “Performa: Commissions from Performa’s Archives,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (Link)
: “Starless Midnight,” Baltic Mill, Newcastle, UK
: “Unsettled,” curated by JoAnne Northup, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV; travelling to Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA (2018)
: “As a text differs from a book, an image differs from an archive,” MAK Center, Mackey Garage Top, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Chapters,” Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City 1967 – 2017,” curated by Kelly Shindler, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
: “20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2016: “Wasteland,” curated by Shamim M. Momin, Paris Pantin (Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris France), Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris, France
: “Current: LA Water,” Public Art Biennial of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: “LA Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "SiteLab8," collaboration with Wangechi Mutu, SITE Santa Fe, NM
: "After Living in the Room of Ralits Nouvelles," Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Misappropriations: Recent Acquisitions," curated by Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
: "Russian Doll," M+B, Los Angeles, CA
: "Daily Memories," Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
: “Until, Until, Until,” special commission for Performa 15, New York, NY
2014: 2014 Le Biennale de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
: Shanghai Bienniale, Shanghai, China
: "Recurrence," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
: "Word Bites Picture," Design Matters Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Thousand of Him Scattered: Relative Newcomers in Diaspora," Scotlands Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (Link)
2013: "The Shadows Took Shape," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "The Zero Hours," Art Sheffield 2013, Sheffield, England
: "The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future" Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
: "bald eagle," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany (Link)
: "You Should’ve Heard Just What I Seen: Selections from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," Riverview School, Cape Cod, MA
: "The Armory Show and Tell," The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland covered with rubbish heaps," Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
: "Hook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Etched in Collective History," Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
: "Approximately Infinite Universe," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2012: "my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
: "Pairings, The Collection at 50," The Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
: "Mutatis Mutandis," Secession, Vienna, Austria
: "Marking Time", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2011: Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
: "The Bearden Project", The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: "Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
2010: Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Moving Images. Artists & Video/Film," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
: Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
: "Huckleberry Finn," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (Link)
2009: "California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Installations Inside/Out 20th Anniversary Exhibition," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
: "30 Seconds Off an Inch," curated by Naomi Beckwith, The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: "MONITAUR", Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
: "PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones," curated by Mark Beasley, Public Art Quadrennial, presented by Creative Time, Governors Island, NY
: "Wallworks," curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Code Share: 5 continents, 10 biennales, 20 artists," curated by Simon Rees, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
: "Collection in Context: Four Decades," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2008: "California Biennial 2008," curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Whitney Biennial 2008," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Black Is, Black Aint," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: "From and Bout Place: Art from Los Angeles," curated by Alma Ruiz, Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel
: "The Lining of Forgetting," curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; The Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas (May 30–August 23, 2009)
2007: "Sculptors Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
: "Touched: Artists and Social Engagement," curated by Noel Korten, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
: "Philosophy of Time Travel," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, collaboration with Rodney McMillian, Olga Koumandouros, Vincent Johnson, Matthew Sloly
: "USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium," curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
: "southwestNET: drawing outside the lines," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2006: "Materialization of Sensibility: Art and Alchemy," curated by Klaus Ottman, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
: "Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art," curated by Maria Brewińska, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
: "Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures," Museum of Modern Art, New York
: "Symmetry," curated by Kimberly Meyer, and Nizan Shaked, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
2005-2008: "Uncertain States of America," curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Gunnar Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
: Bard Museum Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
: Herning Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
: Le Muse de Srignan, Srignan, France
: Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2005: "Cut," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Imaginary Number," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
: "Mixed Doubles," Forum Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art
: "Displaced," curated by Kathrin Becker, KnstlerInnen, Berlin, Germany
: "The Need to Document," Halle fr Kunst e.V., Lneburg, Germany
: "Monuments for the USA," curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," curated by Valerie Cassel, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2004: "Art and the Afterall Effect," PlaySpace, California College of the Arts Graduate Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Quicksand," de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: "Upside Down: Neueingerichtete Raeume zur Gegenwart," Ludwigforum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
: "Remembering", Sweeny Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, curated by Charles Gaines
: "The Michael Jackson Project", Collaboration with Rodney McMillian, Inaugural Exhibition
: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Fade – African American Artists in Los Angeles – A Survey Exhibition," curated by Malik Gaines, Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles
2003: "Korrekturen," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
: "The Summer of 2003," Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: "True Stories," Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, curated by Catherine David and Jean Perre Rehm, in the context of the International Film Festval Rotterdam, Netherlands
: "Social Strategies: Redfining Social Realism," curated by Pamela Achincloss, University Art Museum Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
: DePaul University Art Museum, Greencastle, IN
: Illinois State University, Normal, IL
: Skidmore College, Schick Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
: The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
: "The Fifth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection", traveling exhibition to: Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA; Soo Visual Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Art Center, South Florida, Miami, FL; Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; The New Museum, New York, NY
: "Urban Aesthetics: California Artists 2003", The African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002: "Lateral Thinking", San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
: "Persoenliche Plaene," curated by Christina Vegh, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Germany
: "Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture", curated by Franklin Sirmans, Gallery 101, Ottawa; Montreal Arts Intercultires, Montreal; The Kyber Center for the Arts, Halifax; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville
: "Prophets of Boom," Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Baden Baden, Germany
: "Unjustified," curated by Kerry James Marshall, Apex Art, New York, NY
2001-2002: "One Planet Under a Groove," curated by Franklin Sirmans and Lydia Yee, Bronx Museum, New York, NY; traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2001: "Profiler," curated by Astrid Mania and Peter Robinson, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
: "Prosthetics, Camouflage & War," Adamski Frehrking Wiesehoefer Gallery, Koln, Germany
: "Superman in Bed," curated by Wilhelm Schurmann, Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmunt, Germany
: "Rappers Delight," curated by Arnold Kemp, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000: "<hers> Video as Female Terrain," curated by Stella Rollig, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
: "Sitegeist," curated by Edgar Arceneaux and Dwayne Moser, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
: "Pierogi Flat Files #148," curated by Susan Joyce, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Veni, Vidi, Video," Kunstfaktor, Berlin, Germany.
1999: "Paradise 8," Exit Art, New York, NY
: "Spaceship Earth," curated by Katherine Ruello, Art in General, New York, NY
: "Permanent Collection of 1999," San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
: "I, Me, Mine," curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998: "Warming," The Project, New York, NY
: "Triangle of Nice, Book of Lies, Vol.II," Los Angeles and Fullerton, CA.
: "Round 9," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
1997: "1997 Annuale," curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
: "Uncommon Sense," The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Kwangju Biannale, Kwanju, Korea
: "Fantasy, Desire and Memory," Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA.
1996: "9 Hours at Bliss," curated by Laura CooperBliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA
: "Open House," Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Video Screenings

2017: “Until, Until, Until…,” lax, Berlin, Germany
2015: Frame Rate: Edgar Arceneaux, Screening of A Time to Break Silence, LAND, Los Angeles, February 28
2012: Screening of Edgar Arceneaux and Kurt Formans collaborative filmic mash-up project Hulk Alter You!, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT, July 26

Bibliography

2026: Laster, Paul. "8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in June," Galerie Magazine, June 2 (Link)
: Lee, Samantha. "Where to go and what to wear in June: The Art Parade, Frama at Canyon Coffee, the latest Givenchy bag," The LA Times, Drip Index, May 28 (Link)
: Tinworks Art. "Get to know artist Edgar Arceneaux in Chisel & Razor at Tinworks Art," Bozeman Daily Chronical, May 21 (Link)
: Schmidt, Grayson. "Altadena mural holds special place for two generations of Trojans," USC Today, May 2 (Link)
2025: LA Times Staff. "This momentous LACMA exhibition called for a group portrait — to the tune of Roberta Flack," The LA Times, April 11 (Link)
: Rabb, Maxwell. "The 10 Best Booths at Frieze Los Angeles 2025," Artsy, February 21
: Cheng, Scarlet and Benjamin Sutton. "Los Angeles museum triumvirate makes Frieze purchases," The Art Newspaper, February 21 (Link)
: Frieze Staff. "Hammer, LACMA, MOCA Acquire Edgar Arceneaux and Shaniqwa Jarvis at Frieze Los Angeles," Frieze, February 20
2024: Elisa Adami. "Afterall," Issue 58: Geo- Imaginaries of Technology, Autumn-Winter 2024
: McKie, Karin. "Review: Racism Remembered as Edgar Arceneaux Revisits Ben Vereen’s Performance for Reagan’s 1981 Inauguration," Third Coast Review, October 27 (Link)
: Jones, Chris. "Review: Edgar Arceneaux’s “Until, Until, Until …” on the MCA Stage imagines a bleak night for Ben Vereen," Chicago Tribune, October 18 (Link)
: Burns, Tristan. "His Side of the Story: Edgar Arceneaux’s “Until, Until, Until…” Tells It," NewCityStage, October 11 (Link)
: Regan, Sheila. "Making art from place: Edgar Arceneaux in Minneapolis," MinnPost, September 26
2023: Wang, Lex. "Q&A: Edgar Arceneaux reveals caregiving, storytelling themes of play ‘Boney Manilli’," Daily Bruin, October 5 (Link)
: Vacheron, Joël. "The Wave of the Black Atlantic," Acid Magazine No. 5, pp. 227
2022: Smith, Melissa. "For Some American Artists, Recognition by Mainstream Art Institutions Is a Means to an End: Building Their Own Alternatives," artnet, December 23 (Link)
: "Church for Sale Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection," Exhibition Catalogue, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2021: Almino, Elisa Wouk and Matt Stromberg. "Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for August 2021," Hyperallergic, August 10
: Gregg, R., and Villarejo, A. "The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema," Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
: Buchman, Dr. Lorne. "Creative Uncertainty: How We Make to Know," Thames & Hudson, London, UK
2020: Valentine, Victoria. "Online: 5 Gallery Exhibitions Focus on Artists Amy Sherald, Charles Gaines, Genevieve Gaignard, Edgar Arceneaux, and The Racial Imaginary Institute," Culture Type, October 30
: Goldstein, Caroline. "‘I Was Brought to Tears’: Watch Artist Edgar Arceneaux Reinterpret a Tragically Misunderstood 1980s Performance," ArtNet News, July 9 (Link)
: Easton, Makeda. "Black graduates make up just 1% of ArtCenter alumni. Can an exhibition fix that?" Los Angeles Times, March 2 (Link)
2019: Obioha, Vanessa. "Review: ‘Boney Manilli’ Finds an Inquisitive Audience in Lagos," This Day, May 17 (Link)
: Bleiberg, Laura. "‘Artist in residence’: How one phrase is powering L.A.’s cultural explosion," Los Angeles Times, April 25 (Link)
: Gelt, Jessica. "Mike Kelley Foundation grants: 10 winners split $400,000 to make daring art," Los Angeles Times, April 11 (Link)
2018: Paul, Crystal. "Edgar Arceneaux’s labyrinthine ‘Library of Black Lies’ invites endless interpretation," Seattle Times, December 19 (Link)
: Castro, Alexander. "Performance revisits an infamous TV moment for Ben Vereen," Providence Journal, November 28 (Link)
: Borchert, Gavin. "Henry Art Gallery’s New Senior Curator on the Role of Art in Challenging Times," Seattle Magazine, November (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah, "Editors’ Picks, Print Week Edition: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week," artnet news, October 22 (Link)
: "150+ Artists and Billboard Locations Announced As Part of The Largest Public Art Project in U.S. History," ArtFix Daily, October 19 (Link)
: Clendenen, Dustin. "Update: For Freedoms Arrives in L.A. Ahead of Nov. 6 Midterm Election," LA Weekly, October 23 (Link)
: Cooper, Matt. "The week ahead in SoCal theater, Oct. 14-21: ‘Winter Solstice,’ ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and more," LA Times, October 12 (Link)
: "Los Angeles Performance Practice Presents the LAX Festival," Broadway World, October 4 (Link)
: Fernandez, Jacqueline. "5 theatre performances, from life at a cutthroat New York magazine to a Pulitzer Prize-winning play," The Eastsider, October 19 (Link)
: "Brown Arts Initiative Announces Fall 2018 Programming Highlights Presented at Brown University," ArtFix Daily, September 11 (Link)
: Almino, Elisa Wouk. "Ten Days of Local Performance Art Throughout Downtown LA," Hyperallergic, October 10 (Link)
: "Sept. 22: CalArts Alum Presents Financial Workshop at Broad Museum," SVC News (web), September 20 (Link)
: Stromberg, Matt, "A Workshop for Artists to Mindfully Manage Their Finances," Hyperallergic (web), September 19 (Link)
: Wilson, Emily, “Blackface betrayal and ‘Black Lies’ in Edgar Arceneaux’s new YBCA installation,” 48hills (web), March 15 (Link)
: Ahn, Abe, “The Politics and Repercussions of Color in Two Exhibitions,” Hyperallergic (web), March 13 (Link)
: Janiak, Lily, "YBCA’s ‘Until’ unearths racist nightmare, immerses you in it," San Francisco Chronicle, February 24 (Link)
: Fancher, Lou, "A show about a controversial Ben Vereen incident gains new controversy," The Mercury News (web), February 21 (Link)
: Yu, Brandon, "Drama re-creates Ben Vereen’s controversial blackface performance," San Francisco Chronicle, February 14 (Link)
: Musiker, Cy, "What Viewers Didn’t See Changed Everything for Ben Vereen," KQED Arts (web), February 14 (Link)
: Edalatpour, Jeffrey, "TBCA Takes on the History of Blackface, in Until, Until, Until…," SF Weekly (web), January 24 (Link)
2017: Krieger, Deborah, “At OCMA, It’s A Masterful Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection,” White Hot Magazine, December (Link)
: Vogel, Wendy, “Post-Truth Detroit,” frieze (web), November 8 (Link)
: MacDonald, Cara ,”Artist Unveils MLK-Inspired Sculpture at U Law School,” The Daily Utah Chronicle (web), October 25
: Horst, Aaron, "Edgar Arceneaux Until, Until, Until…," Art Review, September
: Tylevich, Katya, “Reconsidering Ben Vereen’s Blackface Performance at Regan’s Inaugural Gala,” KCET (web), July 31
: Walters, Sydney, “Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Art and Cake (web), June 28 (Link)
: Black, Ezrha Jean, “Edgar ARceneaux – Until, Until, Until…,” Artillery (web), June 22 (Link)
: Mizota, Sharon, “Review: Ben Vereen, Ronald Reagan and the travesty of blackface, potently remembered,” Los Angeles Times, June 16 (Link)
: Shifflett, Jonathan, “An experimental play reinterprets Ben Vereen’s controversial 1981 homage to Bert Williams,” KPCC The Frame (radio and web), May 30
: L’Official, Pete, "When Ben Vereen Wore Blackface to Reagan’s Inaugural Gala," The New Yorker, January 6 (Link)
: Wagley, Catherine, “5 Free Art Shows to See in L.A.This Week,” LA Weekly (web), January 18
: Miranda, Carolina, “Culture and Trump: Artist Edgar Arceneaux on inauguration day at LACMA recalls Regan’s inaugural gala,” Los Angeles Times (web), January 21 (Link)
: Swenson, Kirsten, “Reviews: Edgar Arceneaux at MIT List Visual Arts Center,” Art in America (web), January 11 (Link)
: Womack, Catherine, "The Library of Black Lies Critiques How We Imagine African-American History,” LA Weekly (web), February 15 (Link)
: Garner, Anna, “Labyrinths, Libraries, and Lies – Edgar Arceneaux at The Main Museum,” Art and Cake (web), February 25
2016: Smee, Sebastian, “At MIT, there’s smoke and fire,” The Boston Globe (web), October 20
: Taylor, Phil, “Reviews: Edgar Arceneaux at Galerie Nathalie Obadia,” Artforum, April (Link)
: Miranda, Carolina, “Mayor Eric Garcetti announces artists for L.A.’s first public art biennial to be held this summer,” Los Angeles Times (web), April 12
: Murray, Nick, “Edgar Arceneaux Brings MLK Back to Riverside Church,” The Village Voice (web), April 29 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L., “New Season of ART21 Features African American Artists Edgar Arceneaux, Nick Cave, Stan Douglas, and Theaster Gates,” Culture Type (web), March 26
: Delmont, Matthew F., “Why America Forgot About ‘Roots’,” The New York Times, May 28
: "Art in the Twenty-First Century," ART21 (Link)
: Wagley, Catherine, “Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles curated by LAND,” Contemporary Art Review LA, June 30
: Enholm, Molly, “Report: Los Angeles,” art ltd., July
: “A Nation Engaged: ‘I feel most American when I’m not in the States’,” The Frame, Southern California Public Radio, October 12
: Glass, Liz, “Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Fire and Smoke,” Daily Serving (web), December 6
: Hopkins, Christopher Snow, “Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures,” Hyperallergic (web), December 14
: Williams, Maxwell, “Claire Danes to Host Prestige PBS Art Program,” The Hollywood Reporter (web), May 26
2015: Dawsey, Jill, Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance, exhibition pamphlet essay, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, January 23
: Jocks, Heinz-Norbert, Eine un-westliche Moderne auf den Fersen der eigenen Tradition, Kunstforum International, February – March
: Arceneaux, Edgar, "Muse: The Severed Foot," Art in America, March
: Arceneaux, Edgar, Blood and Refuse, Art in America, September
: Battaglia, Andy, "At Performa, A Festival of the Unexpected," The Wall Street Journal (web), October 30
: “The 30 Most Exciting Artists in North America Today: Part Two,” Artnet News (web), December 24
: McGarry, Kevin, "In San Diego, Art is a Laughing Matter," New York Times T Magazine Blog, January 23
: Basha, Regine, "La Biennale de Montral: L’avenir (looking forward)," Modern Painters, January
: Krasinski, Jennifer, “Pulling the Plug,” Artforum (web), December 29
: "Something to Laugh About: La Jolla exhibit to explore stand-up comedy in contemporary art," La Jolla Light, January 21
: Top 5: January 21, 2015, Glasstire, January 21
2014: Mizota, Sharon, "Exploring King’s legacy across time: Edgar Arceneaux at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Los Angeles Times, September 24
: Rowell, Charles Henry, "Edgar Arceneaux," Callaloo: Art & Culture in the African Diaspora, Vol. 37, No. 4
: Shaw, Catherine, "The 10th Shanghai Biennale ponders a post-industrial China," Wallpaper, November 28
: Schad, Ed, ArtReviewed: Edgar Arceneaux, ArtReview, December
: dArenberg, Diana, "Shanghai and the Social Factory," Christies, December 17
: Evans, Ariel, "Los Angeles: Edgar Arceneaux," Modern Painters, December
: Caldwell, Ellen, "Edgar Arceneauxs A Book and a Medal at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," New American Paintings, September 24
: David, Soleil, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Newest Exhibit Draws on MLK’s Ideas and Legacy, 24700," News from California Institute of the Arts, September 18
: Williams, Maxwell, "Intertwined Histories: Edgar Arceneaux Re-imagines Martin Luther King," KCET Artbound, September 11
: Goldman, Edward, "Tearful Goodbye to Ensor, Happy Hello To, KCRW," September 9
: Berardini, Andrew, "No Longer Lonely (but maybe still a bit brutal): September Openings Across Los Angeles," ArtSlant, September 4
: Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, "Coming Soon! Hunter Drohojowska-Philp offers a preview of some unexpected offerings this fall," KCRW, September 4
: Miranda, Carolina, "Datebook: Arts fall season begins this weekend the best openings," Los Angeles Times, September 4
: "Edgar Arceneaux: A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions," Glasstire, August 28
2013: Barnes, Tim, "Review: Edgar Areneaux, ‘A Time to Break Silence,’" Wow 24/7, October 28 (Link)
: "Now See This," Art Review, Summer
: Sutton, Kate, "Edgar Arceneaux at Maccarone," Artforum, February
2012: Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Catherine David opens at Viennas Secession, artdaily.org, July
: Boucher, Brian, "Maccarone to Expand in West Village," Art in America, April 13
: Aivazian, Haig, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Untitled," Manifesta Journal, Issue #15
2011: Wagley, Catherine, "Watts Towers at Pacific Standard Time: How the towers legacy is more confusing than you think," LA Weekly, December 15
: Elliot, Bobby, "The Bearden Project: A Family Affair," The Huffington Post, December 7
: Bodin, Claudia, "L.A. cool," Art Das Kunstmagazin, October
: Bohem, Mike, "Watts House Project Lands $370,000 Grant," Los Angeles Times, September 20
: Biro, Matthew, "Edgar Arceneaux, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit," Artforum, May
: Douglas, Sarah, "L.A. on The Hudson: The West Coast Challenges The East," Modern Painters, May
: Hodges, Michael H., "MOCAD exhibits manipulate time, scale," The Detroit News, March 10
: Myers, Holly, "Edgar Arceneaux," Art Review, Issue 49, April
: Kilston, Lyra, "Edgar Arceneaux," Art in America, February 8
: Wright, Travis R., "Life Stories Metro Times," February 4
: "Arceneaux/Museum Fur Genewartskunst," The International Review of African American Art
2010: Stillman, Nick, "Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines & Rick Lowe," Bomb, Number 111, p.50-57, Spring Issue
: Diehl, Travis, "Critics Pick," ArtForum, November 26
2009: Myers, Holly, "Intelligent, but hardly passionate," Los Angeles Times, September 1
: Walker, Alissa, "LA People 2009: Urban Redeveloper Edgar Arceneaux," LA Weekly, April 20
: Sciortino-Rinehart, Natalie, "Score & Script: Music in Video," Art Forum, April
: Frechette, Zach, "National Volunteer Week: Watts House Project," Good Magazine, April 24
: Allsop, Laura, "Future Greats: Edgar Arceneaux," Art Review, Issue 30, p.72, March
: Schorr, Max, "Community Leaders Event Recap and Pictures," Good Magazine, March 13
: Taft, Catherine, "2008 California Biennial," ArtReview, No. 29, February/March
: Bedford, Christopher, "Edgar Arceneaux," Frieze, January/February
: Beasley, Mark, "Looking Back: Solo Shows," Frieze, January/February
2008: Chang, Richard, "Visual art/ Top 5 events," Orange County Register, December 26
: Burket, Brent, "Miami 2008, Part II," Artcal, December 12
: Wagley, Catherine, "The Best Kind of Boring: 2008 California Biennial," dailyserving.com, December 1
: Beale, Lauren, "A Lift for 107th Street," LA Times Blog, November 3
: Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Edgar Arceneaux: Correlations and Isomorphisms," Art Ltd., November
: Melrod, George, "A Questioning Biennial," Art Ltd., November
: Mizota, Sharon, "Public Equity: Sharon Mizona on Edgar Arceneaux and Watts House Project," ArtForum, November
: "The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennial," artdaily.com, October 27
: Buitron, Michael, "2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond," Leap Into the Void (blog), October 25
: Knight, Christopher, "Galleries: Continuing," LA Times, October 19
: Kilston, Lyra, and Latimer, Quinn, "Los Angeles: Field Guide," Modern Painters, October
: Mizota, Sharon, "Eureka moments," LA Times, October 19
: Ruiz, Alma, Interview with Edgar Arceneaux, From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, September – November
: Knight, Christopher, "Around the Galleries," LA Times, October 3
: Melrod, George, California Biennial: Lauri Firstenberg Interview, art ltd., October
: Martin, Courtney J., "Critics Pick," ArtForum, October
: Copeland, Huey, "The Blackness of Blackness," ArtForum, October
: Whats Up, "Collection in Context: Four Decades, The Studio Museum," Harlem Magazine, Summer
: Dambrot, Shana, Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades, Art Ltd, July
: Eden, Xandra, "The Lining of Forgetting," Witherspoon Art Museum Publication, July
: "Arceneaux to Redevelop Watts?," Artnet, June 12
: Ammirati, Domenick, "Whitney Biennial 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York," Afterall, May 24
: Salsbury, Britany, "Critics Picks: Black Is, Black Aint," ArtForum, May
: White, Amy, "The Lining of Forgetting," ArtPapers, May
: Patterson, Tom, "Creating Memories: Works by 14 artists comprising a wide-ranging and evocative examination of The Lining of Forgetting," The Winston-Salem Journal, May 11
: Vikram, Anuradha, "The LA Annual," Artillery, May/June
: Howard Halle, "Whitney Biennial 2008: A Tepid Biennial Inspires neither hate nor love," Time Out New York, March 13
: "On Site: Whitney Biennial 2008," Art Observed, March 8
2007: Szupinska, Joanna, "United States Artists winners," Flash Art Online, November 20
: Fragoza, Carribean, "LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and Funds," Flash Art Online, November 16
: Vogel, Carol, "Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory," New York Times, November 16
: "Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial," ArtForum (web), November 16
: Boehm, Mike, "USA Fellows puts artists in a flattering light," Los Angeles Times, November 15
: "Ann Hamilton and Edgar Arceneaux Among Winners of Fifty USA Fellowships," ArtForum (web), November 15
: "Continuing and Recommended," Art Scene, September
: Myers, Holly, "Social issues leave imprint in Touched," Los Angeles Times, August 22
: Mizota, Sharon, "Clarity in every crisis," Los Angeles Times, July 29
: Finkel, Jori, "A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black," New York Times, June 10
: "Brancusi Report: Last Days in LA," Artslant (web), March
: Fogle, Douglas, "Emerging Artists," Frieze, January/February
: Moshayedi, Aram, "Charles Gaines + Edgar Arceneaux," Art Papers, January/February
: 2nd Moscow Biennale, FlashArt online news, January/February
2006: Searle, Adrian, "Rebels without a cause," The Guardian, December 9
: Morgan, Jessica, "Best of 2006," Artforum, December
: Kushner, Rachel, "On the Ground: Los Angeles," Artforum, December
: Myers, Holly, "A take on comedy is out of the routine," Los Angeles Times, November 10
: Blumenstein, Ellen, "L.A. Confidential," Monopol, November/December
: Chaplin, Julia, "Culver City Art Crawl," Elle, November
: Krasny, Marcin, "Czarno na białym (Black on White)," Obieg Magazine, Poland, October 6
: Ollman, Leah, "Forks abound in Snake River," Los Angeles Times, October 4
: Muchnic, Suzanne, "The Art Explosion," Los Angeles Times, October 1
: Kenning, Dean, "Uncertain States of America," Art Monthly, October
: Kent, Sarah, "States of the Art," Time Out, September 20
: Berardini, Andrew, "Scene & Herd: On the Road," ArtForum (web), September 15
: Glover, Michael, "An Orgy of Appropriation," The Independent, September 13
: Horowitz, Noah and Sholis, Brian, "The Uncertain States of America Reader," Serpentine Gallery, London
: Spaid, Sue, "Whitney Biennial 2006," artUS, July/September, issue 14
: Wood, Eve, "Symmetry: Los Angeles," Art Papers, July/August
: Smith, Roberta, "Endgame Art? Its Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College," The New York Times, July 7
: Snake River, "Photography Now," July/August/September
: Rume und Kulturen verflochten, Krone O, May 19
: Ausstellung, O Nachrichten, May 2
: Kunst: Snake River im Lentos, Obersterreichblicke, May
: Das sterreich-Kalendarium, Reisemagazin, May
: Aktuelle Ausstellungen, Neues aus Linz, May
: Thek, Franz, Sprache von Fluss und Musik, O Nachrichten, April 29
: Hofleitner, Johanna, Der Lauf der Dinge, Schaufenster, April 28
: Hutter, Andreas, Das Linzer Lentos als Kino und als Filmproduzent, Neues Volksblatt, April 28
: Haderer, Gerhard, Snake River, sterreichisches Pressebro (oepb.at/linz), April 28
: CB, Watchlist, Der Standard, April 27
: Snake River im Lentos, Tips, April 25
: Snake River, Schaufenster, April 21
: AMM, "Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy Stupid," Artkrush, April 19
: Artner, Alan G, "Multichannel video work is lacking a punch line," Chicago Tribune, April 13
: "Edgar Arceneaux und Charles Gaines: Snake River," freikarte.at, April 3
: Klemcke, Elizabeth, "Artists in the House," Brilliant, April
: Bush, Haydn, "The silence of standup," Chicago Journal, March 29
: Roussel, Noёllie, "Los Angeles: Elsewhere is Everywhere," Art Press, April Issue, pp. 34-44
: Martin, Courtney J, "Edgar Arceneaux: New York," Art Papers, March/April Issue, p. 64
: Kastner, Jeffrey, "Elective Affinities: The Art of Egdar Arceneaux," Artforum, February Issue, pp. 192-195
: Golden, Thelma, "Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy, Stupid," The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine Collectors Issue, Fall/Winter 2005-06
: Campagnola, Sofia, "Focus Los Angeles," Flash Art, January/February Issue, Vol. XXXIX, No.246, pg.68
: Helfand, Glen, "Edgar Arceneaux San Francisco Museum of Modern Art," Artforum, January Issue, XLIV, No.5, pg.228
: Campbell, Clayton, "The City of Angeles A short survey on the Los Angeles art scene," Flash Art, January/February Issue, Vol. XXXVIII, No.246, pg.77
2005: ODriscoll, Bill, "Sun Set," Pittsburgh City Paper, December 29
: Cotter, Holland, "Edgar Arceneaux: Borrowed Sun," New York Times, November 17
: Von Ulrich, Gutmair, Macht nur soviel Ihr knnt, Netzeitung, August 21
: Gupta, Anjali, "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Art Papers, July/August
: Roeske, Sharon, "Art in Black History Month," Arts Houston, February Issue
: Brooks Ranallo, Anne, "Gallery 400 gets foundation prize for comedy performance film", University of Illinois at Chicago, February
: JB, "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Artforum, January, 72
2004: Gaines, Charles, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Search for Meaning Among Infinite Variations," Afterall, September, 64-71
: Lorch, Catrin, "Drawings of Removal", pg 76 – 80, AfterAll Magazine, October 2004 issue
: "Continuing and Recommended", Artscene, Vol.24, No.2, October
: Holte, Michael Ned, "Itineraries", Artforum, August 3
: Jones, Leslie, "Edgar Arceneaux / UCLA Hammer Museum," Art on paper, pg. 18, May/June
: Myers, Julian, "Edgar Arceneaux / Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects / UCLA Hammer Museum," Frieze, May, 92 – 93
: Pence, Elizabeth, "Edgar Arceneaux at the UCLA Hammer Museum,"Artweek, April 2004, Volume 35, Issue 3, 21 – 22
: Miles, Christopher, "Edgar Arceneaux: UCLA Hammer Museum," ArtForum, March, 190
: Knight, Christopher, "A chronicle of race, rage, ritual," Los Angeles Times, February 17
2003: Pagel, David, "Questions, few answers," Los Angeles Times, April 23
: Woodard, Joseph, "New social art order," ArtScene, Mach 25 – April 3
2002: "Lateral Thinking – Art of the 1990’s," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Exhibition Catalog, New York, pg. 31-31
: Klaasmeyer, Kelly, "Memory Lane," Houston Press, November 7,
: Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, August 2, pg.32
: Marzahn, Alexander, Basler Zeitung, Feuilleton, March 30/31, pg. 42
: Grundy, Timothy, , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, March 28, Pg. 6
: Bartmettler, Yvonne Basler Zeitung, March 21, pg. 12
: Imhoff, Dora, March, pg. 424-425
: Naef, Maja, Personliche Plne, Kunstbulletin, Mai 2002, pg.45
: Schweizer, Klaus, Kunsthalle nachmittags, Basler Zeitung, April 8, pg. 30
: Schweizer, Klaus, Ausstellungen, Neue Zuericher Zeitung, April 13, pg. 64
: Bertmettler, Yvone, Das Leben Ein Plan, Basler Zeitung, March 30, 42
: Caramanica, John, "Hip Hop Don’t Stop," Village Voice, January 9 15, 57
: Joo, Eungie, "Bring that Beat Back", FYI, Spring, 57
: Lopez, Luciana, "Hip Hop Planet", URB 91, March issue, 48
: The New York Times, March 1
: Dies&Das, weekly exhibition openings directory
: Oswald, Anja, "Wenn der Bleistift Rappt," Zitty, October, 80
: "Show Stoppers," Juxtapoz, 56
2001: Lang, Peter, 729 Kunstlers Profiling, Blitz Review, December 19
: Kareem, Nadra, Artist blurs cultural boudries, Los Angeles Times, September 4
: Fricke, Harald, Original wird Falschung, Die Tageszeitung, November 14
: Reeves, Mosi, "Bring the Noise", San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 6
2000: Pincus, Robert L., "Life as we know it," The San Diego Union Tribune, October 5, 38
: Pincus, Robert L., "Objects D’Curio," The San Diego Union Tribune, 49-50
1999: Sirmans, Franklin, "Edgar Arceneaux," Time Out New York, 72

Catalogues

2026: Apsara DiQuinzio, Makeda Best, William L. Fox, Maia Nuku, Maya Lin. "Into the Time Horizon," Radius Books Co-published with the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.
2022: Eshun, Ekow. "In The Black Fantastic," Thames & Hudson, NY, NY
2017: Northrup, Joanne, "Unsettled," Nevada Museum of Art, Hirmer Publishers: Munich, Germany
: Huldisch, Henriette, “Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Smoke & Fire,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2016: Momin, Shamin M., “Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles,” Los Angeles Nomadic Division, presented by Mona Bismarck American Center and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2013: Kunde, Harald; Vlasic, Valentina; et al., The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, September
: Taxter, Kelly, You Shouldve Heard Just What I seen: Selections from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Riverview School, Cape Cod, September
: Griffin, Jonathan, Vitamin D2: New Perspective in Drawing, Phaidon Press, May
2012: Roussel, Nollie, Transient Memory, Imminent Collapse: Edgar Arceneauxs Urban Landscapes, essay published in Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
: "The Bearden Project", The Studio Museum in Harlem
2011: Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
: Hopelessness Freezes Times-1976 Detroit Riots, Detroit Techno and Michael Heizers Dragged Mass, Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
2009: Hertz, Betti-Sue, Wall Works, Exhibition Catalogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008: Firstenberg, Lauri, with text by Julian Myers, California Biennial 2008, Exhibition Catalogue, Orange County Museum of Art, October
: Kastner, Jeffrey, 2008 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue The Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art, March
: From and Bout Place: Art from Los Angeles, Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel, curated by Alma Ruiz
: The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, curated by Xandra Eden
2007: Molok, Nikolai, Ed., Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (catalogue), ArtChronika and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation
: Kim, Christine Y, Philosophy of Time Travel (catalogue), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2006: Kim, Clara, Snake River: Charles Gaines & Edgar Arceneaux, REDCAT Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (exhibition catalogue) Ed. Karen Jacobson
: "Alchemy of ComedyStupid", Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, collaboration with David Allan Grier
: Brewińska, Maria, Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art,
: Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (exhibition catalogue and essay)
2005: Birnbaum, Daniel, Kvaran, Gunnar, Obrist, Ulrich, Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millenium, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalog)
: Dawsey,Jill, New Work: Edgar Arceneaux, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: The Imaginary Number, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (show catalogue), Ed. Anselm Franke and Kila Peleg
: Cassel Oliver, Valerie, "Through the Conceptual Lens: The Rise, Fall, and the Resurrection of Blackness", Double Consciousness, Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, January (exhibition catalog)
2003: Chang, Aimee, "Opening the work", Joo, Eungie, "Library as Cosmos", exhibition catalog essays, in Edgar Arceneaux, "Lost Library", Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany, co-edited by Brigitte Hausmann
: Auchincloss, Pamela & Ottman, Klaus, "Art and Society: from the Social to the Transcendental", exhibition catalog for "Social Strategies – Redefining Social Realism", pg. 7 – 19, New York, February
2001: Jonhson, Vincent, Edgar Arceneaux, Pomona College Museum of Art, (exhibition catalog)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2021: COLA Fellowship Grant, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2019: Mike Kelley Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2015: Malcolm McLaren Award, Performa 15, New York, NY
2013: Rauschenberg Residency, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL
2007: United States Artists Fellowship
2006: William H. Johnson Award
: ArtPace Residency, San Antonio, TX
2005: Joyce Award, Chicago, IL
: Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY
1999: Skowhegan School of Painting Skowhegan, ME
1998: The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
: Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

Public Collections

: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
: National Academy of Design, New York, NY
: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: New York Public Library, New York, NY
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Deborah Roberts

1962: Born in Austin, TX
: Lives and works in Austin, TX

: MFA, Syracuse University Research Fellow, Syracuse, NY
: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, (Summer Session) Pont Aven, France
: University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "The consequences of being," FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Traveling to: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (2026)
2023: "come walk in my shoes," SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2022: "Deborah Roberts: I have something to tell you," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "Deborah Roberts: I’m," Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
: "Deborah Roberts: I’m," Art + Practice, in collaboration with the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2021-2022: "A look inside," Bluecoat, Liverpool, England
2021: "O’ Say Can’t You See," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Deborah Roberts: I’m," The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
2019: "Deborah Roberts: If They Come," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "Native Sons: Many Thousands Gone," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Fragile but Fixable," Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Uninterrupted," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi," Spelman Museum, Atlanta, GA
2017: "Ingenue," Fort Gansevoort Gallery, New York, NY
: "Nobody’s Darling: New Works by Deborah Roberts," Christian-Green Gallery, Austin, TX
2016: "Coil, Coarse, Twist, Re-twist," Art Palace, Houston, TX
2014: "One and Many," Art Palace, Houston, TX
: "Domestic Disturbance," Diverse Art Gallery, Austin, TX
: "Consensual Marks," SDCC, Dallas, TX
2013: "When We Just Existed," Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
2011: "Resistance Begins at Home: Rethinking Otherness," Dallas, TX
2008: "Forks and Spoons," South Dallas Culture Center, Dallas, TX
2006: "Bearing Witness," Stone Metal Press, San Antonio, TX
: "Reconstructing, Rethinking, Reacting," O’Kane Gallery, Houston, TX
2004: Chicago Culture Center (South Shore) Chicago, Ill
: Center for African & African American Studies, Austin, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026-2027: "Infinite Expansions," Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (forthcoming)
2026: "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "To My Best Friend," Curated by Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
2025: "Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: "Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection," Spelman College Museum of Modern Art, Atlanta, GA
2024-2025: "The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (Link)
2024: "When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2023: "The Speed of Grace," Simões de Assis, São Paulo, Brazil
2023-2024: "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage ," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (2024); The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2024)
2023: "Creative Sources," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: "Deborah Roberts and Niki de Saint Phalle: The Conversation Continues," Two Person Exhibition, Galerie Mitterand, Paris, France
: "Deborah Roberts and Niki de Saint Phalle: The Conversation Continues," Galerie Mitterand, Paris, France
2022-2023: "Put It This Way: (Re)Visions Of The Hirshorn Collection," Hishhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
: "True Believers: Benny Andrews & Deborah Roberts," McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
: "To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2022: "51 @ 51," Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
: "Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
: "From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age," Co curated by Deborah Roberts, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London UK
: "Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2021-2022: "Assembly: New Acquisitions by Contemporary Black Artists," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2021: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: "The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia
: "The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (Link)
2020: "Drawing 2020," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
: "The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today," National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri; touring to Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
: "25 Years," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
: "Artists for New York," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
: "True Likeness," Van Every/ Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
: "Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection," Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
: "Doro Olowu: Seeing Chicago," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: "LA stories," Brenau University Art Gallery, Gainesville, GA
2019-2020: "Re/Devaluing Colorism: Intersections of Skin Color and Currency at Southwest School of Art," Texas
: "Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art," 21c Lexington, Kentucky
: "The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today," National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (touring exhibition)
2019: "Melissa Cody, Bethany Collins, and Deborah Roberts: Heritage," Rebecca Camacho Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Charles White and the Legacy of the Figure: Celebrating the Gordon Gift," Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
: "Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage," Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
: "Get Up, Stand Up Now – Generations Of Black Creative Pioneers," Somerset House, London, UK
: "Seeing Now," 21c Museum Hotel Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, OK
: "Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary," Californian African American Museum (CAAM), Los Angeles, CA
: "Still I Rise," MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
2018: "Sidelined," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
: "In the Eye of the Beholder," Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
: "Go Figure," Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
: "Reclamation! Pan- African from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection," Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
: "Talisman In The Age Of Difference," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "Soul Recordings," Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks," Mass Art, Boston MA
: "Constructing Identity in America (1766-2017)," Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
2017: "Fictions," Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
: "Your Body is Your Battleground," Volta Art Fair, New York, NY
: "March Madness," Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY
2016: "I know why the caged bird sings," Carver Museum, Austin, TX
2015: "Gently Fried," MACC, Austin, TX
: "The House on Mango Street," National Mexican American Museum, Chicago, Ill
2014: "The Way Out- MFA," Rogue Space, New York, NY
2013: "Gender Is A Kind of Doing," MCCLA Galleries, San Francisco CA
2011: The Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York
: "Mirame: 21st century portraits for Latino/a America," Sacramento, CA
2009: "Women of Color," Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
: "Her Stories," Park School, Baltimore. MD
2007: "Taking Possession," University of Arkansas at Little Rock
: "Counter Intuitive," Chicago State University, Chicago, Ill
2006: "Uncle Tom to Peeping Tom," University of Milwaukee UGA, Milwaukee, WI
: "Boundless, Perceptions from Within," DAC, Austin, TX
2005: Museum of Science and Industry Juried Exhibition. Chicago, Ill
: Woman Made Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Chicago, Ill
: "Subjective Visions," UTSA, San Antonio, TX
: "Figure It Out," Art Palace Austin, TX
2004: Susan Woodson Gallery, Chicago, Ill
: "Unmasked: A Collective Statement on Beauty," Butridge Gallery Austin, TX
2003: "Bird," Juried Exhibition, Concordia University, Austin, TX
: "Our Heritage–Creating New Legacies," Juried Exhibition, Butridge Gallery, Austin, TX
: Austin Bergstrom International Airport Juried Exhibition, Austin, TX
2002: Center for African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2023: Gilman, Claire and Roger Malbert. "Drawing in the Present Tense," Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, pg 185-187, 2023.
2020: Ringle, Hallie. “Deborah Roberts and Questions of Power,” Collecting Black Studies. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
: 25 Years, Exhibition catalogue, edited by Gerrie van Noord and Jonathan Horrocks, published by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2019: Elliot, Patrick, Dr. Freya Gowrley, and Yuval Etgar. "Cut and Paste 400 Years of Collage," Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland.
: Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London, England, p. 127
: Rose King, Daniella. "If they come," London: Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
: Barnwell Brownlee, Andrea. "Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi," Atlanta: Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2018: Washington, Terence. “Deborah Roberts: At the Edge of White Spaces,” Fictions. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

Bibliography

2026: Belasco, Daniel. "Deborah Roberts: The FLAG Art Foundation," Artforum, April 30 (Link)
: Wilson, Samaira. "Letters to Deborah Roberts," Elephant, April 13
: "Look Inside BOMB’s Spring 2026 Issue," BOMB Magazine, March 2 (Link)
: Graver, David. "In ‘Consequences of being,’ Deborah Roberts Explores The Ways Black Bodies are Seen, Positioned, and Understood," Surface Magazine, February 24 (Link)
: "Deborah Roberts debuts first ceramic works of career," See Great Art, February 6
2025: Kelly, Keyaira. "In Highest 2 Lowest, Black Art Is the Main Character," Elle Magazine, September 8 (Link)
2024: Valentine, Victoria L. "On View: "When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History’ At Dallas Museum of Art Showcases Recent Acquisitions by Artists of Color, Women, and Queer Artists," Culture Type, August 13
: Artnet News. "A New Show of Collage by African-American Artists Finds Multiplicity in Black Identity," Artnet News, July 4
2023: Renkl, Margaret. "Piecing Together a Black Identity, and a Whole Black World," The New York Times, December 11 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "On View: Deborah Roberts is Presenting Mixed-Media Collages that Consider Black Boyhood at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico," CultureType, October 16 (Link)
: Tribune Staff. "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage September 15–December 31, 2023," Tennessee Tribune, September 19 (Link)
: SITE Santa Fe. "SITE Santa Fe Presents Deborah Roberts: Come walk in my shoes," Hyperallergic, August 18 (Link)
: Hessel, Katy. "‘Black kids deserve to grow old’: collage legend Deborah Roberts on unjust America," The Guardian, February 6 (Link)
2022: Szaroleta, Tom. "Multimedia show at Cummer Museum puts spotlight on Black children," The Florida Times-Union, September 25 (Link)
: Scott, Chadd. "‘Deborah Roberts: I’m’ Opens At Cummer Museum of Art And Gardens In Jacksonville For Final Stop Of National Tour," Forbes, September 18 (Link)
: Grant, Colin. "‘The story enraged me’ – US artist Deborah Roberts on her Child Q collage," The Guardian, June 7 (Link)
: Knight, Christopher. "Review: Five pandemic-postponed art shows worth seeing right now," The Los Angeles Times, May 12 (Link)
: Wilbekin, Emil. "This Is Deborah Roberts’ America," ESSENCE, April 29 (Link)
: Harren, Natilee. "Reviews: Houston, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Contemporary Arts Museum," Artfourm, pg 162, February
: White, Aude. "New York Magazine Special Issue: Ten Years After Trayvon Martin," New York Magazine, January 31 (Link)
: Rathe, Adam. "How And Just Like That… Made Lisa Todd Wexley’s Apartment a Shrine to Modern Black Art Charlotte York Goldenblatt, meet Mickalene Thomas," Town and Country, January 6 (Link)
2021: Robinson, Shantay, "Deborah Roberts’ Investment in Time Pays Off," Black Art In America, September 30 (Link)
: Ghassemitari, Shawn. "Deborah Roberts Collages the Strength and Plight of Young Black Children," HypeArt, 27 September
: Valentine, Victoria L., "Best of September: 13 New Museum Exhibitions Feature Artists Ulysses Jenkins, Adam Pendleton, Deborah Roberts, Naudline Pierre, Arthur Jafa, Lorna Simpson & More," Culture Type, Sept 21 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L., "5 New Art Gallery Exhibitions to See Now Feature Deborah Roberts, Carla Jay Harris, Jarrell Gibbs, LaKela Brown, and Brittney Leeanne Williams," CultureType, September 10 (Link)
: Bachetepe, Hilal. "Deborah Roberts’ “I’m” Debuts at the Museum of Contemporary Art This Weekend," 303 Magazine, September 8 (Link)
: Gipson, Amarie. "The Museum Now, Part II: Deborah Roberts: Contemporary Austin," Artfourm, September
: In Collaboration with Jo Malone London, Frieze Magazine. "Dr. V. Joy Simmons’ Los Angeles is ‘a place of possibility’," Frieze, July 23 (Link)
: Hernandez, Jasmin. "Magic, Joy and Celebration: New Art Examines the Eminence of Blackness," Sotheby’s, May 19 (Link)
: Little, Colony. "Deborah Roberts’s Intricate and Thoughtful Depictions of Black Childhood," Hyperallergic, May 3 (Link)
: Bennett, Joshua. "I Will Not Be Taught How To Behave," Art in America, May/June (Link)
: Ragbir, Lise. "Deborah Roberts Shines a Light on the Mistreatment of Black Girls," Frieze, March 19
: Artnet News. “26 Art-World Women Celebrate the Women Who Inspire Them, From Feminist Art Critic Linda Nochlin to Arte Povera Legend Marisa Merz,” Artnet, March 8 (Link)
: Friel, Katie. "Dazzling San Antonio art museum adds landmark Texas artist to collection," Culture Map, February 26
: Jarrett, Renae. "Where the Black girls are: A review of Deborah Roberts’ ‘I’m’," Sight Lines, February 27
: Purcell, Barbara. "Deborah Roberts: I’m," The Brooklyn Rail, February 19
: Faires, Robert. "Deborah Roberts: I’m" at the Contemporary Austin," The Austin Chronicle, February 19
: Barnes, Michael. "Austin artist Deborah Roberts’ Contemporary show ‘I’m’ concerns the art of being seen," Austin 360, February 9
: Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. "The powerful collages of artist Deborah Roberts," Wallpaper, January 25
: Florsheim, Lane. "Artist Deborah Roberts—a Favorite of Beyoncé and Barack Obama—Gets Her Due," Wall Street Journal, January 23
: Marius, Marley. "In Deborah Roberts’s Art, an Interrogation of What Society Imposes on Black Children," Vogue Magazine, January 21
: Brand, Heather. "With Fans Like Barack Obama and Beyoncé, Deborah Roberts Opens a New Exhibition in Her Hometown of Austin," Texas Highways, January 21
: Oyeniyi, Doyin. "Deborah Roberts Has Exhibited Art Worldwide. She Hasn’t Had a Solo Museum Show in Her Hometown—Until Now," Texas Monthly, January 14
2020: Crable, Devorah. "Deborah Roberts, The Worst Of Times Are The Best Of Times," Pigment Magazine (print), Fall/Winter
: Valentine, Victoria. "‘Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi’ Exhibition Catalog Wins Publication Award," Culture Type, December 15
: Roberts, Deborah. "Remembering Juneteenth," Hyperallergic, June 21
: Pogrebin, Robin. "With Her First Solo Museum Show Delayed, an Artist Stands Fast," The New York Times, April 12 (Link)
: Cohen, Alina. "Why Some Artists Turn Away Would-Be Buyers," Artsy, March 27 (Link)
: Jones, Lauren. "6 must-see art exhibitions coming soon to Austin museums," CultureMap Austin, February 6 (Link)
2019: Fullerton, Elizabeth. "Deborah Roberts Renders the Complexity of Black Childhood in Collage," Art in America, October 7 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Black Female Artists Are Headlining Exhibitions Throughout London," The Culture Type, July 21 (Link)
: Lee, Erin. “10 art exhibitions to see in July,” Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, July 1
: Hutton, Belle and Daisy Woodward. “A List of Great Things to Do This July,” AnOther, July 1
: Epps, Philomena. "Deborah Roberts at Stephen Friedman," Artforum, July 1 (Link)
: Jansen, Charlotte. "The Artist Disrupting Perceptions of Black Youths," Elephant, June 25 (Link)
: Barrie, Lita. "Deborah Roberts Explores The Fragility of Black Masculinity in Native Sons," Riot Material, June 5 (Link)
: Grant, Colin. “Get Up Stand Up Now: Black British art’s response to the Windrush scandal,” The Guardian, June 2
: Brady, Anna and Margaret Carrigan. “Private view: must – see gallery shows opening this June,” The Art Newspaper, May 31
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Artist Deborah Roberts Joined Susanne Vielmetter Projects Los Angeles and Has an Exhibition at Gallery’s New Downtown Space," CultureType, April 23 (Link)
: Marcoci, Roxana. "Young Heroines: Deborah Roberts," Mousse Magazine, Spring (Link)
2018: Roberts, Deborah. "The Lives They Lived: Linda Brown," The New York Times Magazine, December 30 (Link)
: Sheets, Hilarie M. "A Collector Who Grew Up With Art Now Fosters Its Makers," The New York Times, December 26 (Link)
: Greenberger, Alex. "Long-Running ‘Anonymous Was a Woman’ Grants Awarded for 2018, With Betty Tompkins and Deborah Roberts Among 10 Winners," ArtNews, December 11 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Art Basel Miami Beach 2018: Select Galleries Throughout the Mega Fair are Showing Works By African and African American Artists, Here’s Where to Find Them," The Culture Type, December 6 (Link)
: Williams, Margaret. "People of the Year: Deborah Roberts," Tribeza Artists Curated, November 29 (Link)
: Onyewuwnyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. "Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus," Carla, Issue 13, August. (Link)
: Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus," Art and Cake, June 10 (Link)
: Luke, Ben. "Artist Deborah Roberts on Yinka Shonibare exhibition and why ‘black is not a colour any more," Evening Standard, June 6. (Link)
: Mizota, Sharon. "Roberts’ powerful statement of black female identity," LA Times, May 29 (Link)
: Miller, Ashia. “Deborah Roberts’ #EvolutionOfMimi art tackles heavy topic of colorism,” RollingOut, May 25. (Link)
: Amirkhani, Jordan. "Art Review: ‘The Evolution of Mimi’ at Spelman Museum," BURNAWAY, April 25. (Link)
: Cochran, Rebecca. "Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi," Art Papers, March 17.
: Sargent, Antwaun. “The Artist Changing the Face of Black Girlhood,” VICE, March 6 (Link)
: Feaster, Felicia. “The power and pathos of girlhood defines Deborah Roberts’ collages,” The Atlantic Journal Contribution, March 6.
: Van Proyen, Mark. “Deborah Roberts @ Jenkins Johnson,” Square Cylinder, February 19. (Link)
: Larocca, Amy. “Portfolio: Her Breakthrough Women,” The New York Magazine, February 5 (Link)
: Green, Tyler. “Deborah Roberts, Anita Witek,” Modern Art Notes Podcast, February (Link)
: Johns, Myke. “Artist Deborah Roberts ‘Emancipates’ Black Girlhood In Spelman Exhibit,” National Public Radio, January 25 (Link)
2017: Twersky, Carolyn. “New Studio Museum Show,” ARTNEWS, August 23. (Link)
: Marino, Rebecca. “Q+A with Deborah Roberts,” Conflict of Interest, July 17 (Link)
: Scott, Andrea K. “March Madness in the Meatpacking District,” The New Yorker, April 10 (Link)
: Anspon, Catherine D. “Austin Gets Its Own Art Fair,” Papercity Magazine, March 30 (Link)
: Kamm, Rebecca. “You Can’t Deny Us: The Artists Showcasing the Power if Female Athletes,” Broadly, March 28 (Link)
: Evans, Dayna. “What Does It Mean to Be a Woman in Sports?,” The Cut, March 20. (Link)
2016: Knudson, Rainey. “Naming and Shaming: Deborah Roberts at Art Palace”, Glasstire, November 21 (Link)
: Ryzin, Jeanne Claire van. “Contemporary art exhibit probes African-American identity," Statesmen, September 19 (Link)
2014: Huete, Betsy. “Deborah Roberts: One and Many,” Glasstire, November 29 (Link)
: Ward, Jeff M. “Deborah Roberts: Reconstructing, Reacting and Rethinking at O’Kane Gallery,” Fluent Collaborative, issue 79, November 17 (Link)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2019: Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Finalist
2018: Anonymous Was a Woman, NY
2017: Artist of the Year, Austin, TX
2016: Pollock Krasner Foundation, Grantee
2014: SU MFA Exhibition “Best in Show”
2012-2014: Creative Opportunity Grant, Syracuse University
2010: San Francisco African American Legacy Scholarship
2008: Artist of the Year, Austin, TX
1991: President Point of Light Recipient, President George H. Bush

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2019: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Captiva, FL
2018: Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2014: Ginsberg-Klaus Award Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
2011-2014: Syracuse University Graduate Research Fellow
2006: Coronado Studios Austin, TX
: Stone Metal Press, San Antonio, TX
2005: Ox –Bow Art Residency, MI

Public Collections

: 21c Museum Hotels, Louisville, KY
: Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: American Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland, Brooklyn, NY
: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin
: The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
: ICA Boston, Boston, MA
: Let Freedom Ring Vol. 2, Lafayette and Flatbush Avenues, New York (digital billboard)
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
: Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL
: Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
: Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
: Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh, UK
: The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Robert Pruitt

: Born in 1975, Houston, TX

2003: MFA, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 2000
2000: BA, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Robert Pruitt: Infinite," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (forthcoming)
2025: "Corpus," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "..Son…Sun…Sin…Syn…Sen…Zen…Zenith," Salon 94, New York, NY
2023: "Goodnight Prometheus," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "To Control the Universe," Salon 94, New York, NY
2020: "Ad Infinitum," Salon 94, New York, NY
: "Guest Minister," Oxbow, Seattle, WA
2019: "The Banner Project," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: "The Majesty of Kings Long Dead," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
2018: "Robert Pruitt: Devotion," California African American Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017: "Robert Pruitt: Benediction," Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
: "Robert Pruitt: Planetary Survey: New Drawings," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
2016: "Robert Pruitt: New Work," Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
: "Escape Velocity," Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Stewart Center Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2015: "Robert Pruitt: Flight Risk," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
: "The Mosaic Project: Robert Pruitt & Shadra Strickland," Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
: "Omohle Ntsudu Omnyama," Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013: "Fantastic Sagas," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
: "Robert Pruitt: Women," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012: "Robert Pruitt," Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2011: "The Souls of Black Folk," McKinney Art Center, Dallas, TX
: "New American Voices," Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA
: "Them From After the End of the World," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
2010: "The Forever People," Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
2008: "Two Tears in a Bucket: Considering The Alcubierre Metric," Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006: "Quiet as Kept," Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
: "Perspectives 154: Robert Pruitt," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
2004: "I call my brother sun because he shines like one," Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
: "Cold Kuts and Fresh Beef," Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
: "Round 18 of Artists’ Installations," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Some American Dreams," The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2025: "Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: "History or Premonition," Joan Mitchell Center Residency Program, New Orleans, LA
: "Terms and Conditions: The Promise vs The Reality," University Museum at Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
: "FEMMES," Curated by Pharrell Williams, Perrotin, Paris, France
: "Between Distance and Desire: African Perspectives," The Soloviev Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
2024: "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: "Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA), San Francisco, CA
2023: "The Book of HOV: A celebration of the life and work of Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter," The Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022-2025: "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration," Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI; Traveling to Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2022-2023); Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2023); California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2023-2024), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Berkeley, CA (2024); Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2025).
2022: "In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light," Curated by Patrick Earl Hammie, Giertz Gallery at Parkland College, Champaign, IL
: "Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield South Carolina," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveling to The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
: "Us, We, Them," Worcester Art Museum, Worcrester, MA
: "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration," Mississippi Museum of Art; traveling to: Baltimore Museum of Art
2021: "Assembly: New Acquisitions by Contemporary Black Artists," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2019: "Perennial," Koplin Del Rio (Pop-up exhibition), Los Angeles, CA
: "Men of Steel, Women of Wonder: Modern American Heroes in Contemporary Times," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
: "Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth, Exhibition," coordinated by the Smithsonian Institution, the 10-city national tour opened at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, April/May
: "Black Refractions | Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem," The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (January 15 – April 14, 2019); 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)
2018: "People Get Ready | Building A Contemporary Collection," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
: "WOMAN," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
: "We The People," Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
: "Out of Africa," Art Village Gallery, Memphis, TN
: "MLK50: Beyond the Balcony," Art Village Gallery, Memphis, TN
2017: "LIBERTY.," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
: "Anachronism and Liberation," Asteroid Tiger Strike, Philadelphia, PA
: "Z is for Zigzag: Directions Around Northern Manhattan," Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY
: "Impressions: African American Artists and Their Connection to African Art," Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
: "How Far Have We Come," Koplin Del Rio, on Artsy (online exhibition)
2016: "Indivisible: Spirits in the Material World," curated by William Cordova, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
: "Time + Space: Futures, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE IDENTITY," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
2015: "New Editions," Tamarind Institue, Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2013: "Wunderkammer: Miniatures and Curiosities," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
: "The Shadows Took Shape," The Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
2012: "Self Possessed: Examining Identity in the 21st Century," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
: "HX8(Houston Times Eight)," Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
2011: "Stargazers, Elizabeth Catlett in conversation with 21 contemporary artists," Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2010: "Hangin’ Together," Koplin Del Rio (Guest Curated by Kerry James Marshall), Culver City, CA
2008: "Black Is, Black Ain’t" Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "S & M: Shrines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times," NYU, Steinhardt Galleries, New York, NY
: "New Works: 07.1," curated by Debra Singer, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
: "Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song," Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2006: Whitney Biennial Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Black Alphabet," The Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Frequency, The Studio Museum, New York, NY
: "The Texas Prize Exhibition," ArtHouse, Austin, TX (catalog) Texas Artadia Recipients, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
: "Art on Paper," The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
: "Black Alphabet," the Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
: "Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
: "Interstellar Low Ways," Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
: "…but I was cool," Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2005: "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2004: "Farm to Market," ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
: "Texas Prime," Diverseworks, Houston, TX
: "SuperSalon," Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2003: "Miniatures," Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
: "The Big Show, (first prize)," Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
: "Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: "Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2002: "Soul Sonic Lustre Silk," Houston Community College, Houston, TX
: "The Big Show," Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
: "Process," Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX
: "The Debt," The Old School, Austin, TX
: "22 to Watch: New Art in Austin," Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: "Safety Gear," D Ramos Studios, Austin, TX

Curatorial Projects

2020: Drawing the Ghost, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
2013: Coming Through the Gap in the Mountain on an Elephant, University Museum of Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
2012: Stacks, Art League Houston, Houston, TX

Bibliography

2026: Gupta, Kriti. "The best artistic references at the 2026 Met Gala," MSN.com, May 8
: Livaudais, Stephanie. "Venus Williams turns her Met Gala look into a statement on women’s sports science," Tennis.com, May 8
: Sahni, Arsheen Kaur. "22 Met Gala Looks Were Literal Art References — And Most People Missed Half of Them," HuffingtonPost, May 6
: Woodward, Alexander. "Venus Williams co-chairs 2026 Met Gala in New York, sparkles in Swarovski gown," ArtThreat, May 6
: Boyd-Griffith, Shelton. "Stars Used the Met Gala 2026 Red Carpet to Celebrate Black Art," Popsugar, May 6
: Fishman, Elana. "Venus Williams on her tennis-inspired Met Gala 2026 look — and why she was ‘shocked’ to be asked to co-host," Page Six, May 5
: Capital B Staff. "Black Celebs Who Slayed the 2026 Met Gala," Capital B, May 5
: Brown, Tamara. "These Top Athletes Slayed The Met Gala’s ‘Costume Art’ Theme," BET, May 5
: Lee, Anna Grace. "Venus Williams Sparkles in an Homage to Family, Legacy, and Tennis for Met Gala 2026," May 4
: Schiche, Ericka. "Exploring Community & History at Houston’s Historic DeLuxe Theater," Glasstire, February 23
2025: Frank, Nicholas. "Houston Artist Included in Joan Mitchell Center Anniversary Exhibition," Glasstire, July 4 (Link)
: Steed, Munson. "Robert Pruitt draws soldiers from wars yet to come," Rolling Out, June 25 (Link)
: Ebert, Grace. "Natural Motifs Entwine the Monumental Figures of Robert Pruitt’s Divine Portraits," Colossal, June 6
2023: Akers, Torey. "Artists including Sheila Hicks and Hank Willis Thomas receive US State Department’s Medal of Arts," The Art Newspaper, September 18 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Art & Diplomacy: U.S. Dept. of State Medal of Arts Bestowed on Robert Pruitt and Hank Willis Thomas at White House Ceremony," CultureType, September 17 (Link)
: Dozier, Ayanna. "At the Brooklyn Museum, 12 Artists Poignantly Capture the Legacies of the Great Migration," Artsy, March 7 (Link)
: Simblist, Noah. "In Abstract, Haunting, and Poignant Works, Artists Reflect on the Great Migration in a Major Exhibition," Art in America, January 30 (Link)
2022: Solly, Meilan. "See Stunning Portraits of Ava DuVernay, José Andrés and the Williams Sisters," The Smithsonian Magazine, November 16 (Link)
: Sheets, Hilarie M. "Behind 3 Champions’ Smithsonian Portraits," The New York Times, November 1 (Link)
2021: Valentine, Victoria L. "On View: ‘Robert Pruitt: To Control the Universe’ at Salon 94 in New York," Culture Type, September 29 (Link)
2020: Leung, Gabrielle. "Artists of Color Reflect on Own Identities in "Portraiture: A Private Room"," HyperArt, June 4
: “5 artists tell us the hardships—and benefits—of creating in isolation,” Document, June 12
2018: “Best of 2018: Our Top 15 Los Angeles Art Shows,” Hyperallergic, December 18
: Caldwell, Ellen C., “Robert Pruitt: Devotion,” Riot Material, December 17
: Gerwin, Daniel, “The Potent Realism of Robert Pruitt’s Black Portraiture,” Hyperallergic, December 4
: “Robert Pruitt’s ‘Devotion’ at California African American Museum,” Blouin Artinfo, November
: “Robert Pruitt”, Wall Street International Magazine, October 26
: Little, Colony. "Pay Attention to the Loaded Details in Artist Robert Pruitt’s Powerful Images of Devotion," ArtNet New, October 12 (Link)
: Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu, “‘Robert Pruitt: Devotion’ Preview,” Artforum, September
: Drew, Kimberly, “Tina Knowles Lawson on Her Black Art Collection, Beyoncé, Solange, and Creativity”, Vanity Fair, September
: Cotter, Holland, “A Good Year for Younger Artists, Immigrant Citizens and Outrage”, New York Times, September 6
: Howe, Brian, “In Contemporary Showcase People Get Ready, The Nasher’s Progressive Vision Snaps into Blazing Focus”, Indy Weekly, September 6
: McGrath, Katherine, “Tina Knowles Lawson on Why Beyoncé and Solange Grew Up Surrounded by an Incredible Art Collection”, Architectural Digest, August 6
2017: Edge, Lisa, “Celestial Figures: Robert Pruitt’s portraits disrupt media narratives of black lives”, Real Change, March 1
: Breslaw, Cathy, “IMPRESSIONS: AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS AND THEIR CONNECTION TO AFRICAN ART”, Vanguard Culture, February 8
: “San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery Presents IMPRESSIONS”, Broadway World, San Diego, February 2
2016: Agresta, Michael, “Ward Matters: Robert Pruitt’s Art Vividly Portrays the Lives and Dreams of the People who have long called Houston’s Rapidly Gentrifying Neighborhoods Home”, Texas Monthly, December
: Mader, Elisa, “IDENTITY: A Visual Artifact”, AEQAI, March
2015: Gerwin, Daniel, “Drawing an Afro-Future with the Past and Present”, HYPERALLERGIC, Dec. 1
: Mizota, Sharon, “Critic’s Choice: Robert Pruitt: Futuristic portraits gain a real edge”, LA Times, Nov. 10
: Will, Rachel, “Robert Pruitt’s New Works Juxtapose African Culture and Space Objects”, Artsy, Nov. 1
: Word, Tanekeya, “Interview: Robert Pruitt”, Saint Heron, March 16
2013: Rosenberg, Karen, Women Inspired to Mix and Match, "Drawings by Robert Pruitt at the Studio Museum in Harlem," The New York Times, August 8
: Cembelast, Robin, "Reinventing the African American Portrait," ARTnews, August 1
: Ulysse, Gina Athena, "Immeasurable Inspiration: On Robert Pruitt’s Women," The Huffington Post, July 26
: Roffino, Sara, "25 Questions for Afrofuturist Artist Robert Pruitt," BLOUINARTINFO International, July 18
2012: Boyd, Robert, "Robert Pruitt: This Rejection of the Conqueror at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas," Glasstire, February 5
2011: Mizota, Sharon, "Robert Pruitt," ARTNews Magazine, Art Reviews, November
: Ollman, Leah, "Robert Pruitt at Koplin Del Rio," Los Angeles Times, Art Reviews, August 19
2007: Gupta, Anjali. "Glenn Kaino + Robert Pruitt + Katja Strunz," Art Papers, May/June
: Goodard, Dan R. "Caught Between Two Cultures," San Antonio Express-News, Sunday, April 22
: Salmon, Lori. "Robert Pruitt," ArtUS, March-April
: Wolff, Elaine. "The Art Capades: We Shall (Eventually) Overcome (One Way Or Another)," San Antonio Current, March 22-April 3
: Gajkowski-Hill, Sarah. "Perspectives 154: Robert Pruitt," Arts Houston Magazine, February
2006: "Goings On About Town: Robert Pruitt," New Yorker, December 25
: Baldwin, Rosecrans. "Quiet As Kept, Interview with Robert Pruitt," The Morning News, December
: Cotter, Holland. "The Collective Conscious," The New York Times, (as part of Otabenga Jones and Associates) Sunday, March 5
: Golden, Thelma, and Christine Kim. "Frequency," The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York
: Iles, Chrissy, and Phillip Verne. "Day for a Night, Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of Art
: Kerr, Merrily. Otabenga Jones and Associates, "Symmetrical Patterns of Def," Time Out New York, (as part of Otabenga Jones and Associates), February 2-8
2005: Cassel Oliver, Valerie, and Franklin Sirmans. "Double Consciousness, Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston"
2004: Schwendener, Martha. "Robert Pruitt at Clementine," Time Out New York, August 5-12
: "Robert Pruitt at Clementine," The New Yorker, August 9 & 16
: Psyllos, Steven. "Robert Pruitt," New York Press, August 3
2003: Weaver, Suzanne. et al. "Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas," Dallas Museum of Art

Catalogues and Publications

2024: Tommasino, Akili. "Look Inside Flight into Egypt Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now," Yale University Press and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2022: Studio Museum in Harlem’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize
2014: Idea Fund Grant
2013: Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant
: William H. Johnson Prize
2009: Art Matters Travel Grant
2007: Creative Capital Foundation grant (Otabenga Jones)
: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship Grant
2004: Artadia Artist Grant
1999: The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund award, Dallas Museum of Art
: Emerging Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston

Residencies

2016: Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist in Residence, New Orleans, LA
2015: Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
: Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
: Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
: Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014: Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2007: ArtPace Residency, San Antonio, TX
2002: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

Public Collections

: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
: Art Museum of Greater Lafayette at Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
: Studio Museum of Harlem, NY
: University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
: US Embassy, Zimbabwe
: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Wangechi Mutu

1972: Born in Nairobi, Kenya
: Lives and works in New York and Nairobi

2000: MFA Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1996: BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of the Arts and Science, NY
1991: IB, United World College of the Atlantic, Wales, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "Wangechi Mutu: Cleaning Earth," Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
: "Wangechi Mutu: Black Soil Poems," Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
2023-2024: "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined," New Museum, New York, NY; Traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (2024)
2024: "Wangechi Mutu: My Cave Call," St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MI
2022: "Wangechi Mutu," Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
: "Mama Ray," Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2021: "Wangechi Mutu," Gladstone Gallery, New York City, NY
: "Wangechi Mutu: I am Speaking, Are you Listening?," Legion of Honor, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA
2020-2021: "Screenings 6: Wangechi Mutu," University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
2019-2020: "The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu The New Ones, will free Us," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2018: "Wangechi Mutu: The End of eating Everything," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: "Wangechi Mutu: A Promise to Communicate," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (Link)
2017: “Journeys into Peripheral Worlds” Des Moines Arts Center, Des Moines, IA
: "Ndoro Na Mit," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
: Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
: Austin Contemporary, Austin, TX
2016: “The End of Carrying All,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (Link)
2015: “Wangechi Mutu,” Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2014: "Nguva na Nyoka," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2013: "Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; and Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
: Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2012: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "This Undreamt Descent," Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
: "Blackthrones," Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
: Muse d’art contemporain de Montral, Montreal, Canada
2011: Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2010: Hunt Bury Flee, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
: Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, traveling to:Wiels Museum, Brussels, Belgium
: Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?, Art Gallery of Ontario / Muse des beaux-arts de lOntario, Canada
2009: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2008: Wangechi Mutu: In Whose Image?, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria, curated by Angela Stief
: Little Touched, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: Yo.n.l, Victoia Miro Gallery, London, UK
2007: Cleaning Earth, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, MN
: The Cinderella Curse, ACA Gallery, Woodruff Arts Center, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2006: Sleeping Heads Lie, Power House, Memphis, TN
: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
: Exhuming Gluttony: a Lovers Requiem, Salon 94, New York, NY
2005: The Chiefs Lairs A Holy Mess, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, curated by Tara McDowell
: Wangechi Mutu – Amazing Grace, Miami Art Museum, curated by Peter Boswell, Miami, FL
: problematica, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2004: Hangin in Texas, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
2003: Pagan Poetry, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Creatures, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2027: Group Exhibition, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (forthcoming)
2026-2027: "Infinite Expansions," Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (forthcoming)
2026: "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: “61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: In Minor Keys," Curated by Koyo Kouoh, Arsenale di Venezia Campo de la Tana, Venice, Italy
: “Into the Time Horizon,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "Iter Subterraneum," Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
: "New Humans, Memories of the Future," The New Museum, New York, NY
2025: "40 Years," Victoria Miro, London, UK
: "See it Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection," Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: "Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds," MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
: "Daphne’s Wardrobe," Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA
2024: "Spirit in the Land," Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL. Traveling to:The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksoville, FL
2024-2025: "Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Travling to MACBA, Barcelona, Spain; KANAL, Pompidou, Brussels; The Barbican Centre, London, UK
2024: "The Infinite Woman," Fondation Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, France
: "Cut Up/Cut Out: Photomontage and Collage," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2024-2025: "The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," The Box, Plymouth, UK; Traveling to: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (2025)
: "Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
: "Scientia Sexualis," ICA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "Chance Encounters: Surrealism Then and Now," Bechtler Museum of Modern Art at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
: "In an effort to be held," Library Street Collective, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Long Affair: Surrealism 1924 to Now," Hyde Collection, Glenn Falls, NY
: "Houseguest: Mute Flesh," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Infinite Woman," Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles, Île de Porquerolles, France
: "Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood," organized by Hayward Gallery, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Traveling to MAC, Birmingham: June – October 2024; Millenium Gallery, Sheffield: October 2024 – January 2025
: "Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940," The Modern Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
: "The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," Curated by Ekow Eshun, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
: "From Her Perspective: Intersections of Gender and Race," Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
: "Wangechi Mutu: My Cave Call," St Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
2023-2024: "Diario notturno. Di sogni, incubi e bestiari immaginari," MAXXI L’AQUILA, L’Aquila AQ, Italy
: "New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Africa Supernova: The collection of Carla & Pieter Schulting," Kunsthal KaDE in Amersfoort, The Netherlands
: "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage ," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (2024); The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2024)
2023: “Women on the Verge,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Maternity Leave," Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX
: "Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present,” Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
: "It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Boil, Toil & Trouble," Curated by Zoe Lukov, West Palm Beach, FL
: "THE SELF, THE WORK, THE WORLD," Fabian Lang, Zurich, Switzerland
: "Rock My Soul," curated by Isaac Julien, Eva Livijn, Stockholm, Sweden
: "A Gateway to Possible Worlds. Art and Science Fiction," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (Traveling Exhibition) (Link)
: "The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written," curated by Katy Hessel, Victoria Miro, London, UK
: "Homecoming," The University of Iowa, Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
: "In the Black Fantastic," (Traveling Exhibition) Hayward Gallery, London, UK
: "Dream On," NEON at Hellenic Parliament, Athens, Greece
: "Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic," (Traveling Exhibition) The British Museum, London, UK
: "In Dialogue:3," The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
: "Lux et Veritas," NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: "What is left unspoken: love," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
: "Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
: "Positive Fragmentation," The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
: "WOMEN AND CHANGE," Museum of Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
: "Image Gardeners," McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021-2022: "Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow," The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA
: "New Arrivals From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville," Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2021: "Visions of Dante," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
: "On The Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Born in Flames: Feminist Future," Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
: "Plural Possilbities & the Female Body," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: “Rock My Soul,” curated by Isaac Julien, Victoria Miro, London, UK
2019-2020: “Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti,” Columbus Museum of Art and Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
: “Riffs and Relations,” The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
2020: “Abortion is Normal,” curated by Marilyn Minter, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
: "A Beautiful Struggle: Black Feminist Futurism," Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
: “Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistis Narratives,” McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, MA
: “Bodyscapes,” The Israel Museum, Israel, Jerusalem
: “Neurones, Intelligences simulées: Mutations-Créations,” The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: “Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South”, Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
: "Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives," McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Massachusetts
2019-2020: “Art For All: from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation,” The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Portland, OR
2019-2022: "Waking Dream," Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
2019-2020: "Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum." Harlem Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Traveling to Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
: “Serious Sparkle,” Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: "Are We There Yet? Arts of the Black Atlantic," Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH,
2019: "Isaac Julien: ‘Rock My Soul,’" Victoria Miro, London, UK
: "I Am . . . Contemporary Women Artists of Africa," National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
: "IncarNations: African Art As Philosophy," Bozar Centre for Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium
: "The Academic Body American Academy in Rome," Italy
: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "30 Americans," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
: "Social Space," The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
: "Word on the Street," Artpace, San Antonio, TX
: "Uptown to Harlem: African American Works from the collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg,” Riverview School, East Sandwich, MA
: “Suffering from Realness,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Link)
2018-2019: "Chaos and Awe," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
: "People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection," Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2018: "Tintoretto 500: The Madness of Painting," Ca’ d’Oro, Venice, Italy,
2018-2019: "Making Africa. A continent of Contemporary Design," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2018: "Witness: Race and Identity in Contemporary American Printmaking," Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
: "Beyond Borders: Global Africa," University of Michigan Museum of Art, Anne Arbor, MI.
: “Seed,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2018-2019: “The World on Paper,” Palais Populaire, Deutsche Bank, Berlin, Germany
2018: “Blind Faith: Between the visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: "Chaos and Awe,” Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2017: “Contemporary Women Printmakers”, Museum of Art WSU, Pullman, WA
: “Simple Passion, Complex Vision: The Darryl Atwell Collection”, The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, NC
: "Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention", HMKV at the Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
: Canadian Biennial 2017, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
: “I Am You, You Are Here, We Are Everywhere,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: “Lucy’s Iris,” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
: Performa 17, New York, NY
: “Colonial Stories: Power and People Exhibition,” GI Holtegaard, Holte Denmark
: “Liquid Possibilities,” Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
: “Liquid Possibilities,” Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
: “Outcasts: Women in the Wilderness,” Wave Hills Arts Center, Bronx, NY
: “Wanderlust,” UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY
2016: “Blackness in Abstraction,” Pace Gallery, New York, NY
: “Making and Unmaking,” Camden Arts Center, curated by Duro Olowu, London, UK
: “Black Pulp!,” International Print Center New York, New York, NY
: “Protest,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
: Sindika Dokolo Collection, curated by Kendell Geers, Luanda, Angola
: “Africans in America,” Goodman Gallery, curated by Hank Willis Thomas, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015: “Spatial Stories: Topographies of Change in Africa,” Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO
: "All the Worlds Futures," 56th International Art Exhibition, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (Link)
: Hello Walls, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
: Portraits and Other Liknesses from SFMoMA, Musuem of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: Making Africa A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
: Open this End: Contemporary Art From the Collection of Blake Byrne, traveling to: The Nasher Museum, Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio; The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY; the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College, Vancouver, WA
: Picasso.mania, Grand Palais, Paris, France
: "Artists in Dialogue 3: Wangechi Mutu and Nora Chipaumire," National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
: "Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War," University of Queensland Art Museum, St. Lucia, Australia
: Hidden and Revealed, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Grace Jones Project," Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: Africa: Architecture, Culture, and Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
2014: "Death is Your Body", Steineres Haus Am Rmberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
: "Divine Comedy," MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; traveling to SCAD, Savannah, Georgia; and Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.
: "Conflict: Contemporary responses to war," UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
: "Interrupting Entropy: Selections from the Betlach Collection," University Library, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
: "Bash: An Exhibition in Two Parts," curated by Daniel Mason, MaxArt, Woodstock, NY
: "Herland," Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
: "We Live in Brooklyn Baby," Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: "Made by Brazilians…Creative Invasion," Sao Paulo, Brazil
: Dak’art Bienniale, Dakar, Senegal
: "King’s County," Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: "Haute Africa Festival of Photography," Knokke-Heist, Belgium
: "Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Holding it Together," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Hidden and Revealed," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Artists in Dialogue 3," National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
: "Bad Conscience," curated by John Miller, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2013: 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
: "The Shadows Took Shape," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "Step Right In," The Visual Arts Center (VAC) at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
: "Broken Memories", Museu AfroBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
: "Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa," National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
: "Aquatopia," Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Tate St. Ives, UK
: Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Sakahn (to light a Fire), National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada
: A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2012: The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
: African Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
: Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Mumbai, India
: There is no archive in which nothing gets lost, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
: Intense Proximity, La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
: Visions of Our 44th President, Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
: "Trade Routes Over Time", Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: Follow The Line, The Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: The Calendars Tale: Fantasy, Figuration and Representation, Boston University, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
: The Soul of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art, Brooks Art Museum, Memphis, TN
: Six Yards, Guaranteed Dutch Design, Museum of Modern Art, Armhem, Armhem, Netherlands
: Wangechi Mutu, KAWS, Jeff Sonhouse, Wim Delvoye, Gallery Zidoun, Luxembourg
: 28 Days, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
: Twisted Sisters, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
: Day for Night: Between Reality and Illusion, Richard Harris Terrace at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), Presented in collaboration with Art 21, New York, NY
2011: The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Twisted Selves, University of California Riverside Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
: Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum, NY
2010: The Secret Lives of Trees, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
: Water, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
: Collection: MOCAs First Thirty Years (1980 Now), The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
: Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
: Disquieted: Contemporary voices from Out of the Shadows, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
: Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, traveling to: Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: Dress Codes, The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: Visceral Bodies, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada
2009: The Spectacle of The Everyday, 10th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, curated by Hou Hanru, New York, NY
: Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women, and Art, Art Work for Change and the Tides Center, traveling to: The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico; Chicago Cultural Center, USA; David J. Sencer CDC Museum, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA; New Orleans Center for Creative Arts; Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University; and Prospect 2, New Orleans, USA; Redline, Denver, Colorado, USA; The Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Fundacion Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg , South Africa; Traveling to: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada; Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico, USA; New York City, NY, USA
: Rebelle. Art and Feminism 1969-2009, Museum Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands
: Black Womanhood, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
: Under the Knife, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: Sortilge, Jean-Marc Soloman, Chteau d’Arenthon, France (catalogue)
: Paint Made Flesh, First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN and traveling to: The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Memorial Art Garden, Rochester, NY
2008: Videostudio, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Objects of Value, The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
: Prospect.1 New Orleans, The New Orleans Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
: U-Turn, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Transformation AGO, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
: 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL. Traveling to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
: Body Memory, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
: Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX, curated by Terrie Sultan, David Pagel and Colin Gardner traveling to: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY (Catalogue)
: Black Woman Hood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
: Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Richard Flood, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman
2007: Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Ballroom, Marfa, TX, curated by Bob Nickas
: Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece, curated by Jeffrey Deitch
: Paper Baglady and Other Stories, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
: Star Power: Museum as Body Electric, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, curated by Cydney Payton, Denver, CO
: (re)Volver, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal, curated by Filipa Oliveira
: Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2006: Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
: USA Today, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
: Still Points in the Turning World: SITE Santa Fes 6th Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, NM, curated by Klaus Ottman
: Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
: Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto
: If a cat gives birth to kittens in an oven, are they kittens or biscuits? Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
: The F-Word: Female Vocals, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
: Out of Time: a contemporary view, Museum of Modern Art, New York (curated by Joachim Pissarro)
: The 2nd Seville Biennale, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain, curated by Okwui Enwezor
2005: Linkages & Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Art Collections, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: Matisse and Beyond The Painting and Sculpture Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, Peeler Art Center, DePauw University,Greencastle, IN, traveling to McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, OH;
: Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA
: Drawing from The Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Jordan Kantor
: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
: CUT, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
: Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, curated by Kristine Bell
: The White Rose, Brent Sikkema, New York
: Greater New York 2005, PS1, Long Island City, NY
: Rewind, Re-cast, Review, Berrie Arts Center, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, curated by Isolde Brielmaier
: African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
: Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1, Santa Monica, curated by Malik Gaines
: Only Skin Deep Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, curated by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco (catalogue), traveling to San Diego Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2004: Africa Remix, Kunstpalast Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, curated by Simon Njami, traveling to Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Hayward Gallery, London; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, London, curated by Emma Dexter
: Fight or Flight, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
: Its About Memory, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Simon Watson
: I Feel Mysterious Today, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL, curated by Dominik Molon
: Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, William Villalongo, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
: Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC, curated by Ron Platt
: Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2003: Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York, curated by Coco Fusco Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
: Black President: the Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, traveling to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnatti, OH; The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Barbican Centre, London, UK, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
: We Are Electric, Deitch Projects, New York, curated by Chris Perez
: Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum for African Art, Long Island City, NY, traveling to Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, curated by Laurie Ann Farrell
: Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: Creatures, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
: Wangechi Mutu/Carl Scholz, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2002: Africaine, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, curated by Christine Kim
2001: Out of the Box, Queens Museum, New York
2000: The Magic City, Brent Sikemma, New York, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
1997: Lifes Little Necessities, Johannesburg Biennale, The Castle, Cape Town, South Africa, curated by Kellie Jones
1996: One Voice, 7th Gallery, Cooper Union, New York

Selected Talks, Lectures and Panels

2024: Artist Lecture, The New Museum to New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), New Orleans
: "Lunchtime Art Talk on Wangechi Mutu" lead by curatorial assistant Jennifer Buonocore Nedrelow, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2023: Wangechi Mutu: In Conversation with Curators Vivian Crockett and Margot Norton, New Museum, New York, NY
: "The Timeless, Ancient Language of Art: Wangechi Mutu," TED, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 22
2020: Winter/Miller Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
: The Bakwin Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MS
2019: An Evening with Artist Wangechi Mutu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: The Bakwin Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
: MATTER Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2018: Artist Lecture, In Conversation with Anne Palopoli, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
: Artist Lecture, In Conversation with Adrienne Edwards, Brown University, Providence, PN
: Artist Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY
: Artist Talk, In Conversation with Okwui Okpokwasili, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
: Artist Talk, In Conversation with Heather Pesanti and Kanitra Fletcher, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
2017: Artist Lecture, Georgetown University, Washington DC
: Artist Talk, In Conversation with Adrienne Edwards, Performa17, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
: Artist Lecture, In Conversation with Adrienne Edwards, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PN
2016: Artist Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, MI
: Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
: Symposium, In Conversation with with Juie Mehretu, Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa University, Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2015: Artist Lecture, ASAP 7 Conference Clemson University, Greenville, SC
: Artist Lecture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
: Artist Lecture, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
: Artist Talk: "Wangechi Mutu, Art & Politics"
: Artist Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
: Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
: Artist Talk: “Myths, Theories, Truths, Lies," William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, "The End of Carrying All," Keynote Speech, Art Therapy Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2014: Artist Lecture, Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
: Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Zoe Whitley, Tate Modern, London, UK
: Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Huey Copeland, Chicago, IL
: Artist Talk, “ÀSÌKÒ: A History of Contemporary Art in Senegal in 5 weeks," Dak’Art 11th Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
: Artist Talk with Trevor Schoonmaker, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL
: Artist Talk, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
: Panelist, CinemAfrica Film Festival, with Zina Saro-Wiwa and Frances Bodomo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Director’s Q&A: Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
: ArtistTalk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Courtney J. Martin, Arttable/ Artnet, New York, NY
2013: Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Nora Chipaumire, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Rachel Kent, MCA, Sydney, Australia
: Visiting Artist, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
: Artist Lecture and visiting artist, Phillips Collection and George Washington University, Washington DC
: Artist Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
: Artist Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY
: Visiting Artist, Yale University, New Haven, CT
: Artist Talk, with Trevor Schoonmaker, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2012: Artist Talk, “Common Ground: Artistic and Intellectual Communities," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
: Commencement Speech: Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
: Artist Lecture, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
: Artist Lecture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
: Program Participant, The Artist’s Voice: Ishamel Houston-Jones, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011: Artist Lecture, Penn State University, Happy Valley, PA
: Artist Lecture, Tyler University, Happy Valley, PA
: Artist Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
: Artist Lecture and Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
: Juror, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers’ Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, New York, NY
: Juror, Dreamyard Student Art Awards, Bronx, NY
: Zabar Visiting Artist, Hunter College, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Artist Lecture, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2010: Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu and Marilyn Minter in Conversation with
: Richard Flood, New Museum, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
: Artist Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: Artist Lecture, Urban Arts Partnership, New York, NY
2009: Artist Lecture, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Artist Lecture, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
: Artist Lecture, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
: Artist Lecture, 92nd Street Y, New York
2008: Artist Lecture, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
: Panelist, The Cooper Union School of Art, “Prospect.1: A Biennial For New Orleans," New York, NY
: Panelist, Art Chicago – Speaks Patronage and Contemporary Art, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Artist Lecture, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
: Artist Lecture, Eastern Illinois University, Champaign, IL
: Artist Lecture, UCLA-Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Artist Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
: Artist Lecture, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
: Artist Talk, Yale, New Haven, CT
: Artist Talk, The Hirshorn Museum and Garden, Washington DC
: Artist Talk, New Museum, “Collage: The Unmonumental Picture," New York, NY
2007: Artist Lecture, Tyler School of Art, "Critical Dialogues Lecture," Elkins Park, PA
: Artist Lecture, “Here and Now," New York University, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
: Artist Lecture, "Cinderella Curse," Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
: Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
: Artist Lecture, Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
: Artist Lecture, The Visual Arts at Yale, Yale, New Haven, CT
: Artist Lecture, “MoMA Gallery Talks," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, New York University. The Steindhardt School of Art, New York, NY
: Studio Lecture, Independent Curators International, Brooklyn, NY
: Panelist, “Feminist Future” Symposium, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2006: Artist Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
: Artist Lecture, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
: Panelist, “Multiple Modernities,” Columbia University, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
: Group presentation for Guggenheim, “Exhuming Gluttony,” Salon 94, New York, NY
: Panelist, Site Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
2005: Artist Lecture, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington DC
: Studio Lecture, Miami Art Museum, New York, NY
: Artist Lecture, “Amazing Grace,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
: Artist Lecture, The Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Artist Lecture, “Fight for Flight,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY
2004: Artist Lecture, Altoids Art House, Austin, TX
: Artist Lecture, “Looking Both Ways,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
: Artist Lecture, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
2003: Panelist, “Looking Both Ways,” The Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY
: Artist Lecture, TICA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
: “Contemporary African Artists,” Moderated by Chester Higgins, Langston Hughes Library, Queens, NY
: Artist Lecture, “Creatures,” Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
2002: Artist Lecture, Bennington University, Bennington, VT
: Critique of MFA Work, Union Institute and University at Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
: “The Artist Voice: Fatimah Tuggar and Wangechi Mutu,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: “New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference,” Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

Bibliography

2026: Vartanian, Hrag. "“In Minor Keys” Hits All the Right Notes," Hyperallergic, May 8 (Link)
: Art Unplugged Staff. "Wangechi Mutu Awarded National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship in Landmark UK Collaboration," Art Unplugged, April 24 (Link)
: Lee, Vivian. "In Romania’s “Little Paris,” an Unlikely Showcase of Transnational Women Artists," January 21 (Link)
2025: "The Museum as Muse with Alex Katz and Wangechi Mutu," The Met, December 10
: Rees, Lucy. "A Bronze-Plated Pendant from Arteriors Conjures the Powerful Sculptures of Wangechi Mutu," Galerie Magazine, November 26 (Link)
: Fan, Cathy. "Can a Regional Art Show Speak to the World? The Aichi Triennale Makes a Convincing Case," Artnet news, October 5 (Link)
: Morciano, Maria Milvia. "From the Black Earth: Roots of the world according to Wangechi Mutu," Vatican News, September 6 (Link)
: Sooke, Alastair. "Wangechi Mutu: Black Soil Poems," Brooklyn Rail, September (Link)
: "Wangechi Mutu launches Phaidon & Artspace limited edition WaterSpirit washed Pelican, 2022," Phaidon, August 27 (Link)
: Judah, Hettie. "Wangechi Mutu gets reflective in Rome," Apollo Magazine, July 30 (Link)
: Serafin, Amy. "Wangechi Mutu’s powerful sculptures take over the palatial interiors of Rome’s Galleria Borghese," Wallpaper*, July 4 (Link)
: Sharrock, Lee. "Art Review: Wangechi Mutu’s Debut Rome Exhibition At Galleria Borghese," June 30 (Link)
: Carollo, Elisa. "First Look: Wangechi Mutu’s “Black Soil Poems” at Galleria Borghese," The Observer, June 10 (Link)
: Mitchell, Rory. "Wangechi Mutu’s Fantastical Figures at the New Museum," Ocula, March 1 (Link)
: ArtReview Staff. "Aichi Triennale 2025 presents full artist list," ArtReview, February 26
: Beverly Press Staff. "Descanso Gardens explores connections between the body and nature," Beverly Press Park Labrea News, February 19 (Link)
: Robinson, Shantay. "Afrofuturism: Reimagining the Past and Telling a Black Fantastic Future," Artnews, February 18 (Link)
: Lax, Thomas. "Musician Solange and artist Wangechi Mutu transit beyond disciplines," DOCUMENT, February 13 (Link)
2024: Price, Pamela. "LACMA Unveils New Exhibit Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," LATF USA, December 14 (Link)
: Associated Press. "Legacy of slavery runs through African art biennale in Senegal," South China Morning Post, Nov 12
: Greenwood, Isabella. "Body horror: A history of menstrual blood in art," Dazed, October 31 (Link)
: Artnet News. "A New Show of Collage by African-American Artists Finds Multiplicity in Black Identity," Artnet News, July 4 (Link)
2023: Tribune Staff. "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage September 15–December 31, 2023," Tennessee Tribune, September 19 (Link)
: Migan, Darla. "Wangechi Mutu, New Museum," Artforum, October (Link)
: Kelly, Nolan. "At The Cost Of Ambiguity, Wangechi Mutu, "Intertwined" At New Museum, New York" Spike, May (Link)
: Vartanian, Hrag. "Wangechi Mutu’s Corporeal Archaeology," Hyperallergic, May 31 (Link)
: Hallett, Vicky. "The fantastical art of Wangechi Mutu: from plant people to a 31-foot snake," NPR, May 8 (Link)
: Liberty, Megan N. "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined," The Brooklyn Rail, May (Link)
: Hopkins, Zoë. "Wangechi Mutu’s New Museum Show Weaves Dazzling Web of Interconnectedness," Artsy, March 24 (Link)
: Plagens, Peter. "‘Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined’ Review: Between Nature and Artifice," The Wall Street Journal, March 22 (Link)
: Bundick, Ariella. "Wangechi Mutu thrills with furiously exuberant work at the New Museum," The Financial Times, March 15 (Link)
: Apollo Staff. "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined," Apollo, March 11 (Link)
: Greenberger, Alex. "Wangechi Mutu’s Excellent New Museum Survey Transports Viewers to Other Worlds," ARTnews, March 10 (Link)
: Hoffman, A.R. "Mutu Astonishes at the New Museum," The NY Sun, March 8 (Link)
: Solomon, Tessa. "5 Shows to See That Explore the Complexities of Womanhood," ArtNews, March 8 (Link)
: Bishara, Hakim, Valentina Di Liscia and Daniel Larkin. "What to See in New York This March," Hyperallergic, March 8 (Link)
: Farah, Khadika M. "Wangechi Mutu Stages a Family Reunion," Cultured, March 2 (Link)
: Smith, Roberta. "Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible," NY Times, March 2 (Link)
: Akers, Torey. "Putting down roots: Wangechi Mutu takes over New Museum," The Art Newspaper, February 27 (Link)
: Mousse Magazine Staff. "“It’s Time” at Vielmetter, Los Angeles," Mousse Magazine, February 18 (Link)
: Nys Dambrot, Shana. "A Pair of Exhibitions Renovate Portraiture and Perfection at Vielmetter Los Angeles," LA Weekly, February 9 (Link)
: D’Souza, Aruna. "An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny," The New York Times, February 8 (Link)
: Clayton, Dominique. "The Best Black Art Shows in Los Angeles Right Now," Cultured, January 30
2022: Goodman, Lanie. "A Stroll Through the World’s Best Sculpture Parks," Cultured Magazine, June 17 (Link)
: Ngozi Nwangwa, Shirley. "Wangechi Mutu Brings Her Sculptures to Storm King," NY Times, June 2 (Link)
: Angeleti, Gabriella. "Storm King Art Center celebrates sculptor Wangechi Mutu in 2022 season," The Art Newspaper, March 15 (Link)
2021: "The Best Public Art of 2021," Artsy, Decemeber 12 (Link)
: Schoonmaker, Trevor. "Nasher Museum Installs First Commissioned Sculpture, MamaRay by Wangechi Mutu," Nasher Museum of Art At Duke University, November 18 (Link)
: Russo, Jillian. "Wandamba yalungka…/Winds change direction…," The Brooklyn Rail, September (Link)
: Abrams, Amah-Rose. "The Mythical Power of Wangechi Mutu," Sotheby’s, June 28 (Link)
: Wilson, Emily. "Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? at Legion of Honor Museum," Whitehot Magazine, July 2021 (Link)
: Ebert, Grace. "A Visit to Wangechi Mutu’s Nairobi Studio Explores Her Profound Ties to Nature and the Feminine," Colossal, July 23 (Link)
: Adiele, Faith. "Wangechi Mutu’s Sly and Imposing Takeover of a San Francisco Museum," Hyperallergic, July 21 (Link)
: Cardwell, Erica N. "’Born in Flames’ Trailblazes a Collective Feminist Future," Frieze, July 15 (Link)
: Chen, Jess. "Art Seen: Wangechi Mutu," The Brooklyn Rail, July/August (Link)
: Ascher, Storm. "Artist Wangechi Mutu Is Speaking. Are You Listening?, Cultured Magazine, June 16 (Link)
: Taylor, Robert. "Ancient Pompeii meets Wangechi Mutu — only at the SF Legion of Honor," The Mercury News, June 7 (Link)
: Curiel, Jonathan. "Wangechi Mutu Subverts Western Tropes," SF Weekly, May 15 (Link)
: Loos, Ted. "Museum Shows With Stories to Tell," New York Times, May 21 (Link)
: Kane, Peter-Astrid. "Decolonizing Rodin: America’s racial reckoning comes to a San Francisco art museum," The Guardian, May 8
: "Wangechi Mutu’s alternative mythologies," The Economist, May 7 (Link)
: Zack, Jessica. "Wangechi Mutu’s Legion of Honor exhibition creates a new mythology," The San Francisco Chronicle, May 6 (Link)
: Gereben, Janos. "Legion of Honor reopens with two original exhibitions," The San Francisco Examiner, May 5 (Link)
: Gómez-Upegui, Salomé. “10 Women Artists with Major Museum Shows in 2021,” Artsy, March 8 (Link)
: Mutu, Wangechi. "Wangechi Mutu Hates Horror and Loves Silence," Frieze, February 18
: Orley, Heidi Hirschl. "The Feminist Challenge of Wangechi Mutu," Museum of Modern Art Magazine, February 11 (Link)
: Loos, Ted. "The Light-Filled “Dream Studio” of Kenyan-American Artist Wangechi Mutu," Wall Street Journal, February 4
2020: Stapley-Brown, Victoria. "Wangechi Mutu asks the Legion of Honor, ‘Are you listening?’" The Art Newspaper, October 9
: Libbey, Peter. "Met Museum Acquires Two Sculptures by Wangechi Mutu," The New York Times, July 28 (Link)
: Durón, Maximiliano. "2020 Prospect New Orleans Triennial to Consider America’s ‘Unprecedented’ Political Moment," ArtNews, March 2 (Link)
: Suarez, Cyndi. "The Liberatory Force of the Imagination," Non Profit Quarterly, January 17 (Link)
: Baer, Ulrich. "Kehinde Wiley, Wangechi Mutu, and Kara Walker Upstage the Monuments Debate," Hyperallergic, January 15 (Link)
2019: Quinn, Annalisa. "Artist Wangechi Mutu: ‘I wanted them to sit upright and unafraid’," Financial Times, December 4 (Link)
: Murray, Cori. "Wangechi Mutu Makes Her-story For The First Time In The Met’s 117-Year History," Essence, November 6 (Link)
: Haigney, Sophie. "Wangechi Mutu’s Works to Grace the Met Facade Until June," New York Times, November 11 (Link)
: Collins, Ann C. "Wangechi Mutu: The NewOnes, will free Us," The Brooklyn Rail, October (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "‘I Didn’t Want Her to Carry the Weight’: How Wangechi Mutu’s African-Inspired Caryatids on the Met’s Facade Break Free of Tradition," artnet, September 30 (Link)
: Trujillo, Maria. "Liberating art history: Wangechi Mutu takes over the Metropolitan’s empty niches," ArtCritique, October 1 (Link)
: Aldridge, Taylor Renee. "‘We Ourselves Are Our Prize’: Lasting Works in the Whitney Biennial Evoke Toni Morrison and Ancestry Through the Ages," ARTnews, September 19 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "2019 Whitney Biennial: The Museum as a Site of Protest," CultureType, September 22 (Link)
: Morris, Kadish. "In Pictures: Wangechi Mutu’s Empowering Sculptures of African Women at The Met," Frieze, September 13 (Link)
: Sayej, Nadja. "’The works represent a new era’: behind the Met’s bold new sculptures," Guardian, September 16 (Link)
: Small, Zachary. "Wangechi Mutu Adorns the Met Museum’s Façade With Images of African Queendom," Hyperallergic, September 9 (Link)
: Cotter, Holland. "At 19 Art Shows, From Los Angeles to Manhattan, All Eyes Are on Inclusion," New York Times, September 9 (Link)
: Chisholm, N. Jamiyla. "Wangechi Mutu’s Sculptures Transform Iconic Steps at The Met," ColorLines, September 6 (Link)
: Belcove, Julie. "African-American Artists Will Deliver a Tidal Wave of Compelling Work This Fall," Robb Report, September 7 (Link)
: "Wangechi Mutu’s Female Figures Grace the Met’s Façade," New Yorker, September 9 (Link)
: MacSweeney, Eve. "How Kenyan-Born Artist Wangechi Mutu Is Taking Over the Met," W, August 27 (Link)
: Catlin, Roger. "Women’s Voices Ring With a Resounding Roar in this New Show," Smithsonian Magazine, July 17 (Link)
: Budick, Ariella. "Whitney Biennial: an anthology of young America," Financial Times, June 4 (Link)
: Loos, Ted. "Why These 4 Whitney Biennial Artists Are Making Waves," Galerie Magazine, May 10 (Link)
: Goodman, Jonathan. "Highlights from the 2019 Whitney Biennial," Art Fuse, May 30 (Link)
: Moffitt, Evan. "The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid to Be Beautiful," Frieze, May 20 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Artists Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker Land Major Museum Commissions," Culture Type, April 14 (Link)
: Freeman, Nate. "Wangechi Mutu will make works for the Metropolitan Museum’s façade for one in a trio of contemporary commissions,"Artsy, March 22 (Link)
: Libbey, Peter. "The Met Will Use its Facade and Great Hall to Showcase Contemporary Art," New York Times, March 21 (Link)
: Pellerin, Amanda. "Wangechi Mutu-Keep Moving, Keep Making Art," TL Magazine, January 12 (Link)
2018: Halperin, Julia and Charlotte Burns"Yes, Basquiat Is an Art-Market Superstar. But the Work of Other African American Artists Remains Vastly Undervalued," Artnet News, September 20 (Link)
: "’Road to Justice’ at MAXXI," Blouin Art Info (web), July 31 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L., "Baltimore Museum of Art Swaps Works by Warhol, Kline, Noland, and Rauschenberg for Acquisitions by Whitten, Sherald, Mutu, and Yiadom-Boakye," Culture Type (web), June 28 (Link)
: Spivack, Emily, “Why this artist is inspired by a chest of drawers,” The New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 20 (Link)
: Brownell Mitic, Ginanne, "In Nairobi, An Art Scene in Transition,” The New York Times, June 12 (Link)
: Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “’Multiply, Identify, Her’ International Center of Photography Museum (ICP),” ArtForum (web), June 2 (Link)
: “‘Inside my Studio’ with Wangechi Mutu,” Cultured Mag (web), June 1 (Link)
: Mertha, Amelia, "Postcolonial assemblages," Honi Soit (web) May 23 (Link)
: Yuelys, Joanna, "ICA Exhibition Highlights Social Division, Installation as Catalyst," The Heights (web), February 11 (Link)
: Wa Gacheru, Margaretta, "Wangechi Mutu, Artist Who’s Feted Abroad but Unknown in Kenya," Business Daily (web), January 25 (Link)
2017: Uszerowicz, Monica, “Performa 17 is Inspired by the Anarchic, Restlessly Inventive Spirit of Dada,” Hyperallergic (web), October 19 (Link)
: Travers, Andrew, “Anderson Ranch National Artist Award honoree Wangechi Mutu discusses her work,” The Aspen Times (web), July 19 (Link)
: McKenzie, Abby, “Wangechi Mutu,” Art Asia Pacific (web), June
: Fateman, Johanna, “Wangechi Mutu,” Artforum, April (Link)
: Gordon, Sean, “Wangechi Mutu Explores Afrofuturism and The New Humanism with Ndoro Na Miti,” Paste (web), February 12 (Link)
: D’Souza, Aruna, “Wangechi Mutu,” 4Columns (web), February 24 (Link)
: Scobie, Ilka, “Wangechi Mutu at Gladstone Gallery,” The Brooklyn Rail (web), March 1 (Link)
: Smith, Roberta, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week: Wangechi Mutu,” The New York Times, March 10 (Link)
2016: Bourland, Ian, "500 Words," Artforum, July 12 (Link)
: Cervenak, Sarah Jane, “Like Blood or Blossom: Wangechi Mutu’s Resistant Harvests,” Feminist Studioes 42, no. 2
: Sargent, Antwaun, “A Century of Pulp Fiction Offers a Window into Balck Identity,” The Creators Project (web), October 28
2015: Valentine, Victoria L., 2015 Venice Biennale to Include More than 25 Black Artists, Culture Type, March 5
: McGroarty, Patrick, Africans Turn to Local Art: Five Artists to Watch, The Wall Street Journal, March 13
: Muoz-Alonso, Lorena, 12 Must-Read Tips for a Successful Career in the Art World, Artnet News, April 6
: Said-Moorhouse, Lauren, Why Africa is the buzz at this years Venice Biennale, CNN.com, May 13
: Valentine, Victoria L., Commencement 2015: African American Artists Bestow Wisdom on Graduates, Culture Type, May 27
: Valentine, Victoria L., ARTnews Publishes Special Report on Women in the Art World, Black Artists Respond, Culture Type, May 31
: Stupart, Linda, Its not all a pretty picture at the Venice Biennale, channel24, May 24
: Sangweni, Yolanda, Campaign, with a Little Help from Solange, Essence, June 5
: Mutu, Wangechi, Wangechi Mutu Responds, ArtNews, June
: Scher, Rob, This New Arts Endeavor Hopes to Change the Way We Engage With Africa, Bedford + Bowery, June 5
: Forgenie, Cacy, RECAP: Wangechi Mutus Africas Out! Benefit, Flavorpill, June 8
: Mutu, Wangechi, Five Artists, Five Book Reviews, The New York Times, June 25
: Indrisek, Scott, 5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Tom of Finland, Hello Walls, and More, ArtInfo (web), July 9
: Sargent, Antwaun, Africas Out! Lets Celebrate, W Magazine, June 8
2014: Scheffler, Daniel, Brooklyn Inspires African Artists, The New York Times, October 14
: Tschida, Anne, "Fantastic Journey: Wangechi Mutu at Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami," The Miami Herald, May 23 (Link)
: Ballard, Thea, Deep Explorer: Wangechi Mutu Dives into Aquatic Mythology, Modern Painters, October
: Frank, Priscilla, 40 Contemporary African Artists Take on Danes Divine Comedy, The Huffington Post, October 20
: Young, Allison, Critics Pick: Wangechi Mutu, ArtForum, November 20
: Waxman, Lori, Seductive hells, Chicago Tribune, November 26
: Wallace, Arminta, In A Dance Class, You Are Often Made To Feel You Must Apologise For Your Body, Irish Times, August 12
: Instagrams Of The Art World: Wangechi Mutu And Flotus, Lena Dunhams Toilet, And More, Blouin Artinfo,Blogs.Artinfo.Com, August 8
: Mongezeleli Joja, Athi, The female form through Wangechi Mutus lens, Mail & Guardian, November 14
: Lebel, Estelle, Femmes Extrmes, Recherches Fministes, Vol. 27 No. 1
: Spettel, Elizabeth, Les Artistes Femmes: Des Esthtiques De La Limite Dpasse?,Feminist Research,July 2014
: Vitiello, Chris, Acklands More Love, Nashers Mutu Receive National Honors, Indyweek.Com, June 25
: Gaskins, Nettrice, Black Futurism: The Creative Destruction And Reconstruction Of Race In Contemporary Art,Blog.Art21.Org, June 24
: Tschida, Anne, An Intense Fantastic Journey , Miami Herald, May 25
: Thornton, Sarah, 33 Artists In 3 Acts Norton Books, Pp. 58-63, November
: Tschida, Anne, Fantastic Journey, The Miami Herald, May 23
: Willis, Deborah, Wangechi Mutu By Deborah Willis: Exploration Of The Female Body And Identity, Afrikadaa Magazine,Www.Africadaa.Com, May
: Conway, Megan, Performas 10th Anniversary Gala Honors the Art Worlds Renaissance Women, The Wall Street Journal, October 29
: Papenburg, Bettina, Grotesque Sensations: Carnivalising The Sensorium In The Art Of Wangechi Mutu,Www.Acadamia.Edu,May
: Barsamian, Edward, Vogue, Diane Von Furstenberg, Liya Kebede, John Mergrue, Wangechi Mutu, And Claire Danes Host A Born Free Africa Carnival, Vogue Magazine, Www.Vogue.Com, May 12
: Suarez De Jesus, Carlos, Art Mirrors Life In Wangechi Mutus Moca Show, Miami New Times, Www.Miaminewtimes.Com, May 1
: Bhoomki Believer: Wangechi Mutu, Www.Bhoomki.Com, May 6
: Neilson, Laura, Why Feminism Still Matters According to a Badass Artist, Refinery29, November 19
: Landers, Elizabeth, Designers Unite To End Hiv Transmission Www.Cnn.Com April 23
: Kim, Eun Kyung, Top Fashion Moms Design Collection To Fight Infant Aids Www.Today.Com, April 23
: Van Meter, Jonathan, The Fashion Industryteams Up With Born Free In The Fight Against Aids Www.Vogue.Com,April 23, 2014
: Cascone, Sarah, Wangechi Mutu-Designed Clothing Line For Victoria Beckham Helps Fight African Aids Crisis News.Artnet.Com, April 23
: Conmiff, Kelly, The Surreal Thing Time Magazine, April 14
: Toure, Katia, The Afro-Futurism: Retro Hip Trend Or Engaged Art? Www.Lesinrocks.Com, March 23
: The Fantastic, Feminine, And Futuristic Work Of Wangechi Mutu Www.Artobserver.Com, March 20
: Baum, Kell, Acquiring Modern Art Princeton Alumni Weekly, March 19
: Sumba, O., Wangechi Mutu Comes To Frankfurt Www.Oksh-Ev.De March 19
: Bourdin, Lara, The End Of Eating Everything Www.Zammagazine.Com, March 17
: Willis, Deborah, Wangechi Mutu Bomb Magazine, Bombmagazine.Org, February 28
: Cooper, Ashton, Boatright, Kristen, Video: Mickalene Thomas On Wangechi Mutu And Her Fantastic Journey Article: Www.Blouinartinfo.Com, Video: Www.Bcove.Me/K15l61w2, February 27
: Ehsan, Pari, Whimsical & A Ball, Www.Paridust.Com, February 28
: Naves, Mario, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey At The Brooklyn Museum Mnaves.Wordpress.Com, January 31 Stone, Paul Wangechi Mutu; I See The World As Being Somewhat Female. Www.Myfirstshoot.Com, January 12
: Caruth, Nicole J., Wangechi Mutu On Failure Art 21 Magazine, Blog.Art21.Org, January 10
: Hower, Wendy, A Wangechi Tree Grows In Brooklyn Www.Nasher.Duke.Edu Nasher Museum, January
: Bodin, Claudia, Abscheulich schne Krper, Art Magazin, January
: Willis, Deborah, Excerpt from BOMBs Oral History Project: Wangechi Mutu, BOMB, Winter
2013: Open Now! Go See: Wangechi Mutus Wild World @ the Brooklyn Museum, Dog Star, December 29
: Bhatia, Pooja, African Beauty, Now, OZY, December 12
: Kelley, Kevin J., Mutus art pieces deck the walls of Brooklyn Museum, Daily Nation, December 8
: Nsehe, Mfonobong, The 20 Young Power Women In Africa 2013, Forbes, December 4
: Wolff, Rachel, The New Collage, ARTnews, December
: Budick, Ariella, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, Brooklyn Museum, New York review, Financial Times, November 26
: Byrne, Brendan C., Cyborg Humanism: Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum, Rhizome.org, November 15
: Agustsson, Sola, Wangechi Mutus Fantastic Journey at The Brooklyn Museum, Whitewall, November 13
: Kaitano, Chiwoniso, The Afrofuturism of Wangechi Mutu, The Guardian, November 13
: Rosenberg, Karen, The Future Is African, The New York Times, November 8
: Mutu, Wangechi, The Women, Art in America, November
: The Lookout: Wangechi Mutu at the Brooklyn Museum, Art in America online, October 31
: Plagens, Peter, Passion and Talent in Large Doses: Exhibitions of Wangechi Mutu, Thomas Eggerer, and Karl Wirsum, The Wall Street Journal, October 26
: The Reckoning : Women Artist Of The New Millenium Prestel Publishing, Pp.55-58
: The Age Of Collage: Contemporary Collage In Modern Art, Gestalten Publishing Pp. 15-17
: Barsh, Joanna, Wangechi Lives Into Her Strengths Centered Leadership, Pp.55-59 Centered Leadership
: Russell, Heather, "Interview with Artist Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," artnet, October 18 (Link)
: Hansen-Bundy, Benjy, "A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu," Mother Jones, October 12 (Link)
: Moon, Grace, "Wangechi Mutu’s Fantastical Journey, Dripped, Dipped and Left to Bled," Velvet Park, October 16 (Link)
: Cotter, Holland, "A Window, Not a Mirror: A Survey of Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum," The New York Times, October 11 (Link)
: Cooper, Ashton, "Wangechi Mutu’s First New York Survey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," ArtInfo, October 11 (Link)
: Giancana, Norell, "Wangechi Mutu’s Fantastic Journey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," BET online, October 11 (Link)
: Karefa-Johnson, Gabriella, "Wangechi Mutu’s ‘Fantastic Journey’ Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," Vogue.com, October 11 (Link)
: Pearson, Erica, "Celebrated around the world, Kenyan-born Brooklyn resident Wangechi Mutu gets Brooklyn Museum retrospective," New York Daily News, October 6 (Link)
: Wolff, Rachel, Shell Probably Cut Up This Magazine Too, New York Magazine, August 25 (Link)
: Meier, Allison, The Grotesque Beauty of Wangechi Mutu, Hyperallergic, August 5 (Link)
: Lee, Denise, " ‘Migrating Identities’ showcases multicultural artists, examines cultural rifts," The Daily Californian, July 11
: Papenburg Ph.D, Bettina, "Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics," IB Taurus, London, UK
: Forrest, Nicholas, "Wangechi Mutu’s Diverse Work at Sydney’s MCA," ArtInfo, July 8
: Bierach, Barbara, Schock und Schnheit, Kunstmarkt, July 5, 6, 7
: Wolf, Rachel, 50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectable Artists, Art + Auction, June
: Greenberg, Blue, Mutus Woman both Gorgeous and Monstrous, The Herald Sun, April 5
: Menconi, David, Wangechi Mutu takes Nasher on A Fantastic Journey, newsobserver.com, March 23
: Anderson-Barranger, Hannah, Artist Mutu Premieres Show at Nasher, The Duke Chronicle, March 21
: Vitiello, Chris, Horror, Beauty, and Transcendence, (print title), In Her First Major U.S. Exhibition, Wangechi Mutu Thinks Big, (on-line title), Indy Week, March 20
: Bellamy, Cliff, Nasher to open touring exhibit of multi-media artist Wangechi Mutu, The Herald Sun, March 18
: Buck, Louisa, Feature Artist Interview: Mutable Montage, The Art Newspaper, Number 244, March
: Haskell, Angela, Artist Mutu’s work opens at Drexel, The Philadelphia Tribune, February 27
: Gandy, Mira, A Conversation with Kenyan Artist Wangechi Mutu on Art, Power and Returning Home, New York Beacon, February 21-27
: Schad, Ed, Wangechi Mutu at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Art Review, January/February
: Arceneaux, Edgar, Wangechi Mutu and Her Post Human Kenyan Mutants, KCET Artbound, January 9
: Lax, Thomas J, Preview: Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey at the Nasher Museum of Art, Artforum, January
: Bodies Bright and Greater: Mixed Media Collages by Wangechi Mutu, Harpers Magazine, January
2012: Mohseni, Yasmine, 5 L.A. Gallery Shows You Should Go See Right Now, ArtInfo, December 20
: From struggling student to international art guru, The Daily Nation Kenya, December 8
: Pagel, David, "Past, present collide in Wangechi Mutu’s ‘Nitarudi Ninarudi’", The Los Angeles Times, November 29 (Link)
: Yablonsky, Linda, "Women In Art 2012: Wangechi Mutu", Elle Magazine, December
: Richardson, Jared, "Attack of the Boogeywoman: Visualizing Black Women’s Grotesquerie in Afrofuturism", Art Papers, November/December
: Fiduccia, Joanna, Heavy Painting, Spike Quarterly, Issue 33, Autumn
: Bynoe, Holly, "Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Glassell School of Art presents There is no archive in which nothing gets lost", ARC Magazine, September 1
: The Subjective Object, GRASSI Museum fr Vlkerkunde zu Leipzig, K. Verlag Press, August
: This Undreamt Descent: Wangechi Mutu in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Deutsche Bank, July 13
: Bidouzo-Coudray, Joyce, Wangechi Mutu The Catatonic Bliss of Violent Incidences, Another Africa, June 12
: Rankin, Kelly. 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, The University of Toronto News, February 6
: Pohl, John. The Beauty of Body Language, Montreal Gazette, February 4
: Salehi, Ashkan. 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, The Strand, February 2
: Schechter, Fran, For 28 Days Only: Top Artists Fuel Black History Show, Now Toronto, February 1
: Arbus, Miriam, Artists Rethink Black History Month in 28 Days, The Newspaper: University of Toronto’s Independent Weekly, January 26
: Goldberg, RoseLee, Shirin Neshat and Wangechi Mutu, Flash Art 282, January
2011: Elliot, Bobby, The Bearden Project: A Family Affair, The Huffington Post, December 7
: Saro-Wiwa, Zina, Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Kilimanjaro Magazine, Autumn/Winter
: Hampton, Dream, It Was All a Dream, Life + Times, September 19
: Kunitz, Daniel, Wangechi Mutu, Modern Painters, September
: Cotter, Holland, Under Threat: The Shock of the Old, New York Times, April 17
: Spence, Rachel, The Power of Instinct, The Financial Times, April 15
: Herndon, Lara Kristin, Wangechi Mutu, ArtPapers, March/April
: Hirsch, Faye, Sharon Stone In Abuja, Art in America, March
: Jones, Kellie, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, Duke University Press
: Enwezor, Okwui, Cut & Paste: Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Arise Magazine, Issue 11
: Wainaina, Binyavanga, One Day I Will Write About This Place, Minneapolis, MN: Gray Wolf Press, Cover image
: Tate, Greg and LaTasha Diggs, Coon Bidness: The Critical Ass Issue, pp. 22-23, 82
2010: Kantilal Patel, Alpesh, Wangechi Mutu, Gladstone Gallery, ArtForum Critics Pick, November 17
: Stern, Melissa, Hunt, Bury, Flee: Drawings By Wangechi Mutu, CityArts, Nov. 20
: Wehr, Anne, Wangechi Mutu, Hunt Bury Flee, Time Out New York, November 18-24
: Rosenberg, Karen, Wangechi Mutu, Hunt, Bury and Flee, The New York Times, November 12
: Yablonsky, Linda, Artifacts | Moths and Mercenaries, T Magazine, November 4
: Rohr-Bongard, Schreckensschoene Schnippelei, Manager Magazin, August
: This You Call Civilization? Art Gallery of Ontario, The Art Street Journal, August
: Smith, Roberta, Art? Life? Must We Choose? New York Times, July 2
: Hove, Jan Van, Droombeelden Uit Afrika, De Standard, July
: Nutt, Harry, Mischwesen, Frankfurter Rundschau, June 1
: Clarke, Bill, Wangechi Mutu: Art Gallery of Ontario, Modern Painters, Summer Woeller, Marcus, Sex und Gewalt (Vorsicht, Falle!), TAZ, May 12
: Arts and Culture: Wangechi Mutu, BBC World News Service, May 7
: Cash, Stephanie, Wangechi Mutu: Terrible Beauty, Art in America, May
: Bodin, Claudia, Monstrse Brute und Zwitter, Art: Das Kunstmagazin, May
: Kuhn, Nicola, Gefhrlich schne Gttinnen, Der Tagesspiegel, April 29
: Nys Dambrot, Shana, Daily Dose Pick, Flavorwire, April 28
: Karcher, Eva, Wangechi Mutu, Vogue.de, April 28
: Dembo, Wendy, My Dirty Little Heaven, coolhunting.com, April 28
: Prospect.1 New Orleans Shows Public Art as a Form of Civic Engagement, artdaily.org, April 12
: Reed, Aimee, Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Daily Serving, April 12
: Rylance, David, Bold New Bodies for a Brave New World: David Altmejds The Index and Wangechi Mutus This you call civilization?, Transductions, April 4
: Wiensowski, Ingeborg, Grausamer Glamour: Schoen und erschreckend wirken die Collagen von
: Wangechi Mutu. Erstmals sind sie in Berlin zu sehen, Kultur Spiegel, April
: Evans, Matthew, We Categorize What Were Afraid Of, Deutsche Guggenheim Magazine, Issue 11, Spring
: Sandals, Leah, Questions and Artists: Wangechi Mutus Beauty Riff Collages, National Post, February 25
: The Short List, Portland Tribune, February 25
: Goldstein, Andrew, Wangechi Mutu Wins Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year Award, Art Info, February 23
: Row, D.K., Beauty Amid the Upheaval, The Oregonian, February 22
: Crow, Kelly, Wangechi Mutu is Deutsche Banks Artist of the Year 2010, Wall Street Journal, February 22
: Milroy, Sarah, Amid the Games, Artists Dissect the Body, The Globe and Mail, February 19
: Laurence, Robin, Shows Dissect the Body and Human Fears, The Georgia Straight, February 11-18
: Griffin, Kevin, Visceral Bodies Shows Off Our Fleshy Architecture, The Vancouver Sun, February 15
: Family Skeletons on Display, The Globe and Mail, February 8
: Ampofo, Akosua Adomako, and Signe Arnfred, African Feminist Politics of Knowledge, Sweden: The Nordic Africa Institute, Cover image
: Artpace Alumi Update, Artpace 10.1, San Antonio, TX
: Barson, Tanya, and Peter Gorschlter, Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic, London: Tate Publishing, Cover image
: Evans, Matthew, Wangechi Mutu: Between Beauty and Horror, ArtMag Issue 57
: Face to Face, Vogue Italia May Issue 717, p. 24
: Taguchi Art Collection, New Global Art. Japan: Kentaro Oshita
: Han, Heng-Gil, Network and Fluid, pp. 85, 117
: Patton, Sharon, Close Up: Enwezor, The International Review of African American Art
: Present, Frankfurt, Germany: Deusche Bank Artworks
: Spotlight: Artist of the Year 2010: Wangechi Mutu, ArtNews
2009: Smith, Roberta, Dress Codes: Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement, New York Times, October 8
: Cotter, Holland, The Week Ahead: April 26 – May 2, New York Times, April 24
: Sweeney, Eve, A Fertile Mind, Vogue, pp. 190, 248, April, Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
: Bernoni, Giorgia, Un Corpo Mutante e Ambiguo, Inside Art (Italy), March
: Mirov, Ben, ART: Pretty Ugly: Wangechi Mutu, A Shady Promise, Brooklyn Rail, February
: Wei, Lilly, New Orleans Report: Deliverance: The Biennial, Art In America, February
: Halpern, Ashlea, Out of Africa, TimeOut New York, pg 41 Issue 694 January 15-2
: Ligon, Glenn, Civic Engagement: To Miss New Orleans, Art Forum, January
: Stern, Steven, Looking Back: Prospect.1 New Orleans, Frieze, Issue 120, January
2008: Mueller, Kurt, Houston: Damaged Romanticism at the Blaffer Gallery, Art Lies, No. 60, Winter
: Gawlik, Goschka, Horror Beauties mit Zerschnittenen Seelen, Art Magazine, November 19
: Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, ARTnews, Los Angeles: Wangechi Mutu, pg 176 Vol 107/Number 10, Novermber
: Studio, Studio Magazine, Museum of Harlem, Upcoming Exhibitions, pg 13, Fall/Winter
: Austin, Tom, Dollar Signs, Moral Symbols: A MAM Exhibition Incites Plenty of Value Judgments, The Miami Herald, December 7
: Finch, Charlie, Lighter than Eros, Artnet, November 12
: Ellwood, Mark, Our Man In: New Orleans, GQ Magazine, November 7
: Robinson, Walter, Bleeding-Heart Biennale, Art Net Magazine, November 7
: Britt, Douglas, Blaffer Exhibit Finds Beauty in the Bleak, The Houston Chronicle, November 5
: Dewan, Shaila, New Orleans Rising, by Hammer and Art, New York Times, October 29
: Browne, Alix, Cuff Love, New York Times, October 3
: Watson, Simon, Wangechi Mutu: Mass in the Time of War, Whitewall, Spring
: Pagel, Daniel, Boldly Linking all the Pieces: Wangechi Mutu at Vielmetter, Los Angeles Times, April 11
: Miles, Christopher, Art Around Town, Los Angeles Weekly, April 10
: Dembo, Wendy, Wangechi Mutu, Cool Hunting, April 7
: Garcia, Kathryn, Culver City, Opening Night, For Your Art, April 2
: Continuing and Recommended, ArtScene, April
: Heartney, Eleanor, Make It New, Art in America, April
: Wangechi Mutu: Little Touched, Beautiful Decay.com, April 1
: Catherine Wagley, Destroying Prettiness: Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker, Daily Serving, March 31
: Goldman, Edward, ArtTalk: Art, Sex, and Videotape, KCRW, March 18
: Shaw, Alex, More Flavor: Lecture, Wangechi Mutu, Flavorpill, March 13
: Turner, Elisa, Wilfredo Lam Meets Miami, Art Circuits: Miami Visual Art Guide, Spring
: Enright, Robert, Resonant Surgeries: The Collaged World of Wangechi Mutu, Border Crossings Magazine, Issue No. 105, February
: Yablonsky, Linda, Poll Positions, Artforum.com, February 6
: Feature: Paper Cuts, Artkrush, Issue 77, February 6
: Martin, Courtney J., Pick: Wangechu Mutu at Victoia Miro Gallery, London, Artforum, January 18
: Martin, Courtney J., Wangechi Mutu: Yo.n.l, Artkrush, Issue 75, January 9
: Cox, Lorraine Morales, Transformed Bodies, Colonial Wounds & Ethnographic Tropes: Wangechi Mutu in 2008
: Violence, N. Paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal, Ed. Katy Deepwell, Volume 21
2007: Volzke, Daniel, Ab dem 22. November: Wangechi Mutu zeigt opulente Collagen in London, Monopol, December
: Steinberg, Claudia, Aufbruchstimmung an der Lower East Side, Kunstzitung, December
: Macmillan, Kyle, Exhibit shows a world of fine artists, Denver Post, November 1
: Eshun, Ekow, The Art of Darkness, Vogue, November
: Row, DK, In praise of bolder women, The Oregonian, October 29
: Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, The Big Bend Sentinel, September 20
: Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Figure Painting Today, pg 110
: Voelz Chandler, Mary, Inside the Box: New Museum building squares up space for art, education, community, Rocky Mountain News, August 23
: Dimling Cochran, Rebecca, Pick: Wangechi Mutu at ACA Gallery, Atlanta, Artforum, June 7
: Heartney, Eleanor, Worldwide Women, Art in America, June/July
: Aldarondo, Cecilia, Ghada Amer + Wangechi Mutu, Art Papers, May/June
: Kruger, Barbara, Wangechi Mutu, Interview Magazine, April
: Nolan, Joe, Wangechi Mutu: Sleeping Heads Lie, Number Independent Arts Journal, No 58, Spring
: Koenig, Wendy, Wangechi Mutu: Memphis, Art Papers, March/April
: Abbie, Mary, Feminism Revisited: Art by two African-born women revitalizes feminist issues in a handsome Franklin Art Show, Star Tribune, March
: Brooks, Amra, Fair Report: Art LA, artinfo, February 10
: Cotter, Holland, Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, The New York Times, January 29
: Ellis, Patricia, Catching up with Charles (Saatchi), FlashArt, January/February
: Oguibe, Olu, Looking Back: the most significant shows of 2006, frieze, January, issue 104
: Spaulding, David, New York, Interrupted, Artforum, January
2006: Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People: the state of the art, Thames and Hudson, London
: Cameron, Dan, New York, Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
: Jongbloed, Marjorie, Entangled: Approaching Contemporary African Artists, Marjorie Jongbloed and VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover
: Wangechi Mutu- The Art Universe, Vanity Fair, December, pg 352
: Koeppel, Fredric, Gorgeous surfaces in a nightmare of sensuality, corruption, violence, The Memphis Commercial Appeal, November 10
: Maart, Brenton, Distant Relatives: Artists of the African Diaspora, Mail and Gardian, Western Cape South Africa, Vol. 22 #43, pg 2, Nov 3-9
: New Prints Review, Art on Paper, November/December
: Carver, Jon, Still Points of the Turning World, Art Papers, November/December, pg 69
: Martin, Courtney, Site San Fe 6th International Biennial: Still Points of the Turning World, Contemporary, Issue 86, pg 64
: Blumenstein, Ellen, L.A. Confidential, Monopol, November/December
: Korotkin, Lindsay, Reviews, Tema Celeste, November/December, pg 78
: Berkovitch, Ellen, SITE Santa Fes 6th International Biennial, artUS, November
: Colpitt, Frances, A Slow-Motion Biennial, Art in America, October, pp 69-75
: Murray, DC, Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA, Art in America, October, pg 205
: Wright, Karen, Saatchi Exhibits Totemic Art, Surrealist Penis, bloomberg.com, October 6
: Muchnic, Suzanne, The Art Explosion, Los Angeles Times, October 1
: Rimanelli, David, Scene & Herd: A Night at the Opera, Artforum.com, September 26
: Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. Art is Passion, Blanton Museum of Art: America Art Since 1900,
: The Articulate, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
: Auricchio, Laura, Wangechi Mutu, Art Papers, September/October
: Murinik, Tracy, Afro-Alien Exquisite Corpses, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 26-29
: Klopper, Sandra, Distant Relatives/Relative Distance, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 64-65
: Black, Ezrha Jean, Labyrinths of SITE: Ottmann scales down numbers and theme, but stays big on art, artillery, vol 1 no 1, September
: Vogel, Carol, Where Bel Canto Meets Paintbrush, New York Times, August 15
: Morris, Tom, "Still Points of the Turning World", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 37
: Roberts, Angela, "Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 139
: Walker, Hollis, "Colonial apparitions", Pasatiempo, July 7-13
: Fischer, Zane, "Art Without Excuses", Santa Fe Reporter, July 5-11
: Wangechi Mutu, The New Yorker, June 26
: Wangechi Mutu, The New Yorker, June 12
: Smith, Roberta, Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, New York Times, June 9
: Kazanjian, Dodie, Fierce Creatures, Vogue, June
: Perryer, Sophie, Distant Relatives/Relative Distance (catalogue no.21), June
: Berwick, Carly, Jungle-Punk Princesses Populate Wangechi Mutus Solo NYC Debut, Bloomberg.com, May 31
: Wilson, Michael, House Red, Artforum.com Diary, May 25
: Pollack, Barbara, Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, Time Out New York, Issue 556, May 25-31
: Miller, Paul, A Gathering of the Tribes #11, Time Out New York, Issue 556, pg 70, May 25-31
: Taylor, Catharine P, Charles Saatchi messes with USA Today, adweek.blogs.com, May 12
: Alberge, Dalva, Hang it allthey want to sneak Saatchis junk into our academy, The Times (UK), May 11
: Lewis, Caroline, Saatchis USA Today at the Royal Academy of Arts London, 24hourmuseum.org, May 10
: Reynolds, Nigel, Saatchi is ready for another sensation at the RA, The Daily Telegraph, April 5
: Goodyear, Sarah, Wangechi Mutu: An Artist Comes into Her Own, Bklyn, Spring, page 20
: Wangechi Mutu at SFMoma, ArtInfo.com, March
: Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Thames & Hudson
: Helfand, Glen, Voluptuous Horror Wangechi Mutu harnesses the power of violence and beauty,
: San Francisco Bay Guardian.com,vol. 10 no. 14, January 4-10
: Helfand, Glen, Wangechi Mutu, Artforum.com, January 3
: Cotter, Holland, Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, New York Times, January
: 1111 Journal of Literature and Art, Volume III
: Thomas, Liz, Wangechi Mutu, The F-Word Zine, Number 2, page 2
: For Committed Civic Engagement, The Cooper Union, pg 16
: Oliveira, Filipa, Wangechi Mutu, Arte Contemporanea, pg 66
: Schmidt, Jason, Artists: photographs by Jason Schmidt, pg 90
: Cotter, Holland. ART; Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, The New York Times, Section E, pg1, January
2005: Paul, Jonathan S., Places, Everyone, The New York Times Style Magazine, Winter
: Oliveira, Filipa, Wangechi Mutu, W-Art Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue no. 8, pages 66-69
: Future Greats 2005, ArtReview, Volume IX, December, page 99
: Fricke, Kirsten, Sex Sells, Beautiful Decay, December
: Smith, Roberta, Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist, The New York Times, November 18
: Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York, (catalog illustration, page 388)
: Adjaye, David, Top Ten, Artforum, November
: Trellis, Emma, Mutable Mutu, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, October
: Weinberg, Michelle, Out of Africa: Female Forms that Tell a Tale of Torture, Miami New Times, Sept. 15
: Turner, Elisa, Going Solo: Wangechi Mutu Finds Inspiration In Her Native Africa, The Miami Herald, Sept.11
: Hatcher, David, Poco a Go-Go, X-tra, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall Issue
: Arty Hour, The Herald, August 12
: Luis, Carlos M., Wangechi Mutu y su Amazing Grace, Artes & Letras, August 7
: Amazing Grace, Miami Monthly, August
: Fricke, Kirsten, Wangechi Mutu, Beautiful/Decay, Issue L, August
: Ellis, Patricia, Wangechi Mutu – The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery essay
: Bravo, Gabriel C., Wangechi Mutu Art Exhibit, MiamiPoetryReview.com, July 22
: Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, Mutus Mojo, The Miami New Times, July 21
: Amazing Grace: First Solo Show for Kenyan-born Artist, Coral Gables Gazette, July 21
: Sheets, Hilarie M., Using Art to Build Pride, The New York Times, June 1
: Kapferer, Roland, Africa Remix, Frieze, June/July/August Issue 92, page 156
: Heartney, Eleanor, Return to the Real, Art in America, June/July, pages 85-89
: Korotkin, Joyce B., Fight or Flight, Tema Celeste, May/June, pages 76-77
: de La Forterie, Maud, Africa Remix Continental, Art Actuel, Issue #38, May/June, pages 47-50
: Post-Black, Post-Soul, or Hip-Hop Iconography: Defining the new Aesthetics, The International
: Review of African American Art, Volume 20 #2
: Lo, Melissa, Wangechi Mutu, Flash Art, May/June Issue, Vol. XXXVIII, NO. 242, page 146
: Chevalier, Jari, Greater New York Show at P.S.1, The New York Art World.com, April
: Brielmaier, Isolde, Wangechi Mutu: Re-Imagining The World, Parkett, No. 74, pp. 6-13
: Where to buy – Wangechi Mutu, The Week, March 25
: Andersson, Ruben, Mixed Bag of African avant-garde, The London Globe, March 20
: Rosenberg, Karen, Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough, New York Magazine, March 3
: Continued and Recommended, ArtScene, Vol.24, no.7, March
: Painted Ladies, SouthBank, March
: Myers, Holly, Artists at play in the world, Los Angeles Times, February 25
: Brownell, Ginanne, "Front and Center: In London, it’s the year of African art", Newsweek, www.msnbc.com, February 17
: Harrison, Sara, Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Art Monthly, February
: Pollack, Barbara, Panic Room, Time Out New York, January 13-19, pages 55-56
: Biro, Matthew, "Reviews – Midwest", Art Papers, pg. 51, January/February Issue
2004: Graham-Dixon, Andrew, All stuck and scribbled, The Sunday Telegraph, December 19, page 112
: Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, BBC News UK edition, December 13
: Cripps, Charlotte, Work at the cutting edge, The Independent Review, December 2, page 18
: A-Z London, The Art Newspaper, No.153, December
: Ciuraru, Carmela, Cutting Remarks, Cover Page and Feature, ArtNews, November
: Leitzes, Cary Estes, Body Politic, and Kunitz, Daniel, US Editors Letter, ArtReview, cover and feature, pages 61-63, September
: Cotter, Holland, Black comes in Many Shadings, The New York Times, Friday, August 13, page E29
: Kelly, Kevin, Reward for Creative Touch, Daily Nation, Lifestyle Magazine, August 11
: Johnson, Kenneth, Shes Come Undone, The New York Times, July 9
: Ribas, Joao, Shes come Undone, Time Out, July 8, page 55
: Kerr, Merrily, Extreme Makeovers, Art on Paper, July/August, page 28-29
: Schwendener, Martha, "She’s Come Undone", ArtForum.com critics pick, June
: Saltz, Jerry, Borough Hall, Village Voice, May 3
: Smith, Roberta, "Emerging Talent and Plenty of It", The New York Times, March 12
: Martin, Courtney, Looking Both Ways, Flash Art, January/February
: Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential", Artnet.com, January 24
: Daily, Meghan, "Peter Norton – Collecting with a Conscience", Guggenheim Magazine, Winter, pg 30
2003: Williamson, Sue, Looking Both Ways, Artthrob, December
: Cotter, Holland, Redefining the African Diaspora, New York Times, November 21
: Pagel, David, Harrowing, hallucinatory visions – Wangechi Mutu at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, October 24
: Martin, Courtney, Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Flash Art, October
: Fleey, Peter, Black President, Frieze Magazine, October, page 118
: Sirmans, Franklin, Portfolio, Grand Street, Fall
: Koirala, Snigdha, Black President, BOMB, Fall, page 17
: Cotter, Holland, King of Music, New York Times, July 18
: Cotter, Holland, Off The Record, New York Times, May 16
: Cotter, Holland, Wangechi Mutu, New York Times, March 14
: McKanic, Arlene, Mutus Disturbing Creatures at JCAL, Q.guide, March 13
: Ashford, Doug, Off The Record, Time Out Magazine, May 8-15
: Croal, Aida Mashaka, Africana, March
: Oneacre, Alison, Hallowed Walls, Womens Wear Daily, February 3
2002: Murray, Soraya, Africaine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall/Winter, p. 88-93
: Banai, Nuit, Body of Evidence, One World, August/September, p. 124-125
: Hazlewood, Carl E., Hot Shows From the Edge: Summer in the City, NYArts, September
: Barliant, Claire, Africaine, Art on Paper, July/August
: Johnson, Ken, Art Guide, The New York Times, July 5
: Cotter, Holland, From the Ferment of Liberation Comes a Revolution in African Art, New York Times, Feb. 17
: Budick, Arielle, Identity, a Concept Explored in 2 Harlem Shows, Newsday, February 1
: Cunningham, Bill, Old and New, New York Times, January 27
2001: African art exhibit, Daily News, November 25
: Sonkin, Rebecca, Good Rap, Art News, April, p. 41
2000: Brockington, Horace, After Representation, The International Review of African American Art, p. 47
: Ziolkowski, Thad, The Magic City, Artforum, October
: The Magic City, The New Yorker, August 14, p. 14
: Johnson, Ken, The Magic City, The New York Times, August 11
: Johnson, Ken, The Magic City, The New York Times, August 4
1999: Sirmans, Franklin, Surely it Cannot Burn so Long, Time Out Magazine, November 25December 2
: Oguibe, Olu and Enwezor, Okwui, Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, The MIT Press, p. 10
1998: Sadao, Amy, Transgressive Imaginations, essay and interview on Wangechi Mutu and Rina Banerjee

Catalogues

2026: Apsara DiQuinzio, Makeda Best, William L. Fox, Maia Nuku, Maya Lin. "Into the Time Horizon," Radius Books Co-published with the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.
2023: Norton, Margot, Vivian Crockett, Maureen Mahon, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, and Tina Campt. "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined," The New Museum
2022: Tandiwe Bell, Aisha, Nora Lawrence, John P. Stern and Wangechi Mutu. "Wangechi Mutu. Storm King Art Center" X Artists’ Books.
2021: Liebert, E., Fellah, N. R., Griswold, W., Liebert, E., Keith, N. J., Wexler, L., Lax, T. J., and Griswold, W. (2021). Picturing Motherhood Now. Pg 118-119. Cleveland Museum of Art
: Schmuckli, Claudia, Issac Julien and Wangechi Mutu. "I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?" de Young/ Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Del Monico Books, D.A.P., New York, NY
2020: de la Fuente, Alejandro. "Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora, Issue 129," Hutchins Center at Harvard University, Indiana University Press, pg 27-45
2019: Hockley, Rujeko; and Jane Panetta. "Whitney Biennial 2019," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY pg 58
: English, D., Barat, C., and Lowery, G. D. (2019). Among Others, Blackness at MoMA. Pg 322-323. Museum of Modern Art.
: Barat, Charlotte. ed. "Among Others: Blackness at MoMA," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2019.
2018: Schneider, Anna, "Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art," Munich: Prestel, pg. 122-127.
: Chao, Marina, "Multiply, Identify, Her," New York: International Center for Photography, pg 52-57.
2017: Lewis, Heidi and Roland Mitchell, "Beyond Mammy, Jezebel and Sculpture and Sapphire," Portland: The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, 2017, pg 14; 36-39; 65-67.
: Colo, Holland Cotter, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Rachel Gugelberger, and Jeanette Ingberman, "Unfinished Memories/30 Yeras of Exit Art," New York: Steidl, pg. 88
: "Thirty Years," New York: Socrates Sculpture Park, pg 70-71.
: "Lucy’s Iris: Contemporary African Women Artists," (El Iris de Lucy: artistas africanas contemporaneas), Madrid: Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, pg. 176-179.
: Direktor, Ruth, "Rearding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro Futurism," Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, pg 92.
: Phillips, Lisa, "New Museum: 40 Years New," New York: Phaidon, pg 164.
2016: Olowu, Duro, "Making and Unmaking," London: Ridinghouse and Camdnen Arts Centre, pg 36-37.
: "Biennale Internationale de L’art Contemporain Casablanca," Casablanca: Maroc Premium Foundation, pg 32
: Demand, Thomas (editor), "L’image volée," Milan: Fondazione Prada, pg. 13; 94-96
: Della Monica, Lauren P., “Bodies of Work: Contemporary Figurative Painting,” Schiffer, Atglen, PA
2015: Hudson, Suzanne. "World of Art, Contemporary Painting," Thames & Hudson, pg 79-80
: Malbert, Roger. "Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art," Thames & Hudson
2013: Kent, Rachel, Wangechi Mutu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia. Includes essays by Mbugua Kimani, Dan Cameron, and Adrienne Edwards.
: Schoonmaker, Trevor; Stiles, Kristine; and Tate, Greg, "Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," Duke University Press
: Getlein, Mark. "Living With Art," Tenth Edition, McGraw Hill, pp. 55-56
2012: "VISIONS 15 Years Deutsche + Guggenheim," Deutsche Bank AG, November
: Blisle, Jos. "Wangechi Mutu," Muse d’art contemporain de Montral
2011: The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Angela
: Thompson, Susan, "Wangechi Mutu, The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection"
: Hou, Hanru. "The Power of Doubt," pp. 100-107
2010: Htte, Friedhelm, Ed. "Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven," with essays by Okwui Enwezor, Lauri Firstenberg, Courtney J. Martin, and Klaus Ottman, Deutsche Guggenheim, Hatje Kanz, Berlin
: Moos, David and Jennifer Gonzalez, Odili Donad Odita, and Raphael Rubinstein. "Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?" Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, DAP Books.
: "Visceral Bodies," Exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery, pp. 56-57
: "The Visible Vagina," Exhibition catalogue, Francis Naumann Fine Art/David Nolan Gallery
2009: rebelle, Art and Feminism 1960-2009, Museum of Modern Art, Arnheim, NL
: Ditner, Judy, Ed. "Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video," ICP/ Steidl Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Ed. 100 Contemporary Artists, Taschen, Berlin
: Bonham-Carter, Charlotte, and David Hodge. "The Contemporary Art Book," Goodman Books, Carlton Press, London
: Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace. "30 Americans," Rubell Family Collection
: Scala, W. Mark, ed. "Paint Made Flesh, First Center for Visual Arts," Vanderbilt University Press
: "In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor," Laguna Art Museum in association with Gingko Press
: "At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," New York: CCS Bard
: Holzwarth, Hans Werner. "Art Now, Vol. 3," Taschen, essay by Astrid Mania
: "Prospect.1 New Orleans," texts by Barbara Bleomink, Dan Cameron, Lolis Eric Elie, and Claire Tancons, Picturebox Inc., Brooklyn, NY, November
: Singleton, Douglas Ed. "Wangechi Mutu: A Shady Promise," Damiani Press, with essays by Isolde Brielmaier, Malik Gaines and Michael Veal, March
: Video Studio, Studio Museum in Harlem, p. 5, Fall/Winter
: Sultan, Terry, David Pagel, Colin Gardner, Claudia Schmuckli. "Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion," Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, D Giles Limited, London
: Yo.n.l, Victoia Miro Gallery, London, UK
2007: "Global Feminisms, New Directions in Contemporary Art," Brooklyn Museum Merrell Publishers Limited, pp 53, 280
: "Wangechi Mutu: The Cinderella Curse," ACA Gallery of SCAD, November
2006: Zoubok, Pavel. "The New Collage," Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
: Enwezor, Okwui. "The Unhomely Phantom Scenes in Global Society," October
: "Wangechi Mutu," The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, New York
: Gupta, Anjali, Wangechi Mutu, Blanton Museum of Art. "American Art Since 1900," Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, pgs 220-221
: INFINITE PAINTING- Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, September, pg 122
: Brandstetter, Anna-Maria, Violence/Trauma/Memory, ed. Marjorie Jongbloed, Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany
: Ottmann, Klaus, Still Points of the Turning World, SITE Santa Fe International Biennial Exhibition, July
: Bonami, Francesco, Cosulich, Canarutto, Sarah, Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centro dArte Contemporanea, exhibition catalog, pg.122-123
2005: Dexter, Emma, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawings, Phaidon Press, London and New York,essay page 214, illustrations page 215-217, bio page 334
: Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London
: McDowell, Tara. "New Work: Wangechi Mutu," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: Kantor, Jordan. "Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005," Museum of Modern Art, New York, p. 185
: "Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures," Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management and University of Richmond Museums, VA
: Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1. Contemporary Art Center/ MoMA, Queens, NY, March Kuramitsu, Kris and LeFelle-Collins, Lizetta. "Linkages & Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Art Collections,,"
: Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
: Boswell, Peter. "Wangechi Mutu – Amazing Grace," Miami Art Museum
: Vielmetter, Susanne. "Wangechi Mutu," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, with essay by Christopher Miles
: eleven eleven {1111} "Journal of Literature and Art," California College of the Arts San Francisco
: Brielmaier, Isolde and Tu, Thuy Linh N. "Rewind/Re-Cast/Review," Berrie Arts Center, NJ
: "Color Wheel Oblivion," Marella Arte Contemporanea, pp. 38-40
2004: "Africa Remix," Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, Germany
: "Gwangju Biennial," South Korea
: Muhammad, Dalya Erica. "Wangechi Mutu," The Studio Museum in Harlem, July
: Cameron, Dan, Artpace Residencies and Exhibition Catalog, pg. 63-69
2003: Farrell, Laurie Ann. "Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora Museum for African Art," Long Island City, NY, catalogue essay by Laurie Firstenberg, Perverse Anthropology
: Schoonmaker, Trevor. "Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti," The New Museum, New York
1997: Jones, Kellie. "Lifes Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s, Trade Routes: History and Geography," 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, p. 287

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2026: National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship, In Partnership with Artfund and Whitworth, The University of Manchester
2019: Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Inaugural Façade Commission, New York, NY
2018: Honoree African Art Awards Dinner, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC
2017: Artist Honoree, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Gala, Washington DC
: National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
2016: Cultural Leadership Award, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
2014: United States Artist Fellow
2013: African Diaspora Awards, New York, NY
: Blackstar Film Festival Audience Award for Favorite Experimental Film, Philadelphia, PA
: Brooklyn Museum Artist of the Year, Brooklyn, NY
2011: Cooper Union Augustus St. Gaudens Distinguished Artist Award, New York, NY
2010: Artist of the Year Award, Deutsche Bank
2008: The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, NY
: Cooper Union Urban Visionaries Awards, Emerging Talent Award, New York, NY
2007: The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award New York, NY
2006: Presidents Citation in Art, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2005: Artist in Residence, Steep Rock, Washington, CT
2004: Artist in Residence, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
: The Chrysalis Award, The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art, New York, NY
2003: Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Artist in Residence, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2001: Jamaica Center for the Arts Fellowship, Queens, NY
2000: Fannie B. Pardee Fellowship, New Haven, CT
1998: Masters of Fine Art Fellowship, Sculpture Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1994: Richard Leakey Merit Award, Nairobi, Kenya

Public Collections

: Altoids Collection / New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
: Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
: The Hague, Netherlands
: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: Judith Rothschild Foundation / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC
: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
: Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MI
: San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Tate Modern, London, UK
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Nate Lewis

: Born in Beaver Falls, PA
: Lives and works in New York City, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "Tuning The Signals," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Still Tuning the Current," Ziddoun Bossuyt, Paris, France
2022: "Tuning the Current," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2020: "Latent Tapestries," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2019: "Untitled Art Miami Beach with Remy Jungerman," Fridman Gallery, Miami, FL
: "Paris Photo," Curiosa section, Fridman Gallery, Paris, France
: The Armory Show, Focus section, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2018: EXPO Chicago, Fridman Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair," Special Projects, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
: "Latent Tensions," Spring Break Art Show curated by Dustin Yellin
2017: "Mosaic Project," Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
: "Tensions in Tapestries," Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C.
2016: "Cheryl Derricotte and Nate Lewis: Fragile Vessels," Loyola University, Baltimore, MD
: "Biological Tapestries 1st Movement," Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "Dusk, Dawn, Day," La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "AMOCA Dialogues: Black Voices from the Museum Collection," Marble Hall at Cardiff’s Temple of Peace, Cardiff, Wales
2023: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: Lost/Found, Galleria Poggiali, Milano, Italy
: "Get That Old Thing Back," Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, New York, NY
: "Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending," 21c Museum Hotels
: "Day Jobs," The Blanton Museum, Austin, TX
: Expo Chicago, group booth, Ziddoun Bossuyt, Chicago, IL
: Felix Art Fair, group booth, Fridman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "This is Not What it Seems," Ziddoun Bossuyt, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
: Recent Acquisitions, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2021: Recent Acquisitions, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: "A Stranger’s Soul Is A Deep Well," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
: "Arches and Ink," Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
: "Retro Africa Gallery presents Do This in Memory of Us," Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
: "What is Past is Prologue," 21 C Museum, Louisville, KY
2020: "Hide and Seek: Portraying, Projecting, and Playing," 21c Museum, Kansas City, MO
: "Translating Valence," Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
: "Listening for the Unsaid," David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Parallels and Peripheries: Fractals and Fragments," Curated by Larry Ossei Mensah, Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Italy
: "Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art," Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
: "Art On The Grid," Public Art Fund, New York, NY
: "Statues Also Die," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2019: "Men of Change," Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Services, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA
: "Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance," 21c Museum, Cincinnati, OH
: "Men of Change," Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Services, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT "Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Legacy of The Cool: A Tribute to Barkley Hendricks," Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Mass College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
: "Strange Beach," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2017: "Art on the Vine," Martha’s Vineyard, MA
: "Terrestrial Resonance," Art in Flux, Harlem, NY
: "Handmade: Made by Hand," Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C.
2016: "Art on the Vine," Martha’s Vineyard, MA
: SELECT WPA Art Auction Exhibition, Washington D.C. "Alchemical Vessels," Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Washington D.C.
: "The First," Cordesa Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
: "Selfish," Brilliant Champions Gallery, Brooklyn NY
: Texas Contemporary, Exhibited with Morton Fine Art, Houston, TX
: "We may be through with the past," Gallery Nine 5, New York, NY
2015: Transformer Auction, Washington, D.C.
: "WPA Art Night," Hickok Cole Architects, Washington D.C.
: Aqua Art Fair showed with Morton Fine Art, Art Basel, Miami, FL
: SELECT WPA Art Auction Exhibition, Artisphere, Rosslyn, VA
: D.C. Commission of the Arts & Humanities Visual Artist Grant Recipients Exhibition, Washington D.C. "Alchemical Vessels," Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2014: Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Final Washington D.C.
: SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL
: WPA Art Night, Hickok Cole Architects, Washington D.C.
: "Call + Response IV," Hole In The Sky, Washington, D.C.
: "Timeless Remnants," Morton Fine Arts, Washington D.C.
: "Over the Edge: Paper Works Unbound Part 1 and Part 2," Juried by Claire Gilman, Curator at the Drawing Center, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2013: Art Show_05, Pizza Factory, Hole In The Sky, Washington D.C.
: Art Show_02, A Room Full of Murals, Hole In The Sky, Washington D.C.
: Art Show_01 , A D.C. Showcase, Hole In The Sky, Washington D.C.

Selected Awards & Grants

2023: Art Hx Artist in Residence, Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University
2022: Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
: Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2020: BRIC
: Colene Brown Art Prize
: Art Noir 12
2018: Dieu Donne: Artist Workspace Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2017: Pioneer Works: Artist in residence, Brooklyn, NY
: Agora Culture, Art on the Vine Artist In Residence, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
: Recipient, D.C. Commission of the Arts & Humanities Visual Artist Fellowship Grant
2015: Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Winner, Washington D.C.

Bibliography

2025: Carollo, Elisa. "On View: Nate Lewis’ Language of Bodies at Vielmetter," The Observer, March 6
: Jacobson, Andrew S. "Nate Lewis’ ‘Tuning the Signals’ at Vielmetter Los Angeles: The Rhythm of Movement and Meaning," LA Sentinel, February 26
: Silverman, Erica. "Nate Lewis Delves Deeper with “Tuning the Signals” at Vielmetter Los Angeles," Whitewall, February 20
2023: Jacobson, Andrew S. "DMV Artists Impress at LA Vielmetter Exhibition," The Washington Informer, July 21
: Wexler, Ellen. "How Artists’ Day Jobs Shape Their Craft," Smithsonian Magazine, March 10
2022: Waddoups, Ryan. "Nate Lewis’s Dancing Figures Awaken a Sense of Healing," Surface Magazine, September 26
2020: Mitter, Siddhartha. "This Artist Got His Start as an I.C.U. Nurse," The New York Times, March 19
: Royale, Renee, "Nate Lewis’ Intricate Paper Sculptures Are Informed by What He Learned in Nursing School," The Observer, Febraury 28
: Cowan, Katy. "Nate Lewis’s intricately carved works on paper share his experience as a ‘critical-care’ nurse in Washington DC," Creative Boom, January 30

Publications

2025: Roberts, Veronica. "Day Jobs," Radius Books, Cantor Arts Center, Standord University, Standford, CA, 2025. pp 180 – 185
2020: Lewis, Nate and Niama Safia Sandy. Nate Lewis: Latent Tapestries. New York: Fridman Gallery, 2020.

Special Projects

2019: Kassa Overall, Jazz Gallery Residency, The Jazz Gallery, New York, NY
: Kassa Overall, Ben Lamar Gay, Matana Roberts, Luke Stewart, Melanie Charles, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2016-2017: Created and designed Paperhaus Album and Single Covers

Public Collections

: 21c Museum Hotels
: Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art, Cardiff, United Kingdom
: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin Grinnell College, Austin, TX
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
: Gund Gallery Collection, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
: Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
: International African American Museum
: Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
: The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection, Asbury, NJ
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
: University of Maryland, College Park, MD
: Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
: Wellin Museum of Art, Oneida County, NY
: Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Yuko Nii Foundation, New York, NY

Mario Joyce

1985: Born in Ohio
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2024: "Spirit, Spirit," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Amaryllis’ Garden," UTA Art Space, Beverly Hills, CA
2023: "Gravity," Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany
2022: “A Stranger’s House That Is Our Own,” UTA Art Space, Atlanta, GA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: "Creative Confluence," Phillips Auction House, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "Tracing Through Autumn Winds”, DoxsDoks, Cologne, Germany
: “for love, for art, and for being”, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
: "New Works by Lavaughan Jenkins, Mario Joyce, Raffi Kalenderian, Kiriakos Tompolidis," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024-2023: "TRADITIONS," MUZEO Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA
2023: “With Regard To Each Other,” Two person show with Julie Severino, F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy
2022: “My People,” Good Black Art, New York Culture Club, New York, NY
: “From the Golden Hour Into Night,” Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA
: Felix Art Fair, Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021: Future Art Fair, Over the Influence, New York, NY
2020: Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
: "Night & Day," Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, NY

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2025: Alonzo Davis Fellowship at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2024: Sointula Art Shed Artist Residency, Sointula BC, Canada
2023: Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2022: Pratt>FORWARD, Pratt Institute, Fine Arts- Brooklyn, NY
2021: La Brea Studio Residency, Los Angeles, CA
: ArtCrawl Harlem- Governor’s Island, New York, NY

Public Collections

: Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

Mary Kelly

: Born 1941
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

1968-1970: St Martin’s School of Art, London, Postgraduate Certificate in Painting
1963-1965: Pius XII Institute, Florence, Italy, MA, Studio Art and Art History
1959-1963: College of Saint Teresa, Winona, Minnesota, BA, Art Major, Music Minor

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "We don’t want to set the world on fire," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2022-2023: "Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future," Curated by Alby Miner, Maria & Alberto De La Cruz Art Gallery, Washington D.C.
2022: "Mary Kelly: Interim Pt I: Corpus," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Mary Kelly: Face-to-Face," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (Link)
: "Nucleus: Mary Kelly’s ‘Extase’ and the birth of a women’s art collection," New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, UK (Link)
2017: "The Practical Past," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY (Link)
2016: "Nightcleaners, Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan)," Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
: "Mary Kelly: Early Work, 1973-76," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
: "CIRCA TRILOGY," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: “Women and Work: A Document On the Division of Labor in Industry, 1975,” Switch House Gallery, Tate Modern, London, UK
2014: "On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2012: "Mary Kelly," Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, CA
: "Mary Kelly," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2011: "Mary Kelly: Projects, 1973-2010," The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, curated by Maria Balshaw, Dominique Heyse-Moore, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2010: "Mary Kelly: Four Works in Dialogue," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Cecilia Widenheim
2008: "Mary Kelly: Words are Things," Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Milada Slizinska
2007: "Circa 1968," The University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, curated by Juli Carson
2006: "The Ballad of Kastriot Rekhepi," ESPACIO AV, Consejeria de Educacin y cultura, Regin de Murcia, curated by Isabel Tejeda
: "Love Songs," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005: "Love Songs," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2004: Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City Installation, live performance and interactive archive, curated by Trisha Ziff
2003: “The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi,” including live performance and interactive archive, curated by Trish Ziff, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City
2002: The Arthur A Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001: "The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi," musical score for the exhibition by Michael Nyman; live performance by Sarah Leonard and The Nyman Quartet, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
: "Mary Kelly: Mea Culpa," Robert Sandelson, London, UK
2000: "Social Process / Collaborative Action: Mary Kelly 1970-75," Norwich Gallery and Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
1999: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
1998: "Post-Partum Document, The Complete Work 1973-79," curated by Sabine Breitweiser, The Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1997: "Social Process/Collaborative Action: Mary Kelly 1970-75," curated by Judith Mastai, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, and Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
: Galerie Paula Bottcher, Berlin, Germany
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1996: Konstmuseet, Mälmo, Sweden
: Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
1994: "Mary Kelly: 1973-89," curated by Gertrud Sandquist, Galleri F 15, Alby, Norway; traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
: Gloria Patri, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University and Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin; and Konstmuseet, Malm, Sweden
1993: Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
: Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, WI
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
1992: Gloria Patri, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (catalog), traveled to Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
1991: Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
: Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
: The Powerplant, Toronto, Canada
1990: "Interim, The Complete Work 1984-89," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery and The Powerplant, Toronto, Canada
1989: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: CEPA, Buffalo, NY
: Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, CA
1988: LACE, Los Angeles
1985: “Interim, Part I: Corpus,” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; traveled to Kettle’s Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge, and Riverside Studios, London, UK
1982: "Mary Kelly and Ray Barrie," George Paton Gallery, Melbourne and University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
1981: Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1979: University Gallery, Leeds, UK
: New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1977: "Post-Partum Document, I-V," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, curated by Mark Francis
1976: "Post-Partum Document, I-III," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, curated by Barry Barker
1975: "Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labor in Industry," South London Art Gallery, UK
1970: "An Earthwork Performed," with Steven Rothenberg, New Arts Laboratory, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "What Remains," curated by Laura Moseley, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK (forthcoming)
: "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Labouring Bodies," curated by Sandra Beate Reimann, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2025-2026: "Ideas Into Action: 1965-1980," Tate Britain, London, UK
2025: "ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought," Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (Link)
2024: "Vital Signs: Artists and the Body," MoMA, New York, NY
: "The Whitney Biennal 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Period of Time," Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery, UC Irvine
2023: "Women in Revolt!: Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970-1990," Tate Modern, London, UK
: "Inheritance: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1971-2022," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2023-2025: "La Répétition (Méthode)," Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
2023: "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Desert X at Christie’s," Christie’s Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, CA
2022-2023: "To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2022: "The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900," National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.
: "The Condition of Being Addressable," "Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , CA
: "Picturing Motherhood Now," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2021: "Lines of Thought: Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly, Agnes Martin," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
: "Mother!" Louisana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2020: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991–2011," MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2019: "Mary Kelly: Peace is the Only Shelter in Desert X," Artistic Director, Neville Wakefield, Co-curators, Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum, Coachella Valley
2018: "Nucleus: Mary Kelly’s Extase and the Birth of the Women’s Art Collection," Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
: "West By MidWest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018-2019: "Power & Imagination," National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Australia
2018: "Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings," Tate St. Ives, UK (Link)
: "Actions…the image of the world can be different," Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (Link)
2017: "ISelf Collection: The End of Love," Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (Link)
: “An Incomplete History of Protest,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Link)
: “Wherever the Wind Carries,” Malmö Art Academy and Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden
2016: “Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection,” Whitney Museum, New York, NY
: “Of Other Spaces: Where does gesture become event?” Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland
: “Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979,” Tate Britain, London, UK
: “A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham,” Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2015: "A Voice Remains," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
: "The Slick and The Sticky," Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
: “The Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Cutlure, 1900 – 2015,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
2014: "Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image Ideology," curated by Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Against Method," curated by Gertrud Sandqvist, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "All you need is Love," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
: "Women and Work, Mary Kelly, Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt, BP Spotlight," Tate Britain, London, UK
2012: "Ends of The Earth: Land Art to 1974," co-curated by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: "This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s," curated by Helen Molesworth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: "Breaking In Two: Pacific Standard Time," curated by Bruria Finkel, Arena 1, Los Angeles, CA
: "Art as Idea, Language and Process in Art," curated by Cecilia Widenheim, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: "Tracing the Century: Drawing from the Tate Collection," Liverpool Tate, London, UK
: "Left, Right, Center," Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
: "Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: "The Hidden Mother," Berthe Morrisot Hotel Particlier, Paris, France
: "Sweethearts: Artist Couples," curated by Kathy Battista, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
: "Family Matters: The Family in British Art," Tate Britain, London, UK; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Millennium Gallery, Museum Sheffield; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK
: "About Menocchio we know many things," Betonsalon, Paris, France
2011: "The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1992," co-curated by Nancy Princenthal and Helaine Posner, Nuerberger Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to Nasher Museum, North Carolina; traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: "The Experimental Impulse: Pacific Standard Time," co-organized by Thomas Lawson and Aram Moshayedi, Redcat: Roy and Edna Disney Hall/Cal Arts Theater, Los Angeles, CA
: "Colorific," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: "Holding the Grey Card," The New Hall Art Collection Biennale, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, MA
: "Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010: "The Artists Museum," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Panorama: Los Angeles at ARCOmadrid 2010," co-curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles,
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander?," Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
: "Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheybogen, WI
: "IASPIS," Open House, Stockholm, Sweden
2009: "British Subjects: Identity and Self Fashioning, 1967-2009," curated by Louise Yelin, Nueberger Museum of Art, New York, NY
: "The Moving Image, Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Love in the Age of Postponed Democracy," The Critical Crisis, curated by Lilian Fellman, Kunsthalle Luzerne, Switzerland
: "Mary Kelly, Christian Capurro, Klaus Mosettig," Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
2008: "Sydney Biennale: Revolutions Forms That Turn," curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
: 2008 California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; installation, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
: "Not Quite How I Remember It," The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: "Mother Cuts: experiments in film and video," The Visual Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
: "Coup de Grace," Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
: "Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art," CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York, NY
2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, curated by Roger Buergel and Ruth Noack; installations, Neue Gallerie and Aue Pavillion; happening, Bergpark Wilhelmshhe
: "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," curated by Cornelia Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: "Past Over," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Batallia Dos Xeneros," curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea,Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," Arte Eta Feminismoaren 45 Urte, 45 Anos de Arte y Feminismo / 45 Years of Art and Feminism, curated by Xabier Arakistain, Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts, Spain
: "Read Me! Text in Art," curated by Malik Gaines, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Nina in Position," curated by Jeffery Uslip; Artists Space, New York, NY
2006: "Full House: Video of the Whitneys Collection at 75," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Civil Restitutions," curated by Jeffrey Uslip and Simon Preston, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
: "Academy," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
: "State of Emergency," election night screening, Alias, New York, NY
: "Concept Has Never Meant Horse," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "The Look of the Law," curated by Simon Leung, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA
: "Technologized Bodies/ Embodied Technologies, Art Interactive," College Art Association, Cambridge, MA
: "Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection," Longsdale Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London, UK
: "Sixteen Tons," curated by Michael Darling, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, University of California Los Angeles, CA
: "How To Improve the World: British Art 1946-2006," Hayward Gallery, London, UK
: "Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain 1929 to Now," (Berwick Street Film Collective),curator, Tanya Barson, Liverpool Tate, London, UK
2005: "Occupying Space: Generali Foundation Collection," Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum Borjmans van Beuningen, Nederlands Fotomuseum and Witte de with, Rotterdam
: Selected Works From The Collection, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, CO
: "Work/Labor," curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Galerie in Taxipalais, Tirol, Austria; traveled to Centroa Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea, Sevilla, Spain
: "At the Mercy of Others," The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY
: "Family," The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
: "Mixed-up Childhood," Auckland City Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
2004: 2004 Whitney Biennial, curated by Debra Singer, Shamim Momin, Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "100 Artists See God," curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL; traveled to The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (2005); Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, VA (2005)
: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: "Maternal Metaphors," The Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
: "Dass die Krper sprechen, auch das wissen wir seit," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "The Shadow of Production," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003: "Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism," curated by Pamela Auchingeloss and Klaus Ottmann, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; DePauw University Art Gallery, Greencastle, IN
: "Identitt schreiben Autobiographie in der Kunst," curated by Hemma Schmutz, Galerie Fűr Zeitgenossische, Leipzig, Germany
: "Works from the Permanent Collection," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in US Art of the 1980s," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
: "Intimates," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: "Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s," White Columns, New York; traveled to The Galleries, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
: "Self Evident: The Artist as the Subject," Tate Britain, London, UK
: "On General Release: Artists and Film in Britain, 1968-1972," curated by Lynda Morris and David Curtis, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK; John Hansard Gallery, The University, Highfield Southampton; George Rodger Gallery, KIAD, Maidstone; Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, MA
: "Fetish: Art and the Word," UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2001: "Works From the Collection," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "Visual Worlds," Richard L Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
: "The Presence of Absence," Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
: "Camera Women," curated by Carol Armstrong, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
: "Recent Acquisitions: Photograph Works," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000: "Die verletzte Diva," curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Kunstverein,Munich, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Stdtische Galerie, Munich, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
: "Tempus Fugit," curated by Jan Schall, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
: "Around 1984," curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
: "Carnival in the Eye of the Storm," Phillip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
: "Dairy," Cornerhouse, Manchester, Firstsite and The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, UK
: "Les Semiophores," curated by Philippe Mouillon, Faade of the Town Hall, Lyon, France
: "Nude / Body / Action," curated by Iwona Blazwick, The Tate Modern, London, UK
: "Snapshot," The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
: "Minimal Politics: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
: Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75, Whitechapel Gallery, London; traveled to Museu Do Chiado, Lisbon
: Artworkers, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, and Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK
1999: The American Century: Arts & Culture 1900-2000 Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Einbliche in Die Sammlung, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
: Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s – 1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to MIT Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA (2000)
: La Mmoire, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Laurence Boss, Academie de France, Rome, Italy
: Xmas Xhibition, curated by Andrea Frank, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
: Sotheby’s 8th Biennial Exhibition and Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998: Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion, curated by Peter Wollen, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
: Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by John Pultz, The Spencer Museum, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS
: Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by Elizabeth Sussman and Eugene Tsai, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: 1950 Gallery, Independent Curators Incorporated Biennial, New York, NY
: Sculpture Urbaine, Grenoble, Pacaembu Stadium Facade Project, Sao Paolo, Brazil
: The Older Body, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
: Heaven – Private View, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
1997: Critical Images, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
: Minimal Politics: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, curated by Maurice Berger, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
: A Gift for India, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, New Delhi, India
: Ten Years of Collecting: 1987 1997, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada
1996: Making Pictures: Women and Photography, Part II, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
: Baby Exhibition, Part I, 1708 Gallery, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, FL; traveled to Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
: NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebk, Denmark
: Body as Membrane, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
: Documents, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebk, Denmark
: Sexual Politics, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
: Laughter Ten Years After, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
1995: Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
: The Division of Labour: Women and Work, Museum of Contemporary of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
: Social Strategies in the 1970’s, The Tate Gallery, London, UK
: Desiring Authors, Enveloping Myths, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
: Works by Artists in the New Museum Semi-Permanent Collection, Salon of Rebecca Cooper, New York, NY
: Anti-Slogans, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, UK
: Laughter Ten Years After, The Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT; traveled to Houghton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva
: Auf den Leib Geschrieben, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
: Ciphers of Identity, Art Museum, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL
: The Masculine Masquerade, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1994: Written/Spoken/Drawn in Lacanian Ink, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
: Nine Months, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
: Ciphers of Identity, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
: Mistaken Identities, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
: Voicing Today’s Visions, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York, NY
: One Hundred Hearts Benefit, The Contemporary, New York, NY
1993: Camera Politic, curated by Carlo Frua and Joyce Nereaux, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; traveled to La Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
: Empty Dress, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; traveled to Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; University Gallery, University of North Texas; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada; The Gallery/Stratford, Ontario, Canada; Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design
: I am the Enunciator, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
: Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
: Abjection in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
: Contacts/Proofs, Jersey City Museum 
: Ciphers of Identity, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
: Benefit Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Benefit Exhibition, Blast Magazine, New York, NY
: Benefit Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1992: Mis/taken Identities, University Art Museum, Santa Barbar, CA; traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburgh Bremen im Forum Langenstrasse, Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
: The Spatial Drive, Blast, Contributor, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Cross Section, The World Financial Center, New York, NY
: So Order So Nicht Sein, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
: Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, PA
: Womens Art at New Hall, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
1991: Works from the Permanent Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: 1991 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: The Realm of the Coin, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
: Gender and Representation, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania University, PA
: Shocks to the System, The South Bank Centre, London, UK; traveled to Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Switzerland; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; City Museum Plymouth; Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayre
1990: Inquiries-Language in Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; traveled to McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay; Laurentian University Museum and Arts Center, Sudbury; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St Catherines
: The Decade Show, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
: Word as Image-American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; traveled to Oklahoma City Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: In Her Image, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York , NY
1989: Fashioning Feminine Identities, University Gallery, Essex 
1988: Modes of Address, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York, NY
: Mixed Meaning, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
1987: Conceptual Clothing, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, AL; traveled to Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Peterborough City Museum and Art Gallery; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Spacex Gallery Exeter; Camden Arts Center, London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, State of the Art, Tour: The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
: The British Edge, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: Propositions: Work from the Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
: Aspects of Voyeurism, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY 
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: State of the Art,(exhibition, book, and television series), Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1986: The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire and Everyday Life, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
: Identity/Desire: Representing the Body, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; traveled to Crawford Center for the Arts, St Andrews; McLaurin Art Gallery
: Electro-media, Public Access Project, Toronto, Canada
1984: Difference, curated by Katherine Linker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Renaissance Society; University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, MA
: The Critical Eye/I, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (Mary Kelly, the complete Post-Partum Document), Victor Burgin, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, David Tremlet
: The British Art Show, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Tour: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southhampton Art Gallery
1983: The Revolutionary Power of Woman’s Laughter, Protetch-McNeil, New York; traveled to Art Culture Resource Center, Toronto, Canada; Washington College Art Gallery, Maryland
1982: The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
: Sense and Sensibility, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
1981: Typisch Frau, Bonner Kunstverein and Gallery Magers, Bonn, Germany
: 9th Kracow Meetings, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Kracow 
: Touring Exhibition, Greater London Arts Association
1980: Issue, curated by Lucy Lippard, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1979: Un Certain Art Anglais, ARCII, Museum d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
: Europa ’79, Heztler, Muller & Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
: Feministische Kunst Internationaal, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands; traveled to de Oosterpoort, Groningen; Nooedbrabants Museum, Den Bosch; de Vleeshal, Middleburgh; Le Vest, Alkmar; de Beyerd, Buda; Nijmeegs Museum, Nijmegen
: Both Sides Now, Artmesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
: Verbiage, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge
: “Art, Politics, and Ideology,” Dartington College of Art, Devon, UK
1978: Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Ulster Museum, Belfast
: The Hayward Annual, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1977: Radical Attitudes to the Gallery, Art Net, London, UK
1975: “Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry,” South London Art Gallery, London, UK
: Sexuality and Socialization, Northern Arts Gallery, Newcastle, UK
: Independent Filmmakers Festival, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
1974: Women’s Workshop/Artists Union, Arts Meeting Place, London, UK
1970: Group Exhibition, St Martin’s School of Art Gallery, London, UK

Bibliography

2026: Hallett, Florence. "Mary Kelly’s countdown to catastrophe," The New World, January 7 (Link)
2025: Higham-Stainton, Rose. "The Interview: Mary Kelly," ArtReview, November 13 (Link)
2024: Meyer, James. "Top Ten," Artforum, December (Link)
: Nys Dambrot, Shana. "Living Between Worlds," UCLA Newsroom, April 2 (Link)
2023: Cooper, Ashton. "Mary Kelly," Artforum, January (Link)
2022: Babette, Emily. "GALLERY ROUNDS: Mary Kelly Vielmetter," Artillery, October 5 (Link)
: Dambrot, Shana Nys. "The Work Of Art: Arts Calendar September 1-7," LAWEEKLY, August 31 (Link)
: Nauman, Nicholas. "At ICA Los Angeles, Being Comes With Conditions," Ocula, July 14 (Link)
2021: Meszoros, Mark."Cleveland Museum of Art’s new exhibition ‘Picturing Motherhood Now’ focuses on role through wide, contemporary lens," News Hearld, October 20 (Link)
2019: "The Best Guide to Desert X 2019," KCET, March 6 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "The Desert X Biennial Opens in the Coachella Valley With Art Scattered Across 55 Miles," Artnet, February 8 (Link)
: Sussman, Anna Louie. "The Challenges Female Artists Face Mid-Career," Artsy, January 11 (Link)
2018: Rea, Naomi and Kate Brown. "Who Shops at Frieze London? We Buttonholed Rose McGowan, Bob Rennie, and Other Power Players at the Fair," Artnet News (web), October 5 (Link)
: "Revisiting the Fiercely Productive Practices of Marginalized Women Artists," Frieze (web), October 1 (Link)
: Sussman, Anna Louie. "The Art Market Is Finally Catching up with Strong Female Artists It Ignored," Artsy, October 5 (Link)
: "Must See: Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Face-to-Face," ArtForum, Fall (Link)
: Fowler, Susanne, " ‘Social Work’ Provides Visibility for Women Artists at Frieze London," New York Times (web), October 1 (Link)
: Buck, Louisa. "Social work: eight dissenting female artists feature in Frieze London’s new section," The Art Newspaper (web), October 4 (Link)
: Bromwich, Kathryn, "Mary Kelly: ‘All borders are anathema to art’" Guardian (web), September 15 (Link)
: Kelly, Mary. "Women in the Arts: Mary Kelly," Frieze (web), October 2 (Link)
: Black, Holly. "Five Pioneering Female Artists Who Changed the Landscape of the Art World," Another Magazine, October 8 (Link)
2017: Greenberger, Alex. " Getty Research Institute Acquires Mary Kelly Archive," ArtNews, December 13 (Link)
: Finkel, Jori. "Art Lurks in an Unlikely Place for Mary Kelly: the Dryer," New York Times, October 21 (Link)
2016: Petty, Felix. "mary kelly, the feminist who revolutionised conceptual art," i-D, April 18 (Link)
: Cotter, Holland. "Frieze New York, a Visual Circus Under the Big Top," New York Times, May 5 (Link)
: Gottschalk, Molly. "A Donkey and Damien Hirst Dominated Frieze New York’s Fast-Paced Opening Day," Artsy, May 5 (Link)
: Buck, Louisa. "Frieze New York 2016 highlights," The Telegraph, May 5 (Link)
: Dolfi Agostini, Sara. "A Frieze New York l’arte contemporanea rivela la sua forza," Arteconomy24, May 11 (Link)
: Kelly, Mary. "Mary Kelly," Artforum, Summer
: Farago, Jason. "Frieze New York review – art world displays its best face and a fine ass," The Guardian, May 5 (Link)
2015: Fowler, William. "10,000 revolutions: meet Mary Kelly, the mother of all feminist artists," The Guardian, (Link)
2014: Castle, Jack. Review of Mary Kelly: On the passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery," Aesthetica, September 21 (Link)
: Nagesh, Ashitha. "Mary Kelly at Pippy Houldsworth," Artforum, September
: "The Feminist Critique: Mary Kelly’s Project-Based Works at Art Basel," Artsy, June 12 (Link)
: Bryan-Wilson, Julia. "Women and Work," Artforum, May (Link)
2012: Winant, Carmen. "Mary Kelly, Postmasters Gallery" Frieze, June/July/August
: Richard, Frances. "Mary Kelly, Postmasters Gallery," Artforum, May (Link)
: Wyma, Chloe. "23 Questions for Conceptual Artist Mary Kelly," Blouin Art Info, March 5 (Link)
2011: Noble, Kathy. "Mary Kelly," Frieze, June 1 (Link)
: O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. "Interview: Mary Kelly," Artforum, February 18 (Link)
2007: White, Ian. "The Body Politic," Frieze, May (Link)
: Knight, Christopher. "An abundance of insights: It’s difficult to take in MOCA’s sprawling `WACK!’ exhibition on one visit, but here are three reasons to return," Los Angeles Times, April 29 (Link)
1999: Cotter, Holland. "ART IN REVIEW; Mary Kelly — ‘Mea Culpa,’" New York Times, April 9
1994: Ayerza, Josefina. "Gloria Patri: Mary Kelly interviewed by Josefina Ayerza," Flash Art, May 2

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2024: Carson, Juli. "Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings," Bloomsbury, London
2023: de Chassey, Éric. "La Répétition Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Metz," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France. Pg 50-51
2022: Deutsche, Rosalyn. "Not Forgetting," University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL
2021: Liebert, E., Fellah, N. R., Griswold, W., Liebert, E., Keith, N. J., Wexler, L., Lax, T. J., and Griswold, W. (2021). Picturing Motherhood Now. Pg 14-15, 23, 47,111, 123. Cleveland Museum of Art.
2018: Lamm, Kammy. "Addressing the other woman: Textual correspondences in feminist art and writing," Manchester University Press
2017: Nacking, Åsa, Emil Nilsson, and Gertrud Sandqvist, “Whither the Winds,” Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden
: Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson, "Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith and Watson Autobiography Studies Reader," Michigan Publishing, Ann Arbor, MI
2016: Nixon, Mignon, “October Files: Mary Kelly,” MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (Link)
2012: Widenheim, Cecilia and Ruth Noack, “Dialogue – On the Politics of Voice,” Iaspis, Stockholm
: McCloskey, Paula, “Studies in the Maternal,” Birkbeck University, London
: Smith, Terry, “Contemporary Art: World Currents,” Laurence King Publishing and Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey
: Mesch, Claudia, “Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change after 1945,” I.B. Tauris, London
: Yuen-Yi, Lo, “Drawing the Writing,” Kubrick, Hong Kong
1992: “The Spatial Drive, BLAST,” Pocket Dictionary, New Museum, New York
: “Gloria Patri,” (catalog), Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University
: "AM LIT,” Neue Literatur aus den USA, Edition Druckhaus III, Berlin, Germany
: "Vag Document I,” Vancouver Art Gallery, June 1989
: "Now Time No 2,” Art Press, DAP Publications
: "Follow Me" (white t-shirt with black ink, L, XL), Artists Space, New York
: Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood, “Art in Theory: An Anthology of Sources on Art Theory in the 20th Century,” Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, MA
1991: "Interim Part I Supplication," Social Text No 28 (cover)
: “The Female Body,” an anthology of MQR (Michigan Quarterly Review) publications, The University of Michigan Press
: Donald, James "Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory,” St Martin’s Press, New York, NY
: Turyn, Anne, "Pecunia Olet," City Lights Books, San Francisco
1990: "Interim,’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: "instabili,” La Galerie Powerhouse, Centre d’information Artexte, Montreal, Canada
1989: Forman, Frieda, "Taking Our Time,” Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK
: “Between Signifiers: A Report by the Participants on The Critical Practice of Art,” a summer intensive held at the Simon Fraser University Centre for the Arts
: Mulvey, Laura, “Visual and Other Pleasures,” University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, IN
: Pollock, Griselda, “Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and the Histories of Art,” Routledge, London, UK
1987: Parker & Pollock, "Framing Feminism,” Pandora Press, London, UK
: Nairne, Sandy, “State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980’s,” Chatto and Windus, London, UK
1986: “Interim,” Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh; Riverside Studios, London; Kettles Yard, Cambridge University
: Foster, Hal, “Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1985: “Menace,” Talking Back to the Media, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Appignanesi, Lisa, "Woman-Desire-Image," ICA Documents, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1984: "The Critical Eye/I,” Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
: Wallis, Brian, "Art After Modernism,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, DR Godine, Boston
: Foster, Hal, “The Anti-Aesthetic,” Bay Press, Seattle, WA
: Lippard, Lucy, “Get the Message,” E.P. Dutton, New York
1983: “Post-Partum Document,” Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
1982: Sense and Sensibility, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1981: Parker, Rozsika and Griselda Pollock, “Old Mistress: Women, Art, and Ideology,” Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
1980: "Post-Partum Document,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
: “Art and Politics,” Winchester School of Art Press  1977
: Brighton and Morris, "Towards Another Picture,” Midland Group, Nottingham
1976: “Post-Partum Document,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2026: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA
2025: Honorary Doctorate, University of the Arts London, UK
2024: Creative Capital Award
2018: Honorary Doctorate, Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
2017: Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University, Sweden
2015: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2012: Anonymous Was a Woman Award
: The Distinguished Artists’ Interviews, College Art Association
2004: Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Wolverhampton, England
2001: Council on Research Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1998: Council on Research Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1987: National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship
1985: New Hall, Cambridge University, Artist-in-Residence Award
1980: Greater London Arts Association Visual Arts Award
1979: Hans Jorgen Muller Award, Europa 79, Stuttgart
1978: Lina Garnade Memorial Foundation Award
1977: Arts Council of Great Britain Visual Arts Award
1973: Greater London Arts Association Fellowship

Public Collections

: Arts Council of Great Britain
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
: Australian National Gallery
: Burger Collection, Zurich, Switerland
: Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
: Centre Pompidou Foundation, Paris, France
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, CO
: Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
: Helsinki City Art Museum , Finland
: Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, NY
: Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
: Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
: Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
: Museum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
: New Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
: New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Progressive Corporation
: Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
: Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
: Tate Britain, London, UK
: Tate Modern, London, UK
: Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
: Weil, Gotshal and Manges Collection 
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
: Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK