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Aly Helyer

MA Painting, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
"Weight of Love," Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
2024
"Everything is Borrowed," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"The Look of Love," The Cabin, curated by Danny First, Los Angeles, CA
"How to Fight Loneliness," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK
2020
"Silent Charmers," The Cabin, curated by Danny First, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"The Forerunners," Draw Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, New Art Projects, London, UK
2017
"Nobody’s Business," Angus-Hughes, London, UK
2014
"Soft Subversions," Herrick Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
"Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism," Almine Rech, London, UK
"Group Show: Alec Egan, Aly Helyer, Sylvia Ong," Almine Rech, Paris, France
"The Artist as Beast," Project Space on the Inside, a curated selection of paintings from the collection of Edwin Oostmeijer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"The Cabin Presents: A Curated Flashback," Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX
"Feeling of Light," Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
2022
"A Play of Features," Union Gallery, co curated by Aly Helyer and William Gustaffson, London, UK
"The Power to Dream," Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2021
"10," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK
“Holding Hands,” Union Gallery, London, UK
2020
"Melancholympics," The Wunderwall, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Antwerp, Belgium
2019
"What Spirit is This?," Sim Smith Gallery, London, UK
2017
"DUMB," Mercer Chance Gallery, curated by Kris Day London, UK
2016
"The Good,The Bad and The Ugly," Charlie Smith Gallery London, UK
"Endgame," Turps Gallery, London, UK
2015
"Ludic," (Two person show with Joel Tomlin), at Herrick Gallery, London, UK
"Lucy In The Sky," Transition Gallery, London, UK
2013
"SPEAK, CLOWN!," Fold Gallery, curated by Hotel Swirly-Whirly, London, UK
"HARTMANN. HELYER. LYDDON. BONILLA. & BAJT," We sell pornography here, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK
"Unknown Sitter," Lion & Lamb Gallery, curated by Covadonga Valdes, London, UK
"This Me of Mine," APT London, curated by Jane Boyer, London, UK (Traveling exhibition)
2009
"Configuration," curated by Day and Gluckman, London, UK
2002
"The Jerwood Drawing Prize," (Traveling exhibition)

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2022
La Brea Residency, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

2024
Nys Dambrot, Shana. "GALLERY ROUNDS: Aly Helyer Vielmetter Los Angeles," Artillery, May 9 (Link)
2021
Artelove Staff. "Aly Helyer: The Stunning Expressionism Of A Great Brush," Artelove, December 13
2020
Bogojev, Sasha. "Silent Charmers: Aly Helyer @ The Cabin, LA," Juxtapoz Magazine, November 13
2019
Irvin, Rebecca. "Painter Aly Helyer reinterprets traditional portraiture with expressionistic colour," Its Nice That, July 4
Irwin, Rebecca. "Its Nice That," The Forerunners, July 4 (Link)
2018
"Interrogating representations of the self," ArtMazeMag, Issue 8, Summer Edition, September 1 (Link)
2013
Boyer, Jane. "This Me of Mine: Self, Time & Context in the Digital Age," Xlbris, October 25
2012
Boyer, Jane. "ANCHORS OF OBSERVATION," This Me Of Mine, March 7

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2012
Exeter Contemporary Audience Choice Award

Tâm Văn Trần

Born in Kontum, Vietnam
Lives and works in Los Angeles
1996
Graduate Film and Television Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1990
BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
"Primordial Sounds of the Avatar," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2017
"Black Melong," Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, New York, NY
2015
"EXODUS," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Aikido Dream," MCA Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
"Breathing," Art Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
2014
"Survival Skills," Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2013
"Leaves of Ore," Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, New York, NY
2012
"Adornment of Basic Space," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010
"Mind Is A Pure Expanse of Space," Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2008
"Tam van Tran," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Luminosity," Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY
2006
"Tam Van Tran: Psychonaut, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
"Purple System," Anthony Mier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2005
"SubUrban: Tam Van Tran," Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, TN
2004
"Tam Van Tran: Lord of Hot Butter," Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2003
"Vegetarian Summer", Cohan, Leslie and Browne, New York, NY
2002
"Beetle Manifesto", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Lovers of Air," Leslie, Cohan and Browne, New York, NY
2001
"Lo-Tech Frequency," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000
"Paintings," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Cold Frost," Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
"Primordial Procession," ATLA, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Raffi & Al’s Legendary Garden Party," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Pollen on a West Wind," Jason Jacques Gallery, New York, NY
2022
"The Hand that Forms a Mirror," MORÁN MORÁN, Los Angeles, CA
"Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"Pacific Coast Ceramics," Galeria Mascota, Aspen, CO
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018
“Carbon,” FOCA, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2017
“Drawing: The Beginning of Everything,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Man Alive,” Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium
2015
"Paperworks," Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013
"New works of painting, photography, sculpture and video" The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
"High Low," Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
"Pattern: Follow the Rules," Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Lansing, MI; traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver, CO
2012
"Tam Van Tran and DeWey Ambrosino," San Art, Vietnam
"Facing West/Looking East," Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2011
"Paul Clay," Salon 94, New York, NY
"east EX east," Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010
"Ascending Dragon: Contemporary Vietnamese Artists Exhibition," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
"Fresh from Chelsea," University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
"Inaugural Group Exhibition," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Keramik," Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2009
"Topographies," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2008
"California Dreaming," Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio, Zurich, Switzerland
"Fata Morgana," Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, France
2007
"Large Scale Drawings," MFA Houston, Houston, TX
"Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of The Contemporary Museum," The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2006
"Supervision," Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
2005
"Around About Abstraction," Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
2004
"The Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Topographies," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Traveling to: The Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA (2004)
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
2003
"International Paper," UCLA Hammer Museum, Santa Monica, CA
2002
ArtForum Berlin, Project Space, with Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
"Friends and Family," Lombard Freid, New York, NY
"Heike Kati Barath, Jeff Elrod, Sarah Rapson, Tam Van Tran, Cornelius Voelker, Clare Woods," Cohan, Leslie, and Browne, New York, NY
2001
"Fractals," Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
"New Work: LA Painting," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Song Poems," Leslie, Cohan and Browne, New York, NY
2000
"Radar Love," Gallery Marabini, Bologna, Italy
"Car Pooling from LA," Asian American Art Center, New York, NY
"Luminous," Ikon Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
"Pierogi 2000: The Flatfiles," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Block Art Space, Kansas City Post, Los Angeles, CA
1999
"Other Paintings," Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
1990
"Kassel Documenta Archiv," Ludwig Museum, Cologne, France
"Stuttgart Staatsgalerie," Grafische Sammlung, Germany

Bibliography

2022
Van Tran, Tam. "Abstraction," The Brooklyn Rail, July (Link)
2020
Gillespie, Benjamin. "Oral history interview with Tam Van Tran," Archives of American Art, August 8
2017
Shang, Danielle, “Collectors of Color on the Importance of Supporting Under-Recognized Artists,” Hyperallergic (web), November 28 (Link)
2016
Brown, Betty Ann, “Paperworks,” ArtScene, January
Donelan, Charles, “Tam Van Tran at MCASB: ‘Aikido Dream’ Emphasizes Intuition, Process,” Santa Barbara Independent (web), January 21
2015
Pereira, Lorenzo, "Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery," Widewalls, April 14 (Link)
Wood, Eve, "Pick of the Week: Tam Van Tran," Artillery, April 16 (Link)
Zellen, Jody, Tam Van Tran, ArtScene, May
Osborne-Bartucca, Kristen, Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter Projects, ArteFuse Magazine, May 21
McCabe Heibel, Amy, Artists Respond: Tam Van Tran on Ed Moses, UnFramed (web), July 27 (Link)
2014
Baker, Kenneth, Tam Van Tran at Anthony Meier, SF Gate, November 21 (Link)
2013
Gass, Alison, Pattern: Follow the Rules, Eli and Edythe Broad Museum at Michigan State University, March
Kee, Joan, Abstraction: Here, Now, More, Harpers Bazaar, Hong Kong Edition, May, pp. 44-45
2012
Pagel, David, Tam Van Tran at Susan Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, March 15
Wood, Eve, Tam Van Tran at Susan Vielmetter, Whitehot Magazine, March
Tuck, Geoff, Tam Van Tran at Susan Vielmetter, Notes On Looking, March 21
2009
Pagel, David, Glimpses of the future or past?, Los Angeles Times, January 16
San Jose Museum of Art Unveils New Works by Tam Van Tran, Artdaily.org, October
2008
Haithman, Diane, CFF art foundation announced: Fifteen LA County artists receive grants to continue pursuits in various creative fields, Los Angeles Times, May 30
2007
Holographic Ensemble, Art On Paper, Vol. 11, No. 4, March/April
2006
Sultan, Terrie, Tam Van Tran: Psychonaut, exhibition catalogue, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
Hudson, Suzanne. Tam Van Tran. Artforum, January
Cotter, Holland, Ambitious Theme in New Home for Modern Art, New York Times, December 8
Ouroussoff, Nicolai, Expansive Vistas Both Inside And Out, New York Times, December 8
Shanahan, Mark, New Institute of Contemporary Art makes a `very, very cool` impression, The Boston Globe, December 3
2005
Self, Dana, "SubUrban: Tam Van Tran, exhibition essay, Knoxville Museum of Art (catalog).
2004
Whitney Biennial Catalog Essay, Pg.248
DeCarlo, Tessa, "It’s a Jungle in There" – Working Habits, ARTnews, pg. 126,
Martin, Philip, "Tam Van Tran – Beetle Manifesto – Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Ten By Ten Magazine, pg. 56, 57, Volume 2, Number 3, February issue
2003
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, October 10
Hiro, Rika, Bijutsu Techo Magazine, pg. 164, July
Martin, Philip, "international paper", Tema Celeste 97, May issue
Frank, Peter, "The Paper Chase", art on paper, April issue, pg 36-39
Koppman, Debra, "International Paper", Artweek, February
Helfand, Glen, "Cries and Whispers", Bay Area Reporter, February 20
Laird, Tessa, "Tam Van Tran / Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", ART ON PAPER, March issue
Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential", artnet, February
Knight, Christopher, "Drawing, not toeing, the line", LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 7
"International Paper – Drawings by Emerging Artists", UCLA Hammer Museum, exhibition catalog, Los Angeles, CA, 2003
2002
Wood, Eve, Static Breathing, Artnet, December
Knight, Christopher, "Piecing Together a Green Manifesto", LOS ANGELES TIMES, December 6
Muchnic, Suzanne, "With all its hang-ups, the L.A. gallery scene thrives, LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sunday Calendar, November 24
ArtScene, December Preview, November 25
TRACE Magazine, issue #36, page 66
Duncan, Michael, "Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", ART IN AMERICA, January issue
2001
Williams, Alena, "Tam Van Tran – Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects", TEMA CELESTE, May-June issue, pg. 88
Hackman, Kate, KANSAS CITY STAR, February
Pagel, David, LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 16
2000
Pasquini, Stefano, NYARTS, December
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, OC WEEKLY, November 3 – 9
Pagel, David, LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 28, 2000
Frank, Peter, LA WEEKLY Pick of the Week, July 21 – 27
Harvey, Doug, "Tam Van Tran / Vielmetter LA Projects", ART ISSUES, summer 2000 issue
Pagel, David, "Tam Van Tran / Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", LOS ANGELES TIMES, Friday, March 10
Duncan, Michael, ARTNET, April
Rosenberg, Jeremy, LA TIMES CALENDAR LIVE ARTPICK, March ARTSCENE, Vol. 19 No.8, April

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2008
California Community Foundation Fellowship
Art Matters, Spring, Grantee
2001
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painting
Pollock Krasner Fellowship
1993
Ucross Artists Residency, Ucross, WI
1991
Creative Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
California State University Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Museum of Contempoary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

William Pope.L

Born: 1955, Newark, NJ
Died: 2023, Chicago, IL
1983-1985
Mabou Mines Re.Cher.Chez. Theater Intensive, New York, NY
1979-1981
Mason Gross School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, M.F.A.
1977-1978
Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program, New York, NY
1975-1978
Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ, B.A.
1973-1975
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023-2024
"Hospital," South London Gallery, London, UK
2022
"Between A Figure and A Letter, " Schinkel Pavilion," Berlin, Germany
"The Ritual Is For All of us," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Four Panels," Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York, NY
2021
"Pope.L: My Kingdom for a Title," Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, UC of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)
"Notations, Holes and Humour," Modern Art, London, England (Link)
"Portikus," Frankfurt, Germany
2019-2020
“Pope.L: Instigation, Aspiration, Perspiration,” Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Public Art Fund, New York, NY
"Pope.L: Well," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"member: Pope.L, 1978–2001," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Pope.L: Choir," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2019
"Pope.L: Conquest.," Public Art Fund, New York, NY
"No thing: Pope.L, Adam Pendleton," Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2018
"One thing after another, Part II," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
“One thing after the other,” La Panacée, Montpellier, France (Link)
2017
“Brown People are the Wrens in the Parking Lot,” Logan Center Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
“Flint Water Project,” What Pipeline, Detroit, MI
“Proto-Skin Set,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2016
“Pope.L and Will Boone,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2015
"Forest," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Desert," Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA
"Trinket," The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Gold People Shit In Their Valet, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Cage Unrequited, Soto Vlez Cultural and Educational Center, New York, NY
Performa 13, New York, NY
Colored Waiting Room, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Forlesen, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
A Long White Cloud, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Reenactor, Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA; traveled to Hodgepodge Building on Strawberry Alley, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Three Projects, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Child, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2010
landscape + object + animal, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
color isnt matter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2009
The Black Factory, Art Projects Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Corbu Pops, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
William Pope.L, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, UK
Yard (to harrow), Hauser + Wirth, New York, NY
2008
October Projects, GreetingLine, New York, NY
Animal Nationalism: Small Cup, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Animal Nationalism: Trinket, Exhibition Hall at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, MO
Biting Through Innocence, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art After White People: time, trees, & celluloid, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
William Pope.L: snow, spraypaint, hair, sperm & baloney, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, UK
William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Void Show, MC Kunst, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Condoleezza Rice Day, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
Trophy Room, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Under All, Above Most, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2005
some things you can do with blackness, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, UK
Props & Propositions, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2004
Five Ways to Say the Same Sadness, University Art Museum, University at Albany, NY
eRacism: electronica, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, MO
reFunkt: prints & dvds, The Project, New York, NY
eRacism, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; traveled to Artists Space, New York, NY
2003
Foddah, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Some: Of Place and Desire, ArtHouse, Austin, TX
eRacism, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; traveled to Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2002
Whats Inside a Boy, The Project, Los Angeles, CA
eRacism, ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Incontinent, Wood Street Gallery, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
2001
Hole Theory, The Project, New York, NY
2000
Eracism: White Room, ThreadWaxing Space, New York, NY
The Hole Inside The Space Inside Yves Kleins Asshole, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Eating The Wall Street Journal And Other Current Consumptions, Mobius, Boston, MA
1998
Recent Work, The Project, New York, NY
1996
Buddy Performance Objects, with Jim Calder, Touchstone Theater, Bethlehem, PA
1993
William Pope.L, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY
1992
William Pope.L, Drew University, Madison, NJ
1991
How Much is that Nigger in the Window, 30 performances, writings and installations, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024-2025
"For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2024
"Walk This Way," Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
"On the Absurd Drama That Is Also Life," Moderna Museet Malmö Malmö, Sweden
"A Portrait in Fragments," Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
2023
"Unbound: Performance as Rupture," Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
2023-2024
“From Andy Warhol to Kara Walker. Scenes From the Collection,” Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (Link)
2023
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures," 52 Walker, New York, NY
2022
"Us Them We: Race, Ethnicity, Identity," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
"WALK!," Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"When I State That I Am An Anarchist," PLATO Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia
2021
"Zeros + Ones.," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
"Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
"The Principle of Hope," Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Oehlen, Pendleton, Pope.L, Sillman," Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
"The Paradox of Stillness," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI (Link)
"A Shared Body," FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
“Everyone Is an Artist” Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Push Over, Push Back," CCS Bard Galleries, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
"The Holding Environment," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
2020
"Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2021
"K as in Knight," Helena Anrather, New York, NY
"Old Growth – New Decay," Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA
"Dave McKenzie: The Story I tell Myself," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2020
"Citizenship," Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO.
"Wrecked Alphabet," Broodthaers Society of America, NY, NY
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Rituals of Regard and Recollection," Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
"Stayin’ Alive," ANOTHER SPACE, New York, NY
2019
"Political Affairs: Language is not Innocent," Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"No Thing: Pope.L, Adam Pendelton," Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland.
"Water After All," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019-2020
"Cro45 to Now," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
"Elements of Vogue (A case of radical performance)," Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
"Small Talk," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
"The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
"Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s — Now," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
"Men of Steel, Women of Wonder," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2019
"Prisoner of Love," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Embodiment," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2019-2020
"Mask: In Present-Day Art," Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2019
"EBSPLOITATION," Martos Gallery, New York, NY
2019-2020
"Great Force," Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2019
"Drawn Together Again," FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
"Men of Steel, Women of Wonder," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
"DREAMWEAVERS," UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA (Link)
"Uptown to Harlem: African American Works from the collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg,” Riverview School, East Sandwich, MA
"From Theory to Practice: Trajectories of the Whitney," University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
2018
"The Land We Live in – the Land We Left Behind," Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK
"Talisman in the Age of Difference," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
"Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance of Stephan Varble," Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
“Becoming American,” San Juan Island, Seattle, WA (Link)
"Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA,
"Cheeky: Summer Butts," curated by Anthony Iacono and Peter LaBier, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
"Agora," The High Line, New York, NY (Link)
"Other Mechanisms,” curated by Anthony Huberman, Secession, Vienna (Link)
"Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, and Journeys 1967-2017," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
"Against the Architecture," Refectoire des Nonnes, Lyon, France
"The Enemy of My Enemy," Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
"Adam McEwen Selects: Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
"35 days of film," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
"Black Pulp!" African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
"Counternarratives: Performance and Actions in Public Space," Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
"Learning from the Land and the Water," LookOut! Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
"Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection," Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
"Walking Point," Greene Naftali, New York, NY
"20/20: Influential Artists of the 20th Century," Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
2017-2018
“Mechanisms,” The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Elements of Vogue,” CA2M, Madrid, Spain
2017
“20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art,” Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“We Are Here,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“art on the front lines that speaks to the present political and social climate,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
“Active Ingredients: Prompts, Props, Performance,” Williams Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
“Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie,” The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
“Punching Up,” Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
“You Should be an Artist,” Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
"If Not Apollo, the Breeze,” Kadist, San Francisco, CA (Link)
“Invisible Man,” Martos Gallery, New York, NY
“Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967 – 2017,” University of Buffalo Art Galleries, Bufalo, New York, NY; traveling to Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
documenta 14, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“The Window and the Breaking of the Window,” Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2016
“With deepest sympathy: Geopolitics and bodies,” Stadtische Galerie, Munich, Germany
“THE PUBLIC BODY.01,” Artspace, Sydney, Australia
“Less Than One,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“The Invisible Body,” MASS Art, Boston, MA
“The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music from 1965 to Now,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Do You, Ms. Jones?” Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Body Superficial,” Sgorbati Projectors, New York, NY
“The Window and the Breaking of the Window,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Blackness in Abstraction,” Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Bienal de São Paolo, Brazil (Link)
“Black Pulp!,” International Print Center New York, New York, NY; travelled to University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middeletown, CT
2015
“(Counter)Public Art, Intervention, and Performances in Lower Manhattan, 1980-1993,” Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, New York, NY
“TOWER,” Ibid, London, UK
“Walking Sculpture: 1967 — 2015,” deCordova Sculpture Park + Museum, Lincoln, MA
“Identity,” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
“The Works: Artists in and from Chicago,” CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
“I Like It Like This: Curated by Drake,” Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, New York, NY
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Brugges Triennial – Politics and the Productions of Space: The Written City,” City Hall, Brugges, Belgium
“Z-ING,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Works on Paper,” Greene Naftali, New York, NY
“Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow: Archives 1915-2015,” The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
“The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2014
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“CON/TEXT,” Lynch Tham, New York, NY
“Days Inn,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
“Itinerant Belongings,” Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
“Pierogi X X,” Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
“Poor Working Conditions,” Martos Gallery, New York, NY
“Ruffneck Constructivists,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
“Warm Side of Zero,” Overduin & Co, Los Angeles, CA
2013
“African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center,” Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; traveled to The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Akron Museum, Akron OH
“Blues for Smoke,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
“Body Language,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Burying the Lede,” Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
“Against the Grain; Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design,” curated by Lowery Stokes Sims, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
“Cliff and Better,” Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
“The Eleventh Hour,” DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
“Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, and Again, and Again,” Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France
“Kaboom! Comics in Art,” Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
“Pull! Reading Room,” SPACES, Cleveland, OH
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to the The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX
“African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center,” University of Maryland, College Park, MD
“Blues for Smoke,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Fax,” University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI; traveled to DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI; Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
“Wall Text,” Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
“superHUMAN,” Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT; traveled to Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2011
“After Images,” Musee Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
“Another Kind of Vapor,” White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
“The Bearden Project,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“D’un Autre Monde,” Le Printemps de Septembre – à Toulouse, contemporary art festival, Toulouse, France
“Fax,” Apex Gallery, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; traveled to Saint Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; South London Gallery, London, UK; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
“Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA),” Röda Sten Art Centre, Göteborg, Sweden
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland; traveled to Laznia Center, Gdansk, Poland
“Inti,” On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
“The Painting Show,” Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Prospect.2 New Orleans. New Orleans, LA
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2010
“The 2010 DeCordova Biennial,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
“At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg,” Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
“Fax,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; traveled to Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Barnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China; Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, NY; Museu de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; New Galerie, Paris, France
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus, Denmark
“The Last Newspaper,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
“The Process Show,” 37-A Gallery, Portland, ME
“Resurrectine,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Slightly Unbalanced,” Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
2009
“Allan Kaprow YARD (to Harrow),” Hauser & Wirth, NY
“30 Seconds Off an Inch,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
“Self as Disappearance,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
“Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
“Carnival Within – An Exhibition Made in America,” Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany
“Collected: Propositions on the Permanent Collection,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Fax,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY; traveled to Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
“Pour,” installation at the Botanical Gardens, Art Projects at Art Basil Miami Beach, Mitchell-Innes & Nash in collaboration with Galerie Catherine Bastide, Miami Beach, FL
“Slightly Unbalanced,” Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; travled to Rodman Hall Arts Center, St. Catharines, ON, Canada; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA; Museum London, London, ON, Canada
“Summer Exhibition,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
“Trouble at the Front (Troubles aux Frontieres),” Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2008
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
“Paul Thek: In the Contexts of Today’s Contemporary Art (PART TWO),” Sammlung Falkenburg, Hamburg, Germany
“Black Is, Black Ain’t,” The Renaissance Society at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Brainwave: Common Sense,” Exit Art, New York, NY
“Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America,” The International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
“Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
“Informal Architectures (Pt. 2),” Winnepeg, CA
“Mergers and Acquisitions,” Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; traveled to Retail Value, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2007
“Port City: On Mobility and Exchange,” Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile
“Keeping Up With the Joneses,” Schroeder Romero, New York, NY
“New York – States of Mind,” House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany; traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
“Paul Thek: In the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art,” ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art,” Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL
“Informal Architectures,” The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada
“Conceptual Paper,” Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
“Plug,” Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Silicone Valley,” PS-1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
“Get Lost,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2006
“South Bronx Contemporary: Longwood 25th Anniversary,” Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
“A Noir, E Blanc, I Rouge, U Vert, O Bleu: Farben,” Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Galleria Neon>fdv, Milan, Italy; traveled to MANmuseum at the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
“7e Biennale de l’Art Africaine Contemporaire,” Dakar, Senegal
“Civil Restitutions,” Thomas Dane Gallery, London
“Newark Between Us,” 744 Gallery/Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
“Stories,” Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
“Situation Comedy,” Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg,Canada; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
“Skowhegan at 60,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
“Humor Me,” H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
“Relics and Remnants,” Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York, NY
“Dreaming of a More Better Future,” Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2005
“Hero,” Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
“Looking at Words: The Formal Use of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
“Moving Collection: Body-Con,” Tactical Museum at Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan
“Reverse Engineers,” Carnegie Art Center, North Towanda, NY
“Landmark,” Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
“RAPSIDA,” Gallery 138, New York, NY
“Double Consciousness,” Museum of Contemporary Arts Houston, Houston, TX
“Situation Comedy,” Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
“Decarie,” Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, Canada
“Defense,” Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
2004
“The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
“Watch What We Say,” Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
“The Big Nothing,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“5 x 7 Exhibition,” Art House Gallery, Austin, TX
“Harlem Postcards: Spring 2004, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Romantic Detachment,” PS-1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
“Brown v. Board of Education 1954-2004,” Gallery 138, New York, NY
“Republican Like Me,” Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, NY
“Moving Collection: Body-Con,” Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
“Reverse Engineers,” Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
“Only Skin Deep,” International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2003
“Moving Collection: Body-Con,” Wanakio Festival, Naha, Okinawa, Japan
“distillation," Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
“In Heat,” Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
“Motion Studies,” Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
“White,” Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
“Ameri©an Dre@m,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2002
“Art & Outrage,” Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
“Wallow,” The Project, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Reactions,” Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Moving Collection: Body-Con,” Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
2001
“Video Jam,” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Bach, FL
2000
“Pix,” Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY
“Friendships in Arcadia: Writers and Artists at Yaddo in the 90s,” Art in General, New York, NY; traveled to The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
“Söma Söma Söma,” Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1999
“Out of Actions,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
“The History of the Future,” Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
“Paradise 8,” Exit Art, New York, NY
1998
“warming,” The Project, New York, NY
“Out of Actions,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to MAK, Vienna, Austria
“Apocalypse Now,” HERE Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Freedom, Liberation and Change: Revisiting 1968,” Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
“A Negro Sleeps Beneath the Susquehanna,” Hide and Seek Residency, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
“Peek,” HERE Art Gallery, New York, NY
1997
“Available Culture,” HERE Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Birdhouses,” Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
“Birds of a Feather,” Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
“Habitat for Humanity: (bird)Houses,” New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ
“Out on a Limb,” Midland Gallery, Montclair, NJ
1996
“Exquisite Corpse,” Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME
1995 “
Art in the USA since 1950,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
“Dysfunctional Art,” Tompkins Cove Art Center/Hudson Arts at Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
“Outside The Frame: Performance & the Object: A Survey History of Performance”
“Satellite Choice: Young Curators Explore Diversity,” Artists Space, New York, NY
1994
“Art in the USA since 1950,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
“Outside The Frame: Performance & the Object: A Survey History of Performance”
“The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Santa Monica, CA; traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; American Center, Paris, France
1993
“The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” Drawing Center, New York, NY
“Transient Décor,” Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
“Various Objects,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1991
“Looking for Aunt Jenny,” Art in General, New York, NY
1990
“Action and Artifact,” Weatherspoon Gallery at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1985
“Post-Modern Icons,” Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1984
“Found Language,” Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
“Radical Culture,” Fashion Moda Gallery, Bronx, NY
1983
“Rutgers Invitational,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

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2017
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2016
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Boucher, Brian, “Artists Aren’t Afraid to Get Political at Art Basel Miami Beach,” ArtNet News (web), November 30
2015
Nelson, Solveig, The Freedom Prinicple: Experiemnts in Art and Music, 196 to Now, Artforum, November
Miranda, Carolina, Review: William Pope.L returns to L.A. with twin gallery shows focused on race, Los Angeles Times (web), November 13
Golden, Thelma, Best of 2015, Artforum, December
Chiaverina, John, Muscle Men and Free Cash: Xavier Cha and Pope.L Shine at Art Basels Public Sector, ArtNews (web), December 3
Knight, Christopher, Best of 2015: The 10 best art exhibitions at LA museums in 2015, Los Angeles Times (web), December 12
Knight, Christopher, “Review: William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen,” Los Angeles Times, March 24
Finkel, Jori, “William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes,” New York Times, March 18
Herbert, Martin, “William Pope.L,” ArtReview, April
Burns, Charlotte, “William Pope.L Wants to Bring Down the House,” The Artnewspaper, March 16
Wagley, Catherine, “Artist Explaines Why He Hired People to Stumble Around MOCA Blindfolded,” LA Weekly (web), May 1
Joselit, David, “Material Witness: David Joselit on Visual Evidence and the Case of Eric Garner,” Artforum, February
Myers, Terry, “William Pope.L: Trinket,” The Brooklyn Rail, May
Buckley, Annie, “William Pope.L,” Art in America, June/July
Welsblum, Vida, “William Pope.L Flag Makes an Appearance at Kendrick Lamar’s BET Awards Performance,” ArtNews (web), June 29
Harcourt, Glenn, “William Pope.L: Geffen Contemporary / Los Angeles,” Artillery, July
Jablon, Samuel, “”William Pope.L on ‘Acting a Fool’ and Alternative Futures,” Hyperallergic (web), July 10
Shaked, Dr. Nizan, “Under the Banner of Contradiction,” X-TRA, Fall
2014
Motley, John, “William Pope.L, the self-described ‘Friendliest Black Artist in America,’ returns to Portland for ‘Claim’ at PSU,” The Oregonian, February 5
2013
Caniglia, John, “PULL!” offers city a labor of art as it rolls through Cleveland streets,“ The Plain Dealer, June 9
Foumberg, Jason, “Is Chicago Ready for William Pope.L?” ChicagoMag.com, May
Simonini, Ross, “William Pope.L,” Interview Magazine, February 6
2012
Sortor, Carolyn, “Looking Back, Looking Forward”, artandseek.net, September 12,
Dirié, Clément, ed, “William Pope.L: Black People are Cropped.” JRP Ringier
Diaz, Eva, “Prospect.2, New Orleans” Artforum, February
2011
Nathan, Emily, “Prospect.2 New Orleans: Beating Heart Biennial,” ArtNet (web), November
2010
“La Fiac sur Orbite Internationale.” Spécial Fiac, October
“The Twenty.” New York Magazine, August 30 to September 6
Barliant, Claire, “Reviews: The Last Newspaper.” Time Out: New York, November 4
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Art and News, Intersecting in the Digital Age.” The New York Times, October 7
Garza, Evan J, “Review: William Pope.L at Samson.” Flash Art, May to June
Wilson, Michael, “Art Review: William Pope.L., landscape + object + animal,” May
Vanderbuilt, Tom, “Review: The Last Newspaper, the New Museum.” ArtForum, October
2009
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: William Pope.L.” The New York Times, October
Marjian, Ana, “Review: William Pope.L at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University,” ArtForum, February
Anstead, Alicia, “Art that Pops – A new installation by William Pope.L transforms Carpenter Center into a playground for challenging ideas,” Arts Spectrum, Cambridge, MA. February
Zhong, Fan, “Yard Work,” Interview Magazine, September
2008
“Goings on About Town: William Pope.L,” The New Yorker, October 13
“Agenda: William Pope.L,” New York Magazine, September 17 to 24
Cotter, Holland, “The Topic is Race; the Art is Fearless,” The New York Times, March 30
Levin, Kim, “Reviews: New York, William Pope.L at Mitchell-Innes & Nash,” ARTnews, December
Valdez, Sarah, “William Pope.L at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.” Art on Paper, November/December, pg 84 to 85
2007
Dorin, Lisa and Darby English, “William Pope.L: Drawing, Dreaming and Drowning.” The Art Institute of Chicago Journal, October
Antebi, Nicole et al, “Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices,” Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, Los Angeles, CA, pp.60-61, 62-65, 144, 147-148, 176, 180-183, 216.
English, Darby, “How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness.” MIT Press
Taft, Catherine, “William Pope.L. Critics’ Picks,” ArtForum, November 13
2006
Agans, Elizabeth, “Think Again.” Rutgers Magazine, Winter
Chase, Alisia, “Learning to be Human.” Afterimage, January-February
Lepecki, Andre, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, Routledge
Sayer, Laura. “Undies to See the Light,” The New Record, Cincinnati, OH, January 5-8
Storey, Natalie. “On Your Knees!” The Santa Fe New Mexican Magazine, March 12-18
Van Cleve, Emily, “Performer Makes an Art of Humiliation,” The Journal Santa Fe, March 3
2005
Delgado, Jerome, “Amener l’Autoroute a la Montagne,” La Presse. Montreal, Canada, June 2
Dischinger, Mark, “The United Colors of America,” RFT: Riverfront Times, St Louis, MO, June 15-21
Firstenberg, Lauri, “Profile: Tapping the energy of Predicament,” Contemporary Magazine, New York, NY
Harthill, Daniel, “Shazam!” Sun Journal, Lewiston, ME, May 30
Lamarche, Bernard, “Toucher Son But,” Le Devoir, Montreal, Canada, May 15
McKanic, Arlene, “JCAL’s Relics and Remnants.” The New York Amsterdam News, November 3-9
Pope.L, William. “The “Looking for Miss Black Factory” Contest.” Art Journal,Spring, 2005
Pope.L, William. “Letter to a Young Artist.” Art on Paper, July/August, 2005
Sedgewick, Augustine. “Perspective: William Pope.L, The Possibilities of Difference.” Sun Journal, June 12, 2005
Thorson, Alice. “Highlighting ‘Blackness.” Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO, June 12, 2005
2004
Cotter, Holland. “Hometown of Utopia and Dissent.” The New York Times, New York, NY, July 23
Daily, Meghan. “William Pope.L.” ArtForum, April
Smith, Roberta. “William Pope.L.” The New York Times, January 30
Osei-Bonsu, Aufa. “The Art of Contraries: William Pope.L.”. Afrique, Chicago, IL, April
Thompson, Chris. “Afterbirth of a Nation.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
Tousignant, Isa. “Crawl for Your Life.” The Hour, Montreal, Canada, November 4
Trainor, James. “Ain’t No Such Thing As Superman.” Frieze, London, England, May
2003
Calo, Carole Gold. “Public Art/Private Art.” Public Art Review Crossroads, Fall-Winter
D.K. Row. “Covered In Chocolate, An Artist Dances ‘For Democracy’.” The Oregonian, June 12
Owens, Clifford. “Notes on Critical Black U.S. Performance Art.” Fylkingen Net Journal, October 23
Pollack, Barbara. “The Art of Public Disturbance.” Art in America, May
Pope.L, William. “Sandwich Lecture 8”. LIVE Culture, Tate Gallery, London, UK, Spring
Stillman, Nick. “ARTSEEN: William Pope.L, The Great White Way”. The Brooklyn Rail, June
Stillman, Nick. “The Value of Not Knowing.” New York Fine Arts Quarterly (NYFA), Vol. 19, No 2, Spring
Trainor, James. “Walking the Walk: The Artist as Flâneur.” Border Crossings, November
2002
Bessire, Mark H. C., ed. “William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America,” MIT Press
Cotter, Holland. “Noted Performance Artist’s Work Slows to a Crawl,” International Herald Tribune, January
Cohen, Ted. “Crawling to Learn.” Maine Telegram Sunday, Portland, ME, October 6
Cotter, Holland. “Tombs, Pop Tarts, and Parties.” The New York Times, August 23
Connors, Philip. “The Man Who Ate the Wall Street Journal.” The Wall Street Journal, April 9
Pollack, Barbara. “Superman Enters the Culture Wars.” Village Voice, New York, NY, January 15
Pope.L, William. “Voices from the Field.” The Visual Art Critic, Columbia University, New York, NY
Pope.L, William, interviewed by Chris Thompson, “America’s Friendliest Black Artist,” PAJ, A Journal of Performance and Art, Vol. 24, issue 3, September
2001
Associated Press. “NEA Grant is Denied for Noted Maine Artist.” Boston Globe, Boston, MA, December 20
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: William Pope.L.” The New York Times, June 2001
Pogrebin, Robin. “Warhol Foundation Finances Work Rebuffed by N.E.A.” New York Times, December 21
Pope.L, William. “How Do You Make Social Change: Beyond the Proscenium.” Theatre, No. 3, Vol. 31
2000
Carr, C., “Generation Gap: Three Performers and a Waterbed.” Village Voice, New York, NY, July 18
Rush, Michael, “Performance Hops Back Into the Scene.” The New York Times, July 2
Robinson, Dash, “Consumer Demand: William Pope.L.” Cambridge Tab. Needham, MA, January 14
1999
Crawford, Cair. “My Niagra #2 (Bed).” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, Issue 10, Summer
Volk, Gregory. “Rolo Castillo, William Pope.L” The Project. Flash Art, March-April
1997
Carr, C. “Some Kind of Protest.” Village Voice, New York, NY, March 4
Weiss, Allen S., ed. Taste Nostalgia. Lusitania Press, New York, NY
1996
Wilson, Martha. William Pope.L. Bomb Magazine, New York, NY, Spring

Performances

2020
"Dressing Up for Civil Rights (Performance 3 of 3)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Haunting the Gallery (Version 3)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Eating the Wall Street Journal (Flag Version – Sean Yetter performs)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2019
"Dressing Up for Civil Rights (Performance 2 of 3)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Haunting the Gallery (Version 2)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Eating the Wall Street Journal (Flag Version – Mary Louise Guinier performs)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Dressing Up for Civil Rights (Performance 1 of 3)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Haunting the Gallery (Version 1)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Eating the Wall Street Journal (Flag Version – Pope.L performs)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Pope.L: Conquest," Public Art Fund, New York, NY
"Conquest," Public Art Fund, New York, NY
"An Evening with Ralph Lemon and Pope.L," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Flint Water meets the Mighty Hudson," Hudson River, New York, NY
2018
"Pope.L: The Escape," The Art Intitute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)
"Reenactor," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2017
"Reenactor," Dlectricity, Detroit, MI
"Shopping Craw," Social Service, Artists Space, New York, NY
2016
"Baile," 32nd Biennal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"The Problem," Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
2015
"The Long White Cloud," Black Cinema House, Chicago, IL
"The Beautiful," Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
"Cage Unrequited," MCA Live, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2014
"The Limner Performance," Media Replication Services by Triple Canopy, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
"Mercier and Camier," Portland State University, Portland, OR
"Media Replication Services," with Caroline Bergvall, Lisa Gitelman, and Pope.L, facilitated by Triple Canopy, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Costume Made of Nothing," Walk Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2013
"Burying the Blues," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Cage Unrequited," Performa 13: Three Duets, Seven Variations, at Soto Velez, New York, NY
2012
"Firing Squad," Grizedale Arts, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
"A Personal History of Curation," Case Study: William Pope.L Inteprets Fluxkit, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2011
"Göteborg Crawl," Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
"Blink," Prospect 2, New Orleans, LA
"Paste!" Flux This!, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2010
"Eating the Wall Street Journal (new millenium version)," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2009
"Corbu Pop Singers," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2007
"In the Cabin," Haus der Kultern de Welt, Berlin, Germany

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2017
Bucksbaum Award, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Knight Arts Challenge
VIA Art Fund Grant
Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship
2015
American Spirit Award
2012
Joyce Foundation Award
2009
Acadia Summer Arts Program (Kippy Kamp), Mount Desert Island, ME
2007
Nancy Graves Foundation Award
Tiffany Foundation Award
2006
Bellagio Center Residency
United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship
2005
LEF Foundation
Grizedale Foundation Residency Fellowship
2004
Guggenheim Fellowship
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, faculty in residence. Skowhegan, ME
2003
International Arts Critic Association Award
Rockefeller Foundation
2002
Acadia Summer Arts Program (Kippy Kamp), Mount Desert Island, ME
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art
2001
Japan – U.S. Friendship Commission Fellowship
The Andy Warhol Foundation
Creative Capital Foundation
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
2000
Franklin Furnace/Jerome Foundation
Tanne Foundation Fellowship
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
1999
Maine Arts Commission Fellowship Grant
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
1997
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
Tennessee William Writer-In-Residence, Sewanee: University of the South, Sewanee, TN
1996
Ko Performance Festival Residency, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Residency, Skowhegan, ME
1995
National Endowment for the Arts
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
Ko Performance Festival Residency, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1994
National Endowment for the Arts
New England Regional Initiative Project
New Forms Artist’s Project Award
Maine Arts Commission Fellowship Grant
1993
National Endowment for the Arts
Art Matters
1992
Franklin Furnace/Jerome Foundation Fund for Art
New England Regional Initiative Project Grant
1991
Mid Atlantic Residency
1990
Art Matters Grant
1989
Mt. Holyoke Writers Workshop
Art Matters Grant
1988
New England Regional Initiative Project Grant
1987
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Playwright’s Development Grant
1986
Just Above Midtown Curator-Artist/Television Grant
Artists Space Grant
1984
Artists Space Grant

Selected Talks, Lectures and Panels

2023
"Pope.L At Museum Brandhorst," Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (forthcoming) (Link)
2022
"’Alzheimer’s Talk’," Kutztown University Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 15200 Kutztown Rd, Kutztown, PA
"Nuremberg Symposium," Historical Townhall Nuremberg, Nuremberg, DE
"Artist talk at Städelschule," Städelschule, Portikus, Frankfurt, DE
"Pope.L & Andrea Fraser in Conversation," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA
2020
"Open Dialogue: Generational Inequality and the Environment with Pope.L, What Pipeline, Jenny Kendler, and Rachael Havrelock," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019
"Pope.L Artist Talk with Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw at Barnes Foundation," Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
"Book Launch for Pope.L: Campaign in conversation with Pope.L, Dieter Roelstraete and Yesomi Umolu," Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. Chicago, IL
"Pope.L: Public Art Fund Artist Talk at Cooper Union," New York, NY
2018
"Pope.L in conversation with Noam Segal," Mitchell Innes and Nash, New York, NY
"Several Major Projects," The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY
"Poetics in a Time of Climate Collapse and Human Rights Abuses,” University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“X-TRA presents Pope.L reads “The Cypress” followed by conversation with Hamza Walker,” The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Artist Talk in conjunction with Mel Chin: All Over The Place,” Queens Museum, Queens, NY
“Recent Works to Date, Intersections," Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
"Artist Talk with Pope.L and Dieter Roelstraete," University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017
"Recent Works to Date,” University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
“Conversation Between the Artist and Christopher Y. Lew,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Recent Works to Date. Sawyer Seminar: Urban Projects,” University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016
“Whispering Workshop,” Continuum: documenta 14 at Polytechnion, Athens, Greece
“Conversation (A) with Pope.L,” Oswald Andrade Cultural Office, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015
“Conversation with Anthony Huberman,” ‘In-Practice: symposium’ The Renaissance Society Centennial, Chicago, IL
“Conversation with Claudia Rankine,” Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL
“‘Humors’ Panel. “Painting and Its Humors,” University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Keynote Address,” “Far-sited: Creating and Conserving Art in Public Places”
Getty Conservation Institute/CSU Long Beach, CA
"Conversation with Adrienne Edwards. Symposium: New Circuits: Curating Contemporary Performance” at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Conversation with Jenny Schlenzka,” College Art Association, New York, NY
“Klingon Talk (Attempt#2): The Colony,” 10th Serpentine Transformation Marathon. Serpentine Radio
“Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture,” Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2014
“Art Talk: William Pope.L,” University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“(K)NOW: Artists & the Production of New Knowledge, Now – William Pope.L, The Two Projects Talk,” Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
“Media Replication Services,” With Lisa Gitelman and Caroline Bergvall for Triple Canopy, Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series,” Portland State University, Portland, OR
“The Diversity Talk. Panel with Zachary Cahill, Wolfie E. Rawk, Lise Yun Lee, and Romi Crawford,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2013
“Artist Talk,” Columbia University, New York, NY
“Artist Talk,” Kent Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Artist Talk – Two Projects,” Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
“Episode 405: William Pope.L. Bad at Sports,” Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Skowhegan Conversations #5: Pope.L & Zachary Fabri,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY
“William Pope.L: Before and After PULL!” Cultural Conversation Series, High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
2012
“Artist Talk. Conversations with Artists Series: Art as Experiment,” Center for the Study of Modern Art, The Phillips Collections, Washington, DC
“Artist Talk. Grossman Visiting Artist,” Williams Center, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
“Mike Kelley Moving Forward. Panel with Rachel Harrison and Joe Scanlan,” MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
“Three Projects,” Movement Lecture Series, Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
“Visiting Artist Talk,” Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
“William Pope.L Artist Talk,” Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2011
“Awards Speech for Geoffrey Hendricks,” VaVa Voom! Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards, New York, NY
“Graduation Talk,” Commencement, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
“Think Tank,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2010
“Expanded, Exploded, Collapsed?,” Panel with Johanna Burton and Josiah McElheny moderated by Fionn Meade, hosted by Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the Sculpture Center, at The New School, New York, NY
“Visiting Artist Talk,” Department of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
“William Pope.L Artist Talk,” Poag Auditorium, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
2009
“Artist Talk: Recent Work,” Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA; Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“Residency Presentation,” Acadia Summer Arts Program (Kippy Kamp), Mount Desert Island, ME
2008
“Artist Lecture,” Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
“Artist Talk,” Grand Arts and Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
“Artist Talk,” Plug In at ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
“Artist Talk,” Montclair Art Museum and Montclair University, Montclair, NJ
“Artist Talk,” Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Panel Discussion,” The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Recent Projects,” Hunter College, New York, NY
“Some Recent Things I Made That Do Not Go Together – a lecture by William Pope.L,” Grand Valley State University and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2007
“Art as Intervention,” Roundtable discussion moderated by Mark Bessire, Art of Concern Symposium 2007, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
“Artist Talk,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Artist Talk,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“An Evening with William Pope.L,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
“Influence Lecture, version 11,” Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI
“Visiting Artist Talk,” Union Institute & University at Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
2006
“Artist Talk,” Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Black Factory Round Table Discussion. Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
“Black Factory Talk, version 3,” Foreman Gallery, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC, Canada
“Black Factory Talk, version 4,” Nova Art Fair, Chicago, IL
“Graduation Talk,” Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
“Influence Lecture, version 11,” University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; California College of Art, San Francisco, CA; Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON, Canada; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
“Lecture Seminar,” University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
“Politics of Visual Culture, Black Factory Talk,” College Art Association, Annual Conference, Boston, MA
2005
“Influence Lecture, version 11,” Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; American University, Washington, DC; University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2004
“Artist Talk,” Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Barbara Lee Artist Lecture Series, Skowhegan, ME
"Community Conversation with the Artist on eRacism," Mason Gross Art Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
“Conversation with Christian Rattemeyer + Lowery Sims,” Artists Space, New York, NY
“eRacism Panel Discussion. With Barbara Pollack, Andre Lepecki, José Muñoz, and Midori Yoshimoto,” Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
“Influence Lecture, version 3,” Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Carnegie Mellon School of the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; University of California, Davis, CA; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; University of Illinois, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Columbia University, New York, NY; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Artists Space, New York, NY
“Madison Project: Challenging the Public Art Paradigm,” Panel at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
“Project Lecture: The Black Factory,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
“The Third Body,” Panel at House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2003
“Artist Talk,” Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
“Conversation with Lowery Sims,” DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
“Influence Lecture, version 2,” University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany, NY; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Drew University, Madison, NJ; University of Texas, Austin, TX; New York Studio School, New York, NY
“Sandwich Lecture 8 (Klingon Talk),” Live Culture: Performance and the Contemporary, Tate Modern, London, UK
2002
“Sandwich Lecture,” Ingestation, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2000
“Bocio Text. Symposium on African Art,” ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
“Yves Klein & Neil Young,” Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
1998
“Interventionism,” Panel with Kika Thorne, Adrian Blackwell, D. Anne Taylor, Anna Banana, and J. Householder
“7a*11d,” (moderator), International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Canada

Curatorial Projects

2018
"Brown People are the Wrens in the Parking Lot," Logan Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
"Flux This! With Rob Andrews, Maren Hassinger, Geoffrey Hendricks, Martin Kersels, Clifford Owens, Rafael Sanchez, Xaviera Simmons, and Catherine Sullivan," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000
"Söma Söma Söma," With Patty Chang and Geoffrey Hendricks, Sculpture Center, New York, NY

Public Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, CT
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
University Art Museum at University of Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Celia Paul

Born 1959 in Trivandrum, India
Lives and works in London, UK
1981
Slade School of Art, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
"Life Painting," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Celia Paul: Myself Among Others," Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy
"Celia Paul: 26 Years of Portraiture with Studio Prints, 1985-2011," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2022
"Celia Paul: Memory and Desire," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2020
"Celia Paul: Self Portrait, an extended reality (XR) exhibition on Vortic Collect," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2019
"Celia Paul," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2018
"Celia Paul," curated by Hilton Als, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA; The Huntington, San Marino, CA
2017
"The Sea and the Mirror," Victoria Miro, Venice, Italy
2016
"Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2015
"Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia," Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY
2014
"Celia Paul," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2012
"Celia Paul: The Separation series and recent work," Chichester Cathedral, UK; Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
"Gwen John and Celia Paul: Painters in Parallel," Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2011
"Celia Paul: Identity, Paintings and Watercolours," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
"Celia Paul: Mothers and Daughters, Etchings and Drawings," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2010
"Celia Paul: Mothers, Daughters and Sisters," University Gallery and Baring Wing, Newcastle, UK
"Celia Paul," De Queeste, Brussels, Belgium; touring to Abeley-Watou, Flanders, Belgium
2009
"Celia Paul: Where I am now," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
"Celia Paul: Etchings 2004-6," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2006
"Celia Paul, Where I am now," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2005
“Celia Paul Paintings and Works on Paper,” Graves Art Gallery, Sheeld, UK
2004
“Celia Paul: Stillness – Paintings and Etchings 1990-2004,” Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, UK
“Celia Paul: Prints and Watercolours,” Marlborough Graphics, London, UK
2002
“Celia Paul, Corner,” Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2002-2004)
1999
“Celia Paul: Recent Drawings and Prints,” Marlborough Graphics and Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
“Celia Paul: Etchings 1995-1999,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
1995
“Celia Paul: Etchings 1991-1995,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
1991
“Celia Paul: Paintings and Drawings,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK 
“Celia Paul: Etchings,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
1986
"Celia Paul,” Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture," Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
2022
"The Story of Arts as it’s Still Being Written," Victoria Miro, London, UK
"Intimacy," Victoria Miro, London, UK
"Pictus Porrectus: Reconsidering the Full-Length Portrait," "Isaac Bell House," Rhode Island, US
"Figuration," Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
"Me, Myself, I – Artists’ Self-Portraits," Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2021
"The Sublime in Nature," Daniel Malarkey, London, UK
2020
"I See You, an extended reality (XR) exhibition on Vortic Collect," Victoria Miro, London, UK
"Parley for the Oceans x Vortic," online exhibition, Vortic Going Home, Marlborough Graphics, London, UK
2019
"Works on Paper," Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Unparalleled Journey through Contemporary Art of Past 50 Years," RUBELL MUSEUM, Miami, FL
2018
"Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto," Ca’ d’Oro, Venice, Italy
"Studio Prints: a Survey," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
All Too Human, Tate Britain, London, UK; Painting Life: Bacon, Freud and the School of London, MFA Budapest, Hungary
2017
"House Work," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2016
"NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
"Forces in Nature," Victoria Miro, London, UK
"Inspired by Soane: I found this and thought of you…," Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK

Bibliography

2025
Payne, Cynthia. "Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts," The Brooklyn Rail, April (Link)
Goodpasture, Eliza. "Celia Paul Paints Her Place in the World," Hyperallergic, March 27 (Link)
Ove Knausgaard, Karl. "The World-Changing Gaze of Celia Paul," The New Yorker, January 27 (Link)
2024
Osberg, Annabel. "Critics Pick: Los Angeles, Celia Paul," Artforum, February 21 (Link)
Laster, Paul. "8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in February 2024," Galerie, February 5 (Link)
Parker, Dian. "Don’t Miss: The Intense Stillness of Celia Paul’s ‘Life Painting’," The Observer, Februrary 1
2023
Hodgkin, Beatrice. "Artist Celia Paul’s debt to Venice," Financial Times, October 25
2022
Marius, Marley. “An Enthralling Exhibition in Newport Puts the Full-Length Portrait in Focus,” VOGUE, July 15
Payne, Cynthia. "Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John," The Brooklyn Rain, June
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Hallett, Florence. "Tarred by same brush"," i, April 8
Scholes, Lucy. "Can you be an artist’s muse without ruining your own career?," The Telegraph, April 4
"Celia Paul: Against Any Intrusion: Writing to Gwen John," The Paris Review, March 2
Mendelsohn, Meredith. "In Newport, Artists Turn Tables on the Gilded Age," The New York Times, July
2021
“Celia Paul, “The Trauma and Talent of Some of History’s Greatest Women Artists”,” The New York Times, October
2020
Szalai, Jennifer. "‘I Am My Own Subject’: Celia Paul on Lucian Freud, Motherhood and a Life in Art," The New York Times, Nover 20
“Diary: Painting in the Dark,” London Review of Books, December 12
“Lockdown review– Celia Paul: My Studio at Victoria Miro and Vortic,” Splash, July 10
“The power of creativity: friends of Bazaar share imaginative responses to crisis,” Harper’s Bazaar, July
Wullschläger, Jackie. “London lockdown paintings are raucous and lyrical,” Financial Times July 8
Hallett, Florence. “Celia Paul: My Studio,” The Arts Desk, June 30
2019
Adams, Tim. "Celia Paul on life after Lucian Freud: ‘I had to make this story my own’," The Guardian, October 27
“Women of the Year’, ‘Artist of the Year: Celia Paul,” Harpers Bazaar, December
Mclaughlin, Rosanna. “A Muse in Her Own Words: Celia Paul’s Self-Portrait”,” Frieze, November 26
“Review, ‘Holding up a Mirror’,” The Daily Telegraph, November
“Can a Woman Who Is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?” The New York Times, November
“Self-Portrait by Celia Paul, review: stepping out of Lucien Freud’s shadow,” The Telegraph, November
“How do women become more than objects in art? The painters Celia Paul and Cecily Brown navigate a medium historically dominated by men. Where the body is buried,” The New York Times, November
“Self-Portrait by Celia Paul, review: stepping out of Lucien Freud’s shadow,” The Telegraph, November
2018
“Celia Paul, "Gwen John",” Frieze Masters, October
“Celia Paul,” Apollo, April
“Works by artist Celia Paul featured in exhibition curated by writer Hilton Als,” Yale News, March 22
“Celia Paul, ‘Acclaimed artist Celia Paul on painting from life – and loss,” Financial Times, March 16
Neyeri, Farah. “A muse steps out of the shadows,” The New York Times, March 10
2016
Cumming, Laura. "Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia; Maggi Hambling: Touch – review," The Guardian, September 11
Elmhirst, Sophie. “Standing Tall: Celia Paul will always be her own woman,” Harper’s Bazaar Art, November
Lloyd, Joe. “Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia,” Studio International, October 13
Cumming, Laura. “It’s always the quiet ones…” The Observer, September 11
Wullschlager, Jackie. “Artist Celia Paul explores the beauty of melancholy,” Financial Times, September 2

Public Collections

Abbot Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Kendal, UK
British Museum, London, UK
Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
Morgan Library, New York, USA
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, UK
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Saatchi Collection, London, UK
The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

József Csató

1980
Born in Mezőkövesd, Hungary
Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary
2000-2006
University of Fine Arts, Budapest, class of Dóra Maurer
2004
University of Fine Arts, Nürnberg, Germany class of Peter Angermann

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
"Behind The Curtain, A New Landscape Again," Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong
"Siren Hospitality," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
“Secret Sized Garden," Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany
“My Memory Foam Keeps Forgetting,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2022
“Hair Hours, Skin Minutes, Bone seconds,” Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
“Treasures, Trees, Fire and Bones,” Doubleq Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
“Lush Ferns in Empty Wells,” Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
“ Crickets in the Carpet,” Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
“Crossing the Invisible,” Sean Horton (Presents), New York, NY
2021
“Kiss of the Leopard,” Semiose Gallery, Paris, France
“Broken bones of the heart,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
“Balancing on the Top of the Fountain,” Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Diary of Open Secrets,” Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
2019
“Not Enough Buckets to Hold the Tears of Joy,” ENA Viewing Space , Budapest, Hungary
“Interesting Collection from the Universe,” Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria
“Each And Every Kiss,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
“Easy Ways of Breathing,” Vunu Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
2018
“Selfminerals/Under my shoe,” AQB Project Space , Budapest, Hungary
2017
“Patches and Drips,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014
“József Csató Malerei,” Kreis Galerie, Nürnberg, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
"Aesthetic Echoes," PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
"Paper View II.,"The Hole, New York, NY
"Art Palm Beach," Galleri Urbane, West Palm Beach, FL
"Dream Paper," Galerie Masurel, Lyon, France
CAN Art Fair, Plus-One Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
2023
"Think Pinker," Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody)
“Face Time,” Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
ACK Art Fair, Galleri Urbane, Kyoto, Japan
"Art Rotterdam," PLUS-ONE Gallery and Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Place-World," Sean Horton, Chelsea, New York, NY
2022
“Best In Show,” Hyperbien Galerie, Paris, France
“Different Solar Settings,” David Kováts Gallery/Longtermhandstand – London, UK
“Place Value – New aquisitions by Ludwig Museum,” Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
“Infinite Flowers,” Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
"Summer Collective," Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
Art Basel, Galerie Krinzinger, Paris, France
UNTITLED Art Fair, Galleri Urbane, Miami Beach, FL
CAN Art Fair, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
Parallel Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Art Antwerp, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Art Brussels, Deák Erika Galéria, Brussels, Belgium
2021
“Islands of Happiness,” CHB, Berlin, Germany
“Six Solo Shows,” Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, Austria
“Traces,” Haverkampf Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020
“Softer Softest,” Curated by Domenico de Chirico, Andrea Festa Fine Arts, Rome, Italy
“The Wunderwall – Melancholympics,” Curated by Sasha Bogojev, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
“No Time like the Present – online exhibition,” Public Gallery, London, UK
2019
”Flower Centerpiece,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018
“Hey-Ho Christmas Show,“ Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna Austria
“AIR Show,“ Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
2015
”Derkó Now,” Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary

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2025
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2024
Hornyik, Sándor. "Perspective Morphology: József Csató’s Art of Painting," Essay
Double Q. "JÓZSEF CSATÓ NEW BOOK RELEASE: “MY FAVOURITE PLACE IS THE GARDEN IN MY HEAD”," Double Q Gallery, May 16
2023
Fuchs, Eva. "Queenie Rosita Law on Championing Central and Eastern European Art in Asia," Ocula, April 20
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2022
"Art Brussels 2022: The Fair for Art Lovers," L’Echo, April
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2021
"Artist Spotlight: József Csató," BOOOOOOOM, December
"The Drawer #20 – 10 Years," The Drawer, June
2020
Kostarias, Yannis. "József Csató Develops An Aesthetic Battle Between Distortion And Flexibility," Art Verge, April 30
"József Csató," FLOORR Magazine, April
2018
"Csató József x Bomo Art," Hype and Hyper, May
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2017
"We visited the studio – Csató József," We Love Budapest, January
2015
"Csató," Stilblog, December

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2023
Soart Residency, Millstatter See, Austria
2022
SARP Residency, Linguaglossa, Sicily, Italy
2019
Wien Alte Scmiede/Budapest Gallery – Residency, Vienna, Austria
2017
Krinzinger Projekte Residency, AIR Petőmihályfa, Hungary
2015
Derkovits Gyula Scholarship III. Grade
2013
Esterhazy Art Award
Derkovits Gyula Scholarship II. Grade
Derkovits Gyula Scholarship I. Grade
2004
Erasmus, Nürnberg, Germany

Public Collections

The Bunker, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL
Hungarian National Bank Contemporary Collection, Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian National Gallery, Contemporary Collection, Budapest, Hungary
Ludwig Museum Collection, Budapest, Hungary

Kyle Dunn

b.

1990
Livonia, MI
Lives and works in Queens, NY
2012
BFA Interdisciplinary Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2011
Option SCIE at La Haute Ecole d’art et de désign de Genève (HEAD), Switzerland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
"Devil in the Daytime," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Kyle Dunn / Matrix 194," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2023
"Night Pictures," P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2021
"The Fool," Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
2020
"Into Open Air," P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2018
"Always," Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
"Night In," Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
2017
"Leaves Don’t Thank the Sun," Sardine, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
"The Sphere of Reality and Fantasy – Inheritance and Exploration of the Tangible and the Imagined," Corridor Foundation, Shenzen, China
"FULL DISCLOSURE: Selections from the Thomas-Suwall Collection," The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
"When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2023
"SIRANI," Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany
2022
"Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection," ICA Miami, Miami, FL
"Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon," Marlborough Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021
"Equal Affections," GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Tidal Motion," P·P·O·W and Joe Sheftel, Provincetown, MA
"Body Double," Galerie Maria Bernheim, London, United Kingdom
2019
"Do You Love Me?," P·P·O·W, New York, NY
"Cruise Kidman Kubrick," Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
"Body Parts," Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
2018
"A Scratch in Time," Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
"RE_ARRANGE," Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
"Skins," Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Hickey," Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
"Thick on the Ground," two person show with Christian Rogers at NATIONALE, Portland, OR
"Interrupting Lines," Pt. 2: Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Strange Looks," Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO
"Fugue," Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, NY

Bibliography

2025
Stevens, M. Charlene. "Kyle Dunn at Vielmetter," Artillery, April 8
2024
Alessandrini, Christopher. "Kyle Dunn’s Paintings Portray Games of Anticipation," Frieze, July 4
White, Katie. "‘There’s a Coyness’: Inside Kyle Dunn’s Symbol-Rich Cinematic Interiors," artnet, June 27
2023
Saltz, Jerry. "Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever," Vulture, May 11
Brown-Ewens, Millen. "These paintings depict a complex, shadowy view of masculinity," Dazed, May 5
Judin, Juerg, "Pay Matthis Karstens." SIRANI, Galerie Judin, Berlin
2021
Yerebakan, Osman Can. "Emerging Artist Kyle Dunn Is Causing a Stir with His Sensuous, Sculptural Paintings," Galerie, April 23
Oostmeijer, Edwin. "Equal Affections." GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018
Jovanovich, Alex. "PROJECT: KYLE VU-DUNN," Artforum, November
Artmaze Mag. "Summer Edition 8," curated by Sara Maria Salamone and Tyler Lafreniere, Founders and Head Curators of Mrs. Gallery, NYC
Zio Baritaux Ed. "Strange Plants III."
2017
Soldi, Rafael, "Q&A: Kyle Vu-Dunn," Strange Fire, November 9
The New Yorker, "Kyle Vu-Dunn," November 3
"Studio Visit with Kyle Vu-Dunn," Inertia, August 17
"Work In Progress Publication," March
"Young Space," March

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2014
Elizabeth Greenshields Full Grant Recipient, Montreal, Canada
2013
Artist in Residence at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, hosted by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Woodstock, NY

Public Collections

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
ICA Miami, Miami, FL
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
X Museum, Beijing, China

Laura Aguilar

Born: October 26, 1959 in San Gabriel, California
Died: April 25, 2018 in Long Beach, CA
Self taught

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2003
"New Bodies of Work from Laura Aguilar," Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, San Antonio, TX
2001
"Center," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000
"Stillness & Motion," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
1999
"Stillness," ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
1998
"El jo divers ("The Diverse Self")," Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024-2025
"For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2023-2024
"What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection," UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2023
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022-2023
"Ecstatic Land," Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2021-2022
"Our whole, unruly selves," San José Museum of Art, San José, CA (Link)
2018
"Reclaimed," Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
2007
"normal love—precarious life, precarious sex," Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany curated by Renate Lorenz
2006
"Mangnan Emrich Contemporary," Chelsea, NY, with Delilah Montoya
"This is not a Love Song," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Passing Through, Settling In: Photographs of the Desert," Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, curated by Kate Bonansinga
"Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute," The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, with Lynn Bianchi, Joel-Peter Witkin, Frank Yamrus, Mariette Path Allen, and Pierre et Gilles; Traveling to Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, ID
2004
"S.P.F.," Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Only Skin Deep Changing Visions of the American Self," International Center of Photography, curated by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco, catalog
"AC," 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jeff Koan Baysa
"Fat Attitudes – an exploration of an American subculture & the representation of the female body," Columbia University, New York, NY
"Fusion: A Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival," Los Angeles, CA
2003
"Koerper – Konstrukt – Schoenheit (Body – Construct – Beauty)," Galerie der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany, with Olaf Breuning, Mona Hatoum, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Zoe Leonard, Bjorn Melhus, Orlan, Jack Pierson
The Armory Show, New York, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"H2O," Danese Gallery, New York, NY
2002-2003
"Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts (The Nude in the Art of the 20th Century)," Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (catalog)
2002
"water," The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Majestic Sprawl – Some LA Photography," Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, curated by Andrea Feldman
"H2O," Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New York (catalog)
"The Beautiful Gender: Transformations and Continuities", Sala de Exposiciones de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, curated by Margarita Aizpuru, with Andres Serrano, Orlan, Cheryl Donegan, Martha Rosler, Nicole Eisenman, Daniela Steinfeld, catalog
"Art/Women/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, catalog
"Super Sex," Post, Los Angeles, CA, with Nicole Eisenman, Nicoletta Munroe, Sharon Ryan, Naomi Fisher, curated by Michael Gold
2001
"COLA 2001," Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
"fotografia y sociedad," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Spain
2000
"Made In California," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Aztlan Today: The Chicano Postnation," Communidad de Madrid, Spain and Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, catalog
1999
"The Nude in Contemporary Art," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1998
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997-1998
"Sunshine & Noir – Art in L.A. 1960-1997," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Westwood, CA, Museum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
"American Voices: Latin Photographers in the United States," Smithsonian Institution’s International Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1996
"Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s "Dinner Party," in Feminist Art History, Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, Westwood, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography Exhibition, San Francisco Camerawork
"Vital Signs," Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"P.L.A.N. -Photography Los Angeles Now", LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
"In a Different Light," University Art Museum of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"Pervert," University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
1995
"Temporarily Possessed: The semi-permanent Collection," The New Museum of Art, New York, NY
1994
"Encuentro Interamerieano de Artist Plasticos Exposicion," Universida De Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
"New Photography II/ New Acquisitions Exhibition," LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Bad Girl," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
"Bad Girls West," UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
"Aperto 93," LA Biennale di Venezia, XLVB Esposizione Internazionale d’Art 1993, Venice, Italy
1992
"Breaking Barriers: Revisualizing the Urban Landscape," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
"Disorient: Perspectives in Colonialism," University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Ojo Abierto/Open Eye," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
"Working W/people," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
"L.A. iluminado," Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Forbidden Language: Beauty and Culture," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1990
"All But the Obvious," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
"El Dia de los Muertos/ The Day of the Dead," Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA and The Women’s Building Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Image and Identity: Recent Chicana Art," Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1989
"Contemporary Latin Photography," Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA
1988
"Mexican/Mexican American Photography," Mexico National General Archives Mexico D.F
"Visible Differences: Images of a Diverse U.S. Culture, A National Exhibition of 14 Photographers," Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA
1987
"Women Photographers in America 1987," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986
"Dia de los Muertos/ The Day of the Dead," Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA
1985
"Seven Latin Photographers," Self Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, CA

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2021
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Kuusinen, Asta, Shooting from the Wild Zone: A Study of the Chicana Art Photographers Laura Aguilar, Celia Álvarez Muñoz, Delilah Montoya, and Kathy Vargas, University of Helsinki
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1996
"Chicana Creativity & Criticism," 2nd edition, edited by Maria Hererra-Sobek and Helena Maria Viramontes; published by University of New Mexico Press
Jones, Amelia, "Sexual Politics / Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist art History," (catalog), published by UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Westwood
1995
"Reframings – New American Feminist Photographies," pg. 242, 243, 244, 245; edited by Diane Neumaier; published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia
"In A Different Light," pg. 93; edited by Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder & Amy Scholder, published by City Lights Books San Francisco
1994
Foto Fest 94, pg.37, The 5th Biennial International Festival of Photography
Museo de las Artes, Universidad De Guadalajara (catalog)
"Uncontrollable Bodies – Testimonies of Identity and Culture," published by Bay Press
1993
Bad Girls (catalog), pg. 56, published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
FlashArt, Aperto 93 Emergency
La Biennale di Venezia, XLV Espozsizione Internazionale d/Art 1993
1992
Frame-Work: The Journal of Images and Culture, Vol. 6, issue 1
Art in America, June 1992, No. 6, pg. 61
1991
Frame-Work: The Journal of Images and Culture, Portfolio 1991, Vol. 4
1990
The Photo Review, Vol. 13, No.3, summer 1990, Ed. Stephen Perloff, pg. 13
1987
The Photo Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, summer 1987, Ed. Stephen Perloff

Public Collections

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
DG Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
State Finance Office of Hessen, Germany
Latin American Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
Light Work, Syracuse, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department, Santa Monica, California
Stanford University, Stanford, California

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Anonymous Was A Woman Award, New York, 2000
COLA, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, 2000
ArtPace, Residency, San Antonio, Texas, 1999
California Community Foundation’s J. Paul Getty Grant for the Visual Arts, 1998
The James D. Phelan Art Award – Photography, sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation, administered by SF Camerawork, 1995
California Arts Council Fellowship, California Arts Council, Los Angeles, CA, 1994/95
Artist in Residence Grant, California Arts Council, through the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, 1991-94

Kim DeJesus

News

Nick Aguayo

2019

Drambot, Shana Nys. “Art Guide: Saturday, September 7th in Downtown,” LA Weekly, September 4 (Link)

 

Edgar Arceneaux

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)

 

My Barbarian

2018

“Non-Western,” Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Los Angeles, CA (Link)

 

Whitney Bedford

2019

Sritharan, Abi. “5 Wonderful Things To Do In London This Weekend (15-17 March 2019),” Luxury London, March 12 (Link)

2018

Jean Black, Ezhra, “Refuge from the Inferno: L.A.’s Best Summer Group Shows,” Artillery (web), August 8 (Link)

Zarley, B. David, “Sand, Sea, and the Sublime: A Review of Whitney Bedford at Carrie Secrist Gallery,” New City Art (web), June 15 (Link)

 

Sadie Benning

2018

Casadio, Mariuccia. “I quadri di Sadie Benning,” Vogue Italia, April 16 (Link)

O’Falt, Chris, “Pixelvision: How a Failed ‘80s Fisher-Price Toy Camera Became One of Auteurs’ Favorite ’90s Tools,” IndieWire (web), August 9 (Link)

Masterson, Piers, “Sadie Benning: Sleep Rock,” this is tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine (web), May 10 (Link)

Lloyd, Kathryn, “Sadie Benning, Sleep Rock,” The White Review (web), May (Link)

Luke, Ben, “Sadie Benning/Ian White review: Playing tricks on a sense of time,” Evening Standard (web), April 30 (Link)

Waugh, Rosemary, “Sadie Benning: Sleep Rock,” Time Out London, April 24 (Link)

 

Ellen Berkenblit

2019

“Atrium Project: Ellen Berkenblit,” MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)

“Samaritans,” Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY (Link)

Farr, Kristin. “Ellen Berkenblit, Practical Magic,” Juxtapoz, July 10 (Link)

Russeth, Andrew. “Seven Superb Shows to See in Los Angeles During—and After—the Art Fairs,” Artnews, February 15 (Link)

Desmarais, Charles. “Berkenblit, Braman’s trippy ‘True Blue Mirror’ at McEvoy Foundation,” SF Chronicle, February 8 (Link)

Scott, Andrea K. ““Samaritans,” New Yorker, January 26 (Link)

2018

Yau, John, “Ellen Berkenblit’s Outcasts, Animals, and Body Parts,” Hyperallergic, September 22 (Link)

Nadel, Dan, “Human Nature: Dan Nadel on the Art of Ellen Berkenblit, Carroll Dunham, Sarah Peters, and Kyle Staver,” Artforum, September (Link)

“In Conversation: Ellen Berkenblit with Alex A. Jones,” The Brooklyn Rail (web), September 4 (Link)

Indrisek, Scott, “17 Artists Share the Music that Inspires Them,” Artsy (web), June 27 (Link)

“Ellen Berkenblit at Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels,” Artnet News, June 16

Yau, John, “An Artist’s Film Not Like the Others,” Hyperallergic (web), June 15 (Link)

 

Andrea Bowers

2018-2019

“Parking on Pavement,” The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

2019

O’Neil, Dilara. “Who Profits When Pain Becomes Art?,” Garage, June 19 (Link)

“Art Basel removes part of Andrea Bowers’ ‘Open Secret’ installation,” Malay Mail, June 14 (Link)

Larsen, Nina. “Women artists bring #MeToo reckoning to Basel fair,” Jakarta Post, June 14 (Link)

Niermann, Ingo. “Basel Roundup,” Art Agenda, June 18 (Link)

“#MeToo Art Installation in New York Involves Survivors’ Images Without Consent, Social Media Slams Artist Andrea Bowers,” Latestly, June 13 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah. “After an Outcry, Andrea Bowers Removes an Abuse Survivor’s Photos From a Monumental Artwork About the #MeToo Movement,” artnet, June 12 (Link)

Schneider, Tim and Kate Brown. “The 6 Best—and Riskiest—Artworks at Art Basel Unlimited, Where the Fair’s Supersized Artwork Shines,” artnet, June 11 (Link)

Siegel, Nina. “#MeToo Work at Art Basel Offers Cautionary Tale About Political Art,” New York Times, June 16 (Link)

Kinsella, Eileen. “The #MeToo Movement Will Headline Art Basel Unlimited This Year With Andrea Bowers’s Epic Account of America’s Harassment Reckoning,” artnet, April 16 (Link)

Weathers, Chelsea. “After Posada: Revolution,” Artforum, February (Link)

2018

Mania, Astrid. “Critics Picks: Andrea Bowers at Capitain Petzel,” Artforum, September (Link)

Judah, Hettie. “Frieze London review – women on top at the #MeToo art fair,” The Guardian, October 4 (Link)

Schuster, Angela M.H. “Contemporary Art Shines Bright in the City of Light,” Robb Report, October 16 (Link)

Princenthal, Nancy, “3 Outdoor Art Shows and One Trusty Dog (With Tricks!),” New York Times (web), September 6 (Link)

Stromberg, Matt, “The Power of Artists’ Books to Bind Together Radical Ideas,” Hyperallergic (web), August 28 (Link)

Lambie, Mark, “El Paso artists’ sweet creations of pan dulce casts benefit Annunciation House,” El Paso Times (web), July 27 (Link)

“#MeToo Narratives in Open Secret by Andrea Bowers,” Blouin Art Info (web), July 18 (Link)

Lynch, Scott, “Check Out All This New Art & Insane Crowding On The High Line,” Gothamist (web), April 27 (Link)

 

Kim Dingle

2019

Grundy, Gordy. “We Love Art Books! (Part 2),” Artillery, April 25 (Link)

Barrie, Lita. “Kim Dingle: I Will Be Your Server (The Lost Supper Paintings),” Riot Material, April 5 (Link)

Pagel, David. “Mayhem, table for 1: Artist Kim Dingle, Fatty’s restaurant and her ‘Lost Supper’ paintings,” Los Angeles Times, March 18 (Link)

Schneider, Tim. “Frieze Los Angeles Opens With Pop-Cultural Cachet in the Aisles, on the Stands, and in the Sales Figures,” artnet, February 15 (Link)

“Frieze Los Angeles Kicks Off Inaugural Edition at Paramount Pictures Studios This Week,” Artfix Daily, February 13 (Link)

2018

Brewer, Gary, “Studio Visit: Kim Dingle, Innocence and Pathos – the Chiaroscuro of the Soul,” Art and Cake, October 5 (Link)

Wolff, Natasha, “Change Agents Erin Christovale, Kim Dingle, and Maggie Kayne,” Muse, April 2 (Link)

Becker, Noah, “Whitehot Suggests: Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater,” Whitehot Magazine, March (Link)

Moony-Martin, Lucia Love, “Muscle Memory: Kim Dingle talks about her Blindfold paintings with Lucia Love Mooney-Martin,” artcritical (web), March 3 (Link)

Yau, John ,”Painting by Touch, Not by Sight,” Hyperallergic (web), January 27 (Link)

2017

Pashaie, Natalie, “Kim Dinlge ‘YIPES’: From Playful to Notorious,” Art Now LA, November 16 (Link)

Miranda, Carolina, “Q&A: How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, an alligator and blindfold painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle,” Los Angeles Times, November 8 (Link)

 

Mx Nicole Eisenman

2019

Kinsella, Eileen. “With Warren Kanders Gone, the Eight Whitney Biennial Artists Will Keep Their Work in the Show After All,” artnet, July 25 (Link)

Saltz, Jerry. “A True Protest Biennial,” Vulture, July 22 (Link)

Kushwaha, Brooke. “Queer Artist Nicole Eisenman Installs a Public Artwork in Boston’s 401 Park,” L’Officiel, July 22 (Link)

Sutton, Benjamin. “Four artists demanded their works be removed from the Whitney Biennial.” Artsy, July 19 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Seven Artists Withdraw Their Work From 2019 Whitney Biennial,” Hyperallergic, July 19 (Link)

Greenberger, Alex. “Artists Remove Work from Whitney Biennial, Protesting Board Member’s Ties to ‘Teargas and Other Weapons of Repression,’” ArtNews, July 19 (Link)

Stapley-Brown, Victoria. “Four artists withdraw their work from the Whitney Biennial,” The Art Newspaper, July 19 (Link)

Moynihan, Colin. “Seven Artists Withdraw From Whitney Biennial Over Board Member’s Ties to Tear Gas,” New York Times, July 19 (Link)

“A Letter From Artists in the Whitney Biennial,” Artforum, July 19 (Link)

Kinsella, Eileen. “Nicole Eisenman and Three Other Artists Withdraw Their Work From the Whitney Biennial in Protest of Board Member Warren Kanders,” artnet, July 19 (Link)

Higgie, Jennifer. “58th Venice Biennale Review: Brilliance and Bluster,” Frieze, May 9 (Link)

Davis, Ben. “Venice Biennale in Pictures: See Work by Every Artist in the Giardini Section of the Sprawling 2019 Exhibition,” artnet, May 9 (Link)

Russeth, Andrew. “Touring the Venice Biennale, Part 2: The Giardini,” ArtNews, May 8 (Link)

Freeman, Ciaran and Brandon Sanchez. “What does America look like in 2019? The Whitney Biennial asks and answers.” America: The Jesuit Review, June 14 (Link)

Dondero, Lillian. “What to Expect at this Year’s Politically-Charged Whitney Biennial,” Elle Decor, June 14 (Link)

Forsythe, Dana. “7 Public Art Installations To Check Out In Boston This Summer,” wbur, June 7 (Link)

Dawson, Aimee. “‘Do your worst, Boston’: Nicole Eisenman’s fountain—vandalised in Germany—gets permanent US home,” Art Newspaper, June 7 (Link)

Scott, Chad. “Nicole Eisenman Installation Puts Exclamation Point On Fenway Development,” Forbes, June 6 (Link)

Budick, Ariella. “Whitney Biennial: an anthology of young America,” Financial Times, June 4 (Link)

Huang, Banyi, “Whitney Biennial 2019: Between Resistance and Complicity,” Ocula, May 31 (Link)

Kelly, Brian. “Forensic Architecture’s Documentary on Kanders Doesn’t Absolve the Whitney Museum,” Hyperallergic, May 22 (Link)

Singer, Dan. “These laid-back Nasher sculptures will keep on lounging poolside for good,” Dallas News, May 23 (Link)

Flores, Micah. “See the Nasher’s Whimsical New Fountain Installation,” D Magazine, May 22 (Link)

“Biennial delivers, despite birth pains,” The Villager, May 22 (Link)

Schjeldahl, Peter. “The Whitney Biennial in an Age of Anxiety,” New Yorker, May 20 (Link)

“Nasher Sculpture Center Acquires Nicole Eisenman’s Sketch for a Fountain,” Artforum, May 20 (Link)

Moffitt, Evan. “The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid to Be Beautiful,” Frieze, May 20 (Link)

Hoffman, Barbara. “Whitney Biennial 2019 is a don’t-miss spectacle of wit and weight,” New York Post, May 17 (Link)

Smee, Sebastian. “The Whitney Biennial presents the best new artists in the country — and lots of fluff,” Washington Post, May 18 (Link)

Ferrarini, Paolo. “Venice Art Biennale 2019: Bold + Bright,” Cool Hunting, May 17 (Link)

Bradley, Paige K., “As the World Turns,” Artforum, May 16 (Link)

Solomon, Deborah. “Review: The Whitney Biennial Cops Out,” WNYC, May 17 (Link)

Plagens, Peter. “Whitney Biennial Review: Still Protesting, but to What End?,” Wall Street Journal, May 16 (Link)

Cotter, Holland. “The Whitney Biennial: Young Art Cross-Stitched With Politics,” New York Times, May 16 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “The Apprehensive Politics of a Generation Surface at the 2019 Whitney Biennial,” Hyperallergic, May 15 (Link)

Solway, Diane. “The Whitney Biennial 2019’s Standout Artists Look Backwards, Forwards, All Around Us,” W, May 15 (Link)

Russeth, Andrew. “Soft Power: The Whitney Biennial Is an Elegant But Safe Portrait of Right Now,” ArtNews, May 13 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Initial Thoughts and Highlights from the 2019 Whitney Biennial,” Hyperallergic, May 13 (Link)

Sutton, Benjamin. “A Nicole Eisenman fountain will splash down in Boston.” Artsy, April 9 (Link)

Russeth, Andrew. “Nicole Eisenman Fountain Will Grace Boston,” ArtNews, April 9 (Link)

Buck, Louisa. “Lismore Castle serves up a rich palimpsest of themes for new show,” Art Newspaper, April 5 (Link)

2018

Alma, Rahel. “By All Means, Judge a Book By Its Cover,” Garage (blog), December 24 (Link)

Brown, Kate. “Nicole Eisenman Makes a Dramatic Turn to Sculpture in Her First Solo Institutional Show in Germany,” artnet, November 8 (Link)

Freeman, Nate. “What Sold at FIAC,” Artsy, October 22 (Link)

Small, Zachary, “Looking at Queer Constellations of Intimacy,” Hyperallergic (web), August 20 (Link)

Hickley, Catherine, “Münster on track to raise funds for Eisenman fountain as artist and gallery reduce price,” The Art Newspaper (web), August 15 (Link)

Faires, Robert, “Nicole Eisenman Receives Booth/FLAG Art Prize,” The Austin Chronicle (web), August 6 (Link)

Friel, Katie, “Austin art museum bestows one of the world’s most ambitious prizes on New York artist,” Culture Map Austin (web), August 3 (Link)

“Nicole Eisenman Wins $200,000 Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize,” ArtForum (web), August 3 (Link)

Barnes, Michael, “Austin museum picks winner of $800,000 art prize,” My Statesman (web), August 2 (Link)

van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire “Nicole Eisenman wins $200,000 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize,” Sight Lines Magazine (web), August 2 (Link)

Smith, Roberta, “Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art,” New York Times (web), August 2 (Link)

Varadi, Keith J., “Nicole Eisenman at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” carla (web), April 18 (Link)

Gerwin, Daniel, “Nicole Eisenman’s Portraits of Angry White Men,” Hyperallergic (web), April 12 (Link)

Waters, Sydney, “Dark Light is a Masterpiece of Political Relevance,” Art and Cake, April 9 (web) (Link)

Mizota, Sharon, “In Nicole Eisenman’s paintings, a must-see mirror to America’s political moment,” Los Angeles Times (web), April 2 (Link)

 

Genevieve Gaignard

2019

“Lost and Found in America,” Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL (Link)

Zeiba, Drew. “Vernacular Interior at Hales New York,” Artforum, July (Link)

Vickery, Morgan. “Q&A | Genevieve Gaignard,” Flaunt, May 2 (Link)

Malley, Clara. “Genevieve Gaignard removes our rose-colored glasses for white Americana,” Document, April 5 (Link)

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)

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)

 

Liz Glynn

2019

“Rosetta Getty on the Female Artists who Inspire her,” Vanity Fair, May 24 (Link)

Culp, Samantha. “Artistic Capital: In Liz Glynn’s massive installations, big questions about the meaning of value,” Harvard Magazine, January/February (Link)

2018

“Frieze London Opens This Friday,” ArtForum (web), October 3 (Link)

Baradel, Lacey, “Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas,” CAA Reviews, September 21 (Link)

“Diana Campbell Betancourt Introduces Live 2018,” Frieze, September 21 (Link)

Brown, Mark, “Frieze London art fair returns with gossiping opera singer,” The Guardian (web), September 20 (Link)

Iredale, Jessica, “Rosetta Getty RTW Spring 2019,” WWD, September 10 (Link)

“New York Fashion Week Women’s S/S 2019 Editor’s Picks,” Wallpaper, September 11 (Link)

Marcisz, Christopher, “Liz Glynn’s Comforting Vision of a Dystopian Future,” Hyperallergic, August 28 (Link)

Marcisz, Christopher, “Liz Glynn’s Comforting Vision of a Dystopian Future,” Hyperallergic (web), August 27 (Link)

Anderson, Lindsey, “Catch a Free Sculpture Milwaukee Talk at the Pfister Tonight,” Milwaukee Magazine (web), August 22 (Link)

Harrington, Leah Triplett, “Redefining Common Space,” Now + There blog, August 6 (Link)

“Sculpture Milwaukee attracts visitors with tours, lectures and summer fun,” Urban Milwaukee, July 18 (Link)

Hagman, Sarah, “Sitting Pretty,” The Improper Bostonian (web), August 3 (Link)

McGowan, Amanda, “Get A Taste Of Gilded Age Living With A New Public Art Exhibit In Boston,” WGBH, August 3 (Link)

Katz, Marni Elyse, “Beautiful Ruins,” The Boston Globe (web), August 2 (Link)

Cook, Greg, “Recreating A Gilded Age Ballroom Outdoors In Boston To Mull Our Economic Future,” Wonderland (web), July 30 (Link)

Ambrose, Graham, “A new public art installation puts the ruins of a Gilded Age ballroom by Kenmore Square,” The Boston Globe (web), July 27 (Link)

Gerst, Ellen, “New Public Art Brings an Opulent Ballroom to the Comm. Ave. Mall,” Boston Magazine (web), July 26 (Link)

Garcia, Maria, “Art Installation In Kenmore Square Transforms An Opulent Ballroom Into A Ruin,” wbur, July 26 (Link)

Tang, Angela. “MASS MoCA’s ‘Archaeology’ Excavates Temporal Questions”, The Williams Record, February 7 (Link)

Kane, Tim, “Artist at MASS MoCA explores implication of production,” Times Union (web), March 28 (Link)

McQuaid, Cate. “At MASS MoCA, a dark look at a possible future”, The Boston Globe, 14 January (Link)

2017

Carrigan, Margaret. “Liz Glynn Questions the Direction of American Progress at Mass MoCA”, Observer, 11 December, 2017. (online) (Link)

2016

Munro, Cait. “Meet Creative Capital’s 63 Award-Winning Artists, Writers, and Performers,” artnet, January 12 (Link)

 

Karl Haendel

2019

Schwaiger, Seth Orion. “Making It in America: Karl Haendel on the absurdities of the Art World,” artcritical, February 20 (Link)

Heinrich, Will. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” January 16 (Link)

2018

“How do I sell more art?” Diaphanes, Fall/Winter

“Inside Frieze London 2018, via Five iPhone Camera Rolls,” Another (web), October 5 (Link)

Da Silva, José, “All the president’s men (and one first lady) at Art Basel,” The Art Newspaper (web), June 15 (Link)

 

Samuel Levi Jones

2019

Boyd, Oseye. “New exhibit at Newfields makes lasting impression,” Indianapolis Recorder, March 21 (Link)

2018

Sayej, Nadja. “Edge of visibility: celebrating artwork with hidden messages,” The Guardian, November 19 (Link)

Ollman, Leah. “Keep Looking: Samuel Levi Jones Speaks with Leah Ollman,” Art In Print, September 6 (Link)

Weisbrode, Kenneth and Heather H. Yeung, “How We Lost the Sky,” The New York Times, July 23 (Link)

Sussman, Anna Louie, “What Sold at Art Basel,” Artsy (web), June 17 (Link)

Chi, Paul, “Blu Ivy Bid $10,000 at an Art Auction, and Won,” Vanity Fair (web), March 18 (Link)

 

Hayv Kahraman

2018

“Project Series 52: Hayv Kahraman,” Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (Link)

2019

“The Third Line summer show at Alserkal Avenue,” Arab News, May 25 (Link)

Okamura, Sara Farrell. “A Wake-Up Call at MASS MoCA: Suffering from Realness,” Greylock Glass, May 5 (Link)

Hodgson, Emma. “How Art Dubai’s Inclusive New Direction Is A Win For Us All,” Grazia Middle East, March 13 (Link)

2018

Beeston, Georgia. “‘You have to go deeper’: Islamic art comes alive at Jameel prize in London,” Middle East Eye, October 11 (Link)

Judah, Hettie. “Frieze London review – women on top at the #MeToo art fair,” The Guardian, October 4 (Link)

Shaikh, Ayesha, “5 Art Books That Will Immediately Upgrade Your Coffee Table,” Harper’s Bazaar Arabia (web), September 27 (Link)

Mizota, Sharon, “Review: Hayv Kahraman’s paintings of decorous Kurdish women short-circuit stereotypical images of Iraq,” LA Times (web), September 17 (Link)

Feliciano, Kristina, “Sex Work and Survival in Hayv Kahraman’s ‘Silence Is Gold,'” Gallery Gurls (web), Spetmeber 22 (Link)

Finkel, Jori, “Hayv Kahraman on the Kurdish exodus—and the trouble with humanitarian campaigns,” The Art Newspaper (web), September 21 (Link)

“Top London Art Shows this Week: Justin John Greene to Tomma Abts,” Blouin ArtInfo, September 3 (Link)

Forshaw, Siobhan, “Hayv Kahraman’s Politics of Painting,” Elephant (web), July 25 (Link)

Da Silva, Jose, Gareth Harris, and Emily Sharpe,”Three to See: London,” The Art Newspaper (web), June 29 (Link)

Lescase, Zoe, “13 Artists On: Immigration,” The New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 19 (Link)

“These Artists and Designers Have Made the Shortlist for Jameel Prize 5,” Harper’s Bazaar (web), June 19 (Link)

Stoughton, India, “Middle Eastern Artists Give Traditional Art A Modern Twist,” Al-Monitor (web), June 4 (Link)

Greenberger, Alex, “Shortlist Revealed for 2018 Jameel Prize,” ARTnews (web), February 6 (Link)

 

Raffi Kalenderian

2019

De Witt, Olivia. “Raffi Kalenderian,” Artillery, June 26 (Link)

Irvin, Rebecca. “Raffi Kalenderian celebrates life in his exuberant, colourful, painted portraits,” It’s Nice That, June 7 (Link)

McNay, Anna. “Raffi Kalenderian – interview: ‘It’s like banging your head against a brick wall, but if you get through to the other side it feels so good’,” Studio International, June 4 (Link)

2018

Nash, David. “Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont,” Architectural Digest, October 30 (Link)

 

Mary Kelly

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)

 

Shana Lutker

2019

Danielson, Jenny, “Den nya konststaden,” Axess.se. July (Link)

Frank, Peter, “DOLLHOUSE FUNHOUSE: “Dreamhouse vs. Punk House (+ Cat House),” Whitehot magazine, April (Link)

2018

Horst, Aaron, “Shana Lutker at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Flash Art, March/April

Stromberg, Matt, “A New Outdoor Art Sapce Sprins from the High Desert East of Los Angeles,” Hyperallergic (web), March 13 (Link)

Hudson, Suzanne, “Shana Lutker at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Artforum, February

 

Hugo McCloud

2019

Boucher, Brian. “Cracking the Millennial Market: How Art Businesses Are Tweaking Their Strategies to Target the Next Generation of Collectors,” artnet, July 8 (Link)

2014

Anderson, Stacey. “Hugo McCloud: Artist by Design,” The New York Times, May 28 (Link)

Small, Rachel. “A Room Full of Roof: Hugo McCloud,” Interview, May 16 (Link)

 

Dave McKenzie

2019

Copeland, Huey and Meg Onli. “ABOUT TIME: Huey Copeland in conversation with Meg Onli,” Artforum, May (Link)

“ICA Philadelphia Explores Black History in “Colored People Time” Exhibition,” Hypebeast, February 15 (Link)

2018

Schneider, Tim, “‘It’s About a Sort of Twisted Magic’: How One Artist Is Revealing the Tricks of Racial Profiling at Frieze New York,” Artnet news (web), May 2 (Link)

 

Rodney McMillian

2019

Desmarais, Charles. “Rodney McMillian’s cyclorama of displacement at SFMOMA,” SF Chronicle, April 29 (Link)

Gardner, Drake. “Professor’s new exhibition explores homelessness, inequality in America,” Daily Bruin, April 30 (Link)

Shindel, Dan. “A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles,” Hyperallergic, April 19 (Link)

“The Twenty Five,” Cultured, February/March

Lorin, Guillaume. “BEAUX ARTS – In this Land de Rodney McMillian au SFMOMA,” CHOQ, March 28 (Link)

Ambramovich, Alex. “Termite Art and the Modern Museum,” New Yorker, February 28 (Link)

Volpicelli, Anna. “Winter Arts Preview: 16 Bay Area Exhibitions, Performances + Festivals,” 7×7, January 8 (Link)

2018

Knight, Christopher. “Review: Helen Molesworth’s final show at MOCA is the anti-celebrity show we need right now,” Los Angelest Times, October 19 (Link)

Wouk Almino, Elisa. “Helen Molesworth’s Last MOCA Exhibition Is an Act of Love,” Hyperallergic, November 13 (Link)

Rus, Mayer. “Designer Nell Alano Reimagines Philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton’s Santa Monica Home,” Architectural Digest, November 11 (Link)

Smith, Roberta, “Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art,” New York Times (web), August 2 (Link)

Raji, Michelle, “Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote,” Texas Observer (web), July 6 (Link)

Jean, Melany, “’Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death’ at the Contemporary Austin,” The Austin Chronicle (web), March 16 (Link)

Olsen, Ivy, “Antidotes for apathy: Rodney McMillian’s Austin show is a ‘call to action’,” The Art Newspaper (web), February 20 (Link)

Miranda, Carolina A., “L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the façade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House,” Los Angeles Times, January 10 (Link)

 

Yunhee Min

2019

Walter, Alexander. “10 engaging architectural installations for your Friday inspiration,” Archinet, May 3 (Link)

Leung, Phillip. “Hammer Museum installation delivers vibrant, sensory experience,” Daily Bruin, April 25 (Link)

2018

Brien, Patrick. “Four years in the making, massive Riverside exhibit blends art, architecture,” The Press-Entreprise, November 22 (Link)

Nash, David. “Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont,” Architectural Digest, October 30 (Link)

Weber, Jessica, “Rolling Out the ‘Red Carpet’,” UCR News, October 1 (Link)

Stallings, Tyler, “Red Carpet in C at UCR ARTS Blurs Boundaries of Art and Architecture,” KCET, September 4 (Link)

“UCR Arts Exhibition Blurs Boundaries of Art and Architecture,” UCR Today (web), August 16 (Link)

 

Wangechi Mutu

2019

“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)

 

Elizabeth Neel

2018

Smith, Roberta. “At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell,” New York Times (web), September 27 (Link)

 

Ruben Ochoa

2019

Delson, Susan. “Playful Riffs on Fact and Fiction,” Wall Street Journal, July 26 (Link)

2018

Shimi Roth, Minhae. “Locust Projects Turns 20: Remembering Its Most Memorable Exhibits,” Miami New Times, December 4 (Link)

Safari, Ida, “Ruben Ochoa at Art + Practice,” Artillery, January 2 (Link)

 

Angel Otero

2019

Dafoe, Taylor. “‘Act First and Then Think’: Artist Angel Otero on How to Turn Failure Into Fuel for Creativity,” artnet, April 10 (Link)

Brito, Maria. “Angel Otero and the Miracle of Memories,” Cultured, March 11 (Link)

Yerebakan, Osman Can. “A Brooklyn Artist Finds Inspiration, and Refuge, in Puerto Rico,” New York Times, March 5 (Link)

“Urban Glamour #46,” Livingetc (web), January 24 (Link)

2018

Shirine, Saad. “With the MECA Art Fair, San Juan’s Art Community Rises Again,” Vulture, November 21 (Link)

Nash, David. “Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont,” Architectural Digest, October 30 (Link)

Angeleti, Gabriela, “Angel Otero shares his top picks from Frieze New York,” The Art Newspaper (web), May 3 (Link)

 

William Pope.L

2017

“If Not Apollo, the Breeze,” Kadist, San Francisco, CA (Link)

2019

Kissick, Dean. “THE SEPTEMBER OPENINGS: NEW YORK’S MUST-SEE SHOWS,” Cultured, September 4 (Link)

“AN rounds up must-see exhibitions to catch this summer,” The Architect’s Newspaper, July 31 (Link)

Schuster, Clayton. “Why the Whitney, MoMA and Public Art Fund are Uniting for an Exhibition About Artist Pope.L,” Observer, July 25 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Pope.L Wants You to Crawl Across New York With Him,” Hyperallergic, July 24 (Link)

“The Most Influential Living African-American Artists,” Artsy, February 25 (Link)

“Arts Power 50: The Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2019,” The Observer, April 1 (Link)

Arn, Jackson. “When Performance Art Takes to the Street, the Results Are Moving,” Artsy, April 9 (Link)

Cotter, Holland. “MoMA, the New Edition: From Monumental to Experimental,” New York Times, February 5 (Link)

Ongley, Hannah. “moma is closing to diversify the art canon,” i-D, February 7 (Link)

2018

Reichert,Elliot J. “Pope.L: The Escape,” Brooklyn Rail, December 20 (Link)

Johnson, Steve. “‘Pope.L: The Escape’ reworks a slavery play as performance art and dares you to wonder what to think about it,” Chicago Tribune, November 16 (Link)

Freeman, Nate. “What Sold at FIAC,” Artsy, October 22 (Link)

Valentine, Victoria L., “Loaded with Symbolism, a Fountain Sculpture by Pope.L is Among New Acquisitions at Carnegie Museum of Art,” The Culture Type (web), July 29 (Link)

Wargo, Abby, “Differing, Drawn: Scholar Examines Pope.L’s “Skin Set” Drawings,” The Elm (web), April 28 (Link)

“Pope.L, Jennifer Russell, and Rachel G. Wilf Join NYU Institute of Fine Arts’ Board of Trustees,” NYU (web), April 4 (Link)

O’Grady, Megan, “Answering Society’s Thorniest Questions, with Performance Art,” T Magazine, New York Times, March 2 (Link)

“Pope.L: The Escape,” The Art Intitute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)

 

Mary Reid Kelley

2019

Fullerton, Elizabeth. “‘They’re our female supervillains!’ Artists mash up Ayn Rand and Gwyneth Paltrow,” The Guardian, July 2 (Link)

Watson, Denise. “MOCA’s new exhibition fills in the “The Rest of History,” the stories often discarded in the telling of America’s story,” The Virginian-Pilot, March 22 (Link)

Campbell, Andy. “Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley,” Artforum, February (Link)

Wood, Eve. “Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley,” Artillery, January 2 (Link)

2018

Knight, Christopher. “Review: Harry S. Truman at the center of this wonderfully weird, strangely poignant art show,” Los Angeles Times, November 30 (Link)

Horst, Aaron. “Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley at Susanne Vielmetter,” Carla, November 29 (web) (Link)

Dunne, Aidan, “Kelleys’ bizarre creations crackle with energy of early cinema,” The Irish Times (web), August 4 (Link)

Thorne, Harry, “The Burlesque Worlds of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley,” frieze, April 5 (Link)

Cromwell, Tim, “From Hirst’s Medusa to Quinn’s marble bust: new London show explores how classical art inspires contemporary artists,” The Art Newspaper, March 6 (Link)

Culpan, Daniel, “Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley at Tate Liverpool,” Artforum, January (Link)

 

Deborah Roberts

2019

Valentine, Victoria L. “Black Female Artists Are Headlining Exhibitions Throughout London,” The Culture Type, July 21 (Link)

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)

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)

 

Steve Roden

2019

Knight, Christopher. “Review: Sonic frequency as art? Enter Steve Roden’s captivating prisms of color,” Los Angeles Times, August 17 (Link)

 

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

2019

“Grace Wales Bonner,” Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK

Eckhardt, Stephanie. “The Problem With Robert Mapplethorpe,” W, July 27 (Link)

Weitzman, Jordan. “Episode 32: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Magic Hour, July 8 (Link)

Jackson, Danielle. “What the Whitney Biennial Tells Us About the Future of Photography—and the Artists Who Will Shape It,” arnet, July 3 (Link)

Irvin, Rebecca. “Deconstructed bodies: The photography of Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” It’s Nice That, June 21 (Link)

“Confessions on the Dance Floor: Reveries From The Gay Bar,” Artforum, Summer (Link)

Howe, David Everitt. “The Conditions,” Art in America, May (Link)

Loos, Ted. “Inspired by Virginia Woolf, Curated by Tilda Swinton,” New York Times, May 22 (Link)

Henderson, Jane. “Q&A: Intimate portraits by Paul Mpagi Sepuya revise notion of ‘dark rooms’,” St. Louis Today, May 22 (Link)

Goldstein, Caroline and Eileen Kinsella. “A Buyer’s Guide to the Whitney Biennial: What You Need to Know About the Exhibition’s Brightest Rising Stars,” artnet, May 22 (Link)

Moffitt, Evan. “The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid to Be Beautiful,” Frieze, May 20 (Link)

King, Chris. “New CAM shows fulfill every challenge of contemporary art,” St. Louis American, May 20 (Link)

Aletti, Vince. “Previews: Paul Mpagi Sepuya at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,” Artforum, May (Link)

Gilbert, Alan. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s “The Conditions,” Art-Agenda, April 5 (Link)

Scott, Andrea K. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya Mines the Queer History of the Portrait Studio,” New Yorker, March 29 (Link)

Schwendener, Martha. “New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now,” New York Times, March 28 (Link)

Mellin, Haley. “Sheree Hovsepian and Paul Mpagi Sepuya Take Over Venice Beach,” Garage, March 25 (Link)

Manatakis, Lexi and Ashleigh Kane. “Art shows to leave the house for this month,” Dazed, March 15 (Link)

“9 Art Events in New York: Isaac Julien, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gretchen Bender, Arakawa, and More,” ArtNews, March 4 (Link)

Velasco, David. “Project: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum, March (Link)

“Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Blurred Lines,” Garage, February 20 (Link)

Cavaluzzo, Alexander and Daniel Avery. “THE 12 BEST ART EXHIBITS TO SEE IN 2019,” Newsweek, February 13 (Link)

Malone, Callan. “The LALA List,” LALA Magazine, Winter 2019, p. 51

“In the Studio with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” SIXTY Hotels (blog), January 9 (Link)

Selvin, Claire. “Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Now Represents Paul Mpagi Sepuya,’ ARTnews, January 8 (Link)

Pahules, Anastasia. “Artists on Art: Paul Mpagi Sepuya on Lorna Simpson,” LACMA Unframed (blog), January (Link)

2018

Cooper, Ashton. “Critics’ Picks: Positioner at Matthew Marks,” Artforum, October (Link)

Christon, Jimmy. “‘Tipping Points’ exhibit reflects changing political world,” The Miscellany News, October 24 (Link)

Haris, Gareth. “Can an increase in two-artist booths spur sales at Paris’s Fiac?” Art Newspaper, October 17 (Link)

Lubow, Arthur. “What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says,” New York Times, March 9 (Link)

Allegretto, Dan. “We All Wear the Mask: New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art,” Art in America, April 2 (Link)

Jones, Gregory Eddi. “Picture, Paper, Friend, and Flesh: An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” In the In-Between, March 12 (Link)

Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. “Paul Sepuay at team (bungalow,” Carla, February 14 (Link)

Oldweiler, Cory. “MoMA’s new photography exhibit focuses on identity in 2018,” AM New York, March 18 (Link)

Woodward, Richard B. “MoMA’s Human Focus,” Wall Street Journal, March 14 (Link)

Wheeler, André-Naquian. “moma’s ‘new photography’ series asks what it means to be human,” i-d, March 27 (Link)

Aubry, Lisa. “MoMA to Display UCLA Alum’s Work Exploring Identity, Portraiture,” Daily Bruin, March 14 (Link)

Norman, Lee Ann. “Intimate Moves In A Dark Room: Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Document,” New City Art, April 19 (Link)

Goldberg, Ariel. “In the Room,” Art in America, April 1 (Link)

“Image of the Day,” Elephant, September 12 (Link)

Wheeler, André. “In the Studio, in the Nude: An Artist Capturing Queer Masculinity,” AnOther, October 12 (Link)

Campbell, Andy. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Aperture, Fall

“Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Unseen, Issue 5, Fall

Quinton, Jared. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at DOCUMENT,” Artforum, March (Link)

Norman, Lee Ann. “Intimate Moves In A Dark Room, Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Document,” Newcity Art, April 19 (Link)

Goldberg, Ariel. “The Room,” Art In America Magazine, April 1 (Link)

Allegretto, Dan. “We All Wear The Mask : New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art,” Art In America Magazine, April 2 (Link)

Wheeler, André-Naquian. “MoMA’s ‘New Photography’ Series Asks What It Means to be Human,” i-D Magazine, March 27 (Link)

Indrisek, Scott. “At MoMA, Photography Doesn’t Have to Reinvent Itself to be Radical,” Artsy, March 20 (Link)

“Five Questions with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Cultured Magazine, March 20 (Link)

Woodward, Richard B. “MoMA’s Human Focus,” The Wall Street Journal, March 14 (Link)

Lubow, Arthur. “What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says,” The New York Times, March 9 (Link)

 

Arlene Shechet

2019

Heitzman, Lorraine. “The Quirky Harmony of Arlene Shechet’s Sculpture,” Art and Cake, May 20 (Link)

Ollman, Leah. “Arlene Shechet’s new sculptures are weirdly engrossing and crazy fresh,” Los Angeles Times, April 29 (Link)

Belcove, Julie. “These Trailblazing Female Artists Are Finally Getting the Recognition they Deserve,” Robb Report, April 11 (Link)

Kalb, Jonathan. “Fiona Shaw Performs “The Waste Land” in Madison Square Park,” TheaterMatters, April 11 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Fiona Shaw Will Perform T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in Madison Square Park,” Hyperallergic, April 11 (Link)

Barron, James. “Bringing Liberty’s Torch to Manhattan (Icy Weather Permitting),” New York Times, February 3 (Link)

2018

Solomon, Deborah. “Review: Arlene Shechet Goes Public,” WNYC, December 21 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah. “How a Residency at a Toilet and Sink Factory Inspired Arlene Shechet’s New Public Art Project at Madison Square Park,” artnet, December 20 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Arlene Shechet Smuggles Politics into Madison Square Park,” Hyperallergic, November 20 (Link)

“NYC restaurant serves guests wooden boxes for stowing away their phonesNYC restaurant serves guests wooden boxes for stowing away their phones,” CTV News, October 30 (Link)

Carlson, Jen. “Video: Dianne Wiest Is Buried In Scorched Earth & Performing Samuel Beckett In This NYC Park,” Gothamist, October 24 (Link)

“VIDEO: Dianne Wiest Totally Rocks Beckett in Madison Square Park!” Broadway World, October 24 (Link)

Feldman, Adam. “Dianne Wiest is doing Beckett in a park this week, for free, dressed as a rock, Time Out, October 24 (Link)

Libbey, Peter. “Dianne Wiest Is a Boulder, but Not for Halloween,” New York Times, October 24 (Link)

“Dianne Wiest To Perform Beckett Next Week At Madison Square Park,” Broadway World, October 17 (Link)

“‘Every Single Second it Changes’: Watch Sculptor Arlene Shechet Harness the Protean Power of Plaster,” Artnet News, October 5 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah, “Editors’ Picks: 12 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet News (web), September 25 (Link)

Loos, Ted, “Porcelain Finds Its Outside Voice,” New York Times (web), September 23 (Link)

“Morning Links: Sword Wound Edition,” Art News, September 24 (Link)

“Photographer outs herself as anonymous donor of millions to female artists,” CBS This Morning (web), August 23 (Link)

“’A Beautiful Land of Extremes’: See New York through the Eyes of 6 Visionary Locals.” CNN Style, June 28 (Link)

Wong, Alex, “Reflecting pond in Madison Square Park will be transformed by public installation,” The Architect’s Newspaper (web), June 1 (Link)

Farber, Janet L., “‘More Than I Know’ Shechet’s abstract sculpture at Joslyn eludes easy classification for all,” The Omaha Reader (web), May 27 (Link)

Bui, Phong, “Arlene Shechet: Some Truths,” The Brooklyn Rail (web), May 1 (Link)

 

Dasha Shishkin

2018

Jones, Samuel. ” At new Neiman Gallery exhibit, psychedelic prints bleed into negative space,” Columbia Spectator, October 22 (Link)

 

Amy Sillman

2019

“Confessions on the Dance Floor: Reveries From The Gay Bar,” Artforum, Summer (Link)

Henry, Clare. “Passionate About Drawing: Roger Malbert Unveils Hand Drawn Action Packed – Clare Henry,” ArtLyst, March 28 (Link)

2018

Sillman, Amy. “Delacroix,” 4columns, December 14 (Link)

Kamps, Toby. “In Conversation: Amy Sillman with Toby Kamps,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 11 (Link)

Haidu, Rachel. “Amy Sillman: Camden Art Centre,” Artforum, December (Link)

Armstrong, Annie. “Phillips $88.5 M. Contemporary Sale Comes Up Short, with Passes on Burri and Pollock,” Art News, November 15 (Link)

Angeleti, Gabriella. “Phillips and Bonhams see strong sales on smaller lots,” The Art Newspaper, November 16 (Link)

Hatfull, Nicholas. “The Vicarious Warmth of Amy Sillman’s Paintings,” Frieze, October 26 (Link)

Westall, Mark. “Amy Sillman: Landline : The first institutional exhibition of the acclaimed American painter,” Fad Magazine, July 4 (Link)

Judah, Hettie, ” The Best Shows in London During Frieze Week,” Frieze (web), September 28 (Link)

Barnard, Imelda, “‘I’m working with and against painting’ – an interview with Amy Sillman,” Apollo (web), September 26 (Link)

Sillman, Amy, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, April (Link)

“Amy Sillman,” The New Yorker, February (Link)

Tuchman, Phyllis, “Artisanal Abstraction: The Elusive, Effusive Art of Amy Sillman,” ArtNews (web), February 16 (Link)

Petrovich, Dushko, “The New Face of Portrait Painting,” The New York Times Style Magazine, February 12 (Link)

Mullen, Matt, “The Playfully Troubled Art of Amy Sillman,” Interview (web), January 25 (Link)

 

Mickalene Thomas

2016

“Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête,” Aperture, New York, NY; travelled to Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (2017); Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (2017); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2018) (Link)

2019

Lim, Kay. “Black models in modern art,” CBS News, July 14 (Link)

Barmann, Jay. “SFMOMA Sells Rothko Painting To Fund Purchase Of 11 Works By Women And Minorities,” SFist, June 28 (Link)

Desmarais, Charles. “SFMOMA’s new acquisitions an important drop in the bucket,” SF Chronicle, June 28 (Link)

“The Most Influential Living African-American Artists,” Artsy, February 25 (Link)

Stapley-Brown, Victoria. “Surround yourself in the 70s: Mickalene Thomas installation comes to Miami’s Bass Museum,” Art Newspaper, June 7 (Link)

Palumbo, Jaqui. “These Photographers Explore the Limitlessness of Gender Identity,” Artsy, May 30 (Link)

Little, Colony. “The Studio Museum Conceives Its Future in a Traveling Exhibition,” Hyperallergic, March 6 (Link)

Parris, Amanda. “In the heart of the AGO, 100 Black women artists gathered to celebrate. Is it a sign of true change?,” CBS, February 8 (Link)

Valetine, Victoria L. “Black Art History: 17 Exhibition ‘Firsts’ Happening This February,” The Culture Type, February 8 (Link)

Scott, Chadd. “‘Posing Modernity’ Prepares To Say ‘Goodbye’ To New York, ‘Hello’ To Paris,” Forbes, January 25 (Link)

Burns, Charlotte and Julia Halperin. “Museums, Acquisitions and Artists of Color, Why Now is the Time for Change,” Sotheby’s, January 11 (Link)

Valetine, Victoria L. “Culture Type Picks: 18 Best Black Art Books of 2018,” Culture Type, Janurary 4 (Link)

“‘Mickalene Thomas: Femme Noires’ at the Art Gallery of Ontario,” Blouin Art Info (web), January 8 (Link)

Smith, Melissa. “How a Businesswoman Became a Voice for Art’s Black Models,” New York Times, December 26 (Link)

2018

Egan, Maura. “Enterprising Artists Are Redefining Country Living in Picturesque Northwestern Connecticut,” Departures, September 24 (Link)

Smee, Sebastian. “Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art,” Washington Post, December 10 (Link)

Parris, Amanda. “The art world often excludes Black women. Mickalene Thomas’s superpower is making them visible,” CBC, December 7 (Link)

Rosen, Miss. “7 Black Artists You Should Know,” Broadly, December 6 (Link)

Carrier, David. “Deconstructing Race in Western Painting,” Hyperallergic, December 1 (Link)

Adams, Kelsey. “Mickalene Thomas celebrates Black women at the AGO,” Now Toronto, December 3 (Link)

“Baltimore Museum of Art Launches Commission Series and Curatorial Fellowship with Focus on Diversity,” Artforum, November 30 (Link)

Greenberger, Alex. “Baltimore Museum of Art Launches Diversity-Minded Commission Series and Curatorial Fellowship,” Art News, November 30 (Link)

Hernandez, Jasmin. “Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Run on Adoration and Activism,” Elle, November 30 (Link)

“Mickalene Thomas: The artist on reclaiming the black female body,” WBEZ Chicago, November 28 (Link)

Nguyen, Long. “Posing Modernity,” Flaunt, November 12 (Link)

Reid, Tiana. “What it Means When Columbia Does a Show About the Black Model on Its West Harlem Expansion Campus,” Vulture, November 9 (Link)

Edelson, Sharon. “As If, Audemars Piguet Bring Stimulating Talk to Beautiful Setting,” WWD, November 9 (Link)

Sargent, Antwaun. “Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence,” New York Times, November 1 (Link)

Goldsmith, Suzanne. “2018 Fall Arts Guide: November,” Columbus Monthly, October 29 (Link)

Diderich, Joelle. “Dior Lady Art Project Celebrates Great Women Artists,” WWD, October 29 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah. “‘I Use It as a Way of Drawing and Seeing’: Artist Mickalene Thomas on How Photography Became the Center of Her Practice,” artnet news, October 26 (Link)

Sheet, Hillarie M. “New Attention for Figures in the Background,” The New York Times, October 25 (Link)

Stapley-Brown, Victoria. “Show turns a spotlight on the black female figure in Modern art,” The Art Newspaper, October 23 (Link)

“Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today,” Apollo, October 1 (Link)

Pitts, Zac. “Mickalene Thomas Photography Exhibition,” WDTN News, October 19 (Link)

O’Grady, Megan. “How Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making,” New York Times Style Magazine, October 15 (Link)

Gilson, Nancy. “Arts review: In depicting women in her life, painter Mickalene Thomas prefers flash, depth,” Columbus Dispatch, October 14 (Link)

Binlot, Ann. “The Art of Being A Muse,” Document, October 10 (Link)

Weber, Jasmine. “Mickalene Thomas Makes a Muse of Cardi B,” Hyperallergic, October 9 (Link)

Kai, Maiysha. “High Art: Cardi B and Artist Mickalene Thomas Collab for W Magazine,” The Glow Up, October 9 (Link)

Solway, Diane. “Cardi B Channels Hollywood’s Legendary Latina Glamour Queens in W’s Art Issue,” W Magazine, October 9 (Link)

Azzarello, Nina, “opera ‘music video’ by maurizio cattelan & pierpaolo ferrari is as wild as you’d imagine,” designboom (web), 4 October (Link)

Adrian-Diaz, Jenna, “5 Lessons in Feminist Art,” The Cut (web), October 3 (Link)

Drew, Kimberly and Nicole Chapoteau, “Artist Mickalene Thomas Opens Up About the Importance of Diverse Bodies In Her Work,” Harper’s Bazaar (web), October 3 (Link)

Keimig, Jasmyne, “Black Girl Magic, Mickalene Thomas, and Being My Own Muse,” The Stranger (web), September 21 (Link)

Michael, Michael Love, “In Conversation: John Edmonds and Mickalene Thomas,” Paper, September 19 (Link)

Pothast, Emily, “An Artist Pays Homage to Her Glamorous, Dying Mother,” The Stanger (web), September 12 (Link)

Lee, Michael, “Wexner Center art exhibition to empower women, challenge art history norms,” The Lantern, September 10 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah and Caroline Goldstein, “From Mark Bradford in Baltimore to Victor Hugo in LA: 33 Museum Shows Around the US Worth Traveling For,” Artnet News (web), September 5 (Link)

Belcove, Julie L, “Artist Mickalene Thomas: “It was always a political statement,” The Financial Times (web), August 31 (Link)

“Datebook: Our Top Columbus Events for September,” Columbus Monthly (web), August 31 (Link)

Clemans, Gayle, “A look at painter Mickalene Thomas’ lesser-known photography at Henry Art Gallery,” The Seattle Times (web), August 29 (Link)

Armstrong, Annie, “Carrie Mae Weems, Mickalene Thomas, Zoe Buckman, More Will Make Art for Planned Parenthood’s ‘Unstoppable’ Campaign,” Art News, August 2 (Link)

Najjar, Christina, “Three New York City Artists to Follow on Instagram This Month,” Hamptons (web), June 5 (Link)

Small, Zachary, “In Rihanna Photoshoot for Vogue Paris, Juergen Teller Cribs Imagery from Mickalene Thomas,” Hyperallergic (web), July 24 (Link)

Stapley-Brown, Victoria, “Did Juergen Teller borrow from Mickalene Thomas’s work in Vogue Paris Rihanna shoot?” The Art Newspaper (web), July 24 (Link)

Upchurch, Michael, “Mother as muse in a powerful show of Black beauty,” Crosscut (web), July 23 (Link)

“10 LGBTQ+ Artists who Redefined Contemporary Art,” Mutual Art (web), June 7 (Link)

Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “’Multiply, Identify, Her’ International Center of Photography Museum (ICP),” ArtForum (web), June 2 (Link)

 

Nicola Tyson

2018

Allam, Roula, “4 Noteworthy London Fashion Week Happenings,” About Her (web), September 19 (Link)

Dacre, Karen, “Victoria Beckham’s SS19 10th anniversary show at London Fashion Week,” The Evening Standard (web), September 17 (Link)

Rogers, Sam, “Victoria Beckham comes home to London Fashion Week,” Vogue Paris (web), September 16 (Link)

Conti, Samantha, “LFW Preview: Victoria Beckham Set to Light Up Piccadilly Circus With London Show,” WWD (web), September 14 (Link)

Magenheim, Jillian, “Runway Report: Victoria Beckham SS19,” Olivia Palermo (web), September 18 (Link)

Elison, Jo, “Victoria Beckham’s 10th anniversary homecoming was all business,” Financial Times (web), September 16 (Link)

Paton, Elizabeth, “Victoria Beckham Sells Her Clothes Herself,” New York Times (web), September 17 (Link)

Jones, Jo, “Victoria Beckham: backstage at her spring/summer 2019 show – in pictures,” The Guardian (web), September 17 (Link)

 

Monique Van Genderen

2018

“If I go there, I won’t stay there” at ltd los angeles,” Blouin Art Info, October 1 (Link)

 

Esther Pearl Watson

2019

“The Moon: Eternal Pearl,” Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA

 

Patrick Wilson

2018

Pagel, David,” When a rectangle is more than a rectangle: Making sense of Patrick Wilson’s colorful chaos,” Los Angeles Times, February 5 (Link)

 

Mickalene Thomas

1971
Born in Camden, New Jersey
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
2002
MFA Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2000
BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1998
Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024
"All About Love," The Broad, Los Angeles, CA; Traveling to The Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2025)
2023
“Je t’adore," Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
2022
"Mickalene Thomas: Avec Monet," Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
2021
"Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
"Beyond The Pleasure Principle," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
"Mickalene Thomas: A Moment’s Pleasure," Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
2020
"Better Nights," The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
2019
"Jet: beautés du mois," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2018
"Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA (Link)
"MUSE: Mickalene Thomas Photographs," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington (Link)
“Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2017
"Waiting on a Prime-Time Star," Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX (Link)
"Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (Link)
"Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on Prime-Time Star," Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2016
“Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady?” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
“Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête,” Aperture, New York, NY; travelled to Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (2017); Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (2017); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2018) (Link)
“the desire of the other,” Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
“Mickalene Thomas: Mentors: Muses, & Celebrities,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO
2015
“Mickalene Thomas: MUSE,” Rivington Place, London, UK
“I am your sister,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
2014
"I Was Born to do Great Things," Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Femme au Divan I," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Femme au Divan II, l’Ecole des Beaux Art, Monaco
Tete de Femme, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
"Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman", George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
2013
"faux real – Lobby installation by Mickalene Thomas," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2012
"Origin of the Universe" Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA and The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
Mickalene Thomas, Fotene Demoulas Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2011
Mickalene Thomas-Mama Bush: One of a Kind Two Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
"More Than Everything",Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Put A Little Sugar In My Bowl, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009
Something you can feel, <a href="http://www.laconservera.org/" target="_blank">La Conservera: Centro de arte Contemporaneo</a>, Murcia, Spain
"Shes Come UnDone!, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2008
"Girlfriends, Lovers, Still Lifes and Landscape, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Whats Love Got To Do With It?, Bloom Projects, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
2007
"The Unseen, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
"An Imitation of Love, Brawlin Spitfire Two, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (Project Space)
2006
"Something About You… Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Brawlin Spitfire, Special Project, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
"Singular Views: 25 Artists," Rubell Museum, Washington D.C.
"Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage ," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
"Resting Our Eyes," ICA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2022
"Positive Fragmentation," Organized By The National Museum Of Women In The Arts, On View At The American University Museum At The Katzen Arts Center, Washington, USA
“Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art,” Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
"Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2021
"Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem," Traveling from Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, to Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
"Plural Possilbities & the Female Body," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
"Now Is The Time: Recent Acquisitions to the Contemporary Collection," The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
2020
"Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem," Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
"Portraits, from the 17th to the 21st century," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
"Looking Forward," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
"On the Frontline of Contemporary Art: from the Taguchi Art Collection," Shimonoseki Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
"Never Done 100 years of Women in Politics And Beyond," Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2019-2020
"Better Nights," curated by Mickalene Thomas, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
2019
"Orlando," Aperture, New York, NY
"Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
"She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York," Gracie Mansion, New York, NY
2018
"Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today," The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Black Blooded,” Curated by Jessical Gaynelle Moss, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
“Cast of Characters,” Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
“Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Link)
2017
"Exposition D’été," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
“Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance,” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
“Body of Work,” Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
“Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” New Museum, New York, NY (Link)
“The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness,” The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
“Man Alive,” curated by Wendy White, Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium
“Victors For Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors, Part I: Figuration,” University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
“Gray Matters,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
“Power,” Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA
2016
“tête-à-tête,” curated by Mickalene Thomas, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2015
"Future Seasons Past," Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
"Resignifications," Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence, Italy
"A Room of Ones Own," Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
Celebrity, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
30 Americans, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2014
"Bash: An Exhibition in Two Parts," curated by Daniel Mason, MaxArt, Woodstock, NY
"Post Pop: East Meets West," Saatchi Gallery, London
"Rauschenberg: Collecting and Connecting," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
"Beyond the Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time," The National Academy Museum, New York
"Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet, and Contemporary Art," Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
"Reflect, Cut, Construct," Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
"Aljira at 30: Dreams and Reality," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Aspects of the Self: Portraits of our Times, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Aftershock: The Impact of Radical Art, Edleman Arts, New York, NY
Pop Departures, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
Domestic Unrest, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England
First International Contemporary Art Biennial, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2013
"Glyphs: Acts of Inscription" Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College Claremont, CA
"Du Bois in Our Time," University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Body Language," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Art Basel, Lehmann Maupin, Basel, Switzerland
Expanding the Field of Painting, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Decopolis: The Talent of Others, The Proposition, New York, NY, curated by Mickalene Thomas
2012
Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY
tête-à-tête, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Nailed, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011
American Dream, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
Americans Now, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Converging Voices/Transforming Dialogue:Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, University Museum of Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
A Room of Her Own, Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Pittsburgh, PA
Posing Beauty Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, and University of Southern Californias Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Bling, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
Building the Contemporary Collection:Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of at, Durham, NC
Images from a Floating World: 18th Century Japanese Erotic Prints and the Echo in Modern Contemporary Art, Friedricks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
The Truth is Not in the Mirror, Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, IL
Surface Value, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c Collection Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Safety in Numbers? Images of African American Identity and Community Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2010
"The Global Africa Project, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
4 Eccentrics, The Proposition, New York, NY
Sharon Stone in Abuja, Location One, New York, NY
Now What?, Norton Museum of Art, Miami, FL
XX-XY/Gender Representation in Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Americans Now, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Shrewd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, curated by Ellen Rudolph
Posing Beauty Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
"Searching for the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American Experience," Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Versus Hous Projects, New York, NY
2009
Landscape Revisited Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Extended Family: Contemporary Connections Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Posing Beauty New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
Dress Codes, The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Creating Identity: Portraits Today 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
Black Is, Black Aint The Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
First Look, House of Campari, curated by Simon Watson, Los Angeles, CA
Remix Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Female Gaze: Women Looking At Women Cheim and Read, New York, NY
Crash Proof The Scholar and Feminist Online, Barnard Center for Research on Women, online exhibition
Elsewhere Saltworks, Atlanta, GA
The Glamour Project Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
CAN & DID – Graphics, Art, and Photography from the Obama Campaign Danziger Projects, New York, NY
2008
"Perverted by Theater," apexart, New York, NY
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
Group Show, Andrhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Belle du Jour, Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY
As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State
University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
City Stage, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Black Is, Black Aint, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and traveling to:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, (February 13 May 3, 2009)
H&R Block Artspace ar the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Temple Gallery At the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Sweet SweetBacks Baadasssss Song, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Commemorating 30 Years 1976-2007, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Distinctive Messenger, House of Campari, New York, NY
Sex in the City, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Some Kind of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Flava, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, Canada
Prime Time, Caren Golden Fine Art Gallery, New York
My Love is a 187, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inspired in New York, Echo Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Not an Ocean Between Us: Voices of Women from Africa and the African Diaspora, Winston Salem
State University, Winston Salem, NC
Lag Time Line Up, Mumbo Jumbo Gallery, New York, NY
Materiality, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
Wild Girls, Exit Art, New York
The Pulse of New Brooklyn, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Armory Art Fair with Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Pier 90, New York
Do You Think Im Disco, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2005
Tete-a-Tete, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York,NY
NeoVernacular, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Five Artists, Five Projects, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Maximum Flavor, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY
African Queen, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2004
Glamour, Glory and Gold, The Proposition Gallery, New York
Seeds and Roots, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Its About Memory, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Me, Myself and I, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2003
Beauty, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York
Pantone, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
Because Im Worth It, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Hands on Hands Down, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2002
Why Dont We Do It In the Road, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
1999
Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Elizabeth Stockel Battel Gallery, Norfolk, CT
1997
Brush, The Yellow Door Gallery, New York
The Knitting Factory, New York
Downtown Community Television Center, New York

Performances

2009
Oh Mickey! Kreemart and the American Patrons of Tate, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
Professor of Music and DJ Dean of Admissions, MoMixx at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Film/TV/Radio

2012
Green, Tyler Interview with Michalene Thomas, The Modern Art Notes Podcast, June 18 (Link)

Curating

2022
"Set it off," Curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires, Parrish Museum, Hamptons, NY
2014
"By Invitation Only 3", Jeff Vreeland, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2013
"tête-à-tête," QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY
"Another New York," Barclays Center, New York, NY
"Better Days," Art Bar at Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, June 11- 15
"Decopolis: The Talent of Others," The Proposition, New York, NY
2012
"tête-à-tête," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2009
"The Brand New Heavies," Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2015
United States Artists Fellowship Award, Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow for Visual Arts
2014
AICA Award for Best Show in a Commercial Space Nationally, Mickalene Thomas: I was born to do great things, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL (Link)
2009
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2007
Rema Hort Mann Grant
2002
Barry Cohen Scholarship, Yale University
2001
Paul Harper Fellowship, Yale University
2000
Presidential Merit Scholarship
1999
Elizabeth Stokel Battell Fellowship
Student Activities Graduate Assistant Award
1998
Pratt Institute Student Leadership Award
1995-1997
Pratt Institute Black Alumni Scholarship

Guest Lectures

2014
Mickalene Thomas in conversation with curator Lisa Hostetler, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
In Conversation: Larry Wheeler, Linda Dougherty & Mickalene Thomas, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Artist’s Talk, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
Artist’s Talk, American University, Washington, D.C.
2010
Artists Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Artists Lecture, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2009
Generation Next: Mickalene Thomas and the Legacy, Santa Monica Museum, CA
Artists Talk, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2008
ReIGNITE: Making Art in the World, Panel Discussion, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2007
MICA Senior Thesis Seminar, Brown Center Falvey Hall, Baltimore, MD
2006
The Stoop Series, Brics Rotunda Gallery & NY Magazine, New York, NY
2005
"Conversations with the Artists, MoMA, New York
2004
"Artists Voice, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2003
Fine Arts Seminar, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
"Artists Voice, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Panel Discussion, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
"Two Years, Pratt Panel, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Artists Talk, Exploration Senior Summer Program, New Haven, CT

Residencies

2017
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Residency, Aspen, CO
2013
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2011
Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program at Giverny, France
2010
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
Durham Press, Durham, PA
2002-2003
Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2001
Vermont Studios Center, Johnson, VT
1999
Yale Norfolk Summer of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT

Catalogues

2022
Gay, Roxane, Kellie Jones. "Mickalene Thomas," Phaidon Press, New York, NY
2019
English, D., Barat, C., and Lowery, G. D. Among Others, Blackness at MoMA. Pg 426-427. Museum of Modern Art.
2021
DiQuinzio, A., Hejinian, L., and Butler, J. New time: Art and feminisms in the 21st Century. Pg 102-103. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
2020
Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, D.A.P. Publishing, New York, NY, 2020
2017
Burton, J., and Bell, N. Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Pg 172-175. New Museum.
2015
Blessing, Jennifer. "Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs," Aperture, New York, NY
Hudson, Suzanne. "World of Art, Contemporary Painting," Thames & Hudson, pg 186-187
Mullins, Charlott, Picture People: The New State of the Art, Thames & Hudson, London, UK
2014
Talmor, Ruti and Rene Mussai, Glyphs: Acts of Inscription, Exhibition Catalogue, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
2012
Cateforis, David, Ed., Oppenheimer Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Kansas
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem
2011
Surface Value, Des Moines Art Center
Beyond Bling, Ringling Museum of Art
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21, The Bronx Museum of Art
RE: COLLECTION Selected Work from the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Studio Museum in Harlem
2010
Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum
2009
Mickalene Thomas, Regin de Murcia: La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporaneo
Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography/Steidl
100 Contemporary Artists: L-Z, Taschen
The Glamour Project. Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY
State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, Dallas: amfAR and The Dallas Museum of Art and Sothebys
Posing Beauty: African American Images: 1890s to the Present, New York: Norton
Mickalene Thomas, Rhona Hoffman Gallery (essays by Kerry James Marshall and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis)
2008
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection
Art Now, Vol. 3, Taschen
The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art
Art Now: Taschen Calendar
2007
FLAVA: WEDGE CURATORIAL PROJECTS (1997-2007) by Wedge
2006
Palm Beach Collects: The John Morrissey Collection
2005
Frequency: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
P.S.1 Greater New York

Bibliography

2024
Pogrebin, Robin. "Mickalene Thomas Takes Los Angeles," The NY Times, April 26 (Link)
2023
Teague, Cass. "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage exhibition opens at Frist Art Museum," PRIDE Publishing Group, September 15
Sheets, Hilarie M. "A Portrait Miniature Was Muse to Mickalene Thomas," The New York Times, September 8 (Link)
Artsy Staff. "The Artsy Collector: Mickalene Thomas," Artsy, August 22 (Link)
2022
Reid, Tiana. "Mickalene Thomas’s Journey From Paralegal to Renowned Artist," Wall Street Journal Magazine, February 7 (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
Keh, Pei-Ru. "Mickalene Thomas on Black beauty, eroticism and power," Wallpaper*, October 21 (Link)
Okhio, Camille. "Mickalene Thomas on slicing her way through the Pleasure Principle," Dazed, October 20 (Link)
Flournoy, Angela. "Mickalene Thomas Is Reinventing Nudes," The New York Times, October 13 (Link)
In Collaboration with Jo Malone London, Frieze Magazine. "Dr. V. Joy Simmons’ Los Angeles is ‘a place of possibility’," Frieze, July 23 (Link)
Bahari, Sarah. “Exhibit showcasing top Black artists comes to Arlington museum,” Dallas News, June 1 (Link)
2020
Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists," D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 2020.
Pine, D.W. "We Designed 100 New Covers For TIME’s Women of The Year Project. Here Are the Stories Behind Them," Time, March 5 (Link)
Brown, Timothy. "Review: Mickalene Thomas’s ‘découverte’ at Baldwin Gallery in Aspen," New York Times, February 12 (Link)
Finkel, Jori. "When a Mentor Said Tear Down Your Collection and Start Over, They Did," New York Times, February 12 (Link)
2019
Rosen, Miss. "Inspired by Her Mother, Mickalene Thomas’ New Show Is Her Most Personal Yet," AnOther, December 13 (Link)
Jansen, Charlotte. "The Art Movements of the 2010s," Artsy, December 18 (Link)
Binlot, Ann. "Mickalene Thomas recreates the sparkling dance parties and radical black aesthetic of the ’70s and ’80s," Document, December 18 (Link)
"Making Room: Mickalene Thomas and More," Afro American, December 6 (Link)
Cohen, Alina. "Mickalene Thomas Opens a Seductive, Spectacular Show in Miami," Artsy, December 6 (Link)
Yerebakan, Osman Can. "Eight Highlights From Miami Art Week," New York Times Style Magazine, December 4 (Link)
Vogel, Carol. "The Rise and Rise of Mickalene Thomas," Town and Country, December 3 (Link)
Samaha, Barry. "The Baltimore Museum of Art Devotes a Year-Long Program to Female-Identifying Artists," Surface, August 5 (Link)
Lim, Kay. "Black models in modern art," CBS News, July 14 (Link)
Barmann, Jay. "SFMOMA Sells Rothko Painting To Fund Purchase Of 11 Works By Women And Minorities," SFist, June 28 (Link)
Desmarais, Charles. "SFMOMA’s new acquisitions an important drop in the bucket," SF Chronicle, June 28 (Link)
"The Most Influential Living African-American Artists," Artsy, February 25 (Link)
Stapley-Brown, Victoria. "Surround yourself in the 70s: Mickalene Thomas installation comes to Miami’s Bass Museum," Art Newspaper, June 7 (Link)
Palumbo, Jaqui. "These Photographers Explore the Limitlessness of Gender Identity," Artsy, May 30 (Link)
Little, Colony. "The Studio Museum Conceives Its Future in a Traveling Exhibition," Hyperallergic, March 6 (Link)
Parris, Amanda. "In the heart of the AGO, 100 Black women artists gathered to celebrate. Is it a sign of true change?," CBS, February 8 (Link)
Valetine, Victoria L. "Black Art History: 17 Exhibition ‘Firsts’ Happening This February," The Culture Type, February 8 (Link)
Scott, Chadd. "’Posing Modernity’ Prepares To Say ‘Goodbye’ To New York, ‘Hello’ To Paris," Forbes, January 25 (Link)
Burns, Charlotte and Julia Halperin. "Museums, Acquisitions and Artists of Color, Why Now is the Time for Change," Sotheby’s, January 11 (Link)
Valetine, Victoria L. "Culture Type Picks: 18 Best Black Art Books of 2018," Culture Type, Janurary 4 (Link)
"’Mickalene Thomas: Femme Noires’ at the Art Gallery of Ontario," Blouin Art Info (web), January 8 (Link)
Smith, Melissa. "How a Businesswoman Became a Voice for Art’s Black Models," New York Times, December 26 (Link)
2018
Egan, Maura. "Enterprising Artists Are Redefining Country Living in Picturesque Northwestern Connecticut," Departures, September 24 (Link)
Smee, Sebastian. "Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art," Washington Post, December 10 (Link)
Parris, Amanda. "The art world often excludes Black women. Mickalene Thomas’s superpower is making them visible," CBC, December 7 (Link)
Rosen, Miss. "7 Black Artists You Should Know," Broadly, December 6 (Link)
Carrier, David. "Deconstructing Race in Western Painting," Hyperallergic, December 1 (Link)
Adams, Kelsey. "Mickalene Thomas celebrates Black women at the AGO," Now Toronto, December 3 (Link)
"Baltimore Museum of Art Launches Commission Series and Curatorial Fellowship with Focus on Diversity," Artforum, November 30 (Link)
Greenberger, Alex. "Baltimore Museum of Art Launches Diversity-Minded Commission Series and Curatorial Fellowship," Art News, November 30 (Link)
Hernandez, Jasmin. "Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Run on Adoration and Activism," Elle, November 30 (Link)
"Mickalene Thomas: The artist on reclaiming the black female body," WBEZ Chicago, November 28 (Link)
Nguyen, Long. "Posing Modernity," Flaunt, November 12 (Link)
Reid, Tiana. "What it Means When Columbia Does a Show About the Black Model on Its West Harlem Expansion Campus," Vulture, November 9 (Link)
Edelson, Sharon. "As If, Audemars Piguet Bring Stimulating Talk to Beautiful Setting," WWD, November 9 (Link)
Sargent, Antwaun. "Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence," New York Times, November 1 (Link)
Goldsmith, Suzanne. "2018 Fall Arts Guide: November," Columbus Monthly, October 29 (Link)
Diderich, Joelle. "Dior Lady Art Project Celebrates Great Women Artists," WWD, October 29 (Link)
Cascone, Sarah. "‘I Use It as a Way of Drawing and Seeing’: Artist Mickalene Thomas on How Photography Became the Center of Her Practice," artnet news, October 26 (Link)
Sheet, Hillarie M. "New Attention for Figures in the Background," The New York Times, October 25 (Link)
Stapley-Brown, Victoria. "Show turns a spotlight on the black female figure in Modern art," The Art Newspaper, October 23 (Link)
"Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today," Apollo, October 1 (Link)
Pitts, Zac. "Mickalene Thomas Photography Exhibition," WDTN News, October 19 (Link)
O’Grady, Megan. "How Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making," New York Times Style Magazine, October 15 (Link)
Gilson, Nancy. "Arts review: In depicting women in her life, painter Mickalene Thomas prefers flash, depth," Columbus Dispatch, October 14 (Link)
Binlot, Ann. "The Art of Being A Muse," Document, October 10 (Link)
Weber, Jasmine. "Mickalene Thomas Makes a Muse of Cardi B," Hyperallergic, October 9 (Link)
Kai, Maiysha. "High Art: Cardi B and Artist Mickalene Thomas Collab for W Magazine," The Glow Up, October 9 (Link)
Solway, Diane. "Cardi B Channels Hollywood’s Legendary Latina Glamour Queens in W’s Art Issue," W Magazine, October 9 (Link)
Azzarello, Nina, "opera ‘music video’ by maurizio cattelan & pierpaolo ferrari is as wild as you’d imagine," designboom (web), 4 October (Link)
Adrian-Diaz, Jenna, "5 Lessons in Feminist Art," The Cut (web), October 3 (Link)
Drew, Kimberly and Nicole Chapoteau, "Artist Mickalene Thomas Opens Up About the Importance of Diverse Bodies In Her Work," Harper’s Bazaar (web), October 3 (Link)
Keimig, Jasmyne, "Black Girl Magic, Mickalene Thomas, and Being My Own Muse," The Stranger (web), September 21 (Link)
Michael, Michael Love, "In Conversation: John Edmonds and Mickalene Thomas," Paper, September 19 (Link)
Pothast, Emily, "An Artist Pays Homage to Her Glamorous, Dying Mother," The Stanger (web), September 12 (Link)
Lee, Michael, "Wexner Center art exhibition to empower women, challenge art history norms," The Lantern, September 10 (Link)
Cascone, Sarah and Caroline Goldstein, "From Mark Bradford in Baltimore to Victor Hugo in LA: 33 Museum Shows Around the US Worth Traveling For," Artnet News (web), September 5 (Link)
Belcove, Julie L, "Artist Mickalene Thomas: "It was always a political statement," The Financial Times (web), August 31 (Link)
"Datebook: Our Top Columbus Events for September," Columbus Monthly (web), August 31 (Link)
Clemans, Gayle, "A look at painter Mickalene Thomas’ lesser-known photography at Henry Art Gallery," The Seattle Times (web), August 29 (Link)
Armstrong, Annie, "Carrie Mae Weems, Mickalene Thomas, Zoe Buckman, More Will Make Art for Planned Parenthood’s ‘Unstoppable’ Campaign," Art News, August 2 (Link)
Najjar, Christina, "Three New York City Artists to Follow on Instagram This Month," Hamptons (web), June 5 (Link)
Small, Zachary, "In Rihanna Photoshoot for Vogue Paris, Juergen Teller Cribs Imagery from Mickalene Thomas," Hyperallergic (web), July 24 (Link)
Stapley-Brown, Victoria, "Did Juergen Teller borrow from Mickalene Thomas’s work in Vogue Paris Rihanna shoot?" The Art Newspaper (web), July 24 (Link)
Upchurch, Michael, "Mother as muse in a powerful show of Black beauty," Crosscut (web), July 23 (Link)
“10 LGBTQ+ Artists who Redefined Contemporary Art,” Mutual Art (web), June 7 (Link)
Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “’Multiply, Identify, Her’ International Center of Photography Museum (ICP),” ArtForum (web), June 2 (Link)
“My Big Break: 7 Artists on Early Milestones That Changed the Course of Their Careers,” artnet News (web), May 31 (Link)
Levere, Jane, "What Happens When Art History Gets Refigured," Smithsonian Magazine (web), May 9 (Link)
Whitley, Zoe, "Do-it-yourself, do-it-right-now," Financial Times Weekend, April 28
Dellas, Mary, "An All-Women Art Show Honors Acclaimed Artist Mickalene Thomas," The Cut (web), April 9 (Link)
Rosen, Miss, "Artist Mickalene Thomas makes portraits to bring out your inner Foxy Brown," Dazed (web), April 5 (Link)
Martinez, Jaime, "Interview with Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Curators for Volta’s 2018 Section," Arte Fuse (web), February 21 (Link)
Flock, T.S., "Re-Presenting Black History in Art," Seattle Weekly (web), February 14 (Link)
Cleman, Gayle, "Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art," The Seattle Times, February 14 (Link)
Cohen, Alina, "Artist Mickalene Thomas has a Message for Right Now: Resist," Observer (web), February 12 (Link)
Morosi, Sara, "An Exhibition that Retells America’s Past Comes to the Seattle Art Museum," The Wall Street Journal, February 13 (Link)
Hymowech, Gena, "Bang, Bang!," The Indypendent (web), December 26 (Link)
Almino, Elisa Wouk, "Mickalene Thomas, Shinique Smith, and Others are Making Art for LA’s New Metro Line," Hyperallergic (web), January 24 (Link)
Kinsella, Eileen, "Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Will Co-Organize VOLTA’s Special Curated Section," artnet News (web), January 26 (Link)
Zellen, Jody, “Preview of Exhibitions: Mickalene Thomas,” ArtScene, January
Ates, Tiffany Y., “How Mickalene Thomas is Ushering in a New Wave of Contemporary Art,” Smithsonian Magazine, January (Link)
2017
Sargent, Antwaun, “How Black Artists, Dealers, and Collectors Art Boosting the Careers of Their Younger Peers,” Artsy (web), December 14 (Link)
Byrd, Rikki, “Mickalene Thomas Makes Black Women the Protagonists of Their Own Stories,” Hyperallergic (web), November 26 (Link)
Saltz, Jerry ,”The New Museum’s ‘Trigger’ is Radical in Content, Retrograde in Form: What Should We Make of That?” Vulture (web), October 23 (Link)
Magallon Areli Navarro ,” ‘Waiting on a Prime-Time Star’ explores black womanhood,” The Rice Thresher, October 4
Roffino, Sarah, “Behind the Screens,” Cultured Magazine, Fall (Link)
Schjeldahl, Peter, “The Art World as Safe Space,” The New Yorker, October 9 (Link)
Swanson, Carl, “This New Museum Exhibit Wants to Challenge Everything You Think You Know About Gender,” Vulture (web), September 21 (Link)
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone,” New York Times, September 15 (Link)
Mitter, Siddhartha, “Gallerist Jack Shainman Curates a Career-Spanning Show,” The Village Voice (web), August 8 (Link)
Fowler, Nancy, “Is upcoming Contemporary Art Museum exhibition opportunity for a do-over,” KBIA (web), August 2
Delaney, Lashea, “Contemporary Black Artists Are Redefining Portraiture in a Show at CAAM,” LA Weekly (web), July 21 (Link)
Sharp, Sarah Rose, “Artists Embrace the Grayscale,” Hyperallergic (web), July 20 (Link)
Amirkhani, Jordan, “Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star,” Daily Serving (web), February 22
Brantley, Rebecca, “Black Angels: Mickalene Thomas at the Spelman Museum of Art,” Burnaway (web), March 17
Robinson, Shantay, “Review: Mickalene Thomas shows how ‘black girl magic’ has been with us all along,” ArtsATL (web), March 24
Neuendorf, Henri, “In Los Angeles, Sprüth Magers Celebrates the Artistic Contributions of African American Women,” artnet News (web), March 31
“Virginia MOCA’s Summer Exhibitions Celebrate Contemporary Photography with Renowned Artist Mickalene Thomas and a Journey Through the South,” Artfix Daily (web), April 18
Thomas, Mickalene, “Kehinde Wiley,” Interview Magazine (web), May 22 (Link)
Lopez, Pablo, “Mickalene Thomas at MOCA Grand,” Contemporary Art Review LA (web), January 12 (Link)
Yates, Calder, “Reviews: Mickalene Thomas at MoCA Los Angeles,” Artillery, January / February (Link)
2016
Booth, Katie, “Mickalene Thomas’s awe-inspiring portraits, a meaningful refelction of black women in art,” New York Times (web), January 29
Felsenthal, Julia, “Mickalene Thomas on Her Photographic Muses,” Vogue (web), January 28 (Link)
Travers, Andrew, “Judith Scott Retrospective Leads Three New Shows at Aspen Art Museum,” The Aspen Times (web), March 17
Conley, Kevin, “State Craft,” Town & Country, April
Stapley-Brown, Victoria, “Mickalene Thomas: ‘A black woman’s existence on this planet is a revolutionary act’,” The Art Newspaper (web), October 16
Helmke, Juliet, “Studio Check: Mickalene Thomas,” Blouin Modern Painters, March
Campbell, Andy, “Critic’s Pick: Mickalene Thomas at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,” Artforum (web), November
2015
Salisbury, Vanita, Mickalene Thomas is Not Really a Subway Person, New York Magazine, February 6
Boucher, Brian, Mickalene Thomas and Kavi Gupta Feted Guests With an Armory Week Feast, ArtNet News, March 4
Valentine, Victoria L., For Artist Project, Mickalene Thomas, Nick Cave and Kehinde Wiley Reveal Their Favorite Works at the Met, Culture Type, March 31
Zeller, Heidi, Fourteen Artists Selected to Create Art for Crenshaw/LAX Line Project, The Source, April 15
Katz, Anita, SFMoMA, MoAD Showcase 20th Century Portraits, The San Francisco Examiner, May 21
Katz, Anita, SFMoMA, MoAD Showcase 20th Century Portraits, The San Francisco Examiner, May 21
Schuessler, Ryan, Blah, blah blah? Billboard art show confronts Missouri drivers head-on, Aljazeera America, May 31
Thomas, Mickalene, Mickalene Thomas Responds, ArtNews, June
Symonds, Alexandria, Mickalene Thomass Adventures in Italy, New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 17
Kino, Carol, Mickalene Thomas Publishes Monograph of Muses, The Wall Street Journal, June 25
20 Artists Who Make New York, Elephant, Spring
Tully, Judd, The Armory Show Contemporary Opens with a Flurry of Sales, ArtInfo, March 4
Tay, Michelle, Alexis Bittar Taps Contemporary Artists for 25th Anniversary Lucite Art, ArtInfo, February 15
Martin, Hannah, Alexis Bittars Fall Collection, Architectural Digest, February 19
Lamont-Djite, Tara, Alexis Bittar Celebrates New Collection with Charity Auction, Harpers Bazaar, February 19
Rosenfeld, Austen, Rhinestones are a Womans Best Friend, Style.com, March 6
2014
Saad, Shirine, Mom, Muse: Mickalene Thomass artistic ode to the life of her mother, Nowness, November 12
Davis, Florangela, The Weekend List: The arts and culture guide to Seattles good life, Crosscut.com, October 8
Messing Up Ideas of Beauty: The Queen of Afro-Kitsch, Mickalene Thomas Challenges Us All, Beautiful/Decay, October 9
Cooper, Ashton, Q&A: Mickalene Thomas on Finding Meaning in Material Things, ArtInfo, October 7
Silver, Leigh, Interview: Mickalene Thomas Discusses Creating a Different Kind of Portrait for her New Show I was born to do great things, Complex, October 1
Russeth, Andrew, Mickalene Thomas: I was born to do great thing at Kavi Gupta, ArtNews, September 23
Meisinger, Ann, Mickalene Thomas // I Was Born to do Great Things, The Seen, September 20
Stamler, Hannah, Reviews: Mickalene Thomas, Lehmann Maupin, NY, frieze, August
Corrigan, A., New York – Mickalene Thomas, Tte de Femme at Lehmann Maupin Through August 8th, 2014, ArtObserved, August 3
Rosenberg, Karen, REVIEW: Mickalene Thomas, Tte de Femme, The New York Times, July 17
Guiducci, Mark, 4 Art Shows to See That are Not Jeff Koons, Vogue, July 15
Yablonsky, Linda, All Dogs Go to Heaven, ArtForum, July 1
"Mickalene Thomas Creates Masterpieces with Geometric Cutouts, TrendHunter, June 30
Arikoglu, Lale, Mickalene Thomas Brings Collage and Glitz to Lehmann Maupin, New York Observer, June 28
Frank, Priscilla, Mickalene Thomas Delivers the Most Stylish Philosophy Less of All Time, The Huffington Post, June 26
Rafferty, Rebecca, ART: The center of the universe, City Newspaper, June 25
Adam, Georgina, The rise and rise of the superstar artists, The Art Newspaper, June 20
Shaw, Catherine, The latest trends in creative floor art, South China Morning Post, June 20
Russeth, Andrew, Mickalene Thomas Delves Deeper into Cubism Collage, New York Observer, June 19
Valentine, Victoria, Mickalene Thomas Art Rug Debuting at Barneys, CultureType, May 6
Vaughn, Katie, A Bustling Time for Tandem Press, Madison Magazine, May 5
Newton, Mike, Aftershock: The Impact of Radical Art, The Indypendent, May 2
Bell, Jonathan, Henzel gives us a preview of its new art rugs ahead of their Salone del Mobile unveiling, Wallpaper*, March 24
Cascone, Sarah, Mickalene Thomas Signs with Kavi Gupta, ArtNet, March 20
Nahmod, David-Elijah, Lesbian Artist Mickalene Thomas Tribute to her Mom, SFGN, March 7
Cheng, Susan, Housewives Get Their Revenge with Domestic Unrest at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, March 5
The Whitney Houston Biennial is Here to Make Your Feminist Art Dreams Come True, The Huffington Post, March 4
Shattuck, Kathryn, Whats on Monday, The New York Times, February 24
Thomas, Mickalene, A Different Type of Beauty: Painter Mickalene Thomas Eulogizes Her Late Mother, Creative Time Reports, February 24
Frank, Priscilla, Mickalene Thomas Directs Stunning Documentary for Her Mother and Muse, The Huffington Post, February 21
La Force, Thessaly, Artist Mickalene Thomas on her Film Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman, her Mother, and Creativity, Vogue, February 17
Obenson, Tambay, Artist Mickalene Thomas Honors Mother in Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (2/24 on HBO), IndieWire, February 11
2013
Benrimon, Alex, "In the Artist’s Studio: An Interview with Mickalene Thomas," artnet, December 11 (Link)
Yablonsky, Linda," Elle Women in Art: Meet Eight Women Changing the Art World Today," Elle, November 14 (Link)
Sjostrom, Jan, "Fantasy landscape mural begins year-long stay at Norton Museum," Palm Beach Daily News, October 3
Gibble, Mary, "New Season, New Mural," Palm Beach Illustrated, September 17
Crandell, Ben, "At the Norton Museum, a natural vibe (hold the Jay Z)," SouthFlorida.com, September 17
"QF Gallery’s Tete-a-Tete," East Hampton Star, August 20
Traff, Thea, "Away with the clich," The New Yorker, July 29
Leland, John, "Slow dance in Brooklyn," The New York Times, July 19
Vogel, Carol, "At Art Basel, an Unslaked Appetite for Buying," The New York Times, June 13
Bailey, Stephanie, Basel: Mickalene Thomas Better Days Absolute Art Basel, Whitewall Magazine, June 12
"Mickalene Thomas’s Art Basel 70s Bar," Phaidon Blog, June
In the Studio with Mickalene Thomas, Art.sy, March 27
Knowles, Solange, Solange Interviews Mickalene Thomas, Opening Ceremony New News, March 25
The Soapbox Interview: Mickalene Thomas, The Laundromat Project, January 24
Mickalene Thomas: Seurats Rhinestones, Muse, No. 5 Vol. I, January 23
Cole, Lori, "Mickalene Thomas at the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston", Artforum.com, January 21
2013-2013
Bianco, Marcie, Pop Theory: Mickalene Thomas and Bodies That Matter, After Ellen, January 15
2013
Cook, Greg, Mickalene Thomas: The Seduction of Blackness, 90.9 WBUR Boston, January 3
Solway, Diane, Musings on a Muse, W Magazine, January
2012
Kazakina, Katya, Exposed Mom as Sultry Muse, Amusement Parks: Chelsea Art, Bloomberg, December 28
McQuaid, Cate, Mickalene Thomas at the ICA a dazzling display, The Boston Globe, December 27
Corcoran, Heather, Mickalene Thomass Elegy, Interview Magazine, December
Hudson, Suzanne, "Mickalene Thomas at the Santa Monica Museum of Art", Artforum, December, pp. 282-283
tte–tte: Mickalene Thomas in conversation with Carmen McCleod, Art Papers, November/December
Gilbert, Alan, Mickalene Thomass How to Organize a Room Around a Striking Piece of Art, Art Agenda, December 13
Hicks, Cinque, "Psychological Spaces at Gallery 1600", Artvoices Magazine, November/December, p. 96
Mickalene Thomas: A Whole Lotta Woman, The Economist Prospero Blog, November 30
Plagens, Peter, "From Rooms to Revolutions", The Wall Street Journal, November 24: A20
Montpezat, Charlotte, "Le corps noir de l’Histoire avec Kehinde Wiley et Mickalene Thomas", Le Huffington Post, November 24
Baumgardner, Julie, "Scroll Contributor | Julie Baumgardner on Mickalene Thomas", Scroll, Paddle 8, November 12
Budick, Ariella, "Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe, Brooklyn Museum, New York", Financial Times, November 7
Weschler, Michael, "The Bold Paintings of Mickalene Thomas", Architectural Digest, November
Gonzalez, Desi, "Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe", The Brooklyn Rail, November
Pollack, Maika, "Origin Stories: Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art and Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum; Rosemarie Trockel and Judith Bernstein at the New Museum", GalleristNY, October 30
Loos, Ted, "Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum", Sotheby’s Inside: On the Loos, October 23
Warren, Tamara, "Mickalene Thomas and ‘The Origins of the Universe’", Life + Times, October 22
Kustanczy, Cate, "Mickalene Thomas shows her soul at the Brooklyn Museum Special", Digital Journal, October 13
Roberts, Rebecca, "Some Thoughts on Mickalene Thomas at The Brooklyn Museum", Artinfo, October 9
Rauschenberg Political Show, ArtCaste, October 9
"Mickalene Thomas: A Star in the Art World", Arts Observer, October 6
Tam, Paulina, "The Brooklyn Cocktail: One Part Basketball. One Part Art." The Bare Square, October 5
Andries, Amanda, "Boldness Becomes Her: Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe at Brooklyn Museum", The Brooklyn College Kingsman, October
Wama, Chole, Portfolio: Mickalene Thomas, Modern Painters, October
Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe, Ebony, September 28
Ellis, Stacy-Ann, Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe, The Root, September 28
Happening | Opening of Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe Exhibition @ Brooklyn Museum, Paddle 8 Scroll, September 28
Chou, Kimberly, "One Artist’s ‘Origin’ Story", The Wall Street Journal, September 27: A26
Rosenberg, Karen, Mickalene Thomas Rediscovers Her Mother And Her Muse, New York Times, September 27
Smith, Roberta, Loud, Proud and Painted: Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe, at Brooklyn Museum, New York Times, September 27
Sutton, Benjamin, Brooklyns Barclays Center Will Have Art by Mickalene Thomas, Jose Parla, and More, Boulin ArtInfo, September 21
Douglass, Lynn, "Want To See Great Art? Go To Brooklyn’s Barclays Center", Forbes, September 25, 2012
Simon, Lizzie, "A Mother and a Muse", The Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2012
Dumas, DeShawn, Arousing Desire in Post Black America: Mickalene Thomass Tete-a-tete, artcritical, September 16
Duray, Dan "Fall Arts Preview: Top 10 Museums Exhibitions", Gallerist NY, September 13
Sheets, Hilarie M., "Photographer and Subject Are One", The New York Times, September 12
Rosenberg, Karen, "Exploring Islam, Pompeii and the Factory", New York Times, September 5
"Mickalene Thomas, ‘Origin of the Universe’", Time Out Magazine, September 4
Mickalene Thomas Studio Visit, Boulin ArtInfo, September (Link)
Bodin, Von Claudia, Mickalene Thomas: Crazy, Sexy, Soul, Rolling Stone Germany, September
Female Persuasion, Fall Art Preview, New Yorker, September
Loos, Ted, People Are Talking About Art: Lush Life, Vogue, September
New works by multimedia artist Mickalene Thomas in Brooklyn Museum exhibition, artdaily.org, September
McGarry, Kevin, Mickalene Thomas, W Magazine, September
Wood, Eve, Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Art LTD, September
Schad, Ed "Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe", Art Review, June 19
Scene: Mickalene Thomas/Origin of the Universe, The International Review of African American Art, Spring/Summer Issue
Finkel, Jori, Mickalene Thomas, up close and very personal, Los Angeles Times, April 20
2011
Frankel, David, Mickalene Thomas, Artforum, December
Rosenberg, Karen, Mickalene Thomas: More Than Everything, The New York Times, October 20
Mickalene Thomas, conversation with Sean Landers, BOMB Magazine, June
Soul Kitchen: Studio Visit with Mickalene Thomas, Life and Times, May 23 (Link)
Maerkle, Andrea, Mama Bush puts black women in a powerful light, The Japan Times, April 8
Hirsch, Faye, Sharon Stone In Abuja, Art in America, March
Pollack, Barbara, Rhinestone Odaliques, ARTnews, January
2010
Blasberg, Derek, Happy Birthday, Naomi!, V Magazine, Issue 65, p.38
Smith, Roberta, Print Fair 2010, The New York Times, November 5
Casagrande, Reggie, Feature: Mickalene Thomas: A Complex Vision, Lipsticktracez
Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection, Studio, Winter, p.13
Gaines, Carl, The Cleopatra Jones of the Brooklyn Art Scene, Brooklyn Based, April 8
Laster, Paul, A Window on Art, The New York Observer, April 21
Rudolph, Ellen, Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Thompson, Haven, Creative Chic, W Magazine, April, p. 92
In The Flesh, V Magazine, Issue 63, Spring, p. 46-47
Versus, Faction Magazine, Issue 11, January
Wagley, Catherine, Bright and Polished, Daily Serving, May 28 (Link)
2009
Kazanjian, Dodie, Dreaming the Landscape, Vogue, November
Oates, Leah, Bedazzled: Fall 2009 Conversations with Mickalene Thomas, NY Arts, Fall
Cregan, Lisa, Cabin Fever!, CS Interiors, Fall 2009, p. 78-83
Miranda, Carolina, Features: Art Basel Miami: Sales May Be Soft, But the Party Goes On, WNYC, December 4 radio feature
Solway, Diane. Let Them Eat Cake, W Magazine Gallery Go-Round, November 4
Russeth, Andrew. Let Them Eat Cake, ARTINFO November 5
Yablonsky, Linda. The Moment: Sugar High at Haunch of Venison, T: New York Times Style Magazine, November 5
Gensler, Andy. The Moment: Rock on the Block, The Phillips de Pury Music Sale, T: New York Times Style Magazine November 19
Cox, Johanna, ArtWalk NY Turns 15, Honors Pat Steir, ELLE News Blog, November 18
Lunn, Natasha. The Moment: In Focus, Dressing Up at the ICP, T: New York Times Style Magazine October 15
Smith, Roberta, Dress Codes: Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement, New York Times, October 8
Portfolio: Mickalene Thomas, Fantom: Photographic Quarterly Issue 01, Autumn: pp. 3-11
Mickalene Thomas: Odalisques, ARTCO October 8: online.
Muscionico, Daniele. Ein Sommer mit Donna, Die Weltwoche No. 40, October: pp. 60-61
Edelson, Sharon. ICP Year of Fashion Culminates with Dress Codes, Womens Wear Daily, Sept. 16, p. 26
Egan, Maura. The Moment: Boogie Down Productions at MoMA, T: New York Times Style Magazine, Sept. 25
Medwick, Cathleen. Arthouse, O: The Oprah Magazine Vol. 10, No. 8, August, p. 134-41
Egan, Maura. The Moment: The Girlie Show, T: New York Times Style Magazine June 30
Brielmaier, Isolde and Ivan Lopez Munuera, Something You Can Feel, Exhibition catalogue, La Conservera, Murcia, Spain
Adam, Georgina, Buoyant Basel Contrasts With Russian Reluctance, The Financial Times, June 13-14, p. 12
Douglas, Sarah, Basel Grins and Bears Pre-Boom Prices, ArtInfo, June 11
Lamm, Kimberly. Mickalene Thomas, Shes Come UnDone! The Brooklyn Rail May
Smith, Roberta, Mickalene Thomas Shes Come Undone!, The New York Times, May 1
Kerr, Merrily. Mickalene Thomas, Shes Come UnDone! Time Out New York April 23-29: p. 53.
Shaw, Cameron, Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin, Art Forum, April 21
Kino, Carol, A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones, New York Times, April 7
What Does Glamour Mean to You? Glamour April: pp. 260-7.
Leive, Cindi, The Glamour Project, New York: Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Crisell, Luke. Body and Soul, NYLON April: p. 148.
Alexander, Lily, Mickalene Thomas: Shes Come UnDone!, Whitewall, April 2
Wright, Jeffrey Cyphers. Illusion, mystique, and plain beauty in sparkling paintings, The Villager Vol. 78, No. 43: April 1-7.
Go See: Mickalene Thomass Shes Come UnDone! at Lehmann Maupin in New York though May 2, 2009, AO Art Observed, March 31
Walker, Kara, Artists on Artists: Mickalene Thomas, Bomb Magazine, No. 107, p 72, Spring
Cotter, Holland, On the Piers, Testing the Waters in a Down Art Market, The New York Times, March 5
Dailey, Meghan, In the Studio: Mickalene Thomas, Art + Auction, March
Jackson, Brian Keith, American Vision, Giant Magazine, December/January
Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace, 30 Americans, exhibition catalogue, Rubell Family Collection
Bedolla, Myrtis. Rubell Show, A Stand Out, The International Review of African American Art Vol. 22, No 3: pp. 45-46.
Bonin, Claudia, Radar, Art Das Kunstmagazin, March 23
Cutler, Jody B. A Lineage is Not a Category, The International Review of African American Art Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 38-42.
Ditner, Judy, Ed. Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video. New York: The International Center of Photography/Steidl
Haber, John. Post-Post-Black, Habers Art Reviews (www.haberarts.com) March
Finch, Charlie. Another Country, Artnet March 30.
Frank, Alex. NYC Armory Show: Sour Times, Bright Colors, FADER, March 13
Laster, Paul. The Armory Show, Two Piers of Peerless Entertainment, ArtKrush February 26
Goings On About Town: Art: The Brand New Heavies, The New Yorker February 23: p. 10.
Grabner, Michelle. Reviews, ArtForum February: pp. 197-8.
Finch, Charlie. Having a Rave Up! Artnet January 29.
Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Ed. 100 Contemporary Artists: L-Z. Los Angeles: Taschen.
Leive, Cindi. The Glamour Project. New York: Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
Robinett, Rae Anne. Mickalene Thomas, Beautiful Decay Issue Z: pp. 74-81.
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art. Dallas: amfAR and The Dallas Museum of Art and Sothebys.
Whats Up: Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection, Studio Spring 2009: p. 5.
Willis, Deborah. Posing Beauty: African American Images: 1890s to the Present. New York: Norton.
2008
Ewing, John, New York: Perverted by Theater at Apexart, Art Lies, No. 60, Winter
Tonchi, Stefano, Now Shopping: The Art Basel Miami Wish List, The Moment, NY Times Blog, December 5
Weinberg, Lauren, Jet Set: Black History Shines in Mickalene Thomas show at Rhona Hoffman, Time Out Chicago, Issue 195, November 20-26
Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Art Now, Vol. 3, Taschen, essay by Vivian Rehberg
Copeland, Huey, The Blackness of Blackness, ArtForum, October
Salsbury, Britany, Critics Picks: Black Is, Black Aint, ArtForum, May
Psyllos, Steven. USA Today: A Visual Mixtape, TRACE, issue 81
Pratt, Ken. Material Stealth, Wound, Fall, issue 4
Evans, Ali, A Portrait of an Artist by an Artist, Studio Museum Harlem Magazine, Spring
Watson, Simon. Mickalene Thomas: Lush Life, Whitewall, no. 8, Winter
2007
Rosenberg, Karen, At Fairs by the Beach, the Sands of Creativity, New York Times, December 8
Allan, Stacey, Mickalene Thomas at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Modern Painters, December 2007January 2008
Douglas, Sarah, Intimately Scaled Pulse Looks Promising, Artinfo, October 11
Goings On About Town: Shinique Smith / Mickalene Thomas, The New Yorker, May 7
Rosenberg, Karen, An Afternoon in Chelsea, New York Magazine, May 7
Cotter, Holland, Prime Time: Mickalene Thomas and Shinique Smith, New York Times, May 4
ES, Prime Time, Artkrush, May 2
Swartz, Anne, Sex Privilege and Power: The Paintings of Mickalene Thomas, NY Arts, May/June
Wiley, Kehinde, The Sexiest Image Ive Seen, GQ, April
Miller, Leigh Anne, Scope, Art in America, April
Hunt, Kenya, Rhinestones and Oprah, Metro, March 30
Miller, Rebecca, Shotgun Review, MyLove is a 187, March 18
Viafora Kress, Althea, Shaken, Not Deterred: Interview with Curator Brian Keith Jackson and artists Mickalene Thomas, Shinique Amie Smith, and Navin June Norling, vernissage-tv.com, February 25
Trends, Mickalene Thomas, Muse Magazine, January 10
2006
Thorncroft, Anthony,Basel Comes to the Beach, Financial Times, December 2
Lynn, Sue, One Gals Opinion of Art Basel, Entertainment and News, December
Youll have to stand in Line for the work of these hot, young Yale artists, American Art Collector, December
Camper, Fred, Desire in the Abstract, Chicago Reader, November 17
Peterson, Kristen, The Look is a Blast from the Past, Las Vegas Sun, October 27
Ross, Susan, More, More, More, NYArts, May/June
Valdez, Sarah, Frequency Bling and Beyond, Art in America, April
Gronlund, Melissa, Frequency, Frieze, March
Spence, Rebecca, How Street it is, ArtNews, February
Maximum Flavor, Bare & Bitter Sleep
Haber, John, Habers Art Reviews: Frequency, February
Genocchio, Benjamin, Exploring the Effects of Discos Beat, The New York Times, February
Cotter, Holland, Do You Think Im Disco, The New York Times, February
Stillman, Nick, Frequency, Brooklyn Rail, February
Oppenheim, Phil, 5X5 Five Artist/Five Perspectives, Art Papers, January/February
Ribas, Jose, Emerging Collectors: A Profile of John Morrissey, ArtInfo, January
Kastner, Jeffrey, Frequency, Art Forum, January
2005
Frank, Peter, Neovernacular, Good Clean Fun, LA Weekly, December
Sirmans, Franklin, This Womans Work, Essence, November
Smith, Roberta, Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist, The New York Times, November 18
Feaster, Felicia, Five works by five artists 5X5 takes a mostly critical look at our media-drenched culture, Creative Loafing, October
Feaster, Felicia, Buy and Large exhibit explores our devouring desire for more stuff, Creative Loafing, June
Rimanelli, David, Greater New York 2005, Artforum, May
Wiley, Kehinde, Top Ten, Art Forum, April
Gardner, James, Theyre Unknown Under 30.., New York Post, March 23
New and Noteworthy: Queen Scene, Museums New York
2004
Weinberg, Michelle, Its All About Me, Miami Newtimes.com, November 25
Mills, Michael, Through A Fractured Lens, Newtimes bpb.com, November 18
Laster, Paul, Back-to-back at SMH: interviews with Mickalene Thomas and Dave McKenzie, wburg, Vol. 4 No. 2, August
Nichols, Matthew Guy, Hands on Hands Down, Art in America, February
Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, The New York Times, January 23
Goings On, The New Yorker, August 27
Kim, Christine, Hands on, Hands Down (brochure), Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

Screening

2014
Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman HBO Premiere, HBO Theater, New York, NY
Atlanta Television Festival, Savannah College of Art & Design, Atlanta, GA
2013
The Poetics of Unforgetting, Hackney Picture House, London, UK, June 6

Public Collections

21c Museum, Chicago, IL
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Sender Collection, Miami, FL
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
West Collection, Philadelphia, PN
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA