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ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010 Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper, The
James Gallery, The City
University of New York
POST BLACK AND BLUE, Alexander and Bonin,
New York
2007 Living Room, Finesilver Gallery, Houston
2006-08 Anxious Objects: Willie Cole’s Favorite Brands,
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey;
Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska; Memorial Art Gallery,
Rochester,
New York; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Frye Art Museum,
Seattle, Washington; Stanford University, Iris & B.
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual
Arts, California
2006 Real Players: Game Installations by Willie Cole, Wayne State
University, Detroit,
Michigan
Sole to Soul, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Another Man’s
Treasure, Visual Arts Exhibition, African American Ball, Lexington,
Kentucky
2005 Willie Cole, Huntington Museum
of Art, West Virginia
2004-06 AFTERBURN, Willie Cole: selected works 1997 - 2004, University of Wyoming Art
Museum, Laramie; California African-American Museum, Los Angeles; Ulrich
Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas; Worcester
Art Museum, Massachusetts;
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of
Art, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York
2003 Sources & Metamorphoses, Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Willie
Cole, Picture Gallery of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, New Hampshire
International Balls, John and June
Allcott Gallery, University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill
2002 Before and After, Alexander and Bonin, New York
The Elegba Principle, The Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College,
Easton, Pennsylvania
2001 Game Show: Installations and Sculptures by Willie Cole, Bronx Museum of the Arts
2000 new work, Alexander
and Bonin, New York
New Work: Willie Cole, At the Crossroads, Miami Art Museum
1999 Iron Works, The Avram
Gallery, Southampton College, Long Island University, New York
New Jersey Artist Series: Willie Cole, From
the Wayside, The Morris Museum,
Morristown, New Jersey
1998 Perspectives 1: Willie Cole, Birmingham Museum
of Art, Alabama
New Concepts in Printmaking 2: Willie Cole, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Recent
Work, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1997 New Sculpture, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Vendredi 12
(September 1997) Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
1995 Our Daily Bread, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Iconic Structures l990 -l995, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the
Arts, Philadelphia; Center
for Research in Contemporary Art University of
Texas at Arlington
5 to 10: Willie
Cole in Collaboration with the Fabric Workshop, The Fabric Workshop,
Philadelphia
The Elegba
Principle, Capp Street Project, San Francisco
1994 Labor of Love, presented by The Contemporary at The Baltimore Museum
of Industry
Brooke Alexander, New York
1993 Residue, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
1992 Currents
51: Willie Cole, The Saint Louis Art Museum
See No Evil, The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Brooke
Alexander, New York
1991 Household Gods and Domestic Demons, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
From Our House
to Your House, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
1990 Special Projects, Institute for Contemporary
Arts, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
1989 Artists-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
1986 Dogs
on Paper, Educational Testing Service Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010-11 Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas
City
2010 Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
2009-11 The Perfect Fit—Shoes
Tell Stories, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
What Matters, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
I HAVE A DREAM: International Tribute Exhibition to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Organized
by Sitges City Council, Sitges, Spain, The Gabarron Foundation -
Carriage House Center for the Arts, New York; Museum
of African American
History, Detroit; Martin Luther King National Historic Site, Atlanta; Rosa Parks
Museum,
Birmingham, Alabama; Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, Tennessee;
NBC Towers, Chicago, Sitges; Museu Maricel, Marbella;
Sala de Exposiciones de
San Pedro Alcantara, Madrid; Espacio Conde Duque, Valladolid; Fundación
Cristobal
Gabarrón, Zaragoza; La Lonja, Andorra; Sala d'Exposicions del Govern
d'Andorra, Avilés; Centro Municipal
de Artes y Exposiciones de Avilés, Sevilla;
Fundación Tres Culturas, Granada; Palacio los Condes de la Gabia
Murcia; Casa
Pintada Mula, Gran Canarias; Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Lanzarote;
Fundación Cesar
Manrique
2009 Digging Deeper: Willie Cole and Hank Willis Thomas, The Amistad Center for Art &
Culture, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Matrix: contemporary printmaking, Florida State
University
Whaddaya Wanna Be, a Flower?!, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Re-Addressing Identities: Clothing
as Sculpture, Katonah Museum of Art,
New York
Concepts and Global Visions/Selections from the AT&T
Collection: Contemporary
Paintings and Sculpture, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
Unbounded: New Art for
a New Century, The Newark Museum, New Jersey
2008-09 Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts &
Design, New York
2006-09 Nature/Culture: Artists Respond to Their Environment, Society for Contemporary
Craft,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey; Ohio
Craft Museum, Columbus; Mansfield Art Center,
Oregon; Lakeview Museum of
Arts and Science, Peoria, Illinois
2008 Stay alive till ’95, Alexander
and Bonin, New York
On the Margins, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis
Working
History: African American Art & Objects, David F. Cooley Memorial Art
Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
2007-08 Mask, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2007 “Don’t Look.” Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s
Collection (Martina
Yamin, Class of 1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Repicturing
the Past/Picturing the Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Singularity in the Communal Tide; Culture and Identity
in the Moment, Pierro Gallery
of South Orange, New Jersey
Tuttavia Povero!, Shore Institute of Contemporary
Arts, Long Branch, New Jersey
2006 Newark Between Us, Newark Arts Council, New Jersey
2006 Intersections:
Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art, J.M. Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Paper Trail: African
American Art on Paper, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
3D: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Carl Solway Gallery,
Cincinnati, Ohio
Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New
York
Extreme Materials, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
13th Annual African American
Ball, Lexington, Kentucky
Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York
Generations,
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
2005-06 Linkages & Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections
from the Eileen Harris Norton
and Peter Norton Art Collections, Museum of the African Diaspora, San
Francisco
2005 A Sense of Place: Contemporary African-American Art, University Art Gallery,
University of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
The Superfly Effect, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
editions, Alexander and Bonin, New
York
2004 Telling Tales: Narrative Threads in Contemporary African-American Art, Delaware
Center for the Contemporary
Arts, Wilmington
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Echoes of Africa, American
Hertiage Gallery, Walt Disney World, Florida
the gallery selects..., Alexander and Bonin, New York
Sculpture
and Form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, California
cat,
bite, & stroke: Techniques in Printmaking, Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau
Community College, New York
Birdspace:
A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans;
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida;
Weisman Museum of Art,
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA; McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown,
Ohio
Double
Jeu, Québec: Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec
2003 Crosscurrents at Century’s End, Henry
Art Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Flordia; Tampa Museum
of Art,
FL; Chicago Cultural Center
Undomesticated Interiors: Photographing Undomesticated Interiors,
Smith College
Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary
Works from Dallas Collections,
Dallas Museum of Art
2002 SCULPTURE, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Imagine,
You Are Standing Here in Front Of Me., Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Shadows
and Silhouettes: The Dangerous Faces of Willie Cole and Juan Logan,
Memphis College of Art, Tennessee
The
Culture of Violence, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst; Bowdoin College Museum
of Art, Brunswick,
Massachusetts
2001 Everything and Anything, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
(Self)
Portraits, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Burn: Artists Play With Fire, Norton Museum of Art: West Palm Beach,
Florida;
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
The Quiet in the Land, Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and
Projeto Axé, Museu de
Arte Moderna da Bahia, Brazil
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More... On Collecting,
Independent Curators
International, Western Gallery: Western Washington University, Bellingham,
Washington; John
Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Akron Art
Museum, Akron, Ohio; South Bend Regional Art Museum, Indiana;
Institute of
Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2000 Full Serve, Mixed Greens, New York
Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process, International Print Center New York
5th Biennale de
Lyon
In The Shadow of the Flag, Tippy Stern Fine Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Strength and Diversity:
A Celebration of African American Artists, Carpenter Center,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1999 Beyond the Frame: Willie Cole and Renée Stout, Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee
1999 Drawings;
Alexander and Bonin, New York
shoes shoes shoes Frederick Taylor/TZ’ Art Gallery, New York
The
Comforts of Home, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia
Contemporary Narratives in American Prints, Whitney
Museum of American Art at
Champion, Stamford, Connecticut
Black Image and Identity: African-American
Art from the Permanent Collection,
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Nebraska (brochure)
Multiplicity ̧ Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 Alternative Measures, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle,
New Rochelle, New York
(ex. broch. with essay by Susan M. Canning)
The Biennial at Ben Shaw Galleries: Lines
of Direction, William Patterson University,
Wayne, New Jersey
Figuration/Abstraction, John Berggruen Gallery,
San Francisco
Histories (Re)membered Selections from the Permanent Collection of The Bronx
Museum of Art,
PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York
Paper +, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York
Photographs, Alexander
and Bonin, New York
1997 1997 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
The New Jersey Arts Annual, The Newark Museum, New Jersey
No Small Feat, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Performance Anxiety, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue); Museum of
Contemporary Art, San Diego,
SITE Sante Fe (1998)
1996 John Ahearn, Willie Cole, Mona Hatoum and Paul Thek, Alexander and Bonin, New
York
B.A.B.Y, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia
Love's Labor Lost, The City Gallery at Chastain,
Atlanta
Sculpture from New Jersey, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit
1996 New Art on Paper
2: Acquired with Funds from the Hunt Manufacturing Co., 1989-
1995, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Subversive
Domesticity, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University,
Kansas (catalogue with essay by Dana Self)
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-95, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Video Sans Titre, Galerie
Froment & Putman, Paris
1995 Archaeological Urban Dada, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion (catalogue
with essay by Eugenie Tsai)
Hot, K & E Gallery, New York
Prison Sentences: The Prison as Site/The
Prison as Subject, Eastern State Penitentiary,
Philadelphia
Resonance, Roland Gibson Gallery, State University
of New York College at Potsdam
Color in Space: Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture, David Winton Bell Gallery,
Providence, Rhode Island
SHOES, Pfizer International, organized by the Art Advisory Service, Museum of Modern
Art, New York
1994 Promising Suspects, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
(catalogue
with essay by Bernard A. Rosenberg)
From Head to Toe: Hair and Shoes, Bronx Council on the Arts, Longwood Arts
Gallery,
New York
Guys Who Sew, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara
re:visioning
the familiar, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Connecticut (catalogue with essay by
Kenneth Miller and Traven
Pelletier)
Points of Interest, Points of Departure, John Berggruen Gallery, San
Francisco
Other Visions: Composite, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York (brochure
with essay by
Catherine Bernard)
Sea Change, Josh Baer Gallery, New York
Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary
Art, The Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art
House Sweet House, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit
Nor Here Neither There, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Resurrections: Objects with New Souls,
William Benton Museum of Art, University of
Connecticut, Storrs
Bespoke, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Made in the U.S.A., Caldic Chemie B.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fall From Fashion, The Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert
J. Shiffler, The
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Matthew Benedict, Willie Cole, Jim Hodges, Doris
Salcedo, Brooke Alexander, New
York
New Jersey Arts Annual, The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Sculptures
& Multiples, Brooke Alexander, New York
1992 Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African American Presence, New Jersey
State
Museum, Trenton; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan; Otani Memorial
Art Museum; Fukui Fine Arts Museum,
Fukui City (catalogue)
1992 Recycled Lives: Collages from the Weatherspoon Collection, Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
Greensboro, North Carolina
Material Revisions, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
4th Annual Printmaking Fellowships Exhibition, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
New Jersey
Assemblage,
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The Stories Exhibit: Beyond Words, The
Henry Street Settlement, New York
1991 Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York
1990 Force of Repetition, New Jersey
State Museum, Trenton
Group Show, Sandra Gering Gallery
Social Studies, 4 + 4 Young Americans, Allen
Memorial Gallery, Oberlin College, Ohio
International Sculptors '90, Indoor/Outdoor, Washington, DC
Suggestive
Objects, Art in General, New York
1989 Director's Choice, Artworks, Princeton, New Jersey
Selections from
the Artists File, Artists Space, New York
1988 Art Junction International, Palais des Exposition, Nice
Ten
Thousand Mandalas, Franklin Furnace, New York
1987 Imagery of Black America: Personal and Political Statements, Robeson
Center Gallery,
Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
1986 Dog Days of August, Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New
York
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY – Solo Exhibition Brochures and Catalogues
2006 Sims,
Patterson. Anxious Objects: Willie Cole’s Favorite Brands. ex. cat. Montclair, New
Jersey: Montclair Art Museum
Another Man’s Treasure. ex. cat. Lexington, Kentucky: African American Ball
2004 Afterburn:
Willie Cole: selected works 1997-2004 (essay by Nancy Princenthal), ex. cat.
Laramie: University of Wyoming
Willie Cole: Sources & Metamorphoses (essay by Elaine D. Gustafson), ex. broch. Tampa,
Florida: Tampa Museum of Art
2001 Game Show: Installations and Sculptures by Willie Cole (interview with Marysol Nieves),
ex. broch. New York: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1999 Bernard, Catherine. Willie Cole: Iron Works. ex.
cat. Southhampton: Avram Gallery,
Long Island University
1998 Moos, David. Perspectives Willie Cole. ex.
broch. Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham
Museum of Art
1996 Weitman, Wendy. New Concepts in Printmaking
2: Willie Cole. ex. broch. New York:
Museum of Modern Art
1995 Seidel, Miriam. Iconic Structures
1990-1995. ex. broch. Philadelphia: Rosenwald-Wolf
Gallery, The University of the Arts
1992 Wylie, Charles.
Willie Cole. (Current 51) ex. broch. Saint Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum
1991 Leach, Mark. Willie Cole: From Our House
to Your House. ex. broch. Charlotte, North
Carolina: Mint Museum of Arts: ARTCurrent
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