2024

Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I will not bend an inch, RISD Museum, Providence. Travelling to Brooklyn Museum; Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta
Josephine Baker: Icon in Motion, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

2023

Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Crosscurrents: Intercultural Conversations in Art, MW Gallery, Flint, MI
Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

2022

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; High Museum of Art, Atlanta (catalogue)
The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

2021

Calder Now, Kunsthal Rotterdam

Prospect.5, Prospect New Orleans

From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, The Legacy Museum, Montgomery, AL

Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

In-Between Days: Video from the Guggenheim Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, New York

New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York

Tense Conditions. A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

2020

i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York

Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2019

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Contemporary Art: Five Propositions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti, Columbus Museum of Art, OH

Fragile Figures: Beings and Time, 21c Nashville

She Persists. A Century of Women Artists in New York, Gracie Mansion, New York

The Contemporary Figure, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

Currents, New York Historical Society, New York

Down Time: On the Art of Retreat, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Raid the Icebox, curated by Simone Leigh, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

2018

Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA

We Don’t Need Another Hero, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (catalogue)

2017

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York (catalogue)

Arts of Global Africa, Newark Museum (permanent installation)

Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis

Power: Work by African American Women from the Nineteenth Century to Now, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles

Pursuing the Unpredictable: The New Museum 1977–2017, New Museum, New York

Regarding the Figure, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

ReInventions, National Theater Exhibition Hall, Lagos, Nigeria

Round 46: BWA for BLM, curated by Simone Leigh, Project Row Houses, Houston

Significations, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana

2016

Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

The Grace Jones Project, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco

In the Power of Your Care, The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, The 8th Floor, New York

Mal Maison, Maccarone, New York

Unconventional Clay: Engaged in Change, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

2015

Collaborative Archives: Connective Histories, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York

Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York

Ten Year Anniversary, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles

2014

As We Were Saying: Art and Identity in the Age of “Post”, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York

but that joke isn’t funny anymore…, Tilton Gallery, New York

Dak’Art Biennale dell’Art Africain Contemporain, 11th Internal Art Exhibition, Dakar, Senegal

The Shape of Things, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

2013

Black in the Abstract: Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

FUN HOUSE, Richard Gray Gallery, New York

approximately infinite universe, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Double Fortune, Double Trouble: Art for Twins among the Yoruba, Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles

March On!, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

2012

Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Traveled to Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (catalogue).

Cleopatra’s Family Jewels, Family Business, New York

In the Making, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA

Pose/Re-Pose: Figurative Works Then and Now, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Unevenness, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

2011

15 x 15, Rush Arts Gallery, New York

The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Evidence of Accumulation: Artists in Residence 2010–11, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York

SPACE: About a Dream, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

2010

Bunny Redux, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Comedy and Tragedy, Marvelli Gallery, New York

Digression, Hendershot Gallery, New York

Else, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

Hair Tactics, Jersey City Museum, NJ

ves·sel, Brennan Gallery, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ

2009

30 seconds off an inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

AIM 29, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY

Herd Thinner, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami

In Practice Summer ’09, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY

Locus, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA

The Pleasure of Hating, Lisa Cooley, New York

Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, Real Art Ways, Hartford

2008

Archeologies of Wonder, Real Art Ways, Hartford

The B-Sides, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark

Ethnographies of the Future, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Ethnographies of the Future Remixed, Tides Foundation, New York

The Future As Disruption, The Kitchen, New York

Intransit, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York

Scratching the Surface VOL 1, L’appartement22, Rabat, Morocco

AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2007

Defensive Mechanisms (part of INTERSECTIONS), Abrons Art Center, New York

Done by the Forces of Nature, John Jay College Gallery, New York

Material Culture, Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY

Red Badge of Courage, Newark Council for the Arts

Visual Jury, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2006

Brooklyn Divas, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York

Wild Girls, Exit Art, New York

2005

Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, John J McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH. Traveled to Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA; Chicago Cultural Center; Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA; and Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (catalogue).

From the Studio: Wish You Were Here…, part of Co-dependent: Artists, Artist/Curators, & Curators Select Artists, The Living Room, Miami

Divine, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts and Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York

James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore

Remnants and Relics: Reinterpretations in African American Art, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, NY

Watershed Kiln Gods, Gallery 1448, Baltimore (catalogue)

2004

Art Downtown: Connecting Collections, Deutsche Bank, New York

Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore

Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY

Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York

2002

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC

Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2001

SMIRK: Women, Art and Humor, Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College, New York (catalogue)