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Sarah Stefana Smith will present «A Poetics of Bafflement and Queer Affect in the Work of Contemporary Black Visual Artists» «My presentation focuses on the artistic work of contemporary black diaspora artists who negotiate different conceptions of blackness.

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From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.

Cutting a swathe through 500 years of history, and tracing not only the movement of artists but also the circulation of visual languages and ideas, this exhibition will include works by artists from Lely, Kneller, Kauffman to Sargent, Epstein, Mondrian, Bomberg, Bowling and the Black Audio Film Collective as well as recent work by contemporary artists.

Call me only if you are in the gutter, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA Exalted Position, curated by Vlad Smolkin, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Pipe Dream, presented by Night Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery, 170 Suffolk Street New York, NY Gallery Artist Group Show, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY TDW: Three Way Weekend, Blum & Poe, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, and ROGERS, Los Angeles, CA 2015 The John Riepenhoff Experience, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY Let's Be Real, Projekt 722, New York, NY 2014 The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY QUALIA, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2013 The Room and its Inhabitants, organized by Patrick Howlett, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada The 2013 deCordova Biennial (with Dushko Petrovich), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA 2012 Love, curated by Stephen Truax, One River Gallery, Engelwood, NJ Art on Paper 2012, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Take Shelter in the World, curated by Dushko Petrovich, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA In Plain Sight, organized by Nicole Russo and Lumi Tan, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2011 The Idea of the Thing That it Isn't, curated by Rachel Uffner, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY Channel to the New Image, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Battle of the Brush, organized by Corporate Art Solutions at Bryant Park, New York, NY 2010 The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY ITEM, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY S (l) umm (er) ing on Madison Avenue, curated by Jo - ey Tang, The Notary Public, New York, NY Kristin Calabrese, Andy Parker, Mary Weatherford, Roger White, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid», curated by Ryan Steadman, 106 Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cave Painting: Installment # 2, organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY The Audio Show, organized by Seth Kelly, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 2008 The Merits of Silence, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2007 Heralds of Creative Anachronism, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY The Price of Nothing, EFA Gallery, NY 2006 Mystic River, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY / Arcadia University, Glenside, PA 2005 Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX The Most Splendid Apocalypse, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY Crits» Pix, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Halloween Horror Films,, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn NY Summery Summary, 58 N3, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Dreamy, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY Escape from New York, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Late to Work Everyday, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Learnedamerica, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY Tirana Bienalle 1, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania 2000 Columbia University M.F.A. Thesis Show, Brooklyn, NY 1999 All Terrain, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Wight Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Episode 1, Gair Building, Brooklyn, NY

Aaron Douglas is regarded as the leading visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance as well as the first black artist to create a distinctive modernist style that connected contemporary African Americans with their African heritage.

thru 3/11; New Pictures thru 3/3; Etc. / MoMA PS1 / 22 - 25 Jackson / Long Island City Donut Muffin curated by J. Duffett & T. Gonzales / Dorsky Curatorial Programs / 11 - 03 45th Ave., Long Island City / thru 3/10 How Much Do I Owe You / No Longer Empty @ The Clock Tower / 29 - 27 41st Ave., Long Island City / thru 3/13 Nancy Dwyer; Visual Conversations / Fisher Landau Center for Art / 38 - 27 30th Long Island City, Queens / thru 4/7 Emerging Artist Fellowship / Socrates Sculpture Park / 32 - 01 Vernon Blvd. / LIC / thru 3/31 Process and Progress: Engaging in Community Change / Bronx River Art Center / 305 E 140 / The Bronx / thru 5/30 Joan Semmel / Bronx Museum / 1040 Grand Concourse, The Bronx / thru 6/9 Contemporary Cartographies / Lehman College / Bedford Park Blvd West, The Bronx / 2/5 thru 5/11 Reception 3/18 Vital Signs: Dean Dempsey; Susan Fenton, Amy Jenkins; Lorie Novak; Dread Scott / Pelham / 155 Fifth Ave. / Pelham / thru 3/30 OTHER: Walter De Maria / The Broken Kilometer / DIA / 393 West Broadway / ongoing Walter De Maria / The New York Earth Room / DIA / 141 Wooster / ongoing A. Ruppersberg; R. Artschwager; El Anatsui; V. Overton; S. Finch; T. Houseago; Lilliput (group) / High Line Park Leo Villareal / Madison Square Park / thru 2/15 Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder / Madison Square Park / thru 4/5 Opening 3/1 Monika Sosnowska / Public Art Fund / Doris C. Freeman Plaza: 5th Avenue @ 60th / thru 2/17 Mark di Suvero / Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 / ongoing Oscar Tuazon / Public Art Fund / Brooklyn Bridge Park / thru 4/26 SELECTED EVENTS: Monday, 2/4, 6:30 PM / David Diao on Barnett Newman / DIA / 535 W 22 — floor 5 / $ Tuesday, 2/5, 6:30 PM / Donald Baechler on his work / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE Tuesday, 2/5, 7 PM / Vitaly Komar on his work / SVA / Amphitheater / 209 E 23 / FREE Tuesday, 2/5, 8 PM / Trenton Doyle Hancock on his work / Columbia / Prentis Hall / 632 W 125 / FREE Wednesday, 2/6, 6:30 PM / Rebecca Rabinow on Matisse / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE Wednesday, 2/6, 7 PM / Mierle Laderman Ukeles on her work / The New School Kellen Auditorium / 66 Fifth Avenue / FREE Thursday, 2/7, 6:30 PM / Christopher K. Ho reads, with curators Sara Reisman & Herb Tam / MOCA / 215 Centre / RSVP / FREE Friday, 2/8, 9 AM / Performa: Black Surrealism film program / NYU Einstein Aud.

The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diasporan artists, and Four Generations draws upon the collection's unparalleled holdings to explore the critical contributions made by black artists to the evolution of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston senior curator Valerie Cassel Oliver's latest exhibition, Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, explores how black visual artists have used performance since the 1Black Performance in Contemporary Art, explores how black visual artists have used performance since the 1black visual artists have used performance since the 1960s.

Radical Presence provides a critical framework to discuss the history of black performance traditions within the visual arts beginning with the «happenings» of the early 1960s, throughout the 1980s, and into the contemporary practices of a new generation of artists.

This week, we speak to Tiona McClodden (2016), a visual artist and filmmaker whose work explores gender, race, historical archives, and social change, driven by an interest in, she says, «contemporary renderings of the works of underrepresented figures in Black American history.»

1968 25 California Women Artists, Lytton Center of Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA 30 Contemporary Black Artists, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Fourth Annual All California, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA

David Walsh, Elizabeth Pearce, Jane Clark 2013 ISBN 9780980805888 Lindsay Seers, George Barber, Frieze, January 2013 One of Many, Adrian Dannatt, Artist Comes First, Jean - Marc Bustamante (ed), Toulouse International Art Festival (exhibition catalogue), June 2013 All the World's a Camera: Notes on non-human photography, Joanna Zylinska, Drone ISBN 978 -2-9808020-5-8 (pg 168 - 172) 2013 Lindsay Seers, Artangel at the Tin Tabernacle - Jo Applin, ArtForum, December 2012 Lindsay Seers, Martin Herbert, Art Monthly, October 2012 Exhibition, Ben Luke, Evening Standard, (pg 60 - 61) 20 September 2012 Lindsay Seers @ The Tin Tabernacle, Sophie Risner, Whitehot Magazine, September 2012 Artist Profile: Lindsay Seers, Beverly Knowles, this is tomorrow, 12 September 2012 Dream Voyage on a Ghost Ship, Richard Cork, Financial Times, (pg 15) 11 September 2012 Nowhere Less Now, Amy Dawson, Metro (pg 56) 7 September 2012 Voyage of Discovery, Helen Sumpter, Time Out, (pg 42) 6 - 12 September 2012 Nowhere Less Now, Rachel Cooke, The Observer, (pg 33) 2 September 2012 Divine Interventions, Georgia Dehn, Telegraph Magazine, 25 August 2012 Eine Buhne fur das Ich, Annette Hoffmann, Der Sonntag, 25 March 2012 Das Identitätsvakuum - Dietrich Roeschmann, Badische Zeitung, 27 March 2012 Ich ist ein anderer - Kunstverein Freiburg - Badische Zeitung, 21 March 2012 Action Painting - Jacob Lundström, FLM NR.16, March 2012 Dröm - fabriken - Peter Cornell, Kultur, 21 February 2012 Vita duken lockar Konstnärer - Fredrik Söderling, Dagens Nyheter (pg 4 - 5) 15 February 2012 Personligen Präglad - Clemens Poellinger, SvD söndag, (pg 4 - 5) 12 February 2012 Uppshippna hyllningar till - Helena Lindblad, Dagens Nyheter (pg 8 - 9) 9 February 2012 Bonniers Konsthall - Sara Schedin, Scan Magazine, (pg 48 - 9) Febuary 2012 Ausstellungen - Monopol, (pg 120) February 2012 Modeprovokatörer plockas up par museerna - Susanna Strömquist, Dagens Nyheter (pg 8 - 9) January 2012 Promosing in Kabelvåg - Seers» «Cyclops [Monocular] at LIAF, Kjetil Røed, Aftenposten, 10 September 2011 Reconstructing the Past - Lindsay Seers» Photographic Narrative, Lee Halpin, Novel ², May / June 2011 Lindsay Seers, Oliver Basciano, Art Review, May 2011 Lindsay Seers, Jen Hutton, ArtForum Picks (online), April 2011 Lindsay Seers: an impossibly oddball autobiography, Murray Whyte, The Toronto Star, 13 April 2011 The Projectionist, David Balzer, Eye Weekly, 6 April 2011 dis - covery, exhibition catalogue, 2011 Lindsay Seers: It has to be this way ², Paul Usherwood, Art Monthly, April 2011 Lindsay Seers: Gateshead, Robert Clark, Guardian: The Guide, February 2011 It has to be this way ², 2011, novella published by Matt's Gallery, London Neo-Narration: stories of art, Mike Brennan, modernedition.com, 2010 Steps into the Arcane, ISBN 978 -3-869841-105-2, published 2010 It has to be this way1.5, novella 2010, published by Matt's Gallery, London Jarman Award, Laura McLean - Ferris, The Guardian, September 2009 Top Ten, ArtForum, Summer 2009 Reel to Real - On the material pleasure of film, Colin Perry, Art Monthly, July / August 2009 Remember Me, Tom Morton, Frieze, June / July / August 2009 It has to be this way, 2009, published by Matt's Gallery, London Lindsay Seers at Matt's Gallery, Gilda Williams, ArtForum, May 2009 Lindsay Seers: It has to be this way — Matt's Gallery, Chris Fite - Wassilak, Frieze, April 2009 Lindsay Seers: it has to be this way, Rebecca Geldard, Art Review, April 2009 Review of Altermodern - Tate Triennial 2009, Jorg Heiser, Frieze, April 2009 Tate Triennial: «Altermodern» — Tate Britain Feb 3 — April 26, 2009, Colin Perry, Art Monthly, March 2009 Lindsay Seers: It has to be this way (Matt's Gallery, London), Jennifer Thatcher, Art Monthly, March 2009 No sharks here, but plenty to bite on, Tom Lubbock, The Independent, 6 February 2009 Lindsay Seers: Tate Triennial 2009: Altermodern, Nicolas Bourriaud, Tate Channel, 2009 «Altermodern» review: «The richest and most generous Tate Triennial yet», Adrian Searle, The Guardian, Feb 2009 Critics» Choice for exhibition at Matt's Gallery, Time Out London, January 29 — February 4 2009 In the studio, Time Out London, January 22 — 28 2009 Lindsay Seers Swallowing Black Maria at SMART Project Space Amsterdam, Michael Gibbs, Art Monthly, Oct 2007 Human Camera, June 2007, Monograph book Published by Article Press Lindsay Seers, Gasworks, London, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Art Papers (USA), February 2006 Review of Wandering Rocks, Time Out London, February 1 — 8, 2006 Aften Posten, Norway, Front cover and pages 6 + 7 for show at UKS Artistic sleight of hand — «Eyes of Others» at the Gallery of Photography, Cristin Leach, Irish Times, 25 Nov 2005 There is Always an Alternative, Catalogue (Dave Beech / Mark Hutchinson) 2005 Wunderkammer, Catalogue, The Collection, October 2005 Lindsay Seers» «We Saw You Coming»;» 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea»; 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Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black visual artBlack Performance in Contemporary Art, the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black visual artblack visual artists.

In 2015 curator, Adrienne Edwards wrote «Blackness in Abstraction» in Art in America, an essay that cogently explores Adam Pendleton's recent «Black Dada» works and outlines a history of contemporary artists» conceptual visual ruminations, which have presented blackness in multitudes since the early 1940s.

Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of more than five decades of performance art by black visual artists.

Through Cannon's personal anecdotes and their joint analyses of selected works by artists who have relationships to both places, Cannon and Nichols will examine the ways in which the black body creates meaning as it moves through these two cityscapes, the transmission of that meaning between the two cities through 20th Century migrations, and its impact on contemporary visual culture.

Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw Artists Susan Cross Curator of Visual Arts at MASS MoCA Anna Maria Cuevas Director of Cuevas Tilleard Annica Cuppetelli Artist Jen Dalton Artist Kim Drew Founder of Black Contemporary Art Blog Meredith Drum Artist + Previous Resident Aliza Kelly Faragher Curator + Writer + Art Consultant Carley Gaebe Artist Alex Gingrow Artist + Previous Resident Eric Gleason Director at Paul Kasmin Anna Harsanyi Curator + Educator Katherine Hill Writer Jason Huff Artist Maud Jacquin Independent Curator + Scholar Paddy Johnson Founding Editor of Art F City Martha Joseph Curatorial Fellow at MASS MoCA Kirstin Lamb Artist + Previous Resident Emily Noelle Lambert Artist + Previous Resident Zoe Larkin Curatorial Assistant at Whitney Museum of American Art Nora Lawrence Associate Curator at Storm King Art Center Amanda Lechner Artist + Previous Resident Sally Morgan Lehman and Jay Lehman Owners + Directors at Morgan Lehman Gallery

From Derrick Adams's inventive adaptations of politically - charged designs by black fashion pioneer Patrick Kelly, to Firelei Báez's reimagining of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party to grant women of color their rightful seat at the table, artists are resurfacing visual languages from the past to comment on contemporary socio - political culture.

While the other regional exhibitions (The Point Is... 2.0: Black Panther Party 50th Exhibit at Joyce Gordon Gallery, 50 Years Later: The Art Show at SoleSpace, and ICONIC: Black Panther at American Steel Studios) pay homage to the Party's rich visual legacy through specific aspects of the Party's history — including women's participation and influence throughout the Party or the Ten - Point Plan — All Power to the People provides both a thorough historical overview and contemporary meditations by artists Carrie Mae Weems, David Huffman, Hank Willis Thomas, Sadie Barnette, Trevor Paglen, and William Cordova.

Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art is the first exhibition to survey over fifty years of performance art by visual artists of African descent from the United States and the Caribbean.

A contemporary idea of beauty is challenged and dismantled by the artist's use of cheap materials and direct interventions on the surface of works with black markers, acts of apparent sabotage that demystify the highly - constructed visuals of the mass media.

Radical Presence provides a critical framework to discuss the history of black performance traditions within the visual arts beginning with the «happenings» of the early 1960s, throughout the 1980s, and into the present practices of contemporary artists.

«If you Lived Here You'd be Home,» Curated by Josiah McElheny, Tom Eccles and Lynne Cook, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on Hudson, NY, June 25 — Dec 11, 2011 «Black Swan: The Exhibition Regen Projects,» Los Angeles, CA, Feb 25 — April 16, 2011 «American Exuberance,» Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, Nov 30 2011 - July 27, 2012 «America: Now + Here,» a travelling exhibition in multiple expandable trucks, in many US Cities including Kansas City, Detroit, and Chicago, and Aspen, curated by Eric Fischl April 2010 — November 2011 «Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial),» September 17 — November 13, 2011 «We Will Live, We Will See,» Zabludowicz Collection, London, July 7 — August 14, 2011 «The Bearden Project,» The Studio Museum In Harlem, Bronx, NY, November 10, 2011 — September 2, 2012 «HIDE / SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,» Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 18, 2011 - February 12, 2012 «Nothing in the World But Youth,» Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom, September 17, 2011 - January 8, 2012 «The Bearden Project,» Studio Museum, New York, NY, November 10, 2011 — March 11, 2012 «Jean Genet,» Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 16 — October 2011 «The Last First Decade,» Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, April 30 — December 18, 2011 «Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 13 — July 4, 2011 «Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories,» Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, May 2011; travels to the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, October 2011 «Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists,» Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, April 10 — September 18, 2011 «ARTiculate: Links Between Visual and Verbal Expression,» Camden Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, January 18 — February 26, 2011 «Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Works,» Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England, January 19 — March 19, 2011 «Collecting Biennial,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 16 — November 28, 2011 «Distant Star / Estrella Distante,» An exhibition around the writings of Roberto Bolaño, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, United States; kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011

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Currently a Ph.D. student at Emory University's Institute of Liberal Arts, Pecou is a visual artist who works to combine observations on hip - hop, fine art and popular culture, addressing concerns regarding the contemporary representation of black masculinity.

New York and North Adams, Massachusetts, Drift of Summer, RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Observe / Recognize, Berlin Gallery at Legends Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2010 Collision, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Lush Life, Invisible Exports Gallery, New York, New York Everyday Mystics, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California Vantage Point, Recent Acquisitions, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC Raw State, Shelby Street Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico New Paintings, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, New York Alluring Subversions, Timken Art Center, California College of The Arts, San Diego, California Currents, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado organized by Cicely Cullen 2009 On Stellar Rays, Lover, New York, New York, organized by Kate Gilmore and Candice Madey Signs Taken For Wonders, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York, organized by Isolde Brielmaier, Surveillance, Affirmation Arts, New York, New York, organized by Rachel Vancellete Solution, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, organized by Janet Phelps Eiteljorg Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Eiteljorg 2008 - 09 Fellows, Indianapolis, Indiana The Banality of Good, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, organized by Chris Christion Currents, Metro Visual Arts Center, Denver, Colorado, organized by Cicely Cullen Relevant, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York, organized by Amerinda 2008 Blueballs, Production Fund LAB, New York, New York, organized by Jackie Saccoccio Visions, Flushing Town Hall Projects, Flushing, New York, organized by Omar Lopez - Chahoud Voices of the Mound, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, curated by Linda Lomahaftewa - Singer Kentler International Drawing Space and Long Island University, Native Voices, New York, New York 516 Arts, Cautionary Tales, Albuquerque, New Mexico, curated by Holly Roberts Jersey City Museum, 1 × 1 Project, Shameless, Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by Rocio Aranda Alvarez Circa Art Fair, Puerto Rico, with Samson Projects Volta 4, Basel, Switzerland, with Samson Projects 2007 SONOTUBE, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, curated by Miki Garcia Off The Map, The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York, curated by Kathleen Ash - Milby New England School of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, organized by Charles Giuliano Postmillennial Black Madonna (in two parts): Paradise @ MoCADA, and Inferno @ Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Newark Open 2007, Newark, New Jersey, organized by Omar Lopez - Chahoud 2006 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, No Reservations, Ridgefield, Connecticut, curated by Richard Klein Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Paperworks, Los Angeles, California, curated by Daria Brit Shapiro Westport Arts Center, BROOKLYN, Westport, Connecticut, curated by Amy Simon State University of New York, Paumanoka, Stony Brook, New York, curated by Stephanie Dinkins The Jersey City Museum, Tropicalisms, Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by Rocio Aranda - Alvarado ARCO, Madrid, Spain, with Samson Projects MACO Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico with Samson Projects 2005 Le Désert de Retz, Massimo Audiello, New York, New York, curated by David Hunt Alona Kagan Gallery, From the Root to the Fruit, New York, New York, curated by David Hunt Out of Bounds, Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, New York, curated by Jennifer McGregor Evolving Pattern, New Jersey State University, Jersey City, New Jersey, organized by Midori Yoshimoto Play, Iandor Fine Arts, Newark, New Jersey, curated by Jomo Jelani Heywood Artists Alliance AIR Exhibition, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, New York 2004 The Urge That Binds, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts Jersey City Museum, Jersey (New), Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by Dr. Rocio Aranda New American Talent, The Jones Art Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas, selection by Jerry Saltz The Space Between Words, Kean University, Union, New Jersey, curated by Judith Page Timeless / Timeliness, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, curated by Dominique Nahas Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts, curated by Camilo Alvarez

«The Black Stars of Ghana — Art District» documents conversations with a group of prominent and emerging contemporary visual artists in Ghana including Professor Ablade Glover, Kofi Setordji, Wiz Kudowor, Marigold Afuko - Addo, Larry Otoo, Gabriel Eklou, Samuel Kane Kwei, Kwadwo Ani, Kobina Nyarko, Alfred Mensah, Ndugu, and more.

Come celebrate with us at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) for the opening reception of Radical Presence, the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black artists working from the perspective of the visual arts.

Wresting performance art from the theater realm and situating it squarely in the contemporary visual art world, «Radical Presence» is presented as «the first comprehensive survey of performance art by Black artists.»

Art and Black Los Angeles 1960 - 1980 UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (traveled to UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; SITE Santa Fe; The Bronx Museum, New York) 2010 Summer Group Show Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles The Artist's Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980 - 2010 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Seventh House Project Row Houses, Houston Noir Complex Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein (traveled to Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam) Project Row Houses, Houston Man Son, Vom Schrecken der Situation Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen Am Necker 2009 Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, 1980 — Now The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles Oz: New Offerings from Angel City Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Guadalajara Attempt to Raise Hell San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown, San Diego Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 2008 Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles Weighing and Wanting Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla Entre Chien et Loup Kent Gallery, New York Wild Signals — Artistic Postions between Symptom and Analysis Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart Idea, Text and Image, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland 2007 Im Wort Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen Read Me: Text in Art Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2005 Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Hommage to Friedrich Schiller Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart Kamm Gallery Anniversary Exhibition Galerie Kamm, Berlin 2004 Fade (1990 - Present): African American Artists in Los Angeles, a Survey Exhibition Luckman Gallery and the University Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles Recherche - entdeckt!

2011 Nine Faces, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY Three to Five Faces, Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY California Dreamin: Myths and Legends of Los Angeles, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France 2010 Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Seven Faces, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA The Artist's Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980 — 2010, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Group Show 2010, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France Benches and Binoculars, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN At Home / Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY (curated by Matthew Higgs) Mark Grotjahn, Jonathan Lasker, Sol LeWitt, Allan McCollum, James Siena, James Welling, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York, NY (curated by Jeff Koons) Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2009 Gagosian Gallery, London, UK 2008 Dancing Black Butterflies, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland Blue Paintings Light to Dark One through Ten, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2005 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK Mark Grotjahn: Drawings, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Mark Grotjahn: el gran burrito, Boom, Chicago, IL Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 1998 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA Flowers in the Office, Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Cutting a swathe through 500 years of history, and tracing not only the movement of artists but also the circulation of visual languages and ideas, this exhibition includes works by artists from Lely, Kneller, Kauffman to Sargent, Epstein, Mondrian, Bomberg, Bowling and the Black Audio Film Collective as well as recent work by contemporary artists including Lubaina.

His work has also been the subject of important group and solo shows throughout the span of his almost 50 - year career, including Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2013); superhuman, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim (2012); Reenactor, Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA (2012); The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York (2010); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); Corbu Pops, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2009); Thirty Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2008); Black Is, Black Ain't, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2008); Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning at Art Institute of Chicago (2008); Art After White People: Time, Trees, and Celluloid... at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2007); William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2007); 7e Biennale de l'Art Africaine Contemporaine, Dakar, Senegal (2006); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2004); The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2004); Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York (2004); William Pope.L: the friendliest Black artist in America at ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, DoverseWorks Artspace in Houston, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, ME, Artists Space in New York, and Mason Gross Art Galleries at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ (2002 - 2004); eRacism: Retrospective Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland (2002); eRacism: White Room, Thread Waxing Space, New York (2000); Eating the Wall Street Journal and Other Current Consumptions, Mobius, Boston (2000); and Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 — 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998).