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!
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).