Other important exhibitions include Adventure of the
Black Square: Abstract
Art and Society 1915 — 2015 (2015), Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Disappearance of the Fireflies, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France, 2014; Love Story - Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, 21er Haus and Winter Palace, Vienna, Austria, 2014; Radical Presence:
Black Performance in Contemporary
Art, Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, 2014; Joan Jonas & Adam Pendleton, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, 2014; We Love Video This Summer, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China, 2014; Radical Presence:
Black Performance in Contemporary
Art, Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston (2013); Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, The Museum of Modern
Art, New York (2012); Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary
Art Center, Long Island City, New York (2010); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2010); Afro - Modernism: Journeys through the
Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool (2010); Manifesta 7, Trentino - South Tyrol, Italy (2008); After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of
Art, Atlanta (2008); Object, The Undeniable Success of Operations, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); Manifesto Marathon, The Serpentine Gallery, London (2008); Sympathy for the Devil:
Art and Rock and Roll
Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago (2007); Performa 07, New York (2007); Talk Show, Institute of Contemporary
Art, London (2007); Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York (2007); Frequency, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York (2005 - 06); and Double Consciousness:
Black Conceptual
Art Since the 1970s, Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston (2005).
Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007, traveling); Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2008); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004); Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998); Afro - American Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles (2007, traveling); Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2008); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004); Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998); Afro - American Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
Art, Los Angeles (2007, traveling); Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of
Art and Design, New York (2008); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004); Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998); Afro - American Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
Art and Design, New York (2008); Double Consciousness:
Black Conceptual
Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004); Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998); Afro - American Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
Art since 1970, Contemporary
Arts Museum Houston (2005); 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh (2004); Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998); Afro - American Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
Art, Pittsburgh (2004); Out of Actions: Between
Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles (1998); Afro - American Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
Art, Los Angeles (1998); Afro - American
Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the
Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary
Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public
art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as
Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (197
Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California
Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (1970).
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).