«time / frame,» The Jack S Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, January 25 — July 28, 2002 «Fifty Years of Supporting the New: The Charles H Carpenter Jr Collection,» Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, September 22 — December 31, 2002 «In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr,» Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (organizer), Charles H Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, January 12 — August 4, 2002; traveled to Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, September 7 — December 1, 2002; Frederick R Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, January 19 — April 6, 2003; International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 15 — July 27, 2003; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, August 30 — November 9, 2003; and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL, January 3 — March 28, 2004; catalogue «LIFE DEATH LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN: Selected works
from the MCA Permanent Collection,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 2002 «Structures of
Difference,» curated by Nicholas Baume, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 2002 «Drawings of Choice
from a New York Collection,» Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL, curated by Joself Helfenstein: traveled to Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH «Recent Acquisitions,» Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Reims, France, 2002 «Pushing
Aesthetic Boundaries: Contemporary Prints,» Gallery M, New York, NY, 2002 «Charles H Carpenter, Jr Collection: Fifty Years of Supporting the New,» Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 2002 «New York, New Work, Now!
So, being called an Urban Artist, when you've been a Graffiti Writer or Street Artist your whole
aesthetic life, can be infuriating because it seems like an insult
from outsiders who don't understand the
difference, subtracts the illegality
from the art form thereby sanitizing it, and seems like a sell - out move if any artist chooses to use it themselves.