Radcliffe Bailey (American, –2023)

Timeline

1968
Born Bridgeton, New Jersey
2001
University of Georgia – Lecture presented in Conjunction with the University of Georgia’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Thursday January 18
BFA Atlanta College of Art
Lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia

Exhibitions

2016–2017
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2016-2017:
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2015–2016
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Winter in America, The School, Kinderhook, New York
2015
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Radcliffe Bailey: Storm at Sea, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas (solo)
Radcliffe Bailey: Recent Works, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana (solo)
Radcliffe Bailey: Notes, Big Pond Artworks, Munich, Germany (solo)
Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Bring in the Reality, organized by No Longer Empty at The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York
Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
2014–2015
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2014-2015:
Kongo across the Waters, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville. Traveled to: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in partnership with the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Fusion: Art of the 21st Century, 21st Century Gallery, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
2014
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Radcliffe Bailey: Maroons, Jack Shainman Gallery, 524 West 24th Street, New York (solo)
The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Sound Vision: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Dak’Art 2014: Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
Structure of the World, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
If You Build It?, No Longer Empty, New York
Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, The Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis, Tennessee
Mise En Scène, The School, Kinderhook, NY
Other Ways; Other Times: Influences of African-American Tradition from St. Louis Collections, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Civil Rights: We have it in our power to bring the world over again, Void Patrick Street Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
2013–2014
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2013-2014:
Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
2013
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Notes, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Employing Voice, Embracing Agency, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Drawing Inside the Perimeter, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Etched in Collective History, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Manipulated, Gallery See, SCAD Atlanta, Georgia
Du Bois In Our Time, University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
2012
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
28 Days, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, January 18–February 19
2011–2012
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2011-2012:
Beyond Bearden: Creative Responses, Harvey B. Gantt Center for Africa-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 2, 2011–January 22
Karmic Abstraction, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, November 1, 2011–January 15, (Catalogue; text by John Yau)
2011
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Intersection: Photography / Painting / Document, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
Radcliffe Bailey: Outer Spaceways, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine (traveling exhibition), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, June 26–September 11, 2011. Will travel to: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, February 15–May 6, 2012; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, June 6–September 2, 2012; and other venues, to be announced. Curated by Carol Thompson and Rita Richman in consultation with Michael Rooks. (Catalogue)
2010
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Radcliffe Bailey: Art of an Ancient Soul, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (solo)
Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, UK
From Then To Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2009
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Uncharted, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY
Chelsea in Havana, Havana Biennial, Havana Cuba
Neo-HooDoo, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Arts & Culture, Charlotte, NC (solo)
Between Two Worlds: The Art of Radcliffe Bailey, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American (solo)
2008
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
The Prints of Radcliffe Bailey, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (solo)
Maritime: Ships, Pirates and Disasters, The Contemporary Art Galleries: Storrs + Stamford, Stamford, CT
I Am A Man, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Brooklyn, NY
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, The Menil Collection, Houston TX
Uncoordinated, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2007
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Collection Parallax, Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
Returnal, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Altered Destiny, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2006
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
New Horizons: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
The Whole World is Rotten, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Parallel Economies, Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL
2005
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2005:
From the Cabinet: Reflections of Winding Roads, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Four Corners, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
30th Parallel: A Convergence of Contemporary Painting, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL
The Whole World Is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2004:
Thinking with Blood: Conflict and Culture in the American South, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Summer Eyes / Summarize Biennial 2004, Jan Weiner, Kansas City, MO
Art for City Spaces - A Beginning, Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA
2003
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2003:
A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Memory as Medicine, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA (solo)
Recent Works, Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
New Paintings, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Portraiture (Every Picture Tells A Story), Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Aikulapo-Kuti, New Museum, New York, NY
2002
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2002:
Georgia Triennial, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah,GA, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA
The Magic City, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX (solo)
Tide,Blaffer Gallery, Museum of University of Houston, Houston, TX (solo)
Spiritual Migration, Diggs Gallery, University of North Carolina, Winston-Salem, NC, Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ (solo)
Meet Me by the River, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2001
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2001:
Spiritual Migration, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta GA (solo)
Jazz and Visual Improvisations, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2000
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 2000:
Inner Eye, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Our New Day Begun: African American Artists Entering the Millennium, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum, Austin, TX
1999
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 1999:
The Conversation, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Kindred, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1998
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 1998:
Prints from Paulson Press, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1997
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 1997:
As Time Goes By, Whitney Museum at Champion Stamford, CT
1996
Radcliffe Bailey Selected Exhibitions in 1996:
Accounts Southeast: Radcliffe Bailey

Public Collections

Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
Philip Morris Company, New York, NY
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Safeco, Seattle, WA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Vincent, Berg, Spaizer & Menendez, Atlanta, GA
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Collection
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Pfizer, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Embassy of the United States of America, Kampala, Uganda
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO
Hammonds House, Atlanta, GA
Harvard University Art Collection, Boston, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
John Weiland Homes, Atlanta, GA
King and Spalding, Atlanta, GA
Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, TN
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
A.B. Richman & Associates, Chicago, IL
Bell South, Atlanta, GA
Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Kansas City, MO
Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Citibank, New York, NY
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Literature

2003
Fox, Catherine . "In slowing his pace, Radcliffe Bailey finds a new ease - and inspiration," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Oct. 12, p. M1.
2003
Pollack, Barbara. "The Afrobeat Generation," The Village Voice, July 18, 2003
2003
Ogunnaike, Lola. "Celebrating the Life and Impact of the Legend Fela," The New York Times, July 17, 2003 Arts/Music
2002
"Scattered Artifacts," The New York Times, NJ Section, April 7, p. 9.
2002
"Bailey Painting Commissioned by Ulrich Museum", Review Magazine, p. 52.
2002
Patterson, Tom. "Quilting a Canvas," Winston-Salem Journal, June 23, p. F1-F2.
2001
Colpitt, Frances, "Report From New Orleans; Southern Sensibilities," Art in America, November, p.58-63.
2001
"Jazz and Visual Improvisations", exhibition catalogue, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2001
Hackman, Kate. "Radcliffe Bailey: Works on Paper," The Kansas City Star, Friday September 7, p. 24.
English (US)

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