Faith Ringgold

(American, 1930–2024)

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Faith Ringgold

United States of Attica, 1972

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Woman Looking in the Mirror, 2022

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Wynton's Tune, 2004

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Woman Free Yourself, 1971

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henry ossawa tanner: his boyhood dream comes true by faith ringgold

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Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True, 2010

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Windows of the Wedding #14: Fathers, 1974

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Biography

Timeline

1930
Born in Harlem, NY
2008
Women’s Art: Women’s Vision Honoree, National Women's History Project
Received Contract for Autobiography
National Endowment for the Arts Award
New York Foundation for the Arts Award
Completed First Children's Book: "Tar Beach"
Co-founded Where We At
Curator, Women's Interarts Center, New York, NY
Artist-in-Residence, Wilson College
Education: Bachelor of Science, Fine Art, City College of New York, New York, NY

Exhibitions

1992
"Dark Decor", Organized by Ind, Traveling Exhibition
"Paris Connections", Bomani Gallery & Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts San Francisco, CA
"Present Tense", University of Wisconsin Fine Arts Gallery Milwaukee, WI
"Faith Ringgold: The French Collection", Bernice Steinbaum Gallery NYC
1991
"Faith Ringgold: Story Quilts", DuPont Gallery Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
"Faith Ringgold", Greenville County Museum Greenville, SC
"Quilts as Mosaics of Cultural Diversity", Union Art Gallery SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
"Other Voices: Mediating Between Ethnic Traditions and the Modernist Mainstream", The Baxter Gallery Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
"African-American Works on Paper: from the Cochran Collection", Lamar Dodd Art Center LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
"Faith Ringgold: A Twenty-Five Year Survey", Traveling Exhibition