Exhibitions

2006

Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New York Historical Society, New York

Whitfield Lovell, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2005

Whitfield Lovell: Homegoing, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

A Sense of Place: Contemporary African-American Art, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Africa in America, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY

2004 - 2005

A History of Color, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina.

Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Ridgefield, CT.

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. (traveling exhibition)

Whitfield Lovell, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Whitfield Lovell: Tableaux, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

2004

American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY

Everyday Mysteries: Modern and Contemporary Still Life, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

superSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio, West Hollywood, CA

2003 - 2007

Black is a Color: African American Art at the Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Traveling to: Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

2003 - 2005

African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York Historical Society, New York, NY. (traveled to: Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

Images of the Spirit, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL

Reality/Fiction: (Re)constructing Representation, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY

2003

That You Know Who We Are: Works by Whitfield Lovell, Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Eatonville. FL

Whitfield Lovell: Ancestors, Flint Institute of Arts, MI

GRACE: A Project by Whitfield Lovell, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Whitfield Lovell: Tableaux, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

Modern Storytellers: Bearden, Birch, Lovell, Ringgold, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Art a Century Apart: 1903 and 2003, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

The Culture of Violence, Samuel Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL

Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME

Celebrating African American Art, Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, MA

The Way They See It, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Growing Up: Childhood in American and Native American Art, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

2002 - 2003

De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

One Thousand Words, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

SANCTUARY: The Great Dismal Swamp, An Installation by Whitfield Lovell, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

Whitfield Lovell: Memories, Thomasville Cultural Center, Thomasville, GA (traveled to Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA)

Whitfield Lovell: Embers, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Turn of the Century, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

2001 - 2004

Visitation: The Richmond Project, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA (traveled to: University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia)

A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

About Face: Considering Portraits, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Recent Acquisitions, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

Self-Made Men, curated by Alexi Worth, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Drawing on Language, curated by Carter E. Foster and Stephan F. F. Jost, SPACES, Cleveland, OH

About Face: Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Beyond the Frame: Whitfield Lovell, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

Embers, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

2001

Whitfield Lovell, Recent Tableaux, Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA

Beauty Without Regret, curated by Robert Kushner, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2000 - 2002

Portrayals, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (traveled to: Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Tubman African-American Museum, Macon, GA; Evansville Museum of Art, IN)

Good Business Is the Best Art: Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program, The Bronx Musuem of the Arts New York, NY

The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2000

Hunter Gallery Selects, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY

Portrayals, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, DC Moore Gallery New York

1998

Food for Thought: A Visual Banquet, DC Moore Gallery New York, NY

Collection Inspiration, The Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, PA

1997

DC Moore Gallery New York, NY

1996

Starting with Flowers, DC Moore Gallery New York, NY

1995

Inaugural Exhibition, DC Moore Gallery New York, NY

1993

Portraits/Retratos, Two Person Show, Intar Gallery New York, NY

Lehman College Art Gallery New York, NY

1990

New Perspectives, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Gallery Miami, FL

1988

New Visions, Queens Museum New York, NY

Jersey City Museum Jersey City, NJ

1986

Self Portrait, Kenkeleba Gallery New York, NY

1985

John Jay College New York, NY

1984

Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts New York, NY

1982

Interchurch Center New York, NY

1981

Invitational Show, AIR Gallery New York, NY