Exhibitions

2009 - 2010

As It Is Written: Project 304,805, Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

2009

A Delicate Touch, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY

2008 - 2009

30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL

2007

Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907-2007, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2006

John Bankston: Locating Desire, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of SF, San Francisco, CA (solo)

John Bankston: A place in the woods, Vacio 9, Madrid, Spain (solo)

black alphabet - contexts of contemporary African-American art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Eureka Fellowship 2002-2004, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Spice Boxes an Inveitational: Scents of Purpose, Artists Interpret the Spice Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

2005

African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Celebrating Heritage: Art and the Chris Webber Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (four person show with Mike Henderson, David Huffman and Dominique Moody)

2004

Comics Stripped, Off the Preserve! Gallery, di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature, Napa, CA

East of the Sun and West of the Moon, White Columns, New York, NY

Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (solo)

Splat, Boom, Pow, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

American Art Today: Faces & Figures, The Art Museum at Florida International Univers

2002 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2003

John Bankston: Wild West, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

A Chance Romance, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany (solo)

Comic Release, Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University

2002

Tribe, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Fantasyland, D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY

John Bankston: Temptation and Desire, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA (solo)

The Capture and Escape of Mr. M, Chapter 2, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Starry Night, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

Comic Relief, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Breathless, Lombard-Freid Fine Art, New York, NY

The Capture and Escape of Mr.M, Chapter I, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (solo)

John Bankston: Lovers, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

2001

Starry Night, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. Travled to Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA

2000

A Big Picture Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Countdown, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999

Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

John Bankston: Recent Work, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)