Exhibitions

2012

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)

2011

Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

ILLUMInations, curated by Bice Curiger, International Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

Livingroom Exotica, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland

Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; CAPC de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

There are Stranger Villages, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany (solo)

Between Nothingness and Eternity, Carlson/Massimo De Carlo, London, England (solo)

25 days after October, Carlson/Massimo De Carlo, London, England (solo)

Selected Works from the MCA Collection: Focus on UBS 12x12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

From Then to Now: Masterworks of African American Art, curated by Margo Crutchfield, MOCA Cleveland, OH

Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY

(LEAN), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

Our Kind of People, Salon 94, New York, NY (solo)

Item, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY

Hope! A contemporary art exhibition, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France

Re-dressing, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY

About Us, Johann König, Berlin, Germany

David Adamo, Heather Cook, Brendan Fowler, Rashid Johnson, Phil Wagner, UNTITLED, New York, NY

Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, National Arts Club, New York, NY

2010

Lush Life, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY

At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Under Control curated but Ginger Gregg Duggan, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

The Dead Lecturer: Laboratory, Dojo, and Performance Space, Power House Memphis, Memphis, TN (solo)

Smoke and Mirrors, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (solo)

2009

Other Aspects, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy

Blackness, Magdeburger Kunstmuseum, Magdeburg, Germany

The Dead Lecturer, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago, IL

Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Recent Acquisitions: Focus on Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Sharpening My Oyster Knife, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany (june) (solo)

Zero Zone curated by David Hunt, Tracey Williams, Ltd., NY

The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center, moniquemeloche, Chicago (sept) (solo)

annarumma 404, Naples, Italy (nov) (solo)

Ah, Decadence curated by Lisa Wainright, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL (August)

Creswell Crags, Lisa Cooley, New York

2008

Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of American LaSalle Collection, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Cosmic Slops, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (sept) (solo)

Gallery, New York, NY; CIEL, Centre international d'exposition de Larouche, Canada, (Fall 2007);

Dark Matters, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)

404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy (solo)

University of South Africa Art Gallery, UNISA, Pretoria, (Spring 2008)

Color Line , Luanda Triennial, Luanda, Angola, Curated by Odili Donald Odita; travels to: Jack Shainman

MCA Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, Curated by Franklin Sirmans and Rehema Barber

For the Love of the Game: Race and Sports, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Athenaeum

2007

Projet Est-Ouest, Espace 72, Dison, Verviers, Belgium , Curated by Claude Degueldre

Look Into The Rays…, (in collaboration with Rob Davis and Mike Langlois), moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago, IL

2006

Look Into the Rays of the New Solar Sun Rising, Markus Winter Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Scarecrow, Postmasters, New York, NY. Curated by David Hunt

A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: colors, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany

Not Too Loose and Not Too Tight, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY

In Search of a Continuous Present, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL, Curated by Lynne Warren

Prague International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic

*Crossings: 10 artists from Kaohsiung & Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center (July), Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Co-curated by Greg Knight & Tseng Fangling

Photographic Arts, CA, Curated by Coco Fusco

NAPOLI PRESENTE Posizioni e Prospettive dell-Arte Contemporarea, PAN Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy

Wish, COCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

The Production of Escapism, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN (solo)

Stay Black and Die, moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

2005

Young, Gifted and Black, 404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy (solo)

*Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, San Diego Museum of Art and Museum of

The Perfect Number, 404contemporanea, Naples, Italy

Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC

A Perfect Union…More or Less, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Curated by Hamza Walker

Solo project booth, moniquemeloche gallery, LISTE The Young Art Fair in Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)

2004

*Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Curated by Coco Fusco

About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2003

*Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, ICP, New York, NY, Curated by Coco Fusco

*The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Curated by Olukemi Ilesanmi

A Century of Collection: African American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Curated by Daniel Schulman

The Rise and Fall of the Proper Negro, moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago IL (solo)

Cut, Pulled, Colored, and Burnt, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, Curated by Michael Rooks

Manumission Papers, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV

New Work, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

2002

12x12: New Artist/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)

2001

*Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Curated by Thelma Golden

Bastard (son of hot sauce), Law Office, Chicago IL

Musings: Contemporizing Tradition, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, Curated by Kathryn Hixson and Nathan Mason

2000

A Decade of Acquisitions, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Manumission Papers, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI (solo)

1999

Seeing In the Dark, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI

New Artists, Old Techniques, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL