Biography
Senga Nengudi (b. 1943, Chicago, IL)
The artist lives and works in Colorado Springs, CO.
Education
| 1971 1966-67 1966 | California State University at Los Angeles, CA (MA) Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (studies in Japanese culture) California State University at Los Angeles, CA (BA) |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2015 | Senga Nengudi, Dominique Lévy, New York Senga Nengudi, GOCA 1420, Colorado Springs, CO Inner Symphony (Lecture Demonstration), Packard Hall, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO |
| 2014 | Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris (with Melvin Edwards) Senga Nengudi: The Material Body, MCA Denver, CO Senga Nengudi: The Performing Body, Redline Gallery, Denver, CO Alt, Inside the White Cube, White Cube Gallery London |
| 2013 | Performances 1986 – 81, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York |
| 2012 | Lov U Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
| 2007 | Warp Trance Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2005 | Asp-Rx Thomas Erben Gallery, New York |
| 2004 | Prospect Lake Phototroph Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO (under the pseudonym Propecia Leigh) |
| 2003 | R.S.V.P. Thomas Erben Gallery, New York |
| 2002 | Watch! Wooten Studio/Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO |
| 2001 | Masking It Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO Widefield Wildfield, CO |
| 1998 | Rapunzel’s View Gertrude’s Restaurant, Colorado Springs, CO (under the pseudonym Propecia Leigh) |
| 1997 | Populated Air Thomas Erben Gallery, New York |
| 1996 | Wet Night, Early Dawn, Scat-Chant, Pilgrim’s Song Thomas Erben Gallery, New York |
| 1981 | Vestige: ‘The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus’ S.D. Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York |
| 1978 | Nylon Mesh Series – Recent Work Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1977 | Recent Work Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Répondez S’il-vous-plaît Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York |
| 1971 | California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2016 | Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles |
| 2015 | Tony Conrad, Senga Nengudi, Toshiko Takaezu, Essex Street, New York |
| 2014 | Looking Back – the Eighth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY African American Artists and Abstraction, National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba (August) |
| 2013 | Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum, New York |
| 2012 | Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX (Traveled to the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2013; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2014) Now Dig This – Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, MoMA PS1, New York, NY Blues for Smoke, MoCA, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary Galleries: 1980 – Now, MoMA, New York Alles Neu Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg, Germany |
| 2011 | Now Dig This – Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA and MoMA PS1, New York, NY Under the Big Black Sun Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Goes Live: Los Angeles Performance Art, 1970-1983 LACE galleries (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) Places of Validation, Art & Progression California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Art Center Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Dance/Draw Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA and Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY Women Embodied Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO |
| 2010 | Threads Eli Klein Gallery, Bejing, China |
| 2009 | Gallery 32 and Its Circle Laband Gallery, Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (curator Carolyn Peters) |
| 2008 | Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary Museum of Art & Design, New York (curator Lowery Sims; catalogue) S & M: Shrines & Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York (curator Lyle Aston Harris) R.S.V.P. Senga Nengudi (response by Rashawn Griffin) Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Part II Spellman College, Atlanta, GA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (curator Valerie Cassel-Oliver; catalogue) |
| 2007 | Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960-1980 Galerie Lelong, New York WHACK! Art & The Feminist Revolution Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Women’s National Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; P.S.1, New York (curator Connie Butler; catalogue) |
| 2006 | L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints Jack Tilton Gallery, New York Strange Powers Creative Time, New York Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity Santa Fe Art Institute, NM RxArt RX Art Ball, New York Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX (curator Valerie Cassel Oliver; catalogue) Ephemeral Threads Noyes Museum of Art, NJ (curator A.M. Weaver) |
| 2004 | 54th Carnegie International 2004-5 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (curator Laura Hoptman; catalogue) Non Toccare La Donna Bianca Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy (curator Francesco Bonami; catalogue) |
| 2002 | Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950-2000 San Jose Museum of Art, CA (curator Diana Fuller; catalogue) |
| 2001 | Love Supreme La Criee Centre D’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France (curator Elvan Zabunyan) |
| 2000 | Sixteen Pieces: The Influence of Yoruba on Contemporary Artists The Brickhouse, London, United Kingdom |
| 1998 | Out of Action: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (curator Paul Schimmel; catalogue) Photography Show Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO |
| 1997 | Resonances Galerie Art’O, Paris, France (curator Elvan Zabunyan; catalogue) Interior Life Rush Art Gallery, New York |
| 1996 | Gallery Artists Thomas Erben Gallery, New York. Incandescent part of Now-Here Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (curator Laura Cottingham; catalogue) |
| 1995 | Art Multiple Art Fair, Dusseldorf, Germany (with Thomas Erben Gallery) Notation on Africanism Archibald Arts, New York Homecoming 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Watts Towers Art Center, Watts, CA Sapphire Show Gallery 32, Los Angeles, CA (curator Suzanne Jackson) Three Artists Gallery Central 1015, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1993 | Artists Space-25th Anniversary Show Artists Space, New York (nominator Lorraine O’Grady) Color Printed Matter Bookstore at DIA, New York (curator Adrian Piper; in conjunction with publication of New Observation #97) |
| 1990 | Shaping the Spirit: The African-American Art of Charles Abramson, Senga Nengudi, and James Phillips Capp Street Project/AVT, Experimental Projects Gallery, San Francisco, CA (curator Stacey Moss) |
| 1988-89 | Art As A Verb: The Evolving Continuum Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (curators Lowery S. Sims and Dr. Leslie King-Hammond; catalogue) |
| 1985 | Carnival-Ritual of Reversal Kenkeleba Gallery, New York |
| 1982-84 | Afro-American Abstractions Traveling exhibition, United States (curator April Kingsley; catalogue) |
| 1980 | Remy Presents: Project Grand Central Grand Central Station, New York (curator Allan Schwartzman; brochure) Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States A.I.R. Gallery, New York (curators Kazuko, Ana Mendieta and Zarina; catalogue) Art Across the Park Central Park, New York (curators Horace Brockington and Gylbert Coker; conception David Hammons) Afro-American Art in the 20th Century: Three Episodes Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, in collaboration with the Jamaica Arts Center (curators Linda Goode-Bryant, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Sims) Afro-American Abstractions P.S.1, New York |
| 1979 | Remains Emile Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, New York |
| 1978 | Freeway Fets L.A. Freeway Underpass, Los Angeles, CA (public art) The Process as Art in Situ Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York Secrets and Revelations: African-American Women Artists Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Black History Week Exhibit San Bernardino College Art Gallery, CA |
| 1976 | Studio Z: Individual Collective Long Beach Museum of Art, CA The Concept as Art Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (catalogue) California Black Artists Studio Museum in Harlem, New York The Whitney Counterweight James Yu Gallery, New York Space/Matter Women’s Interart Center, New York |
| 1971 | Newcomers 1976 Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA (curator Josine Ianco) Group Show Cinque Art Gallery, New York |
| 1970 | Eight Afro-Americans Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland (curator Henri Ghent; catalogue)
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Performances
| 2012 | re.act.feminism Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia and Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark Walk Tall (In collaboration with Maren Hassinger and Ulysses Jenkins) Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | Video Studio Playback Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (video by Dance Card) Clifford Owens-Anthology Museum of Modern Art, New York (scores by Truth and Sweep) |
| 2010 | Remembering Parker This Long Century, Online Art Magazine |
| 2006 | Side by Side Nomadic Nights Series, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France (in collaboration with Maren Hassinger) |
| 2002- present | Mountain Moving Day-Ritual Women’s History Month |
| 1999- present | Walk a mile in my shoes (in collaboration with Maren Hassinger) |
| 1998 | Developed persona of “Propecia Leigh” for photography work |
| 1995 | Lecture/Performance, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada Making a Scene of Ourselves – The Black Arts: Nappy Ruminations on Life in America Lecture/Performance, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs |
| 1993 | Air Propo Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (in collaboration with Cheryl Banks and Butch Morris) |
| 1988 | Singing the Circle: Four Women Creating Themselves (radio performance, sponsored by Colorado College, Colorado Springs) |
| 1986 | Mouth to Mouth – Conversations on Being: A Series From A to Z (radio performance) |
| 1984 | Four Cotton Exchange, Los Angeles, CA (in collaboration with Chrono, Maren Hassinger and Ulysses Jenkins) |
| 1982-84 | Chance Unfrozen Other Visions Studio, Los Angeles, CA (with Cheryl Banks and Roberto Miranda) |
| 1982 | Blind Dates White Dog, New York (presented by Just Above Midtown Gallery; in collaboration with Blondell Cummings and Yasuno Tone) Flying Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA (in conjunction with the opening of Afro-American Abstractions; in collaboration with Maren Hassinger, Ulysses Jenkins and Franklin Parker) Men Watts Towers Art Center, Watts, CA |
| 1981 | Nature’s Way Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (choreographed piece performed by Maren Hassinger, Ulysses Jenkins and Franklin Parker) |
| 1980 | C.C. Rider Central Park, New York (in collaboration with Charles Abramson) Alive Performance California State University at Los Angeles, CA (in collaboration with Maren Hassinger and Franklin Parker) Bird Jewish Home for the Aged, Reseda, CA Get Up Paper Mill, Los Angeles, CA (in collaboration with Houston Conwill, Maren Hassinger and Franklin Parker) |
| 1977 | Ceremony for Freeway Fets L.A. Freeway Underpass, Los Angeles, CA (presented by Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; in collaboration with David Hammons and Maren Hassinger) |
| 1972 | Costume Study for Mesh Mirage Studio Performance, Los Angeles, CA
Répondez S’il-vous-plaît Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York Performance Piece – Nylon Mesh and Maren Hassinger Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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Selected Bibliography
| 2016 | "Art and Identity", Artforum, Summer 2016, Vol. 54, No. 10, p. 282 |
| 2015 | Kathy Noble, "Senga Nengudi; White Cube, Bermondsey" Artforum, March 2015 Amy Sherlock, “Senga Nengudi; White Cube, London” Frieze, March 2015 |
| 2014 | Ray Mark Rinaldi “Senga Nengudi brings her own art history to Denver’s MCA and Redline” The Denver Post, 6/1/14 Paige K. Bradley “Senga Nengudi” 500 Words, Artforum.com, April 3 Hrag Vartanian “10 Best NYC Art Shows in 2013” Hyperallergic.com, January 2 |
| 2013 | Anne Doran “Senga Nengudi; Thomas Erben” Art in America, May 2013 Holland Cotter “Senga Nengudi: ‘Performances 1976-81’” Art in Review, The New York Times, February 15 |
| 2012 | Gaines, Malik “City after Fifty Years’ Living: L.A.’s Differences in Relation” art journal, vol. 71, no. 1, Spring 2012. p. 88-105 |
| 2011 | Als, Hilton “My Year in Culture”, The New Yorker, 2011 Year in Review Jones, Kellie “Now Dig This – Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980” Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles. Delmonico Books-Prestel “L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints” Editors Connie Rogers Tilton & Lindsay Charlwood, Tilton Gallery “Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981” Co-edited by Lisa Gabrielle & Paul Schimmel, Delmonico Books Molesworth, Helen “Dance/Draw” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Hatje Cantz |
| 2010 | Kienholz, Lyn “L.A. Rising, SoCal Artists Before 1980” California / International Arts Foundation, 516 pp. |
| 2009 | Pagel, David “Gallery 32 and Its Circle at Laband Gallery” Los Angeles Times – Arts Mar. 13, 2009 |
| 2008 | Purnell, Molly “Senga Nengudi: Warp Trance, The Fabric Workshop & Museum-Exhibition Review” Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture, Volume 61 Issue 2, pp.188-190 Cotter, Holland “A Multicultural Swirl of Africa, The Americas & Even Outer Space” New York Times – Art & Design Dec. 2, 2008 Tynes, Teri “Contemporary African Art in Two New York University Galleries” Walking Off – The Big Apple Guide to New York City Nov. 2, 2008 Barnwell Brownlee, Andrea & Cassel Oliver, Valerie “Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists & The Moving Image Since 1970” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX, pp.16-17, 122 (catalogue essay) “Second Lives: Remixing The Ordinary” Museum of Arts & Design New York, pp.156-159 (catalogue essay) “Evolve Happy Post-Wack! Art & The Feminist Revolution” https://evolvehappy.blogspot.com Chattopadhyay, Collette “Wack! Art & the Feminist Revolution” Sculpture Magazine – L.A. Reviews Jan./Feb. 2008, p. 71 Camhi, Leslie “PS 1 Hosts’ Wack! – Real Women Have Oeuvres” Village Voice Feb. 26, 2008 |
| 2007 | Lovelace, Carey “Girls, Girls, Girls” Art in America June/July 2007, p.88, p.91 Princenthal, Nancy “Feminism Unbound” Art in America June/July 2007, p.148, 151 Fallon, Roberta & Rosof, Libby “PAFA Hits Three Homers” https://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com July 19, 2007 Jones, Amelia “Practicing Space” The Artist as…Theory Series Volume 02, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, p.86, p.89 Mark, Lisa Gabrielle “WACK! Art & the Feminist Revolution” MIT Press p.51, p.272 (catalogue essay) Cotter, Holland “The Art of Feminism as It First Took Shape” New York Times Mar. 9, 2007 |
| 2006 | Smith, Roberta “Art in Review; Strange Powers” New York Times, Sep. 8, 2006 Velasco, David “Strange Magic” Artforum July 23, 2006 Kerry, Merril “Laura Hoptman” Contemporary 21 Magazine – Curators Issue, p.77 |
| 2005 | Volk, Gregory “Let’s Go Metaphysical” Art in America Mar. 2005, p.64 Olson, Kristina “Pittsburgh Review – Carnegie International” Art Papers Mar./Apr. 2005, p.49 |
| 2004 | Zabunyan, Elvan “Black is a Color: Une Histoire de l’Art Africain-Americain Contemporain” Editions Dis Voir 2004, Paris, France, pp.54-58 & 185-188 Golden, Thelma “Best Of 2004” Artforum Dec. 2004, pp.166-167 Bonami, Francesco “Senga Nengudi’s Coherence” Carnet Arte June/July 2004, pp.8-9 Cash, Stephanie “Senga Nengudi at Thomas Erben” Art in America Mar. 2004, p.123 |
| 2003 | Dailey, Meghan “Senga Nengudi – Thomas Erben Gallery” Artforum Nov. 2003, pp.191-192 Levin, Kim “Stretch marks: Rediscovering ‘legendary’ Senga Nengudi” Village Voice Oct. 15-21, 2003, p.94 |
| 2002 | Hammons, David “Mood Swing” Artforum Summer 2002, p.156 Fuller, Diana, ed. “Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950-2000” (catalogue) Green, Marni “Senga Nengudi” Eye Level: A Quarterly Journal of Contemporary Visual Culture Winter 2002, p.20 |
| 2001 | Breerette, Genevieve “Sept Plasticiens Afro-Americains Affirment Leur Identite a La Criee de Rennes” Le Monde May 16, 2001 Lebovici, Elisabeth “Black Attitude a Rennes” Liberation – Culture Section May 19-20, 2001 Michelon, Olivier “My Favorite Things” Le Journal Des Arts No. 126, Apr. 27-May 10, 2001, p.11 Arnest, Mark “Taking Shape” Gazette Telegraph – Go Section Sep. 28, p.1&23 |
| 2000 | Warr, Tracey, ed. “The Artist’s Body” survey by Amelia Jones, Phaidon Press London 2000, p.26 |
| 1999 | King-Hammond, Dr. Leslie and Sims, Lowery “Out of Action: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979” (catalogue essay) “Who’s Who Among Black Americans” Who’s Who Among Black American’s, Inc. Northbrook, IL |
| 1998 | Knerr, Erika, ed. “Fertility” New Observation No.119 (statement and photo essay “Formulating Oz”) pp.30-33 Cottingham, Laura “Not For Sale: Feminism and Art in the USA During the 1970’s” (video essay) |
| 1996 | “8 Artistes Afro-Américains” Musée Rath Geneva, Switzerland (catalogue) “Notes to the Young Black Artist” Art International Vol.XV/6, Summer Edition, p.35 |
| 1995 | Odita, Donald “The Unseen, Inside Out: The Life and Art of Senga Nengudi” NKA-Journal of Contemporary Art No.6/7, pp.24-27 (abbreviated version) Odita, Donald “Senga Nengudi” Flash Art Vol. XXX Summer Issue, p.123 Reid, Calvin “Wet Night, Early Dawn, Scat-Chant, Pilgrim’s Song” Art in America Feb. p.101 Powell, Richard J. “Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century” World of Art series Thames and Hudson, London, p.154 “Gumbo YaYa: Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists” Midmarch Arts Press p.188 |
| 1994 | Farr, Francine “Sacred Lands” Art Week Vol.13, No.28, Sep. 4 Wilson, William “Red, White and Blue and Black” Los Angeles Times July 20, Part IV, p.1 Berger, David “African Artists Spotlighted in Bellevue Show” Journal- American |
| 1993 | Brodsky, Judith K. “Exhibitions, Galleries and Alternative Spaces” The Power of Feminist Art, Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, editors, Harry N. Abrams 1991 Piper, Adrian “Brenson on Quality” Art Papers Vol.15, No.6, Nov./Dec. |
| 1989 | Myers, Terry “NowHere” World Art, No.4, pp.94-95 Black Artists St. James Press, Thomas Riggs, editor |
| 1988 | Hurley, Anne “Spiritual Synthesis” The San Francisco Bay Guardian Mar. 21, p.35 Ross, Jeanette “Out of African Roots” Art Week, p.16 |
| 1987 | Failing, Patricia “Black Artists: A Case of Exclusion” Artnews, Vol.88, No.3, p.128 Brenson, Michael “Uptown, Downtown: Split Show of Black Artists” New York Times, Apr. 7, Living Arts Section |
| 1986 | O’Grady, Lorraine “Maren Hassinger, Visual Artist” Artist and Influence Vol.12, pp.25-26 Piper, Adrian, guest editor, “Color” New Observations No.97 Sep./Oct. Taylor, Evelyn D. “Who’s Who Among Blacks in Colorado Springs” Image Productions publisher, Colorado Springs, CO “One World Many Voices – Minority Producers and Programs in Public Radio” 4th edition, p.3 Matney, William C. editor-in-chief “Who’s Who Among Black Americans” Who’s Who Among Black Americans, Northbrook, IL Perreault, John “The Whitney Counterweight – Stretching It” Soho Weekly News Vol.4/25, Mar. pp.22-27 Andrews, Benny “A Jam Session on Madison Avenue” Encore American & Worldwide News Vol.6/6, Mar. 21, p.34 Hazlitt, Gordon “Los Angeles Reviews” Artnews Jan. p.90 |
| 1981 | Tate, Greg “Cult-Nats Meet Freaky-Deke: The Return of the Black Aesthetic” Village Voice Dec. pp 5-6 Glueck, Grace “A Peripatetic Guide to What’s New in Outdoor Sculpture All Around the City – Art Across the Park” New York Times Sep. 12, p.C20 Rickey, Carrie “The Passion of Ana” Village Voice, Sep. 10-16, p.75 Wilson, Judith “Afro-American Abstractions at P.S.1” Art in America Summer Issue, p.157 Perreault, John “Positively Black” Soho Weekly News Feb. 27, p.49 Black Enterprise, Dec. |
| 1978 | McCullough, Barbara Shopping Bag Spirits, Los Angeles, CA (video) Goode-Bryant, Linda and Phillips, Marcy S. editors “Contextures” Just Above Midtown p.43-55 Kingsley, April “Black Artists: Up Against the Wall” Village Voice, Sep. 11, 1978 |
| 1977 | Lubell, Ellen “New York Reviews” Art in America Oct. p.149 |
| 1973 | Dickason Cederholm, Theresa, editor “African-American Artists” Boston Public Library pp.139-140 “Photographers, Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers 1970-1972” Gallery Association of New York State p.58
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Awards & Honors
| 2010 | Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 2009 | Black Women, But Are They Feminist? College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA (panelist) |
| 2008 | Modern Art in L.A.: African-American Avant-Garde, 1965-1990 Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA (panelist) Fabric Workshop and Museum (Artist in Residence) Anonymous Was A Woman Award Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Penny McCall Foundation Ordway Prize (finalist) Acadia Summer Arts Program (Kippy’s Kamp), Acadia, ME (Invitational Artist Residency) |
| 2002 | www.mountainmovingday.org Website of the Week, chosen by Artwomen.org |
| 2001 | The Black Aesthetic: 1960-2001 University of California at Riverside (panelist) The State of Feminism in Visual Culture Colorado University at Colorado Springs (guest speaker) |
| 2000 | Maryland Institute – College of Art (visiting artist) |
| 1996 | Whisper! Stomp! Shout! A Salute to African American Performance Art Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO (guest curator) |
| 1994 | Distinguished Service Award, Board of Regents-University of Colorado |
| 1991 | Performing Arts for Youth Organization (Co-President) |
| 1990 | University of Illinois at Chicago – School of Art (visiting artist) Maryland Institute – College of Art (visiting artist) |
| 1968 | 1+1=3 Gallery 1199, New York (group exhibition, co-curator) |
| 1965 | Dead Center Sounds in Motion Dance Co. New York (set design) Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) Grant- Sculpture (New York State Council on the Arts) Orchesis Dance Scholarship
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Professional Organizations
| 2006- present | Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration (Board Member) |
| 2005- present | College Art Association |
| 2003 | Toni Morrison Society |
| 1999 | Selection Committee for Director of Ethnic Studies Department |
| 1998-2002 | Tutmose Academy (Board Member) |
| 1996 | Colorado Council on the Arts (Grants Review Selection Committee) |
| 1993 | Colorado Council on the Arts (Grants Review Selection Committee) |
| 1992-1995 | Sankofa African Dance & Cultural Organization (Founding Member) Performing Arts for Youth Organization (Board Member) Performance Art The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA (Curatorial Committee) |
Museum Collections
Museum of Modern Art, NY
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Selected Private Collections
Burt Aaron, Detroit, MI
Linda Goode-Bryant, New York, NY
Houston and Kinshasha Conwill, New York, NY
Thomas Erben, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
David Hammons, New York, NY
AC and Thelma Hudgins, New York, NY
Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, Baltimore, MD
Kerry James Marshall, Chicago, IL
Eileen Norton, Santa Monica, CA
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Craig Robins, Miami, FL
