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
 
2014Galerie 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
2012Lov U Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
 
2007Warp Trance Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
 
2005Asp-Rx Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
 
2004Prospect Lake Phototroph Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO (under the pseudonym Propecia Leigh)
 
2003R.S.V.P. Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
 
2002Watch! Wooten Studio/Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
 
2001Masking It Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO
Widefield Wildfield, CO
 
1998Rapunzel’s View Gertrude’s Restaurant, Colorado Springs, CO (under the pseudonym Propecia Leigh)
 
1997Populated Air Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
 
1996Wet Night, Early Dawn, Scat-Chant, Pilgrim’s Song Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
 
1981Vestige: ‘The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus’ S.D. Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York
 
1978Nylon Mesh Series – Recent Work Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 
1977Recent Work Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Répondez S’il-vous-plaît Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York
 
1971California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

 

 

 

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
2014Looking 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)
 
2013Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum, New York
 
2012Radical 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
 
2011Now 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
2010Threads Eli Klein Gallery, Bejing, China
 
2009Gallery 32 and Its Circle Laband Gallery, Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (curator Carolyn Peters)
 
2008Second 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)
 
2007Role 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)
 
2006L.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)
 
200454th 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)
 
2002Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950-2000 San Jose Museum of Art, CA (curator Diana Fuller; catalogue)
 
2001Love Supreme La Criee Centre D’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France (curator Elvan Zabunyan)
 
2000Sixteen Pieces: The Influence of Yoruba on Contemporary Artists The Brickhouse, London, United Kingdom
 
1998Out 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
  
1997Resonances Galerie Art’O, Paris, France (curator Elvan Zabunyan; catalogue)
Interior Life Rush Art Gallery, New York
 
1996Gallery Artists Thomas Erben Gallery, New York.
Incandescent part of Now-Here Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (curator Laura Cottingham; catalogue)
 
1995Art 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
 
1993Artists 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)
 
1990Shaping 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)
 
1988-89Art 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)
 
1985Carnival-Ritual of Reversal Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
 
1982-84Afro-American Abstractions Traveling exhibition, United States (curator April Kingsley; catalogue)
 
1980Remy 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
 
1979Remains Emile Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, New York
 
1978Freeway 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
 
1976Studio 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
 
1971Newcomers 1976 Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA (curator Josine Ianco)
Group Show Cinque Art Gallery, New York
 
1970Eight Afro-Americans Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland (curator Henri Ghent; catalogue)

 

 

 

 

Performances

2012re.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
 
2011Video 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)
 
2010Remembering Parker This Long Century, Online Art Magazine
 
2006Side 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)
 
1998Developed persona of “Propecia Leigh” for photography work
 
1995Lecture/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
 
1993Air Propo Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (in collaboration with Cheryl Banks and Butch Morris)
 
1988Singing the Circle: Four Women Creating Themselves (radio performance, sponsored by Colorado College, Colorado Springs)
 
1986Mouth to Mouth – Conversations on Being: A Series From A to Z
(radio performance)
 
1984Four Cotton Exchange, Los Angeles, CA (in collaboration with Chrono, Maren Hassinger and Ulysses Jenkins)
 
1982-84Chance Unfrozen Other Visions Studio, Los Angeles, CA (with Cheryl Banks and Roberto Miranda)
 
1982Blind 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
 
1981Nature’s Way Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (choreographed piece performed by Maren Hassinger, Ulysses Jenkins and Franklin Parker)
 
1980C.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)
 
1977Ceremony 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)
 
1972Costume 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

 

 

 

 

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
 
2014Ray 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
 
2013Anne 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
 
2012Gaines, Malik “City after Fifty Years’ Living: L.A.’s Differences in Relation” art journal, vol. 71, no. 1, Spring 2012. p. 88-105
 
2011Als, 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
 
2010Kienholz, Lyn “L.A. Rising, SoCal Artists Before 1980” California / International Arts Foundation, 516 pp.
 
2009Pagel, David “Gallery 32 and Its Circle at Laband Gallery” Los Angeles Times – Arts Mar. 13, 2009
 
2008Purnell, 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
 
2007Lovelace, 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
 
2006Smith, 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
 
2005Volk, 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
 
2004Zabunyan, 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
 
2003Dailey, 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
 
2002Hammons, 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
 
2001Breerette, 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
 
2000Warr, Tracey, ed. “The Artist’s Body” survey by Amelia Jones, Phaidon Press London 2000, p.26
 
1999King-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
 
1998Knerr, 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
 
1995Odita, 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
 
1994Farr, 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
 
1993Brodsky, 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.
 
1989Myers, Terry “NowHere” World Art, No.4, pp.94-95
Black Artists St. James Press, Thomas Riggs, editor
 
1988Hurley, Anne “Spiritual Synthesis” The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Mar. 21, p.35
Ross, Jeanette “Out of African Roots” Art Week, p.16
 
1987Failing, 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
 
1986O’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
 
1981Tate, 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.
 
1978McCullough, 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
 
1977Lubell, Ellen “New York Reviews” Art in America Oct. p.149
 
1973Dickason 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

 

 

 

 

Awards & Honors

2010Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award
 
2009Black Women, But Are They Feminist? College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA (panelist)
 
2008Modern 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)
 
2002www.mountainmovingday.org Website of the Week, chosen by Artwomen.org
 
2001The Black Aesthetic: 1960-2001 University of California at Riverside (panelist)
The State of Feminism in Visual Culture Colorado University at Colorado Springs (guest speaker)
 
2000Maryland Institute – College of Art (visiting artist)
 
1996Whisper! Stomp! Shout! A Salute to African American Performance
Art Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO (guest curator)
 
1994Distinguished Service Award, Board of Regents-University of Colorado
 
1991Performing Arts for Youth Organization (Co-President)
 
1990University of Illinois at Chicago – School of Art (visiting artist)
Maryland Institute – College of Art (visiting artist)
 
19681+1=3 Gallery 1199, New York (group exhibition, co-curator)
 
1965Dead 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

 

 

 

 

Professional Organizations

2006-
present
Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration (Board Member)
 
2005-
present
College Art Association
 
2003Toni Morrison Society
 
1999Selection Committee for Director of Ethnic Studies Department
 
1998-2002Tutmose Academy (Board Member)
 
1996Colorado Council on the Arts (Grants Review Selection Committee)
 
1993Colorado Council on the Arts (Grants Review Selection Committee)
 
1992-1995Sankofa 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


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