Exhibitions/Collections

Solo Exhibitions

2023

Corbett vs. Dempsey, Independent 20th Century Art Fair, NYC

2022

Interplanetary Slavery: Paintings and Fiberglass Sculpture, 1970-79
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago

2021

Corbett vs. Dempsey, The Art Show, NYC (two-person booth with Omar Velazquez)

2004

I am Food, I Eat the Eater of Food, Alitash Kebede Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001

Skoto Gallery, New York, NY 1998

1998

Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1997:

  • Homo Sapiens Series, Portraits of No-One and Vertebrae, SteinbaumKrauss Gallery, New York, NY
  • Homo Sapiens Series, The Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • Homo Sapiens Series, 18 Panels, Maurice N. Flecker Memorial Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, New York

1991

Drawings Informing the Painting, Galerie Francoise et Ses Freres, Baltimore, MD

1990

Vessels Incarnate, Anita Shapoisky Gallery, New York, NY

1988

Kingsborough College, Brooklyn, NY California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

1987

Spilled Nightmares, Revelations & Reflections, The Studio Museum in Harlem New York, NY

1986

Anita Shapoisky Gallery, New York, NY

1985

Hand in Hand Gallery, New York, NY Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1978

Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL

1977

Krannert Center, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

1976

Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL

1975

Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL

1974

One Illinois Center, Metropolitan Structures, Chicago, IL
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

1973

Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL

1969

Loretto Hilton Gallery, Webster College, MO

1965

Zabriskie Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1963

Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2017

Inventing Downtown: Artist Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY

The Freedom Principal: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

2016

Modern Heroics: 75 Years of African-American Expressionism at the Newark Museum, Newark Museum Newark, NJ

2015

The Freedom Principal: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2013

Pioneers From Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism, The Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA

2008–2011

Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

2008

Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds, Curated by Odili Donald Odita, Herbert and Mildred Lee Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2003

Living with Art, Modern and Contemporary African American Art From the Collection of Alitash Kebede, The Gallery of Contemporary, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

2000

Frere, New York Independent Art Fair, New York, NY

1999:

  • Alchemy of the Sixties, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
  • African American Art @ 2000: Public Voices/Private Visions, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
  • Slave Roots: The Long Memory, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
  • Dialectia, New York, NY

1998

Gifts for a New Century, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

1997

Salon de Dibujo de Santo Domingo, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo

1996:

  • Four Collectors, The Century Association, New York, NY
  • Wheel of Fortune, Artists Interpret the Tarot, Lombard/Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY

1995:

  • Body Language, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
  • Face to Face, Artists on Artists, Gallery Swan, New York, NY
  • Serial Histories, Lombard/Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY
  • New York University Faculty Show in Two Parts, Apex Gallery, New York, NY

1993:

  • Ciphers of Identify, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD organized by Maurice Berger (Travels to Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY; the University of South Florida, Tampa Bay, FL; the University of California, Irvine, CA; New Orleans Center for Contemporary Arts, New Orleans, LA; Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas, MO)
  • Emilio Cruz and Kathy Acker, Two Person Exhibition, Galerie Francois et Ses Freres, Baltimore, MD
  • Current American Identities, Biennial of Painting, Cuenca, Ecuador (travels to Panama City, Panama; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; San Salvador, El Salvador; San Jose, Costa Rica; Medellin, Columbia; Bogota, Columbia; Montevideo, Uruguay; Asuncion, Paraguay; Santo Domingo Dominican Republic; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Merida & Caracas, Venezuela)
  • Artists Respond: The “New World” Question, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; New Acquisitions, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
  • Free Within Ourselves: African American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art, Washington DC; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; IBM, New York, NY

1992:

  • Dream Singers, Storytellers, and African American Presence, Jukui Fine Arts Museum, Japan; Tokushima Modern Art Museum; Otani Memorial Art Museum; New Jersey State Museum, New Jersey Gallery Revue, Socrates Unbound, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, NY
  • Felipe Almada, Emilio Cruz, Edouard Duval-Carrie, 3 Person Show, Porter Randall Gallery, La. Jolla, CA
  • Woven Spirits, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery and the Creative Arts Center of Pontiac, MI
  • Grass Roots Arts Energy, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY

1991

Artistas Latino Y Afro Americanos En USA, Museum National De Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

1990:

  • Beasts and Dreams, an Artists Place, the Gallery of the Gandy Brodie School of Fine Arts, West Townsend, VY
  • The Decade Show a Collaborative Exhibition of The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
  • INTROSPECTIVE: Contemporary Art by Brazilians & Americans ’90, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; ’89 Traveled to California AFRO American Museum

1989:

  • Adler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Contemporary Nudes, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
  • Vero Beach Art Center, Vero Beach, FL

1988:

  • Alice and Look Who Else Through the Looking Glass, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
  • Contemporary Art, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
  • 1900 To Now: Modern Art From Rhode Island Collections, The Museum of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1987:

  • South Florida University
  • Josiah White Exhibition Center, Jim Thorpe, PA
  • The Modernist Tradition 1950–1980, Portland Museum of Art, ME
  • Call of the Wild: Animal Themes in Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1986:

  • Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
  • The Animal Within, The Rotunda Gallery, New York
  • Kind of Blue, Museum of the Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA (traveled to Northeastern University, Boston, MA)
  • Forum Gallery, New York, NY
  • Fetishes, Figures and Fantasies, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
  • Five Expressionist Painters from New York, Newton Arts Center, Newtown, MA
  • Choosing: Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL (Traveling Exhibition)

1985:

  • Meeting of the Avant-Garde, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
  • Hand in Hand Gallery, Three Person Show, New York, NY
  • A Tribute to Martha Jackson, Arbitrage Gallery, New York, NY (Traveling Exhibition)
  • Recent Acquisitions and Notables from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

1984

Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade, 1963–1973, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (Traveling Exhibition)

1982

Adler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1981

Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL

1980

The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1979:

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
  • Hanser Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Florida Technological University, Orlando, FL

1976:

  • Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1975:

  • The Classic Revival, Illinois Bell (traveling exhibition: Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell, Chicago: Lakeview Center for the Arts, Peoria, IL: Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL; Kirkland Gallery, Millikin University, Decatur, IL; Mitchell Museum, Jackson, MI, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN (Through 1976)
  • 28th Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
  • Women Choose Men, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Art in the Business Environment, Lever House, New York, NY
  • The Other Tradition, Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Acquisitions

1970–1975

Martha Jackson West, New York, NY

1974:

  • Art in the Business Environment, James Talcott Inc., Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
  • Chile Emergency Exhibition, 383 West Broadway, New York, NY
  • Art on the Midway, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1973:

  • University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1971:

  • World Trade Center, New York, NY
  • The New Consciousness, Hudson River Museum, New York, NY

1970:

  • Spanish Pavilion, St. Louis, MO
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1969

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1968:

  • Smithsonian Institution, National Collection, Washington, DC
  • Allentown Museum, Allentown, PA
  • UCLA Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • State University of New York, University Gallery, Binghamton, NY

1966:

  • Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
  • Ithaca Museum, Ithaca, NY
  • First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal Bowdoin College Museum, Maine
  • Contemporary American Figure, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

1965:

  • Germantown Art Association, PA
  • Contemporary Figure Painting, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
  • Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

1964:

  • Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Dayton International, Dayton, OH

1963

HCE Gallery, Provincetown, MA Sun Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Collections

Selected Public Collections:

  • Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
  • Albright Knox Museum
  • Bell Telephone Co.
  • The Brooklyn Museum
  • The William Benton Museum of Art
  • Ciba-Geigy Corporation
  • First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co.
  • Freedom National Bank
  • Greenwich Public Library
  • Hirshhorn Museum of Art
  • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
  • Kingsborough College
  • Kemper Insurance Company
  • Parrish Art Museum
  • Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
  • Museum of Florida International University, Cintas Collection
  • Museum of Art Association of Provincetown
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Museum of the University of Texas at Austin
  • Museum of the University of Arizona
  • National Gallery of American Art, Smithsonian Institute
  • New England Center for Contemporary Art
  • New Jersey State Museum
  • Newark Museum
  • H.F. Phillipsborn and Company
  • Portland Museum of Maine
  • The Studio Museum in Harlem
  • Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
  • World Trade Center

Selected Private Collections:

  • David Anderson
  • James Michener
  • Noah Goldowsky
  • James Talcott
  • Richard Grey
  • Meyer Sharpiro
  • Walter Gutman
  • Jeanne Siegel
  • Joseph Hirshhorn
  • Rabbi Malcom Thompson
  • Martha Jackson
  • Virginia Zabriskie
  • Sam Lecher
  • Robert Zolla
  • Leonard Lewis