Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
2020
- Lyle Ashton Harris: In these Shadows ,David Castillo Gallery ,Miami, Florida, USA
- Lyle Ashton Harris: Ektachrome Archive ,Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami ,Little Haiti, Miami, Florida, USA
- ONLINE: Lyle Ashton Harris: Flash of the Spirit ,Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art Gallery ,River Oaks, Houston, Texas, USA
2018
2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- See It Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection ,Tang Museum ,Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
- 30 Years ,Maruani Mercier, Knokke Kustlaan ,Knokke-heist, Belgium
- Fictions of Display ,MOCA Grand Avenue ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- For Real For Real ,daadgalerie ,Berlin, Germany
- Body Freedom for Every(Body) 2024 Tour ,Project For Empty Space (Broad St) ,Newark, New Jersey, USA
- A field of bloom and hum ,Tang Museum ,Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
- Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924‑2024 ,Visual Arts Center, University of Texas ,Austin, Texas, USA
- Intrigue ,Tilton Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2024
- From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2024 ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
- Keeping Time ,Gallery 1957, Accra ,Accra, Ghana
- Flags ,Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (521 W 21st Str) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Start Making Sense ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
- Memory ,Maruani Mercier, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
- There Is A Body: Legacy of the Ancestral Arts in the 21st Century ,Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) ,Katonah, New York, USA
- Always Being Relation: 50 Years of the Gallery at the CFA ,Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery ,Middletown, Connecticut, USA
- Games People Play ,Nathalie Karg Gallery ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
2023
- Filling in the Pieces in Black ,Saatchi Gallery ,London, UK
- Filling in the Pieces in Black ,Maruani Mercier, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
- Please, Come In... ,AD&A Museum ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
- In and Out of Time ,Gallery 1957, Accra ,Accra, Ghana
- Whom ,Krakow Witkin Gallery ,Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Between Us ,Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown ,Germantown, New York, USA
- Posing Beauty in African American Culture ,Kent State University Museum ,Kent, Ohio, USA
- Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing ,The FLAG Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Foreland Studio Artists ,Foreland ,Catskill, New York, USA
- The Alchemists ,Johnson Lowe Gallery ,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Acts Of Friendship ,Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst ,Zürich, Switzerland
2022
- The Floral Impulse ,David Castillo Gallery ,Miami, Florida, USA
- Unmasking Masculinity For The 21st Century ,Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ,Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- On the Wall ,Bill Hodges Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Black Melancholia ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
- Body & Soul ,Maruani Mercier, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
- Beyond the Surface: Collage, Mixed Media and Textile Works from the Collection ,Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University ,Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Currency: Photography Beyond Capture ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- Poetics of Place ,David Castillo Gallery ,Miami, Florida, USA
- Caldonia: Concert and Film Posters from the Collection of Ralph DeLuca ,Salon 94 (89th St) ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- Decades of Acquisitions: Works on Paper from the Collection ,Bill Hodges Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Art Is The Antidote ,Museum Voorlinden ,Wassenaar, Netherlands
- Late Night Enterprise ,Perrotin, New York ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
2021
- Subscribe: Artists and Alternative Magazines, 1970-1995 ,The Art Institute of Chicago ,Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Portraits ,Tilton Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- How Long Is Now ,The Israel Museum, Jerusalem ,Jerusalem, Israel
- Subliminal Horizons: Part 2 ,Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown ,Germantown, New York, USA
- Currents ,David Castillo Gallery ,Miami, Florida, USA
- 25 years ,Thomas Erben Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Subliminal Horizons ,Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown ,Germantown, New York, USA
- Subliminal Horizons ,Alexander Gray Associates, New York ,New York, USA
- Mining the Archive ,Yancey Richardson ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Resistance ,Maruani Mercier, Knokke Kustlaan ,Knokke-heist, Belgium
- Art of Sport ,Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) ,Indre by, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
- A Chance Encounter ,Parts & Labor Beacon ,Beacon, New York, USA
- The Body Electric ,Miami Dade College, MOAD & Freedom Tower ,Miami, Florida, USA
- ONLINE: Portraiture: A Private Room ,Salon 94 (94th St) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989 ,Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art ,Soho, New York, USA
- Mentors ,School of Visual Arts, Gramercy Gallery ,Murray Hill, New York, USA
- All Of Them Witches ,Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (N. Orange Dr) ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Tell Me Your Story ,Kunsthal KAdE ,Amersfoort, Netherlands
2019
- Elements Of Vogue: Un Caso De Estudio De Perfomance Radical ,Museo Universitario del Chopo ,Santa Maria dela Ribera, Mexico City, Mexico
- 20 Years ,Sommer Contemporary Art ,Tel Aviv, Israel
- Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom ,SCAD Museum of Art ,Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Life and Limbs ,Swiss Institute ,New York, USA
- The Body Electric ,Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ,San Francisco, California, USA
- United by AIDS - An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS ,Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Michael Jackson: On the Wall ,EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art ,Espoo, Finland
- Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection: Acting Out ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
- Kiss My Genders ,Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery ,London, UK
- The Academic Body ,American Academy in Rome ,Roma, Italy
- About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art ,Wrightwood 659 ,Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- About Things Loved: Blackness And Belonging ,BAMPFA , Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive ,Berkeley, California, USA
- Contemporary Performance ,Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) ,Tampa, Florida, USA
- Art After Stonewall ,Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art ,Soho, New York, USA
2018
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2018 Benefit Exhibition ,Gladstone Gallery, New York (21st Street) ,New York, USA
- Mickalene Thomas & tête-à-tête: Muse ,The Dayton Art Institute ,Dayton, Ohio, USA
- The Notion of Family ,California African American Museum ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Family Pictures ,Milwaukee Art Museum ,Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- MUSE: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête ,Henry Art Gallery ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- Intimacy ,Yossi Milo ,Upper West Side, New York, USA
- Everyday Muse ,ltd los angeles ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Family Pictures ,Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio ,Columbus, Ohio, USA
2017
- Elements of Vogue. A case study of radical performance ,CA2M ,Madrid, Spain
- OCCUPY MANA: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy (Year 1) ,Mana Contemporary Jersey City ,Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête ,Georgia Museum of Art ,Athens, Georgia, USA
- Dimensions of Black ,Manetti Shrem Museum ,Davis, California, USA
- About Face ,New York Academy of Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- The New Parthenon ,Stevenson, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
- Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture ,California African American Museum ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Picture Industry ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
- 40 Years Part 3. Political ,Rhona Hoffman Gallery ,West Town, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2016
- 65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts ,David Zwirner, New York (533 W 19th Street) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- tête-à-tête ,David Castillo Gallery ,Miami, Florida, USA
- In Context: Africans in America ,Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg ,Johannesburg, South Africa
- The Quiet Violence of Dreams ,Stevenson, Johannesburg ,Cape Town, South Africa
- The Quiet Violence of Dreams ,Galerie Alain Gutharc ,3e, Paris, France
- Summer 2016: Collected Works ,Rennie Collection ,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- All New Women ,The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center ,Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête ,Aperture Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2015
2014
- National Pride (and Prejudice) ,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ,Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art ,The Studio Museum in Harlem ,Harlem, New York, USA
- Amerika ,David Castillo Gallery ,Miami, Florida, USA
- The New York Times Magazine Photographs ,Aperture Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art ,Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Bad Conscience ,Metro Pictures ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2013
2011
2010
- The Global Africa Project ,MAD, Museum of Arts and Design ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Off the Wall: Part 2: Seven Works by Trisha Brown ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA