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Whitfield Lovell (American, 1959)
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Whitfield Lovell
(My) Precarious Life 2008
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Whitfield Lovell
All Things in Time 2001
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Whitfield Lovell
At Home and Abroad 2008
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Whitfield Lovell
Black Maybe 2008
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Whitfield Lovell
Bleck 2008
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Whitfield Lovell
Cake Walk 2008
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Biography |
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1959 |
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Born in the Bronx |
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1981 |
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BFA, Cooper Union School of Art New York, NY |
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1985 |
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Skowhegan School for Paintings & Sculpture Skowhegan, ME |
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1986 - 1987 |
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New York Foundation for the Arts Grant |
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1988 |
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Mousen D'Asilah Residency Asilah, Morocco |
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New York State Council of the Arts Grant |
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University of North Texas, Artist in Residence Denton, TX |
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Joan Mitchell Award |
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New York University Graduate Program Venice, Italy |
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Exhibitions |
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2003 - 2007 |
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Black is a Color: African American Art at the Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Traveling to: Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND |
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2006 |
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Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New York Historical Society, New York |
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2006 |
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Whitfield Lovell, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
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2005 |
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Whitfield Lovell: Homegoing, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI |
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2005 |
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A Sense of Place: Contemporary African-American Art, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, PA |
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2005 |
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Africa in America, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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2005 |
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Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY |
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2004 - 2005 |
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A History of Color, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina. |
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2004 - 2005 |
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Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Ridgefield, CT. |
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2004 - 2005 |
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Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. (traveling exhibition) |
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2003 - 2005 |
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African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York Historical Society, New York, NY. (traveled to: Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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2004 |
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American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY |
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2004 |
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Everyday Mysteries: Modern and Contemporary Still Life, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
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2004 |
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superSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA |
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2004 |
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Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio, West Hollywood, CA |
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2004 |
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Whitfield Lovell: Tableaux, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH |
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2004 |
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Whitfield Lovell, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
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2001 - 2004 |
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Visitation: The Richmond Project, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA (traveled to: University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia) |
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2003 |
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That You Know Who We Are: Works by Whitfield Lovell, Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Eatonville. FL |
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2003 |
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Whitfield Lovell: Ancestors, Flint Institute of Arts, MI |
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2003 |
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GRACE: A Project by Whitfield Lovell, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY |
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2003 |
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Whitfield Lovell: Tableaux, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX |
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2003 |
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Modern Storytellers: Bearden, Birch, Lovell, Ringgold, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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2003 |
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Art a Century Apart: 1903 and 2003, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS |
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2003 |
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Images of the Spirit, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL |
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2003 |
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The Culture of Violence, Samuel Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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2003 |
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Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME |
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2003 |
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Celebrating African American Art, Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, MA |
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2003 |
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The Way They See It, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
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2003 |
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Growing Up: Childhood in American and Native American Art, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ |
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2003 |
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Reality/Fiction: (Re)constructing Representation, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY |
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2002 - 2003 |
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De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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2002 |
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Turn of the Century, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC |
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2002 |
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Whitfield Lovell: Embers, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
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2002 |
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Whitfield Lovell: Memories, Thomasville Cultural Center, Thomasville, GA (traveled to Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA) |
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2002 |
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SANCTUARY: The Great Dismal Swamp, An Installation by Whitfield Lovell, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA |
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2002 |
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One Thousand Words, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI |
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2000 - 2002 |
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Portrayals, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (traveled to: Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Tubman African-American Museum, Macon, GA; Evansville Museum of Art, IN) |
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2001 |
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Whitfield Lovell, Recent Tableaux, Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA |
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2001 |
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Embers, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA |
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2001 |
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Beyond the Frame: Whitfield Lovell, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN |
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2001 |
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Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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2001 |
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About Face: Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR |
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2001 |
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Beauty Without Regret, curated by Robert Kushner, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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2001 |
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Drawing on Language, curated by Carter E. Foster and Stephan F. F. Jost, SPACES, Cleveland, OH |
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2001 |
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Self-Made Men, curated by Alexi Worth, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
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2001 |
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Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ |
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2001 |
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Recent Acquisitions, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY |
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2001 |
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About Face: Considering Portraits, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2001 |
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A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
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2000 |
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Hunter Gallery Selects, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY |
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2000 |
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The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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2000 |
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Portrayals, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, DC Moore Gallery New York |
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2000 |
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Good Business Is the Best Art: Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program, The Bronx Musuem of the Arts New York, NY |
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1998 |
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Food for Thought: A Visual Banquet, DC Moore Gallery New York, NY |
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1998 |
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Collection Inspiration, The Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, PA |
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1997 |
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DC Moore Gallery New York, NY |
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1996 |
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Starting with Flowers, DC Moore Gallery New York, NY |
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1995 |
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Inaugural Exhibition, DC Moore Gallery New York, NY |
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1993 |
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Portraits/Retratos, Two Person Show, Intar Gallery New York, NY |
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1993 |
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Lehman College Art Gallery New York, NY |
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1990 |
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New Perspectives, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Gallery Miami, FL |
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1988 |
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New Visions, Queens Museum New York, NY |
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1988 |
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Jersey City Museum Jersey City, NJ |
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1986 |
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Self Portrait, Kenkeleba Gallery New York, NY |
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1985 |
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John Jay College New York, NY |
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1984 |
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Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts New York, NY |
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1982 |
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Interchurch Center New York, NY |
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1981 |
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Invitational Show, AIR Gallery New York, NY |
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