Mitchell-Innes & Nash

William Pope.L

(American, b. 1955)

William Pope.L

Alcohol Shelf (Archive Version), 2001–2009

William Pope.L

Black to the Future

William Pope.L

Failure Drawing #266 Between Cliffs Some Penis Must Fall, 2004–2006

William Pope.L

Failure Drawing #386 Worm in Class, ca. 2003–2008

William Pope.L

Negro Idea #267

Timeline

1955: Born in Newark, New Jersey
1973 - 1975: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1975 - 1978: Montclair State College, New Jersey, B.A.
1977 - 1978: Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program, New York City
1979 - 1981: Mason Gross School, Rutgers University, M.F.A.
1983 - 1985: Mabou Mines Re. Cher.Chez. Theater Intensive, New York City
1996: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2000: Yaddo Artist Colony, New York City (also in 1999, 1997, 1995)

Exhibitions

2008: Retail Value, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
2007: Holiday, Prague Quadrennial, Prague, Czech Republic
: Informal Architectures, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
: Art After White People: Time, Trees, & Celluloid..., Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (solo)
: MC, Los Angeles (solo)
: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena, San Francisco (solo)
: Conceptual Paper, Arndt & Partner Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
: The San Francisco World’s Fair of 2007, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
: Plug, Sister, Los Angeles
: Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
: snow, spraypaint, hair, sperm & baloney, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, UK
2006: Civil Restitutions, curated by Jeffrey Uslip and Simon Preston, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
: Under All, Above Most. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
: Trophy Room. Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (solo)
: Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Museum of Contemporary Arts Houston, Houston, TX
: Kenny Schacter ROVE, London, UK (solo)
2005: Props & Propositions. Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
: some things you can do with blackness…. Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, UK
2004: The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
: Black Factory, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (solo)
: eRacism:electronica, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, MO (solo)
: eRacism, Part 1, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts (solo)
: eRacism, Part 2, Artists Space, New York (solo)
: Watch What We Say, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
: The Big Nothing, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
: Browm v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 1954-2004, Gallery 138, New York, NY
: Five Ways to Say the Same Sadness. University Art Museum, University at Albany, NY (solo)
: eRacism, Maine College of Art – ICA, Portland, ME (solo)
: What’s Inside a Boy, The Project, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Art & Outrage, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2002: Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Bach, FL and Ne York Center for Media Arts, New York, NY
: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2001: The Project, New York, NY (solo)
2000: Pix, Lance Fung Gallery, New York City
1999: University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachussets (solo)
1998: warming, The Project, New York, NY (solo)
: warming, The Project, New York City
: Out of Action, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
: Freedom, Liberation and Change, Bronx Council, New York City
1997: Habitat for Humanity: Birdhouses, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
: Available Culture, Here Art Gallery, New York City
: Touchstone Theater, Bethlehem, Pennslyvania (solo)
1996: Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachussets (solo)
: Ed Art, Artist Space, New York City
1995: Franklin Furnace, New York City (solo)
1994: Outside The Frame, Cleveland Contemporary Art Museum, Cleveland, Ohio
: Horodner Romely Gallery, New York City (solo)
1993: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York (solo)
: Drew University, Madison, New Jersey (solo)
: Exquisite Corpse, Drawing Center, New York City
: Various Objects, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
: Transient Decor, Roger Smith Hotel, New York City
: Horodner-Romley Gallery, New York City
1992: Art In General, New York City
: Horodner-Romley Gallery, New York City (solo)
1991: Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York City (solo)
: Artefacts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina