CV
Born 1948 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
EDUCATION
1970
B.F.A., University of Michigan School of Art
1972
M.F.A., University of Michigan School of Art, Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies
1974
Textile Design at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
1980
Graphic Design at Parsons School of Design, New York
1991
Studies with Sam Gilliam at the Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
TEACHING
Professor of Art, Essex County College, 1973 – 2004
Adjunct Professor of Art, Bloomfield College, 1973 – 2004
Adjunct Professor of Art, Montclair State University, 1980s
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
For the Culture, By the Culture: 30 Years of Black Art, Activism, and Achievement, Morris Museum, May 25 – September 25, 2022
Prints From The Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities, Harvard Art Museum, March 4 – July 31, 2022
Contemporary Spotlight: New Acquisitions From The Brandywine Workshop, Telfair Museums, February 4 – May 1, 2022
Necessary Memories, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, NY, September 14 – October 30, 2021
Seeing Differently: Centennial Exhibition, The Phillips Collection, D.C., March 6 – September 12, 2021
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, The Phillips Collection, D.C., February 29 – May 24, 2020
Hagar’s Dress, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA, December 6, 2019
The Atlantic World-Layered Histories, Harvard Art Museums, MA, December 12, 2019 – June 19, 2019
The Matisse Series, The Montclair Art Museum, NJ, September 10, 2016 – June 18, 2017
African American Women Artists and the Power of Their Gaze, The David C Driskell Center For the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, MD, March 2 – May 26, 2017
Abundant Bounty, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD, April 7 – June 20, 2013
Mappings of Memory, David A. Portlock Black Cultural Center, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, February 1 – March 5, 2008
More Than One Way Home, The Montclair Art Museum, February 4 – April 13, 1997
The Book of Embraces, Jersey City Museum, NJ, 1995-1996
Progressions: A Cultural Legacy, MoMa/PS1, February 13 – March 15, 1986
Healing on Healing, Outdoor Mural, University Hospital, NJ, 1985
Invitational curated by Ed Spriggs, The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY, 1974
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Newark Museum, NJ
The Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ
Morris Museum, NJ
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA
The Noyes Museum, NJ
The Jersey City Museum, NJ
Baahng Art Collection, Seoul, Korea
Kurt Wagner Art Collection, Singapore
Valparaiso Foundation, Majorca, Spain
Jon Wagner Art Collection, Nairobi, Kenya
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Art Collection, NJ
UMDNJ University Hospital Art Collection, NJ
Washington State Council on the Arts, WA
The Peter Norton Collection, NY
University of Medicine & Dentistry, NJ
Johnson & Johnson Art Collection, NJ
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY
Telfair Museum, GA
Harvard Arts Museum, MA
Lewis Tanner Moore Collection, PA