Exhibitions

2010

Willie Cole, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY (solo)

2009

Digging Deeper, in collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (solo)
Whaddaya Wanna Be, a Flower?!, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
Re-Addressing Identities: Clothing as Sculpture, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

2008 - 2009

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY

2007

Living Room, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)

2006 - 2008

Anxious Objects: Willie Cole’s Favorite Brands, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Lincoln, NE; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Stanford University, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanfford, CA (solo)
Nature/Culture: Artists Respond to Their Environment, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA; Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH

2006

Willie Cole: Sole to Soul, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY (solo)
Paper Trail: African American Art on Paper, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art, J.M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2005

The Superfly Effect, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2004 - 2006

AFTERBURN, Willie Cole: selected works 1997 - 2004, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY; California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (solo)
Willie Cole: Sources & Metamorphoses, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (solo)

2004

Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

2003

Undomesticated Interiors: Photographing Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

2002

Willie Cole: Before and After, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY (solo)
Willie Cole: The Elegba Principle, The Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA (solo)
SCULPTURE, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
Imagine, You Are Standing Here in Front Of Me., Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Shadows and Silhouettes: The Dangerous Faces of Willie Cole and Juan Logan, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
The Culture of Violence, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, MA

2001

Game Show: Installations and Sculptures by Willie Cole, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (solo)
Everything and Anything, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Burn: Artists Play With Fire, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Colombia Museum of Art, Colombia, SC

2000

Willie Cole: new work, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY (solo)
New Work: Willie Cole, At the Crossroads, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (solo)
5th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France; Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Beyond the Frame: Willie Cole and Renée Stout, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

1999

Willie Cole – Iron Works, The Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Long Island University, New York, NY (solo)
1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY

1998

Perspectives 1: Willie Cole, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (solo)
New Concepts in Printmaking 2: Willie Cole, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
Paper +, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY
Photographs, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY

1997

New Sculpture, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY; Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (solo)
Biennial Exhibition for Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Performance Anxiety, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; SITE Sante Fe, Santa Fe, NM

1996

Subversive Domesticity, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-95, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Video Sans Titre, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, France

1995

Our Daily Bread, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Willie Cole: Iconic Structures l990 -l995, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX (solo)
5 to 10: Willie Cole in Collaboration with the Fabric Workshop, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
The Elegba Principle, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Archaeological Urban Dada, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
Prison Sentences: The Prison as Site/The Prison as Subject, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

1994

Labor of Love, presented by The Contemporary at The Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, MD; Brooke Alexander, New York, NY (solo)
Promising Suspects, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Guys Who Sew, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

1993

Residue, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Fall From Fashion, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Sculptures & Multiples, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY

1992

Currents 51: Willie Cole, The Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO (solo)
See No Evil, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; Brooke Alexander, New York, NY (solo)
Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African American Presence, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan; Otani Memorial Art Museum; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui City, Japan

1991

Household Gods and Domestic Demons, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Willie Cole: From Our House to Your House, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (solo)
Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY

1990

Special Projects, Institute for Contemporary Arts, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY (solo)
Social Studies, 4 + 4 Young Americans, Allen Memorial Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
International Sculptors '90, Indoor/Outdoor, Washington, DC
Suggestive Objects, Art in General, New York, NY

1989

Artists-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Selections from the Artists File, Artists Space, New York, NY

1988

Art Junction International, Palais des Exposition, Nice, France
Ten Thousand Mandalas, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

1986

Dog Days of August, Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Public Collections:

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin, OH
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA