Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Howardena Pindell studied painting at Boston University and Yale University. After graduating, she accepted a job at the Museum of Modern Art, where she worked for 12 years (1967–1979), first as Exhibition Assistant, then as Assistant Curator in the Department of National and International Traveling Exhibitions, and finally as an Associate Curator and Acting Director in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books.  In 1979, she began teaching at the State University of New York, Stony Brook where she is now a Distinguished Professor. Throughout her career, Pindell has exhibited extensively. Notable solo-exhibitions include: Spelman College (1971, Atlanta), A.I.R. Gallery (1973, 1983, New York), Just Above Midtown (1977, New York), Lerner-Heller Gallery (1980, 1981, New York), The Studio Museum in Harlem (1986, New York), the Wadsworth Atheneum (1989, Hartford), Cyrus Gallery (1989, New York), G.R. N’Namdi Gallery (1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2006, Chicago, Detroit, and New York), Garth Greenan Gallery, New York (2014, 2017, 2019), Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta (2015) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018).

Pindell often employs lengthy, metaphorical processes of destruction/reconstruction. She cuts canvases in strips and sews them back together, building up surfaces in elaborate stages. She paints or draws on sheets of paper, punches out dots from the paper using a paper hole punch, drops the dots onto her canvas, and finally squeegees paint through the “stencil” left in the paper from which she had punched the dots. Almost invariably, her paintings are installed unstretched, held to the wall merely by the strength of a few finishing nails. The artist’s fascination with gridded, serialized imagery, along with surface texture appears throughout her oeuvre. Even in her later, more politically charged work, Pindell reverts to these thematic focuses in order to address social issues of homelessness, AIDs, war, genocide, sexism, xenophobia, and apartheid.

Howardena Pindell’s work has been featured in many landmark museum exhibitions, such as: Contemporary Black Artists in America (1971, Whitney Museum of American Art), Rooms (1976, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center), Another Generation (1979, The Studio Museum in Harlem), Afro-American Abstraction (1980, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center), The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s (1990, New Museum of Contemporary Art), and Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African-American Women Artists (1996, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta).

Most recently, Pindell’s work appeared in: Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980 (2006, The Studio Museum in Harlem), High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975 (2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro), WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1949–1978 (2009, Seattle Art Museum), Black in the Abstract: Part I, Epistrophy (2013, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston), and Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, (2015–2016, Museum Brandhorst; 2016, Museum Moderner Kunst) and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–1985 (2017, the Brooklyn Museum, New York). Howardena Pindell was the subject of the 2018 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago titled Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen, which traveled to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2018) and the Rose Art Museum (2019). In 2020, she was the subject of the solo exhibition Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water at The Shed, New York. Pindell's first major one-person exhibition in Europe, Howardena Pindell: A New Language, opened at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, in 2021, and traveled to Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, in 2022. 

Pindell’s work is in the permanent collections of major museums internationally, including: the Brooklyn Museum; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.

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1943

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lives and works in New York, New York

 

 

EDUCATION

1961–1965

Boston University

 

1965–1967

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

 

 

TEACHING

1979–present

State University of New York, Stony Brook

 

1995–1999

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1971

Paintings and Drawings by Howardena Pindell, Rockefeller Memorial Galleries, Spelman College, Atlanta, November 7–23

 

1973

Howardena Pindell, A.I.R. Gallery, New York

Howardena Pindell, Douglass College Art Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

 

1974

Howardena Pindell: Paintings and Drawings, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center, State University of New York, Fredonia

 

1976–1977

Howardena Pindell: Video Drawings, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway; Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen; Fyns Stiftsmuseum, Odense, Denmark; Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York; Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

1977

Howardena Pindell, Just Above Midtown, Inc., New York

 

1978

Howardena Pindell, Art Academy of Cincinnati

 

1979

Howardena Pindell: Works on Paper, Canvas and Video Drawings, State University of New York at Stony Brook

 

1980

Howardena Pindell: New Works on Paper and Canvas, Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, April 5–30

 

1981

Howardena Pindell: Recent Works on Canvas, Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, April 4–29

Howardena Pindell: Recent Works on Paper, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, April 4–May 2

 

1983

Howardena Pindell, Memory Series: Japan, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, February 1–19

Howardena Pindell: Targets, Messages to the Public, Public Art Fund, New York City, New York, March 15–March 29

 

1985

Howardena Pindell: Traveler’s Memories, Japan, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, January 20–March 17

Howardena Pindell: Traveler’s Memories, India, David Heath Gallery, Atlanta, February 5–March 2

 

1986

Howardena Pindell: Odyssey, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, February 12–June 12

Howardena Pindell, Harris-Brown Gallery, Boston

Howardena Pindell: Recent Work, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan

 

1987

Howardena Pindell, G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, September 25–November 7

 

1989

Howardena Pindell, Liz Harris Gallery, Boston, January 31–March 4; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, March 25–June 18

Howardena Pindell: Autobiography, Cyrus Gallery, New York, October 5–November 18

 

1990

Howardena Pindell, Grove Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, October 11–November 30

 

1992

Howardena Pindell, David Heath Gallery, Atlanta

Howardena Pindell, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

 

1993

Howardena Pindell: A Retrospective 1972–1992, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, June 19; Alternative Museum, June 23; Art Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, July 14–August 13; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, November 6–December 19

 

1994

Howardena Pindell: A Retrospective, Cleveland Institute of Arts, October 2

 

1995

Howardena Pindell: Video Drawings, 1973–1995, Arting, Cologne, Germany, November 11-December 19

Howardena Pindell, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

 

1996

Howardena Pindell: Mixed Media on Canvas, Johnson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota, January 2–February 29

Howardena Pindell, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago

 

1999

Witness to Our Time: A Decade of Work by Howardena Pindell, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, April 24–August 8, 1999

 

2000

Howardena Pindell: Collages, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

Howardena Pindell: Recent Work, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago

 

2001

Howardena Pindell: An Intimate Retrospective, Harriet Tubman Museum, Macon, Georgia, March 7–April 7

 

2002

Howardena Pindell, Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina

 

2003

Howardena Pindell, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit

 

2004

Howardena Pindell: Works on Paper, 1968–2004, Sragow Gallery, New York, April 3–June 5

Howardena Pindell: Visual Affinities, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, May 15–June 27

 

2006

Howardena Pindell: In My Lifetime, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, June 3–August 31

 

2007

Howardena Pindell: Hidden Histories, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, January 10–April 5

 

2009

Howardena Pindell: Autobiography: Strips, Dots, and Video, 1974–2009, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, October 23–November 28

 

2013

Howardena Pindell: Video Drawings, 1973–2007, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, March 15–April 16

 

2014

Howardena Pindell: Paintings, 1974–1980, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, April 10–May 17

 

2015

Howardena Pindell, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, September 11–October 29, 2015

Howardena Pindell, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, August 25–December 5

 

2017

Howardena Pindell: Recent Paintings, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, October 26–December 16

 

2018

Howardena Pindell, Document Gallery, Chicago, February 24–April 7

 

2018–2019

Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 24–May 20, 2018; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, August 25–November 25, 2018; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, January 28–June 16, 2019

 

2019

Howardena Pindell, Victoria Miro, London, June 5–July 27

Howardena Pindell: Autobiography, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, October 17–December 7

 

2020

Howardena Pindell, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, July 18–November 29

 

2020–2021

Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water, The Shed, New York, October 16, 2020–March 28, 2021

 

2021

Howardena Pindell: Free, White and 21, Baltimore Museum of Art, March 1–January 3

“Do Not Underestimate Our Power”: The Anti-racist Activism of Howardena Pindell, Hirsh Library, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, March 24–July 10

Rope/Fire/Water, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, September 15–November 4

 

2021–2023

Howardena Pindell: A New Language, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 29, 2021–January 30, 2022; Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, England, March 20–July 3, 2022; Spike Island, Bristol, England, February 4–May 7, 2023

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1969

XXIII American Drawing Biennial, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Virginia, February 2–March 9

 

1971

Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 6–May 16

26 Contemporary Women Artists, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, April 18–June 13

 

1972

1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19

A New Vitality in Art: The Black Woman, John and Norah Warbeke Gallery, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, April 6–30

American Women Artists, Kunsthaus Hamburg, April 14–May 14

Unlikely Photography, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, August 5–September 26

 

1973

Harmony Hammond and Howardena Pindell, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, January 13–31

Yngre Amerikansk Kunst: Tegninger og Grafik, Gentofte Rådhus, Copenhagen, January 24–February 11; Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, February 18–March 4; Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway, March 18–April 15; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, April 28–June 11; Moderna Museum, Stockholm, September 15–October 21

New American Graphic Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, September 12–October 28

Blacks: USA: 1973, New York Cultural Center, New York, September 26–November 15

 

1974

Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, May 22–July 14; Contemporary Art Center and Taft Museum, Cincinnati, September 12–October 26

Five American Women in Paris, Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris, February

Paperworks, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York

 

1975

Artists Make Toys, Clocktower Gallery, New York, January 1–15

Color, Image, Light, Women’s Interart Center, New York, November 13–30

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, November 16–December 14

 

1975–1976

Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture of the ’60s and ’70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 7–November 18, 1975; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, December 17, 1975–February 15, 1976

 

1976

Rooms, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Queens, New York, June 9–26

Project Rebuild, Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York, August 11–27

American Artists ’76: A Celebration, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio

Photonotations, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York

Works on Paper, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York

 

1976–1977

The Handmade Paper Object, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, October 29–November 28, 1976; Oakland Museum of California, December 21, 1976–February 6, 1977; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, May 10–June 14, 1977

 

1976–1979

Herbert Distel: The Museum of Drawers, Museum der Stadt Solothurn, Switzerland, October 29–November 28, 1976; International Curatorial Centrum, Antwerp, December 18, 1976–January 9, 1977; Museum Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, January 23–February 20, 1977; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, March 21–May 7, 1978; New Orleans Museum of Art, August 25–October 15, 1978; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, November–December, 1978; Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, May 2–June 10, 1979

 

1977

The Material Dominant: Some Current Artists and Their Media, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, University Park, January 29–March 27

Drawing and Collage: Selections from the New York University Collection, Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York, June 1–July 1

Patterning and Decoration, Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, October 7–November 30

 

1977–1978

Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, November 11, 1977–January 1, 1978

New Ways with Paper, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, December 2, 1977–February 20, 1978

 

1978

Overview, 1972–1977: An Exhibition in Two Parts, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, March 5–April 9

Thick Paint, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, October 1–November 8

 

1979

Visual Poetry and Language Art, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, March 26–April 13

As We See Ourselves: Artists’ Self-Portraits, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, June 22–August 5

Another Generation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

 

1980

Howardena Pindell and Jack Whitten, Holman Hall Gallery, Trenton State College, February 14–29

Fire and Water: Paper as Art, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York, March 30–May 4

Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States, A.I.R., New York, September 2–20

 

1980–1984

Afro-American Abstraction: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Nineteen Black American Artists, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York, February 17–April 6, 1980; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, February 6–March 29, 1981; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, July 1–August 30, 1982; Oakland Museum of California, November 13, 1982–January 2, 1983; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, February 2–March 20, 1983; The Art Center, South Bend, Indiana, September 4–October 16, 1983; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, January 22–February 26, 1984; Bellevue Art Museum, Washington, March 25–May 6, 1984; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, June 1–July 15, 1984; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, September 14–November 4, 1984

 

1981

Stay Tuned, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, July 25–September 10

Five on Fabric, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, August 28–October 11

 

1982

Nancy Reagan Fashion Show, Printed Matter, New York, April 1–30

The UFO Show, Queens Museum, New York, August 6–October 24, 1982

 

1982–1983

On Trial: Yale School of Art, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, December 29, 1982–January 8, 1983

 

1983

All that Glitters, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, New Jersey, May 11–June 18

Keeping Culture Alive: Artists’ Housing in New York, Urban Center Galleries, Municipal Art Society, New York, August 22–September 17

Language, Drama, Source, and Vision, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, October 8–November 27

The Television Show: Video Photographs, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York

 

1984

A Celebration of American Women Artists: Part II, the Recent Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, February 11–March 3

ID: An Exhibition of Third World Woman Photographers, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York, October 14–December 9

Labor Intensive Abstraction, The Clocktower, New York, November 8–December 8

 

1985–1986

Adornments, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, December 10, 1985–January 4, 1986

 

1985–1987

Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade, 1963–1973, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, January 27–June 30, 1985; Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, January 19–February 20, 1986; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, March 22–April 17, 1986; Museum of the Center for Afro-American Artists, Boston, May 18–June 22, 1986; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia, August 11–September 26, 1986; Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, November 15, 1986–January 4, 1987; David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, May 15–June 30, 1987; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, August 7–September 20, 1987; Tower Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York, Brockport, October 9–November 15, 1987

 

1986

Transitions: The Afro-American Artist, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, New Jersey, February 1–26

In Homage to Ana Mendieta, Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, February 6–25

Progressions: A Cultural Legacy, The Clocktower, New York, February 13–March 15

Television’s Impact on Contemporary Art, Queens Museum, New York, September 13–October 26

Masters of Color, Harris-Brown Gallery, Boston, October 15–November 15

 

1987

Race and Representation, Art Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York, January 26–March 6

The Afro-American Artist in the Age of Cultural Pluralism, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, February 1–March 8

9 Uptown, Harlem School of the Arts, New York, April 11–May 9

Home, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, May 8–31

 

1987–1988

Outrageous Women, Ceres Gallery, New York, December 2, 1987–January 1, 1988

 

1988

1938–1988: The Work of Five Black Women Artists, Art Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, July 8–August 7

 

1988–1989

The Turning Point: Art and Politics in 1968, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, September 9–October 16, 1988; Art Gallery, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, November 10, 1988–January 14, 1989

Art as a Verb: The Evolving Continuum, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, November 21, 1988–January 8, 1989; Metropolitan Life Gallery, New York, March 6–April 8, 1989; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, March 12–June 18, 1989

Alice and Look Who Else, Through the Looking Glass, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, December 10, 1988–January 7, 1989

 

1989

Bridges and Boundaries, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York, January 7–February 19

Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970–1985, Cincinnati Art Museum, February 22–April 2; New Orleans Museum of Art, May 6–June 8; Denver Art Museum, July 22–September 10; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, October 20–December 31

On the Cutting Edge: 10 Curators Choose 30 Artists, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York, April 16–June 25

 

1990

The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, May 12–August 19; Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, May 16–August 18; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, May 19–August 18

Figuring the Body, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 28–October 28

 

1991

Center Margins, Howard Yezerski Gallery, January–February 6 

Aspects of Collage, Guild Hall Museum, New York, May 5–June 9

 

1995

Chess and Checkers, Exit Art, New York, September 23–October 25

 

1996

Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, University of California, Los Angeles, April 24–August 18

Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980–95, Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 20–September 10

 

1996–1998

Sniper’s Nest: Art that Has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, October 28–December 22, 1996; Scales Fine Arts Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, January 15–April 10, 1997; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, June 6–July 20, 1997; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, November 2–December 21, 1997; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, April 24–September 28, 1998

 

1996–1999

Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, Museum of Fine Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, July 16–December 31, 1996; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, February 1–March 30, 1997; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, November 4, 1997–January 7, 1998; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, January 25–March 16, 1998; African-American Museum, Dallas, April 6–May 19, 1998; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, June 9–August 11, 1998; Kennedy Museum of American Art, Ohio University, Athens, September 1–October 14, 1998; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, November 4, 1998–January 7, 1999; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, January 28–March 16, 1999; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, April 6–May 30, 1999; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 19–August 15, 1999; African-American Historical and Cultural Museum of the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno, California, September 4–October 8, 1999

 

1998 

Women Artists in the Vogel Collection, Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia, February 5–April 5

Not for Sale: Feminism and Art in the USA during the 1970s, Apex Art, New York, February 12–March 14

 

2000

An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans, Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 5–April 16

Hidden Histories: African American Slavery and the Philippine Struggle for Independence after the War of 1898, Pro Arts, Oakland, California, March 8–April 15

 

2002

Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, January 18–August 18

Math-Art/Art-Math, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, February 22–March 30

 

2002–2004

In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, January 12–August 4, 2002; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, September 7–December 1, 2002; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, January 4–April 6, 2003; International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, May 15–July 27, 2003; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, August 30–November 9, 2003; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, December 20, 2003–March 28, 2004

 

2003

Layers of Meaning: Collage and Abstraction in the Late 20th Century, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, February 8–April 27

Wish You Were Here, Too, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, June 24–July 19

 

2003–2004

Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, September 20, 2003–July 4, 2004

 

2004

Something to Look Forward to, Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 26–June 27

 

2004–2005

Creating Their Own Image, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, The New School, New York, November 26, 2004–January 30, 2005

 

2005

Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, January 22–April 17

Bodies of Evidence: Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, July 1–September 25

 

2006

An Atlas of Drawings: Transforming Chronologies, Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 26–October 2

Driven to Abstraction: Contemporary Work by American Artists, New York State Museum, Albany, January 28–March 26

Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, April 5–July 2

 

2006–2007

High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, August 6–October 15, 2006; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC, November 21, 2006–January 21, 2007; National Academy Museum, New York, February 13–April 22, 2007

 

2007

For the Love of the Game: Race and Sport in African-American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, June 1–November 30

 

2007–2009

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 4–July 16, 2007; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, September 21–December 16, 2007; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York, February 17–May 12, 2008; Vancouver Art Gallery, October 4, 2008–January 18, 2009

Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 13–October 22, 2007; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, May 9–June 22, 2008; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, September 28, 2008–January 1, 2009

Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970, Museum of Fine Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, September 14, 2007–May 28, 2008; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, October 18, 2008–January 4, 2009

 

2008

Strength in Numbers: Artists Respond to Conflict, Sragow Gallery, New York, June 3–July 31

 

2009

Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded, Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 11–June 22

Hidden Gems: Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York, July 9–31

 

2010

The Chemistry of Color: African-American Artists in Philadelphia, 1970–1990, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, January 11–April 10

Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, April 1–June 27

 

2010–2011

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 7, 2010–April 18, 2011

Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, September 16–October 29, 2010; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, September 16, 2010–June 26, 2011

 

2011

Currents in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, January 1–June 30

VideoStudio: Playback, The Studio Museum in Harlem, March 31–June 26

 

2012

Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 7–November 25

 

2013–2014

Black in the Abstract, Part I: Epistrophy, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, October 31, 2013–January 19, 2014

 

2014

African American Artists and Abstraction, Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba, August 1–23

 

2014–2015

Art Expanded, 1958–1978, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 14, 2014–March 8, 2015

Variation: Conversations in and around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 24, 2014–March 22, 2015

Go Stand Next to The Mountain, Hales Gallery, London, November 28, 2014–January 24, 2015

 

2015

Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 10–April 5

New Acquisitions, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, February 11–June 7

Piece Work, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut,  April 6–May 24

America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 1–September 27

 

2015–2016

Greater New York, MoMA P.S. 1, Queens, New York, October 11, 2015–March 7, 2016

Marks Made, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 17, 2015–January 24, 2016

Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, November 13, 2015–April 15, 2016; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, June 2–September 25, 2016 

You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, December 5, 2015–April 3, 2016

 

2016

Blue and Black: African Rainbow, University of Delaware, Newark, February 10–May 15

Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, March 24–June 26

Hey You! Who Me?, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, April 6–June 5

FORTY, MoMA P.S. 1, Queens, New York, June 19–August 29

Skins: Body as Matter and Process, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, June 23–July 29

Haptic, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, July 7–August 12

The African American Narrative, Maitland Art Center, Florida, July 15–September 4

Her Wherever, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, October 8 – November 13

 

2016–2017

Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display, Mildred Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, September 9, 2016–January 15, 2017

Reading the Image: Text in American Art Since 1969, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, October 8, 2016–January 22, 2017

Art AIDS America, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, December 1, 2016–April 2, 2017

 

2016-2026

Visual Art and the American Experience, National Museum of African American Art and Culture, Washington, D.C., September 24, 2016–2026

 

2017

Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, January 28–May 7

Picturing Math: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 31–May 1

Masterclass: A Survey of Work from the Twentieth Century, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, February 28–April 8

A Birthday Present as a Watch: Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Talia Chetrit, Ann Craven, Howardena Pindell, Thea Djordjadze and Hannah Weinberger, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, March 18–June 17

Power, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, March 29–June 10

Painting on the Edge: A Historical Survey, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, June 8–July 29

20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, July 22–December 31

Time as Landscape: Inquiries of Art and Science, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, September 28–December 31

Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art and Technology, 1968–85, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Phildelphia, October 8–December 8

 

2017–2018

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Brooklyn Museum, New York, April 21–September 17, 2017; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, October 13, 2017–January 14, 2018; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, February 17–May 27, 2018; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, June 26–September 30, 2018

Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, June 8–September 17, 2017; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., October 13, 2017–January 21, 2018; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, May 5–August 5, 2018

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1940–2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, August 18, 2017–August 27, 2018

Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 13, 2017–January 21, 2018

 

2017–2020

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963–1983, Tate Modern, London, July 12–October 22, 2017; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 3–April 23, 2018; Brooklyn Museum of Art, September 14, 2018–February 3, 2019; The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, March 23–September 1, 2019; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 27–August 30, 2020

 

2018

Varieties of Experience, Patchogue Arts Council Gallery, New York, January 13–February 25

Citizen: An American Lyric, St. John’s University Art Gallery, Queens, January 15–March 14

Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, February 8–May 6

A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I), Gordon Robichaux, New York, February 11–April 8

Reclamation: Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, March 3–September 2

Isness, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, March 15–April 21

Surface Work: Abstract Painting by Women, 1918–2018, Victoria Miro, London, April 11–May 19

A Measure of Humanity, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, June 22–September 16

Painting: Now and Forever, Part III, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, June 28–August 17

Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 28–May 13, 2018; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 24–September 30, 2018; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 18, 2018–March 18, 2019

 

2018–2020

Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s: Works from the Sammlung Verbund Collection, Vienna, Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic, December 11, 2018–February 24, 2019; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, July 18–December 1, 2019; International Center of Photography, New York, July 4–September 6, 2020

Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, September 22, 2018–February 9, 2020

 

2019

Do You Keep Thinking There Must be Another Way, Mimosa House, London, February 15–April 27

Cut: Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, June 1–August 25

The Art of Collage and Assemblage, Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 8–September 2

NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today, Phillips, New York, June 19–August 3

Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, June 26–September 22

Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now, Lisson Gallery, New York, June 27–August 10

ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood, University Art Museum, University at Albany, June 28–December 7

Painting/Sculpture, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, July 10–August 16

Rosebud, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, July 13–August 24

Please Recall to Me Everything You Have Thought Of, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, July 13–August 24

Rock My Soul, Victoria Miro, London, October 2–November 2

 

2019–2020

Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, September 29, 2019–January 5, 2020

Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, October 19, 2019–January 20, 2020

Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power, MCA Chicago, October 26, 2019–January 12, 2020

Pioneers, Part Two, Cleveland Museum of Art, December 2, 2019–March 12, 2020

 

2019–2021

The Body Electric, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 30–July 21, 2019; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, September 6, 2019–February 23, 2020; Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design, November 5, 2020–May 30, 2021

Black Refractions: Selections from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, January 15–April 14, 2019; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, September 13–December 8, 2019; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, January 17–April 12, 2020; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, January 23–April 11, 2021; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, May 22–August 15, 2021

With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972–1985, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 27, 2019–March 30, 2020; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, June 26–November 28, 2021

 

2019–2022

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–February 2022

 

2020

WOMAN-MADE: From the Collection, Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs, Florida, January 25–September 6 

Making Community: Prints from Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Brodsky Center at PAFA, and Paulson Fontaine Press, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, February 1–April 12

Frank Walter: Eine Retrospektive, Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, March 27–September 27

Nevertheless She Persisted, Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, New York, March 31–August 14

Mapping the Collection, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, June 20–October 11

 

2020–2021

Don’t let this be easy, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, July 30, 2020–July 4, 2021

PICTURE ID: Contemporary African American Works on Paper, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, August 4, 2020–January 17, 2021

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, September 17, 2020–June 6, 2021

Protest and Promise: Selections from the Contemporary Art Collection, 1963-2019, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, September 5, 2020–

The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom, September 19, 2020–June 6, 2021

Explorations of Self: Black Portraiture, Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, September 21, 2020–March 28, 2021

 

2021

Under Construction: Collage from the Mint Museum, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 29–April 18

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, February 17–June 6

Women’s Work, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, April 23–August 1

Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950–2020, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 2–July 25

New Grit: Art and Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, May 7–August 22

African American Printmakers from the Jim and Martha Sweeny Collection, Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs, Florida May 29–August 29

Oval Office, Tirolean Artists’ Association, Innsbruck, Austria, May 29–July 31

Colliding with History: African American Works on Paper from the Collection of Wes and Missy Cochran, The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, September 13–November 12

A Picture Gallery of the Soul, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, September 14–December 11

 

2021–2022

Women in Abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, May 19–August 23, 2021; Guggenheim Bilbao, October 22, 2021–January 23, 2022

The Heckscher Museum Celebrates 100: Tracing History, Inspiring the Future, Hecksher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, June 5, 2021–January 9, 2022

Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, June 12–September 5, 2021; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, October 7, 2021–January 2, 2022; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, February 19–May 15, 2022

On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut September 10, 2021–January 9, 2022

There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, September 16, 2021–January 30, 2022

 

2021–2023

Art as a Verb, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, May 8, 2021–June 1, 2023

Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, September 12, 2021–December 3, 2023

 

2021–2024

re:collections: Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, June 25, 2021–June 2, 2024

 

2022

A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence, Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, January 26–July 10

Contemporary Spotlight: New Acquisitions from the Brandywine Workshop, Jepson Center, Atlanta, February 4–May 1

Two Centuries of Long Island Women Artists, 1800–2000, Long Island Museum of Art, Stony Brook, New York, March 3–September 4

ARS22, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, April 8–October 16

The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 10–October 30

A Picture Gallery of the Soul, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 13–December 10

 

2022–2023

52 Womxn Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, June 5, 2022–January 8, 2023

Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, October 9, 2022–February 18, 2023

Equals 6: A Sum Effect of Frank Bowling’s 5+1, UMass Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, November 14, 2022–February 18, 2023

 

2023

Signals: How Video Transformed the World, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, March 5–July 8, 2023

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, September 15–December 31, 2023

Tales of Brave Ulysses: Al Loving, Howardena Pindell, Alan Shields, and Richard Van Buren, Garth Greenan Gallery and Van Doren Waxter, New York, New York, November 9 – December 16, 2023

 

2023–2024

Unbound: Performance as Rupture, Julia Stoscheck Foundation, Berlin, September 14, 2023–July 28, 2024

Making Their Mark, The Shah Garg Foundation, New York, New York, November 2, 2023–January 27, 2024

Faculty Exhibition 2023, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, November 4, 2023–February 22, 2024

Gimme Shelter, Hampton House, Miami, Florida, December 5, 2023–January 22, 2024

 

2024

For What It's Worth: Value Systems in Art Since 1960, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, February 2–June 29, 2024

Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950–1970, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, February 3–May 6, 2024

A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, Massachusettes, February 5–June 22, 2024

Between Us, Olivia Foundation, Mexico City, February 7–September 8, 2024

Day Jobs, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, March 6–July 21, 2024

The Rains are Changing Fast: New Acquisitions in Context, The Heckshcher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, March 23, 2024– September 1, 2024

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio

Baltimore Museum of Art

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

Brooklyn Museum

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

FAMM: Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, Mougins, France

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York

Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway

High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Academy Museum, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Newark Museum, New Jersey

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Pérez Art Museum Miami

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

Roy R. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts

Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

 

 

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Tucker, Marcia, Lynn Gumpert, and Ned Rifkin. Language, Drama, Source, and Vision. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1983.

Tuttle, Lisa. 1938–1988: The Work of Five Black Women Artists, Atlanta: Atlanta College of Art, 1988.

University of Michigan Museum of Art. Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1978.

Walczak, Larry. Nancy Reagan Fashion Show. New York: Printed Matter, Inc., 1982.

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Art on Paper. Greensboro: University of North Carolina, 1975.

Whitney Museum of American Art. 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972.

Whitney Museum of American Art. Contemporary Black Artists in America. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971.

Wilford, Adeze, ed. Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water. New York: The Shed, 2020.

Womack, Autumn. The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Wye, Deborah. Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980–95. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1996.

Yale University. On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale. New Haven: Yale University, 2021.

Zausner, Toby. When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and Transformation. New York: Harmony Books, 2006.

 

PERIODICALS

Adamson, Glenn. “Pattern Recognition.” Art in America 107, no. 8 (2019): 40–47.

"Art: Brooklyn Museum." New Yorker 93, no. 17 (2017): 5.

“Art: Howardena Pindell.” New Yorker 93, no. 37 (2017): 18.

Bachor, Kenneth. “A New Exhibition Shows How Black Women Challenged the Art World.” Time, April 24, 2017.

Bass, Ruth. “New York Reviews: Howardena Pindell.” Art News 89, no. 2 (1990): 162.

Braff, Phyllis. “Creating Power and Originality.” New York Times, April 17, 1983.

Budick, Ariella. “Sisters of the Revolution” Financial Times, April 29, 2017.

Burnside, Madeline. “New York Reviews: Howardena Pindell.” Art News 77, no. 1 (1978): 146–47.

Campbell, Andrianna and Howardena Pindell. “Howardena Pindell Talks About Her Forthcoming Retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.” Artforum 56, no. 6 (2018): 154–159.

Campbell, Lawrence. “New York Reviews: Howardena Pindell.” Art News 72, no. 2 (1973): 85.

Casteel, Jordan. “Artists’ Artists.” Artforum 56, no. 4 (2017): 77.

Cavaliere, Barbara. “Arts Reviews: Howardena Pindell.” Arts Magazine 52, no. 4: 35.

Chamberlain, Colby. “Howardena Pindell at Garth Greenan Gallery.” Artforum 58, no. 5 (2020): 211.

Cohn, Gabe. “The Shed’s Second Season to Feature New Commissions and Familiar Faces.” New York Times, December 20, 2019.

Colby, Joy Hakanson. “Pindell Shows Her Artistry with Photos at N’Namdi.” Detroit News, September 15, 2000.

Cotter, Holland. “A Gathering of Women with Cameras.” New York Times, May 28, 2010.

———. "A Latino Nod, Old Masters, Sexual Identity." New York Times, September 10, 2017.

———. “Art in Review: Howardena Pindell.” New York Times, May 14, 2004.

———. “Art in Review: Howardena Pindell.” New York Times, July 28, 2006.

———. “African Genesis: What Western Artists Like.” New York Times, May 27, 1994.

———. “Creating Their Own Image.” New York Times, January 7, 2005.

———. "To Be Black, Female and Fed Up With the Mainstream." New York Times, April 21, 2017.

Cowan, Sarah Louise. “Texturing Abstraction: Howardena Pindell’s Cut and Sewn Paintings.” Art Journal 79, no. 4 (2020): 26–43.

Crimp, Douglas. “New York Reviews: Howardena Pindell.” Art News 73, no. 3 (1974): 99.

Crow, Kelley. "Five Artists to Watch at Art Basel in Miami Beach." Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2016.

Cullinan, Helen. “Black Artist’s Show Opens at Institute.” Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 26, 1994.

Cumming, Laura. “Surface Work Review: Women Abstract Artists Dazzle in Historic Show.” Guardian, April 15, 2018.

Curran, Colleen. “Art and Activism in the Abstract: Howardena Pindell at the VMFA.” Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 22, 2018.

Delson, Susan. “Blurring the Physical and Digital Worlds.” Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2019.

Deveney, Grace. “Howardena Pindell’s Video Drawings Diagramming Thought.” Osmos, no. 17 (2019): 30–35.

D’Souza, Aruna. “A Feminist Diary.” Canadian Art 35, no. 4 (2019): 58–61.

Erickson, Mark St. John. “Summer Arts Guide: Beating the Heat with Peninsula-Area Art Exhibits.” Daily Press, June 16, 2018.

Failing, Patricia. "A Case of Exclusion." Art News 88, no. 3 (1989): 124–131.

Farago, Jason. “Politics and Commerce Collide at Art Basel Miami Beach.” New York Times, December 2, 2016.

Fateman, Johanna. “Art: Howardena Pindell at Garth Greenan Gallery.” New Yorker 95, no. 35 (2019): 9.

“Five Things to do Around Boston, January 28–February 3: Medium and Message.” Boston Globe, January 25, 2019.

Fox, Catherine. “An Odyssey Both Physical, Spiritual.” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, July 13, 1990.

Fraser, Trevor. “’Culture Pop: Untold Stories’ in Maitland.” Orlando Sentinel, July 14, 2016.

Glueck, Grace. “Howardena Pindell: Social and Political Work, 1980–93.” New York Observer 7, no. 23 (1993): 22.

Goodrich, John. “The Uncertain Line Between Art and Advocacy.” New York Sun, July 20, 2006.

Greben, Deidre S. “Stony Brook Art Professor Howardena Pindell Has A Retrospective.” Newsday, March 21, 2018.

Green, Frank. “Howardena Pindell: Memory’s Soul.” Cleveland Free Times, September 7, 1994.

Green, Penelope. “Two Apartments, Two Mindsets.” New York Times, April 18, 2004.

Greenberger, Alex. “Full Circle: Howardena Pindell Steps Back Into the Spotlight with a Traveling Retrospective.” Art News 116, no. 4 (2017): 80–85.

Hager, Charles. “Subtlety to Stridency.” New York Times, June 18, 1993.

Heartney, Eleanor. “Review of Exhibitions: Howardena Pindell at Cyrus.” Art in America 78, no. 2 (1990): 171–172.

Heinrich, Will. "All Kinds of Borders to Cross." New York Times, September 10, 2017.

Hill, Shawn. “The Politics of ‘Getting in’.” Bay Windows 9, no. 3 (1991): 19, 22.

Hine, Thomas. “Shows at PAFA—Intimate and Communal—Generations of Black Artists.” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 7, 2020.

Hirsch, Faye. “Reviews: Howardena Pindell at Sragow.” Art in America 92, no. 8 (2004): 132–33.

Holmes, Jessica. “Howardena Pindell: Paintings, 1974-1980.” Brooklyn Rail (June 2014): 62.

“Howardena Pindell: Free, White and 21” BMA Today, no.162 (Winter/Spring 2020): 8.

“Howardena Pindell.” Wall Street International, November 22, 2017.

“Howardena Pindell: Paintings, 1975-1980.” New Yorker 90, no. 11 (2014): 9. 

Jeppesen, Travis. “Queer Abstraction (or How to Be a Pervert with No Body).” Mousse Magazine 66 (2019): 182–91.

Jordan, Candace. “MCA Benefit Art Auction Raises Record-Breaking $6 Million.” Chicago Tribune, November 25, 2019.

Kenney, Nancy. “Embracing the Visual Overload: Los Angeles Show Celebrates the Pattern and Decoration Movement.” Art Newspaper, February 11, 2020.

Kennicott, Philip. “They’re Women, They’re Black and They Don’t Make Art About That.” Washington Post, November 1, 2017.

Korman, Sam. “House of Language: Some Words for Actvisim and Art.” ArtReview 69, no. 8 (2017): 66–69.

Koslow, Francine A. “Reviews: Howardena Pindell.” Artforum 27, no. 8 (1989): 167.

Knight, Christopher. “Review: More is More. Why the ‘Pattern and Decoration’ Show at MOCA is Pure Pleasure.” Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2019. 

Lorber, Richard. “Women Artists on Women in Art.” Portfolio 2, no. 1 (1980): 68–73. 

Lubell, Ellen. “Review of Exhibitions: Howardena Pindell at Lerner-Heller.” Art in America 69, no. 9 (1981): 173–174.

MacAdam, Barbara A. “The New Abstraction.” Art News 106, no. 4 (2007): 110–115.

Mahoney, Joe. “Editorial: That Certain Light Rises from the Shadows.” Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 9, 2018.

“Masterful Creations: Howardena Pindell.” Vogue UK (May 2019): 89.

McCombie, Mel. “Howardena Pindell.” Arts Magazine 64, no. 1 (1989): 77.

McNally, Owen. “A Search for Memories Marks Pindell’s Work.” Hartford Courant, March 24, 1989.

McQuaid, Cate. “At the Wadsworth Atheneum, Art by African-Americans Rejoices in the Sacred.” Boston Globe, December 4, 2019

“MFA presents Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists.” TBN Weekly, October 12, 2015. 

Mitter, Siddhartha. “Revolutionary Sisters.” Village Voice 62, no. 13 (2017): 20–24.

Moffitt, Evan. “Howardena Pindell.” Frieze, no. 175 (2015): 166–167.

Morrison, Keith. “The Emerging Importance of Black Art in America.” New Art Examiner 7, no. 9 (1981): 1, 4–5.

“Museum Previews: Howardena Pindell.” Art in America 105, no. 7 (2017): 44.

Nelson, James R. “Pindell Art Has Vitality in Imagery.” Birmingham News, February 10, 1985.

Nelson, Kalia Brooks. “Previews: 'Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen.’” Artforum 56, no. 5 (2018): 76.

Nemser, Cindy. “A.I.R.” Arts Magazine 47, no. 3 (1973): 58–59.

———. “Art Mailbag.” New York Times, November 4, 1973.

Nittle, Nadra. "Celebrating the Power and Persistence of Black Women Artists Who 'Wanted a Revolution.'" Atlanta Black Star, August 15, 2017.

O’Grady, Megan. “Beneath Every Surface Lies an Identity.” The New York Times, February 21, 2021, 70–75.

Ording, Philip. “Picturing Math: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.” The Mathematical Intelligencer 39, no. 3 (2017): 1–4.

Pagel, Caryl. “What Remains to be Seen.” Brick, no. 103 (2019): 44–53.

Panero, James. “Seeing Her Worldview in a Circle.” Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2018.

———"‘Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art’ and ‘Afrocosmologies: American Reflections’ Reviews: Finding a Legacy or Losing the Thread?” Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2019.

Perreault, John. “Artbreakers: New York’s Emerging Artists.” SoHo News 7, no. 51 (1980): 33, 43. 

——— “Positively Black.” SoHo News 7, no. 22 (1980): 49.

Pindell, Howardena. “The Artists’ Artists." Artforum 55, no. 4 (2016): 104.

———. "Art (World) & Racism." Third Text 2, nos. 2-4 (1988): 157-190.

———. “Art World Racism: A Documentation.” New Art Examiner 16, no. 7 (1989): 32–36.

———. “Breaking the Silence.” New Art Examiner 18, no. 3 (1990): 23–27, 50–51.

———. "Make a Political Statement." Art-Rite, no. 6 (Summer 1974): 25.

———. “Making Space for Ourselves.” Art in America 106, no. 1 (2018): 41.

———. “Portfolio.” Callaloo 41, no. 1 (2018): 101–108.

Pogrebin, Robin. “With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Color.” New York Times, August 8, 2018.

Pousner, Howard. “Howardena Pindell comes full circle at Spelman College Museum.” Atlanta Journal Constitution, August 24, 2015. 

Quinton, Jared. “Beverly Buchanan: Ruins and Rituals.” Brooklyn Rail (December 2016). 

Ratcliff, Carter. “The Paint Thickens.” Artforum 14, no. 10 (1976): 43–47.

———. “Review of Exhibitions: Howardena Pindell at Just Above Midtown.” Art in America 66, no. 2 (1978): 140.

———. “The Whitney Annual, Part I.” Artforum 10, no. 8 (1972): 28–32.

Rubinstein, Raphael. “The Hole Truth.” Art in America 102, no. 10 (2014): 128—135. 

———. “Annals of Painting: It’s Not Made by Great Men.” Art in America 95, no. 8 (2007): 61–67.

Russell, John. “Abstractions from Afro-America.” New York Times, March 14, 1980.

———. “Howardena Pindell.” New York Times, April 18, 1980.

———. “Where to See New Artists.” New York Times, June 8, 1979.

Schama, Chloe. “Visual Vitamins: Glitter-à-Go-Go.” Vogue 208, no. 1 (2018): 30. 

Schuetze, Christopher F. “Film Carves Out Its Place at Art Basel in Miami.” New York Times, December 2, 2015. 

Schwabsky, Barry. “Kerry James Marshall’s Enigmatic Authority.” The Nation, January 18, 2017. 

———. “The Struggle to Resolve.” The Nation, December 14, 2018.

Schwendener, Martha. “Reviews: Howardena Pindell.” Artforum 43, no. 1 (2004): 272.

———. “New York Galleries: What to See Right Now: 'Painters Reply.’ New York Times, July 31, 2019.

Schwendenwien, Jude. “The Fleeting Beauty of a Mandala.” Hartford Courant, February 4, 1996.

Sheets, Hilarie M. “Black Abstraction: Not a Contradiction.” Art News 113, no. 6 (2014): 62–70.

———. "Hidden Lights." Art News 116, no. 1 (2017): 60–65.

———. “Hailed After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has a Price.” New York Times, Sunday March 24, 2019.

———. “Feminists Arm Themselves with Art.” New York Times, March 8, 2020. 

———. “Helping Black Artists, But at What Price?” New York Times, May 3, 2020.

Sims, Lowery Stokes. “The Mirror/The Other.” Artforum 28, no. 7 (1990): 111–115.

———. “Synthesis and Integration in the Work of Howardena Pindell, 1972–1992, A (Re) Consideration.” Callaloo 41, no. 1 (2018): 92–100. 

Smee, Sebastian. "These women are some of America’s greatest artists. Why don’t they get the respect they deserve?” Washington Post, April 11, 2018.

Smith, Roberta. “Arts Reviews: Howardena Pindell.” Arts Magazine 47, no. 4 (1973): 78.

———. “Art Review: Revealing a Secret Art Life: A Painter’s Sculptures.” New York Times, September 6, 2018.

Spence, Rachel. “Howardena Pindell on Politics, Racism and Late Success.” Financial Times, June 7, 2019

Sprecher, David. “Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen.” Brooklyn Rail, April 4, 2018. 

Steinhauer, Jillian. “Galleries: Howardena Pindell at Garth Greenan Gallery,” New York Times, November 22, 2019.

Steger, Martha. “Art and Activism: Howardena Pindell at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.” Free Lance-Star, September 6, 2018.

Syrek, David. “MCA’s Record Breaking Night of Art—And Style.” Chicago Tribune, December 2, 2019.

Szakmary, Chase, “Howardena Pindell Discusses Covid, BLM, and Her Upcoming Show “Rope/Fire/Water at The Shed”, White Hot Magazine, September, 2020.

Taft, Catherine. “Howardena Pindell.” Artforum 54, no. 4 (2015): 267.

Temin, Christine. “Fighting Racism in the Art World.” Boston Globe, February 7, 1989.

Thomas, M. “Carnegie and Studio Museum in Harlem Share a Vision in New ’20/20’ Exhibition.” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, July 16, 2017.

Verdino-Sullwold, Carla Maria. “Howardena Pindell: Volcanic View of the Self.” Crisis 97, no. 1 (1990): 13, 38.

Waxman, Lori. “Abstraction, Explained.” Chicago Tribune, May 31, 2018.

———. “The Diverse, Dizzying Majesty of Howardena Pindell.” Chicago Tribune, April 25, 2018.

Williams, Kesha. “Howardena Pindell Exhibit Opening at VMFA.” Richmond Free Press, August 23, 2018.

Wilson, Judith. “Howardena Pindell Makes Art that Winks at You.” Ms. Magazine 8, no. 11 (1980): 66–70.

Winerip, Michael. “Computerized Billboard Brightens Up Times Square with Art-of-the-Month.” New York Times, August 26, 1983.