biography / bibliography
KERRY JAMES MARSHALL
Born in 1955, Birmingham, Alabama
Lives and works in Chicago
EDUCATION
1999
Honorary Doctorate, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
1978
B.F.A., Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Kerry James Marshall: Black holes and constellations, moniquemeloche, Chicago, February 4–May 12, 2012.
Kerry James Marshall, Vienna Secession, Association of Visual Artists, Vienna, Austria, September 13–November 4, 2012.
2011
Everybody’s Autobiography: Robert Gober and Kerry James Marshall, Millstone Gallery, Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Center of Creative Arts, March 11–April 24, 2011. Curated by Jessica Baran.
2010
Kerry James Marshall, Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
2009
Art in the Atrium, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Jack Shainman Gallery, Art Basel, Switzerland
2008
Portraits, Pin-Ups And Wistful Romantic Idylls, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
Black Romantic, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Every Beat of My Heart, Wexner Center, Columbus
2005–2006
Along the Way, Camden Arts Centre, traveling to: Baltic, Newcastle; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Modern Art Oxford
2004
Drawings, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Color Blind: A Selection of New work, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2003
One True Thing: Meditations on Black Aesthetics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
traveling to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; The Studio Museum Harlem, NY
2002
Some Mementos, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
1999
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Kerry James Marshall: Mementos, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, traveling to:
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; Boise Museum of Art, ID
A Narrative of Everyday, Orlando Museum of Art, FL
1997
Recent Paintings and Drawings, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover Academy, MA
Kerry James Marshall:Looking Back, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University
Kerry James Marshall: 1980s Unique Woodcut Print, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
1995
The Garden Project, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1994
Telling Stories: Selected Paintings, traveling to: The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH; Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS; Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1993
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
1992
TERRA INCOGNITA: Works by Kerry James Marshall and Santiago Vaca, Chicago Cultural Center
1991
Koplin Gallery: Santa Monica, CA
1986
Studio Museum in Harlem; Artist in Resident Exhibition, New York
1985
Koplin Gallery; Los Angeles
1984
Pepperdine University; Malibu, CA
1983
James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles
1981
L.A. Southwest College; Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009–2013
30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, December 3, 2008–November 28, 2009. Traveled to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, March 19–September 4, 2011; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2011–February 12, 2012; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, March 16–July 15, 2012; Memphis Brooks Museum, Tennessee, Spring 2013. (Catalogue; text by Franklin Sirmans)
2012
Fresh Paint, The Stenerson Museum, Oslo, Norway, May 24–August 5, 2012.
2011
80 @ 80, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, October 14–December 31, 2011.
Go Figure, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Illinois, June 30–September 4, 2011.
Converging Voices, Transforming Dialogue: Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, May 6–August 21, 2011.
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum, New York, January 27, 2010–May 29, 2011. (Catalogue)
Seeing Is A Kind Of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, January 29–March 29, 2011. Curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm.
2010–2011
Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Mark, September 16–October 28, 2010. Traveled to: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, February 18–June 26, 2011. (Catalogue)
Contemporary Art from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 20, 2010–May 9, 2011. Curated by Kathy Halbreich and Christophe Cherix.
Take me to Your Leader: The Great Escape into Space, National Museum of Art, Oslo, October 16, 2010–January 30, 2011. Traveled to: Bergen Art Museum, Norway, February 25, 2011–May 8, 2011.
2010
PRIVATE FUTURE, curated by Michael Cline, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
Compass in Hand: Selection from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern
At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg in the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, NY
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Exhibitionism, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK
Elizabeth Catlett: Call and Response, The Bronx Museum of Art, NY
2009
Slow Movement or: Half and Whole, Kunsthalle Bern
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary
Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Heartland, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Lincoln: Man, Myth, and Memory, Wadsworth Antheneum, Hartford CT
2008
Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other, Illinois State Museum, Springfield
Collection In Context: Four Decades, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Portraiture Now: Framing Memory, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
2007
Taking Possession, UALR University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Cult Fiction Art and Comics, Leeds Art Gallery, United Kingdom
Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and their Influences, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery, UK, traveling to: Aberystwyth Art Gallery; Leeds City Art Gallery
New Art Gallery, Walsall; Nottingham Castle; Tullie House, Carlisle
The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, July 16–August 3, 2007. Curated by Odili Donald Odita. (Catalogue; text by N’Gone Fall)
2006–2007
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, March 17–June 2, 2006. Traveled to: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, July 21–November 30, 2007.
2006
Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
A Historic Occasion: Artists Making History, MASS MOCA, North Adams, MA
Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
COMPLICIT! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture, University of Virginia Art Museum,
Charlottesville
2005
Very Early Pictures, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Genside, PA
The Loyolas Collect, Art From the Collections of Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law
School, Los Angeles
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on paper, Andrea
Rosen Gallery, New York
Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton
Family Art Collection, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
Drawing from the Modern, 1975 – 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York
very early pictures, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles
The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
The Other Mainstream: Selections form the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State University, Tempe
Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, UCLA
2004
Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
The Undiscovered Country, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Hair:Untangling a Social History, Skidmore College
African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition:Fade (1990-2003), Craft and
Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, traveling to: Armory Center for the Arts; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center; University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2003
Venice Biennale
A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, February 16–May 18, 2003. Curated by Daniel Schulman
American Art Today: Faces and Figures, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami
Splat Boom Pow: The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Art Museum
Houston, TX
Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusettes
Hair Stories, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
2002
Perceptual Experience: Contemporary American Figure Drawings, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Global Priority, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, New York
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Group Show, Chicago, IL
Plotting; An Exhibition of Artist Studies, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawings VI, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Visions of the American Heartland: Alcolm Cochran, Kerry James Marshall, Maya Lin, and Mary Lucier, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
2001
Shelf Life, Gasworks Gallery, London Curated by Smith + Fowle
I Love NY, benefit exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Imprint, Philadelphia Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Museum,
Harrisburg, PA
Points of Departure II, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Big Show-‘Healing, NICC, Antwerpen, Belgium
Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Présent Composé, The Ottawa Art gallery, Canada
2000
Virtul Encounters, on-line exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor Cultural Center,
Staten Island, NY
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, Chicago Cultural Center
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Illusions of Eden, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Representing: A Show of Identities, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Beyond the Press: Innovations in Print, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
ID/Y2K: Identity at the Millennium, Castle Gallery of the College of New Rochelle, NY
Drawings V, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
1999
I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Museum,
Harrisburg, PA
Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Other Narratives: Fifteen Years, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
InSite: Constructing the JCCC Collection, Johnson County Community College,Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS
Trouble Spot: Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MUHKA), Belgium
INIT-Kunst Halle, Berlin
re-righting history, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Beyond the Veil: African American Artists and their Art at Century’s End, Cornell Fine Arts Museum of
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
1998
Postcards from Black America: Contemporary African American Art, De Beyerd, Breda, Amsterdam
traveling to: MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Holland
Interpreting, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, VT
Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
The Corcoran Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
1997
Male, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York
Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1996–1997
Burning Issues: Contemporary African American Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida, October 25, 1996–January 5, 1997. Curated by Laurence Palmer. (Catalogue; text by A. M. Weaver)
1996
Art in Chicago 1945-1995, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
No Doubt: African American Art of the 90’s, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, May 19–September 1, 1996. Curated by Renee Cox and Maurice Berger. (Catalogue)
Real: Figurative Narratives in Contemporary African-American Art, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Drawing in Chicago Now, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago
Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995, Mary Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
Figurative Impulses, Evanston Art Center, IL
1995
About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Art at the Edge - Social Turf, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Korrespondenzen/Correspondences, The Chicago Cultural Center
In the Black, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
Under Construction: Rethinking Images of Identity, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
1994
Korrespondenzen/Correspondences, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Bridges and Boundaries, Chicago Crossings, Spertus Museum, Chicago
Up the Establishment, curated by Dan Cameron for ICI, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Different Visions, Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
In the Black, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA
1993
Drawings III, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Daylight Fantasy - Night Dark Side, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African American Art, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York
43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York
Man, Myth, & Masculinity, Ledisflam, New York
Chicago Curators' Choice, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc., Chicago
Conversations, Museum of Modern Art, New York
My Culture Our Culture, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1992
The City of Santa Monica Art Bank Collection at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
Social Figuration, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, CA
Basically Black and White, Riverside Art Museum, CA
National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, AK
Dreams & Demons: Modern Mythic Visions, Evanston Art Center, IL
Drawings II, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991
God's Violent World; Artists Respond, Elmhurst College, IL
Drawings, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987
1987 Invitational, Cerritos College, CA
1986
Only L.A., Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
The Flower Show, Design Center, Los Angeles
Joining Forces, Gallery 1199, New York
Home for the Holidays, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
1985
Fusion '85, Jewish Federation Gallery, Los Angeles
Collage, Galleria Ocassa, Los Angeles
Common Ground, Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles
The Spiritual Eye, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Fifth National Black Art Exhibition, Atlanta Life Insurance Co. Atlanta
Purchase Show, Santa Monica Art Bank, Santa Monica, CA
1984
James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles
17 Artists, 17 Self Portraits, Occidental College, Los Angeles
Artists Call, Thinking Eye Gallery, Los Angeles
Olimpiad, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
The Finals in Painting and Sculpture, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
Environs 3, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Perspectives on Black Art, California State University at Los Angeles
1983
Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1980
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Six Artists from L.A., Cal State University, Dominguez Hills, CA
3 Artists, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles
1979
Newcomers 1979, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Certain Attitudes On Paper, Pearl C. Wood Gallery, Los Angeles
PUBLIC PROJECTS
2008
Kerry James Marshall I Black Romantic, Video Exclusive by Wesley Miller, Art: 21
2002
Imprint, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
GRANTS
1997
MacArthur Foundation Grant
Herb Alpert Grant
1992
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (Painting)
1991
N.E.A. Visual Art Fellowship (Painting)
1990
Art Matters Inc. Fellowship (Painting)
1985
Studio Museum in Harlem; Resident Fellowship
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Bank Santa Monica Arts Commission, Santa Monica, CA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
Dain Rauscher, Minneapolis, MN
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Federal Reserve Board, Birmingham, AL
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Legler Branch, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Logan Collection, Vail, CO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
The MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
The Norton Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
The Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, Iowa
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Sprint, Overland Park, KS
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY