biography / bibliography
RADCLIFFE BAILEY
Born in 1968, Bridgeton, NJ
Lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia
EDUCATION
1991
BFA, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011–2012
Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine (traveling exhibition), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, June 26–September 11, 2011. Will travel to: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, February 15–May 6, 2012; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, June 6–September 2, 2012; and other venues, to be announced. Curated by Carol Thompson and Rita Richman in consultation with Michael Rooks. (Catalogue)
2011
Radcliffe Bailey: Outer Spaceways, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, April 21–May 21, 2011.
2009–2010
Between Two Worlds: The Art of Radcliffe Bailey, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American
Arts & Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 24, 2009–January 10, 2010.
2009
Radcliffe Bailey: Looking for Light, Traveling by Night, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, Georgia, November 17–September 14, 2009.
2008
Radcliffe Bailey,Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1–29, 2008.
The Prints of Radcliffe Bailey, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2007
Radcliffe Bailey: Altered Destiny, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, May 24–June 29, 2007.
Radcliffe Bailey, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, May 4–June 24, 2007.
Transbluesency: Monoprints by Radcliffe Bailey, Paulson Press, Berkeley, California, March 30–May 12, 2007.
Radcliffe Bailey: In the Returnal, Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Georgia
2006
Flow: Paintings and Installations by Radcliffe Bailey, Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, May 5–August 27, 2006.
2005
Radcliffe Bailey: From the Cabinet, Reflections of Winding Roads, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, November 14–December 22, 2005.
Radcliffe Bailey: Four Corners, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, February 25–March 26, 2005.
Radcliffe Bailey: Works on Paper, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2004
New/Now: Radcliffe Bailey, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
2003
New Paintings by Radcliffe Bailey, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee
Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, Georgia
Radcliffe Bailey: Recent Works, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002
Radcliffe Bailey: Meet Me by the River, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, March 15–December 23, 2002.
Radcliffe Bailey: Tides, Blaffer Gallery, Museum of University of Houston, Texas, September 21–November 24, 2002.
2000–2002
Radcliffe Bailey: Spiritual Migration, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Georgia, June 2–August 12, 2000. Traveled to: Diggs Gallery, University of North Carolina, Winston-Salem; Kresge Gallery, Berrie Center for Performing & Visual Arts, Ramapo College, New Jersey. (Brochure)
2001
Radcliffe Bailey: Until I Die, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston Texas, October 27–December 1, 2001.
Radcliffe Bailey: Works on Paper, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Spiritual Migration, Atlanta College of Art, Georgia
2000–2001
Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, October 13–December 31, 2000. Traveled to: Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, March 23–May 12, 2001 and Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas, June 9–September 16, 2001. Curated by David Moos. (Catalogue; texts by Shannon Fitzgerald, Manuel Jordan, David Moos and Terrie Sultan)
2000
Radcliffe Bailey: Distant Echoes, A Thematic Exhibition , Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1999
Radcliffe Bailey: Kindred, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, November 20–December 23, 1999.
Radcliffe Bailey: Paintings,Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Radcliffe Bailey: Monoprints, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
1998
Radcliffe Bailey: Date of Arrival,David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1997
Radcliffe Bailey,Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia
Radcliffe Bailey,Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Radcliffe Bailey, Cline Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Radcliffe Bailey,David Beitzel Gallery, New York
Radcliffe Bailey,Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Radcliffe Bailey: We Free Kings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1996
Accounts Southeast: Radcliffe Bailey, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Radcliffe Bailey: Jackleg, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
1995
Radcliffe Bailey: Paintings, Constructions, and Works on Paper, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, October 2–November 11, 1995.
Radcliffe Bailey,Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Radcliffe Bailey, Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
Radcliffe Bailey: New Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1994
Radcliffe Bailey: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper,Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, October 7–November 4, 1994.
Radcliffe Bailey, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1993
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1992
ARTCurrents II: Radcliffe Bailey, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina. (Catalogue; text by Mark Richard Leach)
Radcliffe Bailey: Places of Rebirth, TULA Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia. (Catalogue; texts by Lil Friedlaender, Kevin Sipp, and Ed Spriggs)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011–2012
Beyond Bearden: Creative Responses, Harvey B. Gantt Center for Africa-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 2, 2011–January 22, 2012.
2011
Intersection: Photography / Painting / Document, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, June 23–July 22, 2011.
2010
From Then To Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, January 29–May 9, 2010.
Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom, January 25–April 25, 2010.
2009
Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African America Art, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, February 18–May 29, 2009. (Catalogue)
Chelsea in Havana, Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Neo-HooDoo, Miami Art Museum, Florida
Uncharted, University Art Museum, University at Albany, New York
2010
Black Artists of Georgia: Selections from the Tubman Museum, Arts Clayton Gallery, Jonesboro, Georgia, April 1–May 21, 2010.
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, January 29–April 25, 2010. Curated by Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschluter. Traveled to: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (Catalogue)
Southern Journeys: African American Artists of the South, Appleton Museum, Ocala, Florida, April 3–March 22, 2010.
2008–2009
I Am A Man, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Brooklyn, New York, September 25, 2008–January 18, 2009. Curated by Kevin Powell.
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, June 27–September 28, 2008. Traveled to: P.S.1, New York, October 19, 2008–January 26, 2009; Miami Art Museum, Florida, February 20–September 13, 2009. (Catalogue)
2008
Scene in America: A Contemporary Look at the Black Male Image, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 19–November 2, 2008.
Art of the United States, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, through April 20, 2008.
Willie Little, Radcliffe Bailey, and Etiye Dimma Poulsen, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, February 1–March 29, 2008.
Maritime: Ships, Pirates and Disasters, The Contemporary Art Galleries: Storrs + Stamford, Stamford, Connecticut
Uncoordinated, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2007–2008
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, November 29, 2007–January 20, 2008. Curated by Collette Blanchard. (Catalogue)
2007
Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, August 31–October 11, 2007. Curated by Isolde Brielmeyer. (Catalogue)
The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, July 16–August 3, 2007. Curated by Odili Donald Odita. (Catalogue; text by N’Gone Fall)
Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, May 20–July 29, 2007.
Collection Parallax, Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey
Returnal, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, Georgia
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
Focus: Artist Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, May 4–July 22, 2006.
Parallel Economies, Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia, February 3–March 4, 2006. (Catalogue)
New Horizons: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
The Whole World is Rotten, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2004–2006
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 23, 2004–January 31, 2005. Traveled to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, May 7–June 16, 2006. (Catalogue; texts by Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Paul Roth, Merry A. Foresta, and Julia J. Norrell)
2005–2006
30th Parallel: A Convergence of Contemporary Painting, Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, September 15, 2005–January 4, 2006.
2005
More than Dirty South, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Clough Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis Tennessee
2003–2005
Hair Stories, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, October 3, 2003–January 4, 2004. Traveled to: Clark Atlanta University Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia, February 1–April 10, 2004; Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, May 4–July 3, 2004; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, January–March 2005; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 16–June 19, 2005; Forty Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento, California, June–August 2005; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, July 9–September 11, 2005. (Catalogue; texts by Kim Curry-Evans and Dr. Neal A. Lester)
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, July–September 2003. Traveled to: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Seattle, April–July 2004; Barbican Art Gallery, London, September 9–October 24, 2004; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, December 18, 2004–March 6, 2005. (Catalogue)
2004
Thinking with Blood: Conflict and Culture in the American South, Tubman African American South, Macon, Georgia, January 8–February 22, 2004. Curated by Craig Bunting. Traveled to: Hite Gallery, University of Louisville, Kentucky; Asheville Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Asheville, March 19–June 20, 2004; Dorsky Gallery, New York.
Images of America, African American Voices: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Walker, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, North Carolina, January 9–March 27, 2004. (Catalogue)
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Common Ground, Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the collection of Julia Norrell, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
Hair Stories, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
Multi-Tasking, Islip Museum of Art, Islip, New York
Syncopated Rhythms Ensemble Improvisation, Clifford Chance, New York
10th Anniversary, Selected works by gallery artists in all media, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, Georgia
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
2003–2004
Visualizing Identity, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, August 27, 2003–January 4, 2004.
Images of the Spirit, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida
Landscape as Metaphor, The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado
2003
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.
Black is a Color: African American Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1–April 7, 2003. Curated by Susan Badder.
Portraiture: Every Picture Tells A Story, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, Georgia
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
Dorsky Gallery, New York
The Harriet Tubman African American Museum, Macon, Georgia
Hite Gallery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
2002
Beyond the Pale, Neurberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, New York
Spiritual Migration, Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University
Summarize/Summer Eyes, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2001–2002
Impact, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, December 15, 2001–February 3, 2002.
Prints by Georgia Artists, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2001–January 12, 2002.
2001
New Prints 1991, International Print Center, New York, May 15–August 3, 2001.
Starry Night, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, July 10–27, 2001.
Rhapsody: Selections from Valley Art Connections, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, February 10–May 13, 2001. (Catalogue; text by Jean Makin)
Jazz and Visual Improvisations, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York. (Catalogue)
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Visibilities, Tippy Stern Fine Art, Charleston, South Carolina
2000–2001
Our New Day Begun: African American Artists Entering the Millennium, Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, November 12, 2000–February 18, 2001. Traveled to: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum, Austin, Texas; African American Museum, Dallas, Texas; Texas Southern University, Texas. (Catalogue)
2000
In The Shadow of the Flag, Tippy Stern Fine Art, Charleston, South Carolina. (Catalogue)
Inner Eye, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
1999
Locating the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in African America Art, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., February 14–June 15, 1999. (Catalogue; texts by Deborah Willis, Leslie King-Hammond, and Halima Taha)
The Conversation, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
1998
Echoes of Tradition, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
Group Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Traveled to: Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; University of Georgia, Georgia Art Museum, Athens; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY-Purchase, New York.
Knowing Children, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
New Voices/New Visions: 23 Contemporary Artists, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
Prints from Paulson Press, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
1997
As Time Goes By, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Champion, Connecticut
Best of the Season, 1996–1997, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Out of Bounds: New Work by Eight Southeast Artists, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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
No Doubt: African-American Artists of the ‘90s, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, Connecticut, May 19–September 1, 1996. Curated by Renee Cox and Maurice Berger. (Catalogue)
Decathalon, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Out of Bounds: New Work by 8 Southeast Artists, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia. (Catalogue)
1995
Insight, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, June 22–July 28, 1995.
Equal Rights and Justice, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Home is Where…, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. (Catalogue)
Project Row Houses, curated by Deborah Grotfeldt, Houston, Texas
1994
The Woodruff Memorial Exhibition: Curator’s Choice, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, May 24–August 28, 1994. Curated by Helen M. Shannon. (Catalogue)
Equal Rights and Justice: Reflections on Rights, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, May 24–August 28, 1994.
Art on Paper 1994: The 30th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
East Coast: A Traveling Group Exhibition and a Publication, curated by Marion and Robert Einbeck in conjunction with French visual art agencies and cultural organizations and museums.
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1993
20 Years/20 Artists, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, September 11–October 16, 1993.
8 + 1 Artists from Atlanta, Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, January 4–May 9, 1993. (Catalogue; texts by Theresa Leininger and Jerry Cullum)
La Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, The Grand Palais, Paris, France
1992
Black Nativity, Spirituality in Contemporary African American Art, Hughley Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Columbian Encounter and an Artist’s Response to the Discovery of the New World, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
Four Black Artists of the ‘90s, University of Florida, Gainesville
Nexus Biennale: Into the Light, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Persons,Space One Eleven, Birmingham, Alabama
1991
The Eleventh Annual Atlanta Life National Art Competition and Exhibition, Atlanta Life Insurance Co., Georgia, February 9–March 15, 1991. (Catalogue)
Black Nativity, Spirituality in Contemporary African American Art, Hughley Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1991.
Black Men, Image/Reality, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Souldiers, Gallery 10, Atlanta, Georgia
Summer Exhibition ’91, McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta College of Art, Georgia
Central Metals Sculpture Competition, Fulton County Courthouse, Atlanta, Georgia
1990
Expressions from the New Generation, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
A.B. Richman & Associates, Chicago, Illinois
Bell South, Atlanta, Georgia
Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Kansas City, Missouri
Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Citibank, New York
Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Embassy of the United States of America, Kampala, Uganda
General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, Missouri
Hammonds House, Atlanta, Georgia
Harvard University Art Collection, Boston, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
John Weiland Homes, Atlanta, Georgia
King and Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia
Knoxville Convention Center, Tennessee
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Collection
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
New Britain Museum of Art, Connecticut
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia
Pfizer, New York
Philip Morris Company, New York
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
Safeco, Seattle, Washington
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
Vincent, Berg, Spaizer & Menendez, Atlanta, Georgia
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut
World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Washington, D.C.
Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
LECTURES
2001
University of Georgia – Presented in Conjunction with the University of Georgia’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Thursday January 18.
COMMISSIONS
Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, Tennessee
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
AWARDS
2010
Gibbes Museum of Art Factor Prize
1999
Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts, The Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Art Fund Inc.