Whitfield Lovell

**Whitfield Lovell** (bɛ dɔɣi o la Anashaara goli October 2, 1959) ka o nyɛ African-American nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun drawyiri African-American niriba ban daa be 20th century. 

## Pina

* 1982 Jerome Foundation Fellowship to the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
* 1985 Eastman Scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
* 1986 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Fellowship
* 1986 New York State Council on the Arts Grant						
* 1987 New York State Council on the Arts Grant
* 1988 Mousem D'Asilah Residency, Asilah, Morocco
* 1990 Promise of Learnings Inc. Award for Excellence in Education
* 1990 Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts for Transit Poster Commission		
* 1990 Penny McCall Foundation Grant							
* 1990 Artists Homeless Shelter Collaborative Grant
* 2001 Art Awareness Residency, Lexington, NY			
* 2002 Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, Artist in Residence
* 2003 Richard C. Diebenkorn Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, California
* 2007 Emil & Dines Carlsen Award, National Academy Museum
* 2007 MacArthur Fellows Program, Chicago, Illinois
* 2009 Malvina Hoffman Artists Fund Prize, 184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, New York
* 2009 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, The Nancy Graves Foundation, New York, New York
*2014 National Academy Award for Excellence, New York, New York

## Collections
Lovell's tumanima nyɛla din be kpe mini yaŋ'shɛŋa:
* Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
*Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, New York
* Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
* Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
* Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida
*Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
*High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
* Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York
*Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, New York
*National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
*National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
*Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
*New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
*Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
*Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
* Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
*Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
* Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
* Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

## Solo exhibitions
* 1982 Interchurch Center, New York, New York
* 1984 Galeria Morivivi, New York, New York
* 1985 John Jay College, New York, New York
* 1987 Harlem School of the Arts, New York, New York
* 1988 Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
* 1993 Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, New York
* 1997 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
* 1997 DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
* 1998 *Collecting Inspiration*, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
* 1999-2005 *Whispers From the Walls - An Installation by Whitfield Lovell*, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX (traveled to: Texas Fine Art Association, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Robeson Art Gallery, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA; Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council, Texarkana, TX; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL; Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, NC; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Reed College, Portland, OR; National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN; San Antonio Museum of Art, TX; Louisiana State University, Union Art Gallery, LA; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers-Camden, NJ; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, KS)
* 2000 *Recent Tableaux*, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
* 2000–02 *Portrayals*, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (traveled to: Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Tubman African-American Museum, Macon, GA; Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN)
* 2001 *Beyond the Frame: Whitfield Lovell*, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN	
* 2001 *Embers*, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
* 2001 *Whitfield Lovell, Recent Tableaux*, Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA
* 2001–04 *Visitation: The Richmond Project*, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA (traveled to: University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia)
* 2002 *SANCTUARY: The Great Dismal Swamp, An Installation by Whitfield Lovell*, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA	
* 2002 *Whitfield Lovell: Memories*, Thomasville Cultural Center, Thomasville, GA (traveled to: Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA)
* 2002 *Whitfield Lovell: Embers*, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
* 2003 *Whitfield Lovell: Tableaux*, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
* 2003 *GRACE: A Project by Whitfield Lovell*, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
* 2003 *Whitfield Lovell: Ancestors*, Flint Institute of Arts, MI
* 2003 *That You Know Who We Are: Works by Whitfield Lovell*, Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Eatonville, FL
* 2004 *Whitfield Lovell*, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
* 2004 *Whitfield Lovell: Tableaux*, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
* 2005 *Whitfield Lovell: Homegoing*, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
* 2006 *Whitfield Lovell*, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
* 2008 *Whitfield Lovell: All Things in Time*, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
* 2008 *Whitfield Lovell: Kith & Kin*, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
* 2009 *Whitfield Lovell: Distant Relations*, Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ
* 2009 *Mercy, Patience and Destiny: The Women of Whitfield Lovell's Tableaux*, Atlanta College of Art Gallery of Savannah College of Art and Design, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
* 2009 *Whitfield Lovell: One Man's Treasures*, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
* 2010 *Whitfield Lovell*, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
* 2011 *More Than You Know: Works By Whitfield Lovell*, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
* 2013 *Whitfield Lovell: Deep River*, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
* 2015 *Whitfield Lovell: Deep River*, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
* 2015 *Whitfield Lovell: Deep River*, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
* 2016 *Whitfield Lovell: The Kin Series and Related Works", The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC*
* 2017 *Inbox: Whitfield Lovell,* The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (March 25–May 26, 2017)
*2023-2025 *Whitfield Lovell: Passages*, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida (February 15-May 21, 2023), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Arlington, Virginia (June 17-September 10, 2023), Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas (October 27, 2023-January 14, 2024), Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio (March 1-May 26, 2024), Mint Museum of Modern Art (Uptown), Charlotte, North Carolina (June 29-September 22,2024), and McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (October 23, 2024-February 19, 2025)

## Selected group exhibitions
*2021 *The Black Index* (online only due to COVID-19 restrictions), University of California, Irvine (CAC Gallery), Irvine, California (January 14-March 20, 2021) with Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, and Lava Thomas.
*2024 *Drawing*, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, Michigan (February 3-March 16, 2024) featuring 21 artists including:Susan Goethel Campbell, Kim McCarty, Joel Daniel Phillips, Benjamin Pritchard, and Kelly Reemtsen.

## Bibliography
*"Whitfield Lovell" , Tom Otterness, *BOMB*, 91/Spring 2005
*Bartholomew F. Bland, Whitfield Lovell, ''Whitfield Lovell: all things in time'', Hudson River Museum, 2008, 
*Lucy R. Lippard, Carla Hanzal, Leslie King-Hammond, and Jennifer Ellen Way. ''The Art of Whitfield Lovell: Whispers from the Walls'', Pomegranate, 2003, 

## Books and exhibition catalogues
* 1983 Rosner-Jeria, Elaine, and William Jung. *Trans-Fers* (exhibition catalogue). New York: Henry Street Settlement and El Grupo Morivivi, 1983.
* 1983 Bickimer, David A. *Christ the Placenta, Notes to My Mentor on Religious Education*. Birmingham: Religious Education Press, 1983.
* 1984 *Artist in the Marketplace* (exhibition catalogue). Bronx, NY: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1984.
* 1986 Verre, Philip. *Curator's Choice II* (exhibition catalogue). Bronx, NY: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1986.	
* 1986 *Black Visions '86* (exhibition catalogue). New York: Tweed Gallery, 1986.
* 1987 Bibby, Diedre. *Who's Uptown: Harlem '87* (exhibition catalogue). New York: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1987.
* 1988 *Other Countries: Gay Black Voices*, New York, NY: Cultural Council Foundation/Management and Resources for the Arts, 1988.
* 1988 Jones, Kellie. *New Visions: James Little, Whitfield Lovell, Alison Saar* (exhibition catalogue). Queens, NY: The Queens Museum, 1988.
* 1989 Smith, Valerie. *Selections from the Artists File*, Artists Space (exhibition catalogue). New York: Artists Space, 1989.
* 1990 Stanislaus, Grace. *New Perspectives: Colin Chase and Whitfield Lovell* (exhibition catalogue). Miami: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Gallery, 1990.
* 1990 Georgia, Olivia. *Family Stories* (exhibition catalogue). Staten Island, NY: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1990.
* 1991 Long, Richard, and Judith Wilson. *African-American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection* (exhibition catalogue). Atlanta: Double Density, 1991.
* 1991 Jones, Kellie, and Thomas W. Sokolowski. *Interrogating Identity* (exhibition catalogue). New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, 1991.
* 1991 Bellamy, Peter. *The Artist Project, Portraits of the Real Word/New York Artists 1981–1990*. New York: IN Publishing, 1991.
* 1993 Yau, John. *The Bronx Celebrates Whitfield Lovell* (exhibition catalogue). Bronx, NY: Lehman College Art Gallery, 1993.
* 1993 Hazlewood, Carl. *Current Identities, Recent Painting in the United States* (exhibition catalogue). Newark, NJ: Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, 1993.
* 1994 Henning, Roni. *Screen Printing: Water Based Techniques, Non-Toxic Methods for a Safe Environment*. New York: Watson Guptill Publications, 1994.	
* 1994 Balka, Sigmund R. *Empowerment: The Art of African American Artists* (exhibition catalogue). White Plains, NY: Krasdale Gallery, 1994.
* 1995 Yau, John. *Murder* (exhibition catalogue). Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1995.
* 1995 de Larrazabel, Eudoxia Estrella. *IV Bienal International de Pintura, Cuenca, Ecuador* (exhibition catalogue). Cuenca, Ecuador, 1995.
* 1996 Wolfe, Townsend. *National Drawing Invitational* (exhibition catalogue). Little Rock: Arkansas Arts Center, 1996.
* 1996 Chin, Mel. *Scratch* (exhibition catalogue). New York: Thread Waxing Space, 1996.
* 1996 Cappellazzo, Amy. *Real* (exhibition catalogue). Miami: Bass Museum of Art, 1996.
* 1997 Llanes, Llilian. *Sexta Bienal de la Habana, El Individuo y Su Memoria* (exhibition catalogue). Havana, Cuba: Centro Wifredo Lam, 1997.
* 1998 Taha, Halima M. *Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas*. New York: Crown Publishers, 1998.
* 1999 Lippard, Lucy, and Jennifer Ellen Way. *The Art of Whitfield Lovell, Whispers From the Walls* (exhibition catalogue). Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1999.
* 1999 Hertz, Betti-Sue. *Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s* (exhibition catalogue). Bronx, NY: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1999.
* 2000 Wei, Lilly. *Portrayals* (exhibition catalogue). Purchase, NY: The Neuberger Museum of Art, 2000.
* 2000 *20 Years of Artists in the Marketplace Program* (CD-ROM). Bronx, NY: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2000.
* 2000 Hills, Patricia. *Recent Tableaux* (exhibition catalogue). New York, NY: DC Moore Gallery, 2000.
* 2000 Foster, Carter E., and Stephen F. F. Jost. *Drawing on Language* (exhibition catalogue). Cleveland: SPACES Gallery, 2000.
* 2000 DC Moore Gallery. *Whitfield Lovell: Portrayals* (exhibition catalogue).
* 2001 Wolfe, Townsend. *About Face: Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr.* (exhibition catalogue). Little Rock: Arkansas Arts Center, 2001: 62, illus.	
* 2001 *Selections: Painting* (exhibition catalogue). Oakdale, NY: Dowling College, 2001.
* 2001 Makrandi, Nandini. *Beyond the Frame: Whitfield Lovell* (exhibition brochure).  Knoxville: Knoxville Museum of Art, 2001.
* 2001 Kushner, Robert. *Beauty Without Regret* (exhibition catalogue). Santa Fe: Bellas Artes Gallery, 2001.
* 2001 Fairbrother, Trevor. "Going Forward, Looking Back," in *Words of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum on Contemporary Art*, New York: Independent Curators International, 2001: 56-58.
* 2002 Smagula, Howard J. *Creative Drawing*, London, England: Lawrence King Publishing, 2002: 15, 133.	
* 2002 Nahas, Dominique. *Whitfield Lovell: Embers* (exhibition catalogue). New York: DC Moore Gallery, 2002.
* 2002 Hanzal, Carla. *SANCTUARY: The Great Dismal Swamp, An Installation by Whitfield Lovell* (exhibition booklet). Virginia Beach: Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, 2002.
* 2003 Lippard, Lucy R., Carla Hanzal, Leslie King-Hammond, and Jennifer Ellen Way. *The Art of Whitfield Lovell: Whispers from the Walls*, 2nd edn, San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2003.
* 2003 Lapcek, Barbara. "Whitfield Lovell: Visual Artist," in Hatch-Billops Collections, Inc.: *Artist & Influence*, Vol. XXI, New York: Hatch-Billops Collection, 2003: 175-192.
* 2003 Gerdts, William H. *et al.* *American Art at the Flint Institute of Arts*, Flint, MI: Flint Institute of Arts, 2003: 260-261.
* 2003 Everett, Gwen. *African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum*. New York: Harry N. Abrams; Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2003. 				
* 2003 Bessire, Mark H. C. Skowhegan *2002-2003 Faculty Exhibition* (exhibition catalogue). Portland, ME: Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, 2003.
* 2004 Princenthal, Nancy *et al.* *Whitfield Lovell, in +Witness* (exhibition catalogue). Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004: 42-49.
* 2004 Brookman, Philip. *Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art* (exhibition catalogue). London: Merrell Publishers, 2004.
* 2005 Yee, Lydia. *Collection Remixed* (exhibition catalogue). Bronx, NY: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2005: 54-55.
* 2007 *182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art* (exhibition catalogue). New York: National Academy Museum, 2007: illus. 133.
* 2007 Reynolds, Jock. *Art For Yale: Collecting for a New Century* (exhibition catalogue). New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007: illus. 334.
* 2008 Conrad, Dr. Derek Conrad. *The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn* (exhibition catalogue). Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Art Museum, 2008: illus. 31.	
* 2008 Heartney, Eleanor. *Art and Today*, New York: Phaidon Press, 2008: illus. 412.
* 2008 Sims, Lowery Stokes. *Whitfield Lovell: All Things in Time*, Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 2008.
* 2009 Lewis, Sarah. *Mercy, Patience and Destiny: The Women of Whitfield Lovell's Tableaux* (exhibition catalogue). Atlanta: The ACA Gallery of SCAD, 2009.
* 2009 Kim, Linda. "Distant Relations: Identity and Estrangement in Whitfield Lovell's Kin Series," in *Distant Relations* (exhibition catalogue). Mahwah, NJ: Ramapo College, 2009.
* 2009 Carson, Charles D. and Julie L. McGee. *Sound:Print:Record: African American Legacies* (exhibition catalogue). Newark, DE: University Museums, University of Delaware, 2009: illus. cover, 46.
* 2010 United States Mission to the United Nations, New York: ART in Embassies Exhibition (exhibition catalog), Washington, DC: Art in Embassies, 2010.
* 2010 Franks, Pamela and Robert E. Steele. *Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery* (exhibition catalog). New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2010: illus. 45.
* 2010 Griffin, Farah Jasmine. "Whitfield Lovell", in *RE: COLLECTION, Selected Works from The Studio Museum in Harlem*, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2010.
* 2023 Lovell, Whitfield. edited by Michèle Wije ; essays by Cheryl Finley, Bridget R. Cooks. *Whitfield Lovell:passages* (exhibition catalogue), New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa, a division of Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated : American Federation of Arts

## Kundivihira

## External links
*DC Moore Gallery: Whitfield Lovell
*Whitfield Lovell on Artnet
*MacArthur Foundation: Whitfield Lovell
*Brooklyn Rail: Kith and Kin review
**Art in America*, September 2006, "Whitfield Lovell at DC Moore".  http://images.dcmooregallery.com/www_dcmooregallery_com/Lovell_ArtInAmerica2006.jpg 
**Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art*, "Whitfield Lovell: Autour Du Monde" http://www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/whitfield-lovell