David Driskell

**David C. Driskell** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli June dabaa awɔi dali yuuni 1931 ka daa kpi silimiin April dahin yini dali yuuni 2020) daa nyɛla Americanima nucheeni baŋda ka o tumanima pam nyɛ din be African-American Art. 

## Solo exhibitions
* 2021: "Celebrating Creative Genius: The Life, Art and Legacy of David Driskell", Steffen Thomas Museum of Art, Buckhead, Georgia
* 2019: *David Driskell: Resonance, Paintings 1965-2002*, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
* 2017: *David Driskell: Renewal and Reform*, Selected Prints, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine
* 2014: *A Decade of David Driskell,* The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
* 2012: *David Driskell, Creative Spirit: Five Decades*, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
* October 30, 2010 - August 7, 2011: *Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking,* Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
* 2006: *David Driskell: Painting Across the Decade 1996-2006*, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York

## Group exhibitions
* 2020: *Tell Me Your Story*, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort, Netherlands
* 2020: *Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition*, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
* 2019: *Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power*, Tate Modern, London, UK; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, Arkansas; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, California

## Publications by Driskell
* *Amistad II: Afro-American Art* (editor), Nashville: Fisk University, 1975.
* *[[Two Centuries of Black American Art]]*, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976. 
* *The Afro-American Collection, Fisk University*, with Earl J. Hooks, Nashville: Fisk University, 1976.
* * Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America*, introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell; essays by David Driskell, David Levering Lewis, and Deborah Willis Ryan, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1987. 
* * Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent*, curators, Henry J. Drewal and David C. Driskell, Los Angeles: California Afro-American Museum, 1989.
* *African American Visual Aesthetics: a Postmodernist View* (editor) Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. 
* *The Other Side of Color: African American Art in the Collection of [[Camille Olivia Hanks-Cosby|Camille O.]] and [[William H. Cosby, Jr.]]*, San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2001. 

## Lihimi m-pahi
* David C. Driskell Center (Arts research center at UMD named for Driskell)
* Sylvia Snowden (studied under Driskell)
* James A. Porter (Driskell's mentor at Howard University)

## Kundivihira

## Further reading
* *David Driskell: A Survey: Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, October 21-December 5, 1980*, compiled and edited by Edith A. Tonelli, College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1980.
* Julie L. McGee, *David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar*, by San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2006. 
* *Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950*, San Francisco: The Art Museum Association of America, 1985. 
* *Contemporary Visual Expressions: the Art of [[Sam Gilliam]], [[Martha Jackson-Jarvis]], [[Keith Morrison]], [[William T. Williams]]*, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. 
* Adrienne L. Childs, *Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell*, San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2007. 
* David Driskell: ''Painting Across the Decade 1996–2006, 2006'' (exhibition catalogue), DC Moore Gallery, 2006

## External links
* The David C. Driskell Center For The Study of The Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and The African Diaspora
* David Driskell's oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project
* Smithsonian Archives of Americal Art: Oral history interview with David Driskell, 2009 March 18-April 7
* Bridget Goodbody, "DAVID DRISKELL: Creative Spirit: Five Decades", *The Brooklyn Rail*, February 1, 2012
* Artist Page, DC Moore Gallery
* "Prize Fighter", *Urban Lux Magazine*, June 2012
* Eleanor Heartney, "David Driskell at DC Moore", *[[Art in America]]*, March 2007 (via DC Moore Gallery, archived from the original, on September 18, 2016)
* Mira Gandy, "''Creative Spirit: The Art of David C. Driskell'' exhibit honors artist's eightieth birthday", *New York Beacon*, February&nbsp;2-8, 2012 (via DC Moore Gallery, archived from the original, on September 18, 2016)
* In Memoriam, Artists, Curators, and Scholars Share Memories of David C. Driskell