Laylah Ali

**Laylah Ali **(bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni  1968) nyɛla America lihigu nuchee ni baŋda.  O nyɛla ŋun be  Williamstown, Massachusetts,  ka nye professor Williams College.

## O pilli
O ni daa pora, o niya daa nyemi ni o ti lɛbi doɣite bee alikaali nira.

Ali daa nyela ŋun bo karim baŋsim Williams College ka daa deegi o B.A degree din jendi siliminsili ni studio art shahira gbaŋ yuuni 1991.  o daa lahi pahi Whitney Study Program din daa niŋ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City la ni yuuni 1992 ka daa lahi tuɣu n ti bo baŋsim Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, yuuni 1993. Ali daa nyela ŋun deegi o M.F.A shahira gbaŋ sam Fox School of Design  & Visual Arts din be  Washington University, St. Louis la yuuni 1994

## Tuun sheŋa o ni zaŋ wuhi Salo
Laylah Ali nyela ŋun zaŋ o tuma wuhi salo Venice Biennale(2003) ni Whitney Biennial(2004) o tuma maa sheŋa n nye:

* 2024: *Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali,* Marion Art Gallery, State University of New York at Fredonia, NY. January 23—April 14, 2024—traveling to University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. February 13—May 9, 2025; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. October 21—April 19, 2026 
* 2021: *Sweaty Concepts*, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
* 2020: *Never Done: 100 Years Of Women In Politics And Beyond*, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
* 2019: *Laylah Ali: The Acephalous Series,* Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. January 29—March 16, 2019 
* 2018: *Through-Line: Drawing and Weaving by 19 Artists*, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; *Body / Parts*, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
* 2017: *Laylah Ali: Paintings and Drawings*, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. November 10—December 22, 2017 
* 2017: *Laylah Ali: Not Self Portraits*, curated by Lisa Jarrett and Harrell Fletcher, KSMoCA, Portland, OR. May—November, 2017
* 2016: *Black Pulp!* curated by Mark Thomas Gibson and William Villalongo, Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. January 19—March 11, 2016—traveled to Print Center New York, NY. October 12—December 19, 2016; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL. June 2—July 20, 2017; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.  September 19—December 10, 2017; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA. February 2—April 29, 2018; *Overgrowth*, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; *Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler*, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
* 2015: *The Acephalous Series,* Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY 
* 2015: *ASSISTED*, curated by Jessica Stockholder, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; *Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s,* Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ—traveled to Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA. June 12—September 20, 2015; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI. October 17, 2015—January 31, 2016; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX. February 17—May 15, 2016
* 2014: *Personal Histories*, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; *Up Every Evening*, Season Gallery, Seattle, WA
* 2013: *The Shadows Took Shape*, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (catalog); *Ambiguous Histories: Selected Art from the Exit Art Portfolios*, Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; *Laylah Ali & Gerald Cyrus*, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Gallery, Lancaster, PA; *Direct Democracy*, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia (catalog); *Painting Between the Lines*, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (catalog); *Revelations: Examining Democracy*, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
* 2012: *Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series*, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA—traveled to Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. March 2—June 30, 2013; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. September 7—December 22, 2013 (solo & catalog)
* 2012: *Thenceforward, and Forever Free*, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; *Under the Influence: The Comics*, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; *The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World*, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (catalog); *Voluntaries,* MoMA, New York, NY, part of the “Some sweet day” series (collaborative performance with Dean Moss)
* 2011: *The Air We Breathe*, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalog); *Painting Between the Lines*, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalog); *Relatos extraordinarios: Laylah Ali and Abigail Lazkoz*, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain (catalog); *Vivid: Female Currents in Painting*, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, New York, NY
* 2010: *Works on Paper from the MCA Collection,* Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; *Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection*, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
* 2009: *Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art.* Art Works for Change, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway—traveled to University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA (2009–2010); Centro Cultural Tijuana and Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2011); Global Health Odyssey Museum, Atlanta, GA (2011); Prospect.2 New Orleans and Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2011); The Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2013); Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain (2013); Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2013); Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada (2014); *Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions from the Walker Art Center*, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; *Massachusetts Review: Celebrating Fifty Years of Covers*, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA; *If I Didn't Care: Generational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories*, The Park School, Baltimore, MD
* 2008: *Laylah Ali: Notes/Drawings/Untitled Afflictions*, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (solo & catalog)
* 2008: *Beyond Drawing: Constructed Realities*, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH; *Fantastical Imaginings*, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE—traveled to Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD (2009); *Political Circus*, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; *On the Margins*, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, MO (catalog); *Disguised*, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland; *Out of Shape*, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (catalog); *Taking Possession*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR; *Perverted by Theater*, Apexart, New York, NY; *Pandora's Box*, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (catalog); *Quadrennial 2008*, U-Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalog); *Text/Messages: Books by Artists*, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
* 2007: *the kiss and other warriors,* Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England 
* 2007: *Drawings from the Typology Series*, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA—traveled to University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 
* 2006: *Alien Nation*, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England—traveled to Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England (catalog); *Cult Fiction*, Hayward Gallery, London, England ; *Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences*, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (catalog); *Running Around the Pool*, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL (catalog); *XXS*, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; *American Matrix*, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; *Black Alphabet*, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (catalog); *Having New Eyes*, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
* 2005: *The Body. The Ruin*, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (catalog); *Cut*, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; *Vivi-Seccion: Dibujo Contemporaneo*, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; 303 Gallery, New York, NY
* 2004: *Laylah Ali: Types,* Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO 
* 2004: *Whitney Biennial 2004*, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog); *Material Witness*, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (catalog); *The 10 Commandments*, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
* 2003: *Crosscurrents at Century's End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection*, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA—traveled to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (catalog); *Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes*, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalog); *me & more*, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (catalog); *Splat! Boom! Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art*, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX—traveled to ICA, Boston, MA; Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 
* 2002: *Projects 75: Laylah Ali,* The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 
* 2002: *Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation*, Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA—traveled to Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (catalog); *Fantasyland*, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY; *First Person Singular*, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; *Painting in Boston*, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
* 2001: *Laylah Ali: 2000 ICA Artist Prize,* Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 
* 2001: *Paintings on Paper,* Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA 
* 2001: *Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface, Frame*, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; *Freestyle*, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (catalog); *FRESH: 1998—2000*, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; *Guarene Arte 2001*, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; *A Work in Progress: Selections from the New Museum Collection*, New Museum, New York, NY
* 2000: *Art on Paper 2000*, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
* 1999: *Laylah Ali: Small Aggressions*, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
* 1999: *Bizarro World! The Parallel Universes of Comics and Fine Art*, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL; *Collectors Collect Contemporary*, ICA, Boston, MA; *The 1999 deCordova Annual Exhibition*, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalog); *No Place Rather than Here*, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
* 1998: *Paradise 8*, Exit Art, New York, NY; *Posing*, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; *Selections Summer 1998*, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; *Telling Tales*, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

## Kpaŋmaŋ pina
Laylah Ali nyela ŋun di kpaŋ maŋ pina di sheŋa n nye;  Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant yuuni  2008, Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency in 2018,  United States Artists Fellowship, .

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## Bibliography
Selected artist books, exhibition catalogs, print editions and press:
**Is Anything the Matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali*. Essays by Karen Kurczynski and Arisa White; interview with Romi Crawford, Marion Art Gallery, SUNY Fredonia, NY, 2024.  
*Four letterpress prints (edition of 250) from “Self-Portraits with Nat Turner’s Vision” 1994 series, printed and published by Pellinore Press, Baltimore, MD, in collaboration with Goucher College, 2019.
**Laylah Ali: The Acephalous Series*. Essays by Alex Ebstein, Tisa Bryant, Kaitlyn Greenidge; interview with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, 2019.  
**Comfort with Rage.* Silkscreen print (edition of 100) commissioned by Printed Matter for NY Art Book Fair, printed and published by Kayrock Screenprinting, Brooklyn, NY, 2018.
**Sixteen Drawings*. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 2017.
**Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series*. Essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson and Kevin Young; interview with Deborah Rothschild, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 2012. 
**Laylah Ali: Note Drawings*. Essay by Dina Deitsch; interview with Kevin Young, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2008. 
**Laylah Ali: Typology.* Essay by Alex Baker; interview with Kara Walker, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2007. 
**Notes with Little Illustration.* Institute of International Visual Arts, London, book design by the artist and Nicole Parente, 2007.
**[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]: The Visual Issue.* Interview with Tisa Bryant, p. 79, Dec. 2005 - Jan. 2006
**Types.* Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO, 2005 
**Untitled.* Aquatint etching print (edition of 50) published by Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH, 2002. In the collection of the RISD Museum.
**Untitled.* Graphic novelette published on the occasion of Projects 75 for The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, digital production by Nicole Parente, 2002.
**Laylah Ali: ICA Artist Prize 2000.* Essays by Jessica Morgan and Suzanne Wise; interview with Rebecca Walker, ICA Boston, MA, 2001.