Willie Cole

**Willie  Cole** (dem born am 1955 insyd Somerville, New Jersey) be a contemporary American sculptor, printer, den conceptual den visual artist. Ein work dey use contexts of postmodern eclecticism, den dey combine references den appropriation from African den African-American imagery. He sanso use Dada’s readymades den Surrealism ein transformed objects, as well as icons of American pop culture anaa African den Asian masks.
## Shows

### Select solo shows

* 2019, "Willie Cole: Bella Figura," Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
* 2019, "Willie Cole: Beauties," Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
* 2017, "Willie Cole: Made in Newark," College of Architecture and Design Gallery, The New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
* 2017, "Making Everything Out of Anything: Prints, Drawings, and Sculptures by Willie Cole," Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
* 2016 - 2017, "Willie Cole: On-Site," David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland; Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire; Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia
* 2015, "Willie Cole: Aquaphilic," 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
* 2015, "Willie Cole," Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
* 2015, "Flawlessly Feminine: Women Who Graced the Cover and Works by Willie Cole," The Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
* 2015, "Willie Cole: Transformations," Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
* 2013 - 2014, "Complex Conversations: Willie Cole Sculptures and Wall Works," Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; The College of Wooster Art Museum, Ebert Art Center, Wooster, OH; Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA; Houghton College, Houghton, NY
* 2013 - 2014, "E Pluribus Unum," Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
* 2013, "If wishes were horses...," Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
* 2013, "Willie Cole: Illuminations and Transformations," Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
* 2013, "From Water to Light," Prospect Street Firestation Gallery, Newark, NJ
* 2012, "Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper and Sculpture," Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
* 2010 - 2011, "Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper," The James Gallery, The City University of New York, New York, NY; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

### Select group shows
* 2017, "Operation Chromebody," Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis
* 2017, "Walker Street Summer," Alexander and Bonin, New York
* 2015, "Surrealism: The Conjured Life," MCA Chicago, Chicago
* 2012, "Afro: Black Identity in America and Brazil," Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque,
* 2011, "Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents*,"* The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

## References


## External links

* Willie Cole’s website
* Willie Cole’s art in Artcyclopedia
* Willie Cole's Art Gallery
* TV Interview with Willie Cole, and other video clips
* Willie Cole at MoMA
* Willie Cole at Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN