American Artist
EDUCATION
1965-67 New York Studio School
1961-65 Art Students League
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Time Equities, Inc
The Delaware Art Museum
The Newark Museum
The Studio Museum in Harlem
The Cosby Collection
The Reader's Digest Corporate Collection
The Schomburgh Center for Research in Black Culture
The New York Public Library
Abyssinian Baptist Church, NYC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Journey Into The Lost And Found, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Dreams, Discourse and Speculations, Atelier 212, Brooklyn, NY
2015 On the Line, Merton Simpson Gallery of Tribal & Contemporary Art, NYC
2005-2006 Resisting Arrest, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, Detroit, Chicago
1997 G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997 G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1990 The Newark Museum
1989 The Bronx Museum of Art, Jerry Clifford Gallery
1988 Plumes for Dark Victories, CYRUS Gallery, NYC
1988 Night Riddles, Sculpture Center Gallery, NYC
1987 PS 39, Longwood Arts Project, The Bronx Council on the Arts
1982 Fire, Water, Primal Field, Cinque Gallery, NYC
1972 Gallery 1199, Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Center, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 E(n)ternal Ligh(f): The Eternal Ecosystem Exposed
2023 A Closer Look, The Garage, Chatham NY
2023 Who We Be, Lightforms Art Center, Hudson NY
2023 SPF Selects: A More Human Dwelling Place, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine
2022 Art Basel. Miami, FL
2022 Combinations, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum & Story Telling, Harlem, NYC
2021 Transfer-Nations, Love Apple Farm Gallery, Ghent NY
2021 Artists in Residence. Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2021 A Stranger’s Soul Is a Deep Well, Fridman Gallery, NYC
2020 Forget What You Know, Curated by Kourosh Mahboubian, Art of Our Century, NYC
2014 Iconomania, Merton Simpson Gallery of Tribal & Contemporary Art, NYC
2014 Queens College Art Faculty, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Flushing, NY
2011 Put up or Shut Up, National Arts Academy, New York City
2011 MFA Faculty Exhibition, Queens College, Flushing, Queens
2008 From Taboo to Icon, The Ice Box Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Sculpt Somethin’, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago
2004 Seaside Dreams: Atlantic City Celebrates 150 Years. The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
2004 The 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. The National Academy Museum, NYC
2004 Everyday Magic. The Times Square Lobby Gallery, NYC
2001 Working Here. 111 First Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2000 Into the Millennium. The Newark Museum, NJ
1999 Passages. Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1998 Assemblage. Center for Creative Studies, College of Art & Design Institute of Music & Dance, Detroit, MI
1997 Anguilla International Arts Festival, Anguilla, WI
1995 The Listening Sky. The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1994 TOTEMS. Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1992- Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African American Presence. Fukui Fine Art Museum, 1993 Fukui Prefecture, Japan; Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Osuka, Japan, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima-shi, Japan; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
1991 Museo de Artes Visuales, Caracas, Venezuela
1990 THE DECADE SHOW: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s..New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art.
1990 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Cinque Gallery, NYC
1990 Gallery Artists, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Six Contemporary Sculptors. M-13 Gallery, New York. Catalogue
1989 Traditions and Transformations: Contemporary Afro-American Sculpture. The Bronx Museum of Art.
1989 Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans & Brazilians of African Descent. Los Angeles Museum of African American Art, Bronx Museum of Art.
1988 Gallery Artists, CYRUS Gallery, NYC
1988 Double Vision. Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; PS 39, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY.
1987 Who's Uptown: Harlem '87. Schomburgh Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC
1987 Celebration of Alternative Spaces. Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1987 Above it All: Sculptors of the Bronx and Upper Manhattan. PS 39, Bronx, NY
1985 DESIGNED, But not Realized. Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
1985 CARNIVAL: Ritual of Reversal. Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
1984 Sticks & Stones: Modern/Post Modern Sculpture. Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
1984 Affirmations of Life. Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
1983 Skowhegan Faculty Show. Colby Art Gallery, Waterville, Maine
1983 The Black & White Show. Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
1983 Former Artists-in-Residence Exhibition. The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1983 4th Annual Exhibition. The Atlanta Life Insurance Co., Atlanta, GA
1982 The UFO Show. The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
1981 Sculpture '81. Counterpoints Guild: Lever House Gallery, NYC
1981 Dialogues. Just Above Midtown/Downtown, NYC
1981 Indigenous Wood. Kenkeleba House Gallery, NYC
1980 Afro-American Abstraction. PS 1, Long Island City. Traveled to: The Arnot Museum, Elmira, NY; The Art Center, South Bend, ID; The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; The Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, TN; The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
1980 Discovery/Rediscovery. Sculpture Center Gallery, NYC
1980 Ten Artists. Just Above Midtown/Downtown Gallery, NYC
1980 Power Objects. Howard University Gallery, Washington, DC
1979 Cinque Gallery, NYC
1979 FESTAC Reunion Show. Cinque Gallery, NYC
1978 Microcosm/Macrocosm. Tim Blackburn Gallery, NYC
1977 Black Art: A Select Sampling. Florida International University, Tamiami, FL
1977 Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture: FESTAC '77. Lagos and Kadona, Nigeria
1976 Artists of Williamsburgh. New Muse, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1975 Negro History Museum, Hempstead, NY
1974 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
1974 Riverside Church Gallery, NYC
1974 County Cullen Gallery, NYC
1973 Automation House, NYC
1973 Genesis II. Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY
1972 The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1972 Lincoln Center Art Gallery, NYC
1970 National Museum of Dakar, Senegal
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2022 Surf Point Foundation, York, Maine
2021 Art Omi, Ghent, New York
2016 Chautauqua Institution, School of Visual Art
2015 Chautauqua Institution, School of Visual Art
2012 Vermont Studio Center
2005 Vermont Studio Center
2002 Vermont Studio Center for the Arts
1995 Sanskreeti, New Delhi, India (USIA)
1992 University of Colorado, Boulder
1990 Art Awareness, Lexington, New York
1990 Western Michigan University
1986 Bronx Council on the Arts
1985 Williams College
1981 Studio Museum in Harlem
ORAL PAPERS AND ADDRESSES
2022 Sugar Hill Children’s Museum & Story Telling: Interviewed by Damien Davis
2017 Artist Gallery Talk: Tyrone Mitchell interviewed by Ayesha William. You Tube 141117
2017 New York University, Institute for African American Affairs
2016 Hultquist Center, Chautauqua Institution
2012 Vermont Studio Center
2005 Vermont Studio Center
2002 Vermont Studio Center
2000-02 Joan Mitchell Foundation
1996 Queens College, Faculty Lecture
1995 New School for Social Research & the Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1994 Sanskreeti Prathishthan, Old Delhi, India
1993 Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
199 The Redevelopment Agency of San Diego, CA
1992 University of Colorado, Boulder
1990 Montclair State College
1990 The Newark Museum
1990 The Whitney Museum at Philip Morris
1990 Western Michigan University
1990 Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1989 California Institute for the Arts
1989 Los Angeles Museum of African American Arts
1988 State University of New York at Stony Brook
1987 Williams College
1986 The Bronx Council on the Arts
1985 Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1985 Hatch-Billops Collection, NYC. When that Time Came Rolling Down.
1985 The Bronx Museum of Art, Satellite Program
1983 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
COMMISSIONS AND OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS
2004 Full Spectrum, LLC, for 1400 on Fifth Avenue, New York City
2002 Bozidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia
2001 New U.S. Court House, Brooklyn, New York (Contract Awarded)
1996 Studio Museum in Harlem, Sculpture Garden, NYC
1994 Public Art Fund, Battery Park City, NYC
1990 Art Awareness, Lexington, New York
1984 Sculpture Garden '85, Winston-Salem State University
1981 The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
PERFORMANCE
2017 Performance and Reading, Atelier 212, Brooklyn, NY. Dick Griffin (Trombone), Tyrone Mitchell (Percussion & Thumb Piano), Raphael Macadam (reading)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023 Professor Emeritus, Queens College, CUNY
2007-2022 Professor, Art Department, Queens College, CUNY
2019-2020 Chair, MFA Department, Queens College, CUNY
2013-2014 Chair, MFA Program Committee, Queens College, CUNY
1999-2006 Associate Professor, Art Department, Queens College, CUNY
1993-1999 Assistant Professor, Art Department, Queens College, CUNY
1995 Delhi College of Art, New Delhi, India (USIA)
1992-93 City College, City University of New York
1992-93 Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
1988-93 Hunter College, City University of New York
1982-83 State University of New York at Old Westbury
BOARD MEMBER
2006-2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation (Emeritus)
JUROR/PANELIST
2021 Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
2000-2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation
2003 Joan Mitchell Foundation
2000 Joan Mitchell Foundation
1999 Fairmount Park Art Association. New Landmarks Symposium: public art, community, and the meaning of place. Philadelphia, PA
1997 New York Foundation for the Arts. New York State Artists' Fellowship Program, Sculpture.
1996 Metropolitan Transit Authority
1995 Nature Landscape and Contemporary Sculpture. New School for Social Research and The Studio Museum in Harlem. NYC
1994 Provincetown Workshop, Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA
1992 Museo de Artes Visuales, Caracas, Venezuela
1989 Los Angeles Museum of African-American Art
1986 Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts for Transit. NYC
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Program, Sculpture. NYC
CURATOR
1987 Prevalence of Myth, Organization of Independent Artists, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition Series, The Bronx Council on the Arts
HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2004 Hattie McDaniel Fine Arts Award, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
2002 Forma Viva Grant, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia
1999 Seagram’s Purchase Award: Studio Museum in Harlem
1996 Research Foundation of the City University of New York Grant
1995 United States Information Agency Fellow: University of Delhi, India. Visiting Professor and Sanskreeti Artist-in-Residence
1994 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship
1991 Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fellowship, Musee Claude Monet, Giverny, France
1990 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1984 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1983 Artists Space Grant
1983 Change, Inc. Award
1980-82 PS 1, National Studio Artist
1981 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Scholarship
1980 New York State Council on the Arts, CAPS Grant
1980 Ossabaw Foundation Fellowship
1975 Printmaking Workshop Fellowship
1968 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1961 Bernard Klonis Award
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