Jack Whitten 1939 - 2018
Represented by:
Zeno X Gallery
Jack Whitten 1939 - 2018 (US)
New York-based artist Jack Whitten's earliest experiments with painting date back to the 1960s, a period during which he created dynamic works inspired by abstract expressionism. Noted for their raucous colors and density of gesture, combined with topical content, these artworks manifest emotionally complex meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.
Experimentation turned to abstraction for Whitten in the 1970s; a new method of painting developed, one that resonates more closely with photography. Gesture is removed from the making of the work; the paint and canvas are "processed”, produced from large troughs of paint, which is dragged across the canvas with tools including squeegees, rakes, and Afro combs. This process yields palpable surface texture, line and void.
Paint became a metaphor for skin during the 1980s when Whitten experimented with "casting" acrylic paints and compounds to create new surfaces and textures. In contrast to the narrative-based and didactic work made by many Black artists during this period, Whitten’s works reintroduce gesture with aspects of sculpture and collage.
In the 1990s, Whitten's experiments with paint as a medium progressed further towards sculpture, as he transformed paint compounds into tiles, and applied them to the canvas as mosaics. These works allude to ancient architecture and murals, serving as both an homage to and memorial of celebrated public figures and intimate friends.
Jack Whitten joined the gallery in 2011.
New York-based artist Jack Whitten's earliest experiments with painting date back to the 1960s, a period during which he created dynamic works inspired by abstract expressionism. Noted for their raucous colors and density of gesture, combined with topical content, these artworks manifest emotionally complex meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.
Experimentation turned to abstraction for Whitten in the 1970s; a new method of painting developed, one that resonates more closely with photography. Gesture is removed from the making of the work; the paint and canvas are "processed”, produced from large troughs of paint, which is dragged across the canvas with tools including squeegees, rakes, and Afro combs. This process yields palpable surface texture, line and void.
Paint became a metaphor for skin during the 1980s when Whitten experimented with "casting" acrylic paints and compounds to create new surfaces and textures. In contrast to the narrative-based and didactic work made by many Black artists during this period, Whitten’s works reintroduce gesture with aspects of sculpture and collage.
In the 1990s, Whitten's experiments with paint as a medium progressed further towards sculpture, as he transformed paint compounds into tiles, and applied them to the canvas as mosaics. These works allude to ancient architecture and murals, serving as both an homage to and memorial of celebrated public figures and intimate friends.
Jack Whitten joined the gallery in 2011.
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Jack Whitten, Escalation, installation view © Peter Cox
In museum collection:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
SFMOMA
Tate Modern, London
Dallas Museum of Art
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Studio Museum in Harlem
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Birmingham Museum of Art
High Museum of Art
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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Jack Whitten’s retrospective ‘Five Decades of Painting’ travelled from the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego (2014) to the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus (2015) and the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis (2015). Earlier he had solo shows at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield (2014), Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University in Waltham (2013), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta (2008), MoMA PS1 in New York (2007), Newark Museum in Newark (1990) and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1974), amongst many others.
Whitten has participated in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2015), the Menil Collection in Houston (2015), the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2015), Brooklyn Museum in New York (2014), New Museum in New York (2013), Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2013), MOCA in Los Angeles (2012), MCA Chicago (2012) and many others.
Whitten's work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2013 and the Whitney Annuals of 1969 and 1972.
Whitten has participated in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2015), the Menil Collection in Houston (2015), the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2015), Brooklyn Museum in New York (2014), New Museum in New York (2013), Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2013), MOCA in Los Angeles (2012), MCA Chicago (2012) and many others.
Whitten's work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2013 and the Whitney Annuals of 1969 and 1972.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 'Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings', Dia:Beacon, New York (US)
'Jack Whitten', Hauser & Wirth, Zürich (CH)
2021 'Jack Whitten', Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong (CN)
2020 'I AM THE OBJECT', Hauser & Wirth, New York (US)
'Jack Whitten. Transitional Space. A Drawing Survey', Hauser & Wirth, New York (US)
2019 'Jack’s Jacks', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (DE)
'Odyssey. Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963-2017', Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (US)
2018 'Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1965-2017, The Met Breuer, New York (US)
'Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1965-2017, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (US)
2017 'More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979-1989', Hauser & Wirth, London (GB)
''Jack Whitten', Hauser & Wirth, New York (US)
2016 'The Sixties', Allan Stone Projects, New York (US)
2015 'Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting', Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis (US)
'Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (US)
'Escalation', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
2014 'Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting', The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (US)
'Jack Whitten: Evolver', The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield (US)
2013 'Light Years: Jack Whitten, 1971-1973', Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham (US)
'Jack Whitten', Alexander Gray Associates, New York (US)
2012 'Erasures, Paintings from 1975-79', Savannah College of Art and Design, Museum of Art, Savannah (US)
'Loops', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2011 'Jack Whitten', Alexander Gray Associates, New York (US)
'Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
'Jack Whitten: Ribbons of Honor', Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL (US)
2009 'Jack Whitten', Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY(US)
'Jack Whitten', Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin (DE)
2008 'Jack Whitten: Memorial Paintings', Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (US)
2007 'Jack Whitten', P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY (US)
'Jack Whitten', Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY (US)
1997 'Jack Whitten: Digital Abstractions', G.R.N?Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI (US)
1996 'Jack Whitten: Digital Abstractions', G.R.N?Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
1994 'Jack Whitten: Recent Paintings', Colgate University, Hamilton, NY (US)
'Jack Whitten: Paintings From The Seventies', Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Jack Whitten: Recent Paintings', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1993 Jack Whitten: Thirty Year Survey of Works on Paper, G.R.N?Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI (US)
1992 'Jack Whitten: Recent Paintings', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1990 'Jack Whitten: Reconstructions', Cure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
'Jack Whitten: Spirit and Matter', Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (US)
1989 'Jack Whitten: Urban Abstractions', G.R. N?Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI (US)
1984 'Inaugural Exhibition: Jack Whitten?s New Works, Onyx Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1983 'Jack Whitten: Ten Years, 1970–1980', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (US)
1978 'Jack Whitten: Paintings and Drawings', Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1977 'Jack Whitten: Paintings', Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ(US)
1974 'Jack Whitten: Paintings', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
1970 'Jack Whitten: Recent Paintings', Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1968 'Jack Whitten: Paintings and Drawings 1967–1968', Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (US)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America', The New Museum, New York (US)
2019 'Cut Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present', Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (US)
'Where the Oceans Meet', Museum of Art and Design, Miami Dade College, Miami (US)
'The Medium Is The Message: Art Since 1950', Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (US)
'Trouble in Paradise, Collection Rattan Chadha', Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
2018 'Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque', Fondazione Prada, Milan (IT)
'Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking', Americas Society and Council of the Americas, New York (US)
'Works on Paper II', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983', Brooklyn Museum, New York (US)
'Sanguine/Bloedrood - Luc Tuymans on Baroque', M HKA, Antwerp (BE)
'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983', Crystal Bridges, Bentonville (GB)
2017 'Dimensions of Black', Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis (US)
'The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America', Brooklyn Museum, New York (US)
'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983', Tate Modern, London (GB)
Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, ST. Louis (US)
'little lower layer', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (US)
'Painting Paintings (David Reed)', Gagosian Gallery, New York (US)
2016 'Postwar: Art between the Pacific and Atlantic 1945 - 1965', Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)
'Blackness in Abstraction', Pace Gallery, New York (US)
'Dirk Braeckman, Susan Hartnett, Jockum Nordström, Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'How To Be Unique', Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin (DE)
'A Constellation', Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (US)
'Postwar: Art between the Pacific and Atlantic 1945 - 1965', Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)
2015 'I Got Rhythm: Jazz and Art since 1920', Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (DE)
'Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself', Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York (Us)
'Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1870 to Now', Menil Collection, Houston (US)
'Atopolis', Manège de Sury, Mons (BE)
'Liberated Subjects: Present Tense', Fondation “De 11 Lijnen”, Ostend (BE)
'Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties', Blanton Museum, Austin (US)
'Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1870 to Now', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
'Piece Work', 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven (US)
'Works on Paper II', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
2014 'Biennial of Painting / Biënnale van de Schilderkunst: De toets van de schilder', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
'Art Expanded, 1958 – 1978', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
'Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties', Hood Museum, Vermont (US)
'Kees Goudwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Jenny Scobel, Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Witness: Art, Activism, and Civil Rights in the Sixties', Brooklyn Museum, New York (US)
'Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves', CAMH, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston (US)
2013 'Blues For Smoke', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (US)
'Kees Goudzwaard . Bart Stolle . Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Reinventing Abstraction', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York (US)
'Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/ The Encyclopedic Palace', 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice (IT)
'Opening New Space', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (Borgerhout) (BE)
'Broken Spaces: Cut, Mark, and Gesture', Alexander Gray Associates , New York (US)
'NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star ', New Museum, New York (US)
'Blues For Smoke', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US)
2012 '21st Century Collection', Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (US)
'Into the Mystic', Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
'Blues for smoke', MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)
'Pulp', Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham (US)
'Cadmus Steers Warhol', Alexander Gray Associates, New York (US)
'Artists of the gallery ', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
'Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today', Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (US)
'The Bearden Project', The Studio Museum, New York (US)
2011 'Works on Paper', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
'Wood & Glass', Daedalus & Icarus Cave, Aghia Galini (GR)
'Making a Mark: Drawings from the Contemporary Collection', High Museum of Art, Atlanta (US)
'The Chemistry of Color: The Sorgenti Collection of African-American Art', Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (US)
2010 'Art in Embassies', Curated by Rhea Anastas, Arlington, VA (US)
'Abstract Relations: Selections from the David Driskell Center and the University of Delaware', Newark (US)
'Greater New York Rotating Gallery: The Comfort of Strangers', curated by Cecilia Alemani, P.S.1/MoMA, New York, NY (US)
2009 'FAX', The Drawing Center, New York, NY (US)
'Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection', Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY (US)
2008 'Propose: Works on Paper from the 1970s', Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY (US)
'Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts', American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (US)
2007 'Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
'Short Distance To Now: Paintings from New York, 1967–1975', Galerie Thomas Flor, Dusseldorf (DE)
2006 'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (US)
'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. (US)
'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', National Academy Museum, New York, NY (US)
'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (MX)
'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (DE)
'Unbreakable', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
'Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (US)
2005 'The Chemistry of Color: African American Artists in Philadelphia, 1970–1990', Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (US)
2004 'Something to Look Forward To, The Phillips Museum of Art', Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA (US)
2003 'An American Legacy: Art From The Studio Museum in Harlem', Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (US)
2001 'In The Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.', The Smithsonian Institution (SITES), Washington, D.C (US)
2000 'Off the Record: Music in Art', Bucknell Art Gallery, Elaine Lagone Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (US)
'Painting Function: Making it Real', SPACES, Cleveland, OH (US)
1996 'Current Geometries in Abstraction', Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
'Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art', National Gallery, Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens (GR)
M'Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art', Museu d?Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
'Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art', Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (DE)
'In The Flesh', Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'Frankenstein (in Normal)', Illinois State University, Normal, IL (US)
'Model Salon', The Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Painting in an Expanding Field', Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT (US)
1995 'It?s How You Play The Game', Exit Art, New York, NY (US)
'Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists With Alabama Ties', Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL (US)
Painting Faculty, The Cooper Union Art School, New York, NY (US)
'In The Flesh', Freedman Gallery Center for the Arts, Albright College, Reading, PA (US)
'On Target', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Model Salon', The Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Painting in an Expanding Field', Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT (US)
1994 'Conjunction 12', Gallery Korea, New York, NY (US)
'Le Temp D?un Dessin', Galerie De L?Ecole Des Beaux-Arts De Lorient, Lorient (FR)
'Bearden and Company', A.S.T.U. Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Mirage', Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'30 Years—Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich?s Curatorial History 1964–1994', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'Heterogeneity: Abstraction and Virtual Space, 12 Contemporary New York Artists', Friedman, Billings, Ramsey and Co., Inc., Edinburgh (GB)
1993 'Reflections of a King', National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN (US)
'Skin Deep', New Museum, New York, NY (US)
'Diversity and Style: African American Artists', University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI (US)
'Invitation to a Review', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African American Art', Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Faculty Show', Hunter College, New York, NY (US)
'My Home is Your Home: Construction in Process IV', The Artists Museum, Lodz, (PL)
1992 College Art Gallery, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY (US)
'Reverb: 1960?s–1970?s', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Drawing: From Beginning to End', Ben Shahn Gallery William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ (US)
'Forms of Abstraction', G.R.N? Namdi Gallery, Columbus, OH (US)
'Slow Art', P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, NY (US)
1991 'Collage: New Applications', Lehman Collage Art Gallery, Bronx, NY (US)
'Expressive Drawings', New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (US)
'The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945–1975', Kenkelaba Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Reinberger Galleries of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (US)
'Espiritu & Materia: Estetica Alternitiva Norteamericano: Melvin Edwards, Tyrone Mitchell, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams', Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas (VE)
'Artists Love New York', Marine Midland Bank, New York, NY (US)
'Infusion', Brooklyn College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
'Forms of Abstraction', G.R. N? Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI (US)
1990 'Reinstallation of Third Floor Galleries', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
1989 'Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Decent', The California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (US)
1988 'New York City Works by Twenty One Artists', One Penn Plaza, New York, NY (US)
'Invitational Group Show', Eric Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1986 'Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans, 1925–1985', Department of Art, Hampton University, Hampton, VA (US)
'An Invitational', Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Masters and Pupils, The Education of the Black Artist in New York: 1900–1980', Jamaica Art Center, (JM)
Metropolitan Life Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art', The Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (US)
1983 'The Black and White Show', Kenkelaba Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1982 'Sacred Artifacts: Common Objects of Devotion', The Alternative Museum, New York, NY (US)
1981 'Indigenous Wood', Kenkelaba Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'The New Spiritualism, Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture', Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (US)
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (US)
Abstract Painting, New York City 1981, An Exhibition of Paintings by Fourteen New York Artists, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (US)
1980 'Afro-American Abstraction: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting And Sculpture by Nineteen Black American Artists', Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1 Center for the Contemporary Arts, New York, NY (US)
'Two-Person Exhibition: Howardeena Pindell, Jack Whitten', Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ (US)
'Radical Attitudes to the Gallery', Art Net, London (GB)
1979 'New York Now', Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (US)
'Another Generation', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (US)
'Recent Works by Manuel Hughes, William T. Williams and Jack Whitten', Alternative Center for International Art, New York, NY (US)
'The 1970?s: New American Painting', Curated by Marcia Tucker, traveled to Italy, Denmark, Eastern Europe
1977 'Contemporary Collectors', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'Reinstallation of the Twentieth Century Art Galleries', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US)
1975 'Abstract Painting', Fine Arts Gallery, New York State University at Brockport, NY (US)
'Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art', Bedford–Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY (US)
1974 'Recent Abstract Painting', Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
'Tenth Anniversary 1964–1974', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'Three Person Exhibition: Elliot Loyd, Gary Smith, Jack Whitten', Soho Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY (US)
'New American Abstract Painting', Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (US)
'Four Painters: Jake Berthot, Gary Hudson, Harvey Quaytman, Jack Whitten', Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1972 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
'Contemporary Reflections 1971–1974', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'New American Abstract Painting', Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (US)
1971 'Untitled II, The Junior Council Art Lending Service', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
1970 'New York: New York', American Federation of Arts, New York, NY (US)
1969 'Five + 1, Frank Bowling, Melvin Edwards, Al Loving, William T. Williams, Daniel L. Johnson, Jack Whitten', Art Gallery at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY (US)
Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (US)
'1969 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
1968 'New Voices: 15 New York Artists', American Greetings Corporation Gallery with the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (US)
'In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
1965 'Four Men–One Theme: Jack Krueger, Richard Lethem, Mel Roman, Jack Whitten', Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (US)
2022 'Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings', Dia:Beacon, New York (US)
'Jack Whitten', Hauser & Wirth, Zürich (CH)
2021 'Jack Whitten', Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong (CN)
2020 'I AM THE OBJECT', Hauser & Wirth, New York (US)
'Jack Whitten. Transitional Space. A Drawing Survey', Hauser & Wirth, New York (US)
2019 'Jack’s Jacks', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (DE)
'Odyssey. Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963-2017', Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (US)
2018 'Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1965-2017, The Met Breuer, New York (US)
'Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1965-2017, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (US)
2017 'More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979-1989', Hauser & Wirth, London (GB)
''Jack Whitten', Hauser & Wirth, New York (US)
2016 'The Sixties', Allan Stone Projects, New York (US)
2015 'Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting', Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis (US)
'Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (US)
'Escalation', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
2014 'Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting', The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (US)
'Jack Whitten: Evolver', The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield (US)
2013 'Light Years: Jack Whitten, 1971-1973', Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham (US)
'Jack Whitten', Alexander Gray Associates, New York (US)
2012 'Erasures, Paintings from 1975-79', Savannah College of Art and Design, Museum of Art, Savannah (US)
'Loops', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2011 'Jack Whitten', Alexander Gray Associates, New York (US)
'Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
'Jack Whitten: Ribbons of Honor', Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL (US)
2009 'Jack Whitten', Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY(US)
'Jack Whitten', Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin (DE)
2008 'Jack Whitten: Memorial Paintings', Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (US)
2007 'Jack Whitten', P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY (US)
'Jack Whitten', Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY (US)
1997 'Jack Whitten: Digital Abstractions', G.R.N?Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI (US)
1996 'Jack Whitten: Digital Abstractions', G.R.N?Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
1994 'Jack Whitten: Recent Paintings', Colgate University, Hamilton, NY (US)
'Jack Whitten: Paintings From The Seventies', Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Jack Whitten: Recent Paintings', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1993 Jack Whitten: Thirty Year Survey of Works on Paper, G.R.N?Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI (US)
1992 'Jack Whitten: Recent Paintings', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1990 'Jack Whitten: Reconstructions', Cure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
'Jack Whitten: Spirit and Matter', Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (US)
1989 'Jack Whitten: Urban Abstractions', G.R. N?Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI (US)
1984 'Inaugural Exhibition: Jack Whitten?s New Works, Onyx Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1983 'Jack Whitten: Ten Years, 1970–1980', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (US)
1978 'Jack Whitten: Paintings and Drawings', Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1977 'Jack Whitten: Paintings', Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ(US)
1974 'Jack Whitten: Paintings', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
1970 'Jack Whitten: Recent Paintings', Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1968 'Jack Whitten: Paintings and Drawings 1967–1968', Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (US)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America', The New Museum, New York (US)
2019 'Cut Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present', Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (US)
'Where the Oceans Meet', Museum of Art and Design, Miami Dade College, Miami (US)
'The Medium Is The Message: Art Since 1950', Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (US)
'Trouble in Paradise, Collection Rattan Chadha', Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
2018 'Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque', Fondazione Prada, Milan (IT)
'Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking', Americas Society and Council of the Americas, New York (US)
'Works on Paper II', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983', Brooklyn Museum, New York (US)
'Sanguine/Bloedrood - Luc Tuymans on Baroque', M HKA, Antwerp (BE)
'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983', Crystal Bridges, Bentonville (GB)
2017 'Dimensions of Black', Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis (US)
'The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America', Brooklyn Museum, New York (US)
'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983', Tate Modern, London (GB)
Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, ST. Louis (US)
'little lower layer', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (US)
'Painting Paintings (David Reed)', Gagosian Gallery, New York (US)
2016 'Postwar: Art between the Pacific and Atlantic 1945 - 1965', Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)
'Blackness in Abstraction', Pace Gallery, New York (US)
'Dirk Braeckman, Susan Hartnett, Jockum Nordström, Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'How To Be Unique', Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin (DE)
'A Constellation', Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (US)
'Postwar: Art between the Pacific and Atlantic 1945 - 1965', Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)
2015 'I Got Rhythm: Jazz and Art since 1920', Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (DE)
'Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself', Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York (Us)
'Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1870 to Now', Menil Collection, Houston (US)
'Atopolis', Manège de Sury, Mons (BE)
'Liberated Subjects: Present Tense', Fondation “De 11 Lijnen”, Ostend (BE)
'Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties', Blanton Museum, Austin (US)
'Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1870 to Now', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
'Piece Work', 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven (US)
'Works on Paper II', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
2014 'Biennial of Painting / Biënnale van de Schilderkunst: De toets van de schilder', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
'Art Expanded, 1958 – 1978', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
'Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties', Hood Museum, Vermont (US)
'Kees Goudwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Jenny Scobel, Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Witness: Art, Activism, and Civil Rights in the Sixties', Brooklyn Museum, New York (US)
'Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves', CAMH, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston (US)
2013 'Blues For Smoke', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (US)
'Kees Goudzwaard . Bart Stolle . Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Reinventing Abstraction', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York (US)
'Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/ The Encyclopedic Palace', 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice (IT)
'Opening New Space', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (Borgerhout) (BE)
'Broken Spaces: Cut, Mark, and Gesture', Alexander Gray Associates , New York (US)
'NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star ', New Museum, New York (US)
'Blues For Smoke', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US)
2012 '21st Century Collection', Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (US)
'Into the Mystic', Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
'Blues for smoke', MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)
'Pulp', Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham (US)
'Cadmus Steers Warhol', Alexander Gray Associates, New York (US)
'Artists of the gallery ', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
'Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today', Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (US)
'The Bearden Project', The Studio Museum, New York (US)
2011 'Works on Paper', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
'Wood & Glass', Daedalus & Icarus Cave, Aghia Galini (GR)
'Making a Mark: Drawings from the Contemporary Collection', High Museum of Art, Atlanta (US)
'The Chemistry of Color: The Sorgenti Collection of African-American Art', Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (US)
2010 'Art in Embassies', Curated by Rhea Anastas, Arlington, VA (US)
'Abstract Relations: Selections from the David Driskell Center and the University of Delaware', Newark (US)
'Greater New York Rotating Gallery: The Comfort of Strangers', curated by Cecilia Alemani, P.S.1/MoMA, New York, NY (US)
2009 'FAX', The Drawing Center, New York, NY (US)
'Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection', Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY (US)
2008 'Propose: Works on Paper from the 1970s', Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY (US)
'Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts', American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (US)
2007 'Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
'Short Distance To Now: Paintings from New York, 1967–1975', Galerie Thomas Flor, Dusseldorf (DE)
2006 'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (US)
'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. (US)
'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', National Academy Museum, New York, NY (US)
'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (MX)
'High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–1975 (2006–2008)', ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (DE)
'Unbreakable', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
'Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (US)
2005 'The Chemistry of Color: African American Artists in Philadelphia, 1970–1990', Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (US)
2004 'Something to Look Forward To, The Phillips Museum of Art', Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA (US)
2003 'An American Legacy: Art From The Studio Museum in Harlem', Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (US)
2001 'In The Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.', The Smithsonian Institution (SITES), Washington, D.C (US)
2000 'Off the Record: Music in Art', Bucknell Art Gallery, Elaine Lagone Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (US)
'Painting Function: Making it Real', SPACES, Cleveland, OH (US)
1996 'Current Geometries in Abstraction', Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
'Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art', National Gallery, Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens (GR)
M'Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art', Museu d?Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
'Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art', Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (DE)
'In The Flesh', Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'Frankenstein (in Normal)', Illinois State University, Normal, IL (US)
'Model Salon', The Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Painting in an Expanding Field', Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT (US)
1995 'It?s How You Play The Game', Exit Art, New York, NY (US)
'Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists With Alabama Ties', Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL (US)
Painting Faculty, The Cooper Union Art School, New York, NY (US)
'In The Flesh', Freedman Gallery Center for the Arts, Albright College, Reading, PA (US)
'On Target', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Model Salon', The Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Painting in an Expanding Field', Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT (US)
1994 'Conjunction 12', Gallery Korea, New York, NY (US)
'Le Temp D?un Dessin', Galerie De L?Ecole Des Beaux-Arts De Lorient, Lorient (FR)
'Bearden and Company', A.S.T.U. Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Mirage', Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'30 Years—Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich?s Curatorial History 1964–1994', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'Heterogeneity: Abstraction and Virtual Space, 12 Contemporary New York Artists', Friedman, Billings, Ramsey and Co., Inc., Edinburgh (GB)
1993 'Reflections of a King', National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN (US)
'Skin Deep', New Museum, New York, NY (US)
'Diversity and Style: African American Artists', University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI (US)
'Invitation to a Review', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African American Art', Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Faculty Show', Hunter College, New York, NY (US)
'My Home is Your Home: Construction in Process IV', The Artists Museum, Lodz, (PL)
1992 College Art Gallery, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY (US)
'Reverb: 1960?s–1970?s', Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Drawing: From Beginning to End', Ben Shahn Gallery William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ (US)
'Forms of Abstraction', G.R.N? Namdi Gallery, Columbus, OH (US)
'Slow Art', P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, NY (US)
1991 'Collage: New Applications', Lehman Collage Art Gallery, Bronx, NY (US)
'Expressive Drawings', New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (US)
'The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945–1975', Kenkelaba Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Reinberger Galleries of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (US)
'Espiritu & Materia: Estetica Alternitiva Norteamericano: Melvin Edwards, Tyrone Mitchell, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams', Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas (VE)
'Artists Love New York', Marine Midland Bank, New York, NY (US)
'Infusion', Brooklyn College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
'Forms of Abstraction', G.R. N? Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI (US)
1990 'Reinstallation of Third Floor Galleries', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
1989 'Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Decent', The California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (US)
1988 'New York City Works by Twenty One Artists', One Penn Plaza, New York, NY (US)
'Invitational Group Show', Eric Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1986 'Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans, 1925–1985', Department of Art, Hampton University, Hampton, VA (US)
'An Invitational', Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Masters and Pupils, The Education of the Black Artist in New York: 1900–1980', Jamaica Art Center, (JM)
Metropolitan Life Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art', The Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (US)
1983 'The Black and White Show', Kenkelaba Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1982 'Sacred Artifacts: Common Objects of Devotion', The Alternative Museum, New York, NY (US)
1981 'Indigenous Wood', Kenkelaba Gallery, New York, NY (US)
'The New Spiritualism, Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture', Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (US)
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (US)
Abstract Painting, New York City 1981, An Exhibition of Paintings by Fourteen New York Artists, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (US)
1980 'Afro-American Abstraction: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting And Sculpture by Nineteen Black American Artists', Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1 Center for the Contemporary Arts, New York, NY (US)
'Two-Person Exhibition: Howardeena Pindell, Jack Whitten', Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ (US)
'Radical Attitudes to the Gallery', Art Net, London (GB)
1979 'New York Now', Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (US)
'Another Generation', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (US)
'Recent Works by Manuel Hughes, William T. Williams and Jack Whitten', Alternative Center for International Art, New York, NY (US)
'The 1970?s: New American Painting', Curated by Marcia Tucker, traveled to Italy, Denmark, Eastern Europe
1977 'Contemporary Collectors', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'Reinstallation of the Twentieth Century Art Galleries', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US)
1975 'Abstract Painting', Fine Arts Gallery, New York State University at Brockport, NY (US)
'Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art', Bedford–Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY (US)
1974 'Recent Abstract Painting', Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
'Tenth Anniversary 1964–1974', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'Three Person Exhibition: Elliot Loyd, Gary Smith, Jack Whitten', Soho Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY (US)
'New American Abstract Painting', Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (US)
'Four Painters: Jake Berthot, Gary Hudson, Harvey Quaytman, Jack Whitten', Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY (US)
1972 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
'Contemporary Reflections 1971–1974', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (US)
'New American Abstract Painting', Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (US)
1971 'Untitled II, The Junior Council Art Lending Service', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
1970 'New York: New York', American Federation of Arts, New York, NY (US)
1969 'Five + 1, Frank Bowling, Melvin Edwards, Al Loving, William T. Williams, Daniel L. Johnson, Jack Whitten', Art Gallery at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY (US)
Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (US)
'1969 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
1968 'New Voices: 15 New York Artists', American Greetings Corporation Gallery with the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (US)
'In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
1965 'Four Men–One Theme: Jack Krueger, Richard Lethem, Mel Roman, Jack Whitten', Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (US)
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