b. 1960, Brooklyn N.Y., USA
d. 1988, New York, USA
Selected solo exhibitions
2023
Basquiat x Warhol, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Basquiat. The Modena Paintings, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2022
Basquiat. Die Retrospektive, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure, Starrett-Lehigh Building, New York, USA
2020
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kunstmuseum Brod, Los Angeles, USA
2018
Jean-Michel Basquiat – Egon Schiele, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Basquiat. Doom for Real, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2017
Basquiat: Boom for Real, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
2015
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada; Travelled to: Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2014
Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing: Work from the Schorr Family Collection, Acquavella Galleries, New York, USA
2013
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Warlhol/Basquiat, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
Man Made: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sotheby’s, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012
Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Picasso / Basquiat, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, USA
Warhol and Basquiat, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Pascal Lansberg, Paris, France
Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland; Traveled to: City Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Basquiat/Warhol, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, USA
2009
Large Drawings, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Jean-Michel Basquiat: To Repel Ghosts, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain; Traveled to: Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
2006
The Jean-Michel Basquiat show, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
2005
In Word Only, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Basquiat, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Lugano, Italy
2002
Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat: Collaboration Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA
1998
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Drawings & Paintings 1980-1988, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA
1997
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Oeuvres Sur Papier, Fondation Dina-Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris, France
Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat: Collaborations, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
1996
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Bodies and Heads, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Palacio Episcopal de Mágala, Málaga, Spain
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1995
Two Cents: Works on Paper by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Poetry by Kevin Young,
Center Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, USA ; Traveled to: Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Buffalo, USA; Otis Gallery of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA
1994
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works in Black and White, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Blue Ribbon Series, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, USA; Traveled to: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
1993
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Delta Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, FAE, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully-Lausanne, France
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Peinture, dessin, écriture, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris, France
1992
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Eric van de Weghe, Brussels, Belgium
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
Installation of Nu Nile and Untitled, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Traveled to: the Menil Collection, Houston, USA; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA; Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, USA
1991
Jean-Michel Basquiat, P.S. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, South Korea; Traveled to: The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
1990
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Le Gall Peyroulet, Paris, France
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fabien Boulakia, Paris, France
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ho-Am Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1989
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Warhol-Basquiat: Collaborations, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Paris, France
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dau al Set, Galerie d’Art, Barcelona, Spain
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings, Drawings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
1988
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vrej Baghoomian Galelry, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mayor Rowan Gallery, and David Grob Limited, London, UK
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gallery Schlesinger Limited, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA
1987
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Drawings, P.S. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1986
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kesnter Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Centre Culturel Francais d’Abidjan, Adidjan, Ivory
Coast, Africa
Collaborations: Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Drawings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
1985
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings from 1982, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Traveled to: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Andy Warhol, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Carpenter and Hochman Gallery, Dallas, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Andy Warhol, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Fruitmaker Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; Museum Boymans-van Beunigen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
1983
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Café West Beach, Venice, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1982
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Blum/Helman, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fun Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1981
Jean-Michel Basquiat: SAMO, Galleria d’Arte Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Selected Group exhibitions
2020
New York’s Art Scene in the 80s through the eyes of contemporaries, PULPO Gallery, Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany
Portraits: 1962 – 2017, PULPO Gallery, Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany
2018
Sea of Desire, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
2017
Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, USA
2016
Creature, The Broad, Los Angeles, USA
Nude: From Modigliani to Currin, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
LEXICON, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
2015
Sprayed, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2014
Basquiat and the Bayou, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA
Poetics of the Gesture: Schiele, Twombly, Basquiat, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, USA
The House, Faggionata Fine Art, London, UK
Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to The Present, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Navigating Art Languages: The James M. Shelton, Jr. Collection, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, USA
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Calligraffiti 1984-2013, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA
30 Years, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
I, You, We, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
30 Americans, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, USA
Textures: the Word in Contemporary Art, ACA Galleries, New York, USA
Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
2012
Micro Mania, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Masterpieces from The Berardo Collection, Gary Nader Art Centre. Miami, USA
Ménage à trois: Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2011
Club 57 and Friends, Dorian Grey Gallery, New York, USA
Art in the Streets, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Graffiti New York 80’s: Group Exhibition, La Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
The Street Art Show, Opera Gallery, London, UK
Street and Studio: From Basquiat to Séripop, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2010
The Record, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, USA
Basquiat/Terada/Mapplethorpe, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Miró/Dubuffet/Basquiat, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA
Big Paper Winter, Woodward Gallery, New York, USA
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2009
A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
The Jazz Century, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2008
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA
2005
Winterpaperseven, Woodward Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
1998
Portraits Obscured, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
1996
Two Cents: Works on Paper by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Poetry by Kevin Young,
Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Buffalo, USA
1994
The Harman and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, USA
1993
The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, Fine Arts University of California, Irvine, USA
Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1982-1983: Ten Years After, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1992
Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African American Presence, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan; Traveled to: Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan; Otani Memorial Art Museum, Kanagawa, Japan; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, USA
X Mostra de Gravura, Curitaba / Mostra America, Fundacio Culturel de Curitaba/Museo de Gravura, Curitaba, Brazil
Baziotes to Basquiat...and Beyond, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jonathan Borofsky, Richard Bosman, Kant So Lee, Terry Winters, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, USA
Ars Pro Domo, Gesellschaft für Modern Kunst an Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Passions and Cultures: Selected Works from the Rivendell Collection, 1967-1991, The Richard and Marieluise Black Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
An Exhibition for Satyajit Ray, Philppe Briet Gallery, New York, USA
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris, Bomani Gallery and Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA
1991
American Artists of the 80s, Palazzo delle Albere, Museo Provinciale d’Arte, Trento, Italy
Works on Paper, Anninan Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Domenikos Thetokopoulos: A Dialogue, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, USA
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Traveled to: The Forum and Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, USA; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA
Art of the 1980s: Selections from the Collection of the Eli Broad Family Foundation, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA
Portrait on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Mito y Magia en América: los Ochenta, Museo de Arte Contemporanéo, Monterrey, Mexico
Drawing Acquisitions, 1980-1991: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Compassion and Protest: Recent Social and Political Art from the Eli Broad Family V Foundation Collection, San Jose Museum, USA
Selected Works. Enrico Navarra Gallery, New York, USA
An Aspect of Contemporary Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Words & #. Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
The 1980s: A Selected View from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1990
Quickdraw: American Master Drawings Since 1959, Frank Bernaducci Gallery, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Cavaliero Fine Arts, New York, USA
Language in Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Pharmakon ’90, Nippon Convention Center, International Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Faces, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York USA
Gesture & Signature, Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Par hassard: A Changing Installation of Recent Acquisitions, Douglas Drake Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Selection Americaine, Galerie Hadrien-Thomas, Paris, France
Selected Works, The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, USA
Summer Works on Paper, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1989
Modern and Contemporary Master Drawings, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
Words, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat/Julian Schnabel, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
1979-1989: American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, Hofstra Museum, New York, USA; Traveled to: Lehigh University Art Galleries, USA; Ralph Wilson Gallery, Bethlehem, USA
The Chase Manhattan Bank Collection 1974-1989, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
A Decade of American Drawing 1980-1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Blues Aesthetics: Black Culture and Modernism, The Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, USA; Traveled to: the California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, USA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, USA; Traveled to: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA; Cheney Cowles Art Museum, Spokane, USA; Boise Art Museum, USA; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, USA; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, USA; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, USA
1900 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
Figure As Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975, Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, New York, USA; Traveled to: Erwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, USA; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, USA; Amarillo Art Center, USA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA; Madison Art Center, USA
1988
Selected Americans, Edward Totah Gallery, London, UK
Rebop, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, USA
After Street Art. Boca Raton Museum of Art, USA
Collaborations: Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mayor Rowan Gallery, Mayor Gallery, and David Grob Limited, London, UK
Works on Paper, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Michael Maloney Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
L’art Contemporian a la Defense: Les Annees 80 Vues par Cinq Galeries, Galerie La Defense Art 4, Paris, France
Art et Langage: Annees 80 Oeuvrs Choisies, Centre d’Histoire de L’art Contemporain, Quimper, France
1987
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
The East Village Force de Frappe Comes to the South Bronx, Fashion Moda, Bronx, USA
Pop Art from the U.S.A and Europe from the Ludwig Collection, Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy
16 @ 56: Summer Salon, 56 Bleecker Gallery, New York, USA
The Frederick R. Weisman Collection: An International Survey, San Antonio Art Institute, USA
New York Graffiti. Ludwigshafen, Wilhem-Hack Museum, Heilbronn, Germany
Logos, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1986
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Equitable Center, New York, USA
75th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Naivety in Art, Setegaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Issues III, Holman Hall Art Gallery, Trenton State College, USA
Portrait of a Collector: Stephane Janssen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humbleback, Denmark; Traveled to: University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, USA
Heads, Motokoff Gallery, New York, USA
Zeichen, Symbole, Graffiti in der aktuellen Kunst, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum und Museumsverein, Aachen, Germany
Esprit de New York: Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Collaborations: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Prospekt 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Focus on the Image: Selections from the Rivendell Collection, The Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco, USA; Traveled to: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA; The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, USA; Muson-Williams- Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, USA; University of South Florida Art Galleries, Tampa, USA; Lakeview Museum of Art and Sciences, Peoria, USA; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, USA; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, USA
1976-1986: Ten Years of Collecting Contemporary American Art: Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, USA
New Painting, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Basquiat-Combas Peintures, Louis Cane Sculptures, Librairie Beaubourg, Paris, France
1985
XIII Biennale de Paris, Grand Halle du Parc de la Villete, Paris, France
The Door, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Das Oberengadin in der Maleriei, Segantini Museum, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Drawing the Line: Painting, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Vom Zeichnen: Aspekte der Zeichnung 1960-1985, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Traveled to: Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany; Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Drawings, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, USA
Basquiat and James Surls, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA
7000 Eichen. Kunsthalle, Tubingen, Germany; Traveled to: Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
The Chi-Chi Show, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, USA
1984
Van der Zee Memorial Show: James Van der Zee, 1986-1983, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, USA
Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art, Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA; Traveled to: The Amelie A. Wallace Art Gallery, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, New York, USA; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, USA; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, USA; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, USA; Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Arte di Frontiera: N.Y. Graffiti, Gallerie Communale d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA
Via New York, Musee d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
American Neo-Expressionists, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Art, Area Club, New York, USA
Drawings by 11 Artists, Willard Gallery, New York, USA
Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1975-1984, Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, USA
Painting Now: The Restoration of Painterly Figuration, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
The East Village Scene, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Figuration Libre France/USA, Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Aspekte amerikanischer Kunst der Gegenwart, Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
New Art, Museé d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
1983
Champions, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, USA
Back to the USA: Amerikanische Kunst der Siebziger und Achtziger, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland; Traveled to: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverien, Stuttgart, Germany
Group Show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Food for the Soup Kitchen, Fashion Moda, Bronx, New York, USA
Mary Boone and Her Artists, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
From the Street, Greenville County Museum of Art, USA
Expressive Malerei nach Picasso, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Written Imagery Unleashed in the Twentieth Century, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, USA
Post-Graffiti, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Paintings. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
1982
Body Language: Current Issues in Figuration, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
New York, University Fine Arts Galleries, School of Visual Arts, Florida State University, Tallahasse, USA; Traveled to: Metropolitan Museum and Art Centers, Coral Gables, USA
Transavangardia: Italia/America, Galleria Civica del Commune di Modena, Italy
Anagardia Transavangardia, 68 to 77, Mura Aureliane da Porta Metronia a Porta Metronia, Rome, Italy
New Work, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
The Pressure to Paint, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Group Show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Fast, Alexander F. Miliken Gallery, New York, USA
Dokumenta 7. Kassel, Germany
Drawings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
The Expressionist Image: American Art from Pollack to Today, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Still Modern After All These Years, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, USA
Group Show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
New York Now, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany; Traveled to: Kunstverein München, Germany; Museé Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Switzerland; Kunstverein für die Rheinländer und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Five Americans, Musee Civico, Modena, Italy
Drawings/Visions: New York, Jauns Gallery, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Group Show, Blum/Helman, New York, USA
1981
New York/New Wave, P.S. 1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, USA
Lower Manhattan Drawing Show, Mudd Club, New York, USA
Beyond Words: Graffiti Based-Rooted-Inspired Works, Mudd Club, New York, USA
Public Address, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Group Show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Public collections
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
Beaubourg (Le Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou), Paris, France
Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, USA
Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Hoffmann Collection, Berlin, Germany
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, USA
Menil Collection, Houston, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, USA
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseilles, France
Museu d'Art Contemporani (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA