Highlights

Solo Exhibitions for Mildred Thompson

Mildred Thompson: Throughlines, Assemblages and Works on Paper from the ‘60s to the ‘90s, consultant, Galerie Lelong, New York, 2020
Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986-2003, co-curated, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2019
Mildred Thompson: Against the Grain, co-curated, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 2018
Mildred Thompson: Radiation Explorations and Magnetic Fields, consultant, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY, 2017

Other Solo Exhibitions and Projects

Uta Barth, Lynda Benglis, Lilian Burwell, Nick Cave, Teresita Fernández, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Maya Lin, Whitfield Lovell, Ebony G. Patterson, Alex Prager, Jessica Rankin, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Shinique Smith, Mildred Thompson, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, and Wendy White, among others, as well as site-responsive projects with Natasha Bowdoin, Ingrid Calame, Nicola López, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jason Middlebrook, and Nate Young

Group Exhibitions

  • Let Me Tell you Something, 2020 Bermuda Biennial, and What We Share, 2018 Bermuda Biennial, co-curated, Bermuda National Gallery

  • The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art - Gina Adams, Sanford Biggers, Maria Guzmán Capron, Kathryn Clark, Elizabeth Duffy, Aaron McIntosh, Tameka Norris, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Hank Willis Thomas, Vadis Turner, Ben Venom, and Saya Woolfalk, co-curated, Visual Arts Center of Richmond

  • Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today - Candida Alvarez, Betty Blayton, Chakaia Booker, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Nanette Carter, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Deborah Dancy, Abigail DeVille, Maren Hassinger, Jennie C. Jones, EJ Montgomery, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Howardena Pindell, Mavis Pusey, Shinique Smith, Gilda Snowden, Sylvia Snowden, Kianja Strobert, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, and Brenna Youngblood, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

  • Conjurers: Artists Imbue the Ordinary - Vanessa German, Marcus Kenney & Shawne Major, Visual Arts Center of Richmond

  • Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting - Ghada Amer, Tom Burr, Kendell Carter, Nick Cave, Angelo Filomeno, Vibha Galhotra, Sam Gilliam, Sheila Hicks, Emil Lukas, Elaine Reichek, Amanda Ross-Ho, and Shinique Smith, SCAD Museum of Art

  • Room In My Head: Staging Psychological Spaces - Janine Antoni, James Casebere, Gregory Crewdson, Sarah Hobbs, Isaac Julien, Laura Letinsky, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Lori Nix, Laurie Simmons, Mickalene Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems, Savannah College of Art & Design

  • The Spirituality of Place - Mark Bradford, Andy Goldsworthy, Mona Hatoum, Kimsooja, Yoko Ono, and Do-Ho Suh, Savannah College of Art & Design

Exhibition Essays

Candida Alvarez, Alexandre Arrechea, Lilian Burwell, Chakaia Booker, Natasha Bowdoin, Whitfield Lovell, Youssef Nabil, Clare Rojas, Claire Sherman, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Mildred Thompson, Trish Tillman, Vadis Turner, and Nate Young

Additional Achievements and Recognition

  • Tyson Family Scholar at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, Fall 2019

  • Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today catalogue, published 2017; available here

  • Former Artistic Director of Flux Projects, 2017

  • Former Interim Executive Director and Senior Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, 2008-16

  • Recipient of Creative Time | Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant to conduct research on the life and work of mentor Mildred Thompson, 2013

  • Public programming for the Prospect.1 New Orleans biennial (as National Program Director for ArtTable), 2007

  • Part of the inaugurating team that opened the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum; returned as guest curator and speaker, 2005-07