Talk:Ming Smith

Moved mostly uncited CV material off main space

Some of these are major exhibitions that should be presented in a consolidated form. Return only with proper sourcing. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:37, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

List of group exhibitions

A selection of other exhibitions of Smith's work includes:

• 1972 – Kamoinge Group Show; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
• 1976 – Exposure: Work by Ten Photographers; Creative Artists Public Service Program, New York City
• 1980 – Self-Portrait; Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, traveled to the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, MA
• 1983 – Contemporary Afro-American Photography; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
• 1984 – 14 Photographers; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
• 1989 – Ming Smith, Anthony Barboza, Adger W Cowans, Robert Hale and Deborah Willis; Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York
• 1995 – Cultural Images: Sweet Potato Pie; curated by Russel A. Murray, Art in the Atrium, Morristown, NJ
• 1999 – Black New York Photographers of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collections; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
• 2000 – Reflections In Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present; organized by the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American Identity and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; traveling exhibition
• 2000 – MOMA2000; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2000 – Ming; Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
• 2001 – Life of the city, An Exhibition in Answer to 2001; Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2002 – Original Acts: Photographs of African-American Performers from the Paul R. Jones Collection; University of Delaware, Newark, DE
• 2002 – Life of the city, An Exhibition in Answer to 2001; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2003 – Generations: An Exhibit of African American Art; Art in the Atrium, Morristown, NJ
• 2003 – In the Spirit: Invisible Woman; African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA
• 2004 – A Century of African American Art: The Paul R Jones Collection, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
• 2005 – Contemporary Afro-American Photography; Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
• 2006 – Kamoinge Inc: Black Music from Bebop to Hip Hop; co-curated by Danny Simmons and Mark Blackshear, Brooklyn Academy of Music
• 2006 – Harlem Photographers Present Images Dating Back to the Civil Rights Movement; Columbia College, Chicago, IL
• 2007 – Contemporary Afro-American Photography; Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana
• 2008 – New York City: In Focus; Bellevue Hospital Center Atrium, New York
• 2008 – 16th Annual Exhibition: Creative Destinations 2008 Exhibition of African American Art; Art in the Atrium, Morristown, NJ
• 2009 – Sound:Print:Record: African American; University of Delaware, Newark, DE
• 2010 – Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2013 – Ming Smith: Works from the Paul R. Jones Collection; The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
• 2017 – States of America: Photography from the Civil Rights Movement to the Reagan Era; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
• 2017 – Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
• 2017 – Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Fride Orupabo, and Missylanyus); Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
• 2017 – We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965–85; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• 2017 – Black Photographers Annual; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
• 2017 – Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power; Tate Modern, London, UK
• 2018 – Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Traveled to: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
• 2018 – Family Pictures; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, traveled to, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
• 2019 – Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power; The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, Traveled to: de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
• 2019 – Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Fride Orupabo, and Missylanyus); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, Traveled to: Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
• 2019 – Down Time: On the Art of Retreat; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
• 2020 – Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA, Traveling to: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2020/21

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