SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2018 

. Soul Culture, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina

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2015

· EPCC Atrium Martinique, Forte-de-France, Martinique. Renée Cox: An Initmate Introspection (November 5, 2015 - November 29, 2015)

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2008

· Two Lines Gallery, Beijing, China, Renee Cox: Queen Nanny of the Maroons (March 1 - March 30)

· Mabel Smith Douglass Library Gallery, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Renee Cox: The Work (September 22 - December 8)

· Galerie Nordine Zidoun, Paris, France, The Discreet Charm of the Bougies (November 1 - December 20)

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2006  

· Lobby Gallery, New York, Renee Cox: Rajé (October 14 - November 27)

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2005  

· Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Renee Cox: Queen Nanny of the Maroons (February 24 - March 26)

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2001  

· Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Renee Cox: American Family (October 10 - November 10)

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2000

· Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, Peoples Project 2000 (a portrait project)

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1998

· Cristinerose Gallery, New York, Rajé: A Superhero: The Beginning of a Bold New Era (February 21 - March 28)

 

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2018 

. Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Mobile Museum of Art, South Carolina

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2016

· Black Pulp!, Yale School of Art, New Haven

· Remix, Themes and Variations in African American Art, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina

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2015

· Family Affair, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum

· Amika Dorkins Gallery, Altanta Celebrates Photography, Atlanta, Georgia "On Being Black" (October 16, 2015 - January 22, 2016)

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2014 

· Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany - Me.Myself.Naked (October 20 - February 2, 2014) 

· Perez Art Museum, Miami - Caribbean: Crossroads of the World (April 18 - August 17)

· Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - Posing Beauty in African American Culture (April 26 - July 27)

· The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada - Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography (May 1 - May 25)

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2013

· El Museo del Barrio, Queen Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, (June 12 - Jan 6)

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2012  

· Kade / Kunsthal in Amersfoort, Holland. Who’s More Sci-Fi Than Us, contemporary art from the Caribbean. (May 26 - Aug 26).

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2011  

· Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain - Heroines (March 8 - June 5)

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2010

· Tate Liverpool, Afro Modern - Journeys through the Black Atlantic, (January 20 - April 25)

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2009

· Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body

· The Carleton College Art Gallery, Carleton College, Modernizing Melodrama (January 9 - March 11)

· Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, Kréyol Factory (April 7 - July 5)

· Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, New Jersey, AfricanAmericana (February 2 - February 26)

· Spellman College Museum of Fine Art, Georgia, Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities (August 15 - December 15, 2009)

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2008

· Arlington Arts Center, Virginia, She’s So Articulate, (Jeffry Cudlin & Henry L. Thaggert Co- Curators) (June 10 - July 19)

· Mabel Smith Douglass Library Gallery, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Never Has She Ever... (October 14 - October 31)

· International Oil Painting Collection of Olympic Fine Arts, Beijing, China

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2007

· Jamaican Biennial, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (December 3, 2006 - March 10, 2007)

· New York Historical Society, Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New York (June 16 - January 7)

· Rhodes College, Tennessee, Taking Aim, Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection (September 7 - October 11)

· Kellen Gallery, Tribeca Film Festival Art Awards, New York (April 23 - May1)

· Yale Center for British Art, Art & Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (September 27 - December 30)

· Von Lintel Gallery, New York, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, (November 29 - January 20, 2008)

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2006-2008

· Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, Soul Food! (November 16 - April 22)

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2006  

· The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Connecticut, Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera (January 14 - June 18)

· Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS], New York, Artificial Afrika (January 27 - March 17)

· Katonah Museum of Art, Wonder Women: Idols in Contemporary Art (Suzanne Ramljak, Curator) (October 1 - December 31)

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2005  

· The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, African Queen (January 26 - March 27)

· Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Almost (January 20 - February 19)

· LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of Visual Arts, New York, The Divine Body (October 3 - 27)

· Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, The Forest: Politics, poetics, and Practice (October 2, 2005 -January 29, 2006)

· Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, Looking at the World: Photography from the Permanent Collection

2004  

· Busan Biennale 2004, Busan, South Korea (August 21 - October 31, 2004)

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2003-2004

· Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Splat Boom Pow! The influence of Comics in Contemporary Art (September 17, 2003 - January 4 2004)

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2003  

· Zabriske Gallery, New York, Who? Me? : Role-Play in Self-Portrait Photography (December 17 2002 - January 24 2003)

· Henry Radford Hope School of fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Feminine Persuasion (February 14 - March 14)

2002  

· Edward Mitterand Fine Arts, Geneva, Super Heroes (March 7 - April 20)

· Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Art & Outrage (June 5 - 15) exhibition presented by the Trio Network, Inc, and USA Cable)

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2001  

· Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Committed to the Image (Barbara Millstein, Curator) (February 16 - April 29)

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2000  

· Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photography (Deborah Willis, Curator)

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1999

· Fin de Siecle, Nantes, Frances, New York a Nantes (Patricia Solini, Curator)

· The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Picturing of the Modern Amazon (Laurie Fierstein, Curator)

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1998 

· Looking Forward Looking Back, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit (February 5 - March 26)

· Venice Biennale, Oratorio di S. Ludivico/New School, Venice (Kathy Goncharov, Curator)

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1997

· Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Gendered Visions (Prof. Salah Hassan and Dorothy Desir-Davis, Curators)

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1996  

· Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, No Doubt (Renee Cox, Curator)

· UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s ‘Dinner Party’ in Feminist Art History (April 24 - August 18)

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1995  

· Pace/McGill Gallery, New York, Large Bodies (Peter McGill Curator)

· The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, Sites of Being (Milena Kalinovska and Lia Gangitano, Curator)

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1993

· Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art (Thelma Golden, Curator)

· New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Bad Girls (Marcia Tucker Curator)

 

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EDUCATION

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​1992-1993

· Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York

1990-1992

· M.F.A. School of Visual Arts, New York

 

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AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS

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2015

· Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Gold Rush Awards Honoree (October 24, 2015-2015/2016 Honoree)

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2007  

· Aaron Matalon Award, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica Chrysalis Award, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts

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2006  

· The Chrysalis Award, Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award Recipient, MOCADA

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1997  

· Artists-in-Residence Program, Light Works, Syracuse, NY

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1996  

· Artists Fellowship Award, New York Foundation for the Arts The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NY

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1993

· Creative Time Inc. – Street Poster Project, Mama I Thought Only Black People Were Bad (executed in collaboration with Tony Cokes)

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

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2001-03

· Adjunct Professor, New York University, New York

 

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LECTURES

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2016

· Yale University, Black Pulp! Artist Talk (February 5th)

· University of Texas at Austin, Center for Art of Africa and Its Diasporas, LeaderShip TransForms Conference, Keynote Address (April)

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2014

· Miami 5th Annual Art Basel Panel Discussion (December 7)

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2009  

· The Maryland Institute College of Art, Keynote Speaker, Unity Week 2009: Create the Dream

· Yale School of Art, MFA Lecture (March 17)

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2008  

· Wellesley College, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body Symposium

· Rutgers University, Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-In-Residence, Renee Cox: The Work

· University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Renee Cox: The Work

· Heckscher Museum of Art, New York, Renee Cox: The Work

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2007  

· Columbia College, Chicago, Renee Cox: The Work

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2006  

· Massachusetts College of Art, Adderley Series, Renee Cox: The Work

· Addison Gallery of American Art, Portraying The Self/Picturing Others, Panel Discussion

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2005  

· University of Maryland, Renee Cox: The Work