RICHARD HAMBLETON
Richard Hambleton, Canadian
1952-2017
Considered the “godfather of street art,” Richard Hambleton (1952-2017) was one of the dark, troubled souls of the urban art movement. Born in Canada, he first made waves in the 1970s with his Mass Murder series—a strikingly visceral work in which he chalked volunteer silhouettes on city streets, mimicking crime scenes, and splattered them with red paint. This almost ceremonial project marked the debut of his style: an art unfolding in public spaces, provoking reflection and discomfort. Hambleton transformed city streets into haunting theaters, often sharing the same urban stage with contemporaries like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat as each found a unique artistic voice in New York’s tumultuous Lower East Side.
Hambleton’s Shadowman series cemented his legacy: these dark, spectral figures—imposing shadows haunting building corners, walls, and even the Berlin Wall—became his trademark, a silent cry in New York’s nightscape and beyond. This almost theatrical act inscribed his name in street art history, and by 1982, Hambleton held his first solo exhibition. Selected for the Venice Biennale in both 1984 and 1988, he captivated institutions previously hesitant to embrace urban artists.
In the 1990s, weakened by illness and personal struggles, Hambleton gradually stepped away from the public eye, though his work persisted. Transitioning to canvas, he experimented with new formats while maintaining his passion for street themes. His work entered renowned collections at the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, and the Andy Warhol Museum. Shortly before his passing, a documentary titled Shadowman premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, exploring his life, battles, and legacy.
Hambleton’s art, like his haunting shadows, remains a lasting presence in street art history, a persistent reminder of an artist who left a trail of spectral, indomitable visions that spanned from the street to the museum.
Richard Hambleton’s legacy reshaped contemporary art, shifting perceptions of street art and expanding the limits of urban expression, inspiring countless generations of artists. His Shadowman figures weren’t just graffiti; they were installations filled with tension and mystery, transforming public spaces into areas of interaction and contemplation, and giving art a role in everyday urban life. This performative and participatory element became central to street art, inspiring contemporary artists who use public spaces to challenge passersby with subversive art.
Hambleton influenced figures like Banksy, whose interventions are often imbued with social commentary and mystery, and Shepard Fairey, who shares Hambleton’s desire to break barriers between art and audience. By introducing elements of threat and transience, he paved the way for a new type of street art, divergent from traditional codes and evoking collective imagination. Unlike art confined to galleries, his work demonstrated that street art thrives in movement, unpredictability, and even fear—elements that intensify the experience of ephemeral art.
Beyond the street, his legacy endures in institutions like MoMA and the Whitney Museum, which have recognized his contributions to the movement by incorporating his works into their collections. The Shadowman documentary, screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, celebrates his complex journey and lasting influence. Hambleton pioneered a form of visual storytelling in street art that remains widespread today, proving that even anonymous works in public spaces could become timeless and universal.
Thus, Richard Hambleton’s legacy is that of an artist who transcended mere visual expression to engrain a philosophy into urban spaces: one of raw, immediate, and powerful art whose impact resonates far beyond the street.
« I painted the city black. They can represent guardians, a danger, or the shadows of a human body after a nuclear holocaust, or even my own shadow.» Richard Hambleton
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EDUCATION
1975 - Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Advanced Diploma (Vancouver, Canada)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Richard Hambleton | Beyond the Shadowman, Chase Contemporary, New York City, New York, US, 5 – 29 Mai 2022. - Woodbury House x The Master Investor Show, Woodbury House - Woodbury House x The London Watch Show 2022, Woodbury House
2021 - Generation Y, SHIN GALLERY LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK, USA, DEC 02,2020 – JAN 20,2021 - Richard Hambleton: Shadowman, Chase Contemporary. USA, June. 1st – July 1st. - An Evening with the Shadowman, Woodbury House - Woodbury House x The London Watch Show 2021, Woodbury House - Art of Darkness: Banksy / Blek Le Rat / Richard Hambleton, Chase Contemporary - Richard Hambleton | Shadowman, Castle Fine Art
2020 - Richard Hambleton. Highlights from the Collection, CHASE CONTEMPORARY, NY (23RD STREET),CHELSEA, NEW YORK, USA, OCT 01,2020 – DEC 31,2020 - Nightlife Saatchi, Woodbury House - Woodbury House presents – Richard Hambleton ‘Nightlife Preview’, Woodbury House
2019 - Richard Hambleton: Shadowman, Chase Contemporary. USA, October 7th – December 31st. - Richard Hambleton Life on Paper, Woodward Gallery
2018 - Richard Hambleton: Eternity, ACA GALLERIES CHELSEA | NEW YORK | USA, JUN 14,2018 – JUL 27,2018 - ‘Shadowman’ at the Groucho Club, Woodbury House - Richard Hambleton – The Curtain Club, Woodbury House - Shadowman Private Screening, The Curtain Club, London
2017 - Richard Hambleton: I Only Have Eyes For You, Woodward Gallery. USA, April 4th – May 5th.
2013 - Richard Hambleton: Beautiful Paintings, curated by dir. John Woodward, Art Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve. Sleepy Hollow, USA, May 9th – June 23rd.
2011 - Richard Hambleton: A Retrospective, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani at the Phillips de Pury & Co headquarters. USA, September 9th – 13th (Final stop of the travelling exhibition: Milan, Moscow, Cannes, London).
2010 - Richard Hambleton New York, The Godfather of Street Art, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani at The Dairy. London, United Kingdom, November 18th – December 3rd. - Richard Hambleton New York, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani at the State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts. Moscow, Russia, September 9th – 26th. - Richard Hambleton New York, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani. amFAR Annual Benefit, New York, USA, May 12 th. - Richard Hambleton New York, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani. Milan, Italy, March 1st – 12th.
2009 - Richard Hambleton New York, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani. New York, USA, September 15th – October 2nd.
2007 - The Beautiful Paintings, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, September 15th – November 3rd.
1985 - Piezo Electric Gallery. New York, USA. - Salvatore Ala Gallery. New York, USA. - Zellermayer Galerie. Berlin, Germany. - Museo De Arte Costaricense. Costa Rica, Spain.
1984 - 121 Gallery. Antwerp, Belgium. - Anna Friebe Galerie, Cologne, Germany. - Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. - Galerie Salvatore Ala, Milano, Italy. - Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, USA.
1983 - Piezo Electric, New York, USA. - Civilian Warefare, New York, USA. - Limbo Lounge, New York, USA.
1982 - Alexander Milliken- East Village Gallery, New York, USA. - Flavio Belli Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1980 - La Mamelle, Inc. San Francisco, USA.
1979 - Pumps Center for Art, Vancouver, Canada.
1978 - Western Front, Vancouver, Canada.
1977 - Pumps Center for Art, Vancouver, Canada.���
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 - Icons, Iconoclasts, and Outsiders, HOWL! HAPPENING NEW YORK, USA, SEP 19,2021 – DEC 23,2021 - Art of Darkness: Banksy, Blek Le Rat, Richard HambletoN,CHASE CONTEMPORARY, NEW YORK SOHO | NEW YORK | USA, SEP 18,2021 – OCT 10,2021 - Five, MADDOX GALLERY, LONDON (MADDOX STREET) MAYFAIR, LONDON, UK, DEC 16,2020 – APR 09,2021
2020 - Sedecim XVI, WOODWARD GALLERY SOHO, NEW YORK, USA, NOV 22, 2019 – JAN 24,2020
2019 - Get Out While You Can, MADDOX GALLERY, GSTAAD GSTAAD | SWITZERLAND, JUL 18,2019 – AUG 31,2019 - Studio In The Street : Symbols – Totems – Cyphers, NATIONAL ARTS CLUB GRAMERCY PARK, NEW YORK, USA, APR 29,2019 – JUN 14,2019 - Spring Contemporary, MADDOX GALLERY, LONDON (SHEPHERD MARKET), UK, FEB 28,2019 – APR 30,2019 - Winter Contemporary, MADDOX GALLERY, LONDON (MADDOX STREET) MAYFAIR, LONDON, UK, DEC 01,2018 – JAN 17,2019
2018 - Symbols, Totems & Ciphers, THE PAINTING CENTER SOHO, NEW YORK, USA, NOV 27,2018 – DEC 22,2018 - Autumn Contemporary, MADDOX GALLERY, LONDON (MADDOX STREET) MAYFAIR, LONDON, UK, OCT 29,2018 – DEC 21,2018 - Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, HOWL! HAPPENING NEW YORK, USA, MAY 13,2018 – JUN 10,2018 - 68-18, SHIN GALLERY LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK, USA, MAR 09,2018 – APR 22,2018 - 20in18, WOODWARD GALLERY SOHO, NEW YORK, USA, FEB 08,2018 – MAR 23,2018 - Long live the revolution, WUNDERKAMMERN GALLERY, ROME, ITALY, DEC 02,2017 – JAN 20,2018
2017 - Black and White, ANNA MARIA CONSADORI MILAN, ITALY, SEP 14,2017 – OCT 21,2017 - Summer Group Show, ACA GALLERIES CHELSEA, NEW YORK, USA, JUN 15,2017 – AUG 11,2017
2016 - Scribble, Scratch, Paint- Once Removed- 13 Windows, 13 Artists- One Wall, The Windows at NYU Kimmel Gallery. New York, USA, June 10th – August 31st. - Fall Salon, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, September 10th – October 28th.
2015 - Réelles Distorsions, Xippas Gallery, Andres Dobler/ Sylvie Fleury/ Richard Hambleton/ Hayan Kam Nakache/ Stéphane Kropf. Paris, France March 4th – April 18th. - All Together Different: A Survey of Working Artists on the Lower East Side , Manny Cantor Center. New York, USA, February 12th – April 1st. - 20in15,Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, January 10th – February 18th.
2014 - Sur-Real, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, January 4th – February 22nd. - Loisaida: New York’s Lower East Side in the ‘80’s, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy. Andover, Massachusetts, USA, April 2 nd – July 31st.
2013 - Ghost Girl Corn Maze, Barton Orchard, Poughquag, New York in collaboration with David Phillips and Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, November 1st. - From the Street Up, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, July 6th – 31st.
2012 - Print, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, January 5th – February 22nd.
2011 - On Every Street, Samuel Owen Gallery, Greenwich, CT. Curated by Michael DeFeo in collaboration with Woodward Gallery, New York, USA, October 6th – November 3rd. - Art in the Streets, MoCA. Los Angeles, USA, April 17th – August 8th. - Pantheon: A History of Street Art in New York City , Donnell Library Building across from MoMA. New York, USA, April 2nd – 17th.
2010 - NEVER RECORDS: Part of No Longer Empty’s “Never Can Say Goodbye”, Curated by Manon Slome, Steven Evans, DIA Art Foundation, Asher Remy – Toledo at the former Tower Records at Broadway and West 4th. New York, USA, January. - BIG Paper Winter, featuring original works by Basquiat, Calder, DeKooning, Richard Hambleton, Franz Kline, Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Warhol; Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, January 16th – February 27th.
2008 - Off the Wall, From Vandalism to Urban Art, Wilde Gallery. Berlin, Germany, November 1st – December 13th. - Punk. No One is Innocent, Kunsthalle Wien. Vienna, Austria, May 16th – September 7th. - Stoked Benefit Art Auction, Milk Gallery at Phillips de Pury. New York, USA, April 15 th. - Works on Paper, Woodward Gallery at the Park Avenue Armory, 20th Anniversary. New York, USA, February 29th – March 3rd.
2007 - Behind the Seen, Ad Hoc Art, featuring street work by Swoon, Keith Haring, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Lee Quiñones, and others. Curated by Michael de Feo. New York, USA, December 13th – January 20th. - Contemporary Art Society Benefit Auction, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA, November 2nd. - The Media: Reaction, Reflections, and Comments on the Culture of Media, featured with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, City of Brea Art Gallery. Brea, USA, May 27th – July 13th.
2006 - The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York. Traveling to The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA, and The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, USA, May 27 th – September 3rd. - Gallery Artists ‘06-’07, Woodward Gallery, New York, USA, November 14th – January 6th.
2005 - Vintage East Village, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, USA, January 20th – April 29th.
2004 - East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA, December 9th, 2004 – March 19th, 2005.
1988 - Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, September 14th – November 23rd.
1986 – 1987 - Public and Private: American Prints Today: The 24th National Print Exhibition, traveling exhibition: Brooklyn Museum, New York; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint; RISD, Rhode Island; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
1985 - Syndesthetics, PS 1, Long Island City, New York, USA. - Smart Art, Toesph Mosheck, Cambridge, USA.
1984 - Of the Streets, University of Colorado, Aspen, USA. - New Talent – New York, travelling exhibition organized by Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, USA. - East Village Artists, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA. - East Village Scene, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA. - Activated Walls, The Queens Museum, New York, USA. - Chill Out, Kenkeleba House, New York, USA. - Romance and Catastrophe, Zellermayer Gallerie, Berlin, Germany. - Sculpture Now, Anna Friebe Galerie, Koln, Germany. - 25,000 Sculptors from Across the USA, Civilian Warfare, New Yorkn, USA. - Aperto ‘84, BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, Venice, Italy. - Body Politic, Tower Gallery, New York, USA. - Arte di Frontiera, Galeria Communale d’arte Moderna, Bologna, Milan and Rome, Italy. - Situation, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, USA. - Galleries of the Lower East Side, Artist Space, New York, USA. - Limbo, PS 1, Long Island City, New York, USA. - Totem, Bonnier Gallery, Charles Cowles Gallery, and Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, USA. - Abstract Persona, Dramatis Personae Gallery, New York, USA.
1983 - Abstract Persona, Dramatis Personae Gallery, New York, USA. - Piezo Electric, New York, USA. - Vancouver: art and artists 1931-1983, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. - Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA. - Black and White Show, Kenkelba Gallery, New York, USA. - Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, USA. - Galleri Cassandra, Norway. - Seventh Annual Forgione, New York, USA. - Fashion Moda, Bronx, New York, USA. - Tweed Gallery, New Jersey, USA. - Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, USA. - Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, USA. - American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. - Group Material- Subculture, New York, USA. - Pier 34 Project, New York, USA. - International Running Center, New York, USA. - Terminal New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1982 - Club 57, New York, USA. - 5th International Apartment Festival, March 15th – 21th. - Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA. - Pyramid, New York, USA. - Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, USA. - Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, USA. - Squat Theater, New York, USA. - Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, New York, USA. - Art on the Beach, Creative Time’s, New York, USA. - Second Story Books, Baltimore, USA. - The Real Estate Show, ABC No Rio, New York, USA.
1981 - 9th Street Survival Show, New York, USA. - Club 57, New York, USA. - White Columns, New York, USA. - ABC No Rio, New York, USA. - Public Image Gallery, New York, USA.
1980 - Times Square Show, Collaborative Projects Incorporated and Fashion Moda, New York, USA.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
– Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, United States. - Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States. - Zellermayer Gallerie, Berlin, Germany.
1975 - Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Advanced Diploma (Vancouver, Canada)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Richard Hambleton | Beyond the Shadowman, Chase Contemporary, New York City, New York, US, 5 – 29 Mai 2022. - Woodbury House x The Master Investor Show, Woodbury House - Woodbury House x The London Watch Show 2022, Woodbury House
2021 - Generation Y, SHIN GALLERY LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK, USA, DEC 02,2020 – JAN 20,2021 - Richard Hambleton: Shadowman, Chase Contemporary. USA, June. 1st – July 1st. - An Evening with the Shadowman, Woodbury House - Woodbury House x The London Watch Show 2021, Woodbury House - Art of Darkness: Banksy / Blek Le Rat / Richard Hambleton, Chase Contemporary - Richard Hambleton | Shadowman, Castle Fine Art
2020 - Richard Hambleton. Highlights from the Collection, CHASE CONTEMPORARY, NY (23RD STREET),CHELSEA, NEW YORK, USA, OCT 01,2020 – DEC 31,2020 - Nightlife Saatchi, Woodbury House - Woodbury House presents – Richard Hambleton ‘Nightlife Preview’, Woodbury House
2019 - Richard Hambleton: Shadowman, Chase Contemporary. USA, October 7th – December 31st. - Richard Hambleton Life on Paper, Woodward Gallery
2018 - Richard Hambleton: Eternity, ACA GALLERIES CHELSEA | NEW YORK | USA, JUN 14,2018 – JUL 27,2018 - ‘Shadowman’ at the Groucho Club, Woodbury House - Richard Hambleton – The Curtain Club, Woodbury House - Shadowman Private Screening, The Curtain Club, London
2017 - Richard Hambleton: I Only Have Eyes For You, Woodward Gallery. USA, April 4th – May 5th.
2013 - Richard Hambleton: Beautiful Paintings, curated by dir. John Woodward, Art Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve. Sleepy Hollow, USA, May 9th – June 23rd.
2011 - Richard Hambleton: A Retrospective, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani at the Phillips de Pury & Co headquarters. USA, September 9th – 13th (Final stop of the travelling exhibition: Milan, Moscow, Cannes, London).
2010 - Richard Hambleton New York, The Godfather of Street Art, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani at The Dairy. London, United Kingdom, November 18th – December 3rd. - Richard Hambleton New York, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani at the State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts. Moscow, Russia, September 9th – 26th. - Richard Hambleton New York, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani. amFAR Annual Benefit, New York, USA, May 12 th. - Richard Hambleton New York, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani. Milan, Italy, March 1st – 12th.
2009 - Richard Hambleton New York, presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in collaboration with Giorgio Armani. New York, USA, September 15th – October 2nd.
2007 - The Beautiful Paintings, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, September 15th – November 3rd.
1985 - Piezo Electric Gallery. New York, USA. - Salvatore Ala Gallery. New York, USA. - Zellermayer Galerie. Berlin, Germany. - Museo De Arte Costaricense. Costa Rica, Spain.
1984 - 121 Gallery. Antwerp, Belgium. - Anna Friebe Galerie, Cologne, Germany. - Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. - Galerie Salvatore Ala, Milano, Italy. - Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, USA.
1983 - Piezo Electric, New York, USA. - Civilian Warefare, New York, USA. - Limbo Lounge, New York, USA.
1982 - Alexander Milliken- East Village Gallery, New York, USA. - Flavio Belli Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1980 - La Mamelle, Inc. San Francisco, USA.
1979 - Pumps Center for Art, Vancouver, Canada.
1978 - Western Front, Vancouver, Canada.
1977 - Pumps Center for Art, Vancouver, Canada.���
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 - Icons, Iconoclasts, and Outsiders, HOWL! HAPPENING NEW YORK, USA, SEP 19,2021 – DEC 23,2021 - Art of Darkness: Banksy, Blek Le Rat, Richard HambletoN,CHASE CONTEMPORARY, NEW YORK SOHO | NEW YORK | USA, SEP 18,2021 – OCT 10,2021 - Five, MADDOX GALLERY, LONDON (MADDOX STREET) MAYFAIR, LONDON, UK, DEC 16,2020 – APR 09,2021
2020 - Sedecim XVI, WOODWARD GALLERY SOHO, NEW YORK, USA, NOV 22, 2019 – JAN 24,2020
2019 - Get Out While You Can, MADDOX GALLERY, GSTAAD GSTAAD | SWITZERLAND, JUL 18,2019 – AUG 31,2019 - Studio In The Street : Symbols – Totems – Cyphers, NATIONAL ARTS CLUB GRAMERCY PARK, NEW YORK, USA, APR 29,2019 – JUN 14,2019 - Spring Contemporary, MADDOX GALLERY, LONDON (SHEPHERD MARKET), UK, FEB 28,2019 – APR 30,2019 - Winter Contemporary, MADDOX GALLERY, LONDON (MADDOX STREET) MAYFAIR, LONDON, UK, DEC 01,2018 – JAN 17,2019
2018 - Symbols, Totems & Ciphers, THE PAINTING CENTER SOHO, NEW YORK, USA, NOV 27,2018 – DEC 22,2018 - Autumn Contemporary, MADDOX GALLERY, LONDON (MADDOX STREET) MAYFAIR, LONDON, UK, OCT 29,2018 – DEC 21,2018 - Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, HOWL! HAPPENING NEW YORK, USA, MAY 13,2018 – JUN 10,2018 - 68-18, SHIN GALLERY LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK, USA, MAR 09,2018 – APR 22,2018 - 20in18, WOODWARD GALLERY SOHO, NEW YORK, USA, FEB 08,2018 – MAR 23,2018 - Long live the revolution, WUNDERKAMMERN GALLERY, ROME, ITALY, DEC 02,2017 – JAN 20,2018
2017 - Black and White, ANNA MARIA CONSADORI MILAN, ITALY, SEP 14,2017 – OCT 21,2017 - Summer Group Show, ACA GALLERIES CHELSEA, NEW YORK, USA, JUN 15,2017 – AUG 11,2017
2016 - Scribble, Scratch, Paint- Once Removed- 13 Windows, 13 Artists- One Wall, The Windows at NYU Kimmel Gallery. New York, USA, June 10th – August 31st. - Fall Salon, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, September 10th – October 28th.
2015 - Réelles Distorsions, Xippas Gallery, Andres Dobler/ Sylvie Fleury/ Richard Hambleton/ Hayan Kam Nakache/ Stéphane Kropf. Paris, France March 4th – April 18th. - All Together Different: A Survey of Working Artists on the Lower East Side , Manny Cantor Center. New York, USA, February 12th – April 1st. - 20in15,Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, January 10th – February 18th.
2014 - Sur-Real, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, January 4th – February 22nd. - Loisaida: New York’s Lower East Side in the ‘80’s, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy. Andover, Massachusetts, USA, April 2 nd – July 31st.
2013 - Ghost Girl Corn Maze, Barton Orchard, Poughquag, New York in collaboration with David Phillips and Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, November 1st. - From the Street Up, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, July 6th – 31st.
2012 - Print, Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, January 5th – February 22nd.
2011 - On Every Street, Samuel Owen Gallery, Greenwich, CT. Curated by Michael DeFeo in collaboration with Woodward Gallery, New York, USA, October 6th – November 3rd. - Art in the Streets, MoCA. Los Angeles, USA, April 17th – August 8th. - Pantheon: A History of Street Art in New York City , Donnell Library Building across from MoMA. New York, USA, April 2nd – 17th.
2010 - NEVER RECORDS: Part of No Longer Empty’s “Never Can Say Goodbye”, Curated by Manon Slome, Steven Evans, DIA Art Foundation, Asher Remy – Toledo at the former Tower Records at Broadway and West 4th. New York, USA, January. - BIG Paper Winter, featuring original works by Basquiat, Calder, DeKooning, Richard Hambleton, Franz Kline, Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Warhol; Woodward Gallery. New York, USA, January 16th – February 27th.
2008 - Off the Wall, From Vandalism to Urban Art, Wilde Gallery. Berlin, Germany, November 1st – December 13th. - Punk. No One is Innocent, Kunsthalle Wien. Vienna, Austria, May 16th – September 7th. - Stoked Benefit Art Auction, Milk Gallery at Phillips de Pury. New York, USA, April 15 th. - Works on Paper, Woodward Gallery at the Park Avenue Armory, 20th Anniversary. New York, USA, February 29th – March 3rd.
2007 - Behind the Seen, Ad Hoc Art, featuring street work by Swoon, Keith Haring, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Lee Quiñones, and others. Curated by Michael de Feo. New York, USA, December 13th – January 20th. - Contemporary Art Society Benefit Auction, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA, November 2nd. - The Media: Reaction, Reflections, and Comments on the Culture of Media, featured with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, City of Brea Art Gallery. Brea, USA, May 27th – July 13th.
2006 - The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York. Traveling to The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA, and The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, USA, May 27 th – September 3rd. - Gallery Artists ‘06-’07, Woodward Gallery, New York, USA, November 14th – January 6th.
2005 - Vintage East Village, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, USA, January 20th – April 29th.
2004 - East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA, December 9th, 2004 – March 19th, 2005.
1988 - Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, September 14th – November 23rd.
1986 – 1987 - Public and Private: American Prints Today: The 24th National Print Exhibition, traveling exhibition: Brooklyn Museum, New York; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint; RISD, Rhode Island; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
1985 - Syndesthetics, PS 1, Long Island City, New York, USA. - Smart Art, Toesph Mosheck, Cambridge, USA.
1984 - Of the Streets, University of Colorado, Aspen, USA. - New Talent – New York, travelling exhibition organized by Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, USA. - East Village Artists, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA. - East Village Scene, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA. - Activated Walls, The Queens Museum, New York, USA. - Chill Out, Kenkeleba House, New York, USA. - Romance and Catastrophe, Zellermayer Gallerie, Berlin, Germany. - Sculpture Now, Anna Friebe Galerie, Koln, Germany. - 25,000 Sculptors from Across the USA, Civilian Warfare, New Yorkn, USA. - Aperto ‘84, BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, Venice, Italy. - Body Politic, Tower Gallery, New York, USA. - Arte di Frontiera, Galeria Communale d’arte Moderna, Bologna, Milan and Rome, Italy. - Situation, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, USA. - Galleries of the Lower East Side, Artist Space, New York, USA. - Limbo, PS 1, Long Island City, New York, USA. - Totem, Bonnier Gallery, Charles Cowles Gallery, and Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, USA. - Abstract Persona, Dramatis Personae Gallery, New York, USA.
1983 - Abstract Persona, Dramatis Personae Gallery, New York, USA. - Piezo Electric, New York, USA. - Vancouver: art and artists 1931-1983, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. - Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA. - Black and White Show, Kenkelba Gallery, New York, USA. - Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, USA. - Galleri Cassandra, Norway. - Seventh Annual Forgione, New York, USA. - Fashion Moda, Bronx, New York, USA. - Tweed Gallery, New Jersey, USA. - Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, USA. - Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, USA. - American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. - Group Material- Subculture, New York, USA. - Pier 34 Project, New York, USA. - International Running Center, New York, USA. - Terminal New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1982 - Club 57, New York, USA. - 5th International Apartment Festival, March 15th – 21th. - Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA. - Pyramid, New York, USA. - Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, USA. - Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, USA. - Squat Theater, New York, USA. - Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, New York, USA. - Art on the Beach, Creative Time’s, New York, USA. - Second Story Books, Baltimore, USA. - The Real Estate Show, ABC No Rio, New York, USA.
1981 - 9th Street Survival Show, New York, USA. - Club 57, New York, USA. - White Columns, New York, USA. - ABC No Rio, New York, USA. - Public Image Gallery, New York, USA.
1980 - Times Square Show, Collaborative Projects Incorporated and Fashion Moda, New York, USA.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
– Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, United States. - Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States. - Zellermayer Gallerie, Berlin, Germany.
EPOCHAL VISIONS: AN EXHAUSTIVE CHRONICLE OF WORKS BELONGING OR HAVING BELONGED TO THE GALLERY’S COLLECTIONS
