1961
Palos Verdes Invitational, Palo Verdes Library Gallery, Palo Verdes, CA
1964
The 12th Annual All City Outdoor Art Festival, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
First Annual All California, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA
1965
Prints by American Negro Artists, one day exhibition at First Unitarian Church, Los Angeles, CA
The Third Annual 980 Art Show, Friends House, Pasadena, CA
First Annual Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
1966
The Negro in American Art, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; University of California, Davis, CA; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA; The Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
The Fourth Annual 980 Art Show, Friends House, Pasadena, CA
1968
25 California Women Artists, Lytton Center of Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
30 Contemporary Black Artists, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY; Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences (now Roberson Museum and Science Center), Binghamton, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), San Francisco, CA; Contemporary Arts Museum – Houston, Houston, TX; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Museum of Art (now RISD Museum), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Art Galleries (now Art, Design, & Architecture Museum), UC Santa Barbara, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Fourth Annual All California, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA
In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1970
Whitney Museum Annual of Contemporary Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Dimensions of Black, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Sapphire Show: You've Come a Long Way, Baby, Gallery 32, Los Angeles, CA
1971
Benny, Bernie, Betye, Noah and John: Five Black Artists, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Black Untitled II: The Figure, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1972
Fifth California Small Images Exhibition, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, 1972: A Panorama of Black Artists, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Art Unlimited, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
The Cup Show, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Small Environments, University Galleries, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Black Heroes, The Rainbow Sign Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
1973
Women Artists in the Museum Collection, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Dimensional Prints, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ahmanson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art of Black Culture, California State University, Humboldt, CA
Eight Women Artists from Los Angeles, Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA
Black Mirror, Womenspace, Los Angeles, CA
In a Bottle, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Black USA: 1973, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
1974
West Coast 74: Black Image, E.B.Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sixteen Los Angeles Women Artists, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Three Women Artists, Palos Verdes Art Museum, Palos Verdes, CA
Sculpture and Assemblage, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975
Collage & Assemblage, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1976
20th Century Black American Artists, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA
In Search of Four Women/Four Cultures, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Four Los Angeles Area Artists (Nathanial Bustion, Alonzo Davis, Betye Saar, and Stanley Wilson), Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
The Object as Poet, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1977
Painting & Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Marie Johnson and Betye Saar, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The California Group: California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1979
The Magical Mystery Tour (Betye, Alison and Lezley Saar), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
1980
Celebration: Six Black Americans, Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
In Celebration: Six Black Americans, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton. NJ
Totems, Fetishes and Devotional Objects, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Impressions Expressions: Black American Graphics, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1981
Forever Free: Art by African American Women, 1862-1980, Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
California Collage, LRC Gallery, College of the Siskiyous, Weed, CA
Women in Art, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Southern California Artists: 1940-1980, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Elegant Night, Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Kindred Spirits, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Los Angeles Prints: 1883-1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1982
Ritual & Myth, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Book as Art, Artworks, Los Angeles, CA
1983
On & Off the Wall: Shaped & Colored, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Visions: Margit Omar/Betye Saar, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
The Artist and the Quilt, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1984
Return of the Narrative, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Arts Festival of Atlanta, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA
East-West: Contemporary American Art, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1985
Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade 1963-1973, Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York, NY
Between the Worlds: The Art of Women’s Altars, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Working on the Railroad: Art Projects for the Northeast Corridor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Champion International Building, Stamford, CT
The Art of Collage, Evan-Tibbs Collection, Washington, DC
1986
Art Expressions in Paper, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Works of Art on Paper by Black Artists, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Gentlemen’s Choice, The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1987
Sculpture Trends of the 80’s, The Queen’s Museum, Flushing, NY
The Afro-American Artist in the Age of Pluralism, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, Part II, Fresno Center & Museum, Fresno, CA
The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1988
Art As a Verb, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Poetic Object, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX; Art Museum of Amarillo, Amarillo, TX
Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art (The Narrative), Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, North Dakota Museum of Art, ND; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Ishikawa Industrial Center, Kanzawa, Japan; Kyoto National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea; The Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok, Thailand; National Art Galleries, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China; The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila Philippines; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
Cultural Currents, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
The Second Generation: The Narrative 1957-1987, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989
The Appropriate Object, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
The 1960s: A Cultural Awakening, Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; Josyln Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
Secrets and Shadows, California State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Women’s Caucus for Art 10th Annual Exhibition, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
African American Artists 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL
1990
Among Africas/In America: Betye Saar & Jose Bedia, Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
The Decade Show, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Secrets, Dialogues, Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Smith College of Art, Northampton, MA; Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Wright Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Women and the Surreal Narrative, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Professor’s Choice, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1992
500 Years: With the Breath of Our Ancestors, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Betye Saar, Bennie Lusane, Angel Suarez-Rosado, Intar Gallery, New York, NY
1993
In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
Building a Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
African American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection, Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland, OH; Metropolitan State College Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO; Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL
Fibers: USA Today, Netherlands Textile Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki Finland
1994
The Art of Betye Saar and John Otterbridge, 22nd Biennial of Sao Paulo, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Urban Paradise: Gardens in the City, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY
The Sacred and the Profane, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The US Delegation Fifth Biennial of Havana, Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
Generation of Mentors, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
25 Years of African-American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; The Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA; The Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; The Scottsdale Art Center, Scottsdale, AZ; Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; The New York State Museum, Albany, NY; The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA; Heckscher Museum, Huntington Long Island, NY; The Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 – the Present, University Art
Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Relatively Speaking: Mother and Daughters in Art, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA; Rahr West Museum, Manitowock, WI; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY; Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY
African American Women Prints, Brandywine Workshop’s Printed Image Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1995
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, II, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
The Art of Betye Saar and John Otterbridge, Africus Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Collage: Made in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Photogenetic: Reviewing the Lens of History, Street Level Photography Gallery and Workshop, Glasgow, Scotland
Works by Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
1996
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Fiber and Form: The Woman’s Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Bearing Witness, Spelman College Museum of Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA; Washington State
University, Pullman, WA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne,
IN, The Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Three Outdoor Installations, 1996 Olympic Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA
Partners in Printmaking: Works from the SOLO Impressions, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1997
Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN
Going the Distance: A Generational Survey of Women Artists, Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
1998
The Tip of the Iceberg: A Response to New York Museums III, Dorfman Projects, New York, NY
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, V, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Same Difference, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Freedom or Slavery: The Paul Robeson Portfolio, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Erie Pennsylvania Art Museum, Erie, PA; The Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA; Oakland City Hall, Oakland, CA; JFK Library, Vallejo, CA
1999
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VI, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Beyond the Veil: African-American Artists and Their Art at Century’s End, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Re-righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester, NY
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Toward A Society for All Ages: World Artists at the Millennium, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, United Nations, New York, NY
2000
The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by 50 Women, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Remnants of Memory: Contemporary American Art in Textile, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Appleton Museum of Art, Florida State University and Central Florida Community College, Ocala, FL
re-righting History II, UFA Gallery, New York, NY
Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Rivers of Spirit: Art Women in the African Diaspora, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
In the Shadow of the Flag, Tippy Stern Fine Art, Charleston, SC
American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Icons of a Century: A Retrospective, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2001
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
African American Artists, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Contemporary Romanticism, The African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Art of the Masters: A Survey of African American Images, 1980-2000, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
On Common Ground, Tobey Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Collector’s Show, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Creative Expressions: Prints and Works on Paper, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Free Expressions: Community Voices and Contemporary African American Art from the Collection, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IX, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA
Consequences of Empire, Public Resource Center for Activism and Arts, Washington, DC
Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection, Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Carleton College, Northfield, MN; University Art Gallery, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA; Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; The James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD; Art Museum, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC; Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA
The Belles of Amherst: Contemporary Women Artists, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
In Memory: The Art of Afterward, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY
Personal & Political: The Women’s Art Movement, 1969-1975, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Some Assemblage Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2002
Collectors Show, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2003
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
American Art and Artifacts Featuring the Chris Webber Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
My Mother’s an Artist, The Educational Alliance Art School and Gallery, New York, NY
Layers of Meaning: Collage and Abstraction in the late 20th Century, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
An American Legacy: Art from The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
African American Masters: Highlights of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York Historical Society, New York, NY; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; The Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Turning Corners, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Seizing the Myths: Arts of Rebellion, Resource Center for Activism and Arts, Washington, DC
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Focus on the Figure: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2004
African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade (1990-2003), Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Embracing the Muse: Africa and African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
African-American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection, Long Island Museum of Art, Stony Brook, NY
What’s That?, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY
Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA
2005
Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Alison and Lezley Saar, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, CA; San José Museum of Art, San José, CA; Palmer Art Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; New Art Gallery, Warsall, England
Eye Contact, American Painting and Drawing, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
Art of Engagement, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970–1975, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2006
Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL; Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH; David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
LA-Paris: 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Shifting Dimensions: Sculptors on Paper, Tobey Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
L.A Object and David Hammons Body Prints, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Arts, 1980-2006, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdale, CA
Agents of Change: Women, Art and Intellect, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
Big Picture: Provisions for the Arts of Social Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
At Freedom's Door: Challenging Slavery in Maryland, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD
Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis, Jr. Collection, The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006, Women's Caucus for the Art at The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965-1980, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Modern Times: Alumni Collect, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Image and Identity in African American Art, Highlights from the Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Beyond the Mountaintop, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Blacks: In and Out of the Box, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
West Coast Masters of Assemblage & Collage, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
ART in Embassies Exhibition, United States Ambassador Maurice Parker Residence, Mbabane, Swaziland
2008
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT; Copper Village Museum and Art Center, Anaconda, MT; University of Montana-Western, Dillon, MT; Carbon County Arts Guild and Depot Gallery, Livingston, MT; Custer County Art and Heritage Center, Miles City, MT; Paris Gibson Square Art Museum, Great Falls, MT; Mondak Heritage Center, Sidney, MT; The Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; Montana Museum of Arts and Culture, Missoula, MT; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
A New Cosmopolitan: Preeminence of Place in Contemporary Art, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
African American Art: 200 Years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT ; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State Univ, Stillwater, OK; Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA; Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY ; Denison University Museum, Granville, OH; College Gallery, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH; Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca Gallery, Ithaca, NY; Swope Museum, Terra Haute, IN; Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA; Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Miami Art Museum, Miami Beach, FL
Artist as Social Critic: Enrique Chagoya, Betye Saar, Roger Shimomura, and Ben Sakoguchi, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art, New York State Historical Association, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Modernist Women, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(un)common threads, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Double Exposure: African-Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL; Southeast Photography Museum, Dayton, FL; David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2009
Inside/Insight LA Art, José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA
Some Assembly Required: Race, Gender & Globalization, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA; Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 32 and Its Circle, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Layered / Boxed, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
The Chemistry of Color, The Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African American Art, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
The Watts Towers/50 Years Inspiring Art, Watts Towers Arts Center, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collection, 1948-2009, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Installations: Inside/Out 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
LAPS 20th National Exhibition, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Women Call for Peace: Global Vistas, organized by the Mid-America Arts Alliance; Art league Bonita Springs, Bonita Springs, FL; University of Arkansas Art Galleries, Little Rock, AR; George A. Spiva Centre for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri; John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NB; J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, College Station, TX
Huckleberry Finn, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Artist's Museum, Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Cultural Windows: The Art of Ruth Asawa, Ynez Johnston and Betye Saar, Art Gallery, Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, CA
Shadow Song, La Biscuiterie de Medina Venue - III, World Festival Black Arts & Culture, Dakar, Senegal
Gallery of California Art, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
2011
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; PS1-MOMA, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
ART in Embassies Exhibition, United States Ambassador Bisa Williams Residence, Niamey, Niger
Greetings from LA.: Artists and Publics, 1950-1980, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
100th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in LA Painting and Sculpture, 1945-1970, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Bearden: Creative Responses, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
Freedom’s Sisters, Museum of Art and Tolerance, Los Angeles, CA
Places of Validation, Art & Progression, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Not Standard in Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Civic Virtue: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Art Center 1950-1980, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945-1980: From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from The David C. Driskell Center, organized by Smithsonian Institute of Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Breaking in Two: Provocative Visions of Motherhood, Santa Monica Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY
From Nothing to SOMEthing: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
To be a Lady: Forty-five Women in the Arts, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY
Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD
African American Visions: Selections from the Samella Lewis Collection, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Baila Con Duende: Group Art Exhibition, Watts Towers Art Center, Watts, CA
We the People, Robert Rauschenberg Project Space, New York, NY
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
INsite/INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
2013
Etched in Collective History, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Reflections: African American Life from the Myrna Colley-Lee Collection, International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Seismic Shifts: Ten Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
We Hold These Truths...,Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY
The Lunder Collectiom: A Gift of Art to Colby College, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2014
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in The Sixties, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
17 @ 70+, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
Venus Drawn Out: 20th Century Drawings by Great Women Artists, The Armory Show Modern, New York, NY
RISING UP/UPRISING: Twentieth Century African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Shared Vision: The Myron and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Wonder Women, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Tchotchke: The Mass-Produced Sentimental Object in Contemporary Art, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Represent: 200 Years of African American Art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Letters and Shadows: African American Art and Literature Since the Harlem Renaissance, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
I Like It Like This: S|2 x Drake, Sotheby's Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, NY
Collector’s Legacy: Selections from the Lloyd and Sandra Baccus Collection, David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD
Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Take an Object, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
A Constellation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2016
The Color Line: African American Artists and the Civil Rights in the United States, Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, France
Circa 1970, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2017
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Time Is N♀w, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
1072 Society Exhibition, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London, England; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Broad, Los Angeles, CA; de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
2018
One Way Or Another, Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Hopes Springing High: Gifts of Art by African American Artists, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
It Takes a Village, Lancaster Museum of Art & Art History, Lancaster, CA
Now: The Call and Look of Freedom, Tougaloo College Art Gallery, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS
Celebrating 50 Years of the US Open Championships, United States Tennis Association (USTA) President’s Suite, Arthur Ashe Stadium, Flushing Meadows, NY
Truth & Beauty: Charles White and His Circle, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
NOW / Monster Chetwynd, Henry Coombes, Moyna Flannigan, Betye Saar, Wael Shawky, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
2019
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
By Any Means: Contemporary Drawings from the Morgan, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Art of Defiance: Radical Materials, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Notes and Tones: Jazz Influences on the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Department of Cultural Affairs, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
Straying from the Line, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
LA Blacksmith, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2020
Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Tell Me Your Story: 100 Years of Storytelling in African American Art, curated by Rob Perrée, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Making Community: Prints from Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Brodsky Center at PAFA, and Paulson Fontaine Press, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Paper Power, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
For the Record: Celebrating Art by Women, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Saints and Sin: Selections from the Permanent Collection by Black Artists, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
2021
Colliding with History: African American Works on Paper from the Collection of Wes and Missy Cochran, The Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Picturing Motherhood Now: Images for a New Era, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Vision & Spirit: African American Art | Works from the Bank of America Collection, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Now Is The Time: Recent Acquisitions to the Contemporary Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show, Ortuzar Projects, New York, NY
Enduring Voices: African American Art from the David R. and Susan S. Goode Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Call & Response: Collecting African American Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, The University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
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