1937
An Exhibition of the Harlem Artist Guild, presented by Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, New York Public Library, 201 West 115th Street, New York, NY
1940
Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940), Tanner Art Galleries, Chicago, IL; traveled to Library of Congress, Washington, DC
21 New York Negro Painters, Harlem Community Art Center, New York, NY
1943
The Twenty-Second International Exhibition of Watercolors, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1944
American Painting of Today, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1946
Paintings by Matisse, Tom Lewis, and Chester Hayes; Watercolor and Paintings by Jacob Lawrence and Willing Howard, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, CA
1952
Brooklyn Artist Biennial Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1953
1953 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1954
From Museum Walls…, The Alan Gallery, New York, NY
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1956
First Exposition of Negro Progress, Wanamaker Building, New York, NY
Scope in Collecting, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1957
Struggle….From the History of the American People, The Alan Gallery, New York, NY
1957 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1958
1958 Annual Exhibition; Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1959
American Sculpture and Painting: American National Exhibition in Moscow, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Art: USA: 59, A Force, A Language, A Frontier, Coliseum, New York, NY
1963
17th Annual Art Exhibition and Sale of Contemporary Art, Downtown Community School, New York, NY
1964
Between the Fairs: Twenty-Five Years of American Art 1939-1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, American Society of African Culture, Lagos, Nigeria
…Some Negro Artists, Art Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
Artists for CORE: Third Annual Art Exhibition and Sale, Gallery of American Federation of Arts, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
1965
Herbert A. Goldstone Collection of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Sixth Annual Arts Festival, Temple Emanu-El, Yonkers, NY
1966
Contemporary Urban Visions, Wollman Hall, New School Art Center, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1968
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
In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Invisible Americans: Black Artists of the 30’s, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Black Artists in America: 19th and 20th Centuries, Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore, College, Swarthmore, PA
1970
Five Famous Black Artists: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Roxbury, MA
Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston, The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA; School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Contemporary Black Artists, Milwaukee County War Memorial Center, Milwaukee, WI
Selections from “Contemporary Black Artists”, The Gallery Toward the Black Aesthetic, Milwaukee, WI
1971
Black Artists: Two Generations, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1974
Six Afro-American Artists: A View from the Morgan State College Gallery of Art Collection, Gallery of Art (now James E. Lewis Museum of Art), Morgan State College (now Morgan State University), Baltimore, MD
1976
14 Afro-American Artists, Pratt Institute Galleries (now the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery), Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1978
New York/Chicago: WPA and the Black Artist, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1981
American Art: 1920-1940, New Society of Art, Berlin, Germany
1982
Works on Paper by Contemporary Black American Artists from the James T. Parker Collection, Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American Literature and History Room, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
1983
Celebrating Contemporary American Black Artists, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
1984
Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art, The Center Gallery (now Samek Art Museum), Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; The Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, College at Westbury (now SUNY Old Westbury), State University of New York, Old Westbury, NY; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; University of Maryland Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Museum of Art (now Palmer Museum of Art), Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
1985
Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington; Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C.; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
American Art and the Great Depression: Two Sides of the Coin, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
1990
Augusta Savage and the Art Schools of Harlem, Museum of the National Center for Afro American Artists, Roxbury, MA
1991
The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, The Beach Institute African-American Cultural Center / King-Tisdell Cottage, Savannah, GA; Hammonds House Galleries and Resource Center (now Hammonds House Museum), Atlanta, GA; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Boston University Art Galleries, Boston University, Boston, MA; Main Gallery, Arts Consortium of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures, University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), San Antonio, TX; Canton Art Institute (now Canton Museum of Art), Canton, OH; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Art Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL; Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, Pittsburgh, PA; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, TN; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS; Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; The Museum of Art/Tallahassee, Tallahassee, FL; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA; Henry Ford Museum (now The Henry Ford), Dearborn, MI; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
1992
In Good Conscience: The Radical Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Illustration, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery AL
1993
Forty Years of African American Printmaking, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI
1994
Empowerment: The Art of African American Artists, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
1995
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, II, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
A Collector’s Eye: Depression-Era Paintings from the Collection of John Horton, James A. Michener Art Museum, Bucks County, PA
1996
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1997
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN
Civil Progress: Images of Black America, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
This is Why We Sing: An Exhibition of African-American Art, Atrium Gallery, Morristown, NJ
Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
1998
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, V, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Art in Embassies Program, Official Residence of Ambassador George Moose, US Permanent Representative to the European Office of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
1999
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VI, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
When the Spirit Moves: African-American Art Inspired by Dance, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH; Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA; Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2000
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
A Brush with the Past, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2001
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX
2002
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IX, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2003
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
American Identity: Figurative Painting and Sculpture, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925-1945, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2004
Embracing the Muse: Africa and African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
50 Years of African American Printmaking, G.R. N’Namdi, Detroit, MI
2005
Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
Toward Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2006
Building Community: The African American Scene, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
2006-08 Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-Century African American Art from the George & Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2008
African American Art: 200 Years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
2009
Il Secolo del Jazz: Arte, Cinema, Musica e Fotografia da Picasso a Basquiat (The Jazz Century: Art, Cinema, Music and Photography from Picasso to Basquiat), Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rovereto, Italy; Museé du quai Branly, Paris, France; Centro de Cultura Contemporànea, Barcelona, Spain
Harlem Renaissance, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, The Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2010
Different Strokes: Twentieth Century Drawings, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2012
African American Art in the 20th Century, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD
…On Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
2013
INsite/INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Ashé to Amen: African-Americans and Biblical Imagery, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY; Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture; Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN
2014
Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
RISING UP/UPRISING: Twentieth Century African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr., Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
2015
Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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
Collectors Legacy: Selections from the Sandra Lloyd Baccus Collection, The David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2016
The Color Line: African American Artists and the Civil Rights in the United States, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
2017
Sputterances, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Content into Form: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
The Last Ten Years: In Focus; Selections from the David C. Driskell Center Collections, David C. Driskell Center Gallery,University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Familiar Faces & New Voices: Surveying Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2018
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
Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Histórias Afro-Atlânticas, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) and Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Truth & Beauty: Charles White and His Circle, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL; New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, New York, NY; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN
The Notion of Family, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA
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
The Square Collection, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA
Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
African American Art: We Too Dream America, Museum of Art – DeLand, DeLand, FL
Notes and Tones: Jazz Influences on the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Department of Cultural Affairs, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
Alvaro Barrington: Artists I Steal From, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, England
The Whitney's Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Harlem: In Situ, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Centennial Impressions: A Celebration of Prints, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
Self in the City: Highlights from the Collections of the Hudson River Museum and Art Bridges, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
The Blues and the Abstract Truth: Voices of African-American Art, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
A LABOR OF LOVE: The Art Collection of Dr. Constance E. Clayton, Art & Artifacts Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Resilience: African American Artists As Agents of Change, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
“In and Around Harlem,” Collection 1940s-1970s, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Harlem Roots, 2nd Floor Art Gallery and Community Room, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building, New York, NY
Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England; Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Detroit Collects: Selections of African American Art from Private Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
African American Art in the 20th Century, organized by Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL; The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
2020
Spectrum: A Celebration of Artistic Diversity, Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Arts Center, Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota, FL
Wonderfully Made: The Artis Collection of African American Art, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Tell Me Your Story: 100 Years of Storytelling in African American Art, curated by Rob Perrée, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, curated by Adrienne L. Childs, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
“Awakened in You”: The Collection of Dr. Constance E. Clayton, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works On Paper, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
Paper Power, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Building a Legacy: The Vibrant Vision Collection of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Explorations in Self: Black Portraiture from the Cochran Collection, Phillip and Charlotte Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Saints and Sin: Selections from the Permanent Collection by Black Artists, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
Memories and Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art, Gilcrease Museum - Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History & Art, Tulsa, OK; Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA; Appleton Museum of Art, College of Central Florida, Ocala, FL; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT; David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, IN; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA; Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2021
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
Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
In American Waters: The Sea in American Painting, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Enduring Voices: African American Art from the David R. and Susan S. Goode Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection, Greenwood Cultural Center and ONEOK Boathouse, Gathering Place, Tulsa, OK; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Exhibiting Culture: Highlights from the Hammonds House Museum Collection, Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA
Colliding with History: African American Works on Paper from the Collection of Wes and Missy Cochran, The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2022
Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA