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Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2012
Revolutionary Archive, Thompson Gallery at San Jose State University, San Jose, California
2010
Dread Scott: It’s Right to Rebel, Hofstra University Rosenberg Gallery, Hempstead, New York
You Lie!:Dread Scott & Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Bowery Poetry Club, New York, New York
2008
Dread Scott: Welcome to America, MoCADA, Brooklyn, New York
2007
SOL’SAX and Dread Scott: Life, Liberty and Pursuit…, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH New Year, Same Old Politics: Dread Scott & Fred Holland, FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago, Illinois
2006
Notorious ART: Dread Scott & John Sims, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota Florida
2004
Resistance is Fertile, Multimedia Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Six Feet Under: Make Nice, Week 7, White Box, New York, New York
2003
Lockdown, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2000
A Little Sumthin’ 2 Think About, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1990
Kinder & Gentler, Wessel O’Connor Ltd., New York, New York
1988
Our Aim is to Destroy Them!, NNWAC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Public Art Projects, Commissions & Public Performances
2010
Money To Burn, New York, NY
2009
…Or Does it Explode?, Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA
I Am Not a Man, New York, NY
2006
Literal Biblical Horror, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shaffer, MN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Press Art, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Resurectine, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, New York
2009
Levity, Hendershot Gallery, New York, New York
2008
That Was Then…This Is Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, New York CRIMINAL: Art and Criminal Justice in America, Fine Arts Gallery, SF State University, San Francisco, California
2007
50,000 Beds, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut Late Empire, Roebling Hall, New York, New York
2006
Whitney Biennial/The Wrong Gallery: Down By Law, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia …But I was cool, Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
2005
Constructing Realities Part III, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota Florida
2004
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York Through the Gates:Brown v. Board of Education, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California
2003
Recent Acquisitions for an American Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Ameri©an Dre@m, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, New York Cross-Cultural Identities, South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2002
Art & Outrage, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York New Additions to the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. New York, New Work, Now!, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
2001
Capital Art, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2000
Black and Blue: Examples of Police Violence, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1999
Ozymandias, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York
1998
Postcards from Black America, DeBeyerd Center for Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands. Traveled: Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, Holland
1994
Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio. Traveled: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
1993
Urban Masculinity, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, New York; Traveled: Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1990
Illegal America, Exit Art, New York, New York
1989
To Probe and to Push: Artists of Provocation, Wessel O’Connor Ltd., New York, New York A/Part of the Whole, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Columbus Drive Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1985
Illinois Photographers ’85, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
2010
The Art Omi International Artists Residency
2009
Franklin Furnace Fund Grant
2008
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: Artists and Communities Grant
2007
Pennies From Heaven Fund/New York Community Trust Grant
2005
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work
2001
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture Creative Capital Foundation Grant
2000
Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialog Special Editions Fellowship, Lower East Side Printshop
1999
Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artists Fellowship
1995
Mid Atlantic\NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship in Photography
Selected Bibliography
books and catalogs
Botey, Mariana and Pilar Parez, Capital Art: on the Culture of Punishment, p. cover, 32, illus. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, p 8-9, 43-44 Dread Scott: Welcome to America, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporian Arts Dubin, Steven C., Arresting Images:Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions, p 102-105, 108-117, 119-123, 176-177 Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, p 173 illus. Perree, Rob, Postcards from Black America, p 120, 141-142, p 120, 121, 142 illus. Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, Georgia State University, 8, 42-43, 97, 99-100,113
articles
2009
Barned-Smith, St. John, “Through 12 Black Boxes, Young Artists Speak” Philadelphia Inquirer
2008
The Washginton Post, “A High Water Mark,” 9/12/08 p. C02 Cotter, Holland, “Weekend Arts” The New York Times, 4/25/08 p. E22
2006
Bischoff, Dan,“Aljiras ‘cool’ Exhibit Burns with Intensity”, The Star Ledger, November 24, 2006
2002
Blount-Danois, Ericka, “Prisoner of War,” One World, vol. 7 no. 3 (June/July 2002) p. 108-109 illus
2000
Zimmer, William, “Strong Statements in a Serene Setting,” New York Times, 12/3/00, sec 14, p. E39 Smith, Roberta, “Stretching Definitions of Outdoor Sculpture,” The New York Times, 7/28/00, p E29
1996
Ayres Jr, Drummond B., “Art or Trash? Arizona Exhibit on American Flag”New York Times, 6/8/96
1994
Harrison, Helen A., “Signifyin’”, New York Times, 11/27/1994, p. 26. illus.
1991
Art In America, “On Nationality: 13 Artists,” September 1991, pp. 124-131, 145, 159
1990
People Magazine, “Will We Beat Swords into Plowshares?,” Vol. 33, No. 1 (1/8/90), pp. 30-35 Smith, Roberta, “The Group Show as Crystal Ball”, New York Times, 7/6/1990, p. C1, C23.
1989
Hefter, Richard, “What is the Proper Way to Display the American Flag?,” SPIN, June 1989, pp. 26-27 Hess, Elizabeth, “Capture the Flag”, The Village Voice, Vol. 34, No. 14, (4/4/1989), pp. 25-31, p. 26 illus. Hochfield, Sylvia, “Flag Furor,” ARTnews, Summer 1989, pp. 43-45, P. 44 illus.
Public Collections
Arkon Art Museum, Akron, Ohio Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, New York The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Education
1993
The Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program
1989
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A.
