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1930
Born October 8th at Harlem Hospital in New York City to Andrew Louis Jones Sr. and Willi Posey Jones. She has two older siblings, Andrew and Barbara. Frequently sick with asthma as a small child, art becomes a major pastime.
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1942
Her family moves from the “Valley” to Sugar Hill in Harlem.
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1950
Marries Robert Earl Wallace, a classical and jazz pianist, while majoring in art at the City College of New York. Obtains first studio space for independent oil painting projects.
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1952
Has two children: Michele Faith Wallace, January 4; Barbara Faith Wallace, December 15.
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1954
Permanent separation and divorce proceedings begin, completed in 1956. Flo Kennedy acts as attorney.
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1955
Graduates from City College with B.S. in Fine Art. Begins teaching art in the New York City public schools (1955 – 1973). Faith first hears of James Baldwin through his baby sister, Paula, who is a student of hers at J.H.S. 136.
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1957
Spends the first of many summers in Provincetown, MA Creates oil paintings of houses, landscapes, fishing boats and the ocean.
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1959
Completes M.A. in Art at City College.
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1961
First trip to Europe (with mother and daughters) aboard the S.S. Liberte. Tours museums in Paris, Nice, Florence and Rome. Brother dies while they are in Rome, causing them to return to the U.S. abruptly. Faith’s dining area in her home becomes her studio space.
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1962
Marries Burdette (Birdie) Ringgold, May 19.
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1963
During a summer at Oak Bluff’s on Martha’s Vineyard, develops first mature painting style. Influenced by writings of James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka (then Leroi Jones). This work she calls “super realism.” Results in the American People Series of oil paintings (1963 – 1967).
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1964
Begins search for a New York gallery. Writes letters to Romare Bearden and Hale Woodruff in an attempt to join Spiral, the black artists’ group, and to exhibit in the first Black Arts Festival in Senegal. Unsuccessful on both counts.
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1965
Meets Leroi Jones at his Black Arts Theatre and School in Harlem.
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1966
Participates in the first black exhibition in Harlem since the 1930s. Meets Romare Bearden, Ernie Crichlow, Norman Lewis, Charles Alston, Hale Woodruff, Betty Blayton, first real contact with black artists. Joins Spectrum Gallery on 57th Street, Robert Newman, director.
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1967
Paints first murals-The Flag is Bleeding, U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of Black Power, and Die – while daughters are in Europe for the summer. First one-person show at Spectrum Gallery. Meets art historian James Porter of Howard University, who buys Bridges of Martha’s Vineyard from the American People Series. Begins development of Black Light using palette of darkened colors, in pursuit of more affirmative black aesthetic.
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1968
Participates in benefit exhibition for Martin Luther King Jr. at the Museum of Modern Art. Meets Jacob Lawrence, Henri Ghent, and Ed Taylor. Initiates first demonstration of black artists at the Whitney Museum. Joins Art Workers’ Coalition.
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1968
Meets Lucy Lippard, Yvonne Rainier, and Lil Picard. Demonstrates with Tom Lloyd, light sculptor, against MOMA to demand a black artist wing for Martin Luther King Jr. Instead, their efforts result in two blacks on the board of trustees of the museum and a major exhibition for Romare Bearden and Richard Hunt in 1971.
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1969
Paints Flag of the Moon: Die Nigger as a response in first U.S moon landing. Begins series of political posters. Father dies.
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1970
Has second one person show: “America Black,” featuring Black Light Series, at Spectrum Gallery. Begins teaching at Pratt Institute, Bank Street Graduate School for Teachers, and Wagner College. Co-founds WSABAL (Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation) with daughter Michele, and does first feminist art action. Confronts Robert Morris and Poppy Johnson of Art Strike with demands for fifty percent women and blacks to be included in Liberated Venice Biennale. Participates in demonstration of Ad Hoc Women’s Art Group at the Whitney Museum. Her recommendations result in the inclusion of Betye Saar and Barbara Chase-Riboud in the Biennal, making them the first black women ever to exhibit at the Whitney.
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1971
Co-founds “Where We At,” black women artists’ group, with Kay Brown and Dinga McCannon. Guest curator of “Where We At” exhibition at Acts of Art Gallery. Does United States of Attica poster. Wins CAPS Grant to do mural for the Women’s House of Detention. While doing a television show called “On Free Time”(PBS), hosted by Julius Lester, meets Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, and Pat Mainardi.
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1972
For the Women’s House is permanently installed at the women’s House of Detention on Riker’s Island. This painting uses all female imagery for the first time. As a result of this, “Art Without Walls (an artist’s group to bring art to prison inmates) is formed. Develops tankas (soft cloth frames) after seeing an exhibition of Tibetan art at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam. Puts political posters and feminist papers in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. Participates in first American Women Artists.
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1972
Show in Hamburg. Begins lecture tours and traveling exhibitions to colleges and universities around the country.
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1973
Ten-year retrospective at Voorhees Gallery at Rutgers University. Resigns from teaching position in New York City Public Schools to continue touring and to make art full-time.
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1973
Creates first dolls, Family of Women Masks, and Slave Rape Series of paintings. Collaborates with Willi Posey (her mother who was a fashion designer) on costumes for masks and tankas for paintings.
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1974
Develops hanging soft sculptures: Wilt and Couple Series; both series feature painted coconut heads. Does Window of the Wedding Series, abstract paintings based on African Kuba design, and uses them as environment for soft sculptures. Michele graduates from City College and Barbara completes her senior year of college at the University of London.
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1975
Curates “Eleven” in New York, black women’s show at Women’s Interarts Center. Begins to create art performances with masks and costumes. Creates first stuffed figures Zora and Fish (bag man and woman), first portrait masks of Harlem Series, which include Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Martin Luther King Jr. Develops applique soft masks for workshops at University of Wisconsin. Barbara graduates with a B.A. in linguistics at the University of London, stays on to do graduate work.
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1976
Artist in residence at Wilson College; develops The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro, a multimedia masked performance piece. With Monica Freeman, Margo Jefferson, Pat Jones, and Michele, co-directs the “Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts,” which is held at the Women’s Interarts Center, and includes exhibition of Dear Joanna Letters, a documentation piece. Goes to Africa for the first time. Tours Ghana and Nigeria to see art and people.
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1977
Participates in “Festac 77” in Lagos, Nigeria. Does first freestanding soft sculptures, Woman on a Pedestal Series. Begins writing autobiography Being My Own Woman. Barbara receives graduate diploma from the University of
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1978
Receives National Endowment for the Arts Award for sculpture. Develops Ringgold Doll and creates Harlem ’78, a series of soft sculptures and public participation graffiti mural.
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1979
Develops International Dolls Collection and Ringgold Doll Kits (Sew Real). Michele publishes first book, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman. Appears on the cover of Ms. Magazine with picture of family inside.
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1980
Faith and her mother begin work on her final collaborative project, Faith’s first quilt, Echoes of Harlem, for “The Artist and the Quilt” show. Completes first draft of autobiography. Appears in first masked performance piece, which acts as an oral “publication” of this unpublished manuscript title Being My Own Woman.
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1980
Michele begins Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University. Barbara marries and receives master of philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY). Faith meets Moira Roth.
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1981
Faith and her mother work on packaging of Ringgold Doll Kits. Does Atlanta Series in memory of the twenty-seven black children murdered in Atlanta. Mother dies. Barbara divorces. Michele leaves Yale and returns home.
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1982
Curates the “Wild Art Show” at P.S. 1 for the Women’s Caucus for Art. First grandchild, Baby Faith, born. Begins painting again at MacDowell Colony: Emanon Series and Baby Faith and Willi Series.
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1982
Michele and Faith perform No Name Performance #1: A Masked Performance Piece at Kenkebala House. Creates painted dolls. Sister dies.
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1983
Begins Dah Series of paintings. first excerpt from autobiography published in Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women, edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka. Creates Mother’s Quilt and first story quilt Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima?. Wins Wonder Woman Award from Warner Communications. Performs No Name Performance #2 in which audience dances, speaks out, and, in finale, takes over the stage.
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1984
Receives twenty-year retrospective at Studio Museum in Harlem. Michele edits the accompanying catalogue. Becomes a visiting associate professor at the University of California in San Diego. Michele also holds a temporary teaching position at UCSD. Continues painting Dah Series. (California Dah) to be used as a backdrop for No Name #2. Does series of aquatints called The Death of Apartheid and participates in exhibitions organized by Artists Against Apartheid. Begins printmaking as Visiting Artist at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking workshop in New York. Does etching on canvas to be used to make story quilts. In the fall, Michele begins teaching at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
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1985
Continues series of story quilts and develops a new story telling performance, The Bitter Nest. Is appointed to a permanent position as full professor at USCD and is now bi-coastal.
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1985
Sets up bi-coastal living pattern half the year in San Diego and the other half in New York. Exhibits Flag Series of paintings from 1960’s in group exhibition, “Tradition & Conflict: Images of Turbulent Decade 1963-1973”, at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Barbara marries again and has a second child, Theodora.
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1987
Receives solo show and catalogue at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Change: Faith Ringgold’s Over 100 Pound Weight Loss Performance Story Quilt. Major articles in Arts, Art in America, and other periodicals, Meets Eleanor Flomenhaft. Receives Fellowship from John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and a Public Art Fund Award from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Is awarded honorary doctorate of Fine Art at College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Curates “Home Show” at Goddard Riverside Community Center. Travels to Tokyo, Japan, with Lois Mailou Jones, William T. Williams, and David Driskell for cultural exchange show. Founds “Coast to Coast: A Women of Color Artist Book Project.” Their first project is a traveling artist book exhibition.
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1988
Has a second solo exhibition at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. Receives New York Foundation of Arts Award. Is included in Inspirations: Stories of Women Artists for Children along with Georgia O’Keeffe, Alice Neel, and Frida Kahlo by Leslie Sills. Barbara has third child, Martha.
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1989
Receives NEA Arts Award for painting; the la Napoule Award, artist-in-residence in Franc, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Award. Michele marries actor Eugene Nesmith.
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1990
Major exhibition, “Faith Ringgold: A Twenty Five-Year Survey” at Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio and at Albright Knox Art Museum, Buffalo, NY. Returns to Paris and takes an apartment at the Hotel Ferrandi on rue de Cher Che Midi while making sketches for Part 2 of The French Collection. Completes Change 3, a nude representation of herself during forty years of weight loss and gain.
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1990
Moves to a studio in the garment district in New York to work on large-scale mural for percent for Art commission for Public School 22 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Tar Beach, first children’s book, is published by Crown Publishers in January. Receives an honorary doctorate from alma mater, the City College of New York. The French Collection Part 1 and 2, a series of 12 painted story quilts, were begun in France in 1990 and completed in 1997. The series is about Willa Marie Simone, an African American woman, who goes to Paris in 1920 at the age of 16 and becomes a celebrated expatriate artist. Ringgold followed up with The American Collection Part 1 and 2, also a 12 part series. The series does not include the customary surrounding text but instead was published as a book. The American Collection continues Faith Ringgold’s process of re-writing art history to include women and African Americans. In this case, Willa Marie Simone’s daughter, Marlena Simone is the heroine and it is the history of art in America which is revised. Marlena Simone, in the tradition of her mother, becomes a celebrated figure in the American art scene.
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1992
Tour continues of “Twenty-Five-Year Survey” at Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Women’s Center Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, California; Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California; ends at Tacoma Museum, Tacoma, Washington, in February of 1993. Receives a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award for Tar Beach as best African-American illustrated book for 1991. The second children’s book, Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky, is published by Crown Publishers. “The French Collection” exhibition opens at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in New York.
Moira Roth and Faith receive a National Endowment of the Arts travel award to go to Tangier, Morocco, and Paris to collaborate on a forthcoming book on The French Collection Series. Meets with Michel Fabre at the Sorbonne and talks about the African American in Paris to research Bonjour Lonnie, a children’s book to be published in 1996.
Severs relations with the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and resumes self- representation of her art. Buys a ranch house in Englewood, New Jersey, with plans to build a studio in the country. Receives a commission from the Metropolitan Transit Authority to create two thirty-foot mosaic murals for the 25th Street IRT subway station platform. -
1993
Publishes third children’s book, Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House through Hyperion Books for Young Readers. Receives an honorary doctorate at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she meets Marlon Riggs, the filmmaker. Creates The Black Family Dinner Quilt, and donates it to the Museum of the National Association of Negro Women in tribute to Mary McLeod Bethune and Dr. Dorothy Height. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan mounts an ongoing interactive exhibition of Tar Beach. Receives commission to create a nine-by-seventeen-foot painted mural based on the life Eugenio Maria for de Hostos Community College. It is permanently installed in 1994.
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1994
Receives contract from Little, Brown to publish autobiography renamed We Flew Over The Bridge. Begins rewrite with Moira Roth as editor. Their first editing session begins in Paris in January during a conference in Paris titled, “A Visual Arts Encounter, African Americans in Europe,” at the Luxembourg Gardens.
Howardina Pindell, Lorna Simpson, Betye Saar, Sam Gilliam attend the conference, which is organized by Maica Sancone and Raymond Saunders. Book to be published in September 1995. Moves studio back to Harlem in preparation for building a new studio in Englewood, New Jersey. Goes to Madrid, Spain, to participate in an exhibition curated by Dan Cameron at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. Participates in Cairo Biennial organized by Debbie Cullen of the Printmaking Workshop. Goes to Egypt with Bob Blackburn, Mel Edwards, Kay Walkingstick, and Juan Sanchez. Completes a painted story quilt in memoriam to Marlon Riggs, who died in 1994 of AIDS. Begins work on fifth children’s book, My Dream of Martin Luther King, to be published by Crown in 1995. Faith receives her seventh honorary doctorate in Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. Birdie and Faith are invited to attend a black-tie dinner at the White House. Shares table with Hilary Clinton. Grace Matthews, a former student, begins work as Faith’s assistant in California. -
1995
Joins ACA Galleries, New York on 57th Street. Has first exhibition with the gallery, Faith Ringgold: 40 Years of Selected Works. The children’s book, My Dream of Martin Luther King, and her autobiography, We Flew Over the Bridge are published. Baltimore Museum of Art acquires a work.
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1996
The children’s book, Bonjour Lonnie, is published. Participates in “Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists,” organized by Spelman College which travels through 1998. Receives the “Spirit of a Woman Award.” The National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC acquires a work. Has solo exhibition at the Hudson River Museum, “Faith Ringgold: The French Collection Story Quilts.” Participates in the traveling exhibition “Reflection and Renewal: The Painters and Sculptors of the MacDowell Colony.”
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1997
Completes The French Collection Parts I & II. Begins work on The American Collection. New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York organizes traveling retrospective. Participates in “The New Jersey Arts Annual” held at the Newark Museum. “Magical Tales of Lonnie,” San Diego Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA, January- February
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1998
Faith Ringgold, The American Collection and Selected Works: Storyquilts, Paintings, Drawings and Prints, solo exhibition at ACA Galleries, NY; October 10 – November 28. Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold’s French Collection and Other Story Quilts, opens at Arkon Art Museum, Arkon, OH; January 24 – March 22; University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; May 13 – August 31; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; September 30 – January 3. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, January 27 – April 11, 1999 Fort Wayne, Indiana, April 30 – July 18, 1999; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, August 7 – October 10, 1999; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, November 26 – January 9, 2000; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, January 23 – April 9, 2000; Kalamazoo Institute for the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, April 14 – May 28, 2000; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, June 11 – August 20, 2000. Group show at the Gibbes Museum of Art, SC; “Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists,” November 4 – 7; “Portraiture: Not By Definition,” at the Westby Art Gallery, Rowan University, NJ; December 10 – February 5, 1999.
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1999
Beyond the Veil: The Arts of African American Artists at Centuries End, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida; January 16 – February 28; Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold’s French Collection and Other Story Quilts, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; January 27 – April 11; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; April 30 – June 27; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; August 7 – October, Interludes: Romare Bearden, Richard Mayhew, Faith Ringgold, Benny Andrews, Barkley Hendricks, at the Thomas Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield, CT; January 23 – February 25. Faith Ringgold, at The Rye Arts Center, NY; March 14 – April 14. Also featured in the documentary, “I’ll Make Me a World,” premiering on PBS February 1, 2, and 3; Images and Words: Women’s Voices, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, March 1 – March 18; Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, August 30 – October 12; The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University, St.Bonaventure, NY, November 3 – December 5; “National Association of Women Artists Sculpture Exhibition,” The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, December 12, 1999 – March 12, 2000. 1999 American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000: Part 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; September 26, 1999 – February 13, 2000.
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2000
Creates work for Projects 70: an installation of 9 x 36 foot outdoor banner for Museum of Modern Art, NY; Months and Moons,” ACA Galleries, April 15 – May 13, The Mesaros Galleries, West Virginia University College of Creative Arts, Morgantown, West VA (September 5 – October 22); Utah Museum of Fine Art, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, September-November 2000; Saks Fifth Avenue Windows, New York, NY, (March 24 – April 9); Saks Fifth Avenue Windows, Beverly Hills, CA, (May 26 – June 12)
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2001
Faith Ringgold: Coming to Jones Road and other Stories, ACA Galleries, New York, January 27 – February 24. Traveling exhibition: January 27 – February 24; York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA (February 4 – March 15); San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA (February 1 – March 30); Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA (September 7- November 2) Traveling exhibition (continued): Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX (Nov 18, 2001 – Jan 12, 2002); Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA (Feb 1–March 15); Saint Joseph College, West Hartsford, CT (Feb 28 – April 28); The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA (May 24 – August 2); HUB Robeson Galleries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (August 19 – December 4), Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Art, Eatonville, Fl (December 7 – February 21, 2003)
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2004
Traveling exhibition (continued): Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL (January 10 – February 15), Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA Solo exhibition, December 19, 2003 – February 6, 2004 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Received the Academy Award in Art, March 8-April 4 New York, New York, The Opelousas Museum of Art, Opelousas, LA, March 29 – August 20 Farmington Public Schools, Farmington, CT April 6-May 19 (Traveling exhibition) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Concert by The Boys Choir of Harlem with a reception and book signing for O Holy Night, Christmas With the Boys Choir of Harlem (Illustrations by Faith Ringgold), December 15, 2004
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2005
Jazz Stories 2004: Mama Can Sing, Papa Can Blow, ACA Galleries, New York, December 15, 2004 – January 29, 2005 Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA, January 5 – March 20, 2005 (Traveling solo exhibition) Picture Stories: A Celebration of African American Illustrators, Traveling exhibition organized by Smith Kramer, Inc., 2004– 2008 Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, August –December (Traveling solo exhibition)
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2006
Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, January 28 – March 4, 2006 (Traveling exhibition)
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2006
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, August 4, 2006-March 4, 2007 (Solo exhibition) Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum, Jacksonville, FL October 12, 2006-January 19, 2007 (Solo exhibition Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, November 15, 2006-April 22, 2007 Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, December 15, 2006-April 30, 2007 (Traveling solo exhibition) Traveling group exhibition in Japan opening at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi in Tokyo (4 Storyquilts) January-December Portraiture Now, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. February 16 – August 19
Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, March 4 – July 30 (Traveling group exhibition)
Wheaton College, Norton, MA, October 11 – November 9 (Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky)
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2008
Art in the Atrium, Inc., Creative Destinations, 16th Anniversary Exhibition of African American Art, Morris County Administration and Records Bldg, Morristown, NJ, January 25 – March 25
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From Birmingham City Jail, Illustrated with 8 serigraphs by Faith Ringgold, Afterword by Dr. C.T. Vivian, Commissioned by The Limited Editions Club, NY Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA June 10 – July 19
Return: Home, Arts Council of Princeton, Contemporary Arts Center, Princeton, NJ, June 5 – September 6
Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans in 19th Century American Art, Fenimore Art Museum, New York Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY, August 23 – December 31, 2008. Traveling exhibition -
2008
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH, September 8 – November 23 (Traveling solo exhibition)
Bloodline: A Quilt Exhibition, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, September 11 – October 4
Art of Resonating Fiber, Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL, October 3, 2008 – January 23, 2009
Transformation AGO: Contemporary Art, 1960-1970, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, November 14, 2008-2009 -
2009
If I Didn’t Care: Generational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories, The Park School, Baltimore, MD, January 30 – March 30. Catalogue available.
Faith Ringgold, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA, February 9 – May 30
Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House: The Original Illustrations, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, February 2 – May 13
Faith Ringgold, ABC Home & Carpet, New York, NY March 1 – 31
Declaration of Independence: 50 Years of Art by Faith Ringgold, Rutgers Institute for Women and Art, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, May 13 – June 26. Faith receives an Honorary Doctorate Degree along with Sonny Rollins. -
2010
Seductive Subversion, Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, January 15-March 15; Traveling to: Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NB, July 30-Sept 24; Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY, October 15, 2010-January 9, 2011; Tufts University Art Gallery, January 20-April 3, 2011
Two Black Women: Faith Ringgold and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, ACA Galleries, New York, February 6–March 20, 2010 -
2010
Nouns: Children’s Book Artists Look at People, Places and Things, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, February 12-July 11
America’s Mayor: John Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York, 1966-1973, Museum of the City of New York, NY, May 5-October 3
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Traveling exhibition organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD. Traveling to: International Center of Photography (May 21-September 12, 2010); National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (June-Sept 2011) and Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County (Fall 2010)
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s, Traveling exhibition organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY, September 11-December 19
Faith Ringgold: Coming to Jones Road Part II, ACA Galleries, NY September 9–October 9
Americanana, The Berta and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, NY September 16-December 4
Women Call for Peace: Global Vistas, Traveling exhibition organized by ExhibitsUSA, Mid-American Arts Alliance, October 1, 2010-December 10, 2013 -
2011
Faith Ringgold: Feminism and Black Power, John Jay College Gallery, New York, NY, June 6 – October 7, 2011
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s, Traveling exhibition organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY on view at Miami Art Museum, FL, November 6, 2011 – January 1, 2012 - 2012
Magical Visions, University Museums, The University of Delaware, Newark, DE, February 8 – June 30
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s, Traveling exhibition organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY on view at The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, February 2 – May 19, 2012
2012 Thread of Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL February 10 – March 25
Faith Ringgold Traveling Survey, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO March 2 – June 1
Honoring Faith, Traveling exhibition organized by The City College of New York, New York, NY, September 6, 2012 – May 15, 2013
Do You See What I See? A Fine Art Experience for Children and Families, Traveling exhibition organized by La Napoule Art Foundation, Clews Center for the Arts, The Freight Building, Denver, CO, September 13 – October 14 -
2013
We Hold These Truths, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY, April 16 – July 26, 2013.
Stories and Journeys: The Art of Faith Ringgold and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, NY, January 22 – April 21, 2013.
Generations, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL May 10 – July 12, 2013
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s, Traveling exhibition organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY on view at The National Museum of Women in the Arts, June 21 – November 10, 2013.
Etched in Collective History, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Al, August 15 – November 15.
Joining Forces: Living Art on the Hill, The City College of New York, NY, September 12 – December 12, 2013.
Inaugural exhibition, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Women Call for Peace: Global Vistas, Traveling exhibition organized by ExhibitsUSA, Mid-American Arts Alliance on view at John Jay Art Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, October 1, 2010-December 10, 2013.
American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding, 1967 is on extended loan to the Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL through September 2015.
The Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL (Big Black); Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA and The Whitney Museum, NY (Women Free Angela, 1971) acquire work for their permanent collections. -
2014
Women Choose Women Again, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ January 17 – April 13, 2014 includes a selection of her work.
Body Conscious, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury Old Westbury, NY, February 3 – April 10, 2014
Post-Picasso: Contemporary Artists’ Responses to His Art, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, March 6 – June 29, 2014 features “American People Series #20: Die”, 1967, oil on canvas, 72 x 144 inches prominently.
Faith Ringgold and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Mattatuck Museum of Art, Mattatuck, CT, March 23 – May 25, 2014
The Artists Billboard on Tenth Avenue and 18th Street in New York City showcases a 25 x 75 foot image of “Groovin High” on view May 2 – June 2
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Art, Activism and Civil Rights in the 1960s, Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, NY, March 7 – July 13, 2014. Travelling to: Hood Museum of Art, Hannover, NH, August 30 – December 14, 2014, Blanton Museum of Art, Dallas, Tx, February 7 – May 10, 2015.
Social Art in America: Then and Now, ACA Galleries, New York, May 6 – June 27
For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD, May 17, 2014 – February 28, 2015
The Peace Development Fund honors Faith and her commitment to social justice on May 21, 2014. A poster was commissioned to celebrate the event.
Our Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. includes the story quilt, The American Collection #4: Jo Baker’s Bananas.
“Tar Beach #2”, 1990, silkscreen on silk, is featured in the exhibition, A Visual Voyage: Exploring the Media and Styles of Award Winning Children’s Book Illustrators, on view October 10 – December 31 at the TCNJ Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.
Groundswell honors Faith at their annual benefit at NeueHouse in New York on October 14.
The Artists Fellowship honors Faith Ringgold at their 155th Annual Awards Dinner on October 15 in New York City.
Faith designed an art making game called Quiltuduko inspired by Suduko, a Japanese number puzzle game. Thousands of images for the game as well as Quiltuko posters become available.
Ebay sites Faith Ringgold as the most searched artist on their site in the states of Maryland, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia. -
2015
Everyone Can Fly: Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach and Regional Picture Book Illustrators, an exhibition at the Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, March 20 – May 24, 2015
Faith participates in a roundtable discussion on women’s collaboratives, later to be transcribed into a book.
The Faith Ringgold Study Center is established at the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
The Art Collection of Maya Angelou, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, September 15 sells “Maya’s Quilt” for a record auction price to Chrystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas
Origins: Tradition and Innovation, Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego State University of New York, Oswego, NY, September 4 – October 4
Faith Ringgold: Prints, St. Joseph’s College, The Board Room Gallery, Patchogue, NY, October 4 – November 6
Picasso Mania, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, Pompidou Center, Paris, France, October 4, 2015 – February 29, 2016. The French Collection #7 Picasso’s Studio in the permanent collection of The Wooster Museum is featured.
Harlem Renaissance Party, a children’s book, is released in November
A Letter to my Daughter Michele: in response to her book, “Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman” is self published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in December. -
2016
Cut-Up: Contemporary Collage and Cut-Up Histories through a Feminist Lens, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, January 16 – April 3. Subway Graffiti #2, 1987, acrylic on canvas with pieced fabric border, 60 x 84 inches is exhibited.
Faith Ringgold: Jazz Series, Rutgers University Jazz Institute, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, March 2 – April 2. A solo exhibition is presented to celebrate Rutgers’ 250th anniversary.
Rhythm & Roots: Dance in American Art, a traveling exhibition organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (March 20–June 12, 2016); travelling to The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Co (July 10-October 9, 2016) and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (November 5, 2016 – January 30, 2017). The story quilt, Groovin’ High, 1986, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 56 x 92 inches is featured.
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY honors Faith at their 6th Annual Hall of Fame Benefit on April 12th.
Museum of Modern Art in New York purchases a monumental work from 1967, American People Series #20: Die.
The Color Line: African-American Artists and the Civil Rights in the United States, Musee du quai Branly, Paris, France, October 4, 2016 – January 22, 2017
On Such a Night as This: A Celebration of African American Art, ACA Galleries, New York, November 2 – December 22, 2017
Faith Ringgold Survey, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA, October 21, 2016 – January 29, 2017
The National Arts Club presents their Medal of Honor for Fine Arts to Faith on January 19.
The Crisis in Black Education, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs Black History Committee, Palm Springs, CA, February 2 –
Social Fabric/Moral Fiber, Gallery West, SUNY County Community College Gallery, Brentwood, NY, February 14 – March 30
Threads: Fabric of Different Cultures, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peeksville, NY, February 4, 2017 through July 2018.
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85, Traveling exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum, NY (April 21–September 17, 2017); California African American Museum, Los Angeles (October 13, 2017-January 14, 2018); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (February 17–May 27, 2018); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (June 26 – September 30, 2018)
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Bearden and Beyond, The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983, Traveling exhibition organized by the Tate Modern, London, England (July 12-October 22, 2017); Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR (February 2–April 23, 2018); Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY (September 7, 2018-February 3, 2019)
Shifting: African American Women Artists and The Power of Their Gaze, David Driskell Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, March 2-May 26, 2017
1967 Detroit Rebellion: Inside and Out, Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, July 2017 – July 2018 Black Light Series #10: Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger will be on view.
Faith is elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA. Induction ceremony is October 7.
The Magnificent Faith Ringgold, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, TX, July 22 – September 25 Solo traveling exhibition.
Innovators and Activists: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, Traveling exhibition organized by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and State University of New York (SUNY), Fall 2017 – Spring 2020. Change 3: Faith Ringgold’s Over 100 Pound Weight Loss Performance Story Quilt is featured.
Beyond the Bedcovers, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October 12 – November 12
Change 2: Faith Ringgold’s Over 100 Pound Weight Loss Performance Storyquilt is featured.
Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, November 2, 2017-January 8, 2018. Featured is Coming to Jones Road Part II: We Here Aunt Emmy Got Us Now.
Legacy in Black, San Diego African American Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, CA, November 4, 2017-March 28, 2018. The show features several works from the Coming to Jones Road Part II series. -
2018
Faith Ringgold: An American Artist, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
February 18-May13. Solo traveling exhibition.
Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London
June 28–October 21. Exhibition tour includes: Grand Palais, Paris; Bundeskunsthaller, Bonn and Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983, Traveling exhibition organized by the Tate Modern, London, England (July 12 – October 22, 2017) is on view at Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR (February 2–April 23, 2018); Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY (September 15, 2018-February 3, 2019)
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85, Traveling exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum, NY (April 21–September 17, 2017); California African American Museum, Los Angeles (October 13, 2017-January 14, 2018); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (February 17–May 27, 2018); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (June 26 – September 30, 2018)
Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards, National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, Abilene, TX (Traveling exhibition through August 2020. Tar Beach 2, a silkscreen on silk, is on view.
Conversation with Faith Ringgold and Michele Wallace at Tate Modern in conjunction with a solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London
Distinguished W.E.B. DuBois Lecture at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with a solo exhibition at WeissBerlin Gallery
Historias Afro-Atlanticas, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 14 – November 4, 2018. Featured are two story quilts and one silkscreen Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima?, Subway Graffiti #2 and United States of Attica.
Google Play launches a campaign with Faith’s art game “Quiltuduko”
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983, Traveling exhibition organized by the Tate Modern, London, England will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY September 15, 2018-February 3, 2019. The Flag is Bleeding is featured.
Jazz Stories: Faith Ringgold, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ, September 14–November 25
Solo presentation by ACA Galleries and Weiss Berlin was on view at Frieze London, October 3 – October 7
Faith Ringgold: 1970s, ACA Galleries, New York October 25–December 22
Sugar Hill Songbook: Selected Work by Faith Ringgold, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, October 17, 2018 through September 17, 2019
Broadway Housing Communities and Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling honors Faith, along with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Margaret Anadu and Sonia Manzano, at their gala on November 12
Living Objects: African American Puppetry, Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, October 25, 2018- April 7, 2019. Featured is Nigerian Face Mask #1, Faith’s first face mask created in 1976.
MoMA One on One, a book published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York on American People Series #20: Die will be released. The painting is back on view following the exhibition, “Soul of a Nation” at the Tate Modern, London. -
2019
New Jersey Crafts Arts Annual: New Directions in Fiber Art, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, February 9 – June 16. Faith’s most recent storyquilt, Ancestors II, 2017, will be featured. This work was created during her third Artists Residency at La Napoule in southern France.
ONE THING: VIET-NAM, Art and America’s War, 1965 to 1975, Traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (March 15 – August 18, 2019); Minneapolis Institute of Art (September 28, 2019 – January 5, 2020. Black Light Series #10: Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger will be featured. Catalogue available.
Solo exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London, England, June-September