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Pat Ward Williams (b. 1948)
What You Lookn At, 1993

National Art Loans


Jack Whitten: the Messenger
March 23 – August 2, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York, NY

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago
Sept. 13, 2024 - January 19, 2025
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
March 9, 2025 - July 6, 2025
Natl. Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
August 30, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 


Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
Featuring work by Whitfield Lovell and work by Betye Saar
December 11, 2023 – June 28, 2024
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, Michigan


Whitfield Lovell: Passages
Organized by the American Federation of Arts
New York, New York
February 11 - May 21, 2023
The Boca Raton Museum of Art
Boca Raton, Florida
June 17 - September 10, 2023
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia


Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer
February 16 - May 21, 2023
Isabella Stewart Garden Museum
Boston, Massachusetts


Jacob Lawrence: The Legend of John Brown from the Mott-Warsh Collection
January 14 – April 29, 2023
Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum

Saginaw, Michigan

Revisiting New York: 1962-1964
Featuring work by Norman Lewis
July 22, 2022 - January 8, 2023
The Jewish Museum
New York, New York


Whatever Gets You Though the Night: Selections from the MWC
June 18 - September 25, 2022
Cranbrook Art Museum
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan


52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone
Featuring work by Howardena Pindell
June 6, 2022  - January 8, 2023
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Nick Cave: Fororthermore
May 14  - October 2, 2022
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Chicago, Illinois.
November 18, 2022 - April 10, 2023
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, New York.


Africa, Imagined: Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Art
Featuring work by
Chakaia Booker
Omar Victor Diop
Seydou Keita
Hank Willis Thomas
January 22  - May 1, 2022
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo, Michigan.


Texture: The History and Art of Black Hair
Featuring work by Kehinde Wiley
September 10, 2021 - 15 August 15, 2022
Kent State University Museum
Kent, Ohio.


Re-materialize
September 19 – December 20, 2020

Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Robert Colescott: Art and Race Matters
September 20, 2019 - January 12, 2020
Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio
February 15 - December 13, 2020
Portland Art Museum,
Portland, Oregon
February 5 - April 25, 2021
Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, Illinois


Resilience: African Americans as Agents of Change
Featuring work by
Allie McGhee
Alma Thomas
Mildred Thompson
Dox Thrash
Cullen Washington Jr.
September 14, 2019  - February 16, 2020
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 
Kalamazoo, Michigan.


Life Model: Charles White and His Students
February 16 - September 14, 2019
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
​Los Angeles, California

Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture
1963 – 2017

September 5
– December 2, 2018
The Metropolitan Museum Art (The Met Breuer),
New York, New York
March 3 - May 27, 2019
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Houston, Texas

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Beyond Borders: Global Africa
Featuring works by
Fabrice Monteiro
Omar Victor Diop
Serge Alain Nitegeka
Wangechi Mutu
Alison Saar
August 11 
– November 25, 2018
University of Michigan Museum of Art,
Ann Arbor, Michigan 

​Rhythm, Repetition and Vocab
Featuring work by Carole Harris
July 20 – November 4, 2018
Detroit Institute of Arts, 

Detroit, Michigan

Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century
Featuring work by Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga

June 22 – September 16, 2018
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee. 
November 15, 2018 – April 28, 2019
Chrysler Museum of Art,
Norfolk, Virginia 


Charles White: A Retrospective
June 8 – September 3, 2018
The Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois  

October 2, 2018 – January 13, 2019
The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, New York 

February 17 – June 6, 2019
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California 

Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuition 1965 – 2016
March 27 – July 22, 2018
The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, New York

September 30, 2018 – January 6, 2019
Hammer Museum, 
Los Angeles, California


Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen
February 24 – May 20, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, Illinois 

August  25 – November 25, 2018
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, Virginia


​Mildred Thompson: Radiation Explorations and Magnetic Fields Exhibition
February 22 – April 21, 2018
Galerie LeLong & Co.,
New York, New York

Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence
Featuring work by Jack Whitten
September 19, 2017 – February 25, 2018
SCAD Museum of Art,
Savannah, Georgia


​Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today
Featuring work by Mary Lovelace O'Neal
October 13, 2017 – January 21, 2018
National Museum of Women
in the Arts,  

Washington, D.C.
​
Barbara Chase - Riboud - Malcolm X: Complete
September 9 
– November 4, 2017
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery,
New York, New York

June 1 – September 17, 2017
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kansas City, Missouri

​
Recharging the Image: Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection

April 17 – July 10, 2016
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey,

Summit, New Jersey ​

Procession: the Art of Norman Lewis

November 13, 2015 – April 3, 2016
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

June 4 – August 21, 2016
Amon Carter Museum,
Fort Worth, Texas
September 17, 2016 – January 8, 2017
Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, Illinois

​
Melvin Edwards: Five Decades
February 12 – May 8, 2016
Columbus Museum of Art,
Columbus, Ohio
September 1, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Zimmerli Art Museum,
at Rutgers University,

New Brunswick, New Jersey
January 31 – May 10, 2015
Nasher Sculpture Center,
Dallas, Texas


Lookin' Back in Front of Me: Selected Works by Mark Steven Greenfield
September 25, 2014 – July 5, 2015
California African American Museum,
Los Angeles, California

Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
September 20, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,
San Diego, California

May 16 – August 2nd, 2015
Wexner Center for the Arts-
Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio

September 12, 2015 – January 24, 2016
Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Barbara Chase-Riboud:
The Malcolm X Steles
August 1, 2013
– May 26, 2014
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Etched in Collective History
Featuring work by Whitfield Lovell
August 18th – November 17, 2013
Birmingham Museum of Art,
Birmingham, Alabama

​Hughie Lee-Smith: Meditations
February 14 
– June 1, 2013
Muskegon Museum of Art, 
Muskegon, Michigan

​
(High) Trash
Featuring work by Chakaia Booker
January 28 
– May 28, 2013
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 
​
Burlington, Vermont

Detroit Artists Market: The First 80 Years
Featuring work by Charles McGee
February 24 
– May 24, 2012
Detroit Historical Museum,
Detroit, Michigan

​
Environment and Object in Recent African Art
Featuring work by El Anatsui
February 2011 
– April 2012
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum,
Saratoga Springs, NY
Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, Virginia
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont

​Dance / Draw
Featuring work by Howardena Pindell
September 2011 
– January 2012
Institute of Contemporary Arts,
Boston, Massachusetts 

​When I Last Wrote to You About Africa
Featuring work by El Anatsui
October 2010
– April 2013
Museum for African Art,
New York, New York

Royal Ontario Museum,
Toronto, Ontario

Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
North Carolina Museum of Art,
Raleigh, North Carolina

Denver Art Museum,
​Denver, Colorado

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan


2 Centuries, 3 Decades, 28 Works by Charles McGee
June
– September 2011
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum,
​Saginaw, Michigan
​
Elizabeth Catlett
February
– May 2011
Rudenstine Gallery, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts


Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500  – Present
Featuring work by El Anatsui
April 18
– August 8, 2010
Detroit Institute of Arts,
Detroit, Michigan


Energy: Charles McGee at Eighty-Five
November 9
– December 19, 2009
Ford Gallery at Eastern Michigan University,

Ypsilanti, Michigan

Offerings
Featuring work by Betye Saar
September 3 – October 9, 2009
Birmingham Bloomfield Arts Center, Birmingham, Michigan


​Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-1978
Featuring work by Howardena Pindell
June 25 – September 7, 2009
Seattle Art Museum,
Seattle, Washington
 
Looking Ahead: Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection
August 21 – October 28, 2008
Muskegon Museum of Art,
Muskegon, Michigan
 
Jack Whitten, Memorial Paintings
April 18 – June 14, 2008
Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia

For the Love of the Game: Race and Sport in America
Featuring works by Satch Hoyt
June 9 – October 21, 2007
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
 
Nick Cave – Second Skin: Sculptural Soundsuits and Tondos
January 26 – April 8, 2007
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville,
Jacksonville, Florida
 
Black Panther Rank and File, 2006
Featuring work by Satch Hoyt
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, California
 
Betye Saar:  Extending the Frozen Moment
October 15, 2005 – January 8, 2006
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
 
Beauford Delaney:  From New York to Paris
November 21, 2004
– February 20, 2005
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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