© Courtesy of Rico Gatson, Miles McEnery Gallery and cadet capela
Born in 1966 in Augusta, GA, US
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, US
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
— Spectral Visions, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
— Cydne Jasmin Coleby & Rico Gatson, with Cydne Jasmin Coleby, cadet capela, Paris, FR
— Rico Gatson, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2021
— Rico Gatson, Scott Miller Projects, Birmingham, AL
2020
— Power Portrait, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
— Ghosts, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2019
— Rico Gatson and Baseera Khan : Free to Be, Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York, NY
2018
— My Eyes Have Seen, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
2017
— Rico Gatson : 2007-2017, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
— Rico Gatson : Power Lines, The Armory Show, Pier 94 Booth 818, New York, NY
2016
— Rico Gatson : Power Lines, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2014
— Rico Gatson : When She Speaks, Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY
2013
— The Promise of Light, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Ginsberg Artist in Residence, Rico Gatson, North Gallery, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College
— Dufresne & Gatson, The Barbara Walters Art Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College, The Bronx, NY
2011
— Rico Gatson : Three Trips around the Block, Exit Art, New York, NY
— History Lessons, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
2009
— Dark Matter, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2008
— Black Magic/Black Power, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
— Rico Gatson, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY
— Rico Gatson, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2006
— African Fractals, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
— African Fractals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2005
— Mediations on Race and Religion, The Olson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
2004
— History Lessons / Clandestine, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2003
— Rico Gatson : Recent Works, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
2001
— Rico Gatson, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Masking : Rico Gatson and Andres Serrano, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
— Rico Gatson, Serge Ziegler Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2000
— Fire, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
1999
— Home Sweet Home, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
1996
— Project Room, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
— Geometries, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY
— Cosmic Geometries, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, NY
2021
— Annotations & Improvisations, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
— Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
— Re : presentation, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
— Sacred Spaces : Art and Spirituality at the Fourth Universalist Society in the City of NewYork, Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York, New York, NY
— Recognition & Response : Rico Gatson & David Huffman, Miles McEnery Gallery at The Armory Show, New York, NY
— Dialogues in African American Abstract Painting, Duke Gallery of Art, James Madison University, Harrisonburg,VA
— Re : Growth, A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, and the New York Spirit, New York, NY
— Visions and Nightmares, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
— Naked in Brooklyn, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
— Wood,Works : Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
— Light, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2020
— True Lines, Over The Influence, Los Angeles, CA
— All Things Bright and Beautiful, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2019
— New Symphony of Time, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
— Historicity, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
— Summer 2019, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
2018
— Win Sourced Scribes, Mother Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
— Art + Activism: Drawing the Line, Children’s Museum of Art, New York, NY
— Jazz and Love, La Viellie Chartié, Marseille, France
— The Art of Protest, Arete Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
— Isness, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2017
— Identity Document, Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
— We the People, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
— 1967: Parallels in Black Art and Rebellion, Charles H.Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
— Sharper Image, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
— Art on the Front Lines, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Spielplatz, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
2016
— Moving Image, The Tunnel, New York, NY
— Phantom, OSMOS, New York, NY
— Jameco Exchange, No Longer Empty, New York, NY
— Accumulation : 5000 Years of Objects, Fictions, and Conversations, MeadArt Museum, Amherst College, MA
— Every Five Minutes, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
— Language Product, Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA
2015
— Devotion, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, NY
— The Raft, The Boiler, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
— When Artists Speak Truth..., The 8th Floor, New York, NY
— All Killer No Filler, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
— Magic Objects, curated by Rico Gatson, 99 Cent Plus Gallery, New York, NY
— Make Their Gold Teeth Ache, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA
— Between a place and candy, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, NY
— Painting is Dead?!, Figure One, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
— RESPOND, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
— Pay to Play, ODETTA, Brooklyn, NY
2014
— CEMETARIUM, Presented by Regina Rex, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
— Guns in the Hands of Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
— Pierogi XX : Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
— SEVEN/VIDEO, The Boiler, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2013
— 15 Artists in Black & White, Outlet Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY
— The Ceiling Should Be Green, P!, New York, NY
— American Beauty, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
2012
— New, NewYork, Essl Museum, Vienna ,Austria
— Bigger Than Shadows, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
— Rico Gatson and Christ Larson, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
— Lyrical Color, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY
— Paper Variables, Dieu Donne, New York, NY
— Rico Gatson and Angela Dufresne, Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronx, NY
— Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, NY
— The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
— What I know, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY
2011
— Per-son-age, Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY
— Taking Shape, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— It’s All in the Peripherals, Mellwood Arts Center, Louisville, KY
— Blink! Light, Sound & The Moving Image, The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
— Geometric Days, Exit Art, New York, NY
— En-Garde II: omg, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2010
— The Jewel Thief, The Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
— Divide & Conquer, The Spirol Gallery, Quinebaug Valley Community College, Danielson, CT
— Resurrectine, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Ocketopia, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
— Global/National, ExitArt, New York, NY
— NEW year, NEW work, NEW space, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
2009
— Incarnational Aesthetics, NYCAMS, New York, NY
— Reduced Visibility, Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston,TX
— You Killed My Pretty Things, St. Claude Gallery, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
— BLACK&WHITEWORKS, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Art and Text: Images, Concepts, and Insights, Dadian Gallery, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
2008
— The Labyrinth Wall : From Mythology to Reality, Exit Art, New York, NY
— Drawing Review : 37 Years of Works on Paper, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Filmic, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
— Prospect 1, Prospect, New Orleans, LA
— intransit, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY
— ALONE/TOGETHER, Talman + Monroe, New York, NY
2007
— Red Badge of Courage, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
— System Failure, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
— Death & love in MODERN TIMES, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY
— STAND, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY
— En Prefecto Desorden, Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
— Most Humans Do Not Know Better, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
— Digital Political Time Lapse, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
— Unfathom, Max Protetech Gallery, New York, NY
— Heco en Bushwick, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
— Double-Edged Abstraction, g-module, Paris, France
— Multiples, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington,VT
— Sihouette, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
— Intelligent Design, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
— M*A*S*H, The Helena, New York, NY
2006
— Drift, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY
— The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY
2005
— African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
— About Face : a selection of artist’s videos, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
2004
— Black Belt, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
— Fight or Flight, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY
— FACE OFF, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Open House : Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
— Video X : 10 years of video with Momenta Art, Momenta Art Brooklyn, NY
2003
— Only Skin Deep : Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
— Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
— The 3rd Photo-Media Festival, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
— Living Units, Triple Candie, New York, NY
— Decade, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
— Americ@an Dre@m, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
— Veni Vidi Video, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2002
— Spinning, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, M
— Knockout Fairground, Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
— Americas Remixed, Comune di Milano, Milan, Italy
— Season Review : Fall ‘01 - Spring ’02, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Paris Exchange, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
— Enough About Me, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
— Race in Digital Space, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2001
— A Painting for Over the Sofa (That’s Not Necessarily a Painting), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL ; traveled to : Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN ; Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
— Cold Blood, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
— Race in Digital Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA
— FREESTYLE, The Studio Musuem in Harlem, New York, NY and The Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
2000
— Light x Eight:The Hanukkah Project 2000, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
— Galerie Serge Ziegler, Zürich, Switzerland
— Never Never Land, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
— The Light Show, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY
1999
— The Flat Files, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
— Group Exhibition, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
— Working In Brooklyn : Beyond Technology, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
— Rage for Art, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
— Video Program, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
1998
— Hybro Video, Exit Art, New York, NY
— Current Undercurrent : Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2001
— Space Odyssey, Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
— TheView from Denver, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung LudwigWien (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
— Gramercy International Art Fair, Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, NY
1996
— Video Faz, Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico
— Cadmium-Cathode, Sauce, Brooklyn, NY
— Benefit Show, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
— Constriction, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
1995
— Presence, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
— On the Lam, Thicket Gallery, New York, NY
— Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— Options 2, The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
1994
— Faux, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
— FIRED-A Late-Nite Comedy Show, No Bias Space, North Bennington, VT and Thicket Gallery, New York, NY
— Benefit Show, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
1993
— Group Exhibition, Art Space, New Haven, CT
COLLECTIONS
— Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC, US
— Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
— Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
— Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville,TN
— Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
— Kempner Museum, Kansas City, MO
— Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
— Malcolm X Institute,Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
— Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
— Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
— Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
— Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington D.C.
— The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
— Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
— The Armory Show 2021 : Rico Gatson & David Huffman, 2021, Miles McEnery Gallery
— Catalogue d’exposition : Ghosts 2020 Miles McEnery Gallery
EDUCATION
1991
— MFA ale School of Art, New Haven Connecticut, CT
1989
— BFA Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota, MN