Willie Cole

Willie Cole (dem born am 1955 insyd Somerville, New Jersey) be a contemporary American sculptor, printer, den conceptual den visual artist. Ein work dey use contexts of postmodern eclecticism, den dey combine references den appropriation from African den African-American imagery. He sanso use Dada’s readymades den Surrealism ein transformed objects, as well as icons of American pop culture anaa African den Asian masks.

Willie Cole

human

Ein sex anaa gender	male
Country wey e be citizen	United States
Name wey dem give am	Willie
Family name	Cole
Ein date of birth	1955
Place dem born am	Newark
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign	English
Ein occupation	visual artist, printmaker, installation artist
Position ehold	artist-in-residence
Educate for	School of Visual Arts
Residence	New Jersey
Floruit	1989
Work period (start)	1975
Work period (end)	2019
Ethnic group	African Americans
Award e receive	Joan Mitchell Foundation
Dema official website	http://www.williecole.com/
Copyright status as creator	works protected by copyrights
Artist files at	Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library

Shows

Select solo shows

• 2019, "Willie Cole: Bella Figura," Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
• 2019, "Willie Cole: Beauties," Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• 2017, "Willie Cole: Made in Newark," College of Architecture and Design Gallery, The New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
• 2017, "Making Everything Out of Anything: Prints, Drawings, and Sculptures by Willie Cole," Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
• 2016 - 2017, "Willie Cole: On-Site," David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland; Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire; Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia
• 2015, "Willie Cole: Aquaphilic," 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
• 2015, "Willie Cole," Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
• 2015, "Flawlessly Feminine: Women Who Graced the Cover and Works by Willie Cole," The Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
• 2015, "Willie Cole: Transformations," Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
• 2013 - 2014, "Complex Conversations: Willie Cole Sculptures and Wall Works," Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; The College of Wooster Art Museum, Ebert Art Center, Wooster, OH; Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA; Houghton College, Houghton, NY
• 2013 - 2014, "E Pluribus Unum," Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
• 2013, "If wishes were horses...," Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
• 2013, "Willie Cole: Illuminations and Transformations," Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
• 2013, "From Water to Light," Prospect Street Firestation Gallery, Newark, NJ
• 2012, "Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper and Sculpture," Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
• 2010 - 2011, "Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper," The James Gallery, The City University of New York, New York, NY; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Select group shows

• 2017, "Operation Chromebody," Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis
• 2017, "Walker Street Summer," Alexander and Bonin, New York
• 2015, "Surrealism: The Conjured Life," MCA Chicago, Chicago
• 2012, "Afro: Black Identity in America and Brazil," Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque,
• 2011, "Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

External links

• Willie Cole’s website
• Willie Cole’s art in Artcyclopedia
• Willie Cole's Art Gallery
• TV Interview with Willie Cole, and other video clips
• Willie Cole at MoMA
• Willie Cole at Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN