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Curator Alison Weld of the New Jersey State Museum describes Mitchell's work as, "honoring the immaterial through the restrained, plastic language of sculpture. His regard for both nature and the history of art is revealed in the process of fabrication-through construction and its alteration, marking and remarking, carving and incising in an additive and subtractive process."

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HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2002 - Forma Viva Exhibition Residency and Grant, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia
1999 - Seagram's Purchase Award: Studio Museum in Harlem
1996 - Research Foundation of the City University of New York Grant
1995 - United States Information Agency Fellow: University of Delhi, India, Visiting Professor and Sanskreeti Artist-in-Residence
1994 - Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship
1991 - Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fellowship, Musee Claude Monet, Giverny, France
1990 - New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1984 - John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1983 - Artists Space Grant
1980-82 - PS 1, National Studio Artist
1981 - Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Scholarship
1980 - New York State Council on the Arts, CAPS Grant
1980 - Ossabaw Foundation Fellowship
1975 - Printmaking Workshop Fellowship
1968 - MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1961 - Bernard Klonis Award

EDUCATION -
1965-67 - New York Studio School
1961-65 - Art Students League

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1997 - G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997 - G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 - Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 - G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1990 - The Newark Museum
1989 - The Bronx Museum of Art, Jerry Clifford Gallery
1988 - Plumes for Dark Victories, CYRUS Gallery, NYC
1988 - Night Riddles, Sculpture Center Gallery, NYC
1987 - PS 39, Longwood Arts Project, The Bronx Council on the Arts
1982 - Fire, Water, Primal Field, Cinque Gallery, NYC
1972 - Gallery 1199, Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Center, NYC

COMMISSIONS AND OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS
2004 - 1400 on Fifth Avenue, New York City
2002 - Bozidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia
2001 - New U.S. Court House, Brooklyn, New York (Contract Awarded)
1996 - Studio Museum in Harlem, Sculpture Garden, NYC

COMMISSIONS AND OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS ? Contd.
1994 - Public Art Fund, Battery Park City, NYC
1990 - Art Awareness, Lexington, New York
1984 - Sculpture Garden '85, Winston-Salem State University
1981 - The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 - Seaside Dreams: Atlantic City Celebrates 150 Years. The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
2004 - The 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. The National Academy Museum, NYC
2004 - Everyday Magic. The Times Square Lobby Gallery, NYC
2001 - Working Here. 111 First Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2000 - Into the Millennium. The Newark Museum, NJ
1999 - Passages. Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1998 - Assemblage. Center for Creative Studies, College of Art & Design Institute of Music & Dance, Detroit, MI
1997 - Anguilla International Arts Festival, Anguilla, WI
1995 - The Listening Sky. The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1994 - TOTEMS. Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1992 - Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African-American Presence. Fukui Fine Art Museum, 1993Fukui Prefecture, Japan; Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Osuka, Japan; Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima-shi, Japan; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
1991 - Museo de Artes Visuales, Caracas, Venezuela
1990 - THE DECADE SHOW: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s. New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art.
1990 - 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Cinque Gallery, NYC
1990 - Gallery Artists, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 - Traditions and Transformations: Contemporary Afro-American Sculpture. The Bronx Museum of Art.
1989 - Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans & Brazilians of African Decent. Los Angeles Museum of African-American Art, Bronx Museum of Art.
1988 - Gallery Artists, CYRUS Gallery, NYC
1988 - Double Vision. Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; PS 39, Bronx Council on the Arts
1987 - Who's Uptown: Harlem '87. Schomburgh Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC
1987 - Celebration of Alternative Spaces. Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1987 - Above it All: Sculptors of the Bronx and Upper Manhattan. PS 39, Bronx, NY
1985 - DESIGNED, But not Realized. Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
1985 - CARNIVAL: Ritual of Reversal. Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
1984 - Sticks & Stones: Modern/Post Modern Sculpture. Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
1984 - Affirmations of Life. Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
1983 - Skowhegan Faculty Show. Colby Art Gallery, Waterville, Maine
1983 - The Black & White Show. Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
1983 - Former Artists-in-Residence Exhibition. The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1983 - 4th Annual Exhibition. The Atlanta Life Insurance Co., Atlanta, GA
1982 - The UFO Show. The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS ? Contd.
1981 - Sculpture '81. Counterpoints Guild: Lever House Gallery, NYC
1981 - Dialogues. Just Above Midtown/Downtown, NYC
1981 - Indigenous Wood. Kenkeleba House Gallery, NYC
1980 - Afro-American Abstraction. PS 1, Long Island City. Traveled to: The Arnot Museum, Elmira, NY; The Art Center, South Bend, ID; The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; The Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, TN; The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH.
1980 - Discovery/Rediscovery. Sculpture Center Gallery, NYC
1980 - Ten Artists. Just Above Midtown/Downtown Gallery, NYC
1980 - Power Objects. Howard University Gallery, Washington, DC
1979 - Cinque Gallery, NYC
1979 - FESTAC Reunion Show. Cinque Gallery, NYC
1978 - Microcosm/Macrocosm. Tim Blackburn Gallery, NYC
1977 - Black Art: A Select Sampling. Florida International University, Tamiami
1977 - Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture: FESTAC '77. Lagos and Kadona, Nigeria
1976 - Artists of Williamsburgh. New Muse, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1975 - Negro History Museum, Hempstead, NY
1974 - Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
1974 - Riverside Church Gallery, NYC
1973 - Automation House, NYC
1973 - Genesis II. Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY
1972 - The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1972 - Lincoln Center Art Gallery, NYC
1970 - National Museum of Dakar, Senegal

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2002 - Vermont Studio Center for the Arts
1995 - Sanskreeti, New Delhi, India (USIA)
1992 - University of Colorado, Boulder
1990 - Art Awareness, Lexington, New York
1990 - Western Michigan University
1986 - Bronx Council on the Arts
1985 - Williams College
1981 - Studio Museum in Harlem

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1993 - Associate Professor, Art Department, Queens College, CUNY
1995 - Delhi College of Art, New Delhi, India (USIA)
1992-93 - City College, City University of New York
1992-93 - Bard College
1988-93 - Hunter College, City University of New York
1982-83 - State University of New York at Old Westbury

LECTURER
2000-02 - Joan Mitchell Foundation
1990 - Montclair State College
1990 - The Newark Museum
1990 - The Whitney Museum at Philip Morris
1990 - Western Michigan University
1989 - California Institute for the Arts
1988 - State University of New York at Stony Brook
1987 - Williams College
1986 - The Bronx Council on the Arts
1985 - Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1985 - The Bronx Museum of Art, Satellite Program
1983 - Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

PANELIST
2003 - Joan Mitchell Foundation
2000 - Joan Mitchell Foundation
1999 - Fairmount Park Art Association. New Land Marks Symposium: public art, community, and the meaning of place. Philadelphia, PA
1997 - New York Foundation for the Arts. New York State Artists' Fellowship Program, Sculpture.
1996 - Metropolitan Transit Authority
1995 - Nature Landscape and Contemporary Sculpture. New School for Social Research and The Studio Museum in Harlem. NYC
1994 - Provincetown Workshop, Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA
1992 - Museo de Artes Visuales, Caracas, Venezuela
1989 - Los Angeles Museum of African-American Art
1986 - Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts for Transit. NYC
1985 - New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Program, Sculpture. NYC

CURATOR
1987 - Prevalence of Myth, Organization of Independent Artists, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition Series, The Bronx Council on the Arts

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Drs. Camille & William H. Cosby Collection
The Reader's Digest Corporate Collection
The Newark Museum
The Schomburgh Center for Research in Black Culture
The New York Public Library
Abyssinian Baptist Church, NYC

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