Jack Whitten Estate
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Dia Beacon, 'Jack Whitten', Beacon NY
The Museum of Modern Art, 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger', New York NY
2024
Hauser & Wirth, 'Jack Whitten. Speedchaser', London, UK
2022
Dia Beacon, 'Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings', Beacon NY
Hauser & Wirth, 'Jack Whitten', Zurich, Switzerland
2021
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Jack Whitten’, Hong Kong
2020
Hauser & Wirth, 'Jack Whitten. I AM THE OBJECT', New York NY
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Jack Whitten. Transitional Space. A Drawing Survey’, New York NY
2019
Hamburger Bahnhof, 'Jack Whitten. Jack's Jacks', Berlin, Germany
The Museum of Fine Arts, 'Odyssey. Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 – 2017', Houston TX
2018
Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 'Jack Whitten. Self Portrait With Satellites', Los Angeles CA
The Met Breuer, ‘Odyssey. Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 – 2017’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, ‘Odyssey. Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 – 2017’, Baltimore MD (Travelling Exhibition)
2017
Hauser & Wirth, 'More Dimensions Than You Know. Jack Whitten, 1979 – 1989', London, UK
Hauser & Wirth, 'Jack Whitten', New York NY
2016
Allan Stone Projects. ‘Jack Whitten. The Sixties’, New York NY
2015
Wexner Center for the Arts, ‘Five Decades of Painting’, Columbus OH
Walker Art Center, ‘Five Decades of Painting’, Minneapolis MN
Zeno X Gallery, ‘Escalation’, Antwerp, Belgium
2014
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, ‘Five Decades of Painting’, San Diego CA
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, ‘Evolver’, Ridgefield CT
2013
The Rose Art Museum, ‘Light Years. Jack Whitten, 1971 – 1973’, Waltham MA
Alexander Gray Associates, ‘Jack Whitten’, New York NY
Zeno X Gallery, ‘Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten’, Antwerp, Belgium
2012
SCAD Savannah College of Art and Design, ‘Erasures, Paintings from 1975 – 1979’, Savannah GA Zeno X Gallery, ‘Loops’, Antwerp, Belgium
2011
Alexander Gray Associates, ‘Jack Whitten’, New York NY Zeno X Gallery, ‘Jack Whitten’, Antwerp, Belgium
Beta Pictoris Gallery, ‘Ribbons of Honor’, Birmingham AL
2010
Art 41 Basel, ‘Jack Whitten’, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Alexander Gray Associates, ‘Jack Whitten’, New York NY
Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, ‘Jack Whitten’, Berlin, Germany
2008
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, ‘Memorial Paintings’, Atlanta GA
2007
MoMA PS1, ‘Jack Whitten’, Long Island City NY Alexander Gray Associates, ‘Jack Whitten’, New York NY
1997
G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, ‘Digital Abstractions’, Birmingham MI
1996
G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, ‘Digital Abstractions’, Chicago IL
1994
Colgate University, ‘Recent Paintings’, Hamilton NY
Daniel Newburg Gallery, ‘Paintings From The Seventies’, New York NY
Horodner Romley Gallery, ‘Recent Paintings’, New York NY
1993
G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, ‘Thirty Year Survey of Works on Paper’, Birmingham MI
1992
Horodner Romley Gallery, ‘Recent Paintings’, New York NY
1990
Cure Gallery, ‘Reconstructions’, Los Angeles CA
Newark Museum, ‘Spirit and Matter’, Newark NJ
1989
G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, ‘Urban Abstractions’, Detroit MI
1984
Onyx Gallery, ‘Inaugural Exhibition: Jack Whitten’s New Works’, New York NY
1983
The Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘Ten Years, 1970 – 1980’, New York NY
1978
Robert Miller Gallery, ‘Paintings and Drawings’ New York NY
1977
Montclair State College, ‘Paintings’, Montclair NJ
1974
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Jack Whitten’, New York NY
1970
Allan Stone Gallery, ‘Recent Paintings’, New York NY
1969
Allan Stone Gallery, ‘Paintings and Drawings 1967 – 1968’, New York NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
White Columns, 'Looking Back / White Columns Annual', New York NY
2024
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 'Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art', New York NY/Detroit MI
Modern Art, 'Machine Painting', London, UK
MCA Chicago, 'The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020', Chicago IL
National Portrait Gallery, 'This Morning, This Evening, So Soon. James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance', Washington DC
Marianne Boesky Gallery, 'Material World', New York NY
Luhring Augustine, 'Patterns', New York NY
California African American Museum, 'World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project', Los Angeles CA
Montclair Art Museum, 'Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM', Montclair NJ
2023
Zeno X Gallery, 'Soul Mapping', Antwerp, Belgium
Glenstone Museum, 'Iconoclasts: Selections from Glenstone’s Collection', Potomac MD
Southampton Arts Center, 'Change Agents. Women Collectors Shaping the Art World', Southampton NY
Platform A Gallery, 'Drawn Together', Middlesbrough, UK
James Barron Art, 'Mosaics', Kent CT The Drawing Center, 'Of Mythic Worlds: Works from the 16th Century to Today', New York NY
2022
Paul Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, 'Revisiting 5 + 1', Stony Brook NY
Peoria Riverfront Museum, 'American Revolutionaries: Art & Disruption', Peoria IL
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Julie Mehretu: Portals', Cleveland OH
Green Family Art Foundation, 'Black Abstraction: From Then 'til Now', Dallas TX
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 'Dead Lecturer/distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980', New York NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus', Cleveland OH
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 'The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse', Bentonville AR (travelling exhibition)
2021
Kavi Gupta, 'Abstraction & Social Critique', Chicago IL
MoMA PS1, 'Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well', Long Island City NY
Karma, ‘Get Lifted. The Art of the Ecstatic’, cur. Hilton Als, New York NY
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, 'Un-Representation', Saratoga Springs NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, 'All Things Bright and Beautiful', Birmingham AL
University of Kentucky Art Museum, ‘Coloring’, Lexington KY
Dallas Museum of Art, 'Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia' Dallas TX
Mott-Warsh Gallery, 'First Look. Recent Acquisitions & Rarely Seen Gems', Flint MI
Mnuchin Gallery, ‘Highlights Of Post-War And Contemporary Art’, New York NY
New Museum, ‘Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America’, New York NY
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 'The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse', Houston TX (travelling exhibition)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 'The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse', Richmond VA (travelling exhibition)
2020
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 'Expanded Painting in the 1960s and 1970s', Philadelphia PA
Houston Museum of African American Culture, 'Selected Works from The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at the University of Alabama', Houston TX
Lehigh University Art Galleries, 'The Teaching Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection', Bethlehem PA
Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, 'Explorations of Self: Black Portraiture from the Cochran Collection', Winston-Salem NC
The Museum of Fine Arts, ‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’, Houston TX (Traveling Exhibition)
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago’, Chicago IL
Walker Art Center, ‘Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection’, Minneapolis MN
Rose Art Museum, ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1933 – 2018’, Waltham MA
Turner Contemporary, ‘We Will Walk: Art of Resistance in the American South’, Margate/UK
2019
Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, ‘Cut. Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present’, cur. Amy Galpin, Miami FL
MOAD @ MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami Dade College, ‘Where the Oceans Meet’, Miami FL
Saint Louis Art Museum, 'The Thelma and Bert Ollie Memorial Art Collection', Saint Louis MO (forthcoming)
Kunsthal Rotterdam, 'Trouble in Paradise. Collection Rattan Chadha', Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Morgan Library & Museum, ‘By Any Means: Modern and Contemporary Drawings from the Morgan’, New York NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, 'Selections from The Studio Museum in Harlem', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Generations. A History of Black Abstract Art', Baltimore MD
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, ‘Bethlehem Hospital’, New York NY
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, ‘The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950’, cur. Aleesa Alexander, Stanford CA
2018
Americas Society, 'Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant. Trembling Thinking', New York NY
Queens Museum, 'Queens International 2018. Volumes', New York NY
Fondazione Prada, ‘Sanguine/Bloedrood’, (cur. Luc Tuymans), Milan, IT (Traveling Exhibition)
M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, ‘Sanguine/Bloedrood’, (cur. Luc Tuymans), Antwerp, BE (forthcoming) (Traveling Exhibition)
Smart Museum of Art: The University of Chicago, ‘Expanding Narratives: The Figure And The Ground’, Chicago IL
MW Gallery, '20/20 Influential Artists of the 20th Century', Flint MI
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 'Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection', Durham NC (Travelling Exhibition)
Taubman Museum of Art, ‘Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection’, Roanoke VA
Brooklyn Museum, ‘Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’, Brooklyn NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, ‘Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’, Bentonville AR (Travelling Exhibition)
2017
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 'Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection', New Orleans LA (Travelling Exhibition)
Mnuchin Gallery, ‘Minimalism & Beyond’, New York NY
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 'Blue Black', St. Louis MO
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California Davis, 'Dimensions of Black', Davis CA
Brooklyn Museum, 'The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America’, New York NY
Tate Modern, 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’, London, United Kingdom (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ‘little lower layer’, Chicago IL
Georgia Museum of Art, ‘Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection', Atlanta GA
Gagosian Gallery, 'Painting Paintings (David Reed), 1975', New York NY
2016
The Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘Circa 1970’, New York NY
Pace Gallery, 'Blackness in Abstraction', New York NY
Haus der Kunst, ‘Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945 – 1965’, Munich, Germany
2015
The Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘Black: Color, Material, Concept’, New York NY
Hollis Taggart Galleries, ‘Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself’, New York NY
Manège de Sury, ‘Atopolis’, Mons, Belgium Foundation de 11 Lijnen, ‘Liberated Subjects: Present Tense’, Oudenburg, Belgium
32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University School of Art, ‘Piece Work’, New Haven CT
Museum of the African Diaspora, ‘Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA’, San Fransisco CA
Dallas Museum of Art, ‘Bold Abstractions: Selections from the Collection, 1966 – 1976’, Dallas TX
Blanton Museum of Art, ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties’, Austin TX (Travelling Exhibition)
Hammer Museum, ‘Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1870 to Now’, Los Angeles CA
Menil Collection, ‘Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1870 to Now’, Houston TX
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, ‘New Acquisitions’, Waltham MA
2014
Zeno X Gallery, ‘Kees Goudwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Jenny Scobel, Jack Whitten’, Antwerp, Belgium
High Museum of Art, ‘Top Drawer: Select Drawings from the High’s Collection’, Atlanta GA
Walker Art Center, ‘Art Expanded, 1958 – 1978’, Minneapolis MN
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, ‘The Paintstroke’, Deurle, Belgium
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Expanding the Field of Painting’, Boston MA
Brooklyn Museum, ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Hood Museum of Art, ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties’, Hanover New Hampshire (Travelling Exhibition)
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, ‘Beyond the Spectrum: Abstraction in African American Art, 1950 – 1975’, New York NY
Contemporary Art Museum Houston, ‘Outside the Line, Black in the Abstract part II’, Houston TX
2013
Montclair Art Museum, ‘Looking Forward: Gifts of Contemporary Art from the Patricia A. Bell Collection’, Montclair NJ
Cheim and Read Gallery, ‘Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s’, New York NY
55th Venice Biennale, ‘The Encyclopedic Palace’, Venice, Italy
Zeno X Gallery, ‘Opening New Space’, Antwerp, Belgium
Alexander Gray Associates, ‘Broken Spaces: Cut, Mark, and Gesture’, New York NY
The New Museum, ‘NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star’, New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Blues For Smoke’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, ‘Speak, Memory’, New York NY
2012
Alexander Gray Associates at Art Basel Miami Beach ‘History, Painting’, Miami FL (Travelling Exhibition)
Art Kabinett, ‘History, Painting’, Miami Beach, Miami FL (Travelling Exhibition) The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Modern Art, ‘Blues For Smoke’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
The Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘The Bearden Project’, New York NY
beta pictoris gallery, ‘Pulp’, Birmingham AL
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today’, Chicago IL
Mobile Museum of Art, ‘Today’s Visual Language: Southern Abstraction, A Fresh Look’, Mobile AL
Michael Kohn Gallery, ‘Into the Mystic’, Los Angeles CA
2011
Zeno X Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, Antwerp, Belgium
High Museum of Art, ‘Making a Mark: Drawings from the Contemporary Collection’, Atlanta GA
Hudson River Museum, ‘The Chemistry of Color: The Sorgenti Collection of African-American Art’, New York NY
2010
U.S. Embassy Residence, ‘Art in Embassies Exhibition’, Warsaw, Poland
David D. Driskell Center, ‘Abstract Relations: Selections from the David Driskell Center and the University of Delaware’, Newark DE
MoMA PS1, ‘Greater New York Rotating Gallery 3: The Comfort of Strangers’, New York NY
2009
The Drawing Center, ‘FAX’, New York NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection’, New York NY
2008
Alexander Gray Associates, ‘Propose: Works on Paper from the 1970s’, New York NY
American Academy of Arts and Letters, ‘Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts’, New York NY
ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, ‘High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965 – 1975’, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
2007
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now’, New York NY
Galerie Thomas Flor, ‘Short Distance To Now: Paintings from New York, 1967 – 1975’, Dusseldorf, Germany
The National Academy Museum, ‘High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965 – 1975’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, ‘High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965 – 1975’, Mexico City, Mexico (Travelling Exhibition)
2006
Weatherspoon Art Museum, ‘High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965 – 1975’, Greensboro NC (Travelling Exhibition)
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, ‘High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965 – 1975’, Washington DC (Travelling Exhibition)
Arti et Amicitiae, ‘Unbreakable’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 – 1980’, New York NY
2005
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, ‘The Chemistry of Color: African American Artists in Philadelphia, 1970 – 1990’, Philadelphia PA
2004
The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, ‘Something to Look Forward To’, Lancaster PA
2003
Parrish Art Museum, ‘An American Legacy: Art From The Studio Museum in Harlem’, New York NY
2001
The Smithsonian Institution, ‘In The Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’, Washington DC
2000
Bucknell Art Gallery, Elaine Lagone Center, Bucknell University, ‘Off the Record: Music in Art’, Lewisburg PA
SPACES, ‘Painting Function: Making it Real’, Cleveland OH
1996
Trans Hudson Gallery, ‘Current Geometries in Abstraction’, New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Art at the End of the 20th Century. Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Alexander Soutzos Museum, ‘Art at the End of the 20th Century. Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art’, Athens, Greece (Travelling Exhibition)
Museu d’Art Contemporani, ‘Art at the End of the 20th Century. Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art’, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunstmuseum Bonn, ‘Art at the End of the 20th Century. Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art’, Bonn, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Aldrich Museum, ‘In The Flesh’, Ridgefield CT Illinois State University, ‘Frankenstein (in Normal)’, Normal IL
Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, ‘Painting in an Expanding Field’, Bennington VT
1995
Exit Art, ‘It’s How You Play The Game’, New York NY
Mobile Museum of Art, ‘Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists With Alabama Ties’, Mobile AL
The Cooper Union Art School, ‘Painting Faculty’, New York NY
Freedman Gallery Center for the Arts, Albright College, ‘In The Flesh’, Reading PA
Horodner Romley Gallery, ‘On Target’, New York NY
Clocktower Gallery, ‘Model Home’, New York NY
Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, ‘Painting in an Expanding Field’, Bennington VT
1994
Gallery Korea, ‘Conjunction 12’, New York NY
Galerie De L’Ecole Des Beaux-Arts De Lorient, ‘Le Temp D’un Dessin’, Lorient, France
A.F.T.U. Gallery, ‘Bearden and Company’, New York NY
Penine Hart Gallery, ‘Mirage’, New York NY
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘30 Years — Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich’s Curatorial History 1964 – 1994’, Ridgefield CT
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey and Co., Inc., ‘Heterogeneity: Abstraction and Virtual Space, 12 Contemporary New York Artists’, Edinburgh, Scotland
1993
National Civil Rights Museum, ‘Reflections of a King’, Memphis TN
New Museum, ‘Skin Deep’, New York NY
University of Michigan-Dearborn, ‘Diversity and Style: African American Artists’, Dearborn MI
Horodner Romley Gallery, ‘Invitation to a Review’, New York NY
Paine Webber Art Gallery, ‘The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African American Art’, New York NY
Hunter College, ‘Faculty Show’, New York NY
The Artists Museum, ‘My Home is Your Home: Construction in Process IV’, Lodz, Poland
1992
College Art Gallery, State University of New York, New York NY
Horodner Romley Gallery, ‘Reverb: 1960’s – 1970’s’, New York NY
Ben Shahn Gallery William Patterson College, ‘Drawing: From Beginning to End’, Wayne NJ
G.R.N’ Namdi Gallery, ‘Forms of Abstraction’, Columbus OH
P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, ‘Slow Art’, New York NY
1991
Lehman Collage Art Gallery, ‘Collage: New Applications’, New York NY
New York Academy of Art, ‘Expressive Drawings’, New York NY
Kenkelaba Gallery, ‘The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945 – 1975’, New York NY
Reinberger Galleries of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH
Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, ‘Espíritu & Materia: Estética Alternitiva Norteamericano: Melvin Edwards, Tyrone Mitchell, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams’, Caracas, Venezuela
Marine Midland Bank, ‘Artists Love New York’, New York NY
Brooklyn College Art Gallery, ‘Infusion’, New York NY
G.R. N’ Namdi Gallery, ‘Forms of Abstraction’, Birmingham MI
1990
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Reinstallation of Third Floor Galleries’, New York NY
1989
The California Afro-American Museum, ‘Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Decent’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Bronx Museum of the Arts, ‘Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Decent’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
1988
One Penn Plaza, ‘New York City Works by Twenty One Artists’, New York NY Eric Siegeltuch Gallery, ‘Invitational Group Show’, New York NY 1986 Department of Art, Hampton University, ‘Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans, 1925 – 1985’, Hampton VA Condeso/Lawler Gallery, ‘An Invitational’, New York NY Jamaica Art Center, ‘Masters and Pupils, The Education of the Black Artist in New York: 1900 – 1980’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition) Metropolitan Life Gallery, ‘Masters and Pupils, The Education of the Black Artist in New York: 1900 – 1980’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition) The Center Gallery of Bucknell University, ‘Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art’, Lewisburg PA (Travelling Exhibition)
1985
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, ‘Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, ‘Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art’, College Park MD (Travelling Exhibition)
The Chrysler Museum, ‘Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art’, Norfolk VA (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, ‘Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art’, University Park PA (Travelling Exhibition)
1984
The Center Gallery of Bucknell University, ‘Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art’, Lewisburg PA (Travelling Exhibition)
The Amelie A. Wallace Art Gallery, The State University of New York, ‘Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Toledo Museum of Art, ‘Afro-American Abstraction’, Toledo OH (Travelling Exhibition)
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, ‘Afro-American Abstraction’, Austin TX (Travelling Exhibition)
Everson Museum, ‘Afro-American Abstraction’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
1983
Kenkelaba Gallery, ‘The Black and White Show’, New York NY
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, ‘Afro-American Abstraction’, Memphis TN (Travelling Exhibition)
The Art Center, ‘Afro-American Abstraction’, South Bend IN (Travelling Exhibition)
1982
Alternative Museum, ‘Sacred Artifacts: Common Objects of Devotion’, New York NY
Municipal Art Gallery, ‘Afro-American Abstraction’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Oakland Museum, ‘Afro-American Abstraction’, Oakland CA (Travelling Exhibition)
1981
Kenkelaba Gallery, ‘Indigenous Wood’, New York NY
Oscarsson Hood Gallery, ‘The New Spiritualism, Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, ‘The New Spiritualism, Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture’, Storrs CT (Travelling Exhibition)
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, ‘The New Spiritualism, Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture’, Burlington VT (Travelling Exhibition)
Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, ‘Abstract Painting, New York City 1981, An Exhibition of Paintings by Fourteen New York Artists’, New York NY
1980
P.S.1 Center for the Contemporary Arts, ‘Afro-American Abstraction’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Trenton State College, ‘Two-Person Exhibition: Howardena Pindell, Jack Whitten’, Trenton NJ
Art Net, ‘Radical Attitudes to the Gallery’, London, United Kingdom
1979
Phoenix Art Museum, ‘New York Now’, Phoenix AZ
The Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘Another Generation’, New York NY
Alternative Center for International Art, ‘Recent Works by Manuel Hughes, William T. Williams and Jack Whitten’, New York NY
‘The 1970’s: New American Painting’ (Travelling Exhibition)
1977
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Contemporary Collectors’, Ridgefield CT
Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Reinstallation of the Twentieth Century Art Galleries’, New York NY
1975
Fine Arts Gallery, New York State University at Brockport, ‘Abstract Painting’, New York NY
Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, ‘Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’, New York NY
1974
Pratt Institute Gallery, ‘Recent Abstract Painting’, New York NY
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Tenth Anniversary 1964 – 1974’, Ridgefield CT
Soho Center for Visual Arts, ‘Three Person Exhibition: Elliot Loyd, Gary Smith, Jack Whitten’, New York NY
Vassar College Art Gallery, ‘New American Abstract Painting’, New York NY
1973
Poindexter Gallery, ‘Four Painters: Jake Berthot, Gary Hudson, Harvey Quaytman, Jack Whitten’, New York NY
1972
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting’, New York, NY
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Contemporary Reflections 1971 – 1974’, Ridgefield CT
Vassar College Art Gallery, ‘New American Abstract Painting’, Poughkeepsie, New York NY
1971
The Junior Council Art Lending Service, Museum of Modern Art, ‘Untitled II’, New York NY
1970
American Federation of Arts, ‘New York: New York’, New York NY
1969
Art Gallery at State University of New York at Stony Brook, ‘Five + 1, Frank Bowling, Melvin Edwards, Al Loving, William T. Williams, Daniel L. Johnson, Jack Whitten’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Princeton University Art Museum, ‘Five + 1, Frank Bowling, Melvin Edwards, Al Loving, William T. Williams, Daniel L. Johnson, Jack Whitten’, Princeton NJ (Travelling Exhibition)
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘1969 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting’, New York NY
1968
American Greetings Corporation Gallery with the Studio Museum, ‘New Voices: 15 New York Artists’, New York NY
Museum of Modern Art, ‘In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’, New York NY
1965
Allan Stone Gallery, ‘Four Men–One Theme: Jack Krueger, Richard Lethem, Mel Roman, Jack Whitten’, New York NY
Awards and Fellowships
2017
Skowhegan Medal for Painting The Aldrich A2A Award
2015
National Medal of Arts (awarded in 2016)
1976
Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship
1973
Individual Artist’s Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts
1964
John Hay Whitney Opportunity Fellowship
Selected Monographs
2025
Kuo, Michelle (ed.), 'Jack Whitten. The Messenger', New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2025, ill. (exh. cat.)
Elujoba, Yinka, 'In the Studio: Jack Whitten', Zurich/New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2025, ill.
Siegel, Katy (ed.), Ligon, Glenn, Guidelli-Guidi, Matilde (et al.), ‘Jack Whitten. Notes from the Woodshed’, Zurich/New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2025
2023
Donna De Salvo (ed.), 'Jack Whitten. The Greek Alphabet Paintings', Beacon NY: Dia Art Foundation
2022
Shiff, Richard, 'Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul', Zurich/New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2022, ill.
2019
Sven Beckstette, Melvin Edwards, Udo Kittelman (et. al.), ‘Jack Whitten. Jack’s Jacks’, Munich/DE: Prestel Verlag, 2019
2018
Siegel, Katy (ed.), ‘Jack Whitten. Notes from the Woodshed’, New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2018
Siegal, Katy (ed.), ‘Jack Whitten. Odyssey. Sculpture 1963-2017’, New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co. with the Baltimore Museum of Art, 2018 (exh. cat.)
2017
Shiff, Richard, ‘More Dimensions Than You Know. Jack Whitten Paintings 1979 - 1989’, New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2017 (exh. cat.)
2015
Kanjo, Kathryn, Storr, Robert + [et. al], ‘Jack Whitten. Five Decades of Painting’, San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2015 (exh. cat.)
2014
Klein, Richard (ed.), ‘Jack Whitten. Evolver’, Ridgefield: Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2014 (exh. cat.)
2013
Gray, Alexander (ed.) ‘Jack Whitten’, New York: Alexandra Gray Associates, 2013 (exh. cat.)
2011
Horodner, Stuart, ‘Jack Whitten. Memory and Method’, Antwerp: Zeno X Gallery, 2011 (exh. cat.)
2009
Chabrillat, François Joseph, Sakic, Achim, ‘Jack Whitten. Apriori Structures. A Selection of Paintings from 1970-2009’, Berlin: Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, 2009 (exh. cat.)
2008
Horodner, Stuart, Lindner, Stacie (eds.), ‘Jack Whitten. Memorial Paintings’, Atlanta: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 2008 (exh. cat.)
1990
Wright, Beryl J., ‘Jack Whitten. Spirit and Matter’, Newark: Newark Museum, 1990 (exh. cat.)
1982
Geldzahler, Henry, Campbell, Mary Schmidt (ed.), ‘Jack Whitten. Ten Years, 1970–1980’, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1982 (exh. cat.)
Selected Publications
2024
Russell, Legacy, 'Black Meme. A History of the Images That Make Us', London/New York: Verso, 2024, pp. 90-91
Als, Hilton, Combs, Rhea L., 'This Morning, This Evening, So Soon. James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance', Washington DC: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, New York: DelMonico Books, 2024, pp. 74-75, ill. (exh. cat.)
Amino, Genji (ed.), 'Leo Amino. The Visible and the Invisible', Santa Fe: Radius Books, Asheville: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2024, pp. 246-249, ill.
Staff, Craig, 'Weak Painting After Modernism. Material Strategies 1968-1978', New York and London: Routledge, 2024, pp. 91-93, ill.
2023
Shiff, Richard, 'Writing After Art. Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists', New York: David Zwirner Books, 2023, pp. 566-588, 674-676, ill.
Nelson, Steven, Copeland, Huey (eds.), 'Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World', Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2023, cover, pp. 156, 175-176, ill.
Cooke, Lynne (ed.), 'Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction', Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2023, pp. 91, 224, ill. (exh. cat.)
Feehily, Fergus (ed.), 'You & I Are Earth', Berlin/Dublin: Paper Visual Art, 2023, pp. 46-47, ill.
Hoptman, Laura, Shao, Olivia, O'Neill-Butler, Lauren (et al.), 'Drawing Papers 151: Of Mythic Worlds', New York: The Drawing Center, 2023, p. 140, ill. (exh. cat.)
Goodman David, Deborah, 'Mosaics', Kent: James Barron Art, 2023, unpag., ill. (exh. cat.)
2022
Armani, Elise, Kahng, Amy, Shypula, Gabriella (eds.), 'Revisiting 5+1', Stony Brook: Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University, 2022, pp. 60-61, 125, ill. (exh. cat.)
Lee, Key Jo, Sharpe, Christina, Lewis, Robin Coste (et al.), 'Perceptual Drift. Black Art and an Ethics of Looking', Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022, pp. 14-19, ill.
Freiman, Lisa D., 'Lineage. Vaughn Spann', Union County: Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, 2022, pp. 32-33, ill.
Wimberly, Dexter, 'Black Abstractionists. From Then 'til Now', Dallas: Green Family Art Foundation, 2022, pp. 7, 26, 58, ill. (exh. cat.)
Ramsey, Guthrie, 'Who Hears Here? On Black Music, Pasts & Present', Oakland: University of California Press, 2022, cover, ill.
Thüring, Reto, Tommasino, Akili, Lennard, Debra (et al.), 'Frank Bowling's Americas. New York, 1866–75', Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2022, pp. 10, 26, 29-30, ill.
Celant, Germano (ed.), 'New York: 1962–1964', New York: Jewish Museum, Milan: Skira, 2022, p. 303, ill.
2021
Kanjo, Kathryn, Dawsey, Jill, Graham, Anthony (et al.), 'Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Handbook of the Collection', San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2021, p. 441, back cover, ill.
Powell, Richard J., 'Black Art. A Cultural History' [A World of Art series], London: Thames & Hudson, 2021, pp. 146-149, ill.
Cassel Oliver, Valerie (ed.), 'The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse', Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2021, pp. 18, 198, 261-262, 271, ill. (exh. cat.)
Curley, John J., Bright, Paul, Comegno, Sarah (et al.), 'Explorations of the Self: Black Portraiture from the Cochran Collection', Winston-Salem: Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, 2021, p. 153-156, ill. (exh. cat.)
Pineda, Erin R., 'Seeing Like an Activist. Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, cover, ill.
Porter, Charlie, 'What Artists Wear', London: Penguin Books, 2021, pp. 162-168, ill.
2020
Alexander, Elizabeth, Beckwith, Naomi, Butler, Judith, 'Grief and Grievance. Art and Mourning in America', London and New York: Phaidon, New York: New Museum, 2020, pp. 242-243, ill. (exh. cat.)
2019
Choi, Connie H., 'Black Refractions. Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem', New York: American Federation of Arts/The Studio Museum in Harlem/Rizzoli Electa, 2019, pp. 210-211, ill. (exh. cat.)
Knight, Elliot A. (ed.), ‘Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists’, 2019, pp. 229-230, ill. in colour (exh. cat.)
Crippa, Elena (ed.), ‘Frank Bowling’, London: Tate Publishing, 2019, p. 45, ill. in colour (exh. cat.)
Ansenk, Emily, Bronwasser, Sacha + [et al.], ‘Trouble in Paradise. Collection Rattan Gadha’, Rotterdam: Kunsthal Rotterdam / nai010 publishers, 2019, pp. 150-151, 185, ill.
In colour (exh. cat.) Frank Mitchell, Berrisford Boothe, Kristin Hass (et. al.), ‘Afrocosmologies. American Reflections’, Wadsworth/CT: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, 2019, p. 82, p. 149, ill. in colour (exh. cat.)
2018
Appel, Kevin (ed.), ‘First Glimpse. Introducing the Buck Collection’, Irvine: UCI Institute and Museum for California Art / University of California, 2018 (exh. cat.)
Broadbeck, Anna Katherine, ‘Two x Two x Two x Twenty. Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art’, Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2018
Tuymans, Luc (ed.), ‘Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque’, Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2018
2017
Bradnock, Lucy, Baum, Kelly + [et al.], ‘Delirious. Art at the Limit of Reason 1950-1980’, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017 (exh. cat.)
Earnest, Jarret, Zwirner, Lucas (eds.), ‘Tell Me Something Good. Artist Interviews from the Brooklyn Rail’, New York: David Zwirner Books, 2017
Godfrey, Mark, Whitley, Zoé, ‘Soul of a Nation. Art in the Age of Black Power’, London: Tate Publishing, New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2017 (exh. cat.)
Harris, Shawnya L. (ed.), ‘Expanding Tradition. Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection’, Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2017 (exh. cat.)
Siegel, Katy, Wool, Christopher (eds.), ‘Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975’, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2017, p. 38, ill. (exh. cat.)
2016
Enwezor, Okwui, Siegel, Katy + [et al.], ‘Postwar. Postwar. Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965’, Munich: Prestel, 2016 (exh. cat.)
Roberts, Veronica C., ‘Vitamin P3 New Perspectives in Painting’, New York: Phaidon Press, 2016
2015
Biset, Sébastian, Pirenne, Raphaël (eds.), ‘Atopolis’, Brussels: WIELS & SIC, 2015 (exh. cat.)
Beckstette, Sven, Groos, Ulrike, ‘I Got Rhythm. Art and Jazz since 1920’, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2015 (exh. cat.)
Helfenstein, Josef, Philbin, Ann, ‘Apparitions. Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now’, Los Angeles: The Menil Collection / The Hammer Museum, 2015 (exh. cat.)
Yau, John, ‘Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself’, New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2015 (exh. cat.)
2014
Carbone, Teresa A., Jones, Kellie, ‘Witness. Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties’, New York: Monacelli Press / Brooklyn Museum, 2014 (exh. cat.)
Rubinstein, Raphael, ‘Reinventing Abstraction. New York Painting in the 1980s’, New York: Cheim & Read, 2014 (exh. cat.)
2013
Butler, Judith, ‘NYC 1993. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star’, New York: The New Museum, 2013 (exh. cat.)
Rubinstein, Raphael, ‘Reinventing Abstraction. New York Painting in the 1980s’, New York: Cheim & Read, 2013 (exh. cat.)
2012
Gohlke, Gerrit (ed.), ‘Show 6. Family Theater’, Berlin: Kienzle Art Foundation, 2012 (exh. cat.)
Simpson, Bennet (ed.), Lewis, George E., Ligon, Glenn + [et al.], ‘Blues for Smoke’, Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Munich: Prestel, 2012 (exh. cat.)
2011
Bearden, Romare, Haynes, Lauren (ed.), ‘The Bearden Project’, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2011 (exh. cat.)
Weinberg, Adam, ‘Re:collection. Selected Works from the Studio Museum in Harlem’, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2011 (exh. cat.)
2009
Gates, Henry Louis, Higgingbotham, Evelyn Brooks (eds.), ‘African American National Biography’, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
Scharpff-Striebich, Carolin, ‘Let’s Talk Abstract’, Berlin: DISTANZ, 2009
2008
Goody, Dick, ‘Seminal Works from the N’Namdi Collection of African American Art’, Rochester: Oakland University Art Gallery, 2008 (exh. cat.)
2006
Golden, Thelma, Jones, Kellie + [et. al.] (ed.), ‘Energy/Experimentation. Black Artists and Abstraction 1964 – 1980’, New York: Studio Museum of Harlem, 2006 (exh. cat.)
Siegal, Katy (ed.), ‘High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975’, New York: Distributed Art Publishers / Independent Curators International, 2006
2005
Sajet, Kim, ‘The Chemistry of Color. African American Artists in Philadelphia, 1970-1990’, Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2005 (exh. cat.)
2004
Kingsley, April, Sirmans, Franklin + [et al.], ‘Something to Look Forward To. An Exhibition Featuring Abstract Art by 22 Distinguished Americans of African Descent’, Lancaster: Franklin & Marshall College / Phillips Museum of Art, 2004 (exh. cat.)
2002
Chassman, Gary Miles (ed.), ‘In the Spirit of Martin. The Living Legacy of Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.’, Atlanta: Tinwood Books, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Museum, 2002 (exh. cat.)
2001
Logan, Fern, ‘The Artist Portrait Series. Images of Contemporary African American Artists’, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001
2000
Morgan, Robert C., (ed.), ‘Duchamp & Los Artistas Contemporáneos Posmodernos: Seminarios Impartidos en la Universidad de Buenos Aires’, Buenos Aires: Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Bienestar Estudiantil, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2000
1999
Butler, Cornelia H. (ed.), ‘Afterimage. Drawing Through Process’, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999 (exh. cat.)
Siegel, Jeanne (ed.), ‘Painting after Pollock. Structures of Influence’, Amsterdam: G&B Arts, 1999
1997
Powell, Richard J. (ed.), ‘Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century’, New York: Thames & Hudson, 1997
Sussler, Betsy, Sherman, Suzan + [et al.] (eds.), ‘Speak Art! The Best of Bomb Magazine’s Interviews with Artists’, Amsterdam: G&B Arts, 1997
Wei, Lilly, ‘After the Fall. Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970’, Staten Island: Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, 1997 (exh. cat.)
1995
Richelson, Paul W. (ed.), ‘Alabama Impact. Contemporary Artists with Alabama Ties’, Mobile: Mobile Museum of Art, Huntsville: Huntsville Museum of Art, 1995 (exh. cat.)
1994
Gedeon, Lucinda H. (ed.), ‘Melvin Edwards Sculpture. A Thirty-Year Retrospective 1963-1993’, Purchase: Neuberger Museum of Art, 1993 (exh. cat.)
Golden, Thelma (ed.), ‘Black Male. Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art’, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art / Abrams Books, 1994 (exh. cat.)
1993
Homer, William L. (ed.), ‘African-American Art. The Paul R. Jones Collection’, Newark: University of Delaware Gallery and Department of Art History, 1993 (exh. cat.)
1991
___, ‘Espiritu & Materia. Estetica Alternativa Norteamericana’, Caracas: Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, 1991 (exh. cat.)
Bowling, Frank, Cannon, Steve + [et al.], ‘The Search For Freedom. African American Abstract Painting 1945-1975’, New York: Kenkelaba Gallery, 1991 (exh. cat.)
Long, Richard (ed.), Blackburn, Robert, Billops, Camille + [et al.], ‘African American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection’, LaGrange: Cochran Gallery, 1991 (exh. cat.)
Thomison, Dennis, ‘The Black Artist in America. An Index to Reproductions’, Lanham: Scarecrow Press / Rowman & Littlefield, 1991
Zimmer, William, ‘Collage. New Applications’, Bronx: Lehman College Art Gallery, 1991 (exh. cat.)
1989
Drewal, Henry J., Driskell, David C. (eds.), ‘Introspectives. Contemporary Art by American and Brazilians of African descent’, Los Angeles: California Afro-American Museum, 1989
1987
Miller, William P., Jones, Kellie (eds.), ‘Masters and Pupils. The Education of the Black Artist in New York 1900-1980’, New York: Jamaica Arts Center / Metropolitan Life Gallery, 1987 (exh. cat.)
1985
Bontemps, Arna, Driskell, David C. + [et al.], ‘Choosing. An exhibit of changing perspectives in modern art and art criticism by Black Americans 1925-1985’, Hampton: Jacqueline Fonvielle-Bontemps, 1985 (exh. cat.)
Campbell, Mary Schmidt, ‘Tradition and Conflict. Images of a Turbulent Decade 1963-1973’, New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 1985 (exh. cat.)
1984
Jacobs, Joseph (ed.), ‘Since the Harlem Renaissance. 50 Years of Afro-American Art’, Lewisburg: The Center Gallery of Bucknell University, 1984 (exh. cat.)
1983
Ploski, James D., Williams, Harry A. (eds.), ‘The Negro Almanac. A Reference Work on the Afro-American’, Bronxville: Bellwether Publishing Company, 1983
1982
Kingsley, April (ed.), ‘Afro-American Abstraction’, San Francisco: The Art Museum Association, 1982
1981
Kingsley, April, ‘The New Spiritualism. Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture’, New York: Oscarsson Hood Gallery, 1981 (exh. cat.)
Thomas, Kathleen, Tucker, Marcia + [et al.], ‘The 1970s. New American Painting’, New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1981 (exh. cat.)
1979
Browning, Robert H., ‘Recent works by Manuel Hughes, William T. Williams and Jack Whitten. April 21 - May 19, 1979’, New York: Alternative Center for International Arts, 1979 (exh. cat.)
1976
Chance, Catherine, Hoving, Thomas + [et al.] (eds.), ‘Selected works by Black artists from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. April 14-June 14 1976’, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976 (exh. cat.)
1974
Dyer, Carlus, ‘Contemporary Reflections. 1971-1974’, New York: The American Federation of the Arts, Ridgefield: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1974 (exh. cat.)
1972
Price, Paxton P., ‘An Index to Black American Artists’, St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library, 1972
1971
Goldstein, Rhoda Lois (ed.), ‘Black Life and Culture in the United States’, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1971
1969
Alloway, Lawrence (ed.), ‘5 + 1. Frank Bowling, Melvin Edwards, Al Loving, William T. Williams, Daniel L. Johnson, Jack Whitten’, Stony Brook: SUNY Art Gallery, 1969 (exh. cat.)
Bauer, John H. (ed.), ‘1969 Annual Exhibition. Contemporary American Painting’, New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969, plate no. 133, ill. in b/w (exh. cat.)
Aiken, Richard S., Hildebrand, Lorraine (eds.), ‘Bibliography of Afro-American Print and Non-print Resources in Libraries of Pierce Country, Washington’, Tacoma: Tacoma College Library, 1969
Selected Press
2025
Vartanian, Hrag, '10 Art Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer', on: hyperallergic.com, 30 April 2025, ill.
Cothrel, Joseph, 'Surprised by Jack: A Review of 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger' at MoMA in New York', on: art.newcity.com, 28 April 2025, ill.
Dodson, Jewels, 'Jack Whitten's Pioneering Abstract Paintings Shine at MoMA', on: artsy.net, 10 April 2025, ill.
Hongyi, Ma, 'What is the charm of the art 'alchemist' that makes New York's MoMA willing to make an exception?', on: 99ys.com, 10 April 2025, ill.
___, 'Painting is a Gift. Angel Otero reads from Jack Whitten’s "Notes from the Woodshed"' [video and article], on: hauserwirth.com/ursula, 21 March 2025, ill.
___, 'Art review: Jack Whitten: The Messenger', on: theweek.com, 2 April 2025, ill.
___, 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger', on: Apollo-magazine.com, 21 March 2025, ill.
Grey, Tobias, 'Jack of All Trades', on: airmail.news, 22 March 2025, ill.
Stewart, Alison (host), 'New Andy Kaufman Doc; Janis Ian; Jack Whitten At MoMA; Happy 250th Birthday Jane Austen' [audio podcast], in: All Of It, WNYC, 27 March 2025.
Budick, Ariella, 'Jack Whitten at MoMA: a restless voyage between colour and darkness', on: ft.com, 24 March 2025, ill.
Cotter, Holland, 'Jazzed About Abstraction: Jack Whitten’s Show Is a Peak MoMA Moment', on: nytimes.com, 27 March 2025, ill.
Luke, Ben (host), 'Jack Whitten at MoMA, New York, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arita Singh at the Serpentine' [audio podcast episode, interview with curator Michelle Kuo], in: The Week in Art, The Art Newspaper, 21 March 2025
___, 'comprehensive retrospective of Jack Whitten's work opens at MoMA', on: artdaily.com, 26 March 2025, ill.
Smee, Sebastian, 'Maybe the most important American artist you’ve never heard of', on: washingtonpost.com, 21 March 2025, ill.
Greenberger, Alex, 'MoMA’s Luminous Jack Whitten Show Is the Museum’s Best Retrospective in Half a Decade', on: artnews.com, 20 March 2025, ill.
Völzke, Daniel, 'MoMA-Retrospektive von Jack WhittenWenn Gestus auf Prozess trifft', on: monopol-magazin.de, 20 March 2025, ill.
Bucarelli, Viviana, 'Un mondo in tumulto tra le pennellate di Jack Whitten', on: ilgiornaledellarte.com, 17 March 2025, ill.
Miller, M.H., 'The Artist Was Here', in: The New York Times Style Magazine, New York, 9 March 2025, pp. 56-57, ill.
Belcove, Julia, 'Inside Trailblazing Artist Jack Whitten’s First Retrospective Show at MoMA', on: robbreport.com, 22 February 2025, ill.
Kailath, Ryan, 'Here are some of the top museum shows coming to New York in 2025', on: gothamist.com, 4 January 2025
Airoldi, Silvia, 'The Most Anticipated Art Exhibitions Of 2025 Not To Be Missed In Italy And Around The World', on: elledecor.com, 1 January 2025, ill.
Belcove, Julie, 'Inside Trailblazing Artist Jack Whitten’s First Retrospective Show at MoMA', on: robbreport.com, 22 February 2025, ill.
Miller, M.H., 'Seven Years After Jack Whitten’s Death, His Studio Remains Nearly Untouched', on: nytimes.com, 27 February 2025, ill.
2024
Silverman, Erica, 'The Most Anticipated 2025 Exhibitions at MoMA, The Met, The Serpentine, and More', on: whitewall.art, 31 December 2024, ill.
Chisom, Sedrick, 'Eight Books That Sedrick Chisom Wants You to Read', on: elephant.art, 17 December 2024
Blythe, Finn, 'Inside Jack Whitten’s contribution to American contemporary art', on: wallpaper.com, 9 November 2024, ill.
Waichler, Grace, 'Heading to London for Frieze? Don't Miss These 14 Major Gallery Shows While You're There', on: culturedmag.com, 7 October 2024
Westall, Mark, '6 Art Exhibitions to See in London', on: fadmagazine.com, 29 September 2024, ill.
___, 'Jack Whitten: Speedchaser', on: artplugged.co.uk, 4 September 2024, ill.
Westall, Mark, 'Jack Whitten. Speedchaser', on: fadmagazine.com, 3 September 2024, ill.
Rabb, Maxwell, 'Jack Whitten’s first comprehensive retrospective will be presented at MoMA', on: artsy.net, 25 July 2024, ill.
Westall, Mark, 'MoMA Announces "Jack Whitten: The Messenger" - First Major Retrospective of the Groundbreaking Artist', on: fadmagazine.com, 24 July 2024, ill.
Smith, Anna Deavere, 'How I learned to listen for America', on: washingtonpost.com, 16 May 2024, ill.
2023
Blom, Dineke, 'Who's Afraid of Black and White: on the relationship between Black abstraction and 17th century works', on: mistermotley.nl, 19 September 2023, ill.
Baumgardner, Julie, ‘These 6 Works at Frieze New York Show the Art Market Heading in New Directions’ on: Culturedmag.com, 18 May 2023
Thaddeus-Jones, Josie and Kaker, Ann, ‘The 10 Best Booths at Frieze New York 2023’, on: Artsy, 18 May 2023
Cotter, Holland, ‘At Frieze New York 2023, One-Person Shows That Shine’, in: The New York Times, 18 May 2023
Budick, Ariella, ‘Jack Whitten. The Greek Alphabet Paintings,’ in: Financial Times, 1 March 2023
2022
Mac Adam, Alfred, 'New York: 1962–1964', in: The Brooklyn Rail, New York, September 2022
D'Souza, Aruna, 'Jack Whitten's "Lost Chapter", Now at Dia:Beacon', on: nytimes.com, 28 December 2022, ill.
Perry, Barlo, 'Jack Whitten – Cosmic Soul', on: paris-la.com, 12 December 2022, ill.
Halter-Oppelt, Christine, ‘In conversation with gallery owner Barbara Corti. CONNOISSEUR OF ART’, on: boleromagazin.ch, 27 May 2022
__, ‘Hauser & Wirth Zurich Presents Jack Whitten’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland’, on: artplugged.co.uk, 19 May 2022
O’Neill, Dave, ‘The Season’s Outstanding books’, on: bookforum.com, Dec/Jan/Feb 2023 Issue Westall, Mark, ‘Jack Whitten Exhibition to Open at Dia Beacon in November’, on: fadmagazine.com, 24 October 2022
Reust, Hans-Rudolf, ‘Jack Whitten –– A colored life in every way,’ on: Kunstbulletin, 8 July 2022
Fay, Jordane de, ‘Jack Whitten. Télépeinture,’ in: Le Quotidien De L’art, 6 July 2022
Enrico, 'Jack Whitten,’ on: vernissage.tv, 20 June 2022
Vogel, Sabine Von, ‘Malerei ist in konstanter Bewegung (painting is in constant motion),’ in: Die Presse, 20 June 2022
2021
Ohio, Camille, '"Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America"', in: Art in America, New York, May/June 2021, p. 109
Rudick, Nicole, 'Nearly 70 Years Later, ‘Invisible Man’ Is Still Inspiring Visual Artists', in: The New York Times Style Magazine, New York, 11 June 2021, ill.
Borgart, Aaron, '“Grief and Grievance” New Museum / New York', on: flash---art.com, 4 June 2021, ill.
Kedves, Jan, 'How art influences fashion', on: sueddeutsche.de, 28 May 2021 ___, 'Five Must-See Exhibitions During Hong Kong Art Month', on: artasiapacific.com, 25 May 2021, ill.
Wallace, Ian, 'Face Value. Ian Wallace on Isabelle Graf's "Three Cases of Value Reflection: Ponge, Whitten, Banksy" (2021)', on: artforum.com, 18 May 2021, ill.
Lau, Jack, Tsui, Enid, 'State of the art. Must-see exhibitions during Art Basel 2021', in: Post Magazine, Hong Kong, 16 May 2021, pp. 8-9, ill.
Ho, David, 'Events calendar', in: South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 16 May 2021
___, '5 Galleries To Visit At H Queen’s During Art Month', on: hk.asiatatler.com, 19 May 2021, ill.
Wong, Joey, 'A comprehensive round-up of the best art exhibitions to visit this month', on: lifestylesa.com, 10 May 2021, ill.
Goodwin, Talia, 'The Must See Art Exhibitions To Explore This Spring', on: voguehk.com, 15 May 2021, ill.
Chen, Cara, 'By the light of the moon', in: The Standard, Hong Kong, 14 May 2021, ill.
Yarkova, Yulia, 'GalleriesGal Picks: Exhibitions in Hong Kong to see in May', on: cobosocial.com, 13 May 2021, ill.
Cheng, Zaneta, 'An Artist of Note', in: #legend, May 2021, pp. 106-109, ill.
Moldan, Tessa, 'Hong Kong Lowdown: Shows to See', on: ocula.com, 5 May 2021, ill.
Lo, Zabrina, 'New Perspectives. This month's exhibitions revisit subjects that have been popular throughout art history', in: Tatler, Hong Kong, May 2021, p. 52, ill.
Lo, Zabrina, '10 Must-See Art Exhibitions In Hong Kong In May 2021', on: hk.asiatatler.com, 30 April 2021, ill.
___, 'Giving Abstract Art New Form and Context', in: Artco, China, May 2021, pp. 130-131, ill.
Okhio, Camille, 'Mourning in America: "Grief and Grievance" at the New Museum', on: artnews.com/art-in-america, 19 April 2021, ill.
Clavarino, Elena, 'Jack Whitten', on: airmail.news, 20 April 2021, ill.
___, '2021年4月展覽清單' [List of exhibitions in April 2021], on: thestandnews.com, 15 April 2021
Lin, Jinfeng, '林靖風:豪瑟沃斯與傑克.惠滕 —— 剃刀邊緣的藝術' [Lin Jingfeng: Hauser & Wirth and Jack. Whitten-the art of the razor edge], on: cup.com.hk, 12 April 2021, ill.
___, '美国抽象艺术家杰克·惠滕(Jack Whitten)的亚洲首场个展' [American abstract artist Jack Whitten's first solo exhibition in Asia], on: douban.com, 12 April 2021, ill.
Lo, Zabrina, '10 Must-See Art Exhibitions In Hong Kong In April 2021', on: hk.asiatatler.com, 2 April 2021, ill.
___, 'Hauser & Wirth presents: Jack Whitten solo exhibition', on: localiiz.com, 1 April 2021, ill.
Gillespie-Wong, Natasha, 'Art agenda: 5 Hong Kong art exhibitions to see in April 2021', on: hashtaglegend.com, 1 April 2021, ill.
Sandhu, Sukhdev, 'America the grave – "Grief and Grievance" at the New Museum, reviewed', in: Apollo, London, April 2021, ill.
Shuyin, Luo, '杰克·惠滕:在颜料物质性里 我可以筑建任何构想' [Jack Whitten: I can build any idea in the materiality of pigments], on: news.artron.net, 31 March 2021, ill.
___, '杰克·惠滕亚洲首展' [Jack Whitten First Asia Exhibition], on: Bazaar Art China, 29 March 2021, ill.
___, '艺术圈大事件,速关注 [Follow the big events in the art circle]', on: Bazaar Art China, 10 March 2021, ill.
___, '杰克·惠滕 [Jack Whitten]', on: hiart.cn, 10 March 2021 Mir, Stan, 'When Abstraction Exploded in Form and Meaning', on: hyperallergic.com, 6 March 2021, ill.
Mahon, Fiona, 'Blues, trauma and mourning: how artists have confronted racial injustice', on: wallpaper.com, 5 March 2021, ill.
Fullerton, Elizabeth, 'Meet the collectors: Pamela Joyner', in: Art Quarterly, London, Spring 2021, pp. 38-45, ill.
Budick, Ariella, '"The condition of black life is one of mourning"', in: Financial Times, London, 27 February 2021, ill.
Schjeldahl, Peter, 'Sorrows of Black America', on: newyorker.com, 22 February 2021, ill.
___, 'Grief and Grievance: The Art of Mourning in America', on: apollo-magazine.com, 19 February 2021, ill.
Cotter, Holland, 'Black Grief, White Grievance: Artists Search for Racial Justice', on: nytimes.com, 18 February 2021, ill.
Wilkin, Karen, 'At the Galleries', in: The Hudson Review, New York, vol. LXXIII, no. 4, Winter 2021, pp. 621-626
Keats, Jonathan, 'From W.E.B. Du Bois To Black Lives Matter, This New Museum Exhibit Explores The Dual Burden Of Grief And Grievance In African-American Experience', on: forbes.com, 16 February 2021, ill.
Boucher, Brian, 'Curator Naomi Beckwith on How the New Museum’s Show on Black Grief as a ‘State of Being’ Honors the Vision of Okwui Enwezor', on: news.artnet.com, 15 February 2021
O'Grady, Megan, 'Once Overlooked, Black Abstract Painters Are Finally Given Their Due', on: nytimes.com, 12 February 2021
Sayej, Nadja, 'Grief and grievance: how artists respond to racial violence in America', on: theguardian.com, 4 February 2021
Elujoba, Yinka, 'Revealing Jack Whitten's Secret Self', in: The New York Times, New York, 23 January 2021, p. C5, ill.
Hopkins, Zoe, 'Jack Whitten: I AM THE OBJECT at Hauser & Wirth', on: whitehotmagazine.com, 18 January 2021, ill.
Mitter, Siddhartha, '3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now', in: The New York Times, New York, 8 January 2021, ill.
___, 'Jack Whitten at Hauser & Wirth', on: emergentmag.com, 6 January 2021, ill.
2020
Cameron, Dan, ‘Jack Whitten: “I AM THE OBJECT”’, in: The Brooklyn Rail, New York, December 2020 – January 2021, ill.
___, 'Jack Whitten at Hauser & Wirth', on: contemporaryartdaily.com, 22 December 2020, ill.
Griffin, Tim, ‘Best of 2020 - Tim Griffin’, in: Artforum, New York, December 2020, pp. 124-125, ill.
Tan, Ken, ‘Jack Whitten’s Infinite Galaxies of Abstract Light and Color’ [review], on: hyperallergic.com, 2 December 2020, ill.
Clavarino, Elena, ‘Jack Whitten: I am the Object’, on: airmail.news, 9 November 2020, ill.
Colas, A E, ‘Gallery Shows: Jack Whitten I AM THE OBJECT – Hauser & Wirth’, on: artsgazing.com, 8 November 2020, ill.
Gerlis, Melanie, ‘The web’s intrigue’, in: Financial Times, London, 7-8 November 2020, ill.
___, ‘Jack Whitten. 5 November – 23 January 2021’, on: neueluxury.com, 6 November 2020, ill.
afinelyne, ‘Jack Whitten. I Am The Object at Hauser & Wirth ~ November 5’, on: gothamtogo.com, 30 October 2020, ill.
Andy Hall, 'Encore International: Hall Meets Hollein' [interview], in: Blau International, Berlin, no. 3, November 2020, pp. 194-203, ill.
Thackara, Tess, ‘A Season of Upended Exhibitions. Dealers in Manhattan scramble to bring the art to the audience’, in: The New York Times, New York, 25 October 2020, ill.
Crow, Kelly, ‘The Art World Tiptoes Back, With Virtual Sculpture and Chatty Avatars’, on: wsj.com, New York, 8 September 2020
Evens, Jonathan, ‘Visual arts: We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South’, on: churchtimes.co.uk, 7 August 2020
Stipanovich, Alexandre, ‘Arshile Gorky and Jack Whitten Hauser & Wirth / Online’, on: flash---art.com, Milan, 16 July 2020, ill.
Januszczak, Waldemar, ‘Virtually, it’s a mixed bag’, in: The Sunday Times, London, 5 July 2020
Culpan, Daniel, ‘Arshile Gorky and Jack Whitten’, on: artforum.com, New York, 11 June 2020, ill.
___, ‘16 pintores negros que você precisa conhecer’, on: casavogue.globo.com, 3 June 2020, ill.
___, ‘Arshile Gorky & Jack Whitten’, on: airmail.news, 30 May 2020, ill.
Jones, Jonathan, ‘A lost childhood home, magic mushrooms and arty face masks – the week in art’, on: theguardian.com, London, 22 May 2020, ill.
___, ‘Arshile Gorky e Jack Whitten online per Hauser & Wirth’, on: tv.exibart.com, Florence, 21 May 2020, ill.
___, ‘Hauser & Wirth opens an online exhibition featuring works by Arshile Gorky and Jack Whitten’, on: artdaily.com, 21 May 2020, ill.
___,‘News: Hauser & Wirth irá lançar exibição online em 20 de maio!’, on: hypnotique.com, 21 May 2020, ill.
Chiffoleau, Louis, ‘L’agenda des vernissages du week-end de l’ascension’, on: toutelaculture.com, Paris, 21 May 2020
___, ‘Hauser & Wirth’s New Online Exhibition Celebrates the Works of Jack Whitten and Arshile Gorky’, on: dnyuz.com, Yerevan, 19 May 2020, ill.
Nowill, Rob, ‘Hauser & Wirth's New Online Exhibition Celebrates the Works of Jack Whitten and Arshile Gorky’, on: hypebeast.com, Hong Kong, 19 May 2020, ill.
Rees, Lucy, ‘A Love Letter to MoMA: Glenn Lowry and Curators Share the Works They Miss the Most’, on: www.galeriemagazine.com, New York, 12 May 2020, ill.
___, ‘Jack Whitten. Transitional Space A Drawing Survey’, on: wsimag.com, Budva, 9 March 2020, ill. Pardee, Hearne, ‘Jack Whitten: Transitional Space, A Drawing Survey’, in: The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, March 2020, ill.
Zanardi, Eva, ‘Jack Whitten Drawings show a Modern Master at Work’, on: www.artandobject.com , 19 February 2020, ill.
___, ‘The Artist’s Hypothesis’, on: www.theparisreview.org, 28 January 2020, ill.
Kinsella, Eileen, ‘Editors Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week’, on: www.news.artnet.com, 27 January 2020, ill.
___, ‘The Week in Art 28 Jan-4 Feb 2020: the best exhibitions, events, previews, auctions’, on: www.galleriesnow.net , February 2020, ill.
2019
Graw, Isabelle, ‘Jack Whitten. Jack's Jacks’, in: Texte Zur Kunst, Berlin, December 2019, ill.
Art This Week, ‘Art This Week-Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017-Kanitra Fletcher interview’, on: www.artthisweek.com, Houston, 21 March 2019, ill.
Nedo, Kito, ‘Review. Jack Whitten. Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany’, in: Frieze, London, June 2019, p. 183, ill.
Furtado, Will, ‘Jack Whitten. A Painter’s Painter Gets His Long-Overdue Recognition’, on: www.contemporaryand.com, Berlin, 4 June 2019, ill.
Sheets, Hilarie M., ‘Leonardo Drew Rides His Magic Carpet to a New Field’, in: The New York Times, New York, 30 May 2019, p. C16
artdaily, ‘Forty sculptures by Jack Whitten interweave traditions of African, European, and ancient art’, on: www.artdaily.com, Houston, 2 March 2019, ill.
Ruthe, Ingeborg, ‘“Apps for Obama” als Mosaik Nationalgalerie zeigt erste Europa-Schau von Jack Whitten’, on: www.berliner-zeitung.de, Berlin, 1 April 2019, ill.
___, ‘Jack Whitten. 29 Mar - 1 Sep 2019 at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Germany’, on: www.wsimag.com, 30 March 2019, ill.
Völzke, Daniel, ‘Ich glaube an die Macht der Malerei’, on: www.monopol-magazin.de, Berlin, 29 March 2019, ill.
Schwabsky, Barry, ‘Listening to Paintings in the Silence of the Studio. The life and art of Jack Whitten’, on: www.thenation.com, New York, 19 March 2019, ill.
Abraham, Sarah, ‘Jack Whitten. Private Sculptures and Public Paintings’, on:www.vindevie.me, New York, 23 January 2019, ill.
Abraham, Sarah, ‘Jack Whitten. Every Shining Thing. In Memoriam’, on:www.vindevie.me, New York, 20 January 2019, ill.
Kastner, Jeffrey, ‘Negative Space’, in: Artforum, New York, vol. 57, no. 5, i1 January 2019, p. 89, ill. 2019
2018
Joyner, Pamela, ‘Odyssey. Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963-2017. Art Aficionados Tell Us About the Most Memorable Show They Saw in 2018’, on: www.artnet.com, New York, 17 December 2018, ill.
Ober, Cara, ‘Odyssey. Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963-2017 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Our Top 20 Exhibitions Across the United States’, on: www.hyperallergic.com, New York, 19 December 2018, ill.
Viso, Olga, ‘Odyssey. Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963-2017 at the Met Breuer.’ 15 More Globetrotting Art-World Figures Tell Us About the Best Shows They Saw in 2018’, on: www.artnet.com, New York, 19 December 2018, ill.
Feibelman, Beck, ‘Jack Whitten’s Sculptures Are a Revelation’, on: www.clydefitchreport.com, New York, 27 November 2018, ill.
Corwin, William, ‘Odyssey. Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 – 2017’, on: www.brooklynrail.org, New York, 29 November 2018, ill.
Schwartz, Sanford, ‘The Secret Sculptor’, in: The New York Review of Books, New York, vol. 65, no. 19, 6 December 2018, ill.
Plagens, Peter, ‘‘Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture’ Review: Biography at the Forefront’, on: The Wall Street Journal, New York, 15 May 2018
Roberts, Luke, ‘More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979-1989’, onL Enclave Review, Cork, May 2018
Ober, Cara, ‘Artists and Curators Weigh In on Baltimore Museum’s move to Deaccession Works by White Men to Diversify Its Collection’, on; Hyperallergic, New York, 8 May 2018
Wecker, Menachem, ‘Jack Whitten: once mistaken for Gerhard Richter, now subject of major US survey shows’, on: The Art Newspaper, London, 25 April 2018
Thackara, Tess, ‘Jack Whitten’s Stunning Sculptural Debut Is a Must-See Show of 2018’, on: Artsy, New York, 20 April 2018
McCauley, Mary Carole, ‘In Baltimore Museum of Art exhibit, Jack Whitten’s sculptures explore the life of the renowned painter’, on: The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, 20 April 2018
Painter, Nell Irvin, ‘Gallery Walls: Black Power Art in Arkansas’, on: www.nybooks.com, New York, 2 April 2018
Miller, Leigh Anne, ‘Artworld’, in: Art in America, New York, March 2018, p. 128
Rubinstein, Raphael, ‘Stranger Tools’, in: Art in America’, New York, March 2018, pp. 66-75
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Valentine, Victoria L., ‘New ART21 Film Documents Jack Whitten in the Studio Working on His Last Painting’, on: Culture Type, Silver Spring, 23 March 2018
Dafoe, Taylor, 'Watch a Video of the Late Artist Jack Whitten Working on His Final Painting: The film is the latest from the documentary series Art21', on: www.news.artnet.com, New York, 21 March 2018
Valentine, Victoria L., 'Auction Results: A Review of African American Art Featured in Sotheby's Fall 2017
Contemporary Auctions – Several Never Exhibited, Unseen for Decades', on: www.culturetype.com, Silver Spring, 4 March 2018
Miranda, Carolina A., 'Mark Bradford on making art in post-shock phase of the Trump era and how comics channel this moment', on: www.latimes.com, Los Angeles, 11 February 2018
Yau, John, 'Back When Painting Was Dead', on: hyperallergic.com, New York, 11 February 2018
Yau, John, 'Thomas Nozkowski, a Master Improviser', on: hyperallergic.com, New York, 4 February 2018
Valentine, Victoria L., 'The Month in African American Art: Here’s What Happened in January 2018', on: www.culturetype.com, Silver Spring, 1 February 2018
Shiff, Richard, 'The art and wisdom of Jack Whitten', on: www.apollo-magazine.com, London, 30 January 2018
Valentine, Victoria L., 'Lines of Influence: Centennial Exhibition Explores Jacob Lawrence’s Connections with Artists Past and Present', on: www.culturetype.com, Silver Spring, 30 January 2018
Smee, Sebastian, 'Jack Whitten: once neglected artist lately the toast of the art world', on: www.washingtonpost.com, Washington DC, 22 January 2018
Bourland, Ian, 'Jack Whitten (1939–2018)', on: frieze.com, London, 24 January 2018
___, 'Rediscovering Jack Whitten: Neglected artist's work finds new life in death', on: www.postguam.com, Samuning, 24 January 2018
Genzlinger, Neil, 'Jack Whitten, Artist of Wide-Ranging Curiosities, Dies at 78', in: The New York Times, New York, 23 January 2018, p. B16
Kanjo, Kathryn, 'Beloved Painter Jack Whitten, as Remembered by Artists, Curators, and Gallerists', on: www.artsy.net, New York, 23 January 2018
Yau, John, 'Remembering Jack Whitten’s Vision and Conviction', on: hyperallergic.com, New York, 23 January 2018
___, 'American painter and sculptor Jack Whitten dies', on: www.eluniversal.com.mx, Mexico City, 22 January 2018
___, 'American artist Jack Whitten dies aged 78', on: www.jakartapost.com, Jakarta, 22 January 2018
Dafoe, Taylor, 'Painter Jack Whitten, an ‘Artist of Endless Inventiveness,’ Has Died at Age 78', on: news.artnet.com, New York, 22 January 2018
___, 'Décès de l'artiste américain Jack Whitten', on: culturebox.francetvinfo.fr, Paris, 22 January 2018
___, 'Jack Whitten, Bessemer-born painter and sculptor, dead at 78', on: www.al.com, Birmingham, 22 January 2018
___, 'Jack Whitten (1939–2018)', on: www.apollo-magazine.com, London, 22 January 2018
___, 'Mort de Jack Whitten, peintre et sculpteur américain', on: www.lefigaro.fr, Paris, 22 January 2018
Völzke, Daniel, 'Jack Whitten died at the age of 78', on: www.monopol-magazin.de, Berlin, 22 January 2018
Greenberger, Alex, 'Jack Whitten, Beloved Painter of Abstract Cosmologies, Dies at 78', on: www.artnews.com, New York, 21 January 2018
Valentine, Victoria L., 'Jack Whitten, the Pioneering and Inventive Abstract Painter, Dies at 78', on: www.culturetype.com, Silver Springs, 21 January 2018
2017
Valentine, Victoria L., ‘Coming Soon: First-Ever Exhibition of Sculptures by Jack Whitten Opening at Baltimore Museum of Art in April 2018’, on: www.culturetype.com, Silver Spring, 13 December 2017
Forbes, Alexander, ‘What Sold at Art Basel in Miami Beach’, on: www.artsy.net, New York, 9 December 2017
Tully, Judd, ‘Art Basel Miami Beach Opens with a Bang’, on: robbreport.com, 7 December 2017
Gleadell, Colin, ‘Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi masks uneven market recovery’, on: www.telegraph.co.uk, London, 21 November 2017
Sargent, Antwaun, ‘The Obamas and the Inauguration of Black Painting’s New Golden Age In America’, on: theweeklychallenger.com, St. Petersburg, 3 November 2017
Valentine, Victoria L., ‘Culture Talk: Arnold Lehman on Curating ‘American African American,’ a Selling Exhibition at Phillips London’, on: www.culturetype.com, Silver Spring, 1 November 2017
‘Jack Whitten’, in: Vanity Fair, New York, November 2017, p. 23
Pes, Javier, ‘Jack Whitten Will Have a Major Survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Next Year’, on: news.artnet.com, New York, 20 October 2017
Valentine, Victoria L., ‘Soul of a Nation: Jack Whitten on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and ‘the Political’ in His Abstract Paintings’, on: www.culturetype.com, Silver Spring, 12 October 2017
‘Jack Whitten at Hauser & Wirth, London’, on: www.artnews.com, New York, 10 October 2017
Schachter, Kenny, ‘Sculduggery, Weak Bladders, and the Wrath of the Schnabel: Kenny Schachter on Frieze London 2017’, on: news.artnet.com, New York, 10 October 2017
Gleadell, Colin, ‘A Week of Belated Recognition,’ in: The Daily Telegraph, London, 3 October 2017, p. 23
Frankel, Eddy, ‘Jack Whitten 1979-1989: More Dimensions Than You Know’, in: Time Out, London, 2 October 2017
Gebremedhin, Thomas, ‘Jack Whitten’, in: Wall Street Journal Magazine, New York, September 2017, p. 136
Whitten, Jack, ‘Artist Jack Whitten’s Favorite Things’, on: www.wsj.com, New York, 26 September 2017
‘Jack Whitten reveals a Chuck Berry painting is in the works’, on: theartnewspaper.com, London, 26 September 2017
R.C., ‘The Guardian, Guide’, in: The Guardian, London, 23 September 2017, p. 33
Barnard, Imelda, ‘Wrestling with ancient Rome, Plus: Jack Whitten’s first solo exhibition in the UK, Lisson Gallery’s 50th birthday, and Willem de Kooning’s late paintings’, on: www.apollo-magazine.com, London, 22 September 2017
‘Jack Whitten’s Artworks at Hauser & Wirth London’, on: www.blouinartinfo.com, New York, 19 September 2017
Durón, Maximilíano, Alex Greenberger, ‘See What the Top 200 Collectors Bought in the Past Year’, on: www.artnews.com, New York, 11 September 2017
Mester, Amanda, ‘National Tour of African Diaspora Kicks Off at Ogden Museum,’ on: www.offbeat.com, New Orleans, 8 September 2017
Rosenfeld, Jason, ‘Blue Black: Curated by Glenn Ligon’, on: brooklynrail.org, New York, 7 September 2017
Thackara, Tess, ‘At the Brooklyn Museum, Tracing the History of Lynching in America’, on: www.artsy.net, New York, 1 September 2017
Mitter, Siddhartha, ‘Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, at the Brooklyn Museum’, on: www.thevillagevoice.com, New York, 29 August 2017
Cotter, Holland, ‘Genn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’‘, in: The New York Times, New York, 11 August 2017, p. C13
‘Allan Stone Projects at Expo Chicago 2017’, on: www.blouinartinfo.com, New York, 7 August 2017
Ayers, Robert, ‘A conversation with Glenn Ligon’, on: ocula.com, St. Louis, 27 July 2017
‘’Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’ at Tate Modern, London’, on: www.blouinartinfo.com, New York, 24 July 2017
Prodger, Michael, ‘Soul of a Nation: A revelatory exhibition telling the story of black art’, on: www.newstatesman.com, London, 14 July 2017
Pickford, James, ‘‘Black Power’ exhibition opens at London’s Tate Modern’, on: www.ft.com, London, 13 July 2017
Whitten, Jack, ‘Art in the Age of Black Power’, in: Tate ETC, London, May 2017, p. 50
Victoria, Valentine L., ‘Skowhegan Honors Studio Museum, Artists William T. Williams, Jack Whitten’, on: www.culturetype.com, Silver Spring, 28 April 2017
Shiff, Richard, ‘Blur and Fuzz’, on: brooklynrail.org, New York, 1 April 2017
Scott, Izabella, ‘These Artists Show Why Our Most Creative Years Often Come after 60’, on: artsy.net, New York, 31 March 2017
Krasinki, Jennifer, ‘Paint it Black: Jack Whitten’s Adventure’s in Abstraction’, on: thevillagevoice.com, New York, 14 March 2017
Traps, Yevgenia, ‘Quantum Wall: An Interview with Jack Whitten’, on: theparisreview.org, New York, 1 March 2017
Rhodes, Jason, ‘Jack Whitten’ on: brooklynrail.org, New York, 1 March 2017
‘Fred Eversley: Black, White, Gray opens at Rose Art Museum’, on: artfixdaily.com, Mexico City, 20 February 2017
Shea, Christopher D. ‘Recovered Iraqi Art at the Venice Biennale’, in: The New York Times, New York, 20 February 2017, p. C3
Indrisek, Scott, ‘Quantum Leap’, in: Cultured Magazine, Miami, February/March 2017, pp. 208-211
Yau, John, ‘Jack Whitten’s Walls’, on: hyperallergic.com, New York, 19 February 2017
Earnest, Jarret, ‘JACK WHITTEN with Jarrett Earnest’, on: brooklynrail.org, New York, 1 February 2017
‘Jack Whitten’s Selected Works at Hauser & Wirth’, on: blouinartinfo.com, New York, 27 January 2017
‘Rose Art Museum Announces Spring Exhibitions, FRED EVERSLEY, TOMMY HARTUNY, LOUISENEVELSON, 2/17-6/11’, on: broadwayworld.com, New York, 18 January 2017
‘Stylist’s eye: Michael Reynolds’ diary of Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach’, on: wallpaper.com, London, 3 January 2017
2016
‘You’re Reliable Cheat Sheet for Art World News’, in: Modern Painters, New York, Winter 2016/2017, pp. 30
Yau, John, ‘Better Late Than Never’, on: www.hyperallergic.com, New York, 16 October 2016
‘Jack Whitten – Why I Paint’, on: www.phaidon.com, New York NY, 26 September 2016
Smee, Sebastian, ‘Unfurling and saluting a legacy at Rose Art Museum’, on: www.bostonglobe.com, Boston, 19 September 2013
Bencks, Jarret, ‘Jack Whitten: ‘My paintings teach me how to live’‘, on: www.brandeis.edu, Waltham, 22 May 2016
Valentine, Victoria L., ‘Hauser & Wirth Announces Its Representation of Painter Jack Whitten’, on: www.culturetype.com, 16 April 2016
Greenberger, Alex, ‘Hauser & Wirth Adds Jack Whitten to Its Roster, Plans Show for Spring 2017’, on: www.artnews.com, New York, 15 April 2016
2015
Campbell, Andrianna, ‘Jack Whitten’, on: www.artforum.com, New York, 20 October 2015, ill.
Abbe, Mary, ‘Unmasked: All-American art of Jack Whitten opens at Walker Art Center’, on: www.startribune.com, Minneapolis, 14 September 2015
Mumford, Tracy, ‘In the abstract: 50 years of Jack Whitten’s art’, on: www.mprnews.com, Minneapolis, 11 September 2015, ill.
Shiff, Richard, ‘Cliché and a lack of feeling: Richard Shiff explains why critics have failed painting’, on: www.theartnewspaper.com, London, 5 June 2015
Winant, Carmen, ‘Jack Whitten: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’, in Frieze Magazine, New York, May 2015, p. 222
2014
Knight, Christopher, ‘Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction’s prominence’, on: www.latimes.com, Los Angeles, 22 December 2014
Whitten, Jack, ‘Edward Clark by Jack Whitten’, on: bombmagazine.org, New York, 2 June 2014
Lax, Thomas J., ‘From New York, Southward: A Counter Memorial’, in: Mousse, Milan, June 2014, pp. 230 – 235
Chute, James, ‘Retrospective illuminates Jack Whitten’s genius’, on: www.sandiegouniontribune.com, San Diego, 17 October 2014
Sheets, Hilarie M., ‘Black Abstraction: Not a Contradiction’, in: ARTnews, New York, June 2014, pp. 62 – 71
Baker, R C., ‘Beautiful and Violent Art from the Civil Rights Movement at New Brooklyn Museum Show Witness’, on: www.villagevoice.com, New York, 9 April 2014
Cotter, Holland, ‘Battle Lines for Change: ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, at the Brooklyn Museum’, in: The New York Times, New York, 21 March 2014, p. 23
Campbell, Andrianna, ‘Witness’, i: Artforum, New York, March 2014, ill.
2013
Williams, Gregory, ‘Review of Light Years: Jack Whitten, 1971 – 1973’, in: Artforum, New York, December 2013, pp. 267 – 268
Dawson, Jessica, ‘Expressive Abstractions: An Interview with Jack Whitten’, on: www.artinamericamagazine.com, New York, 4 October 2013
Cotter, Holland, ‘Art in Review’, in: The New York Times, New York, 3 October 2013, p. 30, ill.
Smee, Sebastian, ‘Unfurling and saluting a legacy at Rose Art Museum’, on: www.bostonglobe.com, Boston, 19 September 2013
Indrisek, Scott, ‘Jack Whitten’, in: Modern Painters, New York, 11 September 2013, pp. 21 – 23
Johnson, Ken, ‘Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s’, in: The New York Times, New York, 12 July 2013, p. 23
Micchelli, Thomas, ‘Painting on the Cusp: Abstraction of the 1980s’, on: www.hyperallergic.com, New York, 6 July 2013
Cotter, Holland, ‘Beyond the ‘Palace’, an International Tour in One City’, in: The New York Times, New York, 5 June 2013, p. 1
Dailey, Meghan, ‘Savannah, Georgia, Jack Whitten’, in: Modern Painters, New York, May 2013
Chayka, Kyle, ‘In Painting We Discover Demons; If We Don’t Exorcise Them They Devour Your Ass!’, on: www.hyperallergic.com, New York, 20 February 2013
Battaglia, Andy, ‘Committing Abstract Thoughts To Canvas’, on: www.wsj.com, New York, 6 February 2013
2012
Ise, Claudine, ‘Phantom Limb exhibition at MCA not at all what it sounds like’, on: www.chicagotribune.com, Chicago, 27 June 2012
Mendelsohn, John, ‘Five from Five, A Sampling of Painting in New York City’, in: dArt International, Toronto, Summer 2012, pp. 1 – 2
Kuo, Michelle, ‘Jack Whitten: A Portfolio’, in: Artforum, New York NY, February 2012, pp. 184 – 195
2011
Kley, Elisabeth, ‘Jack Whitten: From Garbage to Gems’, on: www.artnet.com, New York NY, 15 September 2011
2009
Moyer, Carrie, ‘Jack Whitten’, in: The Brooklyn Rail, New York, October 2009
Welish, Marjorie, ‘Breaking and Entering’, on: www.observer.com, New York, 24 September 2009
Cochran, Rebecca Dimling, ‘Prefers Not to Be Called a Painter’, in: Art & Antiques, Wilmington, 2009, pp. 66 – 70
2008
Auslander, Philip, ‘Review’, in: Artforum, New York, September 2008
Ostrow, Saul, ‘Process, Image and Elegy’, in: Art in America, New York, April 2008, pp. 148 – 153, 188
2007
Mack, Joshua, ‘Review’, in: Time Out New York, 18 October 2007
___, ‘Review’, on: www.newyorker.com, New York, 15 October 2007
Rubinstein, Raphael, ‘It’s Not Made by Great Men’, in Art in America, New York, September 2007, pp. 61 – 66
Storr, Robert, ‘Jack Whitten with Robert Storr’, in: The Brooklyn Rail, New York, September 2007
Roth, Richard, ‘High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 – 1975’, in: Art Papers, Atlanta, January – February 2007
2006
Cotter, Holland, ‘Energy and Abstraction at the Studio Museum Harlem’, on: www.nytimes.com, New York, 7 April 2006
1997
Horodner, Stuart, ‘The F Word.’, in: New Observations, Issue 114, New York, Spring 1997, pp. 2 – 4
1995
Rubinstein, Raphael, ‘Full Circle’, in Art in America, New York, May 1995
1994
Goldsmith, Kenneth, ‘Jack Whitten’, in: Bomb Magazine, New York, Summer 1994
1992
Johnson, Ken, ‘Jack Whitten at Horodner Romley’, in: Art in America, New York, October 1992, p. 146
Cotter, Holland, ‘Art in Review’, in: The New York Times, New York, 26 June 1992
Raynor, Vivien, ‘Works by a Vanished Bolivian Painter’, on: www.nytimes.com, New York, 5 April 1992
Siegel, Jeanne, ‘Jack Whitten’, in: Tema Celeste, Milan, 1992, p. 88
1991
___, ‘Los cuatro jinetes del arte estadounidense’, in: Arte y Espectaculos, Madrid, 20 May 1991, pp. 54 – 55
Pilkington, Muriel, ‘Show of major Afro-American artists opens today in la Rinconada museum’, in: The Daily Journal, 19 May 1991, p. 19
___, ‘Arte afro-americano’, in: El Universal, Caracas, 18 May 1991
Myers, Terry R., ‘Tyrone Mitchell/Jack Whitten’, in: Arts Magazine, New York, March 1991
Simmer, William, ‘Collage Is a Thing with Seams’, in: Collage: New Applications, New York, March – May 1991
Zabel, Barbara, ‘Collage As Modernist Aesthetic: The Inception of Collage in America’, in: Collage: New Applications, New York, March – May 1991
1990
Raynor, Vivien, ‘In 2 Shows, a Strong Tactile Quality’, in: The New York Times, New York, 30 December 1990
Brenson, Michael, ‘New Curator at Modern Challenges Convention’, in: The New York Times, New York, 28 December 1990
1989
Colby, Joy Hakanson, ‘Exhibits’, on: www.detroitnews.com, Detroit, 12 May 1989, p. 8
Miro, Marsha, ‘Eye on Art: N’Namdi Gallery’, on: www.freep.com, Detriot, 10 May 1989
1984
Grant, Will, ‘Opposing forces in Jack Whitten’s art’, in: ARTSPEAK, Vancouver, October 1984
1975
Smith, Roberta, ‘Review’, in: Artforum, New York, January 1975, p. 62
1974
Schjeldah, Peter, ‘Jack Whitten at the Whitney’, in Art in America, New York, November – December 1974
Russell, John, ‘Art: Manguin, Matisse and Fate’, in: The New York Times, New York, 31 August 1974
1973
Goldberg, Lenore, ‘A Renewal of Possibilities’, in: Arts Magazine, New York, March, 1973
1972
Bowling, Frank, ‘Revisions: Color and Recent Painting’, in: Arts Magazine, New York, February 1972, pp. 46, 49
1970
Ryan, Susan E., ‘Whitten at Alan Stone’, in: Arts Magazine, New York, April 1970, p. 66
1969
___, ‘Review’, in: Arts Magazine, New York, March 1969, p. 64
___, ‘Review’, in: ARTnews, New York, February 1969, p. 69
Raynor, Vivien, ‘Review’, in: The New York Times, New York, 10 February 1969
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