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Current Exhibitions
2023 Going Dark: The Edge of Visibility, Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Ming Smith: Feeling the Future, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX 2023 Ming Smith: Selected Works (dual exhibition), ART IS BOND and Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX 2023 Projects: Ming Smith, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2022 Ming Smith: A Dream Deferred, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England 2021 Ming Smith: Here For a Reason, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY 2021 Ming Smith: Evidence, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY 2020 Painting with Light: The Photography of Ming Smith, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England 2019 Paris Photo, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Paris, France 2019 Frieze Masters, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, London, England 2019 Frieze, New York, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY 2017 Ming Smith, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Ming Smith: Works from the Paul R. Jones Collection, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2010 Ming: Photographs: 1977-2008, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2007 Celebration Life: Photography as Fine Art, Pounder-Kone Art Space, Atwater Village, CA
2003 Ming Smith: Ming's Room, curated by Deborah Willis, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
2003 Ming Smith: In the Spirit: Invisible Woman, African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA
2002 In the Spirit of Jazz, Ming Smith: 30 Year Retrospective, Concourse Gallery, Upper Arlington, OH
2001 Ming Smith: In the Spirit of Jazz, Tribes Gallery, New York
2001 Ming's Room, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000 Ming, Watt's Tower Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Ming Smith: in a Minor Key, Crawford and Sloan Gallery, New York
1982 Ming Smith, Eric Turner Salon, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Black Venus, Fotografiska, New York, NY 2022 Working Together: The Photographers of The Kamoinge Workshop, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2022 Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (forthcoming) 2022 Capturing the Echo: Expanding the Walls 2022, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2021 Frieze New York, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY 2021 South South Veza, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Virtual Exhibition 2020 Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. Traveling to: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2020 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX. 2020 Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo, and Missylanyus), Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal. 2020 Art Basel Miami Beach, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Virtual Exhibition 2020 Frieze London, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Virtual Exhibition 2020 Paris Photo NY, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Virtual Exhibition 2020 The Armory Show, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY 2020 FOG Design+Art, Fort Mason Center, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 Winter Salon Part II, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 Winter Salon Part 1, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2019 Down Time: On the Art of Retreat; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2019 Women’s Work: Art & Activism in the 21st Century, Pen + Brush, New York, NY 2019 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power; The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, Traveled to: de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 2019 Dreamweavers: UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA 2019 UNTITLED, Miami Beach, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL 2019 EXPO Chicago, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Chicago, IL 2018 Family Picture, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 2018 Family Pictures, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 2018 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 2017 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art 2017 We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Brooklyn Museum of Art, California African American Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art
2017 Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions, Serpentine Gallery, London; Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin; Rudolfinum, Prague; Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2017 Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement, Detroit Institute of Arts
2017 A Commitment to the Community: The Black Photographers Annual, Volume I, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2017 States of America, Nottingham Contemporary
2014 Photography Classics: NL=US Art, 1977-2008, Schiedamsedijk 51, Netherlands
2014 An Eye for Jazz: Featuring Hugh Bell, Jill Freedman, Ming Smith, Ken Van Sickle, Curated by Yulia Tikhonova,Tikhonova & Winter Fine Art, New York, NY
2010 Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Sarah Meister, Curator; and Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modem Art, New York
2010 Kamoinge Photographers Group Show: In the Moment, HP Gallery, Calumet Photo, New York
2009 Sound: Print: Record: African American, curated by Julie McGee, Mechanical Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2008 New York City: In Focus, Bellevue Hospital Center Atrium
2007 BLACK and White on Black, Photographic Gallery
2007 New York Contemporary Afro-American Photography, Hilliard University Art Museum
2006 Kamoinge Inc: Black Music from Bebop to Hip Hop, co-curated by Danny Simmons and Mark Blackshear, Brooklyn Academy of Music
2006 Harlem Photographers Present Images Dating Back to the Civil Rights Movement, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2005 Contemporary Afro-American Photography, Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2004 A Century of African American Art: The Paul R Jones Collection, University Museum, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2003 Generations: An Exhibit of African American Art, curated by Russell A. Murray, Art in the Atrium, Morristown, NJ
2002 Original Acts: Photographs of African-American Performers from the Paul R. Jones Collection, curated by Amalia Amaki, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2002 Life of the City, an Exhibition in Answer to 2001, Museum of Modem Art, New York
2000 Reflections In Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, organized by the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American Identity and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2000 MOMA2000, organized by Peter Galassi, Museum of Modem Art, New York
1999 Black New York Photographers of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collections, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
1995 Cultural Images: Sweet Potato Pie, curated by Russell A. Murray, Art in the Atrium, Morristown, NJ
1989 Ming Smith, Anthony Barboza, Adger W Cowans, Robert Hale and Deborah Willis, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York
1984 14 Photographers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; catalogue
1983 Contemporary Afro-American Photography, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
1981 Artists Who Do Other Art Forms, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York
1980 Self-Portrait, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, traveled to the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, MA
1976 Exposure: Work by Ten Photographers, Creative Artists Public Service Program, New York
1976 18 Caps Photographers, Columbia University, NY
1974 Kamoinge group show, International Center of Photography, New York 1972 Kamoinge group show, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
1972 Kamoinge group show, Guyana, South America