Nari Ward
CURRICULUM
Born in St. Andrews (Jamaica) 1963
Lives and works in New York
Education
1992 MFA, Brooklyn College, City University, Brooklyn, USA
1991 BA, Hunter College, City University, New York, USA
Solo exhibitions
2012
Liberty and Orders, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
2011
We the People, fabric Workshopand Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Domino Man, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano Italy
Sub Mirage Lignum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2010
Nari Ward: Re-Presence, Nerman Museum, Kansas, USA, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
2007
Salvage Research Soul Training, University of Connecticut, USA
2006
The Refinery X: A small twist of fate, Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
2004
Saint Peter's Odyssey Salon, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Great American Revival, Past Presence: Reflection on the Main Line, Main Line Art Center, Lower Merion, USA
2002
Episodes, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
2001
Attractive Nuisance, GAM; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Torino, Italy
Illuminated Sanctuary of Empty Sins, Arte all'Arte, Poggibonsi, Italy
Geography: Bottle Messenger (Lobby Installation), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2000
Rites of Way, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
1997
Nari Ward, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, USA
1996
Happy Smilers: Duty Free Shopping, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
1995
Amazing Grace, Harlem Firehouse Space, New York, USA
1994
Idle/Drift, Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
1993
Carpet Angel, The New Museum, New York, USA
Amazing Grace, Harlem Firehouse Space, New York, USA
Selected group exhibitions
2013
The idea of Realism, American Academy in Rome, Italy
NYC1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, USA
2012
Food, Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
Blacks in Black and White, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2011
Art Unlimited, Art basel Switzerland
Terre vulnerabili, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
10 Hands 100 Fingers, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2010
Trasparenze. L’arte per le energie rinnovabili, Macro, Roma, Italy
Rem(a)inders, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Rotunda, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2009
30 Seconds off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
Neo Baroque, University of Western Ontario Art Gallery, Canada
2008
Prospect 1 New Orleans, New Orleans, USA
2007
Dream and Trauma, Kunsthalle Wien and Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Generation 1.5. Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, Queens (NY), USA
For the Love of the Game, Race and Sport in America, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA
2006
Wherever We Meet, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy
Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA
Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, USA
Be the Artists Guest, Musee d’art moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Dirty Yoga: Taipei Biennial, Taipei Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Echigo- Tsumari Art Triennial, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
2005
New Labor, Neutral Capital Collection, Columbia University Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, USA
Faith, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emerites
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
2004
Postcards for Cuba: A Selection from the 8th Havana Biennial, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
Garvey Carts Curator's Eye, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
2003
Confabulations, Hunter College Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, USA
Whispering Lights, 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
In Honor Of, Arte Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Pathmarker, Site Lines, The Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, USA
Landings, Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany
Fortress, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, USA
2001
Transforms, Roman Theater, Trieste, Italy
The Overexcited Body, Museo dell’ Arengario Piazza del Duomo, Milano, Italy
Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, Queens (NY), USA
A Room Is a World, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Spiritual America, Audiello Fine Arts,New York, USA
2000
Playgrounds & Toys, Art for the World, UNI Dufour building, The University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Quiet in the Land; Projecto Axe, Museo de Arte Moderne, Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
Emerald Necklace Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Geography; Tree, collaborative work with Ralph Lemon, performed at the Yale Repertory Co., New Haven, USA, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA and Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, USA
Quotidiana, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
1999
Streetlife, Project Row House, Houston, USA
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
1998
I Love New York; Crossover of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
Global Vision; New Art from the 90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
Arkipelag; From Crash Between Islands to In(ter)fection, Sjohistoriska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Edge of Awareness, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, United Nations Hall of Visitors, New York, USA, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA, and SESC de Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1997
Geography, collaborative work with Ralph Lemon, performed at Yale Repertory Co., New Haven, USA, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, USA
Islas, Centro Atlantico De Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain, La Granja, Teneriffe, Spain, and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and the Shakers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, USA, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Untitled Depot, Insite 1997, Tijuana, MEXICO and San Diego, USA
Projects: How to Build and Maintain the Virgin Fertility of Our Soul, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
Pursuit of the Sacred; Evocations of the Spiritual in Contemporary African American Art, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
