On view at OFF-SITE VENUES 

Visual Griots of Mali: An Exhibit of Photography by African Youth
September 7 – November 25, 2007
At the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, New York City
Organized by the Academy for Educational Development 

Daufuskie Island: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
September 28 – November 25, 2007
At the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, New York City
Organized by the Museum for New York only. 

Design Made in Africa
April 12 – June 24, 2007
At the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, New York City
Organized by AFAA/Afrique en Créations, Paris  

Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa
September 21, 2006 – January 14, 2007
At the AXA Gallery, New York City
Organized by The Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 

At Arm’s Length: The Art of African Puppetry
February 17 – April 15, 2006
At the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, New York City
Organized by the Museum for New York only. 

Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa
September 30, 2005 – January 6, 2006
At the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, New York City
Tour Venues
     2006   Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History, Detroit, Michigan
     2007   Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
     2007   California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, California
     2007   National Building Museum, Washington, DC  

African Art Is…
July 1 – September 10, 2004
At the UBS Gallery, New York City
Organized by the Museum for New York only.


On view at our TEMPORARY LONG ISLAND CITY GALLERY 

Reflections: African Art Is…
August 4 – December 12, 2005
Organized by the Museum for New York only. 

Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art
February 3 – May 29, 2005
Tour Venues           
     2005         San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio           
     2006         Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas            
     2006         Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico           
     2006-07   National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington           
     2007         University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming           
     2007         Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont            
     2008         Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State College, University Park, PA 

Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art
September 23, 2004 – January 3, 2005
Tour Venue           
      2006   The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art
April 9 – August 16, 2004
Tour Venues           
     2004-05   Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina           
     2005         National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 

Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora
November 14, 2003 – March 1, 2004
Tour Venues           
     2004        Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts           
     2004        Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan           
     2004-05  Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal           
     2005        City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland           
     2006        Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California 

Doubly Blessed: The Ibeji Twins of Nigeria
October 23, 2003 – June 28, 2004
Tour Venues           
     2005       Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa
April 10 – August 15, 2003
Tour Venues           
     2004     Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota           
     2004-05 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada           
     2005     Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California 

Material Differences in Contemporary Art
April 10 – August 15, 2003
Organized by the Museum for New York only. 

Neger (Negro) – don’t call me,
By Ingrid Mwangi, 2002. Video/sound installation
January 16 – March 31, 2003
Organized by the Museum for New York only. 

Kingdom of Gold: A Photographic Celebration of Ghana.
Photographs by Ellen Kaplowitz.
November 14 – January 10, 2003.
Organized by the Museum for New York only. 

Recent Acquisitions: Selection from the Permanent Collection
September 19 – November 4, 2002
Organized by the Museum for New York only. 

Facing the Mask
September 19 – March 2, 2003
Organized by the Museum for New York only.    



At 593 BROADWAY, NYC location  

Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali
September 19 – July 28, 2002
Tour Venue           
     2003   Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

African Forms
February  2 – August 19, 2001
Tour Venue           
     2001   Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa           
     2002   Mingei International Museum of Folk Art, San Diego, California            
     2003   Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts 

In the Presence of Spirits: Selections from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon
September 27 – December 31, 2000
Tour Venues           
     2001   Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama           
     2001   National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC           
     2001   Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan 

Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe
June 21 – August 27, 2000
Organized by the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles 

Africa by Africans: A Photographic Essay
June 21 – August 27, 2000.
Organized by Revue Noire, Paris 

Hair in African Art and Culture
February 9 – May 28, 2000
Tour Venues           
     2000   Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford,
                    California            
     2000   APEX Museum, Atlanta, Georgia           
     2001   California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, California           
     2001   Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History, Detroit, Michigan           
     2001   Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, North 
                   Carolina            
     2002   DuSable Museum of African-American History, Chicago, Illinois             
     2002   Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana           
     2002   Smith Robertson Museum & Cultural Center, Jackson, Mississippi 

Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa
September 17, 1999 – January 2, 2000
Tour Venues           
     2000      Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas           
     2001-02  Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford,
                        California           
     2002      University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona 

A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art
April 23 – August 15, 1999
Tour Venues            
     2000   Hood Museum of Art, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire            
     2000   Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia,
                     Pennsylvania            
     2001   Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia            
     2001   New International Cultural Centre, Antwerp, Belgium           
     2002   Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia           
     2005   Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York City, New York           
     2005   Drew University Art Gallery, Madison, New Jersey           
     2005   Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, Madison, New Jersey           
     2006   University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee,
                    Wisconsin                
     2007   University of Missouri – Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri 

Three Traditions: The Art of the Dogon, Fang, and Songye
April 23 – August 15, 1999
Organized by Bruce Museum of Arts and Science  

Landscapes of the Soul: Women of the African Diaspora
January 29 – March 28, 1999
Tour Venues           
     2000   University of Arkansas at Little Rock Art Galleries, Little Rock, Arkansas           
     2000   Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas 

A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection
January 29 – March 28, 1999
Organized by the Phoenix Art Museum  

Baule: African Art/Western Eyes
September 11, 1998 – January 1999
Organized in cooperation with The Yale University Art Gallery
Tour Venues           
     1997   Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut           
     1998   National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC           
     1998   Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 

Masterpieces from Central Africa: The Tervuren Museum
May 15 – August 9, 1998
Organized by the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. 

African Faces, African Figures: The Arman Collection
October 9, 1997 – April 19, 1998
Organized by the Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens, France 

To Cure and Protect: Sickness and Health in African Art
February 7 – August 31, 1997
Tour Venue           
     1999   National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC 

Art That Heals: The Image as Medicine in Ethiopia
February 7 – August 31, 1997
Tour Venues           
     1997   Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland              
     1999   University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics Medical Museum, Iowa City, Iowa           
     1999   Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida           
     1999   Mingei International Museum of Folk Art, San Diego, California           
     1999   Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 
                    Nevada           
     1999   DuSable Museum of African-American History, Chicago, Illinois 

Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
October 4, 1996 – January 5, 1997
Tour Venue           
     1997   Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 

Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History
February 2 – September 8, 1996
Tour Venues           
     1996-97 National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC           
     1997     Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York           
     1998     Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 

Animals in African Art: From the Familiar to the Marvelous
March 31 – December 31, 1995
Tour Venues           
     1996     Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama           
     1996     Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska           
     1996-97  Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina           
     1997      Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 

Artists and Ancestors in African Art
October 14, 1994 – March 5, 1995.
Organized by MAA for New York only. 

Exhibition-ism: Museums and African Art
October 14, 1994 – March 5, 1995
Organized by the Museum for New York only. 

Western Artist/African Art
May 6 – August 7, 1994
Tour Venues           
     1994-95  Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee           
     1995      Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California           
     1995      Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California 

Outside Museum Walls: African Art in Private Collections
February – April 10, 1994.
Organized by MAA for New York only. 

Fusion: West African Artists at the Venice Biennale
(Mor Faye, Moustapha Dimé, Tamessir Dia, Ouattara, and Gerard Santoni)
February 5 – August 7, 1994 

Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas 
September 24, 1993 – January 7, 1994
Tour Venues           
     1994      DuSable Museum of African-American History, Chicago, Illinois
     1994      Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington           
     1995      Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama           
     1995      Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia            
     1996      National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark           
     1996-97  Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden            
     1997      Afrika Museum, Berg-en-Dal, Netherlands           
     1998      Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas           
     1998      Fundación César Manrique, Lanzorte, Canary Islands           
     1999      Croydon Clocktower, Croydon, United Kingdom           
     1999      Museum of Ethnology, Budapest, Hungary           
     2000      Laumeier Sculpture Park & Museums, St. Louis, Missouri           
     2001      Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida 

Home and the World: Architectural Sculpture by Two Contemporary African Artists (Aboudramane and Bodys Isek Kingelez)
June 18 – September 26, 1993
Tour Venue           
     1994    The Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland 

Secrecy: African Art That Reveals and Conceals
February 13 – August 22, 1993
Tour Venues           
     1993    Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda           
     1993    Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina            
     1994    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia           
     1994    The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland           
     1995    Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa                                       


At 54 EAST 68TH  STREET, NYC location  

Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art
May 23, 1991 – January 2, 1992
Tour Venues           
     1991     New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, New York           
     1991     University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California           
     1992     Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas           
     1992     Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri           
     1992     Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina           
     1992     Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania           
     1993     Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC           
     1993     Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida           
     1993     Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany           
     1993-94  Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, Spain           
     1994     Art Contemporain, Lyon, France           
     1994     Tate Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom           
     1998     Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin  

Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture
September 12, 1990 – March 11, 1991
Tour Venues           
     1991   Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio            
     1991   The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 

Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World
February 14 – August 12, 1990
Tour Venue           
     1990    Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas 

Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
September 20, 1989 – January 7, 1990
Tour Venues           
     1990    Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois           
     1990    National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC           
     1990    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio           
     1991    New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana           
     1991    High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia           
     1991    Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona            
     1991    Museum Rietburg, Zürich, Switzerland 

Wild Spirits Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness
May 10 – August 20, 1989
Tour Venues           
     1989    Block Art Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois           
     1989    The Lowe Art Museum, The University of Miami, Miami, Florida            
     1990    Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio            
     1990    Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts  

Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory
November  16, 1988 – April 9, 1989
Tour Venue           
     1989   The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 

The Art of Collecting African Art
May 13 – October 9, 1988
Organized by the Museum for New York only. 

ART/artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections
January 29 - April 17, 1988
Tour Venues           
     1988    Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York           
     1988    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia           
     1989    Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington           
     1989    Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio           
     1989    Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania           
     1989    Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas           
     1990    Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado           
     1990    Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 

Perspectives: Angles on African Art
September 18, 1987 – January 3, 1988
Tour Venues           
     1987    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia           
     1987    San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California           
     1988    Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama                         

African Masterpieces from Munich: The Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
April 7 – August 16, 1987
Tour Venues           
     1987   Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin           
     1987   Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia 

The Essential Gourd: African Art from the Obvious to the Ingenious
November 21, 1986 – March 4, 1987
Organized by the University of California, Los Angeles. 

African Aesthetics: The Carlo Monzino Collection
May 7 – September 7, 1986 

Arts of the Guro of Ivory Coast
January 9 – April 6, 1986
Organized by the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland. 

Set, Series and Ensembles in African Art
July 17 – October 27, 1985 

Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos
March 12 – June 15, 1985
Organized by the University of California, Los Angeles. 

African Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Homme
September 18 – December 31, 1984
Tour Venue           
     1985   National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC