Noel W. Anderson
Education
2010
M.F.A., Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2007
M.F.A., Printmaking, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2003
M.F.A., Painting and Printmaking, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Solo Exhibitions
2021
UTA Artists Space, Los Angeles (forthcoming)
JDJ, Garrison, NY (forthcoming)
Heavy is the Crown, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA (forthcoming)
Paper Variables Artist Project, Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming)
Untitled, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg (forthcoming)
2020
Papers of the Archive, JDJ, Garrison, NY
2019
Blak Origin Moment, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
2017
Blak Orgin Moment, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Get Lifted, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
Studies for Blak Origin Moment, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2015
Postblackdanceathon, Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Ch. 93: eat cold eel, think distant thoughts, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
2013
Ch. 26: He’s a Majik Men, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Finding the Rainbow’s Threads, Gallery Zidoun, Luxembourg
Fear of the Black Member, Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2011
sour pis lacks repo, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2010
You’re Never too Old for Kool-Aid: reverb (performance), Green Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2009
Blue Velvet (performance), Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT
How to Scare a Lion (performance), Yale University Edgewood Gallery, New Haven,
CT
Mantanence (performance), Yale University Edgewood Building, New Haven, CT
2007
Blak Mournin ’Majik, Fort Grunt, Durham, NC
Kum-sumjutashun, Fuller Project Space, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Blak Mournin ’Majik, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2005
Conversation Piece, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Turn that Cakewalkin ’Music Off, Fuller Project Space, Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Snapshots, UTA Artists Space, Beverly Hills, CA (forthcoming)
Beacon, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (forthcoming)
2019
Slavery in the Hands of Harvard, Knafel Concourse, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Paper: Pull, Push Press, Dieu Donné, New York, NY
Present Bodies, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
Opacity and Radiance, Ben Hunter, London
Transmission, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
2016
Cut, Fold, Recreate, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
The Art of Now, Hearst Corporation, New York, NY
2015
Repetition (repetition), Meesen De Clercq, Brussels
2014
Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum Harlem (New York, NY)
2013
Cincinnati Portfolio IV, Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2012
Voices of Home, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA and New York,
NY
2011
Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Lamp Show, Know More Games Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Else, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Ik Mis Mama, Bosch Young Talent Show(BYTS), Kunst Acamedie Den Bosch, Holland
Cusp Performance, part of William Pope L. exhibition, landscape + object + animal, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2009
Blood Drive, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Interrogation Room (performance), Yale School of Art First Year Show, Green Gallery,
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Repressed III, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA
2007
Timelapse, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Pre-Demolition Exhibition, Ladyman’s Building, Bloomington, IN
Prainting and Prinstallation, Green Door Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Voice and Vision: Celebrating Unique Voices of Bloomington, Showers Building, Bloomington, IN
Juried Printmaking Area Show, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2006
Hip-Hop Congress, McCalla School of Sculpture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Potenti Impressioni: Stampe d’Arte italiane e americane, Fondazione Bevilaequa La Masa, Venice, Italy
Gossip, Lies, Half-truths, Penrose Gallery, Elkins Park, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia,
PA
I Have a Dream Juried Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Juried Printmaking Area Show, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2005
Power in Print, Southern Graphics Council Exhibition, Washington, D.C. and Venice,
Italy
2004
Poetic Fusion (performance), Martin Luther King Arts Center, Columbus, OH
2003
Senior Thesis Show, Ohio Wesleyan University Ross Museum, Delaware, OH
College of Wooster 5 College Juried Exhibition, Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
2002
The Ohio State University Juried Exhibition, Pearl Conrad Gallery Mansfield, OH
Spring Juried Exhibition, Beeghley Library, Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH
Kalb Figure Show, Werner Gallery, Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH
Press
2020
Boucher, Brian. “Searching for the Magic: Noel W. Anderson’s Ragged Tapestries Reveal a
Physical Quest.” Medium, January 18, 2020.
https://medium.com/@UNTITLEDARTFAIR/brian-bouchers-daily-dispatch-sanfrancisco-january-18-2020-fc9ab0d2d72c.
2019
Anderson, Noel W, LeRonn P. Brooks, PhD, and Steven Matijicio. Blak Origin Moment.
Cincinnati, Oh. and Chattanooga, Tn.: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and
Hunter Museum of American Art, 2019. (exhibition catalogue)
Cascone, Sarah. “Editors’ Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This
Week.” artnet News, December 2, 2019.
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/editors-picks-december-2-1701348.
Long, Monique, and Noel W Anderson. “Tuning the Rabbit Ears.” Ubikwist, no. No. 8
(2019): 212–19.
Fuller, Daniel. “Critics’ Pick: Noel W. Anderson at Hunter Museum of American Art.”
Artforum, December 20, 2019. https://www.artforum.com/picks/noel-w-anderson81648.
Lockner, Logan. “Glitch Tapestries: Noel W. Anderson at the Hunter Museum.” Burnaway,
December 20, 2019. https://burnaway.org/noel-w-anderson-hunter/.
Moeller, Robert. “Harvard’s Complicit History with Slavery.” Hyperallergic, February 26,
2019. https://hyperallergic.com/485405/harvards-complicit-history-with-slavery/.
Whyte, Murray. “A History of Slavery, Vividly Alive in the Present at Harvard.” The Boston
Globe, March 13, 2019.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2019/03/13/history-slavery-vividly-alivepresent-harvard/OHLvqRcx5lprJTm4EdFFyL/story.html.
2017
Seda-Reeder, Maria. “Two New Contemporary Arts Center Exhibitions Confront Politically
Charged Topics.” CityBeat Cincinnati, February 22, 2017.
https://www.citybeat.com/arts-culture/visual-arts/article/20852942/two-newcontemporary-arts-center-exhibitions-confront-politically-charged-topics.
2014
Frank, Priscilla. “Artists Explore The Many Influences Of Ebony And Jet Magazines.”
Culture & Arts. HuffPost, December 15, 2014.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/speaking-of-people-studio_n_6316938.
Haynes, Lauren, Siobhan Carter-David, Romi Crawford, Elizabeth Alexander, and Hank
Willis Thomas. Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art. New York: The
Studio Museum in Harlem, 2014. (exhibition catalogue)
Heller, Steven. "African American Media." Print. F + W, 1 Dec. 2014.
Mahany, Alexander. “The Power of the Press: Artists Celebrate Ebony and Jet at The Studio
Museum in Harlem.” ART News, November 11, 2014.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ebony-and-jet-at-the-studio-museum-inharlem-3083/.
Valentine, Victoria. “Culture Talk: Lauren Haynes on ‘Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and
Contemporary Art.’” Culture Talk, November 21, 2014.
http://www.culturetype.com/2014/11/21/culture-talk-lauren-haynes-on-speaking-ofpeople-ebony-jet-and-contemporary-art/’.
2013
“100 Best Fall Shows.” Modern Painters, September 2013.
“Reviews in Brief: Noel Anderson.” Modern Painters, September 2013.
2010
Cotter, Holland. “‘Else.’” The New York Times, September 24, 2010, sec. Arts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/arts/artsspecial/24galleriesc1.html.
2006
Malewski, Nick. “Prainting and Prinstallation.” Review Magazine. June
AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS
Anderson, Noel W. “Schien Schein Negro Sun: Black Radical Radiance.” Effects Journal, no. 2
(2019): 28–37.
Anderson, Noel W, and Andrew Weiner. “Confederacies, Tensilities, Fugitivities: Those
Eyes.” October, A Questionnaire on Monuments, no. 165 (Summer 2018): 7–11.
Anderson, Noel W. “Echoes from the Hole: Doubling Darkness Is Most Dark.” E-Flux
Journal, no. #99 (April 2019). https://www.e-flux.com/journal/99/263393/echoesfrom-the-hole-doubling-darkness-is-most-dark/.
———. “Im/Possible Resistance: Eternally Rotating Revaluation of Values.” Still They
Persist, 2017. https://www.stilltheypersist.com/objects-of-resistance-1.
———. “Off The Wall: The Stories Behind The Art.” Herald Times, April 15, 2007.
Awards & Residencies
2020
Hermitage Artist Residency, Hermitage Artist Retreat (Sarasota County, FL)
2019
Paper Variable Artist, Dieu Donné (New York, NY)
Tamarind Press Visiting Artist Edition, Tamarind Press (Albuquerque, NM)
Jerome Camargo Residency (Cassis, France)
2018
Dieu Donné Workspace Artist in Residence, Dieu Donné (New York, NY)
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Interdisciplinary (New York, NY)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (nominee) (New York, NY)
2017
Jerome Travel Grant (New York, NY)
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Nominee (New York, NY)
Dieu Donné Benefit Auction Artist 2017 auction artist for the benefit celebrating the
41st anniversary of Dieu Donné (New York, NY)
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL LECTURES
2020
Artist Talk, Telfair Museums (Savannah, GA)
Beacon Panel Discussion, Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH)
Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University (Philadelphia,
PA)
2019
“Coffee & Conversation: Present Bodies," in conversation with Tricia Wright, and
Oasa Duverney, BRIC (Brooklyn, NY)
“Noel W. Anderson Dialogue With Art Professor Althea Murphy-Price,” Hunter
Museum of American Art (Chattanooga, TN)
“Blak Origin Moment: Conversation with Noel W Anderson and Monique Long,”
Radical Library, Eaton House (Washington, D.C.)
“Exhibition Walkthrough with Conversation,” in conjunction with the exhibition
Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Weed Grey Collection,
Grey Art Gallery (New York, NY)
“Slipping into the Performative Darkness,” College Art Association 2019 Conference,
(New York, NY)
2018
“The Lady’s Knife,” The Hothouse Archives School of Visual Art (New York, NY)
“Conversation Three Point Stance: Embodying the Politics and Pleasures of Football
and Basketball,” Grey Art Gallery (New York, NY)
“Gallery Conversation, in conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in
Italy, 1932–1960, Grey Art Gallery (New York, NY)
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)
2017
University of Tennessee Visiting Artist, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
Gallery Conversation, in conjunction with the exhibition Partners in Design: Alfred H.
Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson, Grey Art Gallery (New York, NY)
Gallery Conversation, in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run
Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, Grey Art Gallery (New York, NY)
“Resistant Objects,” Southern Graphics Council International 2017 Conference
(Atlanta, GA)
Sculpture Guest Lecture: Road Island and the Re-memory of Slavery Road Island
School of Design (Providence, RI)
Michigan Fine Arts Competition Lecture Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
(Birmingham, MI)
Artist Lecture for the Opening of Blak Origin Moment, Contemporary Arts Center
(Cincinnati, OH)
Artist Lecture for the Studies of Blak Origin Moment, Miller Gallery (Cincinnati, OH)
2016
Black Portraiture (s): Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures (Johannesburg,
South Africa)
Gallery Conversation: Art for Every Home, in conjunction with the exhibition Art for
Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934–2000, Grey Art Gallery (New York, NY)
“Testing the Test: Radical Pedagogy of William Pope L.,” Mid-American College Art
Association conference, University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)
Visiting Artist Lecture Fishers Island, Fishers Island Artist Residency (Fishers Island,
NY)
Suspended Animation: A Panel Discussion & Screening (Panel Moderator), School of
Visual Art (New York, NY)
Visiting Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
2015
Atomizing Black Subjectivities in Print-media, The Global Center for Advanced
Studies (Berlin)
Trans-Atlantic Discourses in Contemporary Print-media, Ecole nationale superieure
des arts decoratifs (Paris)
This is not a lecture! (performance), University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
“Printing Beyond the Blackness Principle: The Necessity of Multiple Subjectivities
within Black Masculine Discourse” (Panel Chair) (Knoxville, TN)
2012
“Art Department Visiting Artist – Noel Anderson,” School of Education, University
of Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
2011
Visiting Lecturer Art Department, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
Public Collections
Hunter Museum of American Art
International Center of Photography
The Studio Museum in Harlem