Sunset Limited, 1978

Solo Exhibitions

Romare Bearden: Artist, Activist, Visionary, The Clay Center, Charleston, WV Learn More
November 16, 2023 – March 10, 2024


Romare Bearden: Resonances, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MOLearn More
May 3, 2024 – September 15, 2024


Romare Bearden: Artist, Activist, Visionary, The Clay Center, Charleston, WV Learn More
November 16, 2023 – March 10, 2024


Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist, and Visionary, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY Learn More
February 17, 2023 – May 29, 2023


Romare Bearden: Artist, Activist, and Advocate of the Promised Land, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT Learn More
October 15, 2022–January 22, 2023


Romare Bearden: Abstraction, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Learn More
February 5, 2022–May 15, 2022


Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary, The Frick Pittsburgh, PA Learn More
April 30, 2022 –Sept, 18 2022


Romare Bearden: Abstraction, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA Learn More
June 24, 2022–September 18, 2022


Romare Bearden: Abstraction, The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC Learn More
October 15, 2021–January 9, 2022


Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary, The David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland College Park, MD Learn More
January 30, 2020 –May 1, 2020


Abstract Romare Bearden, DC Moore Gallery, NY Learn More
February 13, 2020 –March 28, 2020


Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Learn More
February 28, 2020 –May 24, 2020


Romare Bearden: Vision and Activism, The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN Learn More
June 21, 2019 –January 6, 2020


Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile series The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Learn More
Sept 14, 2019 –February 2, 2020


Travels to:

The Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio (2020)
After the Flypaper: Life In Harlem In Images and Words (1955-2017) Mural Pavilion at Harlem Hospital, NY

Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY, Romare Bearden: Storyteller Learn More
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, Romare Bearden: Abstraction Learn More

Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Autumn Acquisitions Learn More

Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC, Romare Bearden Learn More

DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, Romare Bearden: Bayou Fever and Related Works Learn More

Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, Romare Bearden: Pictures of America Learn More
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, Romare Bearden: Projections

Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA, Romare Bearden: Vision and Activism Learn More
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey Learn More

Traveled to:

Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC Learn More

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX

Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Learn More

Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH Learn More

Columbia University Art Gallery, New York, NY Learn More

Carlos Museum Black Odyssey 2015 Learn More
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, Romare Bearden: Insight and Innovation
ACA Galleries, New York, NY, Romare Bearden: Urban Rhythms and Dreams of Paradise
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, Romare Bearden: Idea to Realization
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections Learn More

Traveled to:

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, From Process to Print: The Graphic Works of Romare Bearden,organized by the Romare Bearden Foundation. Learn More

Traveled to:

Reginald F. Lewis of Maryland African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Austin Museum of Art, Austin,TX

Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA

August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO

The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OK

The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY Learn More
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, Romare Bearden: City Lights
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, The Art of Romare Bearden (Retrospective) Learn More

Traveled to:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Learn More

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden (Retrospective)

Traveled to:

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL

Wight Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA;

National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.

Group Exhibitions

In Praise of Black Errantry, Unit Gallery London, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Learn More
April 17 – June 29, 2024


The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,NY Learn More
February 22 – July 28, 2024


Form, Figure, Abstraction, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Learn More
September 8 – October 8, 2022


Creating Community: Cinque Gallery Artists, Art Students League, New York, NY Learn More
May 3 –July 3, 2021


Under Construction: Collage from the Mint Museum, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN Learn More
August 20 –November 7, 2021


Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Art Museum, NY Learn More
February 4, 2020 –April 4, 2020


Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983, The deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA (originated at Tate, London) Learn More
November 9, 2019 –March 15, 2020


Soul of a Nation

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power Learn More

Travels to:

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh, 20/20

Barnett Fine Art, New Orleans, LA, Painted Ladies Learn More

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Regarding the Figure

Alpha 137 Gallery, Rare Art Historical Ephemera from our private collection

Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Selections of Modern, Postwar and Contemporary Art

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, Collage: Made in America

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Modern Heroics: 75 Years of African American Expressionism at the Newark Museum.

Tate Modern, London, UK, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power Learn More

Traveled to:

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR;

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

ACA Galleries, New York, NY, On Such a Night as This

Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Summer Selections 2016

Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Acquisitions

Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Spring Selections
Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Winter Selections in Modernism

Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY, 50 Under $5k

ACA Galleries, New York, NY, An American Century

Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY, Artists of the WPA
Under Construction: Collage from the Mint Museum Learn More
August 20, 2021 –November 7, 2021


Bill Hodges Gallery, New York , NY, Encore

Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Summer Selections 2014

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, United States, RISING UP/UPRISING: Twentieth Century African American Art
ACA Galleries, New York, NY, Crosscurrents: A Treasury Through Time
Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Selections of American Modernism

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, United States, INsite/INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition
ACA Galleries, New York, NY, Visions of America: A Black Perspective
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, African American Art: 200 Years
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, Body Beware: 18 American Artists
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, Embracing the Muse: Africa and African American Art

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, Mood Indigo: The Legacy of Duke Ellington - A Look at Jazz and Improvisation in American Art
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, On Paper: The Figure in Twentieth Century American Art
Soul of a Nation

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power Learn More

Travels to:

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh, 20/20

Barnett Fine Art, New Orleans, LA, Painted Ladies Learn More

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Regarding the Figure

Alpha 137 Gallery, Rare Art Historical Ephemera from our private collection

Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Selections of Modern, Postwar and Contemporary Art

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, Collage: Made in America

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Modern Heroics: 75 Years of African American Expressionism at the Newark Museum.

Tate Modern, London, UK, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power Learn More

Traveled to:

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR;

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

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