Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

BATON ROUGE (LA). Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Exhibition Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University.
The Sky Is Gray: Visual Works Inspired by the Writings of Ernest Gaines.
November 16-December 10, 2008.
Group exhibition. Curated by Leslie Charleville. Included: Addie Dawson-Euba, Demond, Malaika Favorite, Randall Henry, Charlotte Ka, Salongo Lee, Joseph Pearson, Morris Taft Thomas and Lewis Watts.

BROOKLYN (NY). Medgar Evers College.
An Evolving Tradition [NCA Exhibition].
July 17-August 16, 2007.
Group exhibition. Curated by Sadikisha Collier. Included: O'Neal Abel, Abdullah Aziz, Kwame Brathwaite, Brenda Branch, Gail Shaw Clemmons, Sadikisha Collier, Derrick Cross, Paul Deo, Cassandra Jennings Hall, Cheryl Hanna, Linda Hiwot, MLJ Johnson, Larry Joseph, Charlotte Ka, Brenda Mattingly, Ademola Olugebefola, Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts, James Sepyo, Danny Simmons, Diane Smith, Deborah Singletary, Ann Tanksley, Betty Blayton Taylor, Emmett Wigglesworth, Beron Williams and others

BROOKLYN (NY). MoCADA and Skylight Gallery.
The Postmillennial Black Madonna: Paradise & Inferno.
February-May, 2007.
A Two-Venue Multimedia Exhibition by 23 artists. Curated by Danny Simmons and Brian Tate. Includes: Sameeh Alderazi, Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Sanford Biggers, Sherry Bittle & Michael Rader, Tyrone Osborne Brown, Barron Claiborne, Onyedika Chuke, Bara Diokhane, Sherman Fleming, Jeffrey Gibson, Ayaana V. Jackson, Charlotte Ka, Meret Koehler, Jasmine Murrell, Florence Neal, Dulce Pinzon, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Marie Roberts, Masala, Dwayne Rodgers, Duhirwe Rushemeza, Keisha Scarville, Xaviera Simmons.

BROOKLYN (NY). Satta Gallery.
Unwrapped! Erotic Art by Black Women.
November-December 1, 2000.
Group exhibition. Included: Yafemi Adenire, Laurel Allen, Bajanalla, Camille Billops, Brenda Branch, Zenzele Browne, Madame C., Bianca Dorsey, Diane Davis, Pat Davis, Carol Foy, June Gaddy, Chantal Gesse, Marion Griffin, Devorah Hill, Linda Hiwot, Charlotte Ka, LaVon Leak, Simone Leigh, Cora Marshall, Vivian McDuffie, Onnie Millar, Coreen Simpson, and Deborah Singletary. [Review: Ken Richardson, NY Daily News, November 13, 2000.]

BROOKLYN (NY). Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Company.
Female Aesthetics.
February 23-March 29, 2008.
Group exhibition. Curated by ML Johnson. Included: Ava Tomlinson, Beryl Benbow, Cecile Chong, Diane Davis, Charlott Ka, Jamillah Jennings, Jewel Golden, Dindga McCannon, Linda Hiwot, Krystyle, Deirdre D. Harris, Deborah Singletary, Ramona Candy, Gina Samson, Mary Chang , La Verne Gittens.

BROOKLYN (NY). Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Company.
The Garment Magical.
January 25-March 8, 2003.
13 pp. exhib. cat., b&w illus. Curated by Cheryl Hanna. Text by Geoffrey Jacques. 18 artists including: Amir Bey, Carol Ann Carter, Bianca Dorsey, Valerie Fair, June Gaddy, M. Saffell Gardner, Cheryl Hanna, Charlottle Ka, Dindga McCannon, Joanne McFarland, Damali Miller, Eve Sandler, Danny Simmons, Grace Williams, Shirley Woodson. 8vo, stapled wraps.

BROOKLYN (NY). Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
NCA National Exhibition.
April 11-14, 2001.
Exhibition curated by Jewel Golden. Artists included: Brenda Branch, James Brown, Luzviminda Calo, Yvonne Parks Catchings, Kitty Chavis, Pat Davis, Miriam Francis, Frank Frazier, M. Saffell Gardner, Jimmy James Greene, Izell Glover, Jewel Golden, MLJ Johnson, Cheryl Hanna, Charlotte Ka, Eli Kince, Dubaka Kweku Leigh, Carolyn Maitland, Ademola Olugebefola, Lorenzo Pace, Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts, Eric Pryor, Ed Sherman, Diane Smith, Tei Sing Smith, Albert Shaw, Sheila Beckles Wigglesworth, Shirley Woodson and others.

BROOKLYN (NY). Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
The Pocket Project: Entitled: Black Women Artists and Rainbow Artists.
2000.
10 pp. exhib. brochure, 13 color plates. Curated by Haitian woman artist Vladimiir Sybil. The exhibition included 16 African American and 16 Rainbow artists. Black artists in the exhibition included: Nicole Awai, Carole (as Carol) Blank, Brenda Branch, Joan Eda Byrd, Gail Shaw Clemons, Bianca Dorsey, Michele Godwin, Charlotte Ka, Jamillah Jennings, Cora Marshall, Vivian McDuffie, Marcia Olde McNair, Damali Miller, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Virginia Evans Smit, Gilda Snowden, Grace Williams. 8vo, stapled wraps.

BROOKLYN (NY). Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
Windows to the Soul: Robin Holder, Charlotte Ka, Jide Ojo.
December 11, 1999-February 19, 2000.
Exhibition brochure, 4 b&w illus., brief texts on each artist. Intro. and curated by Eric G. Pryor. Exhibition dates misprinted as: December 11, 1999-February 19, 1999 (presumably December 11, 1999-February 19, 2000). Three mixed-media artists: Robin Holder, Charlotte Ka, Jide Ojo. This brochure designed by Cheryl Hannah seems to be the only record of the exhibition. Single bi-fold sheet (8.5 x 11 in.), printed on both sides; poster design by Cheryl Hanna.

G-Spot Co-Lab Gallery.
Chromo Zones.
2001.
Group exhibition curated by Amir Bey. Included: Charlotte Ka's floor installation commenting on the burning of African-American churches in the South, and Amir Bey's allegorical occult-inspired "Mutual Conception."

HOUSTON (TX). O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston-Downtown College.
Highlights from the Collection of Corrine Jennings and Joe Overstreet.
January 19-March 23, 2006.
Group exhibition of twenty-four works by African American master and contemporary artists. Included: Edward M. Bannister, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Margaret Burroughs, Eldzier Cortor, Robert S. Duncanson, Lawrence Finney, Palmer Hayden, Linda Hiwot, Wilmer Jennings, Oliver Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Charlotte Ka, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Rose Piper, Debra Priestly, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dox Thrash.

ITHACA (NY). Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.
Blackness in Color: Visual Expressions of the Black Arts Movement (1960 to present).
August 26-October 22, 2000.
Exhibition in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. Artists included: Emma Amos, Nii Ahene ’La Mettle-Nunoo, Akili Ron Anderson, Ellsworth Ausby, Abdullah Aziz, Romare Bearden, G. Falcon Beazer, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Carole Blank, Skunder Boghossian, Kay Brown, Vivian E. Browne. Viola Burley Leak, Carole M. Byard, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Eldzier Cortor, Adger Cowans, Renée Cox. Pat Davis, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson, David Driskell, Melvin Edwards, Miriam B. Francis, Reginald Gammon, David Hammons, Michael Harris, Gaylord Hassan, Frieda High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis, Linda Hiwot, Robin Holder. Jamillah Jennings, Lois Mailou Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara J. Jones-Hogu, Charlotte Kâ (Richardson), Wifredo Lam, Carolyn Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Al Loving, Valerie Maynard, Dindga McCannon, Geraldine McCullough, Muhammad Mufutau, Otto Neals, Malangatana Ngwenya, Ademola Olugebefola, Gordon Parks, James Phillips, Okoe Pyatt, Abdul Rahman, Faith Ringgold, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Betye Saar, Charles Searles, James Sepyo, Taiwo Shabazz, Lorna Simpson, Merton Simpson, Nelson Stevens, Leo Franklin Twiggs, Cheryl Warrick, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, Emmett Wigglesworth, Grace Williams, William T. Williams.

NEW YORK (NY). Gallery 138.
Brown v. Board of Ed.: 1954-2004.
May 17-June 17, 2004.
Group exhibition. Included: Terry E. Boddie, Haz Diggz, Robin Holder, Satch Hoyt, Charlotte Ka, Brookie Maxwell, William Pope L., Dread Scott, and Danny Simmons.

NEW YORK (NY). Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba House.
Experience Returns to Essence.
February 9-March 22, 2008.
Group exhibition by members of National Conference of Artists. Included: O'Neal Abel, Salimah Ali, Abdullah Aziz, Anthony Barboza, Mark Blackshear, Betty Blayton, Kwame Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite, Elombe Brath, Nomsa Brath, Sharon Burton, Doris Colbert-Kennedy, Sadikisha Saundra Collier, Gerald Cyrus, Robert Daniels, Collette Fournier, Russell Frederick, Gaylord Hassan, Kristen Hayes, Linda Hiwot, Hugeaux, Veron Israel, Jerry Jack, MLJ Johnson, Larry Joseph, Charlotte Ka, Wayne Lawrence, Gloria Aziza Lawyer, Gina Lewis, Karl McIntosh, Adrienne Mills, Carolyn Maitland, Dindga McCannon, Adrienne Mills, Louis Mims, Camille Mosley-Pasley, Doris Colbert Kennedy, Hassan Musa, Otto Neals, Ademola Olugebefola, James Phillips, Darlene F (aka Darlene F. Rollins), John Pinderhughes, Aaron Ibi Pori Pitts, Herb Robinson, Amber Robles-Gordon, Radcliffe Roye, Gina Samson, Shawn Walker, James Sepyo, Frank Stewart, and Emmett Wigglesworth.

NEWARK (NJ). Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art.
African American Printmakers: The Legacy Continues.
March 11-July 2, 2005.
Group exhibition. The contributions of African American artists to printmaking from the 1920’s to the present. Organized by independent curator, Cynthia Hawkins. Includes over 90 prints by 26 artists: Aaron Douglas, Wilmer Jennings, Dox Thrash, Vivian E. Browne, Bob Blackburn, Norman Lewis, William Majors, Robert Neal, Frederick Jones, James L. Wells, Eldzier Cortor, Elizabeth Catlett, John Dowell, Albert Huie, Curlee Holton, Howardena Pindell, Berrisford Boothe, Charlotte Ka, Robert L. Neal, Norma Morgan, Nanette Carter, Linda Hiwot, Robin Holder, Camille Billops, Hale Woodruff, and Kabuya Bowens.

PITTSBURGH (PA). August Wilson Center for African American Culture.
SoulScapes.
Thru February 16, 2008.
Group exhibition of 18 African American women artists working in all media. Curated by Cecile Shellman and Marica Jackson. Included: Joyce Baucum, Delores Currin, Mayota Hill, Marica Jackson, Charlotte Ka, Laverne Kemp, Mary Martin, Harriette Meriwether, Adrienne Powers.

PITTSBURGH (PA). Manchester Craftsmen's Guild.
Seeing Jazz: A Tribute to the Masters and Pittsburgh Jazz Legends.
January 26-April 3, 2009.
Group exhibition. Included: O'Neal Abel, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Sharif Bey, Betty Blayton Taylor, Tina Williams Brewer, Fred Brown, Bisa Butler, Lauren Camp, Nora Mae Carmichael, Sadikisha Collier, Robert Daniels, Tafa Fiadzigbe, Frank Frazier, Eric Girault, Verna Hart, Rene Hinds, Jamillah Jennings, MLJ Johnson, Larry Joseph, Charlotte Ka, Eli Kince, Dindga McCannon, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Richard Mayhew, Steve Mayo, Omowale Morgan, Otto Neals, Ademola Olugebefola, Eric Pryor, Faith Ringgold, Senghor Reid, Maurice D. Robertson, Ernani Silva, Danny Simmons, Alexandria Smith, George Smith, Chuck Stewart, Allen Stringfellow, Ann Tanksley, Habib Tiwoni, Osman Tyner, Manny Vega, Richard Waters, Douglas J. Webster, Emmett Wigglesworth, and Shirley Woodson.

PITTSBURGH (PA). Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Beyond and Behind the Mask.
April 6-May 13, 2001.
Exhib. cat., illus. National group exhibition. Juried by Willis Bing Davis. Work included explores mask forms both as cultural and as spiritual expressions through traditional African art forms and contemporary social issues. Included: J. Martin Bey, Sharif Bey, BIKO, Tina Williams Brewer, Kevin Cole, Larry Winston Collins, Robert H. Cook, Willis Bing Davis, Jacqui Dorsey, Elizabeth Asche Douglas, L'Merchie Frazier, Sandra K. German, Vanessa L. German, Wendell Gorden, Earline M. Green, Charlotte Ka, Gary J. Kirksey, Beatrice Lebreton (Juror's prize), Eric Mack, Iris Dawn Parker, Robert E. Peppers (Best of Show award), Carlos F. Peterson, Teri Richardson, Theresa Polley Shellcroft, Ra-Shell Shumate, Tenanche Golden, Tanya Thompson, Rickey Warren, Jack White, et al. [Review in The International Review of African American Art, Vol.17, 2001.] 4to, wraps.

PITTSBURGH (PA). Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Of the Spirit.
February 9-March 3, 1996.
Group exhibition. Invited artists included 8 members of Entitled: Black Women Artists of New York: Lisa Bradley, Carole Byard, Nanette Carter, Marina Gutierrez, Robin Holder, Charlotte Richardson Ka, Eve Sandler, Grace Y. Williams. The Regional Exhibit, (juried by Joyce T. Scott, was a juried exhibition of artworks created by 16 female artists: Women of Visions, Inc. members and African American women artists from the Maryland and Pennsylvania region. Included: Lynda Andrews-Barry, Jo-Anne Bates, Tina Williams Brewer, Shereen Collington, Delores M. Currin. Stephanie Dinkins. Elizabeth Asche Douglas, Patricia Gunter, Jacqueline Pondexter-Jordan, Christiane D. Leach, Mary Martin, Io Palmer, Vivian Poey, Ruth G. Richardson. Latifah Shabazz, Tommie Nel-Taylor.

WASHINGTON (DC). Parish Gallery.
Reclaiming African Iconography.
February 2-28, 2007.
Group exhibition by members of the Obsidian Art Glass Association. Included: Akili Ron Anderson, Chris Burns, Yvonne Brunot, Sadakisha S. Collier, Donald Cox, Carolyn S. Davis, John Henderson, J. Renée Johnson, Charlotte Ká, David Medina, Ida P. Miggins, Janua Moja, S. Denise Rouse, Leo Tecosky, Dudley Vaccianna, Acquaetta Williams, Grace Williams, and Ken Wright.