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ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022

Saya Woolfalk: The Heart of a Museum, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes From the Empathic Universe, NXTHVN, New Haven, Conn.

The Woods Women, Part II, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2022

The Woods Women and Other Works, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

The Woods Women, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, The Armory Show, New York

Floating World of the Cloud Quilt, The Rudin Family Gallery at BAM Strong, Brooklyn, N.Y.

2021

Field Notes from the Empathic Universe,The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, N.J.

Tumbling into Landscape, The Newark Museum of Art, N.J.

From Bones We Rise, The Empathics, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, N.J.

2020

Future Relics From a Landscape of Anticipation, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects at Independent, New York

2019

Empathic Cloud Divination, Tube Factory, Indianapolis

A Cabinet of Anticipation, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

Augmented Visionary Reality Outpost, Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia

Expedition to ChimaCloud, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Visionary Reality Outpost, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

2018

Hybrid Digital Home, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Lessons From the Institute of Empathy, Seattle Art Museum

2017

ChimaCloud and the Pose System, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Life Products and the ChimaCloud, Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, Mass.

2016

Saya Woolfalk: Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska

ChimaCloud, Times Square Midnight Moment

ChimaCloud, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y.

Saya Woolfalk: To Dream the Electric Dream, SCAD Museum, Savannah, GA

2015

The Pollen Catchers’ Color Mixing Machine, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York

ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization System, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta

2014

Saya Woolfalk Videos: 2005 – 2014, WPA, Washington, D.C.

ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization Mandala (performance), Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

ChimaTEK, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Saya Woolfalk, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Saya Woolfalk, Emerson-Dorsch Gallery, Miami

2013

Alcott Gallery, UNC Chapel Hill, N. Carolina

The Empathics, Flecker Gallery, SUNY Suffolk, N.Y.

The Empathics, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK

Chimera, Third Streaming, New York

2012

The Empathics, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.

2011

No Place, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, N.J.

2010

Institute of Empathy, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.

The Institute for the Analysis of Empathy, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Mass.

2009

No Place, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, N.Y.

2008

Saya Woolfalk: Three Videos, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark, N.J.

2007

No Place: Wonders from that World, Zg Gallery, Chicago

2005

Jumble Patch: Transitional Love Objects, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York

Trousseaux: Love Object, SubCity, Chicago

2004

Lovescape, Zg Gallery, Chicago

Paradise Imagined, 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

New Eden, ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Women Reframe American Landscape: Contemporary Practices, New Britain Museum of American Art; The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, N.Y.

The Place We Once Remembered, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, N.Y.

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, Pennsylvania Academy of Art Museum, Philadelphia

2022

Recent Acquisitions: Union College Permanent Collection, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.

Psychedelic Landscape, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York

Shapeshifting:Transformations on Paper, Baltimore Museum of Art

Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

Rising Sun, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia

Digital Combines, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles

Another World, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Los Angeles, CA

Women, Land + Art: Reframing the American Landscape, Thomas Cole National Historical Site, Catskill, N.Y.

2021

Abstracted Migrations: Ideas on Embodied Motion, The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

When Evening Has Passed and Tomorrow Comes, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah

Saint Somebody: Technologies of the Divine, Art Vault, Santa Fe, NM

Born in Flames: Feminist Futures, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

2020

Future Texts: Imagining Utopia in a Time of Crisis and Change, SJ Weiler Fund, New York

Firelei Baez, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrom, Saya Woolfalk, Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY

A Beautiful Struggle: Black Feminist Futurism, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI

No horizon, no edge to Liquid, Zabludowicz Collection, London

2019

A Legacy of Firsts: The Everson Collects, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Figuring the Floral, Wave Hill, The Bronx, N.Y.

Embody, Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, N.Y.

Pouring into an Array of Characters, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany

New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago

Parallels and Peripheries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit

Present Bodies: Papermaking at Dieu Donné, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY

Furies, Fairies, Visionaries, Pen + Brush, New York

 

2018

In This Imperfect Present Moment, Seattle Art Museum

Parallels and Peripheries, ArtCenter South Florida, Miami

The Future Is Female, 21c Museum Hotel, Bentonville, Arkansas

hyphenative, SU Art Galleries, Salisbury, Maryland

In Times of Perseus, Sargent’s Daughters, New York

Next Art Tainan, Soka Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan

2017

The Embedded Message, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Virginia

Color: Coded, The New Art Center, Newton, MA

Multiple Modernisms, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

(self), Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Works on Paper 2017, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, N. Carolina

Dialogues in Drawing, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco

2016

American Histories, Pi Artworks, London

Bedazzled, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx

Past Present Future, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan

Sisters of the Moon: Feminism, Art, and Magic, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Lexington

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Brooklyn Museum

2015

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles

Anthems for the Mother Earth Goddess, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

Between History and the Body, The 8th Floor (The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation), New York

Les Oracles, XPO Gallery, Paris

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum

 

2014

Rockaway! MoMA PS1, Long Island City, N.Y.

Herland, 60 Wall Gallery, New York

Brides of Anansi: Fiber and Contemporary Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta

PaperWork: Drawings, Prints, and Collages, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

 

2013

The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

Approximately Infinite Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Nu Age Hustle, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Masqueraders are the Ancestors of Protestors, IMC Lab + Gallery, New York

Space is the Place, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon

nowhere differentiable, Simon Center for Physics and Geometry, Stony Brook University

Metaphysical Interventions, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York

Interwoven: Art.Craft.Design, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, Virginia

 

2012

Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville

Traveled to Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, and Glenbow Art Museum, Clagary, Canada

Super HUMAN, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT and Aljira Center for the Arts, Newark, N.J.

MIE: Portraits, Freight+Volume, New York

Journey of Peace, Concordia College, Bronxville, N.Y.

All Good Things Become Wild and Free, HF Johnson Gallery of Art at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin

 

2011

Bunny Redux, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (catalogue)

The February Show, Ogilvy and Mather, New York

Uncovered, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths

Playboy Redux, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles

 

2010

Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art, Craft and Design, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Threads: Senga Nengudi, Saya Woolfalk, Rashawn Griffin, and Shinique Smith, Eli Klein Fine Art, Beijing, China

The Sitting Room: 4 Studies, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia

Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Transhuman Conditions, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia

Losing Yourself, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore

Playboy Redux, Rotofugi Gallery, Chicago

Companion, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York

 

2009

AIM 29: Living and Dreaming, The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Super Girl, Nexus Art Place, Baltimore

The Open, Deitch Studios, Long Island City, N.Y.

Losing Yourself, Georgia State University, Atlanta

Back to the Garden, Deutsche Bank Art Gallery, New York

More Art Less Filler II, Space 204 Vanderbilt University, Nashville

Playing Around, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont

Making It, Deutsche Bank Art Gallery, New York

2012+, The Drop Urban Art Infill, New York

Pulse, Taller Boricua / Puerto Rican Workshop, New York

Next Post,Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, N.J.

If I Didn’t Care: Generational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories, The Park School, Baltimore

 

2008

New Intuitions: Artist-In-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

In Transit, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York

Storytellers, Paperwork Gallery, Baltimore

Once Upon A Time, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York

 

2007

Simulasian, Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York

Kazuo Ohno 101: Three-Week Butoh Parade, Japan Society, New York

Jamaica Flux, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, N.Y.

Yokohama Boogie: Under the Influence, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan

U Can’t Touch Dis: The New Asian Art, Zone Chelsea, New York

Young Sculptors Competition, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY

Whitney ISP, Artists Space, New York

 

2006

Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, N. Carolina

Saya Woolfalk and James Fotopoulos, Momenta Art, Williamsburg, N.Y. (curated by Eric Heist)

Treemendous, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, N.Y.

Dead of Winter, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, N.Y.

Peace King Mother Nature, Second Gallery, South Boston, Mass.

YEA! Young Emerging Artists, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, N.Y.

Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA 2004 and 2005 Recipient Exhibition, CUE Art Foundation, New York

The Jaundiced Eye, Scope-NY, entrance installation

d'Afrique d'Asie, Artist Commune, Hong Kong

Chimaera, Tenri Cultural  Institute, New York

National Psyche, Lab Art Space, San Francisco

The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York

 

2005

Greater New York 2005, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, N.Y.

Production of Escapism—a project by Rashid Johnson, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art

Holiday Windows, Exit Art, New York

d'Afrique d'Asie, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York

Working Process: a glimpse into the artist's studio practice, Zg Gallery, Chicago

Sinister, The Museum at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University

 

2004

Scary/Cute, Flux Factory, Queens, N.Y.

Social Seduction, The Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The Chicago 11, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida

Spring Fever, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque

Unlucky in Love, School of the Art Institute, Chicago

 

2003

As Small As Possible, Zg Gallery, Chicago

December Group Show, G-2 Gallery, Chicago

Remark/Remarket, 1926 Halsted Gallery, Chicago

Project Room: Richard Levy Gallery, Scope Art LA, Los Angeles

Group Exhibition, 2003, Stray Show, Chicago

Artwindows 2003, G'Bani, Chicago

Fieldwork; in honor of national women’s history month, 1926 Halsted, Chicago

 

2002

National Juried Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, New York

unfoldingobject: critical selections. Miranda Fine Arts & Henaine Fine Art, Port Chester, N.Y.

EA50: HEREart’s 6th Annual Emerging Artists Show, HEREart, New York

Exhibition to Benefit Breast Cancer Research, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

2001

Annual Group Exhibition, The Museum at F.I.T., New York

Juried Exhibition, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence

 
SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS AND PERFORMANCES

2016

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, Screening Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 

2015

B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

 

2014

ChimaTEK: Hybridization Visualization Mandala, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

ChimaTEK: Dinner Party Upload, Brooklyn Museum

 

2013

Hybrid Cosmology, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon

 

2012

Empathetic Plant Alchemy, Newark Museum Dreyfuss Planetarium, Newark, N.J.

Ritual of the Empathics, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.

Lecture of the Artist: Empathetic Plant Alchemy, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville

Hybrid Cosmology, Newark Museum Dreyfuss Planetarium, Newark

 

2010

Empathic Imaginaries, Harvestworks, Soho Gallery Night, New York

 

2009

Ethnography of No Place, Zoom in on the Blur, Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami

Ritual of the Empathics, Performa09, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

 

2008

Ethnography of No Place, Brooklyn International Film Festival, Experimental Film div

 

2007

Coloring Book Cart featuring: The Cleaners, Kitchen Highline Block Party, The Kitchen, New York

The Cleaners, Resistance and the Law: Radicalism, Extremism, Legitimacy, Co-Optation,

Harvard Law School Conference, Cambridge, Mass.

 

2006

The Cleaners, Art Parade, Deitch Projects, New York

Pessoa da Rua, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

Pessoa da Rua, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil

 

2005

Love Monster, Metro Color Collision at Frisbee Art Fair, Miami

Terra de Lixo, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil

Winter Garden, Sculpture Space, Utica, N.Y.

 

2004

One Night Stand, Performing Art Chicago

 
SELECTED COMMISSIONS

The Coretta Scott King Peace and Meditation Garden, The King Center, Atlanta

Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, New York

Bronx Children’s Museum, Bronx, N.Y.

Metropolitan Transit Authority Percent for Art Program

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs School Construction Authority

Art at Amtrak, Penn Station, New York

Westfield World Trade Center & Art Production Fund

The Peninsula Hotels Art in Resonance, Paris

New York City Parks’ Creative Courts

Cincinnati ArtWorks & Contemporary Arts Center Mural

Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, New York

River to River Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City

 
AWARDS

2023

Anonymous Was a Woman Grant

Honoree, Bronx Children’s Museum, Bronx, N.Y.

2022

Artist in Residence, Pilchuck School, Seattle

2021

Honoree, Flux Factory

2019–22

Artist in Residence, Newark Art Museum, N.J.

2019

Honoree, Montclair Art Museum, N.J.

Artist in Residence, Creative Courts

2018

Artist in Residence, Civitella Ranieri, Italy

Artist in Residence, Kohler Arts and Industry Program, Ceramics

2017

Dreamtime Award—Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, N.J.

2016

Artist in Residence, Creative Courts

2015

Urban Video Project—Lightwork Artist in Residence, Syracuse, N.Y.

2013

Open Studio Fellow, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota

 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Baltimore Museum of Art

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe

Chrysler Museum of Art

Davis Museum at Wellesley College

Deutsche Bank, New York

Everson Museum of Art

Fidelity Investments, Boston

Fleming Museum of Art

The Ford Foundation Collection, New York

JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York

Mead Art Museum

Montclair Art Museum

Newark Museum

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

Seattle Art Museum

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Tufts University

Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.

Weatherspoon Art Museum

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

The Zabludowicz Art Trust, London

 

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