Nick Cave
Nick Cave was born in 1959, he lives and works in Chicago.
Solo exhibitions
2023
- Nick Cave: Power & Cycles, Holtermann Fine Art, London, England
2022-2023
- Nick Cave: Forothermore, NCA, Chicago
2021
- Nick Cave: Truth Be Told, Brooklyn Museum, New York
- Ensemble, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha
2020
- Nick Cave: Truth Be Told, The School, New York
2019
- Nick Cave, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield
- Nick Cave: DIALOGUE, Harvard Business School, Boston
- Nick Cave: Until, Tramway, Glasgow
- Nick Cave: Feat, Akron Art Museum, Akron
- Nick Cave: Feat, Glenbow Museum, Calgary
- Nick Cave: Feat, Mississippi Museum of Art, Mississippi
- Until, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
2018
- Nick Cave: Until, Carriageworks, Eveleigh
- Nick Cave: Mignight Moment, Times Square, New York
- If A Tree Falls, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
- Nick Cave: The Let Go, Park Avenue Armory, New York
- Nick Cave: Feat, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
- Until, Carriageworks, Sydney
- Weather or Not, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2017
- Nick Cave: Feat, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
- Nick Cave, Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah
2016
- Nick Cave, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford
- Spotted by Nick Cave, artspace, Shreveport
- Until, itinerant exhibition: Massachussets Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Carriageworks, Sydney; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
2015
- Nick Vace: Here Hear, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills
2014
- Nick Cave, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- Nick Cave, The School, Kinderhook, New York
- Nick Cave: Rescue and Made by Whites of Whites, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
- Encounter: Nick Cave, Kent State University, Kent
- Currents 109: Nick Cave, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
2013
- Freeport 006: Nick Cave, Peadoby Essex Museum, Salem
- Nick Cave: The Worls is My Skin, Trapholt Museum, Denmark
- Nick Cave: Sojourn, Denver Art Museum, Denver
2012
- Soundsuits, University of North Texas Art Galelry, Denton
- Nick Cave, Austin Museum of Fine Arts / Arthouse at the Jones Center, Texas
- Fantastic 2012, Lille 3000, Tri Postal, Lille
2011
- Nick Cave: Ever–After, Jack Shainman Gallery in collaboration with Mary Boone Gallery, New York
- Nick Cave: Let’s C, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
- For now, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
- Meet me at the centre of the earth, SAM Seattle Art Museum
2010
- Nick Cave, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Studio la Città, Verona
- Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
2009
- Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
- Recent Soundsuits, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2008
- Alter-Skins, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, New York
- Second Skins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville
2007
- 32nd Annual Gail Silver Memorial Lecture, The RISD Museum, Providence
2006
- Nick Cave Soundsuits, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park
- Soundsuits, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
- SOUNDSUITS, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2005
- Soundsuits, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh
2004
- Soundsuits, Holter Museum of Art, Helena
2003
- Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond
2002
- The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak
- Wright Museum Courtyard, Beloit
- Macalester College of Art, St. Paul
2001
- Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN.
- Objects of Desire, Noel Gallery, Charlotte
- AMAIGAMATIONS, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown
- NEW WORKS, Xavier, University Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
2000
- NICK CAVE 2000, Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago
1999
- REPARATIONS, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend
- NEW WORKS, Zone One Gallery, Asheville
1997
- NEW WORKS, Grand Arts, Kansas City
Group exhibitions
2024
- Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- One History, Two Versions, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2023
- Trade & Transformation, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
- Second Skin, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
- The Flower Show, LA Louver, Venice, Los Angeles, CA
- Tennessee Triennial, Memphis River Park & Hunter Museum of American Art, Memphis & Chattanooga
2022-2023
- Beyond the Surface: Collage, Mixed Media and Textile Works from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
2022
- In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London
- This Tender, Fragile Thing, The School, New York
- Beyond Identity, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
- Stressed World, The School │Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York
- Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
- Ensemble, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver
2021
- In Human Terms, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu
- Interior Infinite, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver
- Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment, Olana State Historic Site and Thomas Cole National Historic Site
- The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
- Promise, Witness, Remembrance, Speed Museum
- Magic Dance, LA Louver Gallery, Venice
- A Question of Taste, Pera Museum, Istanbul
- America, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Benton
- Travelled to: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Auburn
2020
- The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
- Shapeshifters, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills
- Ghosts and Fragments, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
- Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art
2019
- Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Beyond Infinity: Contemporary Art After Kusama, ICA Boston
- I Yield My Time. Fuck You!, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco
- Pollination: Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, and Our Contemporary Moment, Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site, Hudson
- Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
- Flex, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
- Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance, 21c Museum Hotels
- Weather Report, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
- Off the Wall: Sculpture from the Mott-Warsh Collection, MW Gallery, Flint
- Quello che non ho venduto / What I did not sell, a cura di / curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Studio la Città, Verona
- Down Time: On the Art of Retreat, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
- When You Dance You Make Me Happy, Gallerie Delle Prigioni, Treviso
- Street Dreams: How Hiphop took Over Fashion, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
- The Empathy Lab, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
- King of the Hill, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
- About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art, Wrightwood 659, Chicago
- Dreamweavers, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills
- Louder than Words, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University
- Get Up, Stand Up: Generations of trailblazing black creativity in Britain and beyond, The West Wing, Somerset House, London
- People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
- Beyond Infinity: Contemporary Art After Kusama, Boston, Massachusetts
- Weather Report, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
- About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art, Wrightwood 659, Chicago
- Louder than Words, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw
- Get Up, Stand Up: Generations of trailblazing black creativity in Britain and beyond, THE WEST WING Somerset House, London
- Street Dreams: How Hip Hop Took Over Fashion, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2018
- Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
- Deviations, Bargoin Museum, Clermont-Ferrand
- Open Spaces, Kansas City, Missouri
- Year of the Dog, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs
- Tissage, Tressage, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
- RESPECT: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland
- I is an Other / Be the Other, a cura di Simon Njami, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma
2017
- NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson
- Inspired by Matisse: Selected Works from the Collection, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
- Third Space / Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
- Home Room: A Multimedia Group Exhibition, The School│ Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York
2016
- Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation, 21c Museum Hotel, Durham
- Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America, Telfair Museums Jepson Center, Savannah
- Tra arte e moda, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Firenze
- Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Light/Source, curated by Arnold Lehman, PHILLIPS, New York
- The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, curated by Laura Dvorkin, The Peninsula Chicago, Chicago
2015
- Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Museum of Art, Denver
- You Go To My Head, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels
- Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus
- Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, itinerant exhibition: Seattle Art Museum; Fowler Museum at UCLA; Brooklyn Museum
- Affinity Atlas, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
- Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Selections from the Christy & Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kemper
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
- Re:Purposed, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, State Art Museum of Florida, Florida, University, Sarasota, Florida
- Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
- The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
- You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Works from The Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Municipal Gallery Almeida, Garrett, Oporto
- The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, New Mexico
- Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora
- Between History and the Body, The 8th Floor, New York, New York
- Tyger, Tyger: Lynn Chadwick and the Art of Now, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville
- Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg
- Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Museum of Art, Denver
- Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus
- Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum
- Affinity Atlas, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
2014
- Dries Van Noten, Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris
- The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
- Hidden Power in African Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- More Material, Salon 94, New York
- Mise En Scène, The School, Kinderhook, New York
- Amerika, David Castillo Gallery
- Objets: pouvoirs secrets, Passage de Retz, Paris
- Africa Now: Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2013
- Upsodown, New Art Center, Newtonville
- Seat’s Taken, Burlington Arts Center, Burlington
- Seismic Shifts: Ten Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum, New York
- The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Black in the Abstract, Part 1: Epistrophy, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Houston
- Galen at the Galen, Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert
2012
- Exotic Muses: Dancers by Robert Henri and Nick Cave, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst
- American Dreamers: Facing or Escaping Reality in Contemporary American Art, Center for Contemporary Culture at The Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
- Migration, Arndt Gallery, Sydney
- Recent Acquisitions, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
- African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park
- Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts, Charlotte
- Mediations Biennale 2012, Poznan
2011
- Art & Fashion: Zwischen Haut und Kleid, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
- Are You A Hybrid, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
- Delphine Balley, Nick Cave, Angelika Markul, Eddie Martinez, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Pierre Schwerzmann, Suzanne Tarasieve Paris
- Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, curated by Michael Darling, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Go Figure, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago
- Pictoplasma: Post-Digital Monsters, La Gaité lyrique, Paris
- Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
- RE: Chicago, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago
- Prospect.2: Works by Nick Cave and Joyce J. Scott, Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans
- No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2010
- Babin, Cave, Medvedz, Kupferschmidt, Eleven Rivington, New York
- Pattern ID,Akron Art Museum
- Dead or Alive, curate by David Revere McFadden, Lowery Sims, and Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane, Museum of Art and Design, New York
- Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
- Resurrectine, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
- Call and Response: Africa to America / The Art of Nick Cave and Phyllis Galembo, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston
- Pattern, Costume, and Ornament in African and African-America Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham
- Disidentification, Göteborgs Konsthall
- The Figure: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
- The Global Africa Project, curated by Lowery Sims and Leslie King-Hammond, Museum of Art and Design, New York
- Now What?, Norton Museum, Miami
2009
- The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdamn
- Re-AdDRESSing Identities: Clothing as Sculpture, Katonah Art Museum, New York
- Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Savannah
- Giving Face: Portraits for a New Generation, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York
2008-9
- 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
- Fashion Forward, Islip Art Museum, Long Island
2008
- Of the Cloth, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Implant, The UBS Art Gallery, New York
- Boys of Summer, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
- Working History: African American Art and Objects, Cooley
- Gallery at Reed College, Pittsburg,
- Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum, Helena “Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook” Reading Mueseum, Reading
2007-8
- MASK, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2007
- Taking Possesion, UALR University of Arkansas, Little Rock
- The Handmaking, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown
- Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
2006-7
- A Changing Fabric, Salina Art Center, KS
2006
- Crafty, Mass Art, Boston
- Unholy Alliance: Art + Fashion Meet Again, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
- Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African-American Art, The Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
- Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2005
- Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
- Different Wavelengths, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York
- Art-wear, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
- THE WHOLE WORLD IS ROTTEN, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2004
- The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte
- Cross Currents, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth
- Crowning Glory, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2003
- Independent: Inseparable: Intersection, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park
2002
- BODY and SOUL, American Craft Museum, New York
- Concealing & Revealing, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan
- Galerie Beeld & Aambeeld, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Textile Museum, The Netherlands
2001
- Zierat, Galerie CEBRA, Dusseldorf
- I AM SOMEONE ELSE, The Conenexion, The Netherlands
- Kestner Museum, Hannover
- Recycle/Redefined, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum
- Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond
- MUSIC IN MY SOUL, The Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth
- FACES IN THE FIELD, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
2000
- Zierat, Southwest School of Arts & Craft, San Antonio
- S.O.S. Scenes of Sound, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs
- Grand Arts, Kansas City
- Tryon Center for the Visual Arts, Artist in Residence, Charlotte
- New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford
- Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile
1999
- STOP ASKING WE EXIST, American Craft Museum, New York
- MEN OF THE CLOTH, Loveland Museum of Art, Loveland