Nick Cave

Nick Cave was born in 1959,  he  lives and works in Chicago.

Solo exhibitions

2023

  1. Nick Cave: Power & Cycles, Holtermann Fine Art, London, England

2022-2023

  1. Nick Cave: Forothermore, NCA, Chicago

2021

  1. Nick Cave: Truth Be Told, Brooklyn Museum, New York
  2. Ensemble, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha

2020

  1. Nick Cave: Truth Be Told, The School, New York

2019

  1. Nick Cave, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield
  2. Nick Cave: DIALOGUE, Harvard Business School, Boston
  3. Nick Cave: Until, Tramway, Glasgow
  4. Nick Cave: Feat, Akron Art Museum, Akron
  5. Nick Cave: Feat, Glenbow Museum, Calgary
  6. Nick Cave: Feat, Mississippi Museum of Art, Mississippi
  7. Until, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville

2018

  1. Nick Cave: Until, Carriageworks, Eveleigh
  2. Nick Cave: Mignight Moment, Times Square, New York
  3. If A Tree Falls, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
  4. Nick Cave: The Let Go, Park Avenue Armory, New York
  5. Nick Cave: Feat, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
  6. Until, Carriageworks, Sydney
  7. Weather or Not, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

2017

  1. Nick Cave: Feat, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
  2. Nick Cave, Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah

2016

  1. Nick Cave, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford
  2. Spotted by Nick Cave, artspace, Shreveport
  3. Until, itinerant exhibition: Massachussets Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Carriageworks, Sydney; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville

2015

  1. Nick Vace: Here Hear, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills

2014

  1. Nick Cave, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
  2. Nick Cave, The School, Kinderhook, New York
  3. Nick Cave: Rescue and Made by Whites of Whites, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
  4. Encounter: Nick Cave, Kent State University, Kent
  5. Currents 109: Nick Cave, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis

2013

  1. Freeport 006: Nick Cave, Peadoby Essex Museum, Salem
  2. Nick Cave: The Worls is My Skin, Trapholt Museum, Denmark
  3. Nick Cave: Sojourn, Denver Art Museum, Denver

2012

  1. Soundsuits, University of North Texas Art Galelry, Denton
  2. Nick Cave, Austin Museum of Fine Arts / Arthouse at the Jones Center, Texas
  3. Fantastic 2012, Lille 3000, Tri Postal, Lille

2011

  1. Nick Cave: EverAfter, Jack Shainman Gallery in collaboration with Mary Boone Gallery, New York
  2. Nick Cave: Let’s C, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
  3. For now, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
  4. Meet me at the centre of the earth, SAM Seattle Art Museum

2010

  1. Nick Cave, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Studio la Città, Verona
  2. Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles

2009

  1. Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
  2. Recent Soundsuits, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

2008

  1. Alter-Skins, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, New York
  2. Second Skins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville

2007

  1. 32nd Annual Gail Silver Memorial Lecture, The RISD Museum, Providence

2006

  1. Nick Cave Soundsuits, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park
  2. Soundsuits, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
  3. SOUNDSUITS, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

2005

  1. Soundsuits, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh

2004

  1. Soundsuits, Holter Museum of Art, Helena

2003

  1. Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond

2002

  1. The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak
  2. Wright Museum Courtyard, Beloit
  3. Macalester College of Art, St. Paul

2001

  1. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN.
  2. Objects of Desire, Noel Gallery, Charlotte
  3. AMAIGAMATIONS, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown
  4. NEW WORKS, Xavier, University Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati

2000

  1. NICK CAVE 2000, Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago

1999

  1. REPARATIONS, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend
  2. NEW WORKS, Zone One Gallery, Asheville

1997

  1. NEW WORKS, Grand Arts, Kansas City

Group exhibitions

2024

  1. Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  2. One History, Two Versions, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2023

  1. Trade & Transformation, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
  2. Second Skin, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
  3. The Flower Show, LA Louver, Venice, Los Angeles, CA
  4. Tennessee Triennial, Memphis River Park & Hunter Museum of American Art, Memphis & Chattanooga

2022-2023

  1. Beyond the Surface: Collage, Mixed Media and Textile Works from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

2022

  1. In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London
  2. This Tender, Fragile Thing, The School, New York
  3. Beyond Identity, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
  4. Stressed World, The School │Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York
  5. Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
  6. Ensemble, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver

2021

  1. In Human Terms, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu
  2. Interior Infinite, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver
  3. Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment, Olana State Historic Site and Thomas Cole National Historic Site
  4. The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
  5. Promise, Witness, Remembrance, Speed Museum
  6. Magic Dance, LA Louver Gallery, Venice
  7. A Question of Taste, Pera Museum, Istanbul
  8. America, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Benton
  9. Travelled to: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Auburn

2020

  1. The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
  2. Shapeshifters, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills
  3. Ghosts and Fragments, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
  4. Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art

2019

  1. Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  2. Beyond Infinity: Contemporary Art After Kusama, ICA Boston
  3. I Yield My Time. Fuck You!, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco
  4. Pollination: Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, and Our Contemporary Moment, Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site, Hudson
  5. Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
  6. Flex, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
  7. Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance, 21c Museum Hotels
  8. Weather Report, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
  9. Off the Wall: Sculpture from the Mott-Warsh Collection, MW Gallery, Flint
  10. Quello che non ho venduto / What I did not sell, a cura di / curated by Marco          Meneguzzo, Studio la Città, Verona
  11. Down Time: On the Art of Retreat, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
  12. When You Dance You Make Me Happy, Gallerie Delle Prigioni, Treviso
  13. Street Dreams: How Hiphop took Over Fashion, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  14. The Empathy Lab, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
  15. King of the Hill, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
  16. About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art, Wrightwood 659, Chicago
  17. Dreamweavers, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills
  18. Louder than Words, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University
  19. Get Up, Stand Up: Generations of trailblazing black creativity in Britain and beyond, The West Wing, Somerset House, London
  20. People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
  21. Beyond Infinity: Contemporary Art After Kusama, Boston, Massachusetts
  22. Weather Report, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
  23. About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art, Wrightwood 659, Chicago
  24. Louder than Words, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw
  25. Get Up, Stand Up: Generations of trailblazing black creativity in Britain and beyond, THE WEST WING Somerset House, London
  26. Street Dreams: How Hip Hop Took Over Fashion, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2018

  1. Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
  2. Deviations, Bargoin Museum, Clermont-Ferrand
  3. Open Spaces, Kansas City, Missouri
  4. Year of the Dog, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs
  5. Tissage, Tressage, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
  6. RESPECT: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland
  7. I is an Other / Be the Other, a cura di Simon Njami, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma

2017

  1. NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  2. Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson
  3. Inspired by Matisse: Selected Works from the Collection, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
  4. Third Space / Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
  5. Home Room: A Multimedia Group Exhibition, The School│ Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York

2016

  1. Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation, 21c Museum Hotel, Durham
  2. Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America, Telfair Museums Jepson Center, Savannah
  3. Tra arte e moda, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Firenze
  4. Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  5. Light/Source, curated by Arnold Lehman, PHILLIPS, New York
  6. The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, curated by Laura Dvorkin, The Peninsula Chicago, Chicago

2015

  1. Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Museum of Art, Denver
  2. You Go To My Head, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels
  3. Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus
  4. Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, itinerant exhibition: Seattle Art Museum; Fowler Museum at UCLA; Brooklyn Museum
  5. Affinity Atlas, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
  6. Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Selections from the Christy & Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kemper
  7. Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
  8. Re:Purposed, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, State Art Museum of Florida, Florida, University, Sarasota, Florida
  9. Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
  10. The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
  11. You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Works from The Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Municipal Gallery Almeida, Garrett, Oporto
  12. The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  13. Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, New Mexico
  14. Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora
  15. Between History and the Body, The 8th Floor, New York, New York
  16. Tyger, Tyger: Lynn Chadwick and the Art of Now, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville
  17. Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg
  18. Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Museum of Art, Denver
  19. Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus
  20. Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum
  21. Affinity Atlas, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

2014

  1. Dries Van Noten, Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris
  2. The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
  3. Hidden Power in African Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  4. More Material, Salon 94, New York
  5. Mise En Scène, The School, Kinderhook, New York
  6. Amerika, David Castillo Gallery
  7. Objets: pouvoirs secrets, Passage de Retz, Paris
  8. Africa Now: Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2013

  1. Upsodown, New Art Center, Newtonville
  2. Seats Taken, Burlington Arts Center, Burlington
  3. Seismic Shifts: Ten Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum, New York
  4. The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  5. Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
  6. Black in the Abstract, Part 1: Epistrophy, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Houston
  7. Galen at the Galen, Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert

2012

  1. Exotic Muses: Dancers by Robert Henri and Nick Cave, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst
  2. American Dreamers: Facing or Escaping Reality in Contemporary American Art, Center for Contemporary Culture at The Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
  3. Migration, Arndt Gallery, Sydney
  4. Recent Acquisitions, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
  5. African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park
  6. Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts, Charlotte
  7. Mediations Biennale 2012, Poznan

2011

  1. Art & Fashion: Zwischen Haut und Kleid, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
  2. Are You A Hybrid, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
  3. Delphine Balley, Nick Cave, Angelika Markul, Eddie Martinez, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Pierre Schwerzmann, Suzanne Tarasieve Paris
  4. Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, curated by Michael Darling, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  5. Go Figure, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago
  6. Pictoplasma: Post-Digital Monsters, La Gaité lyrique, Paris
  7. Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
  8. RE: Chicago, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago
  9. Prospect.2: Works by Nick Cave and Joyce J. Scott, Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans
  10. No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2010

  1. Babin, Cave, Medvedz, Kupferschmidt, Eleven Rivington, New York
  2. Pattern ID,Akron Art Museum
  3. Dead or Alive, curate by David Revere McFadden, Lowery Sims, and Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane, Museum of Art and Design, New York
  4. Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
  5. Resurrectine, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
  6. Call and Response: Africa to America / The Art of Nick Cave and Phyllis Galembo, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston
  7. Pattern, Costume, and Ornament in African and African-America Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham
  8. Disidentification, Göteborgs Konsthall
  9. The Figure: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
  10. The Global Africa Project, curated by Lowery Sims and Leslie King-Hammond, Museum of Art and Design, New York
  11. Now What?, Norton Museum, Miami

2009

  1. The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdamn
  2. Re-AdDRESSing Identities: Clothing as Sculpture, Katonah Art Museum, New York
  3. Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Savannah
  4. Giving Face: Portraits for a New Generation, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York

2008-9

  1. 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
  2. Fashion Forward, Islip Art Museum, Long Island

2008

  1. Of the Cloth, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts
  2. Implant, The UBS Art Gallery, New York
  3. Boys of Summer, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
  4. Working History: African American Art and Objects, Cooley
  5. Gallery at Reed College, Pittsburg,
  6. Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum, Helena “Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook” Reading Mueseum, Reading

2007-8

  1. MASK, James Cohan Gallery, New York

2007

  1. Taking Possesion, UALR University of Arkansas, Little Rock
  2. The Handmaking, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown
  3. Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville

2006-7

  1. A Changing Fabric, Salina Art Center, KS

2006    

  1. Crafty, Mass Art, Boston
  2.  Unholy Alliance: Art + Fashion Meet Again, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
  3. Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African-American Art, The Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
  4. Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

2005

  1. Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
  2. Different Wavelengths, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York
  3. Art-wear, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
  4. THE WHOLE WORLD IS ROTTEN, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

2004

  1. The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte
  2. Cross Currents, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth
  3. Crowning Glory, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

2003

  1. Independent: Inseparable: Intersection, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park

2002

  1. BODY and SOUL, American Craft Museum, New York
  2. Concealing & Revealing, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan
  3. Galerie Beeld & Aambeeld, Enschede, The Netherlands
  4. Netherlands Textile Museum, The Netherlands

2001

  1. Zierat, Galerie CEBRA, Dusseldorf
  2. I AM SOMEONE ELSE, The Conenexion, The Netherlands
  3. Kestner Museum, Hannover
  4. Recycle/Redefined, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum
  5. Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond
  6. MUSIC IN MY SOUL, The Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth
  7. FACES IN THE FIELD, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

2000

  1. Zierat, Southwest School of Arts & Craft, San Antonio
  2. S.O.S. Scenes of Sound, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs
  3. Grand Arts, Kansas City
  4. Tryon Center for the Visual Arts, Artist in Residence, Charlotte
  5. New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford
  6. Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile

1999

  1. STOP ASKING WE EXIST, American Craft Museum, New York
  2. MEN OF THE CLOTH, Loveland Museum of Art, Loveland