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BETHANY COLLINS
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    • The Odyssey
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    • A Pattern or Practice
    • The Birmingham News
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  • Patron Gallery

    Cadence
    March 5 - April 16, 2022

  • The Brooklyn Rail

    Angela Davis: Seize the Time
    By Jillian Russo

  • Artforum

    The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
    By Natilee Harren

  • Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

    America: A Hymnal
    September 11 - November 29, 2021

  • Frist Art Museum

    Evensong
    June 18–September 12, 2021
    The Star Spangled Banner: A Hymnal Performance
    The Art Newspaper

  • The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University

    Angela Davis — Seize the Time
    September 8, 2021 - June 15, 2022

  • The Phillips Collection

    Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
    June 26 - September 10, 2021

  • Speed Art Museum

    Promise, Witness, Remembrance
    April 7 – June 6, 2021
    Art in America
    Hyperallergic
    The New York Times
    PBS
    The Guardian

  • Seattle Art Museum

    Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
    March 5 – May 23, 2021

  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

    The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
    May 22, 2021 – September 6, 2021

  • Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

    My destiny is in your hands
    February 13 - May 9, 2021

  • MCA Chicago

    The Long Dream
    Nov 7, 2020–Jan 17, 2021

  • Smart Museum of Art

    Take Care
    Fall 2020 to Spring 2021

  • The Renaissance Society

    Nine Lives
    Sep 12–Nov 15, 2020

  • The Chicago Reader

    “Anthem” addresses the past and present of voter suppression
    By Katie Powers

  • Los Angeles Review of Books

    An Interview with Bethany Collins
    By Lara Schoorl

  • Oklahoma Contemporary

    A six-day reading of Emily Wilson's The Odyssey A list of readers.

  • Van Every / Smith Galleries at Davidson College

    From Pandemic to Protests
    August 20, 2020— October 04, 2020
    In Conversation

  • The Wall Street Journal

    Collector’s Eye: They Built a World-Class Collection of Black Artists’ Work. Who Are They Acquiring Now?
    By Kelly Crow
    July 15, 2020

  • Simon Lee Gallery

    WORDS
    22 June – 19 July 2020

  • The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

    Artists in Quarantine

  • Peabody Essex Museum

    A word with Bethany Collins
    By Dinah Cardin

  • Artnet

    Artist Jacob Lawrences’s ‘Struggle Series’ Offers a Poignant Reminder of Past Challenges America Has Endured
    By Caroline Goldstein
    March 20, 2020

  • The New York Times

    Lost, and Now Found, Art From the Civil Rights Era
    By Hilarie M. Sheets
    March 10, 2020

  • WBUR

    Jacob Lawrence's 'The American Struggle' Commits The Nameless To Canvas
    By Julia Barber

  • NXTHVN Inaugural Exhibition

    Countermythologies
    February 8 – July 19, 2020

  • Peabody Essex Museum

    Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
    January 18, 2020 to April 26, 2020

  • The Musem of Contemporary Art Chicago

    Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power
    October 26, 2019 – January 12, 2020

  • Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

    Great Force
    October 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020

  • The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

    Resilience: African American Artists As Agents of Change
    September 14-December 8, 2019

  • Rebecca Camacho Presents

    Heritage
    Melissa Cody, Bethany Collins and Deborah Roberts
    October 4 - November 9, 2019

  • Osilas Gallery at Concordia College New York

    Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection
    Curated by Antwaun Sargent and Matt Wycoff
    September 19, 2019 – December 7, 2019

  • The Print Center

    The Politics of Rhetoric
    September 13 — November 16, 2019

  • University of Kentucky Art Museum

    Benediction
    September 14 - December 8, 2019

  • Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

    Chorus
    September 6 – December 29, 2019
    Artist Talk

  • 2019 Chicago Artadia Awardees

    Bethany Collins & Brendan Fernandes

  • Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior

    America: A Hymnal
    April 30, 2019

  • University of North Texas

    Visiting Artist: A Platform Public Lecture
    April 4, 2019

  • Florida State University

    Spring Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series
    March 28, 2019

  • University Galleries of Illinois State University

    A Pattern or Practice
    February 15 - March 31, 2019
    A Conversation: Bethany Collins and Duriel Harris on March 23, 2019

  • Smart Museum of Art

    Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
    January 29 – May 19, 2019

  • The Art Institute of Chicago

    Society of Contemporary Art : Artist Talk
    January 16, 2019

  • MOCAD

    PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES
    February 1 – April 14, 2019

  • WLRN Public Radio

    Listen To 100 Versions Of 'My Country, 'Tis Of Thee' During Miami Art Week 2018
    By Alexander Gonzalez

  • Miami New Times

    Bethany Collins' America: A Hymnal Offers Refuge From Basel and American Madness
    By Celia Almeida
    December 5, 2018

  • artnet News

    6 Emerging Artists to Seek Out During Art Basel Miami Beach This Week

  • Vocalo Radio

    Bethany Collins Previews Her January Showcase at the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Galerie Magazine

    Miami’s Locust Projects Is Helping Emerging Artists Reach a Global Audience
    By Haley Chouinard
    December 4, 2018

  • The Wall Street Journal

    At Miami’s Art Fairs, a Somber Mood Sets In
    By Kelly Crow

  • ARTFORUM

    By Brian T. Leahy

  • THE SEEN

    BETHANY JOY COLLINS: UNDERSONG // PATRON GALLERY
    By Amarie Gipson

  • 2018 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellows Announced

    Efroymson Family Fund Awards $25000 Fellowships to Five Midwest Artists: Bethany Collins, Tirtza Even, José Carlos Teixeira, Alexa Horochowski, and Andres Hernandez.

  • UNTITLED, ART Podcast

    December 5, 2018 from 12pm—12:30pm
    Podcast Archive

  • Locust Projects

    The Litany
    November 17 - January 26, 2019
    Opening: Friday, November 16, 2018 7-9 pm
    Performance: Thursday, December 6th 10am-5pm

  • ArtCenter South Florida

    Parallels and Peripheries
    October 10—December 16, 2018
    Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah

  • PATRON Gallery

    Undersong
    September 15 – October 27, 2018

  • The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington

    Out of Easy Reach
    August 24 - November 14, 2018
    Curated by Allison M. Glenn

  • Richard M. Ross Art Museum

    What We Make
    Ohio Wesleyan University
    August 22 - October 7, 2018
    Curated by Erin Fletcher & Ashley Biser

  • Tarble Arts Center

    In the Eye of the Beholder
    August 18-December 16, 2018

  • 2018 Chicago Artadia Awards Finalists

    Artadia announced five Finalists for the 2018 Chicago Awards: Bethany Collins, Daniel Eisenberg, Brendan Fernandes, Leonard Suryajaya, and Derrick Woods-Murrow.

  • The Center for Book Arts

    Occasional Verse
    April 20 – June 30, 2018
    Artist Talk and Reception: June 8, 2018, 6:30 pm

  • Depaul Art Museum

    Out of Easy Reach
    April 26-August 5, 2018
    Curated by Allison Glenn

  • McColl Center for Art + Innovation

    Artist Talk
    Thursday, April 19, 2018
    7-9 PM

  • The Armory Show 2018

    Pier 94 , Booth P25
    New York City, NY
    PATRON GALLERY will participate in The Armory Show 2018 Presents sector with a two person presentation of Bethany Collins and Alex Chitty.

  • Frieze Magazine

    What Can't Be Read
    By Evan Moffitt
    How Bethany Collins, Steffani Jemison, Adam Pendleton and Kameelah Janan Rasheed are using the tradition of black radical poetry to examine questions of subjectivity and race.

  • The Charlotte Observer

    Wanted: Natural hair, crocheters, a choir, some gossip – for new work at McColl Center
    By Vanessa Infanzon
    January 17, 2018 12:57 PM

  • Gallery 400

    Traduttore, Traditore
    Curated by Karen Greenwalt and Katja Rivera
    November 3–December 16, 2017

  • Artforum

    Critics' Pick: Of a piece
    1708 Gallery
    September 1–October 21

  • IN/SITU - EXPO Chicago

    Chronopolitics
    Curated by Florence Derieux
    September 14-17, 2017
    Panel Video

  • PAFA and Bryn Mawr College

    Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms
    Curated by Laurel McLaughlin & Mechella Yezernitskaya
    September 15, 2017 - January 28, 2018

  • 1708 Gallery

    Of a piece
    September 1 – October 21, 2017
    Artist Talk: September 2, 2017 at 11am

  • The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum

    Another Country
    Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates
    Aug. 19 –Jan. 7, 2018

  • KMAC Museum

    Victory Over the Sun: The Poetics and Politics of Eclipse
    August 19 - December 3, 2017
    WFPL News

  • Hyperallergic

    Artists Embrace the Grayscale
    By Sarah Rose Sharp
    July 21, 2017

  • The Harvey B. Gantt Center

    The Darryl Atwell Collection of African American Art
    July 22, 2017 - January 22, 2018

  • Wexner Center for the Arts

    Gray Matters
    May 20, 2017–July 30, 2017
    Curated by Michael Goodson
    ARTnews
    C&
    Delicious Line
    Columbus Alive
    Behind the Scenes

  • Wexner Center for the Arts

    Covert Histories | Artists Talk
    Featuring Bethany Collins, Xaviera Simmons, and Carmen Winant
    Film/Video Theater
    May 19, 2017 at 5:30 pm

  • University of Chicago

    Lecture
    Logan Center, Performance Penthouse
    May 8, 2017

  • The Creators Project

    Kara Walker, Juliana Huxtable, and More Challenge False White Recordings of Black History
    By Antwaun Sargent
    March 19, 2017

  • Art Basel Hong Kong

    Richard Gray Gallery
    Booth 3E07
    March 21 – 25, 2017

  • PATRON Gallery

    Material Fact
    Jan 28 – Mar 21, 2017
    Opening Reception: January 28th, 2017, 1 - 4PM

  • The Studio Museum in Harlem

    Excerpt: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    Curated by Adeze Wilford
    Jan 26, 2017 - Jul 2, 2017

  • Hyde Park Art Center

    Jackman Goldwasser Residency
    October 2016 - September 2017
    Situated within the community of the Hyde Park Art Center, the Jackman Goldwasser Residency provides a platform for five international, national, and local artists each year to take creative risks within their practice and expand their professional networks while living and working in Chicago.

  • Artforum Critic's Pick

    S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom
    Los Angeles Municipal Gallery
    October 20–January 8

  • The Charlotte Observer

    Think about power in a new way at ‘Seeing|Saying’
    By Barbara Schreiber
    November 16, 2016

  • Davidson College

    In Evidence
    Van Every/Smith Galleries
    Opening: Thursday, Oct. 20, 6-8 p.m.
    Gallery Talk: 6-6:30 p.m.

  • NPR from Illinois State University

    Exploring The Connection Between Writer And Artist
    By Laura Kennedy
    Nov 9, 2016

  • Illinois State University

    Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy
    University Galleries
    Opening: October 25, 5-7 pm
    Artist lecture: October 26 at 12 p.m.

  • Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

    S/Election
    October 16-January 18, 2017

  • Spelman College Museum

    Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life
    September 15 – December 3, 2016
    Curated by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee & Erika Dalya Massaquoi

  • Expo Chicago

    Richard Gray Gallery
    September 22-25, 2016
    Chicago | Navy Pier

  • Art and...Social Justice

    Cincinnati Art Museum
    July 20, 2016 7-9 pm
    Cincinnati Art Museum curator Brian Sholis will be joined by a Mark Godsey from the Ohio Innocence Project and artist Bethany Collins to discuss themes of social justice and discrimination that surround many of the works in 30 Americans.

  • Artsy: 15 New York Group Shows You Need to See This July

    Chicago Invites Chicago at Galerie Lelong
    Paying tribute to the midwestern city as a hotbed for boundary-pushing art, the gallery hosts six Chicago-based artists: McArthur Binion, Samuel Levi Jones, Tony Lewis, John Phillips, Bethany Collins, and Nate Young.

  • Chicago Invites Chicago

    Galerie Lelong
    June 30, 2016 – July 29, 2016
    McArthur Binion, Bethany Collins, Samuel Levi Jones, Tony Lewis, John Phillips & Nate Young

  • Art Papers Interview

    Eight Questions with Bethany Collins
    Interview / Buzz Spector
    June 16, 2016

  • The Drawing Center

    Prix Canson
    June 22-July 1, 2016

  • Prix Canson Names 2016 Finalists

    Given out annually by the Fonds Canson pour l’Art et le Papier, the prize recognizes an artist who makes works on paper and has contributed to his or her respective field.

  • Miriam and Ira D Wallach Art Gallery

    Lines of Flight
    Columbia University, New York, NY
    April 20 - June, 2016

  • Video: ART PAPERS Live

    On Saturday, January 9, the Birmingham Museum of Art partnered once again with Art Papers to present Art Papers Live. During the event, What the Body Can Say, we hosted a conversation between Natasha Trethewey and Bethany Collins, moderated by Ivy Wilson.

  • Birmingham Museum of Art

    lobby projects: Bethany Collins
    April 16, 2016 - August 07, 2016
    Opening reception: April 16, 2016, 6:00-9:00 PM
    Artist talk: 6:00 PM

  • Modern Painters Magazine

    Bethany Collins: An Artist Who Performs Historical Erasures
    By Courtney Willis Blair
    December 19, 2015

  • ART PAPERS Live

    Birmingham Museum of Art
    January 9, 2016 from 11am-12pm
    The BMA and Art Papers will partner once again to present Art Papers Live: What the Body Can Say, a conversation between Natasha Trethewey and Bethany Collins, moderated by Ivy Wilson.

  • Art Papers Magazine

    In Version After Version
    Bethany Collins and Natasha Trethewey
    November/December 2015

  • Artforum Critic's Pick

    RICHARD GRAY GALLERY | CHICAGO
    September 11–October 31, 2015
    By: Lilly Lampe

  • The Creators Project

    Nina Simone’s Young, Gifted and Black Inspires an Exhibition in South Africa
    By Antwaun Sargent
    Oct 29 2015

  • Hyperallergic Review

    All Lives Are Black Lives: Examining Race in South Africa
    Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
    September - 11 November 2015

  • Goodman Gallery

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black
    Curated by Hank Willis Thomas
    Johannesburg, South Africa
    26 September - 11 November 2015

  • Richard Gray Gallery

    Inquiry's End
    September 11- October 31, 2015
    Opening September 11 from 6-8 pm
    Richard Gray Gallery announces Inquiry's End, a solo exhibition of new work by Bethany Collins

  • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum

    Since its founding in 1805, PAFA has collected works by leading American artists, as well as works by distinguished alumni and faculty of its school. Skin, 1965 (2014) was recently acquired for PAFA's permanent collection.

  • Curator Chat

    lobby projects interview
    Birmingham Museum of Art
    By Wassan Al-Khudhairi
    January 3, 2016

  • This is how the myth repeats

    Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
    Curated by Daniel Fuller
    August 29, 2015-February 26, 2016

  • The 2015 Hudgens Prize Announced

    The Hudgens Prize is intended to elevate the importance of the arts in Georgia and offer a transformational opportunity for one Georgia artist. Collins will receive $50,000 and a solo show at Hudgens Center for the Arts.

  • The New York Times Review

    The Stuff of Life, Urgently Altered: Artists in Residence Display Work at Studio Museum in Harlem
    By HOLLAND COTTER
    August 28, 2014

  • The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture

    Venturing Out of the Heart of Darknesss
    Curated by Rehema Barber
    Feb. 7- June 26, 2015
    Creative Loafing Charlotte and Curator's Essay

  • The Artist's Voice

    Bethany Collins in Conversation with Nico Muhly
    The Studio Museum in Harlem Theater
    September 25, 2014 from 7-9 pm

  • Artsy Editorial

    Theaster Gates Spearheads Artist Retreat in Chicago
    September 4, 2014

  • Richard Gray Gallery & Valerie Carberry Gallery

    Curated by Theaster Gates
    August 22 - October 4, 2014

  • The Studio Museum in Harlem

    Material Histories
    Curated by Lauren Haynes
    Jul 17, 2014 - Oct 26, 2014
    Material Histories is the most recent in a series of exhibitions featuring work of Kevin Beasley (b. 1985), Bethany Collins (b. 1984) and Abigail DeVille (b. 1981), three emerging artists who have been awarded eleven-month residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

  • Studio Museum in Harlem

    Artists-in-Residence Open Studios
    Kevin Beasley, Bethany Collins and Abigail DeVille
    Apr 27, 2014 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    AIR Studios (3rd Floor)

  • WABE Interview

    Talking Art, Race and Identity with Bethany Collins
    City Cafe with John Lemley & Kate Sweeney
    September 10, 2013

  • Zuckerman Museum of Art

    See Through Walls
    Malinda Jolley Mortin Gallery and East Galleries
    March 1 - May 17, 2014

  • ArtsATL

    30 Under 30
    By Stephanie Cash
    August 16, 2013

  • Studio Museum in Harlem

    Artist-in-Residence Open Studios
    Kevin Beasley, Bethany Collins and Abigail DeVille
    Nov 17, 2013 from 1- 6 pm
    AIR Studios (3rd Floor)

  • Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2013-2014 Artists-in-Residence

    Sculptor Kevin Beasley, conceptual chalk artist Bethany Collins, and installation artist Abigail DeVille will be the Studio Museum in Harlem’s artists-in-residence for 2013-14. The museum announced the winning trio on Wednesday. It has run an artist-in-residence program since its founding in 1968, and has hosted more than 100 artists over the last 45 years. The Gallerist

  • Burnaway

    Q & A
    May 18, 2015
    by Paul Stephen Benjamin

  • Burnaway Review

    In 200 Words: Bethany Collins at Kibbee Gallery
    September 24, 2013
    by Tom Berlangero

  • Creative Loafing: Best of Atlanta 2013

    Best Emerging Visual Artist 2013

  • ArtsATL Review

    Emerging Artist's Intrigue in Dashboard Co-Op's Boom City
    by Lilly Lampe

  • Temporary Art Review

    A conversation between Sheila Pree Bright and Bethany Collins

  • Drain Magazine

    BLACK Issue
    Drain calls for an exploration of black as a superordinate concept, a natural kind, a material, a force, a virtual reality, a place of rest, a place of beginning, a fear, a celebration.

  • Whitespace Gallery

    From Cosmology to Neurology and Back Again
    curated by Dr. Jerry Cullum
    July 6 – August 4, 2012
    ArtsATL Review

  • Barbara Archer Gallery

    TALENT LOVES COMPANY
    Opening: June 22, 2012 from 7-9 pm
    Exhibition: June 22-August 4, 2012
    ArtsATL Review

  • Burnaway Review

    Artists Question Southern Art at Georgia State’s Welch Gallery
    By Jerry Collum

  • Artnet

    Artist Jacob Lawrences’s ‘Struggle Series’ Offers a Poignant Reminder of Past Challenges America Has Endured
    By: Caroline Goldstein
    March 20, 2020

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