Bryn Mawr College
Tempest
March 16 - May, 20232022 Joan Mitchell Fellows
The Smart Museum of Art
Monochrome Multitudes
September 22, 2022 – January 8, 2023Print Center New York
Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print
October 8 2022–January 21 2023
Curated by Elleree ErdosPatron Gallery
Cadence
March 5 - April 16, 2022The Brooklyn Rail
Angela Davis: Seize the Time
By Jillian RussoArtforum
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
By Natilee HarrenCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art
America: A Hymnal
September 11 - November 29, 2021Frist Art Museum
Evensong
June 18–September 12, 2021
The Star Spangled Banner: A Hymnal Performance
The Art NewspaperThe Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
Angela Davis — Seize the Time
September 8, 2021 - June 15, 2022The Phillips Collection
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
June 26 - September 10, 2021Speed Art Museum
Promise, Witness, Remembrance
April 7 – June 6, 2021
Art in America
Hyperallergic
The New York Times
PBS
The GuardianSeattle Art Museum
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
March 5 – May 23, 2021Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
May 22, 2021 – September 6, 2021Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
My destiny is in your hands
February 13 - May 9, 2021MCA Chicago
The Long Dream
Nov 7, 2020–Jan 17, 2021Smart Museum of Art
Take Care
Fall 2020 to Spring 2021The Renaissance Society
Nine Lives
Sep 12–Nov 15, 2020Oklahoma 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 ConversationThe 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, 2020Simon Lee Gallery
WORDS
22 June – 19 July 2020The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Artists in Quarantine
Peabody Essex Museum
A word with Bethany Collins
By Dinah CardinThe New York Times
Lost, and Now Found, Art From the Civil Rights Era
By Hilarie M. Sheets
March 10, 2020NXTHVN Inaugural Exhibition
Countermythologies
February 8 – July 19, 2020Peabody Essex Museum
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
January 18, 2020 to April 26, 2020The Musem of Contemporary Art Chicago
Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power
October 26, 2019 – January 12, 2020Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU
Great Force
October 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Resilience: African American Artists As Agents of Change
September 14-December 8, 2019The Print Center
The Politics of Rhetoric
September 13 — November 16, 2019University of Kentucky Art Museum
Benediction
September 14 - December 8, 2019Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Chorus
September 6 – December 29, 2019
Artist TalkRobert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior
America: A Hymnal
April 30, 2019University Galleries of Illinois State University
A Pattern or Practice
February 15 - March 31, 2019
A Conversation: Bethany Collins and Duriel Harris on March 23, 2019Smart Museum of Art
Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
January 29 – May 19, 2019The Art Institute of Chicago
Society of Contemporary Art : Artist Talk
January 16, 2019WLRN Public Radio
Listen To 100 Versions Of 'My Country, 'Tis Of Thee' During Miami Art Week 2018
By Alexander GonzalezMiami New Times
Bethany Collins' America: A Hymnal Offers Refuge From Basel and American Madness
By Celia Almeida
December 5, 2018artnet News
6 Emerging Artists to Seek Out During Art Basel Miami Beach This Week
Galerie Magazine
Miami’s Locust Projects Is Helping Emerging Artists Reach a Global Audience
By Haley Chouinard
December 4, 2018The Wall Street Journal
At Miami’s Art Fairs, a Somber Mood Sets In
By Kelly CrowARTFORUM
By Brian T. Leahy
THE SEEN
BETHANY JOY COLLINS: UNDERSONG // PATRON GALLERY
By Amarie Gipson2018 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.
Locust Projects
The Litany
November 17 - January 26, 2019
Opening: Friday, November 16, 2018 7-9 pm
Performance: Thursday, December 6th 10am-5pmPATRON Gallery
Undersong
September 15 – October 27, 2018Richard M. Ross Art Museum
What We Make
Ohio Wesleyan University
August 22 - October 7, 2018
Curated by Erin Fletcher & Ashley BiserDepaul Art Museum
Out of Easy Reach
April 26-August 5, 2018
Curated by Allison GlennFrieze 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.Artforum
Critics' Pick: Of a piece
1708 Gallery
September 1–October 211708 Gallery
Of a piece
September 1 – October 21, 2017
Artist Talk: September 2, 2017 at 11amThe Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
Another Country
Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates
Aug. 19 –Jan. 7, 2018KMAC Museum
Victory Over the Sun: The Poetics and Politics of Eclipse
August 19 - December 3, 2017
WFPL NewsHyperallergic
Artists Embrace the Grayscale
By Sarah Rose Sharp
July 21, 2017The Harvey B. Gantt Center
The Darryl Atwell Collection of African American Art
July 22, 2017 - January 22, 2018Wexner Center for the Arts
Gray Matters
May 20, 2017–July 30, 2017
Curated by Michael Goodson
ARTnews
C&
Delicious Line
Columbus Alive
Behind the ScenesThe Creators Project
Kara Walker, Juliana Huxtable, and More Challenge False White Recordings of Black History
By Antwaun Sargent
March 19, 2017PATRON Gallery
Material Fact
Jan 28 – Mar 21, 2017
Opening Reception: January 28th, 2017, 1 - 4PMHyde 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 8Davidson College Van Every/Smith Galleries
Seeing | Saying: Images and Words
October 20, 2016— December 09, 2016Illinois 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, 2017Spelman College Museum
Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life
September 15 – December 3, 2016Galerie Lelong
Chicago Invites Chicago
June 30, 2016 – July 29, 2016The Drawing Center
Prix Canson
June 22-July 1, 2016Miriam and Ira D Wallach Art Gallery
Lines of Flight
Columbia University, New York, NY
April 20 - June, 2016Video: 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 PMArtforum Critic's Pick
RICHARD GRAY GALLERY | CHICAGO
September 11–October 31, 2015
By: Lilly LampeThe Creators Project
Nina Simone’s Young, Gifted and Black Inspires an Exhibition in South Africa
By Antwaun Sargent
Oct 29 2015Goodman Gallery
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Curated by Hank Willis Thomas
Johannesburg, South Africa
26 September - 11 November 2015Richard Gray Gallery
Inquiry's End
September 11- October 31, 2015This is how the myth repeats
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Curated by Daniel Fuller
August 29, 2015-February 26, 2016The Hudgens Prize
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, 2014The 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 EssayRichard Gray Gallery & Valerie Carberry Gallery
Curated by Theaster Gates
August 22 - October 4, 2014The Studio Museum in Harlem
Material Histories
Curated by Lauren Haynes
Jul 17, 2014 - Oct 26, 2014Temporary 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.Burnaway Review
Artists Question Southern Art at Georgia State’s Welch Gallery
By Jerry Collum