Jack Shainman
513 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
46 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10013
+1 212 645 1701 | info@jackshainman.com
2026
Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art
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National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, USA
New Humans: Memories of the Future
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New Museum, New York, USA
Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art
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The Mattatuck Museum, Connecticut, USA
2025 — 2026
From Now: A Collection in Context
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Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Nigeria Imaginary: Homecoming
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Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), Benin City, Nigeria
Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawings from Gray to Black
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Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA (Extended: MCASD, 2026)
The Time Is Always Now
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Simla: U22 — Adijatu Straße
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Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
2025
Simla: U22 — Adijatu Straße
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Hamburger Bahnhof / Silvana Editoriale Milano
To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates
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Leeds Art Gallery, UK (Extended: MK Gallery, 2026)
A Year in Art: 2050
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Tate Modern, London, UK
Simla: Ilé Oriaku
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Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Simla: Ilé Oriaku (House of Abundance)
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PACIFIC, New York / Kunsthalle Basel
Bold Women
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Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, USA
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection
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Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA
2024 — 2025
The Time Is Always Now
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection
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High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
What It Becomes
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2024
Simla: Ilé Oriaku
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Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Nigeria Imaginary, Biennale Arte 2024
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Nigerian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
When We See Us
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Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
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Harvard Art Museums, USA
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection
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Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
The Time Is Always Now
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National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
A Superlative Palette
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Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC, USA
2023 — 2024
The Struggle of Memory
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PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany
2023
Solo Presentation
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Tokyo Gendai, Yokohama, Japan
Black American Portraits
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Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Sadie (Zadie Smith), 2018
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National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Together
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Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR, USA
Group Exhibition
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Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2022 — 2023
Afro-Atlantic Histories
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LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
When We See Us
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Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
Portrait of a Nation
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National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
New Work: Simla
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SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
2022
Simla: Satellite
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RITE Editions / SFMoMA
16th Biennale de Lyon
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Lyon, France
Shapeshifting: Transformations on Paper
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Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, USA
Fire Figure Fantasy
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ICA Miami, FL, USA
The Condition of Being Addressable
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ICA Los Angeles, CA, USA
Living Histories
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Frick Madison, New York, USA
Afro-Atlantic Histories
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Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, DC, USA
Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art
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MoAD, San Francisco, CA, USA
Uncanny Interiors
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Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, USA
2021 — 2022
Simla: A Countervailing Theory
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Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Afro-Atlantic Histories
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, USA
Black American Portraits
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LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Simla: A Countervailing Theory
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Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Unexpected Surfaces
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
Plural Possibilities & The Female Body
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Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
PORTALS
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Hellenic Parliament + ΝΕΟΝ, Athens, Greece
The UmuEze Amara Clan & The House of Obafemi
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Rizzoli Electa
You Are Your Best Thing
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Penguin Random House
Tell My Horse (Zora Neale Hurston)
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Amistad
Tell Me A Story, I Don't Care if It's True
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PACIFIC
2020 — 2021
Simla: A Countervailing Theory
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The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, UK
Defying the Shadow
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RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA
i'm yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times
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ICA border, MA, USA
Breakfast Under the Tree
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Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK
2020
A Countervailing Theory
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Barbican Centre
Tell Me A Story, I Don't Care If It's True
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Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Jean Francois Prat Prize Exhibition
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Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris, France
Nine Lives
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The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, USA
Duro Oluwo: Seeing Chicago
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MCA Chicago, IL, USA
2019 — 2020
Nicolas Party: Pastel
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The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
EMBODY
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Mandeville Gallery, Union College, NY, USA
I Am...: Contemporary Women Artists of Africa
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National Museum of African Art, DC, USA
2019
Prospect
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MCASD, San Diego, CA, USA
Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2019
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58th Biennale Arte, Venice, Italy
Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary
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CAAM, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Drawn Together Again
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The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Future Generation Art Prize
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PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
Show Me as I Want to Be Seen
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Damn! The Defiant
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Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, USA
Art on Paper 2019
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Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
Presence: Meditations on the Spelman College Collection
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Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA
Inducted
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National Academy of Design
2018 — 2019
A Matter of Fact
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MoAD SF
Pulse
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Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, USA
For Opacity: Elijah Burgher, Simla, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn
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The Drawing Center, NY, USA
In This Imperfect Present Moment
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Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA
2018
For Opacity
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The Drawing Center, New York
Simla: When Legends Die
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Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Simla: The Firmament
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Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, USA
Simla: Testing the Name
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SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
Histórias Afro-Atlânticas
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MASP, São Paulo, Brazil
Simla: Scenes of Exchange
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12th Manifesta Biennial, Palermo, Italy
Orientation: The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial
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Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
The Racial Imaginary Institute: On Whiteness
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The Kitchen, New York, USA
The Treatment
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Anteism, Montréal
Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks
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MassArt, Boston, MA, USA
2017 — 2018
Simla: To Wander Determined
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2017
Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts
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National Museum of African Art, DC, USA
Ethics of Depiction
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Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, USA
Dialogues in Drawing
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Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
A Painting Today
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Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Vanishing Points
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James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Political Discourse
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UMass Boston, MA, USA
2016 — 2017
A Matter of Fact: Simla
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MoAD, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016
Africa Forecast
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Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Material Issue
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Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY, USA
Stark Imagery: The Male Nude in Art
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William Benton Museum of Art, CT, USA
Making Her Mark
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Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, USA
Black: Color, Material, Concept
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Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA
2015 — 2016
Simla: Of Context and Without
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Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art
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Seattle Art Museum / Fowler Museum / Brooklyn Museum
2015
Simla: Untold Stories
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Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA
Interventions in Printmaking
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Allentown Art Museum, PA, USA
SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence
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National Academy Museum, New York, USA
Status Quo
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The School, Kinderhook, NY, USA
Breath/Breadth
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Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA, USA
Young, Gifted, and Black
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Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014
Simla: Like the Sea
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Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Black Eye
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Concept NV, New York, USA
I See You
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Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC, USA
southXeast
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Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Mise En Scène
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The School, Kinderhook, NY, USA
The Mosaic Project
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Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, PA, USA
2013 — 2014
Simla: The Constant Wrestler
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iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN, USA
The Six Draughtsmen
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MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2013
Simla: My Country Has No Name
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Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Black Hair: Black Identity
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Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, USA
Singular Masses
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Memphis College of Art, TN, USA
The Moment for Ink
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Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950
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Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT, USA
Seven Sisters
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Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2012 — 2013
Fore
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Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
The Progress of Love
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Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA
2012
Afro: Black Identity in America and Brazil
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Tamarind Institute, NM, USA
Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line
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UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY, USA
Simla: Alphabet
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MFA Thesis, 2nd edition
MFA in Painting + Drawing
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California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011
Simla: (MAPS)
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Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
The Black Portrait
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Rush Gallery, New York, USA
Frontrunners
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SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Geoffrey Chadsey, Simla and Artifacts from Nagaland
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Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
Ouroboros
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California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Selections on View
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Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, USA
2008
BA in Studio Art + Communications
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UAHuntsville, Alabama, USA
A Colonized Mind
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University Center, UAHuntsville, AL, USA
2007
Yale University / Norfolk Summer Art Fellowship Student Exhibition
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Norfolk, CT, USA