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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Harper’s Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2019 Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2018 Cosmic Images 2000, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2016 Now & Then, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
2005 Rhythms: Micro to Macro, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Parallel, Heritage Museum, Detroit, MI
2002 Nu Kind of Science, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI & Chicago, IL
2001 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1999 J. Rainey Gallery, Detroit, MI
1994 Concordia College, Ann Arbor, MI
         Retrospective Show, 1964-1994, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
1992 June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Pewabic Pottery (Ceramic Paintings), Detroit MI
1984 Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1983 Jazzonia Gallery, Detroit, MI
1981 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1979 Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
1977 Cass Technical High School Most Distinguished Graduates, Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI

Latest Group Exhibitions
2021 Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
         Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
         California African American Museum, Ennunciated Life, Los Angeles, CA
         Detroit Institute of Arts, Experience and Expression, Detroit, MI
2019 Detroit Collects, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
         Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
         Working Paper, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Call & Response, Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
         Landlord Colors, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
         Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
         Say It Loud, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
2018 Rhythm, Repetition, and Vocab, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
         For the Culture, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA
         McArthur Binion Curates in Detroit, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2017 Consider Detroit, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
         Art of the Rebellion, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2011 Eyes A-Wide, Compuware World Headquarters, Detroit, MI
         Looking Ahead, Las Cruces Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2009 Matt Lamb Museum of Art, Chicago, IL,
         Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta, GA
         Michigan Masters Invitational, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
2008 In Context, The Language of Abstraction Continues, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
         Reflections of the Spirit, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
         Detroit: Works on Paper, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
         4 Kamitic Visonariez, Kwame Nkruma, University of Science, College of Art & Technology, Kumasa, Ghana
2003 Works from the Collection of George N’Namdi, Diggs Gallery, Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, NC
         Then and Now: A Selection of 19th and 20th Century Art by African- American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2001 Eighty Years of African American Art – A Survey, Dayton Cultural Center, Dayton, OH
         Take 5 Group Exhibition, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL
         A Cultural Heritage: Selected works of African American Art from the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Collections
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Koichiro Iwaski, Kagoshima Japan
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Mott-Warsh, Flint, MI
Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, MI
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
James Lewis Museum, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
The T.L.C. Beatrice Food International, New York, NY
Barfield Companies. Livonia, MI
Toyota City Hall, Toyota, Japan
Martin Luther King Center, Detroit, MI
Your Heritage House, Detroit, MI
Detroit Council of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Kohler Corporation, Kohler, WI
Hooven-Dayton Corporation, Dayton, OH
Washington State University, Seattle, WA

Commissions
2015 ART and SCIENCE, Taubman Institute, University of Michigan
2012 Visions of Our 44th President, Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
2004 Delray a New Horizon, Delray United Action Council, Detroit, MI
2003 “Can It” Pretty City Project, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., University Cultural Center Association & G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI
2001 Spirit in the Door, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit, MI
1987 University Cultural Center, Detroit Festival of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Voyage, Detroit People Mover, Art in the Stations, Michigan-Cass Station, Detroit, MI
Ceramic Paintings, Turner Construction Company, Detroit, MI
1983 Mural, Northern High School, Detroit, MI
1981 Mural, Martin Luther King Center, Holtzman & Silverman, Detroit, MI
1979 Roadshow: Billboard Art, First Federal Savings and Loan, Detroit, MI
1975 Lions International, Toyota City Hall, Toyota, Japan

Artist in Residence
2003 Visual Exchange & Dialog: Mexico City, Mexico
2002 Cultural Exchange & Dialog, Havana, Cuba
2001 Northern High School, Detroit, MI
City of Detroit 300th Anniversary Mural Workshop
1986 Artist in Industry, Kohler Corporation, Kohler, WI
1984 Northern High School, Detroit, MI
1982 Oakland Community College, Auburn Hills, MI
1975 Your Heritage House, Detroit, MI
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
1974 Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
1973 Saginaw Valley College, Saginaw, MI
1971 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Awards/Honors/Grants
2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, FESTAC (Festival of African Art and Culture), Detroit City Council
45th Bal African Honorary, Detroit Institute of Arts
Alain Locke Award, Friends of African & African-American Art
1985 Michigan Council for the Arts Grant
1978 Cass Technical High School, Distinguished Graduate