Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2008 Dread Scott: Welcome to America, MoCADA, Brooklyn, New York
2007 Life, Liberty & Pursuit, Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State University,
Plymouth, New Hampshire
2006 Notorious A.R.T: Dread Scott & John Sims, Ringling School of Art & Design,
Sarasota, Florida
2004 Resistance is Fertile, Multimedia Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Six Feet Under: Make Nice, Week 7, White Box, New York, New York
2003 Lockdown, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 A Little Sumthin' 2 Think About, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1990 Kinder & Gentler, Wessel O'Connor Ltd., New York, New York
1988 Our Aim is to Destroy Them!, NNWAC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 That Was Then...This Is Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
2007 50,000 Beds, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
2006 Whitney Biennial/The Wrong Gallery: Down By Law, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005 Constructing Realities Part III
, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2004 Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Through the Gates: Brown v. Board of Education, California African American
Museum, LA, California
2003 Recent Acquisitions for an American Museum, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Ameri©an Dre@m, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, New York
2002 Art & Outrage, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
New Additions to the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York, NY
New York, New Work, Now!, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
2001 Capital Art, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Ozymandias, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York
1998 Postcards from Black America, DeBeyerd Center for Contemporary Art, Breda,
Netherlands
1995 Three Installations:Nurit Numan, Michael Richards, & Dread Scott, BMCC, New York, New York
1994 Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio: Traveled, Phoneix Art Museum, AZ
Urban Masculinity, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
1993 New York in Nova Zembla, Nova Zembla, Hertogenbosch, Holland
1990 Illegal America, Exit Art, New York, New York
1989 To Probe and to Push: Artists of Provocation, Wessel O'Connor Ltd., New York
1985 Illinois Photographers '85, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois

Grants, Fellowships and Awards
2008 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: Artists and Communities Grant
2007 Pennies From Heaven Fund/New York Community Trust Grant
2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Perf. Art/Multidisciplinary Work
2001 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture
Creative Capital Foundtaion Grant
2000 Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialog
Special Editions Fellowship, Lower East Side Printshop
1999 Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artists Fellowship
1995 Mid Atlantic\NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship in Photography

Selected Bibliography
books
Brooklyn Museum, Open House: Working in Brooklyn, p 173 illus.
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Old Glory: The American Flag in
Contemporary Art
, p 8-9, 43-44, pg 44 illus.
Dread Scott: Welcome to America, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporian Arts
Dubin, Steven C., Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions, p 102-105,
108-117, 119-123,130, 176-177
Perree, Rob, Postcards from Black America, p 120, 141-142, p 120, 121, 142 illus.
articles
Art In America, "On Nationality: 13 Artists," September 1991, pp. 124-131,145
Blount-Danois, Ericka, “Prisoner of War,” One World, June/July 2002 p. 108-109 illus
Cotter, Holland, "Amid the Ashes, Creativity," New York Times, 2/1/02, p. E35
Hess, Elizabeth, "Capture the Flag", The Village Voice, Vol. 34, No. 14, pp. 25-31
People Magazine, "Will We Beat Swords into Plowshares?," 1/8/90, pp. 30-35
Smith, Roberta, "Stretching Definitions of Outdoor Sculpture," The New York Times, 7/28/00, p E29
The Washginton Post, “A High Water Mark,” 9/12/08 p. C02
Zimmerr, William, "Strong Statements in a Serene Setting," New York Times, 12/3/00

Selected Broadcast Media
2002 “Art & Outrage”, (Trio)
1990 "Oprah Winfrey"

Public Collections
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, New York
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Education
1993 The Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program
1989 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A.



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