CAMILLE BILLOPS B. 1933 Los Angeles, CA D. 2019 New York, NY
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CAMILLE BILLOPS b. 1933 Los Angeles, CA d. 2019 New York, NY Education 1973 MFA, City College of New York 1960 BA, California State College Solo Exhibitions 2016 Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch, Atlanta, GA 2012 Camille Billops: Prints & Posters, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Films by Camille Billops, Hammer Museum at the University of California at Los Angeles 1997 Inside the Minstrel Mask, Noel Fine Art Acquisitions, Charlotte, North Carolina 1993 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1990 Clark College, Atlanta University 1986 Calkins Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempsted, N.Y. Gallery at Quaker Corner, Plainfield, NJ 1984 Southeast Arkansas Arts & Science Center, Pine, Bluff 1993 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1990 Clark College, Atlanta University 1986 Calkins Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. Gallery at Quaker Corner, Plainfield, NJ 1984 Southeast Arkansas Arts & Science Center, Pine, Bluff 1983 Pescadores Hsien Library, Making, Taiwan Chau Yea Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan American Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan American Center, Karachi, Pakistan Otto Rene Castillo Center, New York 1981 The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY 1980 Harlem Book of the Dead Performance Piece, Buchhandlung Welt, Hamburg, West Germany 1977 Faculty Exhibition, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 1976 Foto-Falle Gallery, Hamburg, West Germany 1974 Winston Salem North Carolina State University 1973 Ornette Coleman’s Artist House, SOHO, New York 1965 Galerie Akhenaton, Cairo, Egypt Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 Explorations of Self: Black Portraiture from the Cochran Collection, Hanes Gallery at the Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 2020 The Female Gaze, The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AK [Un]Common Collections: Selections from Fifteen Collectors, Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland 2019 Stony the Road We Trod, Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia Era of Activism, The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AK Notes and Tones: Jazz Influences on the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Hudson County Community College, NJ 2018 By and About Women: The Collection of Dr. Dianne Whitfield-Locke and Dr. Carnell Locke, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, Carlotte, NC Small But Might: Works From The ASC Collection, The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AK 2017 We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Brooklyn Museum NY, travelled to the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffallo, NY; and the Institutde of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA RESILIENCE, Art from the permament collection by African American Women, The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AK 2016 Here, Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AK Dark Humor: African American Art from the University of Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, DE 2012 Beyond Bearden: Creative Responses, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, Carlotte, NC Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection, Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland 2010 Twentieth Century Masters from the Cochran Collection, I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium, Orangeburg, SC 2009 African American Art Life, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY Masters for the First Family, Parish Gallery, Washington DC Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art, Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland 2008 Women Only! In Their Studios, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL 2003 Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. 2001 Unwrapped: Erotic Art by Black Women, Satta Gallery, Brooklyn 1996 Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1994 Bad Girls, New Museum, New York, NY 1992 City View, Stony Brook SUNY MacIntosh Gallery, 10th Anniversary Exhibition 1990 Camille Billops, Zimmerman/Saturn Gallery, Nashville (two person exhibition) Ten African American Women Artists, Holman Art Gallery, Trenton State College 1989-90 The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, WPA, Washington, D.C. Lines of Vision: Drawing by Contemporary Women Artists, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post, L.I.U., New York 1989 American Resources: Selected Works of African American Artists, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Ne w York Bridges & Boundaries, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York 1938-88 Five Black Women Artists, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA Autobiography: In Her Own Image, Intar Gallery, New York Afro-American ’99: The Dream Deferred?, St. Laurence University, Canton, NY Premiere Triennale Mondiale D’Estampes Petit Forma, Chammalières-Auvergne-France. The Work of Five Black Women Artists: Camille Billops, Margo Humphrey, Lois Mailou Jones, Howardena Pindell, and Faith Ringgold, the Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA Perspectives: Camille Billops and Kabuya Pamela Bowens, Frances Wolfson art Gallery, Miami- Dade Community Gallery 1987 Second Annual Invitational Exhibition, Benton Gallery, South Hampton, NY Forward View, The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ Images of Black America, Personal and Political Statements, Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Black Printmakers, McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA The Afro-American Artist in the Age of Cultural Pluralism, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ The Education of the Black Artist 1900-1980, Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, Queens, NY 1986 Prints by Women, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA Unaffiliated Artists IV, Hillwood Art Gallery, L.I.U., C.W. Post Campus, Greenville, NY Democracy at Work. P.S. 39 Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY Foundations of Freedom – Law Day Reception, Cafe Americana, NY 1985 Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans 1925-1985, Museum Portsmouth Center for the Fine Arts, Portsmouth, VA Howard University, Washington, DC The Doll Show: Artists Dolls and Figurines, Hillwood Art Gallery, L.I.U., C. W. Post Campus, Greendale, NY Since the Harlem Renaissance, Bucknell University, travelled to the University of Maryland at College Park, Art Gallery and the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Dimensions in Dissent, Kenkeleba House Gallery, NY Paper Works: On and Off the Page, Henry Street Settlement, NY A Celebration of Black Women Artists at Mid-Career, Cinque Gallery and the First Women’s Bank, NY Tradition and Conflict, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY Images of Jazz, Wilson Arts Center, Rochester, NY 1984 Art in Print. Schomburg Center, NY Tribute to Robert Blackburn, Art Center, Mount Vernon Sculpture from Rutgers, Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ Sticks and Stones, Kenkeleba Gallery, NY Focus on Black Artists, Rockland Center, West Nyack Artists against Apartheid, Bronx Museum NY Reconstruction Project, Artists Space, NY 1983 Drawings ’83, Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Jus’Jazz, Kenkeleba Gallery, NY 1982 Art Across the Park, Central Park, New York Black Currant, J.A.M. Gallery, NY 1981 Protests on Paper, SOHO 20 Gallery, NY Wild Art Show, MoMA PS1, NY Forever Free, An Exhibition of Black Women Artists, Center for Visual arts, Illinois State University, Joslyn Art Mu-seum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Gibbes Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland, Indi-anapolis Museum of Art. Five Elements, Kenkeleba House, NY Celebrations III, The New Museum, NY New Artists Show, SOHO 20 Gallery, NY Action Against Racism, Westbeth Gallery, NY Sculpture ’81, Lever House, NY Events: Artists Invite Artists, The New Museum, NY 1980 Still Life Today, Goddard Riverside Center, NY Fragments of Myself, Douglass College, New Brunswick Black American & Third World Art, Yolisa House, NY Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC Dialects: The Artist, Franklyn Furnace, NY 1979 Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN Countee Cullen Library, NY Black Faculty, Rutgers University, Livingston, NJ Travelling Exhibition, Schubladen Museum, Bern, Switzerland. Travelled to the Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Schubladen Museum, Zurich; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art; The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; and the Israel Museum Jerusalem. 1978 Dreyfuss Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI Schenectady Museum. Schenectady, NY Art Salon, New York City Islip Town Art Gallery, Islip, NY 1977 Clay ’77 , Art of the Potter, Goddard Riverside Center Photographers Lens, Gallery, Community Church 1976 Contemporary Photography: USA, Phillip Randolph Institution Artistas Graficos Afro-Americanos, El Museo de Arte Moderno, La Tertulia, Cali, Columbia Lehman College – Printmaking Workshop, NY Forty Years of Collage, Beucher & Harpsocord, NY St. Peter’s College and Art Gallery, Jersey City, NJ Jubilee, Boston Museum of Art, Boston, MA 1975 Black Enterprise Magazine Art Exhibition, NY Color Light & Images, Women Inter-Art Center, NY 1974 Rutgers University Studio Art Faculty, New Brunswick Chile Emergency Exhibition, NY 1973 Black: USA, New York Cultural Center 1972 Studio Museum in Harlem, NY Contemporary Black Women Artists, Mount