CAMILLE BILLOPS b. 1933 , CA d. 2019 New York, NY

Education 1973 MFA, City College of New York 1960 BA, 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 and the 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, 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, 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 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 Holyoke, MA 1971 Friendship House, Moscow, USSR

Awards and Grants 1994 James VanDerZee Award, Brandywine Graphic Workshop 1963 Fellowship from Huntington Hardford Foundation 1975 MacDowell Colony Fellowship 1975-76 International Women's Year Award 1992 Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize for documentaries for Finding Christa Lectures and Artist Talks 1992 Women in the Directors’ Chair, Chicago Art Institute Invited Artist Lecture, Vassar College 1990 Lecture Series 1990-1991, University of Maryland, College Park 1988 Celebration of Black Cinema, Boston Film Collective “Black British Filmmakers,” New York 1938-88 Five Black Women Artist, moderator-Mary Schmidt Campbell, Atlanta College of Art 1987 The Education of the Black Artist, Jamaica, NY First World Festival, Asilah, Morocco NEA Visiting Artist program, Washington State University, at Pulman and the University of Idaho 1986 A Non-violent Film Festival, MLK Center, Atlanta Viewpoints/Women Make Movies, Hunter College, NY 1983 USIA Lecture grant: Artists, New York-Taiwan 1981 Landmark Gallery, NY, Artists Talk on Art SOHO Gallery, Culture and Art, Ideas. Women’s Caucus for Art 1980 Martin Luther King High School, Women against Porn 1978 C.E.T.A. Panelist 1978 C.E.T.A. Panelist SOHO 20 Gallery, Third World Women and the Art World 1976 Studio Museum in Harlem, The Fine Art of Collecting 1975 Brooklyn Museum, Changing the Economics of the Art World through Women’s Publications Polytechnic State University, Pomona, CA, N.C.A. 1974 Biltmore Hotel, NY, the Need for Third World Art Therapists, Afro-American Art New York Cultural Center, Black Artists of America, Known and Unknown 1972 The Art Students League, NY, Black Artist Series

Selected Bibliography Boston Globe, Patricia Smith. "Mother-and-child reunion," June, 1992 The Star Ledger, Jerry Krupnick. “P.O.V. presents filmmaker’s own story of daughter's search for birth mother," June 1992 Los Angeles Times, Jenifer Warren. "Lost and Found," TV Times, June 1992 East Bay Guardian, Donald 1aylor. "A Woman's Choice a Woman's Voice," February, 1992 Off Hollywood, Jeanne Francavilla. "New Faces-Family Affair," Winter 1992 New City, John Petrakis. "Women in the Director's Chair 'Finding Christa', March 1992 Black Film Review, Valerie Smith. "Finding Christa," Vol. 7, # 2, 1992 Emerge Magazine, Susan McHenry. "A Singular Family Reunion," June 1992 Bomb, Ameena Meer. "Profiles and Positions, Camille Billops," Sumner 1992 Black American Literature Forum, Barbara Lekatsas. "Encounters: The Film Odyssey of Camille Billops," Summer, 1991, vol 25, # 2, 1991 Nashville Banner. "Billops Sees Hidden Face of Black Faces, by Beth Monin. October 30, 1990 "Prints of the City & World in Queens", Joan Shepard, Daily News, September 1989 Staten Island Advance, Mon, January 1989 "Examining the Role of the Blues", New York Times, September 1989 Ararat, "De Maestro," by James Hatch, Summer 1988 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Black Females Defy Odds and Succeed," by Marcia Robertson, July 1988 Village Voice, "Colored" by Arlene Raven, May 1988 , "Sculptress Camille BilIops' film "OLDER WOMEN AND LOVE," by Ali Stant January 1988 Issue, A Journal for Artists, Camille Billops, by George Wolfe. Spring 1986 Newsday, "Unaffiliated Artist Show at C.W.Post," by Karlin Lipson, June 1986 Indiana Statesman (Indiana State University. Photos of Camille Billops on the cover page) Vol. 91 issue 101, April 1985 Review D'Histoire Des Arts, Publication de la Sorbonne, par Myriam Chaplain-Riou, "Regards Sur L'Art Afro- American Recherche d'une Identité Culturelle," 1985 Black American Literature Forum, Spring 1985 Pine Bluff Commercial, Arts Center Features Drawing Exhibition, 1984 Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, Art Notes, 1984 Pine Bluff News, "Billops Art Works Displayed Locally." October 1984 "E Paperone dissee: fatti piu” by Silvana Zanove, 1984 Women as Mythmakers - Poetry and Visual Arts, Lauter, Estella. Indiana Press, 1984 The City Sun by Hilton Als. "Black Art : The Quiet Resistance," October 1984, page 15 Amsterdam News, Mitchel, Lionel. "East Village Kenkeleba Gallery Opens" November 1983 The Star "Artists Association Enlists U.S. Artist" October 1983, Karachi, Pakistan China Post, "Artist Camille Billops in to Exhibit,” June 1983, Taiwan China Post, "Drawings by U.S. black Artist on Exhibit at A. I .T." June 1983, Taiwan China Post, "Camille Billops Art Show Scheduled for U.S. Culture Center" May 1983, Taiwan China Post, "American Artist to Hold Exhibit in Kaohsiung, Taipei" May 1983, Taiwan Ararat Magazine. Hatch, James. "The Shadow of Parajonov." Winter, 1982 Doing Art Together, Storfer, Murial. "Cut Paper," Simon and Schuster, 1982 “Le Theatre Noir Aux Etats Unis,” Fabre, Genevieve "Owen's Song." Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1982 The Village Voice. Lippard, Lucy. "Color Scheming," April 1981 Amsterdam News, 'Tapley, Mel. "About the Arts." April 1981 The Star Ledger, "Exhibit Features Art by Rutgers Professors,” December, 1981 Ultimo, "Tote Aus Harlem." July 1980 Hamburg Germany Village Voice. "Women", Centerfold. May 1980 Artforum. Whitfield, Tony. "Vigilance" September 1980 American Library Association Booklist, "James Van Der Zee and Others," 1979 II Mattino, Naples Daily, Pallottelli, Duilio, 1979 Amsterdam News, 1apley, Mel. "Book of the Dead," May 1979 The American Book Review. Weixlmann, Joe. Summer 1979 PSA Journal, Morton, John. September 1979 Heresies Magazine, "Power Exchange: Camille Billops," 1979 Black Art Quarterly, "My Life in Art." Summer 1979 Alternative Center News, "Interview with Camille," 1979 SOHO Weekly News. Lubell, Ellen "Perception and Deception." October 1978 Art African American, Lewis, SameIla, "Crafts," 1978 Harcourt, Brace, 1978 Hamburger Abendblatt, "Mit Ironie Gegen Rassenprobleme." June 1976. Hamburg Germany Black Artists on Art, (revised), Lewis, Samell, 1976 Yale Theatre, Hatch, James. "Africanisms in AfroAmerican Theatre," Fall 1976 The Afro-American, Plotsk, Harry. "'The Black Artists." Bellwether Press, 1976 Black Times, Palo Alto California, Fiddler, Hannah, 1976 "The Art of Un-Confining." April 1975 Rutgers Observer "Focus on Faculty: Camille Billops" 1975 Encore Magazine, June 1975 Crafts Horizons, April 1974 N.Y. Age News. "Eye on Art and Entertainment." September 1974 Amsterdam News "About the Arts." Jan 1974 Amsterdam News "Chairful Exhibit." February 1974 , "Non-union Site Vandalized by Construction Workers." November 1973 Ms. Magazine, Wallace, Michele. "Daring to Do the Unpopular." September 1973 The New Times, Goodman, Jr., George. "'Tombs Arts Show Life and Fantasy." February 1973 The Village Voice. Hatch, James. "Dillettantes Need Not Apply." June 14, 1973 Amsterdam News, Tapley, Mel."Blacks:USA," October 1972 The Onlooker-Bombay India, "People." Dec. 1972 Amsterdam News, Watley, Jo Ann. "Art Lives-in the Tombs,” January 1972 Essence Magazine "A Sculptured Realty." July 1972 Newsweek, "Greenwich Village Help!" August, 1971 The Wall Street Journal, Newman, Barry. "Handicraft Hazards: Pottery Made at Home,” November 1971 Rassengna Magazine, "Lofts in New York: Camille Billops." 1970 The Times of Ceylon, "A Visitor to Ceylon, Camille Billops, Universal Citizen." 1968 The Straits Times, "U.S. Sitting on a Time Bomb," June 1968 Womens' Wear Daily, "Today's Primitives," May 1966 The New York limes, Cook, Joan. "'Truth Triumps on a Harlem Stage," May 1966 Arab Observer, "Art - Billops and Moody." May 1965 The Egyptian Gazette, "People and Events Around Cairo," May 1965 The Egyptain Gazette, "Cairo Poets' New Book,” May 1965 Image Magazine "Je Considère L'Art Pharonanique Corrme Le Corrmet de la Statuaire" November 1964 Akher Saa Magazine, "Artist Camille Billops," 1964 Cairo Women's Wear Daily, "California, Early Fall." April 1964

Selected Public Collections The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AK Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA The Burgess Group Fine Arts Collection, New York, NY Donnell Media Center, New York Public Library, NY The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Jersey City Museum, NJ K Caraccio Collection, New York, NY Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC Paul Jones Museum, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Petrucci Family Collection, Union Township, NJ Photographers Gallery, London, UK Robert Blackburn Print Collection, New York, NY Das Schubladenmuseum, Bern, Switzerland Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT