Selected Exhibitions
Directorial oversight
(incomplete list)
IDENTIFY Performance Series: 2013 – present: Jeffrey Gibson, Lee Mingwei, Sandy Huckleberry; Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz; Sheldon Scott; María Magdalena Campos-Pons; J.J. McCracken; James Luna; Martha McDonald; Wilmer Wilson.
Curated by D. Moss & program manager K. Black
One Life Series: Martin Luther King; Jr.; Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee; Dolores Huerta; Babe Ruth; Sylvia Plath; One Year: 1968; Marian Anderson
Every Eye is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States
Fall 2020 (collection book / forward). Curated by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence
Spring 2019 (catalogue / forward). Curated by Kate Clarke Lemay
Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today
Fall 2019 (book / forward). Curated by Brandon Brame Fortune.
Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now.
Spring 2018 (catalogue / forward). Curated by A. Naeem.
Unseen. Our History in a New Light: Ken Gonzales-Day & Titus Kaphar.
Spring 2018. Curated by T. Caragol & A. Naeem.
The Sweat of their Face: Portraying American Workers.
Fall 2017 (catalogue / forward). Curated by D. Moss & D. Ward
The Face of Battle: Americans at War 911 to Now:
Spring 2017. Curated by T. Caragol, D. Moss, D. Ward.
Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait:
Fall 2017. Curated by A. Naeem
Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs, 1859-1872
Fall 2015. Curated by D. Ward
Elaine de Kooning: Portraits
Spring 2016 (catalogue / forward). Curated by B.Brame Fortune
Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction
Summer 2014 (catalogue / forward). Curated by B.Brame Fortune, W. Wick Reaves, D. Ward.
Yousuf Karsh: American Portraits
2014 (two consecutive exhibitions marking a gift of 107 portraits).
Curated by A. Shumard
Out of Many, One.
6-acre landscape portrait from Cuban American urban artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada temporarily placed on the National Mall October 1 through October 31, 2014.
American Cool
Spring 2014 (catalogue / forward). Curated by Joel Dinerstein & Frank Goodyear III
Curator
Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland 1880-1914
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, 2009 – 2011. Toured to four venues. (co-curator)
In Full View: American Painting and Sculpture 1720-2005
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Spring 2005
The Chemistry of Color: The Harold A. and Ann R. Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Spring 2005. Toured to six venues. (catalogue author)
Light, Line and Color: American Works on Paper 1765-2005
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Summer 2005
Radicals and Conservatives: Abstraction 1945 to the Present
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Spring 2004
Layers of Meaning: Collage and Abstraction in the late 20th Century
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Spring 2003
Touring exhibition curatorial liaison
Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment
Organizing institution: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Summer/Fall 2006.
Edwin W. Dickinson: Dreams and Realities
Organizing institution: Buffalo Art Museum, Buffalo
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Fall/Winter 2003.
American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age
Organizing institution: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Spring 2002.
Restructured Reality: The 1930s Paintings of Francis Criss
Organizing institution: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Spring 2002.
American Sublime: Epic Landscape of Our Nation, 1820-1880
Organizing institution: TATE Britain, London
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Summer 2002.
Power and Glory: Portraits from the Uffizi
Organizing institution: Uffizi, Florence
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Fall 2001.