Tschabalala Self

Born 1990 in Harlem, New York, US

Lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026
Lady in Blue, Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (forthcoming)
 
2025
Tschabalala Self: Skin Tight, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (forthcoming)
Art Lovers, New Museum commission, New York, US (forthcoming)
Tschabalala Self: The Illusion of the Self, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai

RESPONSES: Tschabalala Self, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tschabalala Self: Dream Girl, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, US

 

2024
Tschabalala Self: Around the Way, ESPOO Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland 
Bodega Run, Swiss Institute, New York, US
The Bigger Picture, Melina Merkouri Art & Concert Hall, Hydra, Greece
Tschabalala Self, High Line – Moynihan Connector Billboard, New York, US
Spotlight: Tschabalala Self, FLAG Foundation, New York, US 
 
2023
Feed Me, Kiss Me, Need Me, CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium
Spaces and Places, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Inside Out, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Seated, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea, UK
 
2022
Home Body, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Seated, Coal Drops Yard, London, UK (commision) 
Make Room, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
 
2021
Tschabalala Self: By My Self, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US
The Stage, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, US

Sounding Board, Performa, New York, US

2020
Cotton Mouth, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, US
Tschabalala Self: Out of Body, ICA Boston, Boston, US
 
2019
Thigh High, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Tschabalala Self, Art Omi, New York, US
MOOD: Studio Museum Artists in Residency, MoMA PS1, New York, US
Tschabalala Self, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, US
Bodega Run, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
 
2018
Bodega Run, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Lee’s Oriental Deli & Market, Fringe Projects, Miami, US
 
2017
Bodega Run, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
Tschabalala Self, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Tschabalala Self, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
Sour Patch, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, Miami, US
 
2016
Gut Feelings, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, US
The Function, T293, Naples, Italy
 
2015
Tropicana, The Cabin, Los Angeles, US
Out of Body, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, US
Head over Heels, Schur-Narula, Berlin, Germany

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

FRESH PAINT, Parrish Museum of Art, Water Mill, New York, US (forthcoming)

 
2025

Collection in Focus | Faith Ringold, Guggenheim, New York, UK (forthcoming)

Art & Comics (curated by Angela Stief), Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria (forthcoming)

Brand X: Innovation in Screenprinting, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US (forthcoming)

ARTZUID - Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial, Amsterdam, Netherlands (forthcoming)

Roots in the Sky (curated by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones), HOME, Manchester, UK (forthcoming)

FEMMES (curated by Pharrell Williams), Perrotin, Paris, France

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, US

WHEN WE SEE US: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, US

Drawings and Prints, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, Austria

 
2024
Fresh Window: Art of Display & Display of Art, Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland
When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, US
She Said, She Said: Contemporary Artists from the Rubell Museum, Arlington Museum of Art, Texas, US 
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Dear Mazie, Institute for Contemporary Art Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, US
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, US 
New artworks from Consortium Museum Collection, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, US
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US 
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, US
THE CULTURE, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Personal Structures at European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora and Marinaressa Gardens, Venice, Italy
A Superlative Palette: Contemporary Black Women Artists, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, US
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Day for Night: New American Realism, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
Group Show, Galerie Eva Presenhuber x TAXA Seoul, South Korea
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Wordplay, ICA Boston, Boston, US
Masquerade, Makeup & Ensor, MoMu - Fashion Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
The Mother Position, CFA Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland
 
2023
This is a Rehearsal, The Chicago Architecture Biennale 2023, Chicago, US
Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New York, US 
Metamorphosis: Reshaping Contemporary Art, Harn Museum of Art, Florida, US 
A Living Legacy: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, US
It doesn't go away even if you stop believing in it, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, US
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US
Desert X 2023, Palm Springs, California, US2022
Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Sounds of Blackness, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines 
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, US
DAWN OF HUMANITY: ART IN PERIODS OF UPHEAVAL, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
 
2022
Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Mirror Mirror - Fashion & The Psyche, MoMU, Antwerp, Belgium 
In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, US
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
Uncanny Interiors, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, US
The Condition of Being Addressable, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US 
Women and Change, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Oketa Collection, Mariage: From Antiques to Contemporary Art, WHAT Museum, Tokyo Japan
Luncheon on the Grass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, US
What’s Going On, Rubell Museum, Washington, DC, US 
 
2021
A Beautiful America – Works by Afro-American artists from the Vermeire-Notebaert Collection, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. Sint-Martens Latem, Belgium
Subliminal Horizons, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, US
UN Women’s presents ‘A Force for Change.’, Agora Gallery, New York, US
The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
Journey Through a Body, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sweat, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
A Month Away, Galerie Eva Presenhuber Showroom, Waldmannstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland
 
2020
Beyond the Black Atlantic, Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 
Polyphonic: Celebrating PAMM’s Fund for African American Art, Peréz Art Museum, Miami, US
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, New York, US
Ubuntu, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Athens, Greece
Romancing the Mirror, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, US
Protext! When Fabric Becomes Manifesto, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
All in One, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

2019
Rock My Soul, Victoria Miro, London, UK
Thread, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, US
Embodiment, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, US 
PUNCH LA, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Prospect 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, US
Present Tense: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, US 
MOOD: Studio Museum Artists in Residence, MoMA PS1, New York, US 
Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
A Seed's A Star, LOYAL Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
The Big Sleep, 4th Artists’ Biennial, The Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Paint also known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Dreamweavers, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, US
Show Me as I Want to Be Seen, Jewish Museum, San Francisco, US
Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US 
Iconic Women of Design, T Brand Studio at The New York Times & BVLGARI, New York, US
‘Daddy,’ play by Jeremy O. Harris, Pershing Square Signature Center, directed by Danya Taymor. Doll Designer. New York, US
 
2018
Triple: Alex Bradley Cohen, Louis Fratino, and Tschabalala Self, University Art Museum, Albany State University, Albany, US 
Figure and Phantasy, Maximillian William, London, UK  
The Beyond: Georgia O’Keefe & Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, US
The Beyond: Georgia O’Keefe & Contemporary Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, US 
Mademoiselle, Le Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain OCCITANIE / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sète, France
The Beyond: Georgia O’Keefe & Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, US 
To Dream Avant -Garde, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, US
The Unseen, James Fuentes, New York, US
Please Touch: Body Boundaries, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, US
Mature Themes, Foxy Productions, New York, US
Lee’s Oriental Deli & Market, Fringe Projects Miami, US
 
2017
Engendered, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, US 
Slip, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York, US 
Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture, The California African American Museum, Los Angeles, US 
From DADA to TA-DA, Fisher Parrish Gallery, New York, US
NSFW Female Gaze, The Museum of Sex, New York, US 
All These Beautiful Ladies, Lewben Art Foundation, Lithuania
A Screen of Flesh, Coma Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Body Language, Company Gallery, New York, US
Tschabalala Self, Ellannah Sadkin, Mr Kiji, Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, US
Le Nouveau Voyeurisme, Hotel Contemporary, Milan, Italy
 
2016
Desire, Moore Building, Miami, US
Life During Wartime, Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles, US
Protuberances, LAXART, Hollywood, US
Aiko Hachisuka, Tschalalaba Self, Caroline Wells Chandler, 11R, New York, US
Sexting, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US
Perfect Day, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, US
WACKing the Piñata, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, US
A Being in The World, Salon 94, New York, US
Look up here, I’m in heaven, BRIC, New York, US
Intimisms, James Cohan, New York, US
A Shape That Stands Up, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, US
Arachne’s Woolf, Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv, Israel
New Genealogies, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, US
Duplify, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US
Mal Maison, Maccarone, New York, US
 
2015
Berg Matthams Self & Weaver, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, US 
A Constellation, Studio Museum Harlem, US 
The New New, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, US 
THATS ON ME, Paris Blues, New York, USYale MFA Painting and Printmaking Graduates 2015, Garis & Hahn, New York, US
2,015 But Who’s Counting, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, US
 
2014
13 Artists, 24/6 Gallery, New Haven, US
Swimming Pool, 24/6 Gallery, New Haven, US
 
2013
For Ed: Splendor in the Grass with Olympic Lad & Lass, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, US
Women Love the World, Launchpad, Brooklyn, New York, US
Encounters, Harlem School of the Arts, Harlem, New York, US
 
2012    
SUGGARHILL, Essie Green Galleries, Harlem, New York, US
Edge Control, UBS Exhibition Center, Red Hook, New York, US
NEO XL, Werehouse, Long Island City, New York, US
 
2008    
Radiant Minds, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, US
 
2007    
Admission $2.00, Whitney at Altria, New York, US

 

EDUCATION

2015
MFA in Painting/Printmaking, Yale School of Art, New Haven

2012
BA in Studio Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

 

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2020
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Grant

2019
The Studio Museum AIR Program, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

2017
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
Liquitex Work Residency, London
Red Bull House of Art Residency, Detroit – US
Parasol Unit Work Residency, London
 

2016
T293 Residency, Naples

2015
The La Brea Studio Residency, Los Angeles
Fountainhead Residency, Fountainhead, Miami
Arttable Curatorial Fellowship; Artspace, New Haven
 

2014
Al Held Fellow, American Academy in Rome, Rome

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Aishti Foundation, Beirut

Albertina Museum, Vienna

The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Hartford

Arario Museum, Seoul, South Korea

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Art Omi, Ghent, New York

Astrup Fearnley, Oslo

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

Brooklyn Museum

The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach

California African American Museum, Los Angeles

CC Foundation, Shanghai

Consortium Museum, Dijon

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

The Craig Robins Collection, Miami

Dallas Museum of Art

The Dean Collection, Los Angeles

De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill-on-Sea, UK

Detroit Institute of the Arts

EKA Foundation, Dubai

Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland

The FLAG Art Foundation, New York

Frye Art Museum, Seattle

The George Economou Collection, Athens

Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

International African America Museum, Charleston

Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland, OR

JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York

K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong

Kadist, Paris

Karpidas Family Collection, Dallas

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

Longlati Foundation, Shanghai

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Luma Foundation, Zurich

The Marieluise Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris

Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The New Museum, New York

Oketa Collection, Tokyo

Olivia Foundation, CDMX, Mexico

Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pierce and Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Pond Society, Shanghai

Qatar Museums Authority, Doha

Rubell Museum, Miami

Sammlung Goetz, Munich

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York

Shah Garg Foundation, New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Yuz Museum, Shanghai

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