2009

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saragota Springs, NY, A History

2008

Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
AMP, Athens
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Metamorphosen
The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse University, New York
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, New York

2007    
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: 25 Years

2006    
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, New Works on Music
Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Ga., We See the Promised Land - Tim Rollins and KOS in Collaboration with Atlanta Youth
The New York Center for Arts and Media Studies, New York, NY, The Creation (after Haydn)
Denmark Arts Center, Denmark, ME, The Creation (after Haydn)

2005    
Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Silver Springs, MD, The Creation - Tim Rollins and K.O.S. at Pyramid Atlantic
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: The Creation (after Haydn)
The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, On Music
The Contemporary Art Museum of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, On Music
Edison Gallery, Washington, DC., The Creation Folio
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, The Creation Folio
Youth Art Connection, Atlanta, GA, Building the Beloved Community
Heydon Art Center, Lincoln, NB, Winter Morning Walks (after Ted Kooser)
Fusebox Gallery, Washington, DC, Freedomworks
National Academy of Science, Washington, DC, On the Nature of the Universe

2004
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, Creation Mythologies
The Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Large Scale Works 2000 - 2004
Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Let There Be Light
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Large Scale Works

2003    
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Agape
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
University of Georgia Gallery, Athens, Ga., A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.:  Works on Paper 1983 - 2003
Whitebox, New York, NY, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.:  War of the Worlds

2002
Dishman Art Gallery, Beaumont, TX, Tim Rollins and K.O.S: Works on Paper
Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, IA, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Works on Paper
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. for Lawrence, Kansas - What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, New Paintings
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.  A Midsummer Night's Dream
Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: New Work
Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. 20 Years of Art and Teaching

2001    
Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, Real Time
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Superheroes
Galeria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.:  The Evidence of Things Not Seen

2000    
Baumgartner Gallery, New York
Wood Street Galleries, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
M.H. de Young Memorial Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Shark Island Contemporary Art Center, Bristol          
Crow Shadow Institute, Pendleton, OR
Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

1999    
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Trinity Christian College, Chicago, IL
Robert Livingston Magnet Junior High School, Albany, NY
The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

1998    
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Kids Across America
Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Fifteen Years of Art and Teaching
John McEnroe Gallery, New York, NY, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: I See the Promised Land
The Greenville College Art Gallery, Greenville, Ill., Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: The Strength to Love
University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Fifteen Years of Art and Teaching
Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Zeum, San Francisco, CA
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
New York State Art Museum, Albany, NY
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Utrecht Academy of the Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands

1997    
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Tim Rollins and KOS: Fifteen Years of Art and Teaching
Academy Theatre Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Prometheus Bound
Youth Art Connection, Atlanta, GA, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: The Psalms

1996    
Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, Kommos

1995    
Mary Boone Gallery, New York

1994    
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY

1993    
Fundacion Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

1992    
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Grand Central Station, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Le Case d'Arte, Milan

1991    
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990    
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel, Basel
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart
State University of New York, College at Cortland, Cortland, NY
Crown Point Press, New York and San Francisco, CA
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock

1989    
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
Interim Art, London, England

1988    
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Riverside Studios, London, England
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Madrid

1987    
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC

1986    
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
Fashion Moda, Bronx, New York, NY
State University of New York, Old Westbury, NY

1985    
Hostos Community College, Hostos Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, Prayers to Broken Stone: Five Years of Art Against Arson

1980    
Education Building Gallery, New York University, NY

2008
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

2007
Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, New York, Stripes
House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland, Jubilee Exhibition
Space Other, Boston, Artists’ Books : Transgression / Excess
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, 30th Anniversary Exhibition
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Only Words
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Repicturing the Past / Picturing the Present
Foundation to Life Exhibition Space, Mt. Kisco, Making and Finding
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, What Is Painting ?
Chelsea Clinton Community Health Center, New York, Sketch and Detail
CCS Bard Hessel Museum  Annadale-on-Hudson, New York, Exhibitionism

2006    
P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island, The Gold Standart
Whitney Museum, New York, Whitney Biennale 2006
The Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY, The Downtown Show : The NY Arts Scene 1974 - 1984
The Andy Warhol Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pa., The Downtown Show : The NY Arts Scene 1974 - 1984

2005    
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Flashback
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, Postcards From the Edge
Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY, Twenty Five Years Part II
Spaces  Cleveland, Ohio, Beautiful Dreamer
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, Text as Art
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, Pa., In Private Hands

2004    
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Ala., In the Spirit of Martin
Tate Gallery, London, Monument
Museo Masedu, Sassari, Italy, Media.Comm(Unity)/Comm.Medium – divenire comunità oltre il mezzo: l’opera diffusa (cur.by G.Perretta)
The Cincinatti Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinatti, Ohio, Crimes and Misdemeanors
Whitebox Annex, New York, NY, The Wild Bunch II
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia. Pa., A Show of Hands
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, Revelation

2003    
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Ill., Gallery Artists
Galerie Lelong, New York, NY, Postcards from the Edge
Williams College Art Gallery, Williamstown, Mass., Representing Slavery
Missouri historical Society, St. Louis, Mo., In the Spirit of Martin
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, In the Spirit of Martin
Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tenn., In the Spirit of Martin
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, NM, In the Spirit of Martin
International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, In the Spirit of Martin

2002    
Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY, Large Scale
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Mich., In the Spirit of Martin
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, In the Spirit of Martin
Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY, In the Spirit of Martin
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Fla., In the Spirit of Martin
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, Collecting Contemporary Art – A Community Dialogue
Liebman Magan Gallery, New York, NY, I’m Amazed
White Box, New York, NY, The Blame Show
Berkley Art Museum, Berkley, Calif., Last Forward II
Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY, Large Scale
White Box, New York, NY, Care For All
Carrie Sacrist Gallery, Chicago, Ill., Plotting

2001
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Selections from the Permanent Collection
The Bronx museum of Art, New York, NY, Selections from the Permanent Collection
Williams Art Museum, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Selections from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Parkett Editions
PS1, Contemporary  art Center, New York, NY, Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood in Contemporary Art
Cooper Union, New York, NY, Art as prayer
Hamilton Gallery, Ontario, Canada
Funfacio la Caixa, Barcellona, Retorn al pais des mervelles
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, Le Tribù dell’Arte (cur. by A. Bonito Oliva)

2000
Main Line Art Center, Lower Merion, Pa., Points of Departure
The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., Recent Acquisitions
The Witney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, The American Century: 1950-2000
LaAbattoirs, Toulouse, Collective Art Practice

1999    
Williams Art Museum, Williams College, Mass., Tim Rollins and K.O.S
Kunstverein München, Munich, Dream City
DesMoines Art Center, DesMoines, Iowa, and The Scottsdale Center for Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Ariz., Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood in Contemporary Art
The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY, Urban Mythologies
The Tate Gallery, London, Recent Acquisitions
The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, Calif., Righteous!
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, MCM-Y2K: A Century of Art on Paper

1998    
PPOW, New York, NY, The Rites of Spring

1997    
The Hirshborn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, The Hirshborn Collects: Recent Acqisitions 1992-1996
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, More Than One: Twentieth Century Print Portfolios
Youth Art Connection, Atlanta, Ga., Changing Spaces
Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Luis, Mo., The Dual Muse

1996    
Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, U.K., Imagined Communities
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, Bronx Spaces
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY., Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque
Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Niagara, NY, Youth Matters
Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL., Youth Matters
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY, Thinking Print

1995    
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Zeichen & Wunder
Centro Calego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Zeichen & Wunder
UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif., Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art
Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pa., Word for Word
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colo., Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory
Oklahoma City Hall, Oklahoma City, Okla., Celebration of the Spirit

1994    
Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC, Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon
Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Ga., Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon
Yerba Buena Center for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Calif., Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass., Public Interventions
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Gewalt – Geschäfte

1993    
Connecticut Museum of Contemporary Art, Conn., Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass., Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Mich., Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Die Sprache der Kunst - The Language of Art

1992    
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif., Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties
Hayward Gallery, London, Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Drawing Now: New Spaces
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Ill., 15th Anniversary Exhibition
The Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY, The Power of the City/The City of Power
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn., Quotations: The Second History of Art
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, Quotations: The Second History of Art
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art

1991    
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn., Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon
Momenta Art, Philadelphia, Pa., Reimaging America
Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Words and #s
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Biennial
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, The Library of Babel: Books to Infinity
Solo Gallery/Solo Press, New York, NY, Mute
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie International
University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, Fla., Transpositions
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Mass., Connected Past
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pa., Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties

1990     
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa., Edition Schellmann
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, Insect Politics: Body Horror/Social Order
Andrea Ruggieri Gallery, Washington, DC, The Age of Information
La Casa d'Arte, Milan, Works on Paper
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, First Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art/The New Museum of Contemporary Art/The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, The Decade Show
Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Pharmakon '90
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Madrid, Gallery Artists
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn., Language in Art
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wis., Word As Image: American Art 1960-90
Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, Okla., Word As Image: American Art 1960-90
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Tex., Word As Image: American Art 1960-90
Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy
Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY, Benefit for Andrew Glover Youth Program
Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.
Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, NY, Team Spirit
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, ACT-UP Auction for Action: Benefit Auction and Exhibit
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Price of Power
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Ga., Oh, Those Four White Walls!: The Gallery as Context
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Mass., Stripes
Umhausen, Austria, 3 Tage Umhausen
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, Felix Gonzal-Torres, Michael Jenkins, Tim Rollins and KOS

1989    
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Horn of Plenty
Lehman College, Bronx, NY, Word and Image
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY, A Good Read: The Book as a Metaphor
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif., A Decade of American Drawing, 1980-1989
A/D Gallery, New York, NY, The Library: Artist's Books
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, A Perspective on Contemporary Art: Color and/or Monochrome
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Editions Schellmann

1988
Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC, Romance
Longwood Art Gallery, South Bronx, NY
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Similia/Dissimilia
Leo Castelli Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, and Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, Similia/Dissimilia
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Documenta 8
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Artchildren, Artselves
The Saatchi Collection, London, New York Art Now
Temple University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa., Constitution
Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY, Selections from X
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Tendencies in Black and White
Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY, The Beauty of Circumstance
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, Art Against AIDS
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY, Walk Out to Winter
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Committed to Print
Dublin, ROSC '88
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Aperto '88
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., The Binational/Die Binationale
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, The Binational/Die Binationale

1987    
Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Art And Its Double
P.S.1., Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY, Out of the Studio: Art with Community
Hillwood Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY, Perverted by Language
White Columns, New York, NY, Resistance - Anti-Baudrillard
Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, The Art of the Real
I Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Museo de Art Moderna, Cuenca, Ecuador, A Different Corner, Definition and Redefinition - Painting in America

1986    
Alternative Museum, New York, NY, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa., The New Museum, New York, NY, Liberty and Justice
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, Gallery Artists
Centro Cultural de Barcelona, Art And Its Double
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Ill., Art And Its Double
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY, Art And Its Double
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY, Benefit for The Kitchen
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, Text and Image
Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba, For Encima Del Bloqueo

1985
B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, 20/20
Royal-Festival Hall, London, Alarm Clock
Alternative Museum, New York, NY, Disinformation
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, (Americana, Installation by Group Material), New York, NY, Biennial
Nexus Art Center, Atlanta, Ga., Public Art
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, Social Studies

1984    
Artists Space, New York, NY, New Art of the Decade
Sarah Lawrence College, New York, NY, Identity and Illusion
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Ansatzpunkte kritischer Kunst heute
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Ansatzpunkte kritischer Kunst heute
D/Colby College, Waterville, Me.
Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif., Olympiad
Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY, Art for or Against

1983    
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY, Artists' Call
P.S. 1., Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY, Timeline
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, The War Show
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, The State of the Art: The New Social Commentary
S.P.A.R.C., Los Angeles, Calif., Act/React
Artists Space, New York, NY, Primer
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, The 1984 Show

1982    
The City Gallery, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY, Alternatives
Group Material, New York, NY, Atlanta
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, The Atomic Salon
Group Material, New York, NY, Inaugural Exhibition

Teaching

2003-2005
Resident Professor of Art and Education, Drexel University, Philadelphia,
Visiting Professor of Art, Literature and Music, Drexel University and Center for the Prevention of School Violence and Martha Washington Elementary School, Philadelphia, Pa.

1997
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1995
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of California at Davis, Ca.

1982-1987
I.S. #52, South Bronx, New York, NY

1980-1982
Learning to Read Through the Arts Program, New York, NY

1980-1981
New York Marxist School, NYC, NY