Whitfield Lovell is internationally renowned for his installations. His masterful Conte crayon drawings portray anonymous African Americans. His subjects lived between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights Movement. Vintage photographs are his source. Lovell often pairs his subjects with found objects. These evoke personal memories, ancestral connections, and the collective American past. In 2007, Lovell was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the “genius grant.”

A major exhibition Whitfield Lovell: Passages, will be travelling from 2023 through 2025. It has been organized by the American Federation of Arts. The exhibition premiered at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL. Then it travels to:

• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

• Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR

• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

• The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC

• the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX.

Whitfield Lovell has been the subject of numerous exhibitions including: Whitfield Lovell at the Museum of Modern Art in 2017, Whitfield Lovell: Kin Series & Related Works at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC in 2016-17. The presentation was accompanied by a major monograph, Whitfield Lovell: Kin, published by Rizzoli.

Among many others, Lovell’s work is part of many public collections including:

• Brooklyn Museum, NY

• High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

• National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

• Phillips Collection, DC

• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC

• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA

• Seattle Art Museum, WA

• Studio Museum of Harlem, NY

• New Orleans Museum of Art

Many museums have presented solo shows of Whitfield's work. His fellowships include the National Endowment for the Arts and the Joan Mitchell, Penny McCall, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is represented by D.C.Moore Gallery in NYC. More here: https://www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/whitfield-lovell