American, 1955

In 2015, Cole’s work was included in Represent: 200 Years of African American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Wild Noise: Artwork from the Bronx Museum of the Arts at El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. In 2016, his work was included in Disguise: Masks and Global African Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Willie Cole: On-Site opened at the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland and traveled to the Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire, and Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia in 2016. The following year, Cole had solo exhibitions at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame and at the College of Architecture and Design Gallery at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In 2019, Willie Cole: Beauties opened at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University as well as Willie Cole: Bella Figura at Alexander and Bonin, New York.
Courtesy of Willie Cole