SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Loïs Mailou Jones
January 19, 2013 - October 14, 2013
Bernard and Barbara Stern Shapiro Gallery (Gallery 231)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Loïs Mailou Jones’ Two Faiths
Blake and Purnell Gallery (Galley 327)
1923 Vineyard’s Haven, Martha’s Vineyard
1929 Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard
1935 Hampton University Founder’s Day, Virginia
1937 Howard University Gallery, Washington, DC
1939 Vose Galleries, Boston, MA
1942 National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1944 Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, DC
1948 Whyte Gallery, Washington, DC
Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1955 Pan American Union Building, Washington, DC
1961 Galerie International, New York, NY
1963 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1966 Galerie Soulanges, Paris, France
1967 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1968 Galerie International, New York, NY
Smith Mason Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Association for the Presentation and Preservation of the Arts, Inc., Washington, DC
1972 Forty Years of Painting, Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1973 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Massachusetts College of Art, MA
1979 Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1990-1996 The World of Loïs Mailou Jones, solo retrospective, traveled nationally
1991-1993 The Art of Loïs Mailou Jones, Bomani Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Remembering Loïs, Howard University, Washington, DC
2006 Loïs Mailou Jones: The Early Works: Paintings and Patterns 1927-1937, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2007-2008 Early Works
The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Delta Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC
Featherstone Gallery, Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, GA
2009-2013 Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
National Museum of Women and the Arts, Washington, DC
Hunter Museum of Museum Art, Chattanooga, TN
The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future, Dallas, TX
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Mitchell Gallery at St. Johns College, Annapolis, MD
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
In Conversation: Modern African American Art
June 1, 2013 - September 2,
1931 Work of Negro Artists, Harmon Foundation
1936 Joint exhibition with James Wells, Washington, DC
1940 Art of the American Negro (1851-1940)
Tanner Galleries, Chicago, IL
National Museum of Art, Washington, DC
1942 National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1951-955 Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1968 (annually thorugh 1976) The Art Club of Washington, Washington, DC
2006 Painting Summer in New England, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2012 African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond, Smithsonian American Museum of Art
The Allure of Japan, Shapiro Gallery, Boston, MA
Enduring Legacies: 7 Black Artists, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA