Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003
St. Louis, MO; University of Missouri Saint Louis, Minnie Evans: Dreams in Color
Durham, NC; North Carolina Central University Art Gallery,The Dream World of Minnie Evans
2001
Greensboro, NC; Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Minnie Evans: Dreams in Color
1998, 95, 93, 90, 89
New York, Luise Ross Gallery
1995-93
Greenville, NC; Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Minnie Evans: Artist
Travelled:
The Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem University, Winston-Salem, NC
Furman University, Greenville, SC
Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC
1994
Atlanta, GA; Berman Gallery
1986, 70, 61
Wilmington, NC; St. John's Museum of Art (formerly the Little Gallery)
1986
Raleigh, NC; North Carolina Museum of Art (Retrospective)
1981
Winston-Salem, NC; Wake Forest University of Fine Arts Gallery
1977
New York, NY; Roko Gallery
1975
New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art
1970
Saranac Lake, NY; Dorothy Yepez Galleries
London, United Kingdom, Portal Gallery
1970-69
Middletown, CT; Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
1969
New York, NY; The Art Image (Two solo exhibitions)
1966
New York, NY; Church of the Epiphany
New York, NY; St. Clement's Episcopal Church
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Winston-Salem, NC; Ascension II: A Legacy of Self-Taught African-American Artists of North Carolina, Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem University
2007
New York, NY; RARE BIRDS, Luise Ross Gallery
2006
New York, NY; Fun!, Luise Ross Gallery
2005
New York, NY; New Location, Luise Ross Gallery
New York, NY; Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South Museum of Biblical Art (travelling exhibition)
New York, NY; Visual Glossolalia, Luise Ross Gallery
New York, NY; A Selection of Works from the Luise Ross Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery
2004
New York, NY; Dopes, Dupes, and Demagogues: Viewed by Outsiders, Luise Ross Gallery
2003-4
Baltimore, MD; Golden Blessings of Old Age; Out of the Mouths of Babes, American Visionary Art Museum
2003
Lawrenceville, NJ; Outsider Art: The Inner Worlds of Self-Taught Artists, The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb
Fort Lauderdale, FL; Urban Outsider and Visionary Folk: The Works of Purvis Young and Minnie Evans, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art
New York, NY; Color, Pattern and the Fantastic: Minnie Evans and David Butler, Luise Ross Gallery
2002
Cleveland, OH; Visionaries, Cleveland State University Art Gallery
2000
New York, NY; Making Choices, Museum of Modern Art
2000, 1999
Baltimore, MD; We Are Not Alone: Angels and Other Aliens, American Visionary Art Museum
New York, NY; Power of the Word: Image as Amulet Cavin-Morris Gallery
1997
New York, NY; Recent Acquisitions in Modern Drawings, Museum of Modern Art
Nyack, NY; The Power of Suggestion, Hopper House Art Center
Seattle, WA; Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery
1997-96
Oceanville, NJ; Angels, Cherubs and Putti: The Artists' Muses, The Noyes Museum
1996
New York, NY; Visionary Landscapes, Luise Ross Gallery
New York, NY; Difficult Women, Cavin-Morris Gallery
South Orange, NJ; Vision & Voice: Folk Art by Women of the 20th Century, Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, and Warren, NJ; Chubb Corporate Gallery
Atlanta, GA; Obsession With Line, Archer Locke Gallery
1996-95
New York, NY; The Leaven in the Bread, Phyllis Kind Gallery
Baltimore, MD; The Tree of Life, American Visionary Art Museum
1995
New York, NY; Folk Erotica, American Primitive
1993
New York, NY; Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Luise Ross Gallery
New York, NY; The Outsider Question: Non-Academic Art from 1900 to Present, Galerie St. Etienne
New York, NY; Chelo Amezcua-Minnie Evans, Cavin-Morris Gallery
New Orleans, LA; Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from the 1940's to the Present, New Orleans Museum of Art (Travelling exhibition)
Tallahassee, FL; Unsigned/Unsung: Whereabouts Unknown, Florida State University Gallery and Museum
1991
Wichita, KS; Visionary Artists: Bill Traylor and Minnie Evans, Wichita Art Museum
Dallas, TX; Five Folk Artists from the Southeast, Tramell Crow Center Upper East Pavilion. Organized by the Museum for African American Life and Culture
Fukui, Japan and Trenton, NJ; Dream Singers, Storytellers: An African-American Presence, Fukui Fine Arts Museum; The New Jersey State Museum
Malmo, Sweden; Sarlingar: Art Brut/Outsider Art, Malmo Konsthall (Travelling exhibition)
New York, NY; Different Drummers: Work by American Self-Taught Artists, Met-Life Gallery
1990
Dallas, TX; Black Art: Ancestral Legacy, Dallas Museum of Art (Travelling exhibition)
Raleigh, NC; Signs and Wonders: Outsider Art Inside North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art
1989
Hempstead, NY; Black Folk Artists: Minnie Evans and Bill Traylor, African-American Museum
New York, NY; American Resources: Selected Work by African-American Artists, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (Travelling exhibition)
1987
New York, NY; Folk Art of this Century, Galerie St. Etienne
1986
New York, NY; Muffled Voices, Museum of American Folk Art
1985
Hickory, NC; North Carolina African-American Women, Hickory Museum of Art
1984-3
New York, NY; Reflections of Faith: Religious Folk Art in America, IBM Gallery
1983
Clinton, NY; The Re-Gentrified Jungle, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College
New York, NY; The Museum Collects: New Directions New Acquisitions, Museum of American Folk Art
1982
Newark, NJ; Black Artists, Newark Museum
1982-81
Normal, IL; Forever Free: Art by African-American Women 1862-1980, Center for the Visual Arts Gallery (Travelling exhibition)
1981
Greensboro, NC; Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery
Atlanta, GA; Southern Works on Paper, 1900-1950 , Southern Arts Federation (Travelling exhibition)
1980
Raleigh, NC; Afro-American Artists North Carolina USA, North Carolina Museum of Art
1979
College Park, MD; Women Artists in Washington Collections, University of Maryland Art Gallery
Charleston, SC; Reflections of a Southern Heritage: 20th Century Black Artists of the Southeast, Gibbes Art Gallery
1976
Los Angeles, CA; Two Hundred Years of Black Art in America, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Travelling exhibition)
1973
Zagreb, Yugoslavia; Triennial of Naïve Art, organized by the U.S. Information Agency
New York, NY; Mother's Day, Studio Museum of Harlem
1971
Chicago, IL; The Artless Artist - Contemporary American Naïve Works, Phyllis Kind Gallery
1972-70
New York, NY; Symbols and Images: Contemporary Primitive Artists, American Federation of Arts (Travelling exhibition)
1970
New York, NY; Twentieth Century Folk Art, Museum of American Folk Art
Indianapolis, IN; Paintings and Sculpture Today - 1970, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Chicago, IL; A Decade of Accomplishment: American Drawings and Prints of the 1960's, Illinois Bell Lobby Gallery
Selected Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, VA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
American Museum of Folk Art, New York
Newark Museum, NJ
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
Gibbes Art Museum, Charleston, SC
Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Durham
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh
Illinois State University, University Art Galleries, Normal, IL
