Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004 Birmingham, AL; Do We Think Too Much? I Don't Think We Can Ever Stop: Lonnie
Holley, A Twenty-Five Year Survey, Birmingham Museum of Art
1994, 3 New York, Luise Ross Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery, Dopes, Dupes, and Demagogues: Viewed
by Outsiders
2002 Jamaica, NY; Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Street Savvy
2001 New York, Luise Ross Gallery, WET!
1998 Philadephia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Self-Taught Artists of the
Twentieth Century: An American Anthology (Traveling exhibition)
1998 New York, Luise Ross Gallery, Winter Group
1997 Storrs, CT, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Drawing on the
Spirit of 9: Drawings and Paintings on Paper by Contemporary African
American Self-Taught Artists
Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Material Dialogues - Contemporary
Arts: The New Jersey Context
1997-96 Charlotte, NC, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Tragic Wake:
The Legacy of Slavery and the African Diaspora in Contemporary American Art
1996 New York, Luise Ross Gallery, Bill Traylor and Thornton Dial,
Minnie Evans, Lonnie Holley, Louis Monza
Atlanta, GA, Archer Locke Gallery, Obsession With Line
1995 Winston-Salem, NC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA),
Civil Rights Now (Traveling exhibition)
Boca Raton, FL, Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Contemporary Folk Art:
A View from the Outside
1994-93 Little Rock, AR, Arkansas Arts Center, Collector's Show
1994 New York, Luise Ross Gallery, From Alabama
1993 Clinton, NJ, Hunterdon Art Center, Not by Luck:
Self-Taught Artists in the American South
Chicago, IL, Betty Rymer Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Death, Reverence and the Struggle
for Equality in America
New York, Luise Ross Gallery, Figurines!
New Orleans, LA, New Orleans Museum of Art, Passionate Visions of the
American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present
(Traveling exhibition)
Winston-Salem, NC, Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University,
ASHE: Improvisation and Recycling in African-American Visionary Art
Fukui, Japan, Fukui Fine Arts Museum and Trenton, New Jersey State Museum,
Dream Singers, Storytellers: An African-American Presence
(Traveling exhibition)
1992 Montgomery, AL, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery Biennale
Denver, CO, Metropolitan State College Center for the Visual Arts,
Give Me a Louder Word Up: African American Art
1991 Waterloo, IA, Waterloo Museum of Art, The Legacy of Africa in the New World
1990 New York, American Primitive, Southern Outsider Art II
Winston-Salem, NC, SECCA, The Next Generation: The Southern Black Aesthetic
New York, NY, INTAR Latin American Gallery, Another Face of the Diamond:
Pathways Through the Black Atlantic South
1989 Atlanta, GA, High Museum, Outside the Mainstream: Folk Art in Our Time
Newark, NJ, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Art from the African
Diaspora: Persistence
San Francisco, CA, Primitivo, The Figure Redefined
1987 Washington, DC, Howard University, The Bloodline
1981 Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
More Than Land and Sky: Art from Appalachia (Traveling exhibition)
Public Collections
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Commissions
1996 Olympic Games, Atlanta, GA
