BIOGRAPHY

Born: Newark, New Jersey, 1955
Resides: Lewiston, Maine
Education: Mason Gross School, Rutgers University (M.F.A., 1981);
Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program (1978);
Montclair State College (B.A., 1978); Pratt Institute (1975)
Website: www.theblackfactory.com

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006
“Trophy Room,” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.
“Under All, Above Most,” University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

2005
“some things you can do with blackness . . . ,” Kenny Schachter ROVE Projects, London.
“Props & Propositions,” Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio.

2004
“Five Ways To Say the Same Sadness: New Work by William Pope.L,” University at Albany Museum, State University of New York.
“eRacism: electronica,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri. Traveled.
“reFunkt,” The Project, New York.

2003
“Foddah,” Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.
“Some: Of Place and Desire,” ArtHouse, Austin, Texas.

2002
“What’s Inside a Boy,” The Project, Los Angeles.
“Incontinent,” Wood Street Gallery, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006
“A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu–Farben,” Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen,
Magdeburg, Germany.
“Shed Piece,” Frieze Art Fair, London.
“Dak’Art 2006: 7th Dakar Biennial,” Dakar, Senegal.
“Civil Restitutions,” Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
“Newark Between Us,” 744 Gallery/Newark Arts Council, Newark, New Jersey.
“Skowhegan at 60,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
“Relics and Remnants,” Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, New York.
“Dreaming of a More Better Future,” Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio.

2005
“Hero,” Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art,” The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. Traveled. Catalogue.
“Landmark,” Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon.
“RAPSIDA,” Gallery 138, New York.
“Bringing Decarie to the Mountain,” Galerie Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, Canada.
“Defense: Body and Nobody in Self-Protection,” Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside.
“Double Consciousness,” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas.

2004
“The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. Catalogue.
“The Big Nothing,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
“Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 1954–2004,” Gallery 138, New York.
“Reverse Engineers,” Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Catalogue.
“Only Skin Deep,” International Center for Photography, New York.

2003
“Motion Studies,” Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York.
“White,” Bill Maynes Gallery, New York.
“Ameri©an Dre@m,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. Catalogue.

2001
“Video Jam,” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida.

2000
“Pix,” Lance Fung Gallery, New York.
“The Hole Inside the Space Inside Yves Klein’s Asshole,” VAV Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal.

Selected Performances

2005
“Bringing Decarie to the Mountain” (group crawl), Montreal, Canada.

2004
“The Black Factory” (mobile installation performance), Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Traveled.

2002
“The Great White Way: 22 miles, 5 years, 1 street,” at “2002 Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York. Traveled. Catalogue.

2000
“Eating The Wall Street Journal’ (solo performance, first tower version), Mobius, Boston. Traveled.
“Boston Common Group Crawl” (site-specific performance), Boston.

1997
“eRacism” (solo ritual-lecture), Mobius, Boston. Traveled.

Selected Bibliography

2002
Bessire, Mark, ed. William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press.
Cotter, Holland. “Never Mind the Art Police, These Six Matter.” The New York Times (May 5).