Arthur Jafa

Art, 2004. Ink on vinyl billboard, approximately 15 × 22 feet.

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Tupelo, Mississippi, 1960
Resides: New York
Education: Howard University (1979–1983)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2002
“Arthur Jafa: My Black Death,” ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005
“Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
“The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

2003
“Black Belt,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

2002
“Formal Social,” Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany.

2001
“Bitstreams,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

2000
“City Vision,” Media City Seoul 2000, Seoul, Korea.
“2000 Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue.
“Black Box,” Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland.

1999
“Mirror’s Edge,” BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden.
“Artists Select,” Artists Space, New York.

Selected Bibliography

2003
Tate, Greg, ed. “My Black Death,” Everything but the Burden. New York: Random House.

2001
Bowser, Pearl et al., eds. “Coherency,” Oscar Micheaux and His Circle. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1993
Jafa, Arthur. “Like Rashomon but Different,” Artforum (summer).

1992
Jafa, Arthur, and Greg Tate. “La Venus Negra,” Artforum (January).
Dent, Gina, ed. “69,” Black Popular Culture: A Project by Michelle Wallace. Seattle: Bay Press.