Carl Pope Jr.

Installation detail of The Use of the ‘A’ . . . from The Bad Air Smelled of Roses, 2005.
90 letterpress boardsides, dimensions variable.

The Bad Air Smelled of Roses, 2005 (detail). Letterpress boardside, 22 × 14 inches.

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Indianapolis, Indiana, 1961
Resides: Varies
Education: Indiana University (M.F.A., 1999); National Graduate Photography Seminar, New York University (1999); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1997) Southern Illinois University (B.A., 1984)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006
“A Celebration of Blackness,” Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama.

1999
Allcott Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
SoFA Gallery, Indiana University Bloomington.
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut. Catalogue.

1996
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut.

1994
City Site Projects /Atlanta Arts Festival.

1991
Evansville Museum of Art, Indiana.

1990
Raw Space, ARC Gallery, Chicago.

1989
Cunningham Gallery, Indianapolis. Traveled.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006
“Parallel Economies,” Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta.
“More that Dirty South,” Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami.
“Afrofuturism,” The Soap Factory, Minneapolis.

2004
“Six Baltimore/Six Chicago Artists,” Baltimore Arts Festival.
“Some Things Happening,” Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis.

2003
“Only Skin Deep National Survey,” International Center for Photography, New York.

2002
“Enough about Me,” Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn.

2001
“Two Soups,” La Galleria l’Affiche, Milan.
“Faculty Exhibition 2001,” University Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
“Committed to the Image,” Brooklyn Museum. Catalogue.
“Solutus,” Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen.

2000
“Black and Blue,” Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
“Art and Efficacy,” Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
“2000 Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue.

1999
“Abject Edge,” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles.

1998
“Falling Toward Grace,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana. Catalogue.

1996
“150 Years of Photography from the Collection,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana.

1995
“American Color,” Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles. Traveled.
“Works from the Permanent Collection,” Saint Louis Art Museum.

1994
“Black Male,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled. Catalogue.
“Artists Select,” Artists Space, New York.

1993
“Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America,” Children’s Museum, Indianapolis.
“Adrian Piper/Lorna Simpson/Carl Pope,” Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis.

1992
“Adrian Piper/Carl Pope,” Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indiana. Catalogue.
“More Than One Photography: Works from the Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1991
“Homeless,” Indiana University Gallery, Bloomington.
“Mel Edwards, William Majors, and Carl Pope,” Shircliff Gallery, Vincennes, Indiana.
“Vertical Axis,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
“Biennial III: New Works,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.

1990
“Carl Pope/Donith Dougherty ‘Photographs’,” Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis.
“New Photography 6,” Museum of Modern Art,
New York.
“New Accessions in Photography, 1984–90,” Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

1989
“Bing Davis/Aminah Brenda/Lynn Robinson/Carl Pope,” Indiana State University Gallery, Terre Haute.
“Raymond Saunders: Some Choices,” Long Beach Museum of Art, California.
“Omnibus: Ten Mid-Career Artists,” Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indiana.

1987
“PAXI 7,” Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indiana.