Willie Cole

Biographie

Street Dragon, 2018
Big Chief with a Bolden Crown, 2017
Big Chief with Bolden Crown, 2017
Black Panther, 2016
Men of Iron, 2004

Born in 1955 in Somerville, Willie Cole grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He studied at BFA, The School of Visual Arts, New York,1976-1979, as well as The Art Students League, New York. He lives and works in Mine Hill, New Jersey and is known for his mixed media sculptures that focus on the cultures of West Africa.

Cole has received many awards for his work as an artist, including the Penny McCall Foundation Grant in 1991, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant in 1995, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 1996, the David C. Driskell Prize in 2006, and Timehri Award for Leadership in the Arts in 2009. In 2004, Cole received the Lamar Dodd Fellowship at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Cole served as an artist-in-residence at several institutions, including the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington, the Contemporary in Baltimore, Maryland, the Capp Street Project in San Francisco, California, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

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Expositions

Out of the Whirlwind's Radiance
23 Août 2018
50 Golborne is delighted to present Out of the Whirlwind’s Radiance, a group exhibition featuring artists Willie Cole (b. Somerville, NJ, USA, 1955), Emo de Medeiros (b. Cotonou, Benin, 1979), Fatoumata Diabate (b. Bamako, Mali, 1980), Jakob Dwight (b. Mobile, Alabama, USA, 1977), Phyllis Galembo (b. New York, USA, 1952) and Leah Gordon (b. Ellesmere Port, UK, 1959), who explore in their work the notions of carnival and masquerade in Africa and its diaspora.
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Willie Cole American , 1955

1-54 Contemporary Art Fair, NY 2021

AKAA, Paris 2018

Out of the Whirlwind's Radiance

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