Pope.L

October 17 – December 5, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17, 6 – 8
Artist led walking tour: Saturday, November 7, 11am

Steve Turner is pleased to present Desert, a solo exhibition by Pope.L that will feature sculpture, photography, drawing and film. A companion Pope.L exhibition, Forest, opens at Susanne Vielmetter Projects on October 23. Desert and Forest are Pope.L’s first solo exhibitions following Trinket, his acclaimed exhibition at MOCA, Los Angeles.

Desert includes a new set of photographs entitled Servants, re-photographed and manipulated 19th century photographs of black caretakers; two groups of new sculpture – Erasers and Packages Received But Never Opened; as well as a new film entitled Obi Sunt. Pope.L will also stir into the mix some older works – Failure Drawings (2004-06) and Nigger Eraser (1998), made out of a container of deodorant.

Obi Sunt is a forty minute film that combines footage of Pope.L that was shot in Goldfield, Nevada with black and white images from a rare photo album that documents the legendary 1906 boxing match that pitted Joe Gans, an African American, known as “The Master”, against Oscar “Battling” Nelson, the “Durable Dane”. Dubbed “The Fight of the Century,” it took place in Goldfield, a booming gold mining town that was then Nevada’s largest city. The fight lasted 42 rounds, making it the longest fight in modern boxing history. In the final round, after knocking Nelson down repeatedly throughout the fight, Gans was declared the winner when Nelson was disqualified for throwing one too many low blows.

According to Pope.L: “Desert and Forest, explore an ‘in between’, a space, both figurative and literal, between art works, ideas, bodies, and institutions. I emphasize the poetic, social, and material qualities of this space in a network of hinges which all trigger on something going away, coming up missing, lacking or distanced and the meanings stirred as a result. Sometimes it is as simple as loneliness. From erasers with holes to blacks who are blacked to photos re-photo-ed to deserts that flourish in absence as presence.”

In addition to the two exhibitions at Turner and Vielmetter, there is a GPS driving tour of the route in between the two galleries. For those who prefer to walk, on Saturday, November 7, starting at 11 AM, artist Donel Williams will lead a group from Steve Turner to Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.

Link to GPS driving tour here.

William Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. He has been making and exhibiting multidisciplinary works since the 1970s and has been featured in numerous publications including Intersections edited by Marci Nelligan and Nicole Mauro and How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness by Darby English. He was the recipient of the 2012 Joyce Foundation Award and has had recent solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2015); Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (2014); Littman Gallery, Portland State University (2014); Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2013) and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2013).

POPE.L
Born 1955, Newark, New Jersey
Lives and works in Chicago

Education
1985
Mabou Mines Re.Cher.Chez. Theater Intensive, New York
1981
Mason Gross School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, M.F.A.
1978
Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program, New York
1978
Montclair State College, Montclair, New Jersey, B.A.
1975
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2015
Forest, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles
Desert, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Trinket, The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2014
Gold People Shit In Their Valet, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Claim, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
2013
Cage Unrequited, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, New York
Colored Waiting Room, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Forlesen, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
A Long White Cloud, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Reenactor, Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA; traveled to
Hodgepodge Building on Strawberry Alley, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
Three Projects, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2011
Child, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2010
landscape + object + animal, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
color isn’t matter, Samson Projects, Boston
2009
The Black Factory, Art Projects Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
Corbu Pops, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
William Pope.L, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London
Yard (to harrow), Hauser + Wirth, New York
2008
October Projects, «GreetingLine», New York
Animal Nationalism: Small Cup, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
Animal Nationalism: Trinket, Exhibition Hall at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri
Biting Through Innocence, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2007
Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning, The Art Institute of Chicago
Art After White People: time, trees, & celluloid…, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
William Pope.L: snow, spraypaint, hair, sperm & baloney, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London
William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
The Void Show, MC Kunst, Los Angeles
2006
Condoleezza Rice Day, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
Trophy Room, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Under All, Above Most, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2005
some things you can do with blackness…. Kenny Schachter ROVE, London
Props & Propositions, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2004
Five Ways to Say the Same Sadness, University Art Museum, University at Albany, New York
eRacism: electronica, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
reFunkt: prints & dvds, The Project, New York
eRacism, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; traveled to Artists Space, New York
2003
Foddah, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
Some: Of Place and Desire, ArtHouse, Austin
eRacism, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; traveled to Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland
2002
What’s Inside a Boy, The Project, Los Angeles
eRacism, ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland
Incontinent, Wood Street Gallery, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2001
Hole Theory, The Project, New York
2000
Eracism: White Room, ThreadWaxing Space, New York
The Hole Inside The Space Inside Yves Klein’s Asshole, Concordia University, Montreal
Eating The Wall Street Journal And Other Current Consumptions, Mobius, Boston
1998
Recent Work, The Project, New York
1996
Buddy Performance Objects, with Jim Calder, Touchstone Theater, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1993
William Pope.L, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York
1992
William Pope.L, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
1991
How Much is that Nigger in the Window, 30 performances, writings and installations, Franklin Furnace, New York

Selected Group Shows

2015
(Counter)Public Art, Intervention, & Performance in Lower Manhattan from 1978-1993, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
TOWER, Ibid. London
Mashup, Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, New York
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York
2014
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
CON/TEXT, Lynch Tham, New York
Days Inn, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Itinerant Belongings, Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
Pierogi X X, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn
Poor Working Conditions, Martos Gallery, New York
Ruffneck Constructivists, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville
Warm Side of Zero, Overduin & Co, Los Angeles
2013
African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; traveled to The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Akron Museum, Akron, Ohio
Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Body Language, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Grey Art Gallery, NY Burying the Lede, Momenta Art, Brooklyn
Against the Grain; Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design, curated by Lowery Stokes Sims, Museum of Art and Design, New York
Cliff and Better, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
The Eleventh Hour, DiverseWorks, Houston
Galerie Catherine Bastide booth at Frieze Art Fair NYC, New York
Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, and Again, and Again, Castillo/Corrales, Paris
Incognito 2013, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
Kaboom! Comics in Art, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
Pull! Reading Room, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2012
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Blues for Smoke. The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Fax. University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii; DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan; Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco
30 Americans. The Rubell Family Collection, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Wall Text. Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
superHUMAN, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, Utah; traveling to Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark
2011
After Images. Musee Juif de Belgique, Brussels
Another Kind of Vapor. White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri
The Bearden Project. The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
D’un Autre Monde. Le Printemps de Septembre – à Toulouse, contemporary art festival, Toulouse, France
Fax. Apex Gallery, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota; Saint Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; South London Gallery, London; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tenessee
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), Röda Sten Art Centre, Göteborg, Sweden
History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present. PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland; Laznia Center, Gdansk, Poland
Inti. On Stellar Rays, New York
The Painting Show. Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Prospect.2 New Orleans. New Orleans
30 Americans. The Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
2010
The 2010 DeCordova Biennial, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachussetts
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Fax. Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Barnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, New York; Museu de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; New Galerie, Paris
History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present. Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus, Denmark
The Last Newspaper. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Process Show. 37-A Gallery, Portland
Resurrectine. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Slightly Unbalanced. Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia
2009
Allan Kaprow YARD (to Harrow), Hauser & Wirth, New York
30 Seconds Off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Self as Disappearance, Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry. Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York
Carnival Within – An Exhibition Made in America. Uferhallen, Berlin
Collected: Propositions on the Permanent Collection. The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Fax. The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
Pour. installation at the Botanical Gardens, Art Projects at Art Basil Miami Beach, Mitchell-Innes & Nash in collaboration with Galerie Catherine Bastide, Miami Beach
Slightly Unbalanced. Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana; Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada
Summer Exhibition. Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Trouble at the Front (Troubles aux Frontieres). Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
2008
30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Paul Thek: In the Contexts of Today’s Contemporary Art (PART TWO), Sammlung Falkenburg, Hamburg, Germany
Black Is, Black Ain’t, The Renaissance Society at University of Chicago
Brainwave: Common Sense. Exit Art, New York
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America, The International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor. Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present. Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
Informal Architectures (Pt. 2), Winnepeg, Canada
Kenny Schachter ROVE. booth at Volta Art Fair NYC, New York, NY; booth at Art Cologne International Art Fair, Cologne
Mergers and Acquisitions. Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA Retail Value, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City
2007
Port City: On Mobility and Exchange, Arnolfini, Bristol
Keeping Up With the Joneses. Schroeder Romero, New York
New York – States of Mind. House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Paul Thek: In the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art. ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art. Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Informal Architectures, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada
Get Lost, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Conceptual Paper, Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
Plug, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles
Silicone Valley, PS-1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2006
South Bronx Contemporary: Longwood 25th Anniversary, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
A Noir, E Blanc, I Rouge, U Vert, O Bleu: Farben. Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present. Galleria Neon>fdv, Milan, Italy; MAN museum at the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Shed Piece, Frieze Art Fair, London
7e Biennale de l’Art Africaine Contemporaire, Dakar, Senegal
Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Newark Between Us, 744 Gallery/Newark Arts Council, Newark, New Jersey
Stories, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Situation Comedy, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg,Canada; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Skowhegan at 60, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
Humor Me, H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Relics and Remnants, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York
Dreaming of a More Better Future, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2005
Hero, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Incognito. Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
Looking at Words: The Formal Use of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Moving Collection: Body-Con. Tactical Museum at Nadiff, Tokyo
Reverse Engineers. Carnegie Art Center, North Towanda, New York
Landmark, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland
RAPSIDA, Gallery 138, New York
Double Consciousness, Museum of Contemporary Arts Houston, Houston
Situation Comedy, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Decarie, Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal
Defense, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, California
2004
The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Watch What We Say, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
5 x 7 Exhibition. Art House Gallery, Austin
Harlem Postcards: Spring 2004. The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Romantic Detachment. PS-1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-2004, Gallery 138, New York
Moving Collection: Body-Con, Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Reverse Engineers, Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Only Skin Deep, International Center for Photography, New York
2003
Moving Collection: Body-Con, Wanakio Festival, Naha, Okinawa
diSTILLation. Fylkingen, Stockholm
In Heat. Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn
Motion Studies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
White, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
Ameri©an Dre@m, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York
2002
Art & Outrage, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Wallow. The Project, New York
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Reactions, Exit Art Gallery, New York
Moving Collection: Body-Con, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
2001
Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Bach
2000
Pix, Lance Fung Gallery, New York
Friendships in Arcadia: Writers and Artists at Yaddo in the 90s. Art in General, New York; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York
Söma Söma Söma. Sculpture Center, New York
1999
Out of Actions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona
The History of the Future. Franklin Furnace, New York
Paradise 8. Exit Art, New York
1998
warming, The Project, New York
Out of Actions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MAK, Vienna
Apocalypse Now. HERE Art Gallery, New York
Freedom, Liberation and Change: Revisiting 1968. Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
A Negro Sleeps Beneath the Susquehanna. Hide and Seek Residency, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Peek. HERE Art Gallery, New York
1997
Available Culture. HERE Art Gallery, New York
Birdhouses. Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, New Jersey
Birds of a Feather. Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Habitat for Humanity: (bird)Houses. New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey
Out on a Limb. Midland Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey
1996
Exquisite Corpse. Danforth Gallery, Portland, Maine
1995
Art in the USA since 1950. Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Dysfunctional Art. Tompkins Cove Art Center/Hudson Arts at Franklin Furnace, New York
Outside The Frame: Performance & the Object: A Survey History of Performance Satellite Choice: Young Curators Explore Diversity. Artists Space, New York
1994
Art in the USA since 1950. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Outside The Frame: Performance & the Object: A Survey History of Performance The Return of the Cadavre Exquis. Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Santa Monica: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri; American Center, Paris
1993
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis. Drawing Center, New York
Transient Decor. Roger Smith Hotel, New York
Various Objects. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1991
Looking for Aunt Jenny. Art in General, New York
1990
Action and Artifact. Weatherspoon Gallery at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
1985
Post-Modern Icons. Franklin Furnace, New York
1984
Found Language. Franklin Furnace, New York
Radical Culture. Fashion Moda Gallery, Bronx, New York
1983
Rutgers Invitational. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

SELECTED PERFORMANCES AND SCREENINGS:

2015
Cage Unrequited, MCA Live, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (forthcoming)
2014
Media Replication Services, with Caroline Bergvall, Lisa Gitelman , and William Pope.L, facilitated by Triple Canopy, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Costume Made of Nothing. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mercier and Camier. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
2013
Pull, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
Burying the Blues. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Cage Unrequited. Performa-13: Three Duets, Seven Variations, at Soto Velez, New York
2012
Costume Made of Nothing. Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston
Firing Squad. Grizedale Arts, Frieze Art Fair, London
A Personal History of Curation. Case Study: William Pope.L Interprets Fluxkit, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2011
Blink, Prospect.2, New Orleans
Göteborg Crawl. Röda Sten Art Centre, Göteborg, Sweden
Paste. Flux This!, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2010
Cusp. Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Cusp (Kafka version). Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris
Eating the Wall Street Journal (new millennium version). New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2009
Corbu Pop Singers. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ET. Haverford College. Haverford, Pennsylvania
The Great White Way: 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street. New York
The Storage Room. Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2007
In the Cabin, House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Berlin
Holiday/Dovolená, Prague Quadrennial, Prague
Black Elvis with Black Object Collection. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco
141 Demands for a Better World. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco
Under the Milk. Watermill Center, Watermill, New York
2006
Condoleezza Rice Day, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
In the Cabin! Mobius at Midway Theater, Midway Theater, Boston
The Black Factory, various venues, USA
Poor Piece, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
Singing the House, MIT, Boston
Santa Fe Group Crawl, Santa Fe
Before You Can Walk: Crawl Santa Fe. Santa Fe Art Institute, Center for Contemporary Arts, Institute for American Indian Arts, Santa Fe Public Schools
Adelante Program, and the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe 2006. Santa Fe
The Yeti and the Case for Contemporary Photography. Kenny Schachter ROVE booth at Art Cologne International Art Fair, Cologne
2005
White Room #4: Wittgenstein and My Brother Frank, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London
Bringing the Decarie to the Mountain (group crawl), Montreal
The Black Factory. various venues, USA
The Yeti and the Case for Contemporary Photography, Cologne Art Fair, Cologne
Angel-Vision, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, UK
2004
White Room #2: Moby Dick, Roosevelt Island lighthouse, New York
White Room #3: Music Appreciation, PS-1, Queens, New York
Negarkuisse Part 2, House of World Cultures, Berlin
Negarkuisse Part 1, House of World Cultures, Berlin
The Black Factory, various venues, USA
Cleveland Free Clinic Crawl. Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
The Great White Way: 22 Miles, 7 Years, 1 Street. New York
2003
Anglo-Vision, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Angel Vision. Mobius, Boston
Coon. Cinema Texas, University of Texas at Austin and Arthouse, Austin
Candy Mountain, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland
Freedman’s Town to Enron City (Houston group crawl), DiverseWorks, Houston
2002
The Great White Way: 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street, New York
Eracism, Portland Stage Company, Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine Crawl, Portland, Maine
a MORE. Robert Miller Gallery, New York
In-Continents. Wood Street Galleries, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pall Mall. The Project, Los Angeles
2001
I Love Japan, Tokyo
Shopping Crawl, Shibuya, Tokyo
Bringing the Homeless Back to Shinjuku, Shinjuku Station, Tokyo
distributing martin. Multiple locations, New York
The Great White Way: 22 Miles, 5 Years, 1 Street. Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2000
Eracism, ThreadWaxing Space, New York
Eating the Wall Street Journal, The Sculpture Center, New York
Selling My Grandmother, Yard Sale, New York City Lab School, New York
Boston Commons Crawl, Boston School of Fine Art, Boston
The Hole Inside The Space Inside Yves Klein’s Asshole. Concordia University, Montreal
1999
The Black Body and Sport, Berlin, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; Budapest, Hungary; Madrid
The White Mountain (Wonder Bread), Postmasters Gallery, New York
My Niagra #3 (Paint). Los Angeles
Raymond (version 2), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
The Buddy Performance. With Jim Calder, HERE Performance Space, New York
I Am Still Black. Mail art postcard series, multiple recipients
Milk Pour. New York
1998
My Niagra #2 (Bed), The Project, New York
My Niagra #1 (Paint), Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland
A Negro Sleeps Beneath the Susquehanna, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Eracism (version 8), 7alld Festival, Toronto
The Buddy Performance. With Jim Calder, Sewanee: University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Thunderbird Immolation. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1997
ATM Piece, 42nd Street, New York
Sweet Desire, Maine Arts Festival, Brunswick, Maine
Eracism, Mobius, Boston
Raymond. Galapagos, Brooklyn
1996
Sweet Desire, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Member, Harlem, New York
The Buddy Performance. With Jim Calder, HERE Performance Space, New York, NY; Touchstone Theater, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Eracism (version #7). With Michelle Hendricks and band, Ko Performance Festival, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachussetts
Eracism (version #7a). With Bryn Manion and band, Performance Art, Culture, and Pedagogy Symposium, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Member (a.k.a. Schlong Journey). 125th Street, Harlem, New York
Raymond. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1995
The Buddy Performance. With Jim Calder, Ko Theater Festival, Amherst College, Amherst, MA; PS 122, New York
Eracism (version #5). Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
My Penis is Fine How are You? Mail art postcard series, multiple recipients
1994
Black Domestic a.k.a. Roach Motel Black. New York
Eracism (version #4). Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, Ohio
The Buddy Performance. With Jim Calder, Franklin Furnace in Exile, PS 122, New York
1993
A House is a Home with a Hole in the Middle. Olney neighborhood, hosted through Cosa, Philadelphia
I Get Paid to Rub Mayo on my Body (version #2). Roger Smith Hotel, New York
Eracism (version #3). Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
Eracism (version #2). Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
Eracism (version #4a, with golf demo). Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
Raymond. Horodner Romley Gallery, New York
1992
Eracism (version #1). Downtown Art, New York
Levitating the Magnesia. Horodner Romley Gallery, New York
The Vulture Speaks. Touchstone Theater, Bethlehem, PA; CoMotion Theater, Lancaster, PA; Downtown Art, New York
White Baby (or How Much is that Nigger in the Window). Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, Ohio
1991
The Aunt Jenny Chronicles. With Johnny Brooks, Lydia Grey, John Patterson, and Richard Robinson, PS 122, New York
How Much Is That Nigger In The Window a.k.a. Eating the Wall Street Journal (street version). Franklin Furnace, New York
How Much Is That Nigger In The Window a.k.a. I Get Paid to Rub Mayo on my Body. Franklin Furnace, New York
How Much Is That Nigger In The Window a.k.a. Selling Mayonnaise. Franklin Furnace, New York
How Much Is That Nigger In The Window a.k.a. Suck Harder. Franklin Furnace, New York
How Much Is That Nigger In The Window a.k.a. Times Square Crawl. Franklin Furnace, New York
How Much Is That Nigger In The Window a.k.a. Tompkins Square Crawl. Franklin Furnace, New York
How Much Is That Nigger In The Window a.k.a. Writing/Sleeping/Living on the Flag. Franklin Furnace, New York
The Public Life of the secret Writer. Philadelphia Mythos Festival, hosted through Cosa Cosa, Philadelphia
1990
Egg Eating Contest or How Much is that Nigger in the Window. The Fringe Series, BACA
Downtown Cultural Center, Brooklyn; Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Dixon Place, New York; Cone Art Gallery at Weatherspoon Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina; Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, Ohio; Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Knitting Factory, New York; Movement Research, New York
1989
George is in the Lake. With Ledlie Borgerhoff, Jim Calder (director), Carl Schnedeker, and others, Franklin Furnace, New York
The Nigger and the Narcissus. Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, Ohio
Mindhouse, a.k.a. Anxiety Speaks. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Uncle Remus in Hell. With Joe Daly, Barbara Hiesiger, Carl Schnedeker, and Melinda Levokove, WFMU, Upsala College, East Orange, New Jersey; WBAI, New York; WKNJ, Kean College, Union, New Jersey; WZSC, San Francisco; CKLN, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada; WERU, East Orland, Maine
1988
Anna and Paul. With Lydia Grey (director), Diane Petruzzelli, Ursula R. (musician), and Gordon Smith, Chameleon Bar, New York
At the Foot of the Grenade. With Jim Calder and Joe Daly, Franklin Furnace, New York
1987
Anna and Paul. With Bill Castle, Catherine Coray (director), and Holly Hughes, BACA Downtown Cultural Center, Brooklyn; Franklin Furnace, New York
Gen. George at Valley Forge. With Jessie Allen, Ledlie Borgerhoff, Joe Daly, Barbara Hiesiger, Tom Miller, and others, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
LocoMotives. With Tesla Linkum Theater Collective (Ledlie Borgerhoff, Jim Calder, Catherine Coray, Joe Daly, Tom Miller (music), and others), PS 122, New York
Opie in the Desert. Chameleon Bar, New York
Warrior Ant. Assistant Director to Lee Breur, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
1986
Okee-La-Homa. With Tesla Linkum Theater Collective, Fringe Festival, BACA Downtown Cultural Center, Brooklyn
8 Part Soap Opera (sections 1, 2, 5A, and 7). With Ledlie Borgerhoff, Jim Calder, and Tom Miller (music), Tweed Gallery, New York; Re.Cher.Chez, New York; BACA Downtown Cultural Center, Brooklyn; WFMU, Upsala College, East Orange, New Jersey; Franklin Furnace, New York; Folk City, New York
1985
Christ and Freedom. With Lydia Grey and Kathleen Smith, Art Galaxy, New York
1984
At the Foot of the Grenade. With Jim Calder and Joe Daly, International Mime and Movement Festival, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia
1983
Anxiety Speaks. American Dreams Festival, Just Above Midtown, New York
Okee-La-Homa. With Tesla Linkum Theater Collective, Re.Cher.Chez, New York
Loco-Motives. With Tesla Linkum Theater Collective, Re.Cher.Chez, New York
1982
First Soap Opera (with butter). Mason Gross School of the Arts graduation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1981
Naked Plains. With Joni Harmon and Barbara Seyda, Anthology Film Archives, New York
1978
Meditation Square Pieces a.k.a. Gutter Pieces a.k.a. Times Square Crawl. New York
Meditation Square Pieces a.k.a. Gutter Pieces a.k.a. Thunderbird Immolation. New York
Meditation Square Pieces a.k.a. Gutter Pieces a.k.a. Singing in the Rain. New York
1977
Happening. Montclair State College, Montclair, New Jersey
Jon Wayne. Band, with Brian McCormack, Ellen LaForge, Franc Palaia, and Steve Davison. Multiple venues, through 1983

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS

2012
Joyce Foundation Award
2007
Tiffany Foundation Award
Nancy Graves Foundation Award
2006
United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship
LEF Foundation
Bellagio
2005
Grizedale Foundation Residency Fellowship
2004
Guggenheim Fellowship
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, faculty in residence. Skowhegan, Maine
2003
Rockefeller Foundation
2002
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art
2001
Japan – U.S. Friendship Commission Fellowship
The Andy Warhol Foundation
Creative Capital Foundation
2000
Franklin Furnace/Jerome Foundation
Tanne Foundation Fellowship
1999
Maine Arts Commission Fellowship Grant
1997
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
Tennessee William Writer-In-Residence, Sewanee: University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
1996
Ko Performance Festival Residency, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachussetts
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Residency, Skowhegan, Maine
1995
National Endowment for the Arts
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
Ko Performance Festival Residency, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachussetts
1994
National Endowment for the Arts
New England Regional Initiative Project
New Forms Artist’s Project Award
Maine Arts Commission Fellowship Grant
1993
National Endowment for the Arts
Art Matters
1992
Franklin Furnace/Jerome Foundation Fund for Art
New England Regional Initiative Project Grant
1991
Mid Atlantic Residency
1990
Art Matters Grant
1989
Mt. Holyoke Writers Workshop
Art Matters Grant
1988
New England Regional Initiative Project Grant
1987
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Playwright’s Development Grant
1986
Just Above Midtown Curator-Artist/Television Grant
Artists Space Grant
1984
Artists Space Grant

SELECTED TALKS, LECTURES AND PANELS

2014
Art Talk: William Pope.L. University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design with The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
(K)NOW: Artists & the Production of New Knowledge, Now – William Pope.L, The Two Projects Talk. Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota
Media Replication Services. With Lisa Gitelman and Caroline Bergvall for Triple
Canopy, Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
The Diversity Talk. Panel with Zachary Cahill, Wolfie E. Rawk, Lise Yun Lee, and Romi Crawford. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2013
Artist Talk. Columbia University, New York
Artist Talk. Kent Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago
Artist Talk – Two Projects. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Episode 405: William Pope.L. Bad at Sports, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
Skowhegan Conversations #5: Pope.L & Zachary Fabri. The Drawing Center, New York
William Pope.L: Before and After PULL! Cultural Conversation Series, High Concept Laboratories, Chicago
2012
Artist Talk. Conversations with Artists Series: Art as Experiment, Center for the Study of Modern Art, The Phillips Collections, Washington, DC
Artist Talk. Grossman Visiting Artist, Williams Center, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Mike Kelley Moving Forward. Panel with Rachel Harrison and Joe Scanlan, MoMA PS-1, Long Island City, New York
Three Projects. Movement Lecture Series, Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Visiting Artist Talk. Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
William Pope.L Artist Talk. Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2011
Awards Speech for Geoffrey Hendricks. VaVa Voom! Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards, New York
Graduation Talk. Commencement, Maine College of Art (MECA), Portland, Maine
Think Tank. The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2010
Expanded, Exploded, Collapsed? Panel with Johanna Burton and Josiah McElheny moderated by Fionn Meade, hosted by Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the Sculpture Center, at The New School, New York
Visiting Artist Talk. Department of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
William Pope.L Artist Talk. Poag Auditorium, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee
2009
Artist Talk: Recent Work. Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA; Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts
Residency Presentation. Acadia Summer Arts Program (Kippy Kamp), Mount Desert Island, Maine
2008
Artist Lecture. Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Artist Talk. Grand Arts and Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Artist Talk. Plug In at ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Artist Talk. Montclair Art Museum and Montclair University, Montclair, New Jersey
Artist Talk. Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York
Panel Discussion. Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago
Recent Projects. Hunter College, New York
Some Recent Things I Made That Do Not Go Together – a lecture by William Pope.L. Grand Valley State University (GVSU) and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), Grand Rapids, Michigan
2007
Art as Intervention. Roundtable discussion moderated by Mark Bessire, Art of Concern Symposium 2007, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Artist Talk. Art Institute of Chicago
Artist Talk. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco
An Evening with William Pope.L. Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Santa Monica
Influence Lecture, version 11. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Visiting Artist Talk. Union Institute & University at Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont
2006
Artist Talk. Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe
Black Factory Round Table Discussion. Gallery 400, Chicago
Black Factory Talk, version 3. Foreman Gallery, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC, Canada
Black Factory Talk, version 4. Nova Art Fair, Chicago
Graduation Talk. Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta
Influence Lecture, version 11. University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; California College of Art (CCA), San Francisco; Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center at UCLA, Los Angeles; University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico; Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Lecture Seminar. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Politics of Visual Culture, Black Factory Talk. College Art Association, Annual Conference, Boston
2005
Influence Lecture, version 11. Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; American University, Washington, DC; University of Buffalo, Buffalo
2004
Artist Talk. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Barbara Lee Artist Lecture Series, Skowhegan, Maine
Community Conversation with the Artist on eRacism. Mason Gross Art Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Conversation with Christian Rattemeyer + Lowery Sims. Artists Space, New York
eRacism Panel Discussion. With Barbara Pollack, Andre Lepecki, José Muñoz, and Midori Yoshimoto, Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
Influence Lecture, version 3. Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Carnegie Mellon School of the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; University of California, Davis, CA;
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; University of Illinois, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Columbia University, New York, NY; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Artists Space, New York
Madison Project: Challenging the Public Art Paradigm. Panel at University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Project Lecture: The Black Factory. Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
The Third Body. Panel at House of World Cultures, Berlin
2003
Artist Talk. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
Conversation with Lowery Sims. DiverseWorks, Houston
Influence Lecture, version 2. University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany, New York; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Drew University, Madison, New Jersey; University of Texas, Austin; New York Studio School
Sandwich Lecture 8 (Klingon Talk). Live Culture: Performance and the Contemporary, Tate Modern, London
2002
Sandwich Lecture. Ingestation, Maine College of Art (MECA), Portland, Maine
2000
Bocio Text. Symposium on African Art, ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Yves Klein & Neil Young. Concordia University, Montreal
1998
Interventionism. Panel with Kika Thorne, Adrian Blackwell, D. Anne Taylor, Anna Banana, and J. Householder (moderator), 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto

Selected Curatorial Projects

2011
Flux This! With Rob Andrews, Maren Hassinger, Geoffrey Hendricks, Martin Kersels, Clifford Owens, Rafael Sanchez, Xaviera Simmons, and Catherine Sullivan, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2000
Söma Söma Söma. With Patty Chang and Geoffrey Hendricks, Sculpture Center, New York

Selected Bibliography

2015
Finkel, Jori. “William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes.” The New York Times, March 18
Burns, Charlotte. “William Pope.L Wants to Bring Down the House.” The Artnewspaper, March 16
Joselit, David. “Material Witness: David Joselit on Visual Evidence and the Case of Eric Garner.” Artforum, February
2014
Motley, John. William Pope.L, the self-described ‘Friendliest Black Artist in America,’ returns to Portland for ‘Claim’ at PSU. The Oregonian, Feb 5
Pope.L, William, and Karen Reimer, eds., Showing Up to Withhold. Chicago: The Renaissance Society and the University of Chicago Press
2013
Caniglia, John. “PULL!” offers city a labor of art as it rolls through Cleveland streets. The Plain Dealer, June 9
Foumberg, Jason. “Is Chicago Ready for William Pope.L?” ChicagoMag.com, May
Simonini, Ross. William Pope.L. Interview Magazine, Feb 6
2012
Sortor, Carolyn. “Looking Back, Looking Forward”, artandseek.net, September 12
Dirié, Clément, ed. “William Pope.L: Black People are Cropped.” JRP Ringier
Diaz, Eva. “Prospect.2, New Orleans” Artofurm, February
2011
Nathan, Emily. “Prospect.2 New Orleans: Beating Heart Biennial.” artnet.com, November
2010
“La Fiac sur Orbite Internationale.” Spécial Fiac. October
“The Twenty.” New York Magazine, August 30 to September 6
Barliant, Claire. “Reviews: The Last Newspaper.” Time Out: New York, November 4
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Art and News, Intersecting in the Digital Age.” The New York Times, October 7
Garza, Evan J. “Review: William Pope.L at Samson.” Flash Art, May to June
Wilson, Michael. “Art Review: William Pope.L., landscape + object + animal.” May
Vanderbuilt, Tom. “Review: The Last Newspaper, the New Museum.” ArtForum, October
2009
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: William Pope.L.” The New York Times, October
Marjian, Ana. “Review: William Pope.L at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University.” ArtForum, February
Anstead, Alicia. “Art that Pops – A new installation by William Pope.L transforms Carpenter Center into a playground for challenging ideas.” Arts Spectrum, Cambridge, MA. February
Zhong, Fan. “Yard Work.” Interview Magazine, September
2008
“Goings on About Town: William Pope.L.” The New Yorker, October 13
“Agenda: William Pope.L.” New York Magazine, September 17 to 24
Cotter, Holland. “The Topic is Race; the Art is Fearless.” The New York Times, March 30
Levin, Kim. “Reviews: New York, William Pope.L at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.”
Valdez, Sarah. ARTnews.
“William Pope.L at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.” Art on Paper, November/December pg 84 to 85
2007
Dorin, Lisa and Darby English. “William Pope.L: Drawing, Dreaming and Drowning.” The Art Institute of Chicago Journal, October
Antebi, Nicole et al. “Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices.” Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, Los Angeles, CA, pp.60-61, 62-65, 144, 147-148, 176, 180-183, 216.
English, Darby, “How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness.” MIT Press
Taft, Catherine. “William Pope.L. Critics’ Picks.” ArtForum. November 13
2006
Agans, Elizabeth. “Think Again.” Rutgers Magazine, Winter
Chase, Alisia. “Learning to be Human.” Afterimage, January-February
Lepecki, Andre. Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement. Routledge
Sayer, Laura. “Undies to See the Light.” The New Record, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 5-8
Storey, Natalie. On Your Knees! The Santa Fe New Mexican Magazine, March 12-18
Van Cleve, Emily. “Performer Makes an Art of Humiliation.” The Journal Santa Fe, March 3
2005
Delgado, Jerome. “Amener l’Autoroute a la Montagne.” La Presse. Montreal, Canada, June 2
Dischinger, Mark. “The United Colors of America.” RFT: Riverfront Times, St Louis, Missouri, June 15-21
Firstenberg, Lauri. “Profile: Tapping the energy of Predicament.” Contemporary Magazine, New York
Harthill, Daniel. “Shazam!” Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine, May 30
Lamarche, Bernard. “Toucher Son But.” Le Devoir, Montreal, Canada, May 15
McKanic, Arlene. “JCAL’s Relics and Remnants.” The New York Amsterdam News. November 3-9
Pope.L, William. “The “Looking for Miss Black Factory” Contest.” Art Journal, Spring
Pope.L, William. “Letter to a Young Artist.” Art on Paper, July/August
Sedgewick, Augustine. “Perspective: William Pope.L, The Possibilities of Difference.” Sun Journal, June 12
Thorson, Alice. “Highlighting ‘Blackness.” Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri, June 12
2004
Cotter, Holland. “Hometown of Utopia and Dissent.” The New York Times, New York, July 23
Daily, Meghan. “William Pope.L.” ArtForum, April
Smith, Roberta. “William Pope.L.” The New York Times, January 30
Osei-Bonsu, Aufa. “The Art of Contraries: William Pope.L.”. Afrique, Chicago, April
Thompson, Chris. “Afterbirth of a Nation.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
Tousignant, Isa. “Crawl for Your Life.” The Hour, Montreal, Canada, November 4
Trainor, James. “Ain’t No Such Thing As Superman.” Frieze, London, England, May
2003
Calo, Carole Gold. “Public Art/Private Art.” Public Art Review Crossroads, Fall-Winter
D.K. Row. “Covered In Chocolate, An Artist Dances ‘For Democracy’.” The Oregonian, June 12
Owens, Clifford. “Notes on Critical Black U.S. Performance Art.” Fylkingen Net Journal, October 23
Pollack, Barbara. “The Art of Public Disturbance.” Art in America, May
Pope.L, William. “Sandwich Lecture 8”. LIVE Culture, Tate Gallery, London, Spring
Stillman, Nick. “ARTSEEN: William Pope.L, The Great White Way”. The Brooklyn Rail, June
Stillman, Nick. “The Value of Not Knowing.” New York Fine Arts Quarterly (NYFA), Vol. 19, No 2, Spring
Trainor, James. “Walking the Walk: The Artist as Flâneur.” Border Crossings, November
2002
Bessire, Mark H. C., ed. “William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America.” MIT Press
Cotter, Holland. “Noted Performance Artist’s Work Slows to a Crawl.” International Herald Tribune, January
Cohen, Ted. “Crawling to Learn.” Maine Telegram Sunday, Portland, Maine, October 6
Cotter, Holland. “Tombs, Pop Tarts, and Parties.” The New York Times, August 23
Connors, Philip. “The Man Who Ate the Wall Street Journal.” The Wall Street Journal, April 9
Pollack, Barbara. “Superman Enters the Culture Wars.” Village Voice, New York, NY, January 15
Pope.L, William. “Voices from the Field.” The Visual Art Critic, Columbia University, New York
Pope.L, William, interviewed by Chris Thompson. “America’s Friendliest Black Artist.” PAJ, A Journal of Performance and Art, Vol. 24, issue 3, September
2001
Associated Press. “NEA Grant is Denied for Noted Maine Artist.” Boston Globe, Boston, December 20
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: William Pope.L.” The New York Times, June
Pogrebin, Robin. “Warhol Foundation Finances Work Rebuffed by N.E.A.” New York Times, December 21
Pope.L, William. “How Do You Make Social Change: Beyond the Proscenium.” Theatre, No. 3, Vol. 31
2000
Carr, C. “Generation Gap: Three Performers and a Waterbed.” Village Voice, New York, July 18
Rush, Michael. “Performance Hops Back Into the Scene.” The New York Times, New York, July 2
Robinson, Dash. “Consumer Demand: William Pope.L.” Cambridge Tab. Needham, Massachussetts, January 14
1999
Crawford, Cair. “My Niagra #2 (Bed).” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, Issue 10, Summer
Volk, Gregory. “Rolo Castillo, William Pope.L” The Project. Flash Art, March-April
1997
Carr, C. “Some Kind of Protest.” Village Voice, New York, March 4
Weiss, Allen S., ed. Taste Nostalgia. Lusitania Press, New York
1996
Wilson, Martha. William Pope.L. Bomb Magazine, New York, Spring

Kuriyama, Emily Anne. Pope.L: Desert at Steve Turner Contemporary and Pope.L: Forest at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Daily Serving, November 24, 2015
Mizota, Sharon. William Pope.L Returns to L.A. with Twin Gallery Shows Focused on Race, Los Angeles Times, November 2015
25 Must-See Shows This November, Artsy Editorial, October 2015
Wagley, Catherine. William Pope.L: Desert, LA Weekly, October 2015
McQuade, Lauren. Desert and Forest: Companion LA Exhibitions Show the Vast Reach of Pope.L, Artslant, October 2015