Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
1963. The Heliographers, Heliography Gallery, New York, NY
1966. First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal 1965 McCann-Ericson, New York, NY
1966. Grey Advertising, New York
1966. Batten, Barton, Durston and Osborne, New York
1967. Heliography Gallery, New York, NY
1967. Benton and Bowles, New York, NY
1967. Cunningham and Walsh, New York NY
1967. Warwick and Legler, New York, NY
1968. United States Information Agency Traveling Exhibit, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe
1968. Ketchum, MacLeod and Grove Gallery, New York, NY
1971. Acts of Art Gallery: Rebuttal to The Whitney, Hunter College Art Galleries
1972. US Library, Tangiers Morocco
1973. Omega House Gallery, New York, NY
1974. Omega House Gallery, New York, NY
1975. Impressions, Friends Gallery, James Van Der Zee Institute, New York, NY
1975. Shado Gallery Oregon City, OR
1976. William Easley Collectors Exhibit, New York NY
1977. Jade Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1979. Cinque Gallery, New York, NY
1980. Masked Dreams and African Suite, Dreyfuss Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1981. Moments, Green Space, New York, NY
1982. Spectrum Tones, Karamu House, Cleveland, OH
1982. New York’s Most Visionary Artist, Jazzonia Gallery, Detroit MI
1983. Gallery 62, Urban League, New York, NY
1983. New American Artist, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
1983. Black and White Show for a Black and White Time, New York, NY
1983. Canvas Rhythms, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1985. The Djukas of Suriname, Raymond Ker Gallery, New York, NY
1986. Suriname, Martinique International Black Arts Festival, Martinique, West Indies
1986. Rhythmic Visions: The Gallery Show, New York, NY
1987. New Black and Gold Masked Dream Series, Janet Moody Gallery, New York, NY
1992. New Interlude: Recent Paintings, Stiral Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1994. Illuminations: Paintings and Photographs, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY
2005. Imagie: The Paintings of Adger Cowans, Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock AR
2007. Personal Vision: The Exhibition, Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, AR
2007. Running Deep, The Phillips Museum, Franklin Marshall College, Lancaster PA
2017. Personal Vision, New Door Creative Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2022. The Eyes See What the Heart Feels, Elmer L. Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
2022. Footsteps, Bruce Silverstein Gallery
2022. Sense and Sensibility, Fairfield University Fairfield CT
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Group Exhibitions
1963. Yolo International Show, Yolo, CA
1963. International Group Show, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
1966 First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar Senegal
1967. The Heliographers, Lever House Gallery
1967. Photography in the Fine Arts, Curated by Ivan Dmitri, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1968. New Trends in Photography, DeCordova Museum, University of New Hampshire, Lincoln, MA and Durham, NH
1970. Kamoinge Group Show, 141st Street Gallery, New York, NY
1970. Kamoinge Group Show, Chicago School of Design, Chicago, IL
1972. Kamoinge Group Show, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
1973. Kamoinge Group Show, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1974. Kamoinge Group Show, Chicago School of Design, Chicago, Il
1975. Kamoinge Workshop Group Show, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1975. Kamoinge Group Show, Harvard University, Boston, MA
1976. Photography in the Fine Arts (Curated by Ivan Dmitri), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1976. Just Above: David Hammond, Adger Cowans, John Pinderhughes, Al Fennar, Midtown Gallery, New York, NY
1977. 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (SESPAC), Lagos, Nigeria
1978. Roosevelt Public Gallery, Roosevelt City, NY
1979. Self Portraits Exhibit, Black Enterprise Magazine, Black Photographers Annual Exhibit, US Tour
1979. Africobra – Farafandugu, Center D’Art, Port Au Prince, Haiti
1979. SoWeTo, African – American Heritage Studies Conference Exhibition, United Nations Building, New York, NY
1983. Contemporary African American Photographers, Featherstone Art Museum, Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL,
1983. New American Arts, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, New York NY
1984. Morning of the Blue Queen, Public Arts Piece, First Women’s Bank, New York, NY
1986. Two Schools: NY and Chicago, Kenkeleba House and Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY
1987. Abstract, Triangle Fine Arts International, New York, NY
1989. Contemporary African American Print Makers, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
1990. Selected Photographs: The Paul Jones Collection, Spellman College, Atlanta, GA
1991. In The Full Effect, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
1992. Photography Show, Cinque Gallery, New York, NY
1993. Contemporary African American Artist, College of Fine Arts, Palermo, Italy
1993. Three New Perspectives: Cowans, Walker, Pontiflet, Cinque Gallery, New York, NY
1993. I Sight: Adger Cowans and Toni Parks, Gordon Parks Gallery at The School of New Resources, Bronx, NY
1995. Two Contemporary Photographers, Emily Lowe Gallery at Hofstra Museum, Hamsted N.Y.
1996. Just Jazz, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996. Captured Moments: Cowans, Dubasky, Thompson, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
1998. Sweeps and Views: Clark and Cowans, Rush Art Gallery, New York, NY
1998. Seeing Jazz, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
1998. Black NY Artist of the 20th Century, Schomburg Center, New York, NY
1999. Locating the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in African American Art, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC
2000. Blackness In Color, Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2001. Call and Response: Curated by Adger Cowans, Dell Pryor Gallery Detroit, MI
2001. Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2001. Reflections In Black, Smithsonian African America Photography, Detroit, MI
2001. Biennale Internazional dell’arte Contemporanea Firenze, Italy
2005. Chemistry of Color, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
2006. Kamoinge, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2007. Africobra, Hampton University Museum, Jamestown, VA
2008. Cowans Phillips Harris, International Art Gallery, Washington, DC.
2009. Sound, Print, Record: African American Legacies, University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE
2011. Audiodacity: Music as Muse, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015. Timeless: The Photographs of Kamoinge, Kenkelaba Gallery, NY
2015. Like Then and Now: Looking Through the Lens of Three Leading African-American Artists, Merton Simpson Gallery, New York, NY
2016. New Photography, Merton Simpson Gallery, New York, NY
2018. Soul of a Nation, Tate Modern, London, UK, Crystal Bridges, AR, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
2018. People, Places and Things, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018. Africobra, Galarie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2018. Africobra, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York NY
2019. The Art of Rebellion, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
2019. Soul of a Nation, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
2019. Contact High: A Visual History of Hip Hop, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2019. Africobra, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2020. Kamoinge: The First Twenty Years, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
2020. Soul of a Nation, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
2022. 5 + 1 Revisited, Paul W Zuccaire Gallery, Stonybrook University, Stonybrook NY
2022. A Picture Gallery of the Soul, Katherine E Nash Gallery, Uuniversity of MN, Minneapolis, MN
