David Hammons

♂ *1943 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

Concerto in Black and Blue

Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (US)
18 Feb 2025 – 25 May 2025

Group

Das soziale Leben der Dinge

MGK Siegen, Siegen (DE)
17 Apr 2026 – 27 Sep 2026

with Nina Beier, Zoe Leonard
Exposition Générale

forty years of international contemporary art , 600 works by over 100 artists.

Fondation Cartier, Paris (FR)
25 Oct 2025 – 23 Aug 2026

with Absalon, Robert Adams, Claudia Andujar, Matthew Barney, Lothar Baumgarten, Christian Boltanski, Andrea Branzi, James Coleman, Thomas Demand, Raymond Depardon, William Eggleston, Fernell Franco …
The Vandals

Gladstone Gallery, New York (US)
24 Jun 2026 – 8 Aug 2026

with Joseph Cornell, Lee Friedlander, Mark Leckey, Vivian Maier, George Platt-Lynes, Weegee
ECHO DELAY REVERB

American Art and Francophone Thought

Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
22 Oct 2025 – 15 Feb 2026

with Laurie Anderson, Mark Dion, Hal Fischer, Andrea Fraser, Charles Gaines, Ellen Gallagher, Andrea Geyer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Renee Green, Hans Haacke, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha …
Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010

The National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT), Tokyo (JP)
3 Sep 2025 – 8 Dec 2025

with Matthew Barney, Lee Bul, Yamashiro Chikako, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Miyako Ishiuchi, Joan Jonas, Emiko Kasahara, Tadashi Kawamata, Meiro Koizumi, Aida Makoto, Tatsuo Miyajima …
Corps et âmes

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault, Paris (FR)
5 Mar 2025 – 25 Aug 2025

with Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Richard Avedon, Cecilia Bengolea, Constantin Brancusi, Claude Cahun, Ali Cherri, Robert Frank, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Anna Halprin, Duane Hanson, Arthur Jafa …
Going Dark

The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
20 Oct 2023 – 7 Apr 2024

with Farah Al Qasimi, Kevin Beasley, Rebecca Belmore, Dawoud Bey, John Edmonds, Ellen Gallagher, Lyle Ashton Harris, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Joiri Minaya, Sandra Mujinga, Sondra Perry …
Play Play Art

Artists from our Collection

Watarium Museum, Tokyo (JP)
19 Mar 2023 – 23 Jul 2023

with Diane Arbus, Duane Michals, Nam June Paik, Alexander Rodchenko, Joel Peter Witkin
Drum Listens to Heart

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (US)
1 Sep 2022 – 4 Mar 2023

with Francis Alys, Trisha Donnelly, Em'Kal Eyongakpa, Marcos Avila Forero, Theaster Gates, Rose Lowder, Lee Lozano, Harold Mendez, Lucy Raven, Michael E. Smith, The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar), Haegue Yang …
WALK!

SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
18 Feb 2022 – 22 May 2022

with Bani Abidi, Francis Alys, Daniel Beerstecher, James Bridle, Tiffany Chung, Michael Dean, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Hamish Fulton, Regina Jose Galindo, Rahima Gambo, Hamza Halloubi, Mona Hatoum …
The Dirty South

Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (US)
5 Nov 2021 – 6 Feb 2022

with Romare Bearden, Kevin Beasley, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Sanford Biggers, Sheila Pree Bright, Beverly Buchanan, Mel Chin, Jamal Cyrus, Leonard Freed, Theaster Gates, Earlie Hudnall, Arthur Jafa …
NOTHINGTOSEENESS – Leere/Weiß/Stille

Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE)
15 Sep 2021 – 12 Dec 2021

with Absalon, Rosa Barba, Trisha Brown, Guenter Brus, Maria Eichhorn, Jochen Gerz, Hans Haacke, Stephan Huber, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Astrid Klein, Christina Kubisch …
I am you, you are too

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
7 Sep 2018 – 23 Feb 2020

with Vito Acconci, Chantal Akerman, Francis Alys, Mark Bradford, Sarah Charlesworth, Bruce Conner, SONG Dong, Stan Douglas, Ellen Gallagher, Dan Graham, Leslie Hewitt, Douglas Huebler …
30 Americans

Painting, sculpture, and photography by influential contemporary African American artists.

The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (US)
27 Oct 2019 – 12 Jan 2020

with Mark Bradford, Renee Green, Barkley L. Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Kerry James Marshall, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson …
The Collection (1) | 20 Years of S.M.A.K.

S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum, Gent (BE)
16 Mar 2019 – 29 Sep 2019

with Francis Alys, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Kader Attia, Dara Birnbaum, Ann Veronica Janssens, Mark Manders, Pascale Marthine Tayou
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

The Broad, Los Angeles (US)
23 Mar 2019 – 1 Sep 2019

with Dawoud Bey, Roy DeCarava, Louis Draper, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorraine O'Grady, Betye Saar, Ming Smith, Charlie White
PHOTO

The First Survey of All Photographic Works Made by Artists for Parkett since 1984

Parkett Publishers, Zürich (CH)
8 Jun 2019 – 31 Aug 2019

with Franz Ackermann, Doug Aitken, Francis Alys, Ed Atkins, John Baldessari, Yto Barrada, Maurizio Cattelan, Chuck Close, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Demand, Trisha Donnelly …
30 Americans

contemporary art by African American artists

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (US)
1 Jun 2019 – 25 Aug 2019

with Mark Bradford, Renee Green, Barkley L. Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Wangechi Mutu, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems
Dancing with Myself

PALAZZO GRASSI, Venezia (IT)
8 Apr 2018 – 16 Dec 2018

with Adel Abdessemed, Marcel Bascoulard, Claude Cahun, John Coplans, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lee Friedlander, Gilbert & George, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Urs Luethi, Steve McQueen, Bruce Nauman …
Being Modern: MoMA in Paris

Fondation Louis Vuitton , Paris (FR)
11 Oct 2017 – 5 Mar 2018

with Laurie Anderson, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Mark Bradford, Constantin Brancusi, Lygia Clark, Trisha Donnelly, Sergei Eisenstein, Walker Evans, LaToya Ruby Frazier, General Idea, Andrea Geyer …
20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
22 Jul 2017 – 31 Dec 2017

with Edgar Arceneaux, Mark Bradford, Ellen Gallagher, Ben Jones, Kerry James Marshall, Kori Newkirk, Lorraine O'Grady, Gordon Parks, Howardena Pindell, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson, James Van Der Zee …
SELECTED

Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (US)
23 Jun 2017 – 28 Jul 2017

with Marina Abramovic, Bernd & Hilla Becher, James Casebere, Awol Erizku, Douglas Gordon, Antony Gormley, Laurent Grasso, Tehching Hsieh, Marine Hugonnier, Idris Khan, Joseph Kosuth, Peter Liversidge …
Dancing with Myself - Selbstporträt und Selbsterfindung

François Pinaults Sammlung der Gegenwartskunst zum ersten Mal in Deutschland

Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
7 Oct 2016 – 15 Jan 2017

with Adel Abdessemed, Marcel Bascoulard, John Coplans, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Roni Horn, Kimsooja, Boris Mikhailov, Paulo Nazareth …
The Making of a Fugitive

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
16 Jul 2016 – 4 Dec 2016

with Dennis Adams, Chris Burden, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Bruce Nauman, Michal Rovner, Carrie Schneider, Xaviera Simmons
FORTY

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
19 Jun 2016 – 28 Aug 2016

with Laurie Anderson, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Nonas, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Howardena Pindell, Keith Sonnier, Jackie Winsor
Greater New York

over 400 works by 157 artists

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
11 Oct 2015 – 7 Mar 2016

with Chantal Akerman, Charles Atlas, Alvin Baltrop, Sadie Benning, Huma Bhabha, Dara Birnbaum, Ben Thorp Brown, Mary Beth Edelson, Joy Episalla, Loretta Fahrenholz, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Katherine Hubbard …
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA

Mus African Diaspora, San Francisco (US)
8 May 2015 – 11 Oct 2015

with Consuelo Kanaga, Nicole Miller, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems
Radical Presence

Black Performance in Contemporary Art

Studio Museum Harlem, New York (US)
14 Nov 2013 – 11 Mar 2014

with Zachary Fabri, Lyle Ashton Harris, Kalup Linzy, Dave McKenzie, Clifford Owens, Adam Pendleton, Xaviera Simmons, Carrie Mae Weems
Blues for Smoke

Wexner Center for Art, Columbus (US)
21 Sep 2013 – 29 Dec 2013

with Mark Bradford, William Eggleston, Zoe Leonard, Kori Newkirk, Carrie Mae Weems
In a Silent Way

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (US)
18 May 2013 – 1 Dec 2013

with Roy DeCarava, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Carrie Mae Weems
Fragile?

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (IT)
8 Apr 2013 – 28 Jul 2013

with Walead Beshty, Gilbert & George, Mona Hatoum, Pipilotti Rist
NYC 1993

Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

New Museum, New York (US)
13 Feb 2013 – 26 May 2013

with art club 2000, Alex Bag, Matthew Barney, Kathe Burkhart, Robert Gober, Eugene Goldin, Ann Hamilton, Byron Kim, Sean Landers, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Gabriel Orozco …
This Will Have Been

Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
15 Nov 2012 – 3 Mar 2013

with Judith Barry, Ashley Bickerton, Sophie Calle, Jimmie Durham, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, General Idea, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Jack Goldstein, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Peter Hujar, Isaac Julien …
Inside Out and From the Ground Up: Video Salon

MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US)
8 Oct 2012 – 24 Feb 2013

with Jeremy Blake, Oliver Husain, Corey McCorkle, Jennifer West, Haegue Yang
New Order

White Cube, London (GB)
8 Apr 2011 – 14 May 2011

with Miroslaw Balka
Fresh Hell

Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
19 Oct 2010 – 16 Jan 2011

with Bas Jan Ader, Barbara Bloom, Anne Collier, Walter de Maria, Valie Export, Matias Faldbakken, Isa Genzken, Geert Goiris, Dan Graham, Raymond Hains, Michael Landy, Klara Liden …
COLLECTING BIENNIALS

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
16 Jan 2010 – 28 Nov 2010

with William Anastasi, Kenneth Anger, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Bruce Conner, Ellen Gallagher, Duane Hanson, Paul Johns, Barbara Kruger, Yeardley Leonard, Paul McCarthy, Allan McCollum …
Mixed Use, Manhattan : Photography and related practices 1970s to present

PHOTOESPAÑA 2010

MNCARS - Museo REINA SOFIA, Madrid (ES)
10 Jun 2010 – 27 Sep 2010

with Alvin Baltrop, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Dara Birnbaum, Jennifer Bolande, Matthew Buckingham, Tom Burr, William Gedney, Bernard Guillot, Sharon Hayes, Peter Hujar, Peter Hujar, Joan Jonas …
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic

Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (GB)
29 Jan 2010 – 25 Apr 2010

with Constantin Brancusi, Renee Cox, Walker Evans, Ellen Gallagher, Isaac Julien, Wangechi Mutu, Tracey Rose, Kara Walker
Hard Targets

Wexner Center for Art, Columbus (US)
30 Jan 2010 – 11 Apr 2010

with Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Mark Bradford, Harun Farocki, Douglas Gordon, Andreas Gursky, Kori Newkirk, Catherine Opie, Philippe Parreno, Paul Pfeiffer, Collier Schorr, Sam Taylor-Johnson (Wood)
Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now

Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (US)
14 Sep 2008 – 25 Jan 2009

with Vito Acconci, Francis Alys, Amy Arbus, Sophie Calle, Valie Export, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Raymond Hains, Kimsooja, William Klein, Nikki S. Lee, Zoe Leonard …
Closed Circuit: Video and New Media at the Metropolitan

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
23 Feb 2007 – 29 Apr 2007

with Darren Almond, Jim Campbell, Omer Fast, Ann Hamilton, Maria Marshall, Wolfgang Staehle
Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video

Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (US)
26 Oct 2005 – 26 Feb 2006

with Dan Acostioaei, Mauricio Alejo, Jesper Alvaer, Yael Bartana, Mircea Cantor, SONG Dong, Douglas Gordon, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Kimsooja, Glenda Léon, Mark Lewis …
Shadowland: An Exhibition as a Film

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
17 Apr 2005 – 11 Sep 2005

with Doug Aitken, Chantal Akerman, Rineke Dijkstra, Fischli & Weiss, Craigie Horsfield, Bruce Nauman, Philippe Parreno, Jeff Wall
Irreducible

Contemporary Short Form Video

Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami (US)
29 Jun 2005 – 11 Sep 2005

with Dan Acostioaei, Francis Alys, Mauricio Alejo, Jesper Alvaer, Yael Bartana, Mircea Cantor, SONG Dong, Douglas Gordon, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Kimsooja, Eva Koch …
Ralentir vite

Frac Ile-de-France, Paris (FR)
9 Dec 2004 – 20 Feb 2005

with Michel Blazy, David Claerbout, Alain Clairet, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Michel Francois, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Anne Marie Jugnet, Judit Kurtág, Santu Mofokeng, Bruce Nauman
Black Belt

Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (US)
11 Dec 2004 – 12 Feb 2005

with Sanford Biggers, Y. David Chung, Rico Gatson, Luis Gispert, Michael Joo, Glenn Kaino, Kori Newkirk, Paul Pfeiffer
Contested Fields

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines (US)
20 Nov 2004 – 6 Feb 2005

with Carlos Amorales, Roderick Buchanan, Maurizio Cattelan, Keith Edmier, Luis Gispert, Annika Larsson, Maria Lassnig, Nikki S. Lee, Ingeborg Lüscher, Paul Pfeiffer, Kirsten Stoltmann, Mark Wallinger
Eclipse

Towards the edge of the visible

White Cube, London (GB)
16 Jul 2004 – 21 Aug 2004

with Darren Almond, Miroslaw Balka, Isa Genzken, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Runa Islam, Paul Pfeiffer

Events

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024

30 Ways to Go to the Moon

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
2 Feb 2024 – 18 Feb 2024

with Basma Alsharif, Yu Araki, Cory Arcangel, John Baldessari, Bernadette Corporation, Dara Birnbaum, YUAN Goang-Ming, YUAN Goang-Ming, CHIA-WEI HSU, In Sook Kim, Futoshi Miyagi, Tracey Moffatt …
Sharjah Biennial 15

Thinking Historically in the Present

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
7 Feb 2023 – 11 Jun 2023

with Erkan Oezgen, John Akomfrah, Monira Al Qadiri, Farah Al Qasimi, Brook Andrew, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji, Pablo Bartholomew, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Carolina Caycedo …
Thailand Biennale, Korat 2021

Butterflies Frolicking on the Mud: Engendering Sensible Capital

Thailand Biennale, Bangkok (TH)
18 Dec 2021 – 31 Mar 2022

with Hicham Berrada, Sandra Cinto, Gohar Dashti, Charlotte Dumas, Olafur Eliasson, Jan Fabre, YANG Fudong, John Gerrard, Shilpa Gupta, Rinko Kawauchi, Haroon Mirza, Uriel Orlow …
Was für amüsante Narrenpossen . VIDEOABENDE auf der MARTa - Baustelle

MARTa Herford, Herford (DE)
27 Jun 2003 – 29 Jun 2003

with Marina Abramovic, Nicoletta Agostini, Joseph Beuys, Paolo Chiasera, David Claerbout, Jan Fabre, Asta Gröting, Annika Larsson, Bruce Nauman, Koen Theys, Martin Walde