Ellen Gallagher

*1965 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

Nu-Nile

The Power Plant, Toronto (CA)
23 Jun 2018 – 3 Sep 2018
Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne

Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
25 Apr 2018 – 3 Jun 2018
Collection Intervention: Ellen Gallagher's DeLuxe

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover (US)
7 Feb 2015 – 31 Jul 2015
Murmur and deluxe

MoCA Miami, Miami (US)
12 Feb 2005 – 27 Mar 2005
Orbus

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
11 Dec 2004 – 13 Feb 2005
Murmur

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
6 Jun 2003 – 26 Jul 2003

Group

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, Andrea Geyer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Renee Green, Hans Haacke, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, David Hammons …
Moving Landscapes

2nd edition Jeu de Paume Festival

Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
7 Feb 2025 – 23 Mar 2025

with Mounir Ayache, Julian Charriere, Edgar Cleijne, Monica de Miranda, Yoyo Gonthier, Laila Hida, Eliza Levy, Julien Lombardi, Andrea Mantovani, Richard Pak, Mathieu Pernot, Prune Phi …
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, David Hammons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Joiri Minaya, Sandra Mujinga, Sondra Perry …
Fun Feminism

Museum Gegenwartskunst, Basel (CH)
24 Sep 2022 – 19 Mar 2023

with Monika Baer, Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Ruth Buchanan, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Paz Errazuriz, Andrea Fraser, Guerrilla Girls, Lorraine O'Grady, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz , Pipilotti Rist …
A Great Increase In Business Is On Its Way

Myth, science fiction, spiritual traditions and the legacy of Afrofuturism

Hayward Gallery, London (GB)
29 Jun 2022 – 18 Sep 2022

with Hew Locke, Wangechi Mutu, Rashaad Newsome, Tabita Rezaire, Cauleen Smith, Lina Iris Viktor, Kara Walker
Whitney Biennial 2022

Quiet as It’s Kept

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
6 Apr 2022 – 5 Sep 2022

with Harold Ancart, Yto Barrada, Rebecca Belmore, Nayland Blake, Tony Cokes, Jacky Connolly, Matthew Connors, Alex Da Corte, Danielle Dean, Jane Dickson, Buck Ellison, Alia Farid …
Afro-Atlantic Histories

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
10 Apr 2022 – 17 Jul 2022

with Romare Bearden, Samuel Fosso, Barkley L. Hendricks, Zanele Muholi, Rosana Paulino, Howardena Pindell, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker
A Través

NORR COHAN, New York (US)
14 Jan 2022 – 19 Feb 2022

with Teresa Margolles, Wardell Milan, Wangechi Mutu, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Bill Viola
UBUNTU

Five rooms from the Harry David Art Collection

National Museum of Contemporary Art - EM, Athens (GR)
22 Sep 2020 – 24 Oct 2021

with Kader Attia, Sanford Biggers, Godfried Donkor, Andrew Esiebo, Mary Evans, Theaster Gates, Lyle Ashton Harris, Romuald Hazoumé, Rashid Johnson, Moshekwa Langa, Senzini Marasela, Mohau Modisakeng …
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, Dan Graham, David Hammons, Leslie Hewitt, Douglas Huebler …
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 …
Liquid Intelligence

WIELS Centre d'art contemporain, Brussels (BE)
2 Feb 2019 – 28 Apr 2019

with Edgar Cleijne
Elements of Vogue

A case study of radical performance

CA2M, Madrid (ES)
17 Nov 2017 – 6 May 2018

with Charles Atlas, Gerard H. Gaskin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Rashaad Newsome, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler
ISelf Collection The Upset Bucket

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
5 Dec 2017 – 1 Apr 2018

with Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, Martin Boyce, Thomas Demand, William Eggleston, Ceal Floyer, Mona Hatoum, Georg Herold, Gabriel Kuri, Jim Lambie, Linder, Paul McCarthy …
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, David Hammons, Ben Jones, Kerry James Marshall, Kori Newkirk, Lorraine O'Grady, Gordon Parks, Howardena Pindell, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson, James Van Der Zee …
The Absent Museum

WIELS Centre d'art contemporain, Brussels (BE)
20 Apr 2017 – 13 Aug 2017

with Francis Alys, Jo Baer, Sammy Baloji, Dirk Braeckman, Jimmie Durham, Michel Francois, Mekhitar Garabedian, Jef Geys, Cameron Jamie, Ann Veronica Janssens, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Mark Manders …
The Beguiling Siren Is Thy Crest

Museum of Modern Art Warsaw , Warsaw (PL)
25 Mar 2017 – 18 Jun 2017

with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Claude Cahun, Edith Dekyndt, Leo Dohmen, Birgit Juergenssen, Tobias Kaspar, MA Liuming, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Krzysztof Pijarski, Agnieszka Polska …
First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
17 Aug 2016 – 16 Jan 2017

with Dara Birnbaum, Paul Chan, Nan Goldin, Rachel Perry, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker
The Venice Biennale - 56th International Art Exhibition

All the World's Futures

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Adel Abdessemed, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Abounaddara, Boris Achour, Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, Kutluğ Ataman, Maja Bajevic, Ernesto Ballesteros, Sammy Baloji, Rosa Barba …
14th International Istanbul Biennial

SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
5 Sep 2015 – 1 Nov 2015

with Haig Aivazian, Francis Alys, Song-Ming Ang, Ed Atkins, Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri, Sonia Balassanian, Lynda Benglis, Karl Blossfeldt, Janet Cardiff, Edgar Cleijne, Tacita Dean, LIU Ding …
Speaking of People

Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art

Studio Museum Harlem, New York (US)
13 Nov 2014 – 8 Mar 2015

with Godfried Donkor, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Hartt, Leslie Hewitt, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson, Martine Syms, Mickalene Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas
Wunder

Haus der Photographie, Hamburg (DE)
23 Sep 2011 – 5 Feb 2012

with Francis Alys, Kader Attia, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Olga Chernysheva, Nathan Coley, Björn Dahlem, Ceal Floyer, Andreas Gursky, Susan Hefuna, Susan Hiller, Jonathan Horowitz …
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, David Hammons, Duane Hanson, Paul Johns, Barbara Kruger, Yeardley Leonard, Paul McCarthy, Allan McCollum …
2010 WHITNEY BIENNIAL

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
25 Feb 2010 – 30 May 2010

with Nina Berman, James Casebere, Edgar Cleijne, Kate Gilmore, Jesse Aron Green, Sharon Hayes, Alex Hubbard, Babette Mangolte, Curtis Mann, Stephanie Sinclair, Ania Soliman, Tam Tran …
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic

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

with Constantin Brancusi, Renee Cox, Walker Evans, David Hammons, Isaac Julien, Wangechi Mutu, Tracey Rose, Kara Walker
Der Schmerz sitzt tief

Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim (DE)
18 Feb 2009 – 17 May 2009

with Sigalit Landau, Annee Olofsson, Vibeke Tandberg, Mathilde ter Heijne, Kara Walker, Miwa Yanagi
Eclipse - Art in a Dark Age

Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE)
31 May 2008 – 24 Aug 2008

with Paul McCarthy, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Mike Nelson, Anri Sala
See into liquid

MoCA Denver, Denver (US)
27 Jan 2006 – 28 May 2006

with Whitney Bedford, Amy Globus, Roni Horn, Richard Misrach, Catherine Opie, Massimo Vitali
Non Toccare la Donna Bianca

a cura di Francesco Bonami

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT)
16 Sep 2004 – 8 Jan 2005

with Maja Bajevic, Lyudmila Gorlova, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Shirin Neshat, Shirana Shahbazi, Valeska Soares
Animals

Haunch of Venison, London (GB)
24 Jun 2004 – 11 Sep 2004

with Lothar Baumgarten, John Isaacs, Mike Kelley, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Bruce Nauman, Joao Onofre, Marjetica Potrc, Kiki Smith, Diana Thater, Rosemarie Trockel, Bill Viola

Events

Moving Landscapes

2nd edition Jeu de Paume Festival

Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
7 Feb 2025 – 23 Mar 2025

with Driss Aroussi, Mounir Ayache, Julian Charriere, Edgar Cleijne, Monica de Miranda, Caroline Déodat, Julie Fortier, Yoyo Gonthier, Laila Hida, Eliza Levy, Julien Lombardi, Andrea Mantovani …
35TH BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO

choreographies of the impossible

Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
6 Sep 2023 – 10 Dec 2023

with Yto Barrada, Cabello & Carceller, Maya Deren, Rosa Gauditano, Amos Gitai, Januario Jano, Ibrahim Mahama, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Santu Mofokeng, Aline Motta, Senga Nengudi , Eustaquio Neves …
Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp

triennial of contemporary art

Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans (US)
18 Nov 2017 – 25 Feb 2018

with Abbas Akhavan, John Akomfrah, Rebecca Belmore, Sonia Boyce, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Edgar Cleijne, Donna Conlon, Genevieve Gaignard, Gauri Gill, Alfredo Jaar, Rashid Johnson, Kiluanji Kia Henda …