Recent group exhibitions include Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983, which originated at the Tate Modern (2017), traveled to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (2018), Brooklyn Museum (2018), The Broad, Los Angeles (2019), de Young Museum, San Francisco (2019), and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2020); Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Not New Now, Marrakech Biennale 6, Morocco (2016); and Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2014). Gilliam’s work is included in over fifty public collections, including those of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
To learn more about Sam Gilliam, please view these articles from WSJ., ArtReview, the New York Times, Bloomberg.com, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as this essay by Jonathan Binstock from the artist's 2005 retrospective exhibition catalogue.
Lead banner portrait: Sam Gilliam at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, Photo by John Gossage
Harmony images: main views by Brandon Webster; still and video detail views by Lee Thompson
Exhibition installation view: Sam Gilliam: Hard Edge Paintings 1963 -1996, curated by Rashid Johnson, March 28 – May 11, 2013, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, Photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio
Banner portrait: Sam Gilliam at The De Luxe Show, De Luxe Theater, Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas, 1971