OCTOBER 2008WILLIE COLESELECTED BIOGRAPHY11955 Born in Somerville, NJ1976 BFA, The School of Visual Arts, New York1976-79 The Art Students League, New YorkThe artist lives and works in Mine Hill, NJSELECTED AWARDS & RESIDENCIES2006 David C. Driskell Prize, High Museum of Art, Atlanta2002 The Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship2000 Artist-in-residence, John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Program, Sheboygan, WI1996 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award1995 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant1991 The Penny McCall Foundation GrantSELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS2007 Living Room, Finesilver Gallery, Houston2006-08 Anxious Objects: Willie Cole’s Favorite Brands, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ;Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Lincoln, NE; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Stanford University, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, CA2006 Willie Cole: Sole to Soul, Alexander and Bonin, New York2004-06 AFTERBURN, Willie Cole: selected works 1997 - 2004, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie; California African-American Museum, Los Angeles; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; Worcester Art Museum, MA; University ofKentucky Art Museum, Lexington; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, NYWillie Cole: Sources & Metamorphoses, Tampa Museum of Art, FL2002 Willie Cole: Before and After, Alexander and Bonin, New YorkWillie Cole: The Elegba Principle, The Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA2001 Game Show: Installations and Sculptures by Willie Cole, Bronx Museum of the Arts,NY2000 Willie Cole: new work, Alexander and Bonin, New YorkNew Work: Willie Cole, At the Crossroads, Miami Art Museum1999 Willie Cole – Iron Works, The Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Long Island University, New York1998 Perspectives 1: Willie Cole, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, ALNew Concepts in Printmaking 2: Willie Cole, Museum of Modern Art, New York1997 New Sculpture, Alexander and Bonin, New YorkGalerie Almine Rech, Paris1995 Our Daily Bread, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphiahttp://www.alexanderandbonin.com/artists/cole/cole.html#biography