Born in 1974
Lives and works in New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
SCORE, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Sonic Boom, Building Art outdoor art series, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
Magic, Mystery & Legerdemain, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
STOCKROOM Ezekial on view at Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Gestalt, Pond Society, Shangai, China
2020
Self Must Die, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Shelter, Contemporary Art Museum of St.Louis, St.Louis, MO
2019
The House Always Wins, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
JRRNYS, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Half Mast, 95 Horatio Street, The Whitney Museum of American Art Billboard Project, New York, NY
Derek Fordjour: Camelot Study, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brookyln, NY
Zona Maco, Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, solo booth with Luce Gallery
2017
Parade, Sugar Hill Museum, New York, NY
Dallas Art Fair, solo booth with Luce Gallery
2016
Agency & Regulation, Luce Gallery, Torino, IT
Derek Fordjour: Eight Paintings, Papillion Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Upper Room, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY
Meritocracy, Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK
2014
The Big Game, Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Making Strange: Sacred Imagery and the Self, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Get in the Game: Sports and Contemporary Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Fifteen Years, Luce Gallery, Turin, IT
Reverberations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Stop & Stare, UTA Artist Space, Atlanta, GA
Day for Night: New American Realism, Palazzo Barberini, organized by the Aishti Foundation, Rome, IT
Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
an arena, Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy
Soliloquies, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Editions, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
2023
Black American Portraits, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Shared Visions, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
20, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Windrush: Portraits Of A Pioneering Generation, Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland; Buckingham Palace in London, GB
NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN Brand New Ancients, Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2022
Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aishti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
Unmasking Masculinity for the Twenty-First Century, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
51 @ 51: Collected Works, Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Through Our Eyes - Resonance and Illusion in Contemporary Portraits, Center of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada
In These Truths, curated by Edreys Wajed, Aitina Fareed-Cooke, and Aaron Ott, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2021
SPOTLIGHT, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Dark Waters, benefiting the Better Watts Initiative, curated by Lauren Halsey, AJ
Girard, and Tea Vickers, Watts Labor Community Action Committee, Los Angeles, CA
But No Elephants!, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, NY
The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, curated by Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein, with Joseph Shaikewitz, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN Brand New Ancients, Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Puppets of New York: Downtown at The Clemente, Abrazo Interno Gallery, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York, NY
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, NY
2020
100 Drawings from Now, Drawing Center, New York, NY
Private View: Selections from ABHK, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Open Air, Luce Gallery, Turin, IT
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, LA
Art Basel Curated Selection, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Uptown 2020, Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
CONTEMPORARY ART + DESIGN: New Acquisitions, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2019
Painting Is Its Own Country, The Harvey B. Center, Charlotte, NC
Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Transmissions, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
2018
To Dream Avant-Garde, Hammonds-Harkins Galleries, Columbus, OH
Everyday Muse, ltd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cliche, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY
Fun House, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
Reclamation! Pan-African from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Sidelined, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2017
Diamonds, Rings and Courts, Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery at SJU, NY
All that Glitters, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
Selections, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Human Condition, The Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Fling, Johannes Vogt Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Island States, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN
March Madness, curated by Hank Willis Thomas & Adam Shopkorn, Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY
2015
I Like it Like This, Sothebys S2 Gallery, New York, NY
And There is an End, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mixed Doubles, Sometimes Gallery, New York, NY
No Such Place, Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Open, Papillion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Corpus Americus, Driscoll Babcock Gallery, New York, NY
EDUCATION
2016
MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
2002
Ed.M., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2001
BA, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
Pratt Institute College of Art and Design
COLLECTIONS
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach
JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York
Ernesto Esposito Collection, Naples
Craig Hall, Hall Group Collection, Dallas