Melvin Edwards had exhibited widely.
Select solo exhibitions include Brighter Days, City Hall Park, New York (2021); Melvin Edwards, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2020); Melvin Edwards: Crossroads, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2019—20); Melvin Edwards: The Sculptor of Resistance, Auroras Gallery, São Paulo (2019); Painted Sculpture, Alexander Gray Associates, New York (2019); Melvin Edwards: Lynch Fragments, MASP, São Paulo (2018); and Melvin Edwards, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2017).
Select group exhibitions include Epistrophy, Pace Gallery, New York (2022); Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York (2021); Kalunga, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2021); Museum for Preventive Imagination — Editorial, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Rome (2020—22); Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991—2011, MoMA PS1, New York (2019—20); and African American Art in the 20th Century, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (2019—22).
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