• 2000
  Sightings, GAM; Galleria Civica d'Arte, Torino, Italy, June 29 - August 26, curated by Alessandra Pace
• 1997
  Nari Ward, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI
• 1996
  Happy Smilers: Duty Free Shopping, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
• 1995
  Amazing Grace, Harlem Firehouse Space, New York, NY
• 1994
  Idle/Drift, Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, FRANCE
• 1993
  Carpet Angel, The New Museum, New York, NY AmazingGrace, Harlem Firehouse Space, New York, NY

• 2001
  Transforms, Roman Theater, Trieste Italy, curated by Roberto Pinto and Emanuela De Cecco The Overexcited Body, Museum of the Arengario (Piazza del Duomo, Milan, Italy, curated by Adelina Von Furstenberg Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, June 17 - Oct. 10, curated by Valerie Smith A Room Is a World, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerlan, August 25 - Oct. 21, curated by Daniel Kurjakovic
• 2000
  Playgrounds & Toys, Art for the World, UNI Dufour building; The University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Lobby installation and Sculpture garden Commission, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Quiet in the Land; Projecto Axe, Museo de Arte Moderne, Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. Emerald Necklace Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Geography; Tree, collaborative work with Ralph Lemon, performed at the Yale Repertory Co., New Haven, Ct, Walker Art center, Minneapolis, MN, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA and Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. Quotidiana, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy.
• 1999
  Streetlife, Project Row House, Houston, TX Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
• 1998
  I Love New York; Crossover of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Koln, GERMANY Global Vision; New Art from the 90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, GREECE Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Arkipelag; From Crash Between Islands to In(ter)fection, Sjohistoriska Museet, Stockholm, SWEDEN Edge of Awareness, World Health Organization, Geneva, SWITZERLAND, United Nations Hall of Visitors, New York, NY, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, and SESC de Pompeia, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
• 1997
  Geography, collaborative work with Ralph Lemon, performed at Yale Repertory Co., New Haven, CT, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY Islas, Centro Atlantico De Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, SPAIN, La Granja, Teneriffe, SPAIN, and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, SPAIN Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and the Shakers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Untitled Depot, Insite 1997, Tijuana, MEXICO and San Diego, CA Projects: How to build and maintain the virgin fertility of our soul, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Pursuit of the Sacred; Evocations of the Spiritual in Contemporary African American Art, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• 1996
  3 Legged Race: Janine Antoni, Marcel Odenbach, Nari Ward, Harlem Firhouse Space, New York, NY Ascension: David Hammons, Gabriel Orozco, Nari Ward, Deitch Projects, New York, NY Jimmie Durham, Katherina Fritsch, Nari Ward, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY Everything That's Interesting Is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens, GREECE New York On My Mind, Maison des Arts, Cr¹teil, FRANCE The Listening Sky, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY The Quiet in the Land:Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and the Shakers, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community, New Glouchester, ME
• 1995
  American Visionaries, a collaboration with Bill T. Jones, Max Roach and Toni Morrison, Lincoln Center, New York, NY 1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Dialogues of Peace, United Nations Organization, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
• 1994
  Heart of Darkness, Kroller-M™ller Museum, Otterlo, THE NETHERLANDS Nor Here Neither There, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA 2000 XLV Bienale di Venezia, Venice, ITALY
• 1992
  Contemporary Sculpture, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY

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