KIMBERLY M. BECOAT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2022     

URBANIA, MoCADA  Museum, Brooklyn, NY 

2018

Welcome To Urbania, RUSH ARTS Gallery, New York, NY

2012      

Energy/Innovation, Essie Green Galleries, New York, NY

TWO PERSON EXHIBITION:

2025

A Land and 河/River, Kimberly M. Becoat & Hong Hong, 

Tephra ICA, Reston VA 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2025

Treasures: The Polonsky Exhibition  of the NYPL Treasures, 

New York Public Library, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York, NY.

2023

And We Went: 60 Years After the Baton Rouge Swim In,  Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA

Clutch Af, Future Fair, NY [Dashboard USA  & Black Women Artists]

Something Extraordinary, Westfield State University,  Westfield, MA

2021

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, NY (represented by Latchkey Gallery)

Last Supper - Latchkey Gallery, NY, NY & Industry City, Brooklyn, NY

CURRENT|UNDERCURRENT - Hampden Gallery & UMASS Amherst, MA

2020      

Creative Climate Art Awards - Human Impacts Institute, NY, NY (virtual & standing gallery) 

Spring Forward - Arcade Project Curatorial, NY, NY (virtual exhibition)

Painting Is It's Own Country, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, Charlotte, NC.

2019      

Love in the Time of Hysteria - Prizm Fair, Miami, FL.            

Reimagining Monuments, Old Stone House, BK, NY

In Plain Sight/Site, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT

Let Me Tell You a Story, Drawing Rooms, NJ 

Divine Femme, MoCADA Museum, BK NY

2018     

The Little Rock Nine, The Sheen Center, New York NY

Pressure Points, Art on the Vine, The Agora Culture, Martha’s Vineyard.

Reflected, Capital ONE Headquarters, New York, NY122

100 Works, Electropositive, Brooklyn, NY 

2017      

American Hoodoo and Southern Black Spiritual Ways, Rush Arts Galleries, NY, NY

Terrestrial Resonance, Art in Flux- Harlem Gallery, New York, NY

2016      

The Exchange, IThou  & Rush Arts, New York, NY

Dadaesque, 701 CCA Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina

A Bad Question, TART Collective, New York, NY 

2015      

Power, Protest and Resistance, Rush, Skylight and Selena Galleries, New York, NY

SCOPE NY Art Fair with Rush Arts Gallery, New York , NY

RESPOND:  Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY

2014      

Narratives of Agency in Black America, Museum of Women’s Resistance, Brooklyn, NY 

 “I Kan Do Dat”: Contemporary Abstract Art, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY 

2013      

The Cigar Box Series, See Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey

Pattern Recognition”, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, NY

“The Bearden 100”, Full Spectrum @ Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY

"March On!” BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brooklyn, New York

2012      

Honoring Romare Bearden through Contemporary Art, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Witchy Women: Mothers, Myths and Magic, See Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey

Art House Feature Artist: Bloomingdales, Soho, New York

2011

Dirty Sensibilities: A 21st Century Exploration of the New American Black South, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY

Crown Heights Gold, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Sex Crimes Against Black Girls, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2010

There’s No Looking Glass Here, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY

Ain’t I A Woman, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, New York

2009

Hostelling International – New York’s 75th Anniversary Exhibit, New York, NY 

2007 Excavating Motherhood, Brooklyn Artist Gym Gallery (BAG) Brooklyn, New York

2006 Neighborhood Divas, Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2002

Challenge Art Exhibition, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 

COLORS: Chicago Fine Art Show, represented by Arterior Motives Fine Art

National Black Fine Arts Show, Puck Building, NY, represented Arterior Motives Art

Women’s Views on Masculinity, U.F.A. Gallery, New York, NY

Black Male National Arts Club, New York, NY 

RESIDENCIES

2017

701 CENTER for CONTEMPORARY ART, Summer  Artist in Residence, Columbia, SC

ART TALKS:

2023- Women Artist ShowCase , Westfield State University with Dr. Imo Nse IMeH

2021 - Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? - Last Supper Talks - Latchkey Gallery     

2020 - 

Creative Climate Virtual Artist in Studio Visit - Human Impacts Institute.            

Creative Climate Instagram Takeover

2020 - 

Creative Climate - Afro Future Activism and Environmental Art with MoCADA Museum. 

2020 - 

Sugarcane Magazine - Virtual Studio Visit Series. With Curator Melissa Hunter

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2025

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: 100 Years of Art and Artifacts

2022

Kimberly Becoat: URBANIA (solo exhibition catalog) 

2021     

Artsy : Curated Highlights by Omar Berrada

BROOKYLN ON MY MIND:  BLACK VISUAL ARTISTS FROM THE WPA TO THE PRESENT, DR. MYRAH BROWN Green

Art on the Vine: Pressure Points,  Jessica Stafford Davis

2017

The Coastal Post Magazine, “Segments and Systems” by Jenn Dierdorff

E-Flux Magazine  #79, “All Black Everything” by Jared Sexton. 

2016   African Voices Magazine  - Fall/Winter Issue  (designed cover & feature artist interview).

2016    Obsidian Literary Magazine

2012    There is No Looking Glass Here Deutsche Bank exhibition catalog

TV SHOWS:

2021 - 2018  Insecure HBO – Seasons , 3 - 5

2017 - 2016 NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES, Luke Cage: ‘Tiara’ (episodes 5 through 12)

2016 - The Americans, Season 4 episode 2 

AUCTIONS

2025   RUSH Philadelphia & Sotheby's

2012   Artists for Laurie Cumbo

2009   PS 163 Silent Auction

2008   PS 163   Silent Auction

2007   PS 163   Silent Auction

2003 Publicolor Silent Auction at Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Gallery

EDUCATION 

New York City Technical College, A.A.S.

Hunter College, C.U.N.Y. - B. F.A Fine Arts & Art Education