SOlo Exhibitions
May 2026- January 2029
Retrospective: Willie Birch - Stories To Tell
Travelling retrospective exhibition:
California African American Museum: May 2026 - October 2026
New Orleans Museum of Art: March 2027 - September 2027
Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville: October 2027 - May 2028
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY: September 2028 - January 2029
September 2025- November 2025
Fort Gansevoort NY- Willie Birch: Up on the Roof
The title of Willie Birch’s solo exhibition at Fort Gansevoort, Up on the Roof, is partly descriptive of the artist’s 2022 work, Two Roofers and a Ladder, which positions the viewer below a pair of workers flanking a ridge on the asphalt roof of a “shotgun” house.
March 2022- May 2022
FORT Gansevoort NY - Willie Birch - Chronicling Our Lives: 1987-2021
The presentation features large paintings on paper and painted papier-mâché sculptures created between 1987 and 1996, complemented by a new monumental, mural-like work executed in black and white. Together, the thirty works on view reflect Birch’s perspective on the beauty and complexities of the human experience.
Group Exhibitions
November 2025- February 2026
From the studio: Fifty- Eight Years of Artist in residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, ny
Sited in the new artist in residence studios and lounge, this installation recognizes the enduring impact of the Museum’s signature Artist-in-Residence program. Nearly all former artists in residence are represented through a combination of newly commissioned works on paper, objects from the Museum’s collection, and art on loan from friends and family.
October 2022 - February 2023
MOMA- Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the present
Willie Birch’s “ Solid State “ series was created in 1983 and has been never shown before.
October 2021- January 2022
Prospect 5
Birch’s works have a careful attention to detail, highlighting patterns in the natural and built environment that give his works a sense of graphic depth and speak to fractal patterns and numerology that are connected to worldviews of the African diaspora.
October 2021- January 2022
NOAFA - “Two Versions of the Same Story” The Art of Willie Birch & Tina Freeman
Though Willie Birch and Tina Freeman both fill monumental shoes in New Orleans, the artists’ works have never been presented in as direct of a conversation as in their current two-person exhibition at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Titled “Two Versions of the Same Story: The Art of Willie Birch and Tina Freeman,” the presentation brings together two individual bodies of work that hint at the connections between people and place; process and form; and past and present.
June 2018- September 2018
NOMA - Changing Course
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories, an exhibition that celebrates the New Orleans Tricentennial by bringing together a group of seven contemporary art projects that focus on forgotten or marginalized histories of the city. Projects by artists Katrina Andry, Willie Birch, Lesley Dill, L. Kasimu Harris, Skylar Fein, The Everyday Projects, and The Propeller Group each shed light on the past while also looking towards the future, returning to defining moments in New Orleans’ history that continue to frame art and life in the city today.
January 2017
FACE TO FACE: A SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE BY LOUISIANA ARTISTS
Featuring Willie Birch, Douglas Bourgeois, George Dureau, Elizabeth Kleinveld & Epaul Julien, Aubrey Edwards, Deborah Luster, Rashaad Newsome, Tameka Norris, Gina Phillips, Jennifer Shaw, Jonathan Traviesa, and Heather Weathers.
