Torkwase Dyson, Liquid a Place, Desert X, Palm Desert © Torkwase Dyson. Photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy Desert X Torkwase Dyson Details:b. 1973, Chicago, Illinois Read More Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. Examining the history and future of black spatial liberation strategies, Dyson’s abstract works grapple with the ways in which space is perceived and negotiated, particularly by black and brown bodies. The artist has distilled a vocabulary of poetic forms to address the spaciousness of freedom and question what type of climates are born out of world building. Dyson studied sociology, social work, and fine arts at Tougaloo College in Mississippi (1996), received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia (1999), and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut (2003). She has held solo exhibitions at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago (2018); The Drawing Center, New York (2018); New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana (2020); Serpentine Galleries, London (2021); Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany (2021); Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri (2023); and 'T' Space, Rhinebeck, New York (2023); among others. Dyson was also part of the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021); 12th Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom (2023); 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art (2023); and the 81st Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024). In May 2025, the artist debuted Akua, her first major installation with sound in New York City, at Brooklyn Bridge Park, commissioned by the Public Art Fund. Dyson also created the conceptual design for Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the Costume Institute's Spring 2025 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which will trace the cultural and historical significance of the Black Dandy from the 18th century to the present day. Dyson’s work is held in notable public collections worldwide, including The Art Institute of Chicago; Hall Collection, Derneburg, Germany, and Reading, Vermont; Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Long Museum, Shanghai; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Read More Torkwase Dyson, Liquid Shadows, Solid Dreams (A Monastic Playground), 2024. Installation view, Hyundai Terrace, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Sep 25, 2024 – Feb 2, 2025. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. Courtesy of The Whitney Museum of American Art © Torkwase Dyson Torkwase Dyson, Liquid a Place, 2021. Installation view, Torkwase Dyson: Liquid a Place, Pace Gallery, London, Oct 8 – Nov 6, 2021 © Torkwase Dyson Torkwase Dyson, I Belong to the Distance, 2019. Installation view, Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation © Torkwase Dyson Installation view, The 13th Shanghai Biennale: Bodies of Water, Apr 16 – Jul 25, 2021, Power Station of Art, Shanghai © Torkwase Dyson Torkwase Dyson, I Can Drink the Distance: Plantationocene in 2 Acts, featuring Deja Smith, Arthur Jafa, and Gaika, Performed at Pace Gallery on November 22, 2019 Torkwase Dyson, Liveness (Multi-Scalar Motion #1), 2022. Installation view, Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, Nov 11 – Dec 17, 2022 © Torkwase Dyson. Photo by Melissa Goodwin Torkwase Dyson, Beloved Stillness (Hypershape), 2022. Installation view, Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, Nov 11 – Dec 17, 2022 © Torkwase Dyson. Photo by Melissa Goodwin Installation view, Stories of Resistance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mar 12 – Aug 15, 2021 © Torkwase Dyson. Photo by Dusty Kessler Torkwase Dyson, Dark Black (Bird and Lava), 2021. Installation view, Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Jan 30 – May 9, 2021 © Torkwase Dyson. Photo by Luke Stettner, courtesy Wexner Center for the Arts Installation view, Torkwase Dyson: I Can Drink the Distance, Mar 26 – Apr 25, 2019, The Cooper Union, New York © Torkwase Dyson, courtesy The Cooper Union Installation View, Torkwase Dyson, Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany, Sep 3, 2021 – May 15, 2022 © Torkwase Dyson. Photo by Volker Crone, courtesy Hall Art Foundation Torkwase Dyson, Way Over There Inside Me (A Festival of Inches). Installation view, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, Baltimore Museum of Art, Oct 30, 2022 – Jan 29, 2023 © Torkwase Dyson. Photo by Mitro Hood, courtesy Baltimore Museum of Art Exhibitions View All Past Torkwase Dyson Here Sep 14 – Oct 26, 2024 Los Angeles Past Torkwase Dyson A Liquid Belonging Nov 11 – Dec 17, 2022 New York Past Living With Ghosts Jul 8 – Aug 5, 2022 London Past Pace Live — Torkwase Dyson Liquid A Place Oct 8 – Nov 6, 2021 London Journal View All Pace Publishing Torkwase Dyson: Liquid A Place Dubplate Jun 30, 2025 Artist Projects Torkwase Dyson at Brooklyn Bridge Park May 06, 2025 News Public Art Fund Announces 2025 Exhibition by Torkwase Dyson Nov 19, 2024 Museum Exhibitions Torkwase Dyson to Create Conceptual Design for "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at The Met Oct 09, 2024 One-Artist Exhibitions Group Exhibitions Public Collections Periodicals Books and Catalogues Close One-Artist Exhibitions Torkwase Dyson One-Artist Exhibitions DatesBorn 1973, ChicagoLives and works in Beacon, New YorkEducation2003, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, MFA, Painting and Printmaking1999, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, BFA, Painting and Printmaking1996, Tougaloo College, Mississippi, BA, Sociology and Social Work2025Torkwase Dyson: Akua (organized by Public Art Fund, New York), Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, May 6, 2025–March 8, 2026.2024Torkwase Dyson of Line and Memory, GRAY Chicago, November 8, 2024–January 25, 2025.Torkwase Dyson: Here, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, September 14–October 26, 2024.2023Torkwase Dyson: Closer (Bird and Lava), 'T' Space, Rhinebeck, New York, June 4–July 9, 2023. (Catalogue)Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, March 22–July 10, 2023.2022Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, November 11–December 17, 2022. (Catalogue)2021Pace Live - Torkwase Dyson: Liquid A Place, Pace Gallery, London, Exhibition: October 8–November 6, 2021; Performances: October 7, 9 and 11, 2021. (Brochure and Dubplate)Online: Torkwase Dyson: In Focus, Pace Gallery, October 8–November 6, 2021.Torkwase Dyson: Breathtaking: On Black Beauty and Other Necessary Indeterminacies (Spatial Test With Drawing, _001), 2021, Serpentine Galleries, London, September 25–October 17, 2021.Torkwase Dyson, Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg, Germany, September 3, 2021–May 15, 2022. (Catalogue)2020Torkwase Dyson: Studies for Bird and Lava, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, New York, August 1–9, 2020.Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, January 24–April 19 (extended to December 31), 2020.2019Torkwase Dyson, I Can Drink the Distance: Plantationocene in 2 Acts, Co-presentation by Pace Live and Performa, 540 West 25th Street, New York, Exhibition: November 19–December 10, 2019; Performances: November 19 and 22, 2019.Torkwase Dyson - 1919: Black Water, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, September 27–December 14, 2019. (Booklet)Torkwase Dyson: I Can Drink the Distance, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York, March 26–April 25, 2019.2018Torkwase Dyson: Nautical Dusk, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, October 4, 2019–January 6, 2019.Torkwase Dyson: Scalar, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont, September 18–December 15, 2018.Torkwase Dyson: James Madison Dyson, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, September 14–October 27, 2018.Torkwase Dyson and the Wynter-Wells Drawing School, Graham Foundation, Chicago, May 3–July 28, 2018.Torkwase Dyson: Dear Henry, Davidson Contemporary, New York, March 15–May 5, 2018.Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought and the Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice, The Drawing Center, New York, February 24–March 11, 2018.2017Torkwase Dyson: Hidden in Plane Site: Black Paintings, Landmark Gallery at Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, February 9–March 5, 2017.2016Torkwase Dyson: Illegal Abstraction: A Single Author, Hemphill Artworks, Washington, D.C., October 27, 2016–January 27, 2017.Torkwase Dyson: Mine Mind, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 27–June 23, 2016.Torkwase Dyson: Unkeeping, Industry City Gallery/Eyebeam, New York, March 9–April 12, 2016.2014Mine: a solo exhibition by Torkwase Dyson, The Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 2015.2008Torkwase Dyson: Hereinafter, Meat Market Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2008.2006Torkwase Dyson: Ding, Bling, Splash: Hurray You’re Rich, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006.Torkwase Dyson: Oil and Water Don’t Mix, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. Group Exhibitions Torkwase Dyson Group Exhibitions 2025Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 10–October 26, 2025.Something in the Water, Fondazione MAXXI Via Guido Reni, Rome, April 18–August 17, 2025.Partenaires Particulaires: Supports, Surfaces, Dissémination, Fondation CAB Saint-Paul de Vence, France, March 14–November 2, 2025.BA’ZINZILE: A Rehearsal for Breathing, Stellenbosch Triennale 2025, South Africa, February 19–April 30, 2025.2024A Nation Takes Place, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, August 21, 2024–March 2, 2025.Aberto03 | Tomie Ohtake and Chu Ming Silveira (organized by ABERTO), Residence of Chu Ming Silveira, São Paulo, August 10–October 6, 2024.Pace Tokyo: Special Preview, Pace Gallery, Tokyo, July 6–August 9, 2024.Sites of Impermanence, The National Academy of Design, New York, February 8, 2024–May 11, 2024.Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20, 2024–February 2, 2025.2023Choreographies of the Impossible, 35th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, September 6–December 10, 2023. (Catalogue)Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, September 2–November 11, 2023.12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, September 21–November 19, 2023.Liverpool Biennial 2023: uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, various venues, Liverpool, United Kingdom, June 10–September 17, 2023.Counterpublic Triennial, St. Louis Place Park and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, April 15–July 15, 2023. (Catalogue)Desert X, Coachella Valley, Indio, California, March 4–May 7, 2023.So it appears, Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, February 24–July 16, 2023.Prendre corps au monde, Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain, Brest, France, February 17–May 20, 2023.Ecologies of Elsewhere, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 10–August 6, 2023.[action=query]: Black Arts and Black Aesthetics, Pace Gallery, New York, February 1–25, 2023.2022Boil, Toil + Trouble, (organized by Art in Common), 50 NE 40th Street, Miami, November 28–December 14, 2022.Living with Ghosts, Pace Gallery, London, July 8–August 5, 2022. (Catalogue)SET IT OFF, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 22–July 24, 2022.A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, April 9–September 11, 2022. Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, October 30, 2022–January 29, 2023; The Brooklyn Museum, New York, March 3–June 25, 2023; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, August 5, 2023–March 3, 2024; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, April 13–September 22, 2024; Chicago Cultural Center, January 25–April 27, 2025. (Catalogue)Ninth Street and Beyond: 70 Years of Women in Abstraction: Part II: Geometry, Hunter/Dunbar Projects, New York, April 14–May 25, 2022.Lux et Veritas, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 2–October 23, 2022. (Catalogue)2021Hiding in Plain Sight, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, July 14–August 21, 2021. (Booklet)Bodies of Water: The 13th Shanghai Biennale - Phase 03: An Exhibition, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, April 17–July 25, 2021.Stories of Resistance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, March 12–August 15, 2021. (Catalogue)Ninth Street and Beyond: 70 Years of Women in Abstraction, Part I: The Gestural, Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York, March 3–April 9, 2022.Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, January 30–May 9, 2021. (Brochure)2020Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, September 24–December 2020. (Catalogue)Catalyst: Art and Social Justice, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York, February 20, 2020–September 8, 2021.2019Count of Three, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, April 18–May 24, 2019.Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, March 8–August 25, 2019.Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, March 7–June 10, 2019.2018Out of Easy Reach, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, August 24–October 4, 2018. (Catalogue)The Last Place They Thought Of, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 27–August 12, 2018. (Leaflet)Primary, Korn Gallery, Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, March 22–April 25, 2018.Between the Waters, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 9–July 22, 2018.2017Lack of Location is My Location, Koenig & Clinton, New York, November 3, 2017–January 14, 2018.On Documentary Abstraction, Art Center South Florida, Miami, September 30, 2017–January 2, 2018.35 Days, Hemphill Artworks, Washington, D.C., June 24–August 11, 2017.Works on Water 2017, 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York, June 5–30, 2017.Stacked, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, May 11–June 17, 2017.Invisible Man, Maros Gallery, New York, May 3–June 24, 2017.Dialogues In Drawing, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, March 16–May 23, 2017.In Conditions of Freshwater, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 2–June 10, 2017.x y: An Act of Translation, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, February 17–March 26, 2017.The Future is Abstract, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 28–July 8, 2017.2016Grey Scale, PostMasters Gallery, New York, June 24–August 20, 2016.The Block Party, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, July 14–mid-August 2016.2015A Constellation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, November 14, 2015–March 6, 2016. (Catalogue)Eyebeam Annual Showcase, 101 Front St. Galleries Brooklyn, New York, January 29–February 21, 2015.Outside In, South Street Seaport Cultural Building, New York, October 2–November 13, 2015.EAF 15: 2015 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, September 27, 2015–March 16, 2016.2014Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota, 2014.Africa Extended, United Nations, New York, 2014.2011Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists, Reginald F. Lewis Museum Baltimore, Maryland, February 12–October 16, 2011. (Catalogue)2010Monastic Residency: Torkwase Dyson: Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 7–9, 2010.2008It Might Blow Up, But It Won’t Go Pop, African American Art Museum, Dallas, Texas, 2008.Passin’ It On, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, 2008.Ephemerality, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 12–April 12, 2008.Spectrum-ed, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 1–July 1, 2008.She’s So Articulate: Black Women Artists Reclaim the Narrative, Arlington Center for the Arts, Virginia, June 10–July 19, 2008. (Catalogue)2007The Velocity of Gesture, or How to Build an Empire, The Dalton Gallery, Decatur, Georgia, Spring 2007.2006Magic Realism: Relationships to Caribbean and Latin Literature, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, 2006. Public Collections Torkwase Dyson Public Collections The Art Institute of ChicagoHall Art Foundation, Derneburg, Germany, and Reading, VermontHammer Museum, University of California, Los AngelesHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.Long Museum, ShanghaiMead Art Museum, Amherst College, MassachusettsMildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MissouriThe Museum of Modern Art, New YorkNational Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MassachusettsThe Studio Museum in Harlem, New YorkWhitney Museum of American Art, New York Periodicals Torkwase Dyson Periodicals 2025Jacobs, Laura. “’Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ Review: At the Met, Fashioning an Identity” (exhibition review). The Wall Street Journal, 14 May 2025. https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/superfine-tailoring-black-style-review-fashioning-an-identity-b7e9a1cdMelville, Doug. “Met Gala 2025: ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ Elevates Diversity, Dandyism In Fashion.” Forbes, 28 April 2025. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/04/28/this-years-met-gala-superfine-tailoring-black-style-is-set-to-elevate-diversity-dandyism-in-fashion/Maloy, Ashley Fetters, Maura Judkis, Shane O’Neill and Rachel Tashjian. “The 11 best looks from the 2025 Met Gala.” Washington Post, 6 May 2025. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2025/05/05/met-gala-best-dressed-2025-red-carpet-fashion/Murray, Conor. “What To Know About Tonight’s Met Gala: Who’s Attending And The ‘Tailoring Black Style’ Theme Explained.” Forbes, 30 April 2025. https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/05/05/what-to-know-about-tonights-met-gala-whos-attending-and-the-tailoring-black-style-theme-explained/Phelps, Nicole. “’Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ Is the Costume Institute’s Spring 2025 Exhibition.” Vogue Hong Kong, 28 April 2025. https://www.voguehk.com/en/article/fashion/superfine-tailoring-black-style-costume-institution-met-gala-2025/“Public Art Fund presents Torkwase Dyson: Akua at Brooklyn Bridge Park” (Public Art Fund exhibition review). ArtDaily, 6 May 2025. https://artdaily.com/news/181634/Public-Art-Fund-presents-Torkwase-Dyson--Akua-at-Brooklyn-Bridge-ParkRamzi, Lilah. “Artist Torkwase Dyson Offers a First Look at Her Exhibition Design for ‘Superfine.’” Vogue, 29 April 2025. https://www.vogue.com/article/torkwase-dyson-met-superfine-interviewFriedman, Vanessa. "LeBron James, ASAP Rocky and Everything You Need to Know About the 2025 Met Gala.” New York Times, 15 April 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/article/met-gala-2025-theme-hosts-watch.htmlUrist, Jacoba. “This May, Artist Torkwase Dyson Will Bring Her Transhistorical Touch to Two New York Monuments. Here’s How She’s Preparing” (Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition preview). Cultured Magazine, 1 April 2025. https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/04/01/torkwase-dyson-new-york-artist-met-brooklyn-bridge2024Bradley, Adam. “The Black Female Artists Redefining Minimalism.” The New York Times Style Magazine, 10 May 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/t-magazine/minimalism-black-female-artists.htmlBrown, Lily. “‘Torkwase Dyson: Here’ | The Artist's First Solo Show in LA At Pace Gallery” (exhibition review). Flaunt Magazine, 11 October 2024. https://www.flaunt.com/post/torkwase-dyson-here-at-pace-galleryFarago, Jason and Travis Diehl and Martha Schwendener. “Dozen of Artists, 3 Critics: Who’s Afraif of the Whitney Biennial.” The New York Times, 13 March 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/arts/design/whitney-biennial-review-museum-art.html.Fishman, Elly. “Torkwase Dyson art exhibit draws on South Shore childhood.” Chicago Sun-Times, 29 November 2024. https://chicago.suntimes.com/art/2024/11/29/torkwase-dyson-artist-south-shore-gray-gallery-exhibit“Global Gallery Hopping” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artnet News, 30 September 2024. https://link.artnet.com/view/62227b0615fa38451b010d49lywmq.3tae/02b86c24Kelly, Brian P. “Whitney Biennial 2024 Review: Reality Check” (exhibition review). The Wall Street Journal, 13 March 2024. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/whitney-biennial-2024-review-reality-check-airdigital-29c4f7db.Laster, Paul. “10 Highlights from the Whitney Biennial 2024.” Art & Object, 19 March 2024. https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/10-highlights-whitney-biennial-2024.“Learn More About the Artists in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.” Art in America, 25 January 2024. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-in-america/features/whitney-museum-art-new-york-2024-biennial-artists-1234694087/demian-dineyazhi/.Loos, Ted. “How the Whitney Biennial Artists Are Tackling Today’s Most Resonant Issues.” Galerie Magazine, 22 May 2024. https://galeriemagazine.com/whitney-biennial-artists-2024/“Pace Gallery at Art Basel 2024.” Arte Realizzata, 4 June 2024. https://www.arterealizzata.com/fair-and-festival-feature/pace-gallery-at-art-basel-2024“Pace to open an exhibition of new paintings by Torkwase Dyson” (exhibition preview). Art Daily, 30 July 2024. https://artdaily.com/news/172588/Pace-to-open-an-exhibition-of-new-paintings-by-Torkwase-DysonRubell, Samanthe. “Interview with Samanthe Rubell and Kyoko Hattori of Pace Gallery, ‘The Potential of the Japanese Art Scene as Seen by Mega Galleries’ [Current Trends in Art vol.15].” Interview with Kyoko Hattori. Richesse Magazine, 1 September 2024. https://www.richessemag.jp/lifestyle/art/a61972088/art-240901/Sayej, Nadja. “The 2024 Whitney Biennial Is a Romp Through Turmoil and Abstraction.” The Observer, 18 March 2024. https://observer.com/2024/03/whitney-biennial-2024-review-controversy-protests/.Schultz, Charles. “Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Things.” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2024. https://brooklynrail.org/2024/04/artseen/Whitney-Biennial-2024-Even-Better-Than-the-Real-ThingSmee, Sebastian. “A superb Whitney Biennial, marred by flimsy politics.” The Washington Post, 16 March 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/03/16/whitney-biennial-2024/.Sohashi, O. “Marc Glimcher, CEO of Pace Gallery, on the “spark” of change needed in the Japanese art market.” Bijustsu Techo, 30 August 2024. https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/interview/29412Tarmy, James. “Why Art Dealers Love to Hate Our Fair Reports.” Bloomberg, 14 June 2024. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-06-15/art-basel-update-why-sales-reports-annoy-art-dealers?sref=BJIROHoF“Torkwase Dyson: Here” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Arte Realizzata, 23 September 2024. https://www.arterealizzata.com/exhibition-showcase/torkwase-dyson-here“What sold at Art Basel in Basel.” Art Basel, 13 June 2024. https://www.artbasel.com/stories/what-has-sold-at-art-basel-in-basel2023Abrams, Amah-Rose. “Liverpool Biennial 2023 explores the legacy of slavery.” Wallpaper, 10 June 2023. https://www.wallpaper.com/art/liverpool-biennial-2023Adesina, Precious. “With Ceremonies and Rituals, the Liverpool Biennial Takes an Unflinching Look at the City’s Participation in the Slave Trade.” Artnet News, 22 June 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/liverpool-biennial-2323975Chow, Aaron. “Desert X Scatters Captivating Installations Across Coachella Valley” (exhibition review). Hypebeast, 14 March 2023. https://hypebeast.com/2023/3/desert-x-coachella-valley-installations-guide-news-infoDafoe, Taylor. “Desert X Arrives in Coachella Valley, Bringing Art That Reflects on Ecology. See Images of the Show Here” (exhibition review). Artnet News, 14 March 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/desert-x-2023-coachella-valley-in-pics-2270429“The Defining Exhibitions of 2023.” ARTnews, 21 December 2023. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/defining-exhibitions-1234690523/.Dreith, Ben. “Torkwase Dyson fuses sound and architecture for St Louis installation.” Dezeen, 6 September 2023. https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/06/torwsase-dyson-bird-and-lava-st-louis-counterpublic/Gaskin, Sam. “São Paulo Bienal 2023 to Choreograph the Impossible.” Ocula Magazine, 2 May 2023. https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/sao-paulo-bienal-to-choreograph-the-impossible/Hudson, Mark. “Rites and rituals take centre stage at the Liverpool Biennial.” Apollo Magazine, 21 June 2023. https://www.apollo-magazine.com/liverpool-biennial-2023-slave-trade-khanyisile-mbongwa-review/Kakar, Arun. “What Sold at Paris+ par Art Basel 2023.” Artsy, 23 October 2023. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-sold-paris-par-art-basel-2023.Katsikopoulou, Myrto. “Childhood Dreams, Aliens & Cowboys Collide in Desert X Sculptural Exhibit at Coachella Valley” (exhibition review). Designboom, 14 March 2023. https://www.designboom.com/art/desert-x-sculpture-exhibition-coachella-valley-03-14-2023/Klein, Kristine. “At Desert X 2023, twelve designers respond to themes related to climate change, water, and social issues” (Desert X exhibition review). The Architect’s Newspaper, 31 March 2023. https://www.archpaper.com/2023/03/at-desert-x-2023-twelve-designers-respond-to-themes-related-to-climate-change-water-and-social-issues/Knick, Shelby. “Desert X Returns To California: Coachella’s Contemporary Art Haven” (exhibition review). Forbes, 11 March 2023. https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelbyknick/2023/03/11/desert-x-returns-to-california-coachellas-contemporary-art-haven/?sh=6d81f9834605Mitter, Siddhartha. “Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope” (Counterpublic exhibition review). The New York Times, 9 May 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/arts/design/counterpublic-st-louis-public-art.htmlNiland, Josh. “Desert X 2023 features work that highlights the social and ecological consequences in our changing world” (exhibition review). Archinect, 18 March 2023. https://archinect.com/news/article/150342939/desert-x-2023-features-work-that-highlights-the-social-and-ecological-consequences-in-our-changing-worldPalumbo, Jacqui. “Desert X: Monumental new artworks rise in Coachella Valley” (Desert X exhibition review). CNN Style, 7 March 2023. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/desert-x-coachella-valley-2023/index.htmlWainwright, Oliver. “Desert X review – a severed torso and a sinister detention pen shatter America’s sun-kissed fantasyland” (Desert X exhibition review). The Guardian, 9 March 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/mar/09/desert-x-review-california-tyre-nichols-climate-crisisZheng, Elaine YJ. “Liverpool Biennial Takes a Step Towards Reparations.” Ocula Magazine, 20 June 2023. https://ocula.com/magazine/features/liverpool-biennial-2023-steps-toward-reparations/2022Bacon, Camille. "Rearrange: Torkwase Dyson and Black Feminist Breathing." Momus, 3 August 2022. https://momus.ca/rearrange-torkwase-dyson-and-black-feminist-breathing/Castro, Jan Garden. “Torkwase Dyson” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Sculpture Magazine, 16 December 2022. https://sculpturemagazine.art/torkwase-dyson/D’Souza, Aruna. “A Movement in Every Direction” (Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition review). 4Columns, 9 December 2022. https://4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/a-movement-in-every-directionDyson, Torkwase. “Acrobatics over Beats: A conversation between Torkwase Dyson and Derek Fordjour.” Interview with Derek Fordjour. Autre Magazine, 6 April 2022. https://autre.love/interviewsmain/2022/4/6/acrobatics-over-beats-a-conversation-between-torkwase-dyson-and-derek-fordjournbspDyson, Torkwase. “In the studio with… Torkwase Dyson.” Interview with Apollo. Apollo, 18 July 2022. https://www.apollo-magazine.com/in-the-studio-with-torkwase-dyson/“Flora Vesterberg’s Cultural Highlights Of New York This Winter” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Citizen Femme, 28 December 2022. https://citizen-femme.com/2022/12/28/flora-vesterbergs-cultural-highlights-of-new-york-this-winter/Hartman, Saidiya. “Saidiya Hartman by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson.” Interview with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson. BOMB Magazine, 24 October 2022. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/saidiya-hartman/Mitter, Siddhartha. “An Artist’s Gateway to Freedom and Possibility.” The New York Times, 10 November 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/arts/design/13torkwase-dyson-pace-artist-architecture.htmlRodney, Seph. “A Show About the Great Migration Strikes a Timely Chord.” Hyperallergic, 21 June 2022. https://hyperallergic.com/741854/a-show-about-the-great-migration-strikes-a-timely-chord/Stopa, Jason. “Torkwase Dyson Seeks Black Liberation Through Geometry” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Hyperallergic, 7 December 2022. https://hyperallergic.com/786093/torkwase-dyson-seeks-black-liberation-through-geometry/2021Dyson, Torkwase. “On Hyper Shapes.” Metropolis, July/August 2021: 160, illustrated.Fite-Wassilak, Chris. “London Round-up" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art Agenda, 20 October 2021.Ghassemitari, Shawn. “Torkwase Dyson Comments on Spatial Inequities at Pace London” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Hypebeast, 12 October 2021. https://hypebeast.com/2021/10/torkwase-dyson-in-focus-pace-gallery-london-exhibitionGerlis, Melanie. "Pace's next generation." Financial Times, 9 October 2021: 5, illustrated. Web version: https://www.ft.com/content/5acbc373-4309-439d-9cee-d5c21e96b78fLloyd-Smith, Harriet. “Torkwase Dyson and Mark Rothko inaugurate Pace gallery’s new London home” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). Wallpaper, 8 October 2021. https://www.wallpaper.com/art/pace-gallery-london-opening-torkwase-dyson-mark-rothkoMorris, Kadish. “Liquid liberation: artist Torkwase Dyson on her aquatic obsession” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). The Guardian, 4 October 2021.Rappolt, Mark. “Torkwase Dyson: the Shape of Water” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). ArtReview, 7 October 2021. https://artreview.com/torkwase-dyson-shape-of-water/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/04/liquid-liberation-artist-torkwase-dyson-on-her-aquatic-obsessionWestall, Mark. “Pace to Launch New London Space with Rothko & Torkwase Dyson Presentation” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). FAD Magazine, 4 June 2021. https://fadmagazine.com/2021/06/04/pace-to-launch-new-london-space-with-rothko-torkwase-dyson-presentations/2020Barrila, Silvia Anna. “Vendite vivaci a Frieze online nella fascia alta.” Il Sole 24 Ore, 9 May 2020.Donoghue, Katy. “A Few Finds in Frieze New York’s Online Viewing Rooms.” Whitewall, 6 May 2020. https://www.whitewall.art/art/finds-frieze-new-yorks-online-viewing-roomsDuron, Maximiliano and Angelica Villa. “Frieze New York Moves Online with Brisk Sales and Blue-Chip Art.” ARTnews, 6 May 2020. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/frieze-new-york-2020-online-sales-report-1202686227/Lescaze, Zoë. “12 Artists On: The Financial Crisis.” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 21 July 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/t-magazine/art-financial-crisis.htmlPerry, Barlo. “Torkwase Dyson and Hans Ulrich Obrist.” Paris LA, 29 March 2020. https://www.paris-la.com/torkwase-dyson-and-hans-ulrich-obrist/Schuster, Angela M. H. “In the Studio: Torkwase Dyson Got Certified as an Open-Water Diver to get Closer to her Subject” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Avenue Magazine (September/October 2020): 30–33, illustrated.Tauer, Kristen. “Torkwase Dyson’s Latest Work Takes Shape in ‘Studies for Bird and Lava” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). WWD, 13 August 2020. https://wwd.com/eye/people/torkwase-dyson-pace-gallery-studies-for-bird-and-lava-1203698174/“Torkwase Dyson” (New Orleans Museum of Art exhibition preview). Wall Street International Magazine, 4 January 2020. https://wsimag.com/art/60011-torkwase-dyson“Turbulent Decades” (Pace Gallery online exhibition review). Aesthetica, 16 May 2020.2019Long, Monique. “Torkwase Dyson tells the history of black liberation through cartographic art” (Columbia University exhibition review). Document Journal, 27 September 2019.Miller, Nicole. “Torkwase Dyson’s New Show is an Abstract Meditation on the Racial Violence of the 1919 Red Summer” (Columbia University’s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery exhibition review). Art in America (December 2019): 101, illustrated.“Portfolio: Tuning by Torkwase Dyson” (Graham Foundation exhibition review). Bomb Magazine, 11 July 2019. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/portfolio-torkwase-dyson/Wolpow, Nina. “Torkwase Dyson: 1919: Blackwater” (Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery exhibition review). The Brooklyn Rail, November 2019. https://brooklynrail.org/2019/11/artseen/Torkwase-Dyson-1919-BlackwaterZacks, Stephen. “Is Torkwase Dyson's abstract recount of racial violence a missed opportunity?” (Columbia University exhibition review). The Architect’s Newspaper, 21 October 2019. https://archpaper.com/2019/10/is-torkwase-dysons-1991-black-water/2018Binlot, Ann. “Virgil Abloh and Grace Wales Bonner Imagine Their Ideal Cities.” Document Journal, 10 December 2018. https://www.documentjournal.com/2018/12/virgil-abloh-and-grace-wales-bonner-imagine-their-ideal-cities/Dyson, Torkwase, Elisabeth Sherman and Margaret Cross. “Between the Waters Roundtable.” Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018. https://whitney.org/Essays/BetweenTheWatersDyson, Torkwase. “Unlearning America’s History with Torkwase Dyson.” Elephant, 20 June 2018. https://elephant.art/studio-visit-torkwase-dyson/Grabner, Michelle. “Torkwase Dyson Rhona Hoffman Gallery” (exhibition review). Artforum (January 2019). https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201901/torkwase-dyson-78033Vermeulen, Heather V. “Space as Place, Scalar as Vector: Torkwase Dyson’s (Black) Abstraction,” Exhibition essay for Torkwase Dyson: Scalar, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, North Bennington, Vermont, September—December 2018.2017Pedro, Laila. “When Conceptual Art Makes You Acutely Aware of Your Body” (Martos Gallery exhibition review). Hyperallergic, 9 June 2017. https://hyperallergic.com/384468/when-conceptual-art-makes-you-acutely-aware-of-your-body/Pedor, Laila. “Threads of Fire and Water and Gold” (We Buy Gold exhibition review). The Brooklyn Rail, 1 April 2017. https://brooklynrail.org/2017/04/artseen/Threads-of-Fire-and-Water-and-Gold-ONEHeinrich, Will. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week” (Martos Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 25 May 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/arts/design/what-to-see-in-new-york-art-galleries-this-week.htmlSchwendener, Martha. “10 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn” (We Buy Gold exhibition review). The New York Times, 27 April 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/arts/design/10-galleries-to-visit-now-in-brooklyn.html2016Keeshin, Matthew and Torkwase Dyson. “This Art Studio Made from Upcycled Materials Hits the Highway.” Dwell, 2016. https://www.dwell.com/collection/this-art-studio-made-from-upcycled-materials-hits-the-highway-c6fcdc0fSchwendener, Martha. “Torkwase Dyson, Unkeeping” (Eyebeam in Industry City exhibition review). The New York Times, 31 March 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/arts/design/art-galleries-nyc.htmlFowle, Alexandra. “Torkwase Dyson: Unkeeping” (Eyebeam in Industry City exhibition review). The Brooklyn Rail, April 2016. https://brooklynrail.org/2016/04/artseen/torkwase-dyson-unkeepingByrd, Cathy. “Materials Girls.” Sculpture Magazine, 2016: 64.2013Hirsh, Jennie. "Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists” (Reginald F. Lewis Museum exhibition review). Art in America, November 2011. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/material-girls-contemporary-black-women-artists-61040/Long, Monique. "Studio Visit.” Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Summer/Fall 2013: 48.2009Brady, Shaun. “You Can’t Take It with You: Philadelphia Artists Explores the Transience of Nature in ‘Ephemerality’” (The Schuylkill Center exhibition review). Philadelphia City Paper, 27 January 2009: 25.2008Dyson, Torkwase. “A Piercing Look at the World.” Interview with Jessica Dawson. The Washington Post, 27 July 2008: C12.Dawson, Jessica. “Standing in the Shadow of the Silhouette Figure,” The Washington Post, 20 June 2008.Frederick, Helen, “She’s So Articulate: Black Women Artists Reclaim the Narrative” (Arlington Art Center exhibition review). Art Papers 32, no. 5 (September/October 2008): 54.2006Feaster, Felicia. “Talk About the Work.” Creative Loafing, 12 July 2006: 25.Feaster, Felicia. “Velocity of Gesture: Making Their Mark.” Creative Loafing, 14 February 2006: 36. Books and Catalogues Torkwase Dyson Books 2025Gumpert, Lynn, Nancy Princenthal. Vesela Sertenović, Susan Unterberg, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Alexadnra Schwartz, et al. Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years. New York: Grey Art Museum, New York University; Munich, Germany: Hirmer Publishers, 2025: 70–71, 357, illustrated.2024Andrea, Margaret, and Michelle Grabner, eds. 50 Paintings. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2024: 50, 69, illustrated.2023Gooden, Mario. “Torkwase Dyson.” In Choreographies of the Impossible (exhibition catalogue). São Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2023: 296–297, illustrated.Counterpublic: 2023 Exhibition Guide (exhibition catalogue). Text by James Mcanally. St. Louis, Missouri: Counterpublic, 2023: 160–167.Gilman, Claire, and Roger Malbert. Drawing in the Present Tense. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2023: 258–261, illustrated.Godfrey, Mark, and Katy Siegel, eds. Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Greg Collection. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2023: 330, illustrated.Torkwase Dyson: Closer (Bird and Lava) (exhibition catalogue). New York: ‘T’ Space Rhinebeck, 2023.“Torkwase Dyson: MFA 2003.” In Lux et Veritas (exhibition catalogue). Fort Lauderdale, Florida: NSU Art Museum, 2022: 98–99, illustrated.Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Dionne Brand, LeRonn P. Brooks, Torkwase Dyson, Saidiya Hartman, et al. New York: Pace Publishing, 2023.2022Living with Ghosts: A Reader (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Achille Mbembe, Jacques Derrida, C.L.R. James, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Kojo Abudu, Emmanuel Iduma, Walter D. Mignolo, Avery F. Gordon, Adjoa Armah, and Joshua Segun-Lean. Conversation with Bouchra Khalili and Kojo Abudu. London: Pace Gallery, 2022: 126–7, illustrated.A Movement in Every Direction: A Great Migration Critical Reader (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Jessica Bell Brown and Ryan N. Dennis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.2021Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment (exhibition catalogue). Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, 2021: 31, illustrated.Hiding in Plain Sight (exhibition booklet). Text by Andria Hickey. New York: Pace Gallery, 2021: 18–19, illustrated.Torkwase Dyson: Liquid A Place (limited edition dubplate). Music by GAIKA and Ron Trent. New York: Pace Publishing, 2021.Torkwase Dyson: Liquid A Place (exhibition brochure). Poem by the artist. London: Pace Gallery, 2021.Torkwase Dyson (exhibition catalogue). New York: Hall Art Foundation, 2021.2020Drawing 2020 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Molly Nesbit. New York and Brussels, Köln, Germany: Gladstone Gallery, 2020: 50, illustrated.2019Torkwase Dyson - 1919: Black Water (exhibition booklet). Interviews with the artist by Mabel Wilson and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. Text by William Tuttle, Jr. New York: Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, 2019.2018The Last Place They Thought Of (exhibition leaflet). Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2018.Out of Easy Reach (exhibition catalogue). Chicago: DePaul Art Museum; Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago; Rebuild Foundation, 2018.2015A Constellation (exhibition catalogue). New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2015.2012Ayokunle Odeleye: Thirty Two Years of Public Art. Texts by Leroy Clarke, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Torkwase Dyson, and Andrea Barnwell Brownlee. Stone Mountain, Georgia and Garland, Texas: Odeleye Sculpture Studios; Cenveo, 2012.2011Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Michelle Joan Wilkinson. Baltimore: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, 2011.2008She's so articulate: Black Women Artists Reclaim the Narrative (exhibition catalogue). Arlington: Arlington Arts Center, 2008.