SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 New Landscapes, Dartmouth University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, New Bedford, MA
2017 Machine Dreams, Landmark College, Putney, VT
2015 American Lullaby, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2013 The Armory Show, Focus Section, Commissioned Installation, Curated by Eric Shiner, New York, NY
2012 Dave Cole, DODGEgallery, New York, NY
Dave Cole: The Music Box, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2011 Flags of the World, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2010 Unreal City, DODGEgallery, New York, NY
2009 Maribyrnong River Bridge, Big West Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Dave Cole: Flags of the World, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2008 All American, judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Trophies and Monuments, judi rotenberg gallery, Boston
2005 Dave Cole: The Knitting Machine and Other Work, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2003 Recent Work, Cooks Road Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Fantastical, Political, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2015 Site Santa Fe Biennial, with Jason Middlebrook, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (Upcoming)
Post-Textiles, curated by Alison Ferris, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (Upcoming)
2013 Inaugural Exhibition, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Dave Cole, Ellen Harvey, Jason Middlebrook, Cordy Ryman, Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
2012 40 Under 40, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Reimagining The Distaff Toolkit, Berman Museum, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA; Housatonic
Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT (traveling)
Americana, Grey Area, New York, NY
2011 The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21C Collection, The Cincinnati Art Museum,
Cincinnati,OH Extreme Materials 2, Grand Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
SHAKEDOWN, DODGEgallery, New York, NY
Reimagining The Distaff Toolkit, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca Collage, Ithaca, NY; Swope Art
Museum, Terre Haute, IN (traveling)
2010 Critical Stitch, Union College, Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, NY
A Candid World: American Visions, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic,
CT DRAMATIS PERSONAE, DODGEgallery, New York, NY
Reimagining The Distaff Toolkit, Denison University Museum, Granville, OH; College Gallery,
Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH; Phillips Museum, Franklin and Marshall College,
Lancaster, PA (traveling)
2009 Thread Baring: A Portrayal of Masculinity One Stitch at a Time, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, WI
All’s Fair in Art and War, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Dritto Rovescio, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Knitted Worlds, Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands
It’s Beautiful Here, Textile, Fiskars, Finland College
Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, Gardiner Art Gallery at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK;
Eleanor D Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA; The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ;
Mandeville Gallery At Union College, Schenectady, NY (traveling)
Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
(traveling)
2008 Abel’s Sketch Book, Jaermuseet Vitenfabrikken, Sandes, Norway
BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN (traveling)
Reimagining The Distaff Toolkit, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT; Mead Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (traveling)
Strikknikk, Nasjonal Museet Oslo, Norway (traveling)
2007 Made at MASS MoCA, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
Strikknikk, Vestlanske Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, Norway; Bomundsfabriken Kunsthall,
Arendal, Norway (travelling)
Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (traveling)
Stitch in Time, University of California, San Francisco, CA
2005 ProvFlux 2005, The Steel Yard, Providence, RI
On Site, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2004 Fresh from Providence, judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA
Alumni Invitational, The Putney School, Putney, VT
ProvFlux 2004, The Steel Yard, Providence, RI
2003 Eight, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
deCordova Annual Exhibition, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2002 Crisis Response, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Convergence X, Convergence International Arts Festival, Providence, RI
Flexible Spaces, Rhode Island Foundation Gallery, Providence, RI
Imprints & Punctures, University of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI
Touchy-Feely, Hartford Art Center, Hartford, CT
2001 Cole, Moser, Maynard and Walsh, Mill City Gallery, Providence, RI
Fidelity Annual Exhibition, The Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
The Drawing Show, Gallery 3A, Providence, RI
1999 Studio Arts Honors Exhibition 2000, Brown University, Providence, RI
Redefining the Weave, RISD Graduate School Gallery, Providence, RI