Bodies of Work
Photographic Projects

- Family Pictures and Stories, 1981–1982
- Ain't Jokin', 1987–1988
- American Icons, 1988–1989
- Colored People, 1989–1990
- And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People, 1989–1990
- The Kitchen Table Series, 1990
- Sea Islands, 1991–1992
- Africa, 1993
- Slave Coast, 1993
- From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995–1996

- Framed by Modernism, 1996
- Not Manet's Type, 1997
- Who, What, When, Where, 1998
- Ritual and Revolution, 1998
- The Hampton Project, 2000
- The Jefferson Suite, 2001
- Dreaming in Cuba, 2001
- The Louisiana Project, 2003
- Mayflowers Long Forgotten, 2003
- Selling Hopes and Dreams in a Bottle,
2004
- Beacon, 2005
- Roaming, 2006
- Museums, 2006
- Constructing History, 2008
- African Jewels, 2009
- Mandingo, 2010
- Slow Fade to Black, 2010
- Equivalents, 2012
- Blue Notes, 2014–2015
Public Art Projects
- Operation: Activate, in collaboration with Social Studies 101, 2011
- Billboard Project, 2017, in collaboration with Social Studies 101
Video Projects
- Coming Up For Air, 2002–2005
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- Italian
Dreams, 2006
- Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment, 2008
- They Are Protesting the War, the War, the War (Audio)
- A Story Within a Story

- A Woman in
Winter
- The Fall:
The Assassinations
- Afro-Chic, 2009
- Geri Allen, 2009
- The Maddening Crowd, 2012
- The Obama Project, 2012
Installations
- Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me, 2012