Art Institute of Chicago
The Safety Patrol
Bisa Butler · 2018
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; consigned to Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, 2018; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Pulse Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair, Dec. 6-8, 2018.
- Katonah, NY, Katonah Museum of Art, Bisa Butler: Portraits, Mar. 15-Oct. 4, 2020; Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 14, 2002-Sept. 6, 2001, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9324">Art Institute of Chicago</a>, cat.
Literature
Published references
- Nancy Demerdash, "The Fabric of Diaspora: Memory, Portraiture, and Empowerment in the Quilts of Bisa Butler," The Textile Museum Journal 48 (2021): 152-169.
- Erica Warren, Bisa Butler, Jordan Carter, Isabella Ko, Michele Wije, Bisa Butler: Portraits, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020).
- Michele Wije and Erica Warren, Bisa Butler: Portraits, exh. cat. (Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 2020).
- Bisa Butler, "Bisa Butler, The Safety Patrol, 2018" in Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau, ed. (Yale University Press, 2026), 251, 266, cat. 194 (ill.).
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