In 2015, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX organized a second retrospective, Melvin Edwards: Five Decades, featuring work from the early 1960s to the present. This retrospective traveled to the Zimmerli Museum of Art, Rutgers University, NJ and to the Columbus Museum of Art, OH. In 2017, Brown University in Providence, RI presented the solo exhibition, Melvin Edwards: Festivals, Funerals, and New Life. In 2018, an exhibition of the artist’s sculptures, Melvin Edwards: Lynch Fragments, was held at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo in Brazil. In 2019, the Baltimore Museum of Art organized the exhibition Melvin Edwards: Crossroads, which traveled to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA (2020) and the University of Southern California (USC) Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2020). Melvin Edwards’ work has been featured in innumerable group exhibitions, including Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2017), traveled to Crystal Bridges Museum of American, Bentonville, AK (2018), Brooklyn Museum, NY (2018), The Broad, Los Angeles, CA (2019), de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA (2019), and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2020);Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2016);All the World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy (2015); Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2014); Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2013), traveled to The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2012);Now Dig This! September 2019 The URBAN EXPERIENCE 13
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