CV

Last updated: January 2024. Contact us for the latest version.

Born in Philadelphia, PA

Lives and works in Harlem, NYC

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (public and private)

Museum of Arts and Design

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Victoria & Albert Museum 

The Museum at FIT

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Amistad Research Center

RISD Museum

Peabody Essex Museum

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library

The Museum of Modern Art Library

Stonewall National Museum & Archives

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library

Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Residence

Debbie Harry of Blondie

Sarah Dash (recording artist)

Dyana Williams

Marcus Samuelsson

Vanessa A. Williams

Sidra Smith

Carole Gist (Miss USA 1990)

Glenn Jones (recording artist)

Stacey McKenzie (model)

Anne L. Stone

Stephanie Calla

Ming Hunt

COMMISSIONS 

The Store at MAD (Museum of Arts and Design)

Museum of Arts and Design (MAD Ball gala 2022)

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Newark Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Beau McCall: Buttons On!, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, March 2024-February 2025.

2023

REWIND: HISTORY ON REPEAT, Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 2023-September 2023.

2017 

The Conversation, Columbia University/The Langston Hughes House, New York, NY, June 2017.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

OUT of the Jewelry Box, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, April 2024-April 2026.

2023

Art and Design from 1900 to Now, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, September 2022-June 2024. Note: work on view beginning 2023.

Newark Arts Festival: Cross Cultural Perspectives, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ, September 2023-October 2023.

Uptown Triennial 2023, Columbia University, New York, NY, June 2023-September 2023.

Craft Front & Center, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, February 2023. 

Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY, February 2023-April 2023. 

2022

Newark Arts Festival: Artful Healing, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ, October 2022.

Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY, January 2022-April 2022. 

2021

Newark Arts Festival: Dionne Warwick: Queen of Twitter, Hahne & Co., Newark, NJ, October 2021.

2020

Styling: Black Expression, Rebellion, and Joy Through Fashion, Nordstrom, New York, NY, September 2020-October 2020. 

2018 

Supernatural Woman: Tribute to the Queen, Irwin House Gallery, Detroit, MI, September 2018-January 2019.

Oh You Fancy! Black Hair & Fashion, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, June 2018-January 2019.

i found god in myself: a celebration of Dr. Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls… Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, January 2018-April 2018.

2017 

i found god in myself: a celebration of Dr. Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls… City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, October 2017-November 2017.

i found god in myself: a celebration of Dr. Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls… Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, TX, March 2017-April 2017.

2016 

The Button Show, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, January 2016-March 2016.

i found god in myself: a celebration of Dr. Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls… African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, October 2016-January 2017.

2015

Stax: Visions of Soul, Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, TN, July 2015-December 2015.  

Untitled, Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Residence, New York, NY, June 2015.

2014

i found god in myself: the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls…, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY, September 2014-January 2015. 

2013

eMerge 2.0: Melvin Van Peebles & Artists on the Cusp, Strivers Gardens Gallery, New York, NY, September 2013-November 2013.

Motown to Def Jam, multi-venue exhibition: Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center, and Strivers Gardens Gallery, New York, NY, June 2013-July 2013.

Art Enology: Philadelphia, Vivant Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, May 2013. 

Sculpture Now 2013, Honfleur Gallery, Washington D.C., March 2013-April 2013.

Lasting Legacy: An AARP Exhibition, Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center, New York, NY, February 2013-April 2013.

2012

Art Enology, Art in Flux Harlem, New York, NY, December 2012-February 2013.

eMerge: Danny Simmons & Artists on the Cusp, Strivers Gardens Gallery, New York, NY, August 2012-November 2012.

Unveiled, Unlocked, The City College of New York, September 2012-November 2012.

SELECTED PRESS/BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024

Dilys Blum, Dr. Christine Checinska, James Claiborne, Michelle Millar Fisher, Barbara Paris Gifford, Stamatina Gregory, Colleen Hill, Kara Olidge, Eric Darnell Pritchard, Petra Slinkard, and Souleo, Foreword by Beth C. McLaughlin, Beau McCall: Buttons On! (Fuller Craft Museum, 2024).

2023

NY1 News, “Artist Beau McCall uses all types of buttons for his unique creations,” November 2023.

Miami Herald, “This art exhibit in Fort Lauderdale honors the joy and power of Black, LGBTQ friendship,” June 2023.

ESSENCE, “Artist Beau McCall is Highlighting LGBTQ+ History By Honoring His Lost Friends,” July 2023.

EBONY, “Artist Beau McCall–’The Button Man’–Celebrates Pride Month with Nostalgic Collage,” June 2023.

New York Amsterdam News, “Rewinding memories by preserving friendships,” June 2023. 

The New York Times, “Reminiscing About Clothes that Shaped Hip-Hop,” February 2023.

Elizabeth Way and Elena Romero, Foreword by Slick Rick, Fresh Fly Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style (Rizzoli Electa, 2023).

2021

Beau McCall, REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT (Newark, NJ: SHINE Portrait Studio@ Express Newark, Rutgers University-Newark, 2021).

Indira Etwaroo and Hollis King, Black Lives Matter Bed-Stuy 2020: Our Open Casket to the World (The Billie Holiday Theatre, 2021).

2018 

American Craft Council Magazine, “Material Matters: Button Man,” June 2018.

2017 

The Houston Chronicle, “Identity and inspiration on display in 'i found god in myself,'” March 2017.

2016 

The Associated Press, “Buttons as Contemporary Art, Reimagined in NYC Exhibition,” January 2016.

2014

New York Daily News, “Harlem artists team up for new Schomburg exhibit honoring the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s poetic monologues,” October 2014.

NBC’s TheGrio.com, “Eyes on the Wall: 40 African-American Artists to Watch,” January 2014.

2013 

The New York Times, “Evening Hours” (Bill Cunningham), November 2013.

TV One, “Life After” (Season 5), October 2013.

The New York Times, “On the Street” (Bill Cunningham), September 2013.

WNBC, “Positively Black” September 2013.

NBC’s TheGrio.com, “Legendary filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles makes visual art debut at Harlem gallery,” 

September 2013.

NY1 News, “Motown Sounds Inspire Harlem Galleries Exhibit,” June 2013.

The Philadelphia Gay News, “Beau McCall: Of Buttons and Bottles,” May 2013.

2012 

WNBC, “NY Nightly News with Chuck Scarborough,” July 2012.

EBONY.com, “Artists’ Diary: Beau McCall and Shirley Nette Williams,” July 2012.

BlackEnterprise.com, “8 Works of Art from Everyday Objects,” July 2012.

NY Amsterdam News, “Singer Ledisi Finds Beauty and Beau McCall is Visual Artist of the Month,” July 2012.

RollingOut.com, “Artist Beau McCall Creates Chic Fashion and One-of-a-Kind Mosaics with Buttons,” June 2012.

BlackEnteprise.com, “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Decoded,” January 2012.

1992

Women’s Wear Daily, “Buttons and Beau,” July 1992.

1991

PBS, “George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum,” February 1991.

TEACHING

2024

Museum of Arts and Design, Guest Teaching Artist, January 2024.

2022

Peabody Essex Museum, Guest Teaching Artist, September 2022.

2021

Museum of Arts and Design, Guest Teaching Artist, November 2021.

2018

Newark Museum of Art, Guest Teaching Artist, November 2018.

2012

Harlem Arts Alliance, Guest Teaching Artist, July 2012.

The New York Public Library, Guest Teaching Artist, June 2012.