Born in Miami, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Miami Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida

It’s Yours, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
The Awakening, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
ENTROPIES, Gana Art Nineone, Seoul

Textures of Memory, Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Textures of Memory, Hong Kong Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
ISTHMUS, ISTANBUL’74, Istanbul
Anonymous Vernacular, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York

Echo of Impressions, Ben Brown Fine Arts London, London
No Space / Non Place, Neuberger Museum of Art, SPACE | 42, New York

Mirrors, Brand New Gallery, Milan
Roots, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah
ONE: Union of the Sense | Mono-Transfers, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York

Roots, National Young Arts Foundation, Miami
INSTINCTS, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
Small Golden Suns, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

Surface Body Action Space, Mary Boone Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York

Segmented Realities, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
IN MEDIAS RES, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York

Prose, YUKA TSURUNO Gallery, Tokyo
Broken Language, Haunch of Venison, London

Gesture Performing Dance, Dance Performing Gesture, BAM FISHER (Brooklyn Academy of Music), New York

Character Gestures, OHWOW gallery, Los Angeles
Walls, Diaries, and Paintings, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York

Reading through Seeing: New Works, Ooi Botos Gallery, Hong Kong

Layered Days, Cristina Grajales, Inc., New York
Adaptation / Translation, Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, London

The Grand Tour, Autopsy Gallery, Melbourne
The Elsewhere Community, Monster Children Gallery, Sydney

Cityscapes, Art Basel Miami Beach
The Mystic Writing Pad, Koehler Gallery, Whitworth College, Washington

Autonomous Paths, Kinsey/DesForges Gallery, Los Angeles
Contemporary Palimpsests, Refill Gallery, Sydney

Hyphens: Miami, New York, Habana, Prophecy Gallery, New York

Bizen Yaki Engravings, BAL gallery, Okayama

Identidad en Progreso, Carlos Irizarry Gallery, San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Personal Alphabet, Exrealm Yamaha Gallery, Tokyo

An Experimental Introduction to a Segmented Reality, Modern Primitive Gallery, Atlanta

SITE: Art and Architecture in the Digital Space, Library Street Collective, Detroit (Digital Exhibition) https://www.lscgallerysite.com

yasiin bey: Negus, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Reflections, Gana Art Seoul, Seoul
Beyond the Streets, 25 Kent Ave., Williamsburg, New York
GLASSTRESS 2019, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Venezia

Victors for Art, U-M Museum of Art University of Michigan, Michigan

Seeing / Saying: Images and Words, Van Every Gallery, Davidson College, North Carolina
Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College, New York

Imagining New Worlds: Wifredo Lam, Jose Parla, Fahamu Pecou, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Wrinkles of the City, Havana Cuba screening (JR & Jose Parla), 11th Havana Biennial, La Habana, Cuba
Legal Tender, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles

The New Grand Tour, Bryce Wolkowitz, New York
It Ain’t Fair, O.H.W.O.W., Art Basel Miami Beach

The Kings County Biennial, Kidd Yellin Gallery, New York
Stages (Live Strong Foundation), O.H.W.O.W., Miami; Deitch Projects, New York; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
The New Yorkers, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen

The New Grand Tour, DNA Space, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing
Hi & Lo, Kai Kai Ki Ki Gallery, Tokyo

The New Grand Tour, Brave Gallery, Hong Kong
Pirate Utopias (Futura & José Parlá), Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, London

Hollywood to the Street: From the Poster to Graffiti (w/ Mimmo Rotella), Chelsea Art Museum, New York
The Barnstormers: Retrospective, SECCA: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem

What about New York?, Agnes B., Galerie Du Jour, Paris

Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review Award for Amistad América (Landmarks Commission)

Miami Dade College Alumni Hall of Fame Award Inductee

Istanbul74′ Arts & Culture Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
Brooklyn Arts Council honoree
Caldera Arts at Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

ICA Institure of Contemporary Arts – London, UK
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Wifredo Lam – Havana, Cuba
Latin American Culture Center – Paris, France
Grand Prize, Best Documentary Short
Best U.S. Premiere, Heartland Film Festival
For Wrinkles of the City, Havana Cuba
directed by JR & JOSE PARLA

Artist talk-Painting Program, Syracuse University, New York

Koehler Gallery, Whitworth College Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
Spokane, Washington

Frances Larkin McCommon Scholarship

Caldera Arts, Portland, Oregon
London Business School, London
Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection, Dallas, Texas
POLA Museum of Art, Hakone
The Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York
The British Museum, London
The Burger Collection, Hong Kong
The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
University of Texas at Austin, Landmarks Program of the Fine Arts College

Amistad América, Landmarks, Univiersity of Texas at Austin

ONE World Trade Center, New York City

Hunt Library by SNØHETTA, North Carolina State University

BAM FISHER, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
11th Havana Bienial, Cuba: Wrinkles of the City-Havana, Cuba. JR & José Parlá
Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York

Concord City Place, City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

http://www.joseparla.com/