| Summary: | Sculptor Willie Cole was born on January 3, 1955 in Somerville, New Jersey. He attended the Arts High School of Newark and earned his B.F.A. degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Cole began his career as an artist and freelance graphic designer. His first major art installation was Ten Thousand Mandellas, in 1988, which led to his first major gallery exhibition in 1989 at the Franklin Furnace Gallery in New York. In 1997, his piece, Stowage, led to a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Cole received the David C. Driskell Prize in 1995. He exhibited at, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the James Gallery of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Western Michigan University. He is a member of Detroit's Adcraft Club.
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