Selected Exhibits

Solo / Two Person Shows

Finding A Way Out of No Way. Primary Artist. Banneker Douglass Museum Annapolis, MD 2015-2016

Orison Piece. Our Lady of Perpetual Hope Church. Edgewater, MD 20013

Rivers and Memories with E.J. Montgomery. Brentwood Art Exchange January-March 2012

Paintings and Sculptural Paintings. Parish Gallery. Washington, D.C.2007

Moses’ Rock. Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist Atrium. Solo. 2004.

Contemporary Master: From Painting to Painting as Sculpture. A short retrospective. The Skylight Gallery Art and Culture Center of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration. Brooklyn, NY. Solo. 2000.

From Painting to Painting as Sculpture. Delta Fine Arts Inc. at Milton Rhodes Gallery. Winston-Salem, N.C. Solo. 1999.

A Thirty-year Retrospective: From Painting to Painting as Sculpture: The Journey of Lilian Thomas Burwell. Hampton University Museum. Hampton, Va. Solo. 1997

Museum of Science and Industry Members Lounge Gallery. Chicago 1996-1997.

Arnold and Porter, Thurman Arnold Building. Washington, DC. Solo. 1996.

Isobel Neal Gallery. Washington, DC. Two-person. 1993.

Lilian Burwell: Constructional Painter. National Capitol Park Services. Washington, DC Solo. 1992-93.

Progression. The Craftery. Hartford, Conn. Solo. 1988.

Orison Piece(Prayer Piece). Tyler Gallery at Northern Virginia Community College. Alexandria, VA. With Marie Ringwald 1985

Group Shows

Magnetic Fields. National Gallery of Women in the Arts. Washington D.C. Autumn 2017

Magnetic Fields. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Kansas City, MO. Summer 2017

Circle of Friends. American University Museum at the Katzen Center Washington D.C. Winter 2016

Saving the Legacy. Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington D.C. Winter 2013

Bridging Cultures. Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD. 2006

Black Women Artists in the Academy. The Howard University Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. 1999.

Women of Color: Artists Books. Franklin Furnace, NYC; Flossie Martin Gallery, Radford University; Eubie Blake Center and Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, ILL. 1997-98.

Environments of Spirit, Mind and Space: The World We Create. Lilian Thomas Burwell, Sam Gilliam, and Yvonne Pickering-Carter. Nathan Cummings Foundation. NYC. 1996.

Jazz y Son. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC; Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery at Pratt, Brooklyn, NY. 1995.

Gathered Visions. Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. 1991.

African-American Contemporary Art. Museo Civico D’Arte Contemporanea, U. of Palermo. Gibellina, Italy. 1990.

Black Artists in Washington, DC. Collonade Gallery. George Washington University. Washington, DC. 1987.

Black Women Visual Artists in Washington DC. Bethune Museum-Archives. Washington, DC. 1986-87.