Monographs and Solo Exhibition Catalogs

2025

José Parlá: Contemporary Palimpsests. Edited by Rey Parlá. Skira, 2025. ISBN 9788857254272.

José Parlá: Home Away from Home. Tokyo: KOTARO NUKAGA, 2025.

2023

José Parlá: Breathing. Seoul: Gana Art Center, 2023.

José Parlá: Ciclos: Blooms of Mold. Damiani and Brooklyn Museum, 2023. ISBN 9788862088008.

José Parlá: Phosphene. Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2023. ISBN 9780957467095.

José Parlá: Polarities. Damiani and Library Street Collective, 2023. ISBN 9788862087865.

2020

José Parlá: It’s Yours. The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Ben Brown Fine Arts and Damiani, 2020. ISBN 9788862087285.

José Parlá: The Awakening. Tokyo: Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, 2020.

2019

José Parlá: Textures of Memory. Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation and Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2019. ISBN 9780957467064.

2018

José Parlá: Echo of Impressions. Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2018.

2017

José Parlá: Roots. Damiani and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, 2017. ISBN 9788862085632.

2016

José Parlá: Small Golden Suns. Tokyo: Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, 2016.

2015

José Parlá: Segmented Realities. Damiani, High Museum of Art and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, 2015. ISBN 9788862084222.

José Parlá: Surface Body / Action Space. Damiani, 2015.

2014

José Parlá: In Medias Res. Damiani and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, 2014. ISBN 9788862083621.

2013

José Parlá: PROSE. Tokyo: Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, 2013.

2011

José Parlá: Walls, Diaries, and Paintings. Edited by Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery. Hatje Cantz, 2011. ISBN 9783775729772.

2009

José Parlá: Reading Through Seeing. Hong Kong: Ooi Botos Gallery, 2009.

2008

José Parlá: Adaptation / Translation. London: Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, 2008.

José Parlá: Layered Days. New York: Cristina Grajales Gallery, 2008.

José Parlá: Memory Documents. Exhibition catalogue, 2008.

2006

José Parlá: Cityscapes. Exhibition catalogue, 2006.

COLLABORATIVE BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

2012

JR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City, Havana, Cuba. Damiani and Standard Press, 2012. ISBN 9788862082501.

Parlá Frères: U.T.O.P.I.A. José Parlá and Rey Parlá. 2012. ISBN 9780979793639.

2010

The New Grand Tour. New York: Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, 2010.

2008

The New Grand Tour. China project catalogue, 2008.

SELECTED GROUP CATALOGUES AND BOOKS

2026

Dehne, Pia. Smiling Faces Sometimes. Self-published, 2026.

Rei, Olga, and Valentine Uhovski, eds. Rainbow Dreams: Color and Light in Contemporary Art. Monacelli, 2026. ISBN 9781580937122.

2024

Lee Quiñones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond. Damiani, 2024. ISBN 9788862088114. Includes a text by José Parlá.

2023

Limnander, Armand. New York Chic. Photographs by Oliver Pilcher. Assouline, 2023. ISBN 9781649802309.

The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. Gregory R. Miller & Co., Baltimore Museum of Art and Saint Louis Art Museum, 2023. ISBN 9781941366547.

2019

Beyond the Streets: Vandalism as Contemporary Art. Edited by Roger Gastman. New York companion volume. R. Rock Enterprises, 2019. ISBN 9780578468839.

2018

Serafin, Steven, and Susan Yung, eds. BAM: Next Wave Festival. Print Matters Productions, 2018. ISBN 9780999297100.

2010

Nguyen, Patrick, and Stuart Mackenzie, eds. Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art. Berlin: Gestalten, 2010. ISBN 9783899552904.

2009

Artist / Artshow. 2009. ISBN 9789889900144.

2008

The Elms Lesters Book. London: Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, 2008.

2006

BLK/MRKT Gallery One. Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006. ISBN 9783899551532.

SELECTED PERIODICAL FEATURES

2009

Garfield, Joey. “José Parlá.” Juxtapoz, no. 107, December 2009, pp. 64–77.

Bryce, James. “José Parlá.” The New Order, no. 1, 2009, pp. 124–128.

Parlá, Rey. Interview with José Parlá. The New Order, no. 2, 2009, pp. 122–123.

DIGITAL EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS

2026

José Parlá: Engrams. Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2026. Digital exhibition catalogue.

2017

José Parlá: Roots. Curriculum Guide, Grades 9–12. SCAD Museum of Art, 2017.

COVER ART CONTRIBUTIONS

2021

Kellman, Steven G., and Natasha Lvovich, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism. Routledge, 2021; copyright 2022. ISBN 9780367279189. Cover artwork adapted from José Parlá’s The Nature of Language.

2006

Ellin, Nan. Integral Urbanism. Routledge, 2006. ISBN 9780415952286. Cover artwork: Eas-X by José Parlá.