1925 Born February 12, Chicago
1992 Died October 30, Paris
EDUCATION
1950 M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1950 Columbia University, New York
1944–47 B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1942–44 Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
AWARDS
1991 Le Grand Prix des Arts (Peinture) of the City of Paris
1989 Award for Painting, French Ministry of Culture
1987 Honorary Doctorate, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1973 Brandeis University Creative Arts Awards; Citation in Painting
1971 Honorary Doctorate, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
1961 Premio Lissone (Lissone Prize), Milan
1947 Edward L. Ryerson Travelling Fellowship from the Art Institute of Chicago
LEGACY SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011–2012
Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York (November 4–January 4)
2011
Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the Fifties, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (February 26–April 9)
2010
Joan Mitchell: The Last Decade, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (November 4–December 23)
Joan Mitchell, Inverleith House Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland (July 27–October 3)
Joan Mitchell in New Orleans: Paintings, New Orleans Museum of Art, (March 31–June 27)
Joan Mitchell in New Orleans: Works on Paper, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, (March 31–June 27)
Joan Mitchell in New Orleans: Prints, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (March 31–June 27)
Joan Mitchell: The Roaring Fifties, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich (February 26–May 15)
2009
Joan Mitchell: Drawings, Kukje Gallery, Seoul (October 22–November 22)
Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich (June 7–July 25)
2008
Joan Mitchell: A Discovery of the New York School, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (December 6, 2008–March 8, 2009) traveled to Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (March 21–June 1); Musée des Impressionnismes, Giverny (August 23, 2009–October 31, 2009)
Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers, Cheim & Read, New York (November 4–December 28)
Joan Mitchell: Paintings and Pastels 1973–1983, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (May 3–June 21)
2007
Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956–1992, Cheim & Read, New York (May 10–June 16)
Joan Mitchell: Leaving America, Hauser & Wirth, London (May 25–July 21)
2006
Joan Mitchell, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA (November 1, 2006–December 31, 2007)
Joan Mitchell: A Survey 1952–1992, Kukje Gallery, Seoul (March 3–April 4)
2005
Joan Mitchell; Prints from the Foundation, Susan Sheehan Gallery, NewYork (December 8, 2005–February 28, 2006)
Frémicourt Paintings 1960–62, Cheim & Read, New York (May 10–June 25)
Joan Mitchell Sketchbook 1941–51, Francis M. Naumann, New York (May 3–July 15)
Joan Mitchell: The 1946–1952 Sketchbook Drawings and Related Works, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas (August 29–October 15)
2004
The Paintings of Joan Mitchell, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham (June 27–August 31) traveled to; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas (September 21, 2003–January 7, 2004) The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (February 14–June 16)
2002
The Presence of Absence, Cheim & Read, New York (June 20–August 16)
The Paintings of Joan Mitchell, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (June 20–September 29)
Working with Poets, Tibor de Nagy, New York (June 13–July 26)
Joan Mitchell: Petit, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (June 25–August 16)
1998
Paintings from Fifties, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1997
Selected Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (April 24–May 24)
Joan Mitchell, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain (September 11–December 14)
1996
Joan Mitchell: Paintings from 1956 to 1958, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (April 9–May 4)
1995–96
Joan Mitchell Tilleuls 1978 Huiles sur toile & Pastels, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (December 1995–January 1996)
1995
Joan Mitchell: Selected Paintings and Pastels 1950–1990, Manfred Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, DC (March 29–May 20)
1994
Joan Mitchell, les dernières années, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (June 22–September 14)
Joan Mitchell in Vétheuil, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (March 22–May 29)
Joan Mitchell, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, France (June 24–September 26)
Joan Mitchell...my black paintings...1964, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (October 11–November 12)
Joan Mitchell, Montgomery–Glasoe Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 1–May 27)
1993
Joan Mitchell 1992, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (March 30–May 8)
Joan Mitchell Prints and Illustrated Books: A Retrospective, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York (March 29–April 30)
83rd Annual Exhibition: Joan Mitchell, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph–Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia (September 12–November 14)
Joan Mitchell 26 Farbige Radierungen, 1972–1989, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich (June 3–July 3)
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Ulrike Barthel, Bremen (opens August 13)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1992
Joan Mitchell Pastels, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (March 18–June 21)
Joan Mitchell Recent Lithographs, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York (March 17–March 28)
Joan Mitchell Sunflowers and Trees Series, Tyler Graphics, Mt. Kisco, New York (opening reception March 7)
Joan Mitchell Trees & Other Paintings 1960 to 1990, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico (May 2–June 6)
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 3–July 14)
1991
Joan Mitchell Recent Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (March 26–April 20)
1990
Joan Mitchell Champs, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (May 30–July 14)
Joan Mitchell Paintings and Drawings, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York (October 24–December 1)
1989
Robert Miller Gallery, New York (October 25–November 25)
1988–89
The Paintings of Joan Mitchell: Thirty–Six Years of Natural Expressionism, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York [traveled to: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, (February 27–May 1); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (May 26–July 17); Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (September 17–November 6); La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California (December 28, 1988–January 29, 1989); Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (February 26–April 23)]
Joan Mitchell: Selected Paintings Spanning Thirty Years, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (December 3, 1988–January 7, 1989)
1987
Joan Mitchell: River, Lille, Chord, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 10–July 13)
1986
Joan Mitchell: New Paintings, Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York (April 3–May 10)
Joan Mitchell: an Exhibition of Paintings and Works on Paper, Keny & Johnson Gallery, Columbus (September 19–October 17)
1985
Joan Mitchell: The Sixties, Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York (April 3–May 4)
1984
Joan Mitchell–La Grande Vallée, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (May 29–July 15)
1983
Joan Mitchell: New Paintings, Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York (February 19–March 26)
1982
Joan Mitchell: Choix des peintures 1970–1982, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (June 24–September 8)
1981
Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor, FL (February 5–February 27)
Joan Mitchell: New Paintings, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (February 14–March 28)
Joan Mitchell: New Paintings, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston (October–November)
1980
Joan Mitchell: The Fifties, Important Paintings, Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York (March 1–April 5)
Joan Mitchell: Major Paintings, Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle (April 23–May 31)
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (May 7–June 15)
1979
Joan Mitchell, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco (November 13–December 22)
1978
Joan Mitchell, New Paintings and Pastels, Ruth F. Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles (April 5–May 13)
Joan Mitchell, Webb and Parsons Gallery, Bedford Village, (September 16–October 7)
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 8–November 24)
1977
Joan Mitchell, New Paintings 1977, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (December 2, 1977–January 14, 1978)
1976
Joan Mitchell, New Paintings 1976, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (November 23–December 31)
1974
Joan Mitchell, Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
Joan Mitchell, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Joan Mitchell, The Arts Club of Chicago
1972
Joan Mitchell: My Five Years in the Country, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York (March 25–April 21) traveled to: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (April 26–June 3)
Blue Series 1970–1971 and The Field Series 1971–1972, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1971
Blue Series, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris
1969
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris
1968
Joan Mitchell, Recent Paintings, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1967
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris
1965
Joan Mitchell, Stable Gallery, New York
1962
Paintings by Joan Mitchell, The New Gallery, Hayden Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Lawrence, Paris
Joan Mitchell, Galerie Klipstein und Kornfeld, Bern
1961
Joan Mitchell, Stable Gallery, New York
Joan Mitchell, B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago
Joan Mitchell, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
Joan Mitchell Paintings 1951–1961, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
1960
Joan Mitchell, Gallery Neufville, Paris
Joan Mitchell, Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan
1958
Joan Mitchell, Stable Gallery, New York
1957
Joan Mitchell, Stable Gallery, New York
1955
Joan Mitchell, Stable Gallery, New York
1954
Joan Mitchell, Stable Gallery, New York
1953
Joan Mitchell, Stable Gallery, New York
1952
Joan Mitchell, New Gallery, New York (January 14–February 2)
1950
Joan Mitchell, St. Paul Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota
LEGACY GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Amerika—Europa: Bluhm, Kline, Motherwell, Dubuffet, Götz, Tàpies, Thomkins, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Berlin (September 7–November 15)
The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cheim & Read, New York (June 30–September 17)
2010
Abstraction Revisisted, Chelsea Art Museum, NewYork (October 7–December 16)
Le Tableau: French Abstraction and its Affinities, curated by Joe Fyfe, Cheim & Read, New York (June 24–September 3)
Monet and Abstraction, Museo Thyssen–Bornemisza, Madrid (February 23–May 30)
2009
Deadline, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (October 16, 2009–January 10, 2010)
Before Again: Joan Mitchell, Louise Fishman, Harriet Korman, Melissa Meyer, Jill Moser, Denyse Thomasos, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. (October 15–November 28)
Abstractions by Gallery Artists, Cheim & Read, New York (September 24–October 3)
A Club Without Walls, Butler’s Fine Art, East Hampton, New York (July 23–August 10)
The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women, Cheim & Read, New York (June 25–September 19)
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg (June 14–September 6)
elles@centrepompidou, Women Artists in the Collection of the National Modern Art Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (March 23, 2009 – March 23, 2010)
White Light / White Heat, Hauser & Wirth, London (February 27–March 28)
1968–69: Forty Years Later, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York (February 18–March 21)
2008
De Kooning, Mitchell, Richter: Paintings from the 1980s, Tina Kim Gallery, New York (October 17–November 15)
Action/Abstraction: Abstract Expressionism and Postwar America,The Jewish Museum, New York (May 2–September 21) travels to: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis (October 10, 2008–January 11, 2009) Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (February 13, 2009–May 31, 2009)
Significant Form, The Persistence of Abstraction, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (April 30–June 30, 2008)
Monet–Kandinsky–Mondrian and their Inheritance. Paths of Abstract Painting, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna (February 27–June 29)
Action Painting, Beyeler Museum, Basel (January 28–May 18)
Environments and Empires, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
2007
Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando (December 8, 2007–February 3, 2008).
Be–Bomb: The Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz in the 1950s, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain (October 5–January 7)
In Monet’s Garden: The Lure of Giverny, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (October 12, 2007–January 20, 2008); traveling to Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (February 12–May 11)
2006
New York, New York, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (July 14–September 10)
Full House–Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (June 29–September 3)
About Light, Galerie Lelong, New York (June 23–August 4)
The New Landscape/The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art, Cheim & Read, New York (June 22–September 9)
Women’s Work, Greenberg Van Doren, New York (March 21–April 15)
Montreal-Paris-New York 1929–1994, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal (June 7–July 8)
2005
Marks of Distinction, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan (June 24–September 04)
Early Prints by Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Joan Mitchell, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York (September 22–October 29)
Art and the Garden, Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY, (September 22–October 31)
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors From The Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire (March 29–May 29)
Paint, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon (May–July)
American Drawings 1950's–2005, Daniel Wienberg Gallery, Los Angeles (March 1–April 23)
On Paper, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles (February26–April 16)
Graphics by 20th Century Masters from the Corchran Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia (February 19–April 10)
2004
Reuniting an Era: Abstract Expressionists of the 1950’s, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois (November 12–January 23)
This Land is Your Land: American Landscape Prints, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit (October 27, 2004–January 30, 2005)
Twelve from Cheim & Read, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (June 11–July 12)
New Visions: Works From the Permanent Collection, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, Minneapolis (March, 2004)
Abstractions, Cook Fine Art, New York (March 15–April 24)
2003
Simple Marks, Cheim & Read, New York, (July 20–September 6)
Divas: A Selection of Women Artists of the 20th Century, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola (June 13–August 23)
2002
Zen Roxy, New York, Von Lintel Galler (November 26, 2002–January 18, 2003)
The Gesture, Neuhoff Gallery, New York (September 17–October 19)
Memory Abstracted, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York (June 20–August 9)
1999
American Abstraction/American Realism: The Great Debate, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (June 8–August 21)
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (March 3–May 2)
Catherine Murphy, Joan Mitchell, Harriet Korman: Three Rooms, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (April 1–April 24)
Primed & Un-Primed, Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York (August 9–October 2)
1998
Small Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York (July 1–July 31)
Art & the American Experience, Kalamazoo Institute of Art (Fall 1998)
1997
Joan Mitchell & John Chamberlain: A Juxtaposition, Cheim & Read, New York (November 18, 1997–January 9, 1998)
The Founders and Heirs of the New York School, organized by Dore Ashton, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (January 25–March 16);
(travelling to: The Miyagi Museum of Art, [April 28–June 1]; The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki [June 28–August 3])
Museo de arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona (Curated by Richard Marshall)
Women and Abstract Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture, 1945–59, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, CUNY, New York (March 20–April 18) [Traveled to: Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY (May 5–June 23)]
1996–97
Abstract Expressionism in the United States, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (October 10–January 12)
Art In Embassies Program, US Ambassador’s Residence, Bulgaria
1996
American Art Today: Images from Abroad, Florida International University, Miami (February 23–March 30)
Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (January 13–March 2)
Forces of the Fifties: Selections from the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus (May)
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, Group Show (June 11–August 1)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Summer Group Show (July 1–August 30)
Parallels, Galerie Lelong, New York (September 12–November February 96)
Women’s Work, GreeneNaftali Inc., New York (September 6–October 13)
1995
Carnegie International, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (November 5, 1995–February 18, 1996)
25th Anniversary Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (January 13–February 25)
Seven from the Seventies: Diebenkorn, Frankenthaler, Krasner, Martin, Mitchell, Scully and Stella, Knoedler, New York (February 8–March 4)
New York, Action and Edge: 1950's and 1960's, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York (April 1–April 29)
The Collection of Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr., The Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut (May 18–June 11)
Works on Paper, Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, DC (September 15–October 12)
Rubens to Picasso: Four Centuries of Old Master Drawings, Edmonton Gallery, University of Alberta, Department of Art & Design (September 16–October 29)
Works on Paper, Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, DC (September 15–October 12)
1994
Reclaiming Artists of the New York School: Toward a More Inclusive View of the 1950s, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, The CityUniversity of New York, New York (March 18–April 22)
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, Group Exhibition (January 22–February 26)
The Brushstroke and Its Guises, New York Studio School, New York (March 7–April 16)
The Shaman as Artist/The Artist as Shaman, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (February 10–April 10)
American Abstraction: A New Decade, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania (September 24–November 20)
Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas (June 16–July 23)
Romantic Modernism, 100 Years, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe (June 4–July 31)
Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil (October 12–December 11)
Paths of Abstraction: Painting in New York 1944–1981, Selections from the Ciba Art Collection, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York (September 13–October 29)
Associated American Artists 1953 to 1979, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (September 14–October 22)
Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (July 19–August 26)
1993
I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York (January 9–February 20)
Intimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends, Nassau County Museum of Art, Rosyln, New York (February 27–May 23)
Recent Acquisitions, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York (February 93–March 93)
Rewriting History: The Salon of 1993, Montgomery Glasoe, Minneapolis, MN (March 25–May 28)
A Visage découvert, Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Jouy–en–Josas, France (May 26–September 12)
The Artistic Relationship, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York (April 20–May 22)
An American Hommage to Matisse, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (May 20–June 26)
Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (June 8–June 13) (under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale); reinstalled at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York (October 6–October 19)
Abstract–Figurative, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (June 93–August 93)
The Usual Suspects, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (September 9–October 16)
Gallery Selections: 20th Century European & American Masters, Jan Krugier Gallery, New York (September 14–October 30)
The Linear Image II, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York (October 5–November 6)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1992
Le Nymphéas avant et après, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (October 27, 1992–January 25, 1993)
Painting, Self Evident: Evolutions in Abstraction, The William Halsey Gallery, Simons Center for the Arts, College of Charleston, South Carolina, (Exhibition on view here and simultaneously at two other venues, The Meddin Building and the Gibbes Museum of Art, during the Spoleto Festival) (May 20–June 28)
The New York School: Works on Paper from the1950s and 1960s, Paths to Discovery, curated by Ellen Russotto Sidney Mishikin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York (March 20–April 17)
From America's Studio: Twelve Contemporary Masters, Art Institute of Chicago (May 10–June 14)
American Art 1930–1970, organized by Independent Curators Incorporated, Lingotto, Turin, New York (January 7–March 21)
Alumni Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (April 20–June 15)
An Exhibition for Satyajit Ray, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York (April 11–May 16)
A Permanent Collection Art From the 19th Century to the Present, Castellani Art Museum, Niagra University, New York
Play Between Fear and Desire, Germans van Eck, New York (April 24–May 23)
Paint, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York (April 4–May 9)
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (May 8–June 13)
Slow Art Painting in New York Now, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York (April 26–June 21)
Summer Group Exhibition, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver (May 14–June 30)
Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (July 92–August 92)
Summer Stock, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas (June 92–August 92)
Summer Group Show, Texas Gallery, Houston (July 11–August 15)
Abstraction from the 50s, Gimpel Fils, London (June 23–September 5)
From Brancusi to Bourgeois: Aspects of the Guggenheim Collection, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York (July 1–August 27)
1991
Landscape of America: The Hudson River School to Abstract Expressionism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Rosyln, New York (November 9, 1991–February 9, 1992)
Painting, Galerie Lelong, New York (September 10–September 28)
Too French: Contemporary French Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art (jointly presented by the Urban Council and The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art) (November 16, 1991–February 19, 1992) (Traveled to the Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan, [April 5–June 7])
166th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York (April 2–May 5)
Drawing Conclusions, Guidarte New York, New York (April 5–May 15)
1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (April 2–June 30)
Masterworks of Contemporary Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings 1930s–1990s, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico (May 27–September 3)
Important Works on Paper, Meredith Long & Company, Houston (August 1–August 31)
Painting: Drawings and Gesture, Galerie Lelong, New York (September 10–October 28)
Women Artists, MiraMar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida (October 91)
1990
Line & Action, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado (December 21, 1990–January 25, 1991)
Road to Victory, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 1990–March 1991)
Four Centuries of Women's Arts (Selections from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC), The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Shibuya, Tokyo (August 15–September 16); (traveled to: The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa [September 29–October 28]; Sapporo Tokyo, Sapporo, Hokkaido [November 1–November 13]; Tenjin Iwataya, Fukuoka [1/15–January 28]; Daimaru Museum, Umeda, Osaka [February 20–March 11]; Nagano Tokyu, Nagano [March 15–March 27]; Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima [April 14–May 6]; Matuszakaya Museum, Nagoya [May 23–June 9])
Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (December 3, 1990–January 26, 1991)
1990
A Group Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (January 10–February 24)
Some Seventies Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (June 12–July 31)
Polyptychs & Folding Screens 1890–1990, Galerie Bellier, Paris
Positions of Art in the 20th Century–50 Women Artists, Museum Wiesbaden, West Germany (September 1–November 25)
Color in Art: American Expressionism from the Mid–Twentieth Century to the Present, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida at Gainesville
Abstract Expressionism: Studio 35 Downtown, Stux Modern, New York (October 3–November 1)
Contemporary Prints & Multiples, Nora Haime Gallery, New York (June 14–July 14)
1989
The Linear Image–American Master Works on Paper Since 1939, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York (April 25–May 27)
A Decade of American Drawings: 1980–1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles (July 15–August 26)
Made in America, Virginia Beach Arts Center, Virginia Beach (April 15–June 11)
Methods in Abstraction, Gallery Urban, New York (March 3–3/25)
Ronald Bladen: The 1950s, Washburn Gallery, New York (February 17–March 12)
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, New York (May 24–June 28) (traveled to: Blum–Helman Warehouse, New York [July 6–August 18])
Important Works on Paper, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston
The Gestural Impulse 1945–60, Whitney Museum Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York (September 29–December 1)
Art in Place: 15 Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (July 7–August 15)
1988
Just Like A Woman, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina
Drawing on the East–End, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Art of the 70s, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
Quality of Line, The Forum, St. Louis (September 9–October 15)
Aspects of Abstraction, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York (January 7–February 13)
Des Americains à Paris 1950/1965, Chateau de Jau/L'oeil et demi Fondation du Chateu de Jau, Pyrenees, France (June 17–September 10)
1987
Drawings, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (January 9–February 7)
The Art of Abstract Painting, Three Decades, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida (January 17–February 5)
Prints By Contemporary American Artists, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts (traveled to: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City)
Group Exhibition, Bette Stoller Gallery, New York (March 19–April 25)
Paintings, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (June 19–September 19)
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (June 87–September 87)
In Memory of Xavier Fourcade, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
1986
Ringing in the Changes, Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London (November 5, 1986–January 10, 1987)
Inspiration Comes From Nature, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (January 7–February 1)
Paintings, Sculpture, Collages, and Drawings, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston (March–April)
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
1985
Painting as Landscape: Views of American Modernism 1920–1984, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (March 13–May 5) (Traveled to: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, [August 4–September 22])
Masters of the Fifties: American Abstract Painting, from Pollock to Stella, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York (October–December)
Landscape and Abstract Art: A Continuing Dialogue, Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College, Waterville, Maine (March 3–March 31)
Action/Precision 1980–1985, Washburn Gallery, New York (January 15–February 23)
American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (June 12–March 31)
The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1984–86
Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955–60, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, California (June 28–September 9) (traveled to: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts (October 3–November 25); Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York (January 15–February 23); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (March 14–April 27); Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (September 14–November 3); Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin (January 12–February 23)
1984
American Women Artists: Part I, 20th Century Pioneers, Sidney Janis, New York (January 12–February 4)
Master Drawings: 1928–1984, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston (March–April)
Olympic Arts Festival Los Angeles 1984, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, California (June 1–September 9)
Art on Paper 1984: The 20th Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (November 18–December 16)
Three Painters, Three Decades, Harcus Gallery, Boston (May 19–June 14)
Foire internationale d'art contemporain, Grand Palais, Paris
1983
In Honor of de Kooning, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (December 8, 1983–January 21, 1984)
1983 Biennial Exhibition: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Installations, Film, Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (March 15–May 29)
Drawings, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (July 12–September 16)
American Art at Rydhave, The Art in Embassies Program, Rydhave, Denmark
1982
American Artists Abroad, 1900–1950, Washburn Gallery, New York (March 18–April 24)
Modern American Painting: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, National Pinakothiki, Athens, Greece (September 20–November 7) (Traveled to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
The 1982 Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition, Art on Paper Since 1960, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro (November 14–December 12)
1981
37th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (February)
45th Annual Mid–Year Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (May–September)
1980 The Originals: Women in Art, Graham Gallery, New York (January 15–February 20)
The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, 1950–1960, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (May (May 22–September 21)
One Major New Work Each, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (November 4–December 31)
1978
Perspective '78: Works by Women, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
American Painting of the 70s, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (traveled to: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; Oakland Museum, Oakland; Cincinnati Art Museum; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign)
Americans in Paris: The Fifties, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Northridge
1977
Art '77: A Selection of Works by Contemporary Artists from New York Galleries, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
New York: The State of the Art, The New York State Museum, Albany
1976
Painting Invitational, Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
American Artists '76: A Celebration, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio
1975
34th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1974
Painting and Sculpture Today, 1974, Contemporary Arts Society of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis (Traveled to: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Taft Museum, Cincinnati)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1974, Krannert Art Museum, University Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois
Works by Women from the CIBA–GEIGY Collection, Kresge Art Center Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, (traveled to: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Five American Painters: Recent Work, The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara
1973
Contemporary American Painting from New York Galleries, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
The Private Art Collection of Martha Jackson, Finch College Museum of Art, New York
Women Choose Women, organized by Women in the Arts, The New York Cultural Center, New York,
Contemporary American Drawings 1963–1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Tenth Anniversary Invitational, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Visual R&D: A Corporation Collects, the CIBA–GEIGY Collection of Contemporary Paintings, University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin
1972
Fresh Air School, Exhibition of Paintings: Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, Walasse Ting, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. (Traveled to: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin)
1971
A New Consciousness–The CIBA–GEIGY Collection, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Younger Abstract Expressionists of the Fifties, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
Art on Paper Invitational, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1970
1970 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Wallworks Part II, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Contemporary Women Artists, The National Arts Club, New York (organized by the Skidmore Arts Committee),
1969
Group Show, John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco
Wallworks Part I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
The Recent Years, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
1968
29th Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
American Painting: The 1950s, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens
Invitational, Kent State University, Ohio
In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art For Your Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Department of State, Washington DC, Art in Embassies Program
Group Show, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Painting as Painting, University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin
1966–67
Two Decades of American Painting, International Council, Museum of Modern Art, New York (traveled to: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
1967
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture from New York Galleries, Delaware Art Center, Wilmington
Large American Paintings, The Jewish Museum, New York
Contemporary American Paintings and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1966
Philadelphia, Art '75, Drexel Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The First Flint Invitational: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
1965
1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Women Artists of America 1707–1964, Newark Museum, Newark
1963
Three Young Americans, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1962
65th Annual Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Forty Artists Under Forty from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. (traveled to: Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Utica; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York; Robertson Memorial Center, Binghamton, New York; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo)
Art since 1950: American and International, American section, American Art since 1950, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle
1961
Group Show, Binghamton Museum of Art, Binghamton, New York
1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Group Show, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton
Group Show, Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Group Show, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1960
Contemporary American Painting, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus
Business Buys American Art: Third Loan Exhibition by the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Sixty American Painters, 1960: Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
Neue Malerei: Form, Struktur, Bedeutung, Städtische Galerie in Lenbachpalais, Munich
1959–60
School of New York: Some Younger Artists, Stable Gallery, New York, tour organized by the American Federation of Arts (traveled to: John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; Holiday Art Center, Watch Hill, Rhode Island; Atlanta Public Library, Georgia; Wells College, Aurora, New York)
New York and Paris: Painting in the Fifties, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1959
26th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Documenta II: Kunst nach 1945, Internationale Ausstellung, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany
V Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, de Sao Paolo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1958
Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago
Group Show, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Action Painting, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts
The International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Osaka Festival, Osaka
XXIX Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Venice
Group Show, Washington University, St. Louis
Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth–Century American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Traveled to: The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; City Art Museum of St. Louis)
The Museum and Its Friends: Twentieth–Century American Art from Collections of the Friends of the Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Fifteen American Artists, Palazzo Ancaini, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy
1957
Group Show, Arts Club of Chicago
62nd Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Japanese International Exhibition, Tokyo
American Paintings, 1945–1957, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
1957 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Paintings and Watercolors, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Artists of the New York School: Second Generation, Jewish Museum, New York
1956
Group Show, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Brach, Goldberg, Goodnough, Mitchell, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1955
Vanguard 1955, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1951
Ninth Street Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Ninth Street Show, New York
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1950
Group Show, Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana