Matthew Marks Gallery

Ellsworth Kelly

  • Born: Newburgh, NY, 1923

    Education: Boston Museum School, 1946–48
    Pratt Institute, New York, 1941–42

    Died: Spencertown, NY, 2015

  • One-Person Exhibitions

    2023

    Sculpture, Lever House, New York
    A Centennial Celebration
    , The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    At 100, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, MD
    Line, Form, Color
    , Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome
    Reflections on Water and Other Early Drawings
    , Philadelphia Museum of Art
    Sketchbooks
    , The Museum of Modern Art, New York

    2022

    Postcards, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Blue Green Black Red
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2021

    Rijksmuseum Gardens, Amsterdam (catalogue)
    Postcards, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Traveled to Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin (catalogue)

    2020

    Blue Curve, Matthew Marks Gallery, Online Exhibition

    2019

    Fenêtres, Centre Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
    From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Pendleton Center for the Arts, OR

    2018

    Form into Spirit: Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin, Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin
    Black & White Works Curated by Jack Shear, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
    Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
    Plant Lithographs, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA
    Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
    Line Form Color: Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) in French Collections, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
    Color Panels for a Large Wall, Matthew Marks Gallery, 2018 (catalogue)

    2017

    In Focus, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
    Last Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Plant Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Fruits & Flowers, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
    Slow Curve, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
    The Menil Collection, Houston

    2016

    Anthology, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
    Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Plant Lithographs 1964–1966, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

    2015

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2014

    Selected Works, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York

    2013

    Prints, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI. Traveled to Detroit Institute of Arts
    Panel Paintings 2004–2009, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
    The Chatham Series, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Sculpture on the Wall, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
    Singular Forms, Mnuchin Gallery, New York
    At Ninety, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2012

    Colored Paper Images, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    Drawn from Nature: Plant Lithographs by Ellsworth Kelly, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, MI
    Los Angeles, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Prints and Paintings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    Sculpture for a Large Wall, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Sculpture, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

    2011

    Reliefs 2009–2010, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Black and White Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
    Black & White, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Traveled to Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (catalogue)
    Plant Drawings, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich. Traveled to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)
    Wood Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (catalogue)

    2010
    Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA

    2009

    Diagonal, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Drawings 1954–1962, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Traveled to Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, United Kingdom; and Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

    2008

    Plant Lithographs from the Artist’s Collection, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

    2007

    The Rivers, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
    Focus, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Front Room, Baltimore Museum of Art

    2006

    New Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Drawings on a Bus—Sketchbook 23, 1954, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Ellsworth Kelly in St Ives, Tate St Ives, United Kingdom
    Serpentine Gallery, London
    Ellsworth Kelly in Resonance: Selections from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
    Editions: 1972–2005, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

    2005

    Tablet, The Menil Collection, Houston
    Kelly In Color, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
    Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI. Traveled to Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Tate St Ives, United Kingdom; AXA Gallery, New York; and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville

    2004

    Currency, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
    New Editions, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York

    2003

    Self-Portrait Drawings, 1944–1992, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Red Green Blue, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla. Traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
    Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2002

    In-between Spaces, Works 1956–2002, Fondation Beyeler, Basel (catalogue)
    Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
    Tablet 1948–1973, The Drawing Center, New York. Traveled to Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (catalogue)
    Selected Work by Ellsworth Kelly from St. Louis Collections, Pulitzer Foundation, Saint Louis

    2001

    Relief Paintings 1954–2001, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Gray 1975–77, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1999

    The Early Drawings, 1948–1955, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Traveled to High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Art Institute of Chicago; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; and Kunstmuseum Bonn (catalogue)
    Spectrums, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery in association with Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Five Decades of Line, Form, and Color, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
    “Sculpture for a Large Wall” and Other Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
    Drawings 1960–1962, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1998

    On the Roof, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    Berlin Panels, Paul-Löbe-Haus, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
    Recent Prints, Boston University Art Gallery. Traveled to New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; Newcomb Gallery of Art, Tulane University, New Orleans; and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha (catalogue)
    Four Paintings: Black with Color, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    New Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Sculpture for a Large Wall, 1957, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1996

    A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate Gallery, London; and Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)
    An Installation, Seven New Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1995

    Colored Paper Images 1976–77: The Creative Process, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1994

    Recent Paintings, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London. Traveled to Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Works from the Permanent Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum
    The Process of Seeing, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
    Black and White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Saint Louis
    Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA

    1993

    New Displays, Tate Gallery, London
    Prints, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
    Editions, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Saint Louis

    1992

    The Years in France, 1948–1954, Jeu de Paume, Paris. Traveled to Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
    Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
    Plant Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Paintings and Sculpture, Laura Carpenter Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
    The Paris Prints, 1964–1965, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    The Documenta Room, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
    Installation, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1991

    At Right Angles, 1964–66, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. Traveled to John Berggruen Gallery,
    San Francisco; and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Two Lithographic Suites 1964–65, Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton, NY
    A Historical Selection: 1965–1988, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    Wall Reliefs, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Saint Louis
    Diagonals and Colored Panels 1970–1990, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
    Wall Reliefs, Jack Glenn Gallery, Los Angeles

    1990

    Portraits at Gemini G.E.L., Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Prints 1949–1989, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
    Eleven Painted Wall Sculptures, Gallery Kasahara, Osaka (catalogue)
    Yellow Curve, Portikus Frankfurt (catalogue)
    Recent Painting and Sculpture, 65 Thompson Street, New York
    Artist’s Choice: Ellsworth Kelly, Fragmentation and the Single Form, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Portraits, Castelli Graphics, New York (catalogue)

    1989

    Courtyard Installation, The Art Institute of Chicago
    Works on Paper, Overholland Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
    Curves/Rectangles, Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Saint Louis
    Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (catalogue)

    1988

    Recent Prints, Castelli Graphics, New York
    New Work, Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    New Work, Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA

    1987

    Works on Paper, Fort Worth Art Museum in conjunction with Seven Paintings (1952–55/1987), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Both traveled to Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Baltimore Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (catalogue)
    A Print Retrospective, Detroit Institute of Arts. Traveled to Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Des Moines Art Center; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum; and Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (catalogue)
    Coral Leaf Drawings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
    Small Sculpture 1958–1987, Bakalar Sculpture Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)

    1986

    Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
    Sculpture, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York (catalogue)

    1985

    New Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
    New Wall Reliefs, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Painted Wall Sculptures, Katonah Gallery, NY
    Prints, Ann Weber Gallery, Georgetown, ME

    1984

    Weathering Steel Wall Sculpture, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Painted Aluminum Wall Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Painted Wall Sculpture/Graphics, Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Chicago
    Works in Wood, Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1982

    Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum (catalogue)
    At Gemini: 1979–1982, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Painted Wall Sculptures and The Concorde Series, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
    Painted Wall Sculptures, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
    Steel Sculpture, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
    New Wall Relief Sculptures, Castelli Graphics, New York
    New Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York

    1981

    Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Plant Drawings, Castelli Uptown, New York
    Paintings and Sculpture, Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Major Paintings and Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles

    1980

    Paperworks by Ellsworth Kelly, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

    1979

    Recent Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)
    Painting and Sculpture 1963–1979, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Traveled to Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (catalogue)
    Lithographie, Galerie Maeght, Zurich
    Prints 1978–80, Castelli Graphics, New York
    Color Panels for a Large Wall, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Blum Helman Gallery, New York

    1978

    Twelve Leaves, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
    Colored Paper Images, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

    1977

    Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Colored Paper Images, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
    Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York

    1976

    Recent Sculptures, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston

    1975

    Matrix, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
    Recent Sculptures, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Gray Series, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Steel and Aluminum Sculpture, Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
    Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York

    1973

    The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Pasadena Art Museum, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Detroit Institute of Arts (catalogue)
    The Chatham Series, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles
    Drawings and Prints, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
    Paintings, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Saint Louis
    Curved Series, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1972

    The Chatham Series: Paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
    Galerie Renée Ziegler, Geneva
    Paintings, Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

    1971

    Recent Paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Galerie René Ziegler, Geneva
    Dayton’s Gallery 12, Minneapolis (catalogue)

    1970

    Lithographs, Vancouver Art Gallery
    Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (catalogue)

    1968

    Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Four Paintings and One Sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles

    1967

    Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    A Suite of Twelve Lithographs by Ellsworth Kelly, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles

    1966

    New Work by Ellsworth Kelly, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles

    1965

    Twenty-Seven Lithographs, Galerie Maeght, Paris (catalogue)
    Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    An Exhibition of Recent Lithography Executed in France by the Artist Ellsworth Kelly, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles

    1964

    Galerie Maeght, Paris (catalogue)

    1963

    Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings by Ellsworth Kelly, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC. Traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (catalogue)
    Painting and Sculpture, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

    1962

    Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd., London (catalogue)

    1961

    Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

    1959

    Painting and Sculpture, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

    1958

    Galerie Maeght, Paris (catalogue)

    1957

    Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

    1956

    Paintings 1951–1956, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

    1951

    Peintures et Reliefs, Galerie Arnaud, Paris

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2022

    Monochrome Multitudes, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
    Reading a Wave, Palomar, Pognana Lario, Italy

    2019

    Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
    Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    The spirit of a collection: donations, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
    Drawn Together Again, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
    The Collection of the Foundation: A Vision for Painting, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
    Front Room: The Mary and Paul Roberts Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
    Abstraction: Aspects of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
    Under the Influence, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

    2018

    The Water Lilies: American Abstract Painting and the last Monet, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
    Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1900–1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Salon Style: Collected Marks on Paper, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, CA
    Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, 1960s to Today, International Print Center New York
    The Big Picture: A Transformative Gift from the Hall Family Foundation, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
    Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Tate Modern London
    Far Out: Art from the 1960s, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
    MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
    Beyeler Collection: Nature + Abstraction, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
    True Colors, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
    Artists and Their Books, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
    Crossroads: Carnegie Museum’s Art Collection, 1945 to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
    American Masters, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
    Fabulous Fashion: From Dior’s New Look to Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art
    Paris without Regret Foreign Artists, 1944–1968, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
    Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, The Met Breuer, New York

    2017

    The Beginning of Everything: Drawings from the Janie C. Lee, Louisa Stude Sarofim, and David Whitney Collections, The Menil Collection, Houston
    Primary Structures: Masterworks of Minimal Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
    Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada
    The Great Graphic Boom, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
    Matisse and American Art, Montclair Art Museum, NJ
    Between Land and Sea: Artists of the Coenties Slip, The Menil Collection, Houston
    The Times, The Flag Art Foundation, New York
    Blue Black: Curated by Glenn Ligon, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis (catalogue)
    To Distribute and Multiply: The Feibes and Schmitt Gift, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
    Restless Gestures. Works from the Hubert Looser Collection, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
    Red over Yellow: A Selection from a Private Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
    Doubles, Dobros, Pliegues, Pares, Twins, Mitades, The Warehouse, Dallas
    Big Picture: Art After 1945, Seattle Art Museum
    Artists of Color, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
    Oh…Jakob Lena Knebl and the mumok Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
    Where We Are: Selections from the Permanent Collection 1900–1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Calder to Kelly – Die Amerikanische Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
    The Horizontal, Cheim & Read, New York
    Botanica, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
    Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (catalogue)
    Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, The National Gallery, London. Traveled to Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
    The Long Run, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Elemental Forms, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder
    When We Were Young: Rethinking Abstraction from the University at Albany Art Collection (1967–Present), University Art Museum, University at Albany

    2016

    Sculpture on the Move: 1946–2016, Kunstmuseum Basel (catalogue)
    Approaching American Abstraction:The Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    The Campaign for Art: Drawings, Part 1, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
    Ellipsis, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis
    Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
    With Eyes Open: The Wake Forest University Student Union, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
    Big Picture: Art After 1945, Seattle Art Museum
    Henkel – The Art Collection, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
    Gesture and Control: Post-War Works on Paper, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
    Highlights from the Marmor Collection, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA
    Transforming the Hyde: The Feibes and Schmitt Gift, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
    Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection,Katonah Museum of Art, NY
    Hard-Edge Cool: The Routhier Collection of Mid-Century Prints, Shelburne Museum, VT
    Abundant, Bountiful, & Beautiful, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
    Unsere Amerikaner, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany

    2015

    The Art of Our Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    Connections and Context, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
    Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
    The Eye Learns: Modernist Prints from the Louis Belden Collection, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC
    The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.,National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue)
    The Permanent Collection: Art.Illuminated., Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
    You Have to See This: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection,The Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    Black Sun, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
    The Venetians: Selections from Five Decades of Gemini G.E.L. Biennale Artists, Gemini G.E.L., New York
    Space Between, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
    America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    American Icons: Masterworks from the SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection, Grand Palais, Paris. Traveled to Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France (catalogue)
    Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now, Cleveland Museum of Art
    Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas
    10 Sculptures, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
    Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
    American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
    PROPORTIO, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (catalogue)
    Marine Collects: Treasures from Maine’s Private Collections, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
    The Broad Foundation: Inaugural Exhibition, The Broad Foundation, Los Angeles (catalogue)

    2014

    Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection, de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
    Art on Color, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
    Top Drawer: Select Drawings from the High’s Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
    Make It New: Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950–1975, The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (catalogue)
    Selections from the Legendary Collection of Sonny Burt & Bob Butler, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas Anderson Collection at Stanford University, CA
    Gemini G.E.L. at The Bendheim, The Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT
    Beyond the Limited Life of Painting: Prints and Multiples from the Holding Capital Group Collection, Perez Art Museum, Miami
    Monet | Kelly, The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
    Standing in the Shadows of Love, The Aldrich Collection 1964–1974, Part II, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
    Savannah Collects, Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
    A Drawing Show, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2013

    The Artist and the Poet, The Art Institute of Chicago
    Masterworks from Degas to Rosenquist, Acquavella Galleries, New York
    In Tandem: Established and Emerging Contemporary Artists from the Permanent Collection, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA

    2012

    Politics as Symbol/Symbol as Politics, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
    Avant-Gardes: The Collection of the Triton Foundation, Kunsthal Rotterdam
    The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    125 Icons: A Celebration of Works by Pratt Alumni and Faculty, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Pratt Institute
    Drawing Surrealism, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traveled to The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
    The Shock of the News, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
    At Eye Level, Masterpieces of Medieval and Modern Art, Ulmer Museum, Germany
    Refocus: Art of the 60s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
    Intimate Immensity: The Susan and Larry Marx Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
    Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: FAPE’s Lee Kimche McGrath Original Print Collection, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2011

    Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago
    Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
    High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and 1970s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
    Contemporary Collections (From 1960 to Present), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
    September 11, MoMA PS1, New York (catalogue)
    Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
    Art at the Origin: The Early 1960s, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
    Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago

    2010

    Double Rotation: Works from the Lafrenz Collection, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
    Focus on Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Ellsworth Kelly, L’Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici (catalogue)
    American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (catalogue)
    Abstract Resistance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
    Monet and Abstraction, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum Madrid
    The Shape of Abstraction, Boston University Art Gallery
    Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago
    Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
    On the Mark: Contemporary Works on Paper, Baltimore Museum of Art
    Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. Traveled to Brooklyn Museum, New York (catalogue)
    From Line to Plane, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Men on Madison, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York

    2009

    Cézanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art
    Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Nueva York: El papel de las últimas vanguardias, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
    The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings—Acquisitions Since 2002, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
    Classic Contemporary: Lichtenstein, Warhol & Friends, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas
    Three: The Triptych in Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
    Matisse and The Abstraction: The Abstract Legacy of Matisse to the United States and Back, 1948–1968, Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
    Selections from the Frances and John Bowes Collection, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
    Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
    Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    Chance Aesthetics, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis
    The Modern Wing, The Art Institute of Chicago
    The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    Focus on Artists: Selections from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    The Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

    2008

    Face to Face, Part 2, Daros Collection, Zurich
    Attention to Detail, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
    The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York
    Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
    Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from the MFAH,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
    Drawn Together, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York

    2007

    Five Works in Bronze: Darren Almond, Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Willem de Kooning, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
    Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
    In Monet’s Garden: The Lure of Giverny, Columbus Museum of Art, OH
    Making Visible the Invisible: Abstract Art from MMoCA’s Permanent Collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
    Water, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis
    Taking Shape, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York
    Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennale
    Paper,Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
    UBS Openings: Drawings from the UBS Art Collection, Tate Modern, London
    Minimalism/Postminimalism: Selections from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Foundation, Portland Art Museum, OR
    Current, Robischon Gallery, Denver
    Olga Hirshhorn Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    Lines, Grids, Stains, Words,The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    French Kiss, JGM Galerie, Paris
    Contemporary Prints: Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, and Others, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
    What is a Line? Drawings from the Collection,Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
    Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art,Dallas Museum of Art
    Modern Masters from the Chris Burmeister Collection,Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
    Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, Columbus Museum of Art, OH
    Modern American Masters,Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla

    2006

    Small Sculpture,Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Graphics by 20th Century Masters from the Cochran Collection, Pensacola Museum of Art, FL
    redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    Plane/Figure: Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
    Under Cover: Artists’ Sketchbooks, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    The Guggenheim Collection, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn
    Contemporary (Re)Define, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    New York, New York: 50 Years of Art, Architecture, Photography, Film, and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
    Le noir est une couleur,Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
    Cézanne: mythe et pèlerins, Galerie d’Art du Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône, Aix-en-Provence, France
    Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Recent Drawings: Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Ken Price, Charles Ray, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2005

    Theme and Variation: Twentieth Century Master Prints, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
    Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
    Quartet: Johns, Kelly, Mitchell, Motherwell, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
    Drawing from the Modern, 1945–1975, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Minimalism and Beyond, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis
    Les ateliers de la modernité, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
    L’action restreinte, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
    Sets, Series and Suites: Contemporary Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Color Pattern Grid, Austin Museum of Art

    2004

    Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA
    Fresh Works on Paper, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

    2003

    Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

    2002

    Henri Matisse/Ellsworth Kelly: Dessins de Plantes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum; and Inverleith House, Edinburgh (catalogue)
    Painting on the Move: A Century of Contemporary Painting 1900–2000, Kunstmuseum Basel

    2001

    Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now,The Museum of Modern Art, New York

    2000

    Correspondences: Isamu Noguchi and Ellsworth Kelly, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York
    Tate Modern Collection 2000, Tate Modern, London
    Color/Light, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
    Pasted Pictures: Collage and Abstraction in the Twentieth Century, Knoedler & Company, New York (catalogue)

    1999

    Willem de Kooning, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Lucian Freud, Katharina Fritsch, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden,Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Cézanne and Modernism, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
    Twentieth Century American Sculpture at The White House: The View from Denver, organized by Denver Art Museum, Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, The White House, Washington, DC

    1998

    Travel & Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

    1997

    The Artists of the Castelli Gallery 1957–1997, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    40 Years of Exploration and Innovation Part 2, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York American Embassy, Paris

    1996

    Abstraction in the Twentieth Century, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
    Continuity and Contradictions: A New Look at the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, (catalogue)
    The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection,National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
    Open Secrets: Seventy Pictures on Paper, 1815 to the Present, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1995

    La tradición de lo nuevo: Obras maestras de la colección Guggenheim 1945–1990, Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts (catalogue)
    Matrix is 20!, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
    Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Revolution: Art of the Sixties from Warhol to Beuys, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (catalogue)

    1994

    Art américain: Les années 60–70, Musée d’Art Moderne–La Terrasse, Sainte-Étienne, France
    Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase
    Twentieth Century American Sculpture at The White House: Midwest Region, Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, The White House, Washington, DC

    1993

    A Private View: Artists’ Photographs, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
    Indiana, Kelly, Martin, Rosenquist, Youngerman at Coenties Slip, Pace Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Amerikanische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert: Malerei und Plastik 1913–1933, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalogue)
    Copier créer: De Turner à Picasso: 300 oeuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, Louvre Museum, Paris (catalogue)
    Rolywholyover: A Circus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Pflanzenwelten-Blütenträume: Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Stiftung Jean Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp Bahnhof, Rolandseck, Germany (catalogue)
    The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,The Drawing Center, New York (catalogue)
    British and American Sculpture, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1992

    Documenta 9, Kassel (catalogue)

    1991

    Geometries of Color: American Post-Painterly Abstraction, Stux Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Carl Andre, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Long: Bronze, Steel, Stone, Wood: Three Installations of Sculpture, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
    Summer Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    La sculpture contemporaine après 1970, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musée Temporaire, Fréjus, France (catalogue)
    The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, OH. Traveled to Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Lehman College, New York; Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, VA; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago (catalogue)
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    ArtistsSketchbooks, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1990

    Five Artists from Coenties Slip: 1956–1965, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    Classic Modernism: Six Generations—Mondrian, Albers, Newman, Kelly, Ryman, Halley, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

    1989

    Abstraction Geometry Painting: Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America Since 1945, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo. Traveled to Center for Fine Arts, Miami; Milwaukee Art Museum; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (catalogue)

    1988

    Aspects of Collage, Assemblage and the Found Object in Twentieth-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
    Rot Gelb Blau: Die Primärfarben in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (catalogue)
    La couleur seule: Lexpérience du monochrome, Musée St-Pierre, Lyon, France (catalogue)
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1986

    After Matisse, Queens Museum, New York. Traveled to Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Portland Museum of Art, ME; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Dayton Art Institute, OH; and Worcester Art Museum, MA (catalogue)
    The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Haags Gemeentemuseum (catalogue)
    Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945–1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1985

    A Second Talent: Painters and Sculptors Who Are Also Photographers, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT. Traveled to Baruch College Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910–1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas; and Museu de Arte de São Paulo (catalogue)
    Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
    Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)

    1984

    La Grande Parade: Highlights in Painting after 1940, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1983

    ARS 83 Helsinki, Helsinki Ateneum (catalogue)
    Morris, Kelly, Nauman, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Drawings/Photographs: Summer 1983, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1982

    The New York School: Four Decades, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
    The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
    Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition: Selections for the McCrory Corporate Collection, Denver Art Museum. Traveled to San Antonio Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Indianapolis Museum of Art; and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (catalogue)
    25th Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1981

    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Paris 1937 – Paris 1957: Créations en France, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
    Amerikanische Malerei: 1930–1980, Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)

    1980

    The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (catalogue)
    Twenty American Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)

    1979

    Thirty-Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
    The Decade in Review, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1978

    Grids: Format and Image in Twentieth-Century Art, Pace Gallery, New York. Traveled to Akron Art Institute, OH (catalogue)
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1977

    Paris–New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
    Documenta 6, Kassel (catalogue)
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1976

    Aspects of Postwar Painting in America, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, OH (catalogue)
    Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; and Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (catalogue)
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1975

    Monumental Sculpture, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Sculpture: American Directions, 1945–1975, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian
    Institution, Washington, DC
    American Art Since 1945 from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1974

    Nine Artists/Coenties Slip, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York
    Johns, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Motherwell, Nauman, Rauschenberg, Serra, Stella: Prints from Gemini G.E.L., Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (catalogue)
    Strata: Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman and Cy Twombly, Royal College of Art Galleries, London (catalogue)
    Group Drawing Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    In Three Dimensions, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1973

    Maîtres de labstraction américaine aujourd’hui, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
    Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

    1971

    The Structure of Color, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

    1970

    Color, Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Lart vivant aux États-Unis, Fondation Maeght, St-Paul-de-Vence, France (catalogue)

    1969

    New York 13, Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)
    New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)

    1968

    Documenta 4, Kassel (catalogue)
    Art of the Real, 1948–1968, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
    Serial Imagery, Pasadena Art Museum, CA (catalogue)

    1967

    American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue)
    American Painting Now, Expo 67, United States Pavilion, Montreal (catalogue)
    Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
    Guggenheim International Exhibition, 1967: Sculpture from Twenty Nations, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)

    1966

    Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors,The Jewish Museum, New York (catalogue)
    Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Jules Olitski, Venice Biennale. Traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (catalogue)
    Systemic Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
    Two Decades of American Painting, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (catalogue)

    1965

    The Responsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

    1964

    Post-Painterly Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Art Gallery of Toronto (catalogue)
    Documenta 3, Kassel (catalogue)
    American Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
    American Contemporary Drawings, World’s Fair, New York State Pavilion, New York (catalogue)
    Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
    A View of New York Painting Including Major Works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, and Larry Poons, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles

    1963

    Twenty-Eighth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
    Toward a New Abstraction, The Jewish Museum, New York (catalogue)
    New Directions in American Painting, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (catalogue)
    Green Gallery, New York
    Seventh International Art Exhibition of Japan, Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo

    1962

    Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
    Art Since 1950: American and International, World’s Fair, United States Pavilion, Seattle (catalogue)
    65th American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago
    Art:USA:Now, organized by the United States Information Agency

    1961

    American Abstract Painters, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London (catalogue)
    American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
    Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)

    1960

    Modern Classicism, David Herbert Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1959

    Sixteen Americans,The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
    Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

    1958

    American Art: Four Exhibitions, World’s Fair, United States Pavilion, Brussels (catalogue)
    Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)

    1957

    Young America 1957, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

    1956

    Recent Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

    1953

    Exposición internacional de arte abstracto, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santander, Spain

    1952

    Tendance, Galerie Maeght, Paris (catalogue)

    1951

    6ème salon des réalités nouvelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris (catalogue)
    75th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Galerie Maeght, Paris

    1950

    Premier salon des jeunes peintres, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris (catalogue)
    5ème salon des réalités nouvelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (catalogue)

    1948

    Boris Mirski Art Gallery, Boston (catalogue)

  • Awards and Honors

    2016

    J. Paul Getty Medal

    2015

    James Smithson Bicentennial Medal
    amfAR Award for Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS

    2014

    Hadrian Award, World Monuments Fund

    2013

    National Medal of Arts Award
    Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

    2010

    Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    2009

    Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, French Republic

    2005

    Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

    2003

    Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

    2001

    Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French Republic
    Honorary Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London

    2000

    Praemium Imperiale for Painting, Japan Arts Association

    1999

    Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
    Archives of American Art Medal, Smithsonian Institution

    1998

    New York State Governor’s Arts Award, New York State Council on the Arts

    1997

    Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London

    1996

    Inaugural Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
    Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    1994

    Médaille du Jubilé, French Republic

    1992

    Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French Republic
    Chevalier de Légion d’Honneur, French Republic
    Amic de Barcelona

    1987

    Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French Republic

    1981

    Sculpture Award, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME

    1980

    Fellow, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

    1975

    Painting Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago

    1974

    Member, National Institute of Arts and Letters

    1964

    Painting Prize, Pittsburgh International Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

    1963

    Education Minister’s Award, Seventh International Art Exhibition of Japan
    Brandeis Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

    1962

    Flora Mayer Witkowsky Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago

    1961

    Fourth Painting Prize, Pittsburgh International Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute