Born: Newburgh, NY, 1923

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

Died: Spencertown, NY, 2015

2024

Black and White, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance, Art Institute of Chicago
Shapes and Colors, 1949–2015, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

2023

Shape, Ground, Shadow: The Photographs of Ellsworth Kelly, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
Sculpture, Lever House, New York
A Centennial Celebration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
At 100, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, MD. Traveled to Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; M7, Doha, Qatar (catalogue)
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

2024

Beyond Numbers: Mathematical Patterns, Shapes, and Flow, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY
Rush of Colour: Works from the Kemp Collection, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

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
Artists’ Sketchbooks, 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: L’expérience 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 l’abstraction 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)
L’art 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)

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