Born: San Francisco, 1938

Education: M.F.A, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1960
B.F.A., California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1959

Died: Prasanthinilayam, India, 1990

2024

Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

2023

Facts and Fantasies, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2022

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA (catalogue)

2021

The End of a Crazy Summer and Other Personal Reflections, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles

2020

Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Drawn from Life: Works on Paper, 1970-1976, George Adams Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2019

The Authentic Figure, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco
The Students, George Adams Gallery, New York

2017

In Living Color, Richmond Art Center, CA (catalogue)
George Adams Gallery, New York

2016

Presence Known, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco

2015

Major Paintings from the 1950s, ‘60s and 70’s, George Adams Gallery, New York

2014

Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco

2013

Paintings & Works on Paper, Texas Gallery, Houston

2011

This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Selected Drawings, 1957-1987, George Adams Gallery, New York
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2009

Friends and Family: Selected Paintings 1970-1973, George Adams Gallery, New York

2006

The Affair, George Adams Gallery, New York

2005

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2004

Painted Constructions, 1970-1975, George Adams Gallery, New York

2002

The Self, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
A Few of Her Favorite Things…Models, Cats and Dogs, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles

2001

Cats & Dogs, George Adams Gallery, New York

1999

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1998

Transformation: The Art of Joan Brown, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, and the Oakland Museum of California, CA (catalogue)
Paintings and Drawings: Three Decades, George Adams Gallery, New York

1997

Mary Julia Series and Other Early Works, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles

1995

Working Together: Joan Brown and Manuel Neri, 1958-1964, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA

1994

Paintings and Drawings from the '70's, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1993

Paintings and Drawings, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT

1992

Major Works from the Early ‘70’s, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
On Painting: The Work of Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown University, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA (catalogue)
Drawings — Paintings, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1991

Self-Portraits 1970-1983: A Memorial Exhibitions, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1990

Figure Drawings from the Early ‘70s, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York

1988

New Paintings and Sculptures, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York

1987

Joan Brown/Jack Zajac: The Sculptures at The Center in Beverly Hills and Other Installations: A Photo Documentary, The Beverly Hills Library, CA

1986

Private Icons/Public Images, The Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA
Paintings & Sculpture, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
The Golden Age, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University (catalogue)
“The Golden Age,” New Paintings and Sculpture, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York

1985

Paintings on a Water Theme, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to San Jose Museum of Art, CA; and Fresno Art Center, CA
Paintings, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, CA
Joan Brown & William T. Wiley: Large-Scale Works, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York

1984

Animals and Things: Joan Brown and Donald Peterson, Creative Growth, Oakland, CA
Paintings and Sculpture, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, CA
Paintings and Constructions, 1977-1984, Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago
The Early Sixties: Jack Beal & Joan Brown, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1983

Self Portraits, The Middle Years, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
From the Studio, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA (catalogue)
Paintings on Paper, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles

1982

Bathers, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
“The Bathers,” Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
Constructions/Paintings/Drawings, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles

1981

Indian Paintings and Constructions, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Art Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu

1980

Paintings and Drawings, The Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR
Works on Paper, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco
Nanda Devi: A Series of Paintings, Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
Occidental Center Gallery, San Francisco

1979

Impressions of China, New Paintings on Paper, Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
Matrix/Berkeley 24, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
New Paintings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Joan Brown’s Joan Browns, San Jose Museum of Art, CA

1978

The Acrobat Series, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)
Paintigns & Drawings
Paintings, University Art Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Traveled to Emily H. Davis Art Gallery, The University of Akron, OH (catalogue)

1977

Paintings & Drawings, Clarke-Benton Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
Ashland Printmakers/Joan Brown, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, Univeristy of California, Davis, CA
Paintings and Drawings on Egyptian Themes, Allan Frumkin Gallery
Joan Brown/Matrix 30, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1976

Joan Brown is at the Hansen Fuller Gallery/Paintings and Drawings, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco
New Paintings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
New Works on Paper, Re:Vision Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1975

New Paintings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
New Paintings & Drawings, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco

1974

Paintings from “The Dancer Series,” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA (catalogue)
New Paintings & Drawings, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco

1973

The Dancers Series, Emmanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
Paintings and Drawings, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco

1971

Paintings, San Francisco Museum of Art

1970

Paintings/Gordon Cook: Paintings, Lawson Galleries, San Francisco
Paintings by Joan Brown, Sacramento State Art Gallery, Sacramento State College

1964

Collages/Manuel Neri: Sculptures, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles
Staempfli Gallery, New York

1962

Primus-Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles

1961

Primus-Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles
Recent Paintings, Staempfli Gallery, New York
Recent Paintings by Joan Brown, Batman Gallery, San Francisco

1960

Paintings / Robert Beverly-Hale: Recent Drawings, Staempfli Gallery, New York

1958

Drawings and Sculpture by Joan Brown, Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco

1957

Paintings by Joan Beatty and Mike Nathan, 6 Gallery, San Francisco

2024

Going Our Way, George Adams Gallery, New York

2023

13 Women: Variation I, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA

2022

Women Painting Women, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Dancing with Charlie: Bay Area Art from the Campbell Collection, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
Making a Painting, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

2021

Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The Incorrect Museum: Vignettes from the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA

2020

Cartoon Formalism, Albuquerque Museum, NM
Sweet Land of Funk, Phoenix Art Museum
The Drawing Group: Bay Area Figurative Artists, Modern Art West, Sonoma, CA

2019

One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Landscape Without Boundaries, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davies, CA
Building a Different Model: Selections from the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
Samaritans, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York

2018

Hindsight/Insight: Reflecting on the Collection, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
In Her Own Image: Self Portraits by Women from 1900-2018, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, MA
Wayne Thiebaud: Artist’s Choice, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
30 Years: Frumkin/Adams – George Adams Gallery, George Adams Gallery, New York
New to MIA: Paintings of All Shapes and Sizes!, Minneapolis Institute of Art
First Glimpse: Introducing The Buck Collection at the UCI Institute and Museum for California Art, UCI Institute and Museum for California Art, Irvine, CA
Mr. Unatural and Other Works from the Allan Frumkin Gallery (1952-1987), Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Way Bay, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
UNCONSCIOUS RATIONALE: Artists Amend Reality, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco
DNA of PAINTING, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco

2017

Side By Side: Dual Portraits of Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Masterclass: a survey of work from the twentieth century, George Adams Gallery, New York and Pavel Zoubok Gallery

2016

The Rat Bastard Protective Association, the Landing Gallery, Los Angeles
Over the Golden Gate: 1960-1990, Tajan ArtStudio, Paris
Based on a True Story: Highlights from the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
The Formative Years: Robert Arneson, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, Roy De Forest, Peter Saul, William T Wiley, George Adams Gallery, New York
Intimisms, James Cohan Gallery, New York
The Human Spirit: Contemporary Figuration as an Expression of Humanism, Richmond Art Center, CA
As I Am: Painting the Figure in Post-War San Francisco, New York Studio School. Traveled to Hackett | Mill, San Francisco
Back to Life: Bay Area Figurative Drawings, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Painting Forward, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Figure / Ground, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York

2015

Is / Isn't: Art on the Verge of Abstraction, George Adams Gallery, New York
About Face, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
XL: Large-Scale Paintings From the Permanent Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

2014

Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California, CA and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Reigning Cats and Dogs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Closely Considered: Diebenkorn in Berkeley, Richmond Art Center, CA
Left Coast / Third Coast: Bay Area and Chicago Artists and Their Affinities, George Adams Gallery, New York
Summer in Black and White, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2013

Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Ballet of Heads: The Figure in the Collection, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
Galen at the Galen, Palm Springs Art Museum, CA

2012

The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Viva la Raspberries, Harris Lieberman, New York
All You Need Is Love, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History at the McPherson Center, CA
Group Shoe, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Figure Forward: Works by Bay Area Figurative Artists, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Between Abstract and Figurative, Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration, Bakersfield Museum of Art, CA
Renaissance on Fillmore, 1955-65, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francico
Choose Paint! Choose Abstraction!, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
OC Collects, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
All You Need Is Love, Santa Cruz Museum of Art, CA

2011

Focus: Robert Motherwell, Denver Art Museum
Circle of Friends: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Robert Arneson, Joan Brown,
Roy DeForest, Peter Saul, and William T. Wiley, George Adams Gallery, New York
Beat by the Bay: SF Artists & Galleries of the Fifties, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco
Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction 1946 — 1963: A Symphony in Four Parts, Nyehau, NY and Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
About the Face: Portraits from the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Important Artworks, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco

2010

New Visions: Contemporary Masterworks from the Bank of America Collection, Min Museum, Charlotte, NC
Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Summer Group Show: New and Classic, George Adams Gallery, New York
Generation Abstraction: Selections from the Minnesota Museum of American Art, College of Visual Arts Gallery, St. Paul, MN
40, Texas Gallery, Houston
Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism SFbay, 1950s-1960s, The Luggage Store, San Francisco
Visionaries: Contemporary Art from Santa Barbara’s Private Collections, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing, George Adams Gallery, New York

2009

Juicy Paint, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Spaced Out / On Time, CANADA, New York
Paint Made Flesh, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN. Traveled to The
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY
Get with the Program: Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York
San Francisco Art Institute Faculty & Alumni: A Thin Slice, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco
Sight Vision Revisited, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco
Paper / Mylar / Vellum, Brian Gross Fine Art, Project Room, San Francisco

2008

Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies and Minimal Art, Art and Counterculture in
San Francisco 1955-68, The Ludwig Museum, Cologne
This End Up: The Art of Cardboard
Twenty-Five Treasures, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
Face Forward: American Portraits from Sargent to the Present, Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL
Girls and Company: Feminist Works from MMoCA's Permanent Collection, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI

2007

Inside, part of Inside/Outside, George Adams Gallery, New York
California Context, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
California in Connecticut: The Joanne and William Rees Collection, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT

2006

Facing Abstraction: Refiguring the Body in the 20th Century, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, NY
The Collection in Context: Bay Area Figurative Art, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York
Bay Area Figurative 1950s and 1960s, Bolinas Museum, CA
Aspects of Humanity: Contemporary Portraiture, Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento

2005

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to The Nora Eccles
Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University, Logan, UT; The Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State
University, KS; The Berkeley Art Museum at University of California, Berkeley, CA; and Grey Art Gallery at New York University
Collector's Show & Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York
A Window on the West: California Art from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC
Looking Back and Seeing Forward, A 90th Anniversary Exhibition, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco

2004

The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain, The Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C.

2003

The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to Pasadena Museum of California Art, CA
Multiple Artists: Print and Editioned Works, 1967-2003, George Adams Gallery, New York

2002

Me, Myself & I: Self-Portraits by Gallery Artists, George Adams Gallery, New York
Women Artists: Their Work and Influence, 1950's to 70's, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000, San Jose Museum of Art, CA

2000

Collector's Show & Sale, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO. Traveled to San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Attitude: Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, 1960-1969, George Adams Gallery, New York

1999

Large Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Smith-Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO. Traveled to the Columbus Museum, GA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Dubuque Museum of Art, IA; and Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA
Drawn Across the Century, Selections from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
American Abstraction/American Realism: The Great Debate, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Art Museum, CA
Art about Art, George Adams Gallery, New York

1998

Views From the Bay Area: The Shift Toward Figuration, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Animal as Muse, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

1997

Collector's Show & Sale, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Women Artists of the 70s, Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York
Mixing Business with Pleasure, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Approaching the Figure Peter Alexander, Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco
Reali(ist) Women, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL (catalogue)
Homage to George Herriman, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco

1996

Illustrious History: 1871 –Present, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
Movement and Meaning: Images of Dance in Modernist Art, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
American Art Today: Images from Abroad, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami
Going Places, George Adams Gallery, New York
Out of 'Toon: Another Look at Art & the Comics, George Adams Gallery, New York
Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 25 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Bush Street, San Francisco

1995

American Art 1940-1965: Traditions Reconsidered: Selections from the Permanent
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; and The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (catalogue)
California in the 1960s: Funk Revisited, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
The Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions, San Jose Museum of Art, CA

1994

Wildlife, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA (catalogue)
Around The House: Invitational Exhibition of Paintings, Drawing, Sculpture and Photography, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
Chain Reaction 9: The Women’s Mentor Show, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections, The Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)
California in the ’70s: Bay Area Painting & Sculpture Revisited, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York

1992

People, Gallery Three Zero, New York
Why Painting, Part I, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Twenty-Five Treasures, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)

1991

Her Story: Narrative Art by Contemporary California Artists, Oakland Museum of California, CA
1970’s, Bayly Art Museum, The Univeristy of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
The Sensual Palette, Security Pacific Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)
Her Story: Narrative Art by Contemporary California Artists, The Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)
The Spatsa Gallery: 1958-1961, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA (catalogue)

1990

Northern California Figuration, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions, Woodstock Artists Association, New York
Regarding Art: Artworks About Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Lyrical Vision: The 6 Gallery 1954-1957, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA (catalogue)

1989

Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modem Art. Traveled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (catalogue)
Social Studies, Lintas: Worldwide at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York
Here’s Looking at Us: A Selection of Figurative Works from the di Rosa Foundation, Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA
Personae: Contemporary Portraiture and Self-Portraiture, Islip Art Museum, NY
American Figuration: The 1950s & 1960s, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Waterborne, Simon James Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Private Collections/Personal Exchange: Bay Area Artists, 1950-1966, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco
Coming of Age: Twenty-One Years of Collecting by the Madison Art Center, Madison Art Center, WI
Hidden Assets: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85, Cincinnati Art Museum. Traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (catalogue)

1988

In Celebration of the Holiday Season in America: A Vision of Joy, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Painting from the San Francisco Bay Area, Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI. Traveled to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; and Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL (catalogue)
Large Paintings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Pence Gallery, Davies, CA and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
Diversity and Presence, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
Made In the Sixties: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Just Like A Woman, Greenville County Museum of Art, SC (catalogue)
6 Artists/6 Idioms, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston

1987

Diversity and Presence: Women Faculty Artists of the University of California, University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA. Traveled to Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA; Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego; Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA; Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA; and College of Creative Studies and the Women’s Center Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue)
The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in Mixed Media, The Oakland Museum, CA. Traveled to Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; and Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalogue)
5 x 3, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco
American Artists in Jewelry, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Traveled to Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco
The Triumph of the Figure in Bay Area Art: 1950-1965, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco
The Artist and the Myth, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, CA (catalogue)
Animals, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Flo Allen: A Model for a Generation, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
The Figure In Context, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
The Landscape Observed/Imagined, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
30 from 25, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV (catalogue)
Art Is, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, CA (catalogue)
Self-Portraits: The Message/The Material, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalogue)
Women Look at Women, Madison Art Center, WI
The Importance of Dreams, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco

1986

Tamarind Impressions Recent Lithographs: A Cultural Presentation of the United States of America, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (catalogue)
Miniature Worlds: The San Francisco Bay Area, 1965-1975, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
38th Annual Purchase Exhibition, Hassam and Speicher Fund, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
In the Advent of Change: 1945-1969, part of A Survey of California Women Artists, 1945 - Present, Fresno Art Center and Museum, CA
Selections of Post War California Art from the Collection (Part 2), Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
A Painterly Vision: California 1960's Paintings and Works on Paper, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Selections of Post War California Art from the Collection (Part 1), Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1985

American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to De Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Akron Art Museum, OH; and Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, WI (catalogue)
American Art: American Women, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, CT (catalogue)
Chiaroscuro, Art City, New York
Outline, Cutout, Silhouette, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Artists & Architects: Challenges in Collaboration, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (catalogue)
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, The Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)
Three Reflections on the World : An Exhibition of Three Milton Avery Distinguished
Visiting Professors in the Arts, Edith C. Blum Art Institute/Milton and Sally Avery Center for the Arts, Bard College Center, New York (catalogue)
The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation Collection of Late 20th Century Art, The Atheneaum, Alexandria, VA
Five Contemporary Painters: Azaceta, Brown, De Forest, Dugan, Saul, Art Gallery, California State College, Stanislaus, CA (catalogue)
Self-Portraits by Women Artists, Security Pacific National Bank’s Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1984

Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Traveled to University Art Gallery, San Diego State University; Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; New York State Museum, Albany, NY; University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY; Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MO; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (catalogue)
Contemporary Works on Paper, Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago
The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modem Art (catalogue)
“Stars”: A Theme Exhibition, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
The Sukkah Competition, The Jewish Community Museum, San Francisco (catalogue)
San Francisco Bay Area Painting, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (catalogue)
Selections and New Acquisitions from the Mills College Collection, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
The Human Condition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
In The Studio, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting, 1956-1966, The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University. Traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; and Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles (catalogue)
The Figure in Contemporary Art, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA
The 20th Century: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1983

Brave New Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The 38th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, Second Western States Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Taveled Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL; The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ; The Albuquerque Museum, NM; Long Beach Museum of Art, CA; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
Language, Drama, Source, © Vision, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Elegant Miniatures from San Francisco and Kyoto, Belca House, Kyoto
Selections, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
California Contemporary: Recent Work of Twenty-Three Artists, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, CA (catalogue)
Bay Area Collects, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Directions in Bay Area Painting: A Survey of Three Decades, 1940-1960, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA (catalogue)
A Selection of Contemporary Drawings, Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco
Looking at Women: Images of Women by Contemporary Artists, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (catalogue)
Six Alumni: Sculptures and Related Works-on-Paper, South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco

1982

Drawings by Painters, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego; and The Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)
Figures of Mystery, The Queens Museum, New York (catalogue)
Northern California Art of the Sixties, de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA (catalogue)
Bay Area Sculpture from the UAM Collection, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
74th Annual American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)
Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Early Work: Lynda Benglis, Joan Brown, Luis Jimenez, Gary Stephan, Lawrence Weiner, The New Museum, New York (catalogue)
Pets & Beasts, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco
The West as Art: Changing Perceptions of Western Art in California Collections, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA (catalogue)
Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New
Brunswick, NJ. Traveled to Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (catalogue)
California Connection: Sacramento State College, The Early 1970s, Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco. Traveled to Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA (catalogue)
Self-Portraits – Part II: The Antic Vision, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York (catalogue)
The Destroyed Print, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York

1981

Inside Out: Self Beyond Likeness, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA. Traveled to Portland Art Museum, OR; and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha (catalogue)
Paintings, University Galleries, California State University Hayward, CA
Drawing: Contemporary Concerns, Fine Art Division, Shasta College, CA
Forty Famous Californians: Recent Unique Works on Paper, Judith Christian Gallery, New York
Then and Now: 1960/1980, Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
The Figure: A Celebration, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. Traveled to University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
California: A Sense of Individualism (Part II), L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Animals: Celebration and Communion, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Abstractions, San Francisco Art Institute
Reflections: Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute (catalogue)

1980

American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real/The Ideal/The Fantastic: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL. Traveled to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, FL; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; and Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (catalogue)
Figurative Art: Brown, Colescott, DeForest, Provisor, Gaison, Wurm, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
Visions and Figurations, Fullerton Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA (catalogue)
American Figure Painting 1950-1980, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA (catalogue)
Joan Brown, Robert Colescott, Roy De Forest, The Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR
Renderings of the Modern Woman: Figurative Images of Women by Contemporary Artists, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT (catalogue)
Drawing: At the Henry, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (catalogue)

1979

The 1970s: New American Painting, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Traveled to Narodni Muzej, Belgrade, Serbia; Narodni Muzej, Zagreb, Croatia; Fiera della Saidegna, Caligari, Italy; Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Palermo, Italy; North Jutland Museum, Copenhagen; Geodesic Dome, Nepliget Park, Budapest; Geodesic Dome, Parcul Herstran Park, Bucharest, Romania; Biuro Wystaw Artystycrnych Gallery, Torun, Poland; Ministry of Culture, Lodz, Poland; Muzeum Narodowe Warszawie, Warsaw (catalogue)
The Sense of the Self: From Self-Portrait to Autobiography, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY. Traveled to New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada; Tangeman Fine Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH (catalogue)
Humor in Northern California, Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA
Souls and Spirits, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Seven on the Figure, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (catalogue)
From Allan to Zucker, Texas Gallery, Houston
By the Sea: 20th Century Americans at the Shore, The Queens Museum, New York (catalogue)
California: Images of Animals, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
Second Annual Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA (catalogue)
Humanform, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, CA (catalogue)
Works on Paper: Jack Beal, Joan Brown, and James McGarrell, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Images 1979, Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis
Large Drawings, Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago
Related Figurative Drawings, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco
Story Telling In Art, American Foundation for the Arts, Miami

1978

American Painting of the 1970s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; The Oakland Museum, CA; Cincinnati Art Museum; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; and Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL (catalogue)
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (catalogue)
Bay Area “12” Monotypes/Prints, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
cARToons, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Aesthetics of Graffiti, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
Art Faculty Resources Exhibition, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
West Coast Artists, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
“Bad” Painting, The New Museum, New York (catalogue)
Retrospective of Sculpture in the Bay Area, James Willis Gallery, San Francisco
Collector's Choice, Cincinnati Art Museum
Sixth International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia

1977

Downtown Dog Show, Downtown Center, San Francisco
Representations of America, Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Traveled to Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russia; and Palace of Art, Minsk, Russia
Critics’ Choice, The Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, NY. Traveled to Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
California Figurative Painters, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Art Works, Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
1977 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Archives of American Art: California Collecting, The Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)
Clark-Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Recent Art from San Francisco, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands

1976

Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
A Bicentennial Exhibition, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Retrospective of Sculpture in the Bay Area I James Willis Galleries, San Francisco

1975

Color, Light & Image, Women’s Interart Center, New York
Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery Pays Tribute to the San Francisco Art Institute, Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
California Gold, JPL Fine Arts Gallery, London (catalogue)
Group Show: Works on Paper, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco
Bay Area Artists Invitational Exhibition, The Oakland Museum, CA
Summer Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Art as Muscular Principle: Ten Artists & San Francisco 1950-1965, John and Norah Warbeke Gallery, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (catalogue)
Portrait Painting 1970-1975, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1974

Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1974, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL (catalogue)

1973

New Drawings: Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, Gordon Cook, George Lloyd, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue).
A Period of Exploration: San Francisco, 1945-1950, The Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)

1972

1972 Biennial Invitational: West Coast ’72: Painters & Sculptors, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento (catalogue)
1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

1971

San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)

1970

A Century of California Painting: 1870-1970, Crocker-Citizens Plaza, Los Angeles. Traveled to Fresno Art Center, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA; E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento; and The Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)

1969

Young America, 1969, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1968

The Humanist Tradition in Contemporary American Paintings, New School Art Center, New York (catalogue)
Figurative Four, Heritage Gallery and Adele Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles
Annual Invitational Drawing Show, Emmanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute (catalogue)

1967

Portraits of Artists: Photographs by John Waggaman, La Jolla Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA; Fresno State College Art Gallery, CA; and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA (catalogue)
Recorded Images/Dimensional Media, Art Gallery, California State College, Fullerton, CA
4 One-Man Exhibitions: Brown, Griffin, Hemingway, Tondre, Hansen Gallery, San Francisco
Painters Behind Painters, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (catalogue)
Funk, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA (catalogue)

1965

Three California Painters: Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, David Park, Staempfli Gallery, New York
Selections from the Work of California Artists, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio (catalogue)
Portraits from the American Art World, New School Art Center, New York (catalogue)
Seven Americans, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

1964

The 1964 Pittsburgh International: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Current Painting and Sculpture of the Bay Area, Stanford University Museum, Palo Alto, CA (catalogue)
From the Sterling Holloway Collection, Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Seven California Painters, Staempfli Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Nebraska Art Association 73rd Annual Exhibition, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (catalogue)

1963

4 Bay Area Artists: Beal, Brown, Glavin, Henderson, Art Unlimited, San Francisco
Artists West of the Mississippi: The Realistic Image 19th, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (catalogue)
Phelan Award Exhibition, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
82nd Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Art
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1963, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, IL (catalogue)

1962

Recent Acquisitions, Staempfli Gallery, New York
The Nude: Graphics by 5 Artists, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Arts and Religion, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

1961

Pacific Profile of Young West Coast Painters, Pasadena Museum, CA. Traveled to Salt Lake Art Center; Portland Art Museum, OR; Lower Columbia Junior College, Longview, WA; Fresno Art Museum, CA; Art Center in La Jolla, CA; Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; and San Jose State College, CA (catalogue)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, IL (catalogue)
64th American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)

1960

Gangbang, Batman Gallery, San Francisco
Young America 1960 (Thirty American Painters Under Thirty-Six), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to Baltimore Museum of Art; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, OH (catalogue)
10th Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, CA (catalogue)
Women in American Art, World House Galleries, New York
Nebraska Art Association Seventieth Annual Exhibition, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, NE (catalogue)

1959

Ninth Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, CA (catalogue)

1958

Seventy-Seventh Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art

1957

Seventh Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, CA (catalogue)
Seventy-Sixth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art

1986

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, California

1980

National Endowment for the Arts Grant

1977

Guggenheim Fellowship, New York

1976

National Endowment for the Arts Grant

1973

Adeline Kent Award, San Francisco

1965

Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, New York

1962

James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco