Group Exhibition History

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2023

  • Circles and Squares
    Addison & Rowe, Santa Fe, NM
    November 25, 2022 – March 1, 2023
  • In the Middle of Everywhere: Artists on the Great Plains
    Remai Modern Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
    June 4, 2022 – March 19, 2023

2022

2021

  • Franz Mon & Leon Polk Smith
    Edition & Galerie Hoffman, Friedberg, Germany
    July 24 – November 21
  • Sub-Shapes
    Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    July 17 – September 11

2020

  • Spectrum
    Lisson Gallery, New York, NY
    July 20 – August 20
  • Mapping the Collection
    Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
    June 20 – October 11
  • Einblicke 1/21
    Edition & Galerie Hoffman, Friedberg, Germany
    May 8, 2020 – January 1, 2021
  • Postwar Abstract Variations
    Oklahoma City Museum of Art
    February 20, 2020 – January 21, 2021
  • Specific Forms
    Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
    January 23 – March 7

2019

  • Into Form: Selections from the Rose Museum Collection, 1957-2018
    Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
    June 20, 2019 – January 5, 2020
  • Winter Selections: Prints & Drawings
    Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
    January 19 – February 23

2018

  • Recalibration
    James McCoy Gallery
    December 22, 2018 – January 7, 2019
  • Painting with Method: Neoavantgarde Positions from the mumok Collection
    Mumok- Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Wien, Vienna Austria
    November 30, 2018 – May 5, 2019
  • Abstraction: New Acquisitions at the Mead
    Mead Museum, Amherst, MA
    September 13, 2018 – February 17, 2019
  • Summer Scene
    Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
    June 11 – July 27
  • Serigraphies
    Galerie Denise Rene, Paris France
    February 1 – March 17
  • Re:construction
    McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
    January 27 – March 31
  • The Mid Century Modern Aesthetic
    Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, NY
  • Constructing Constructivism
    Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection, Miami, FL
    December 1, 2017 – October 15, 2018

2017

  • Aspects of Abstraction
    Lisson Gallery, New York City
  • Iconoplastic: 100 Years of De Stijl
    Sotheby’s, New York, NY October 19
  • The Shape Shifters
    Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
    July 7 – August 2
  • Close Up: The ROCCA Foundation Dresden/Berlin
    Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
    June 30 – July 22
  • Collage: Made in America
    Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
    January 28 – April 1

2016

  • The Architecture of Line: Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Leon Polk Smith and others
    Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
    November 21, 2016 – January 28, 2017
  • Material Witness
    Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
    November 4, 2016 – October 30, 2017
  • Edge & Color
    Finlay Gallery, New York, NY

2014

  • Into the Future: New Gifts to Commemorate the Museum’s 75th Anniversary,
    Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, California
  • The Edge: Color, Line & Time
    Levis Fine Art, New York, NY
    January 9 – February 15

2013

  • Post War American Art
    Levis Fine Art, New York, NY
    October 1 – 28

2012

  • The Geometric Unconscious: A century of Abstraction,
    edited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska and London, England

2011

  • Raumformen / Spaceforms
    Städtische Galerie KUBUS in Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Hannover, Germany (May 5th – September 4th)

    WING
    TUTTLE
    SELIGER
    SMITH
    Bow Street Gallery, Raglan, New Zealand
    March 17 – April 26

2009

  • Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    March 11 – June 22

2008

  • Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art,
    Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (September 21 – January 4, 2009)

2007

  • Lines, Grids, Stains, Words
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    June 13 – October 22

1999

  • Severed Ear-The Poetry of Abstraction,
    Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
  • De L’Expressionnisme Abstrait a L’Art Minimal: Peinture Abstraiter Aux Estas-Unis 1940-1960
    Musee Fabre Montpellier, France, July 1-October 3

1998

  • Five Sides to a Square
    Associated American Artist, New York City
    in association with Galerie Denise René, Paris
  • Defining the Edge Early American Abstraction, Selections from the Collection of Dr. Peter B. Fischer
    Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City
  • Kunst in den Treptowers
    Allianz Versicherungs, AG. Forster: Ursala Wenzel, Courtesy Gallerie Hoffmann Friedberg, Germany
  • Frederick Kiesler/Leon Polk Smith
    Jason McCoy, Inc., New York City
  • Kunst im Aufbruch, Abstraktion Zwischen 1945 und 1959
    Willem-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

1997

  • Inaugural Exhibition
    Jason McCoy, Inc. Chelsea, New York City

    The Maximal Sixties: Pop, Op, and Figuration
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    January 18 – April 29

1996

  • Histoires de Blanc et Noir
    Musee de Grenoble, France, May 23-August 19
  • Open Door
    Konkrete Kunst International Barscay-Halle, Budapest, Hungary, Organized by Hoffmann Galeria, Friedberg, Germany

1994

  • The Constructive Vocabulary-An American Vision
    Galerie Dr. Istvan Schlegl, Zurich
  • Eloquent Lines
    Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  • Paths of Abstraction: Selections from the Ciba Art Collection
    Hunter College of the City University of New York City

1993

  • Aus Der Sammlung IX
    Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
  • In a Classical Vein, Works From the Permanent Collection
    October 1993- April 1994, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

1991

  • 43rd American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Purchase Exhibition
    American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York City, NY
  • Drawings
    Gallery North, Setauket, New York City
  • Post-War Geometric Concepts 1945-1990
    Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York City
  • Between Mondrian and Minimalism: Neo-Plasticism in America
    Whitney Museum of American Art, Federal Reserve Plaza, New York City

1990

  • 42nd American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Purchase Exhibition
    American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York City, NY

1989

  • From Mondrian to Minimalism: American Constructivism: 1945-1965
    Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
    October 26 – November 21

1988

  • American Exploration in Geometry: Color and Surface, 1950s-1960s
    Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
    June 7 – July 1

1986

  • Contemporary Works from the Collection
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    November 21, 1985 – April 1, 1986

1985

  • The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line
    Bard College, NY
    March 24 – April 28

1984

  • Ornithology: Paintings and Drawings
    Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
    May 1 – 29

1983

  • Subtleties
    The Sutton Gallery, New York City

    Paintings of the Fifties
    Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
    September 6 – 17

1982

  • Purism
    Siegel Contemporary Art, Inc., New York City
  • Painted Objects
    Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York City

1981-82

  • Amerikanische Malerie 1930-1981
    Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

1980

  • Geometric Tradition in American Painting: 1920-1980
    Rosa Esman Gallery and Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York City
  • Time and Space
    Washburn Gallery, New York City
  • 50th Anniversary-Gifts and Purchases Exhibition
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

1979

  • Black and White are Colors, Paintings of the 1950s-1970s
    Galleries of the Larchmont Colleges, Claremont, California
  • Collection: Art in America After World War II
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
  • Paintings and Sculptures by Candidates for Art Awards
    American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City
  • Mondrian and Neo-Plasticism in America
    Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Hassum and Speicher Purchase Exhibition
    American Academy for Arts and Letters, New York City

1978

  • Gallery Group Exhibition: Stable Plus Guests
    Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City

1977

  • The Magic Circle
    The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York City
  • Paris-New York
    Musee National D’Art Moderns, Paris
  • Perspectives: Three/Three, Drawings 1919-1957: Le Corbusier, Heurtaux, Herbin, Kassak, Picabia; Collages 1940-1975, Leon Polk Smith
    Pelham-Van Stoffler Gallery, Houston, Texas
  • Tenth Street Days, The Co-Ops of the 50s
    Pleiades Gallery, New York City
  • American Geometric Abstract Painting of the 1950s
    Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York City
  • Line-Weight -Color
    Denise René Gallery, New York City

1976

  • Contemporary Paintings
    Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, New York City
    Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

1975

  • Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • American Art Since 1945
    traveling exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
    Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

1974

  • Celebration, Sarah Scaife Gallery Museum, of Art
    Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Contemporary Art I
    Galerie Denise René-Hans Meyer, Dusseldorf, West Germany
  • Striped and Shaped Canvases
    The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York City
  • Purism in New York, 1951-1963: Black and White
    Buecher and Harpsichords, New York City

1973

  • 15 Artists Americains
    Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
  • Visual R & D- A Corporation Collects
    University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin
  • Post-Mondrian Abstraction in America
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

1971

  • Contemporary American Drawings
    French and Company, New York, NY
    May 15 – June 23

1969

  • Tamarind: Homage to Lithography
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    April 29 – June 30

1966

  • Fifty Years of Modern Art, 1916-1966
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, June 14-July 31
  • Twenty Drawings: New Acquisitions
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, August 2-October 2
  • Systemic Paintings
    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, September 21-November 27

1965

  • The Responsive Eye
    The Museum of Modern Art, February 23 – April 25
  • Twenty-ninth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
    The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, February 26 – April 18
  • An Exhibition of Retinal and Perceptual Art
    The University Art Museum of The University of Texas, April 11-May 9
  • A Decade of American Drawings, 1955-1965
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, April 29-June 6
  • American Collages
    Museum of Modern Art, New York City, May 11-July 25
  • Colorists, 1950-965
    San Franicsco, Museum of Art, October 15-November 21
  • 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Three Disinguished Artists from Oklahoma: Lee Mullican, Joseph Glasco, Leon Polk Smith
    Museum of Art(Now Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art), University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

1964-65

  • 1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, December 9, 1964 – January 31, 1965
    Daniels Gallery, New York City, December 22, 1964 – January 23, 1965

1964

  • The New Formalists: Contemporary Amerian Painting
    The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, January 15 – February 9
  • The Classic Spirit in 20th Century Art
    Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, February 4 – 29

1963-65

  • Banners: A New Art Form
    The American Federation of Arts, New York City, October 9, 1963 – April 28, 1965

1963-1964

  • Annual Exhibition 1962: Sculpture and Drawings
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, December 12, 1962 – February 3
  • Twenty-eighth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
    The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, January18-March 3
  • Formalists
    The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, June 6 – July 7

1962

  • 65th Annual American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
    The Art Institute of Chicago, January 5 – February 18
  • Geometric Abstraction in America
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, March 20- May 13, 1962
  • 1961
    The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, April 3 – May 13

1961-1962

  • Six American Abstract Painters
    Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, January 24-February 18
  • Purism
    David Herbert Gallery, New York City, October 2-28
  • American Abstract Expressionist and Imagists
    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, October 13-December 31
  • The 1961 Pittsburgh International exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
    Pittsburgh Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania, October 27-January 7, 1962

1960

  • Modern Classicism
    David Herbert Gallery, New York City, February 8-27
  • Konkrete Kunst: 50 Jahre Entwicklung
    Helmaus Zurich, Germany, June 8-August 14

1959

  • Project 1: An Exhibition
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
  • Longview Foundation Purchases in Modern American Painting and Sculpture for the Union Santorium Association of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, June 9-21

1952

  • Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 1952-1953

1949

  • Post Mondrian Painters
    Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, May 16-June 11

1948

  • Abstract and Surrealist American Art Fifty-eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture
    The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1947-1948

1946

  • Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings
    Whitney Museum of American Art, February 5-March 13
    The Pinacotheca, New York City, March 15-April 13
  • Five Major Works by Stella, De Kooning, Smith, Benn, Hesketh
    Egan Gallery, New York City, closed September 30

1943

  • Contemporary American Paintings from the Collection of the University of Arizona
    Presented under the Auspices of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 3-May 13

1941

  • International Water Color Exhibition-Eleventh Biennial
    The Brooklyn Museum, New York City, March 28-May 11