2024

• Leon Polk Smith: 1940 – 1961
  Lisson Gallery, New York, New York
  January 11, 2024 – February 17, 2024
  

2023

• Leon Polk Smith: Going Beyond Space
  Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
  February 9, 2023 – May 7, 2023

2022

• Leon Polk Smith: 1945-1962
  Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
  March 26, 2022 – August 28, 2022

2021

• Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight
  Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
  February 5, 2021 – July 3, 2021
• Leon Polk Smith: Big Form, Big Space
  Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  May 14, 2021 – August 22, 2021
• Leon Polk Smith
  Lisson Gallery, East Hampton, New York
  May 20 – May 31 2021
• Leon Polk Smith: Prairie Moon
  Lisson Gallery, New York, New York
  September 9 – October 16 2021

2019

• Leon Polk Smith: Prints, Drawings, and Collages
  Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
  June 6, 2019 – July 26, 2019
• Leon Polk Smith: Prints
  Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
  June 15 – August 31, 2019
• Leon Polk Smith: Endless Space
  Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
  September 13, 2019 – November 23, 2019

2018-2019

• Leon Polk Smith
  Lisson Gallery, London, England
  November 16, 2018 – January 12, 2019 [cat.]

2018

• Tearing the Line: Works by Leon Polk Smith
  Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  January 26, 2018 – June 30, 2018

2017-2018

• Leon Polk Smith: Prints And Related Works
  Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, New York
  November 10, 2017 – January 27, 2018

2017

• Leon Polk Smith
  Lisson Gallery, New York, New York
  September 8 – October 21, 2017
• Geometry in Motion: Leon Polk Smith Works on Paper
  Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York
  October 7 – December 31, 2017

2016

• Leon Polk Smith: Back to Oklahoma
  Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma
  May 31, 2016 – September 2, 2016
• Leon Polk Smith Selections from Miami
  Washburn Gallery, New York City, New York
  December 16, 2016 – January 31, 2017

2015

• Leon Polk Smith: Paintings and Collages from the 1960s
  Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
  September 10 – October 31, 2015 [cat.]

2014

• Linear Curves: Leon Polk Smith: Works From the 1960s
  Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles
  January 11 – February 22, 2014

2013-2014

• Linear Curves: Leon Polk Smith, Works from the 1960s
  Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
  January 11 – February 22, 2014
• Space Considered: Leon Polk Smith
  Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  November 8, 2013 – January 11, 2014 [cat.]
• Leon Polk Smith Cherokee | Chickasaw | Choctaw
  Washburn Gallery, New York
  November 1, 2013 – February 1, 2014 [cat.]

2011

• Leon Polk Smith: 50 Years of Separation
  Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
  April 7 – June 30, 2011 [cat.]
• Leon Polk Smith. Raumformen/Spaceforms
  KUBUS, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Ruhr- Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  May 5 – September 4, 2011 [cat.]

2010

• Leon Polk Smith: The Tamarind Lithography Workshop
  Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
  May 25 – December 5, 2010

2009

• Leon Polk Smith: A Constellation with Works on Paper
  Washburn Gallery, New York
  September 10 – October 31, 2009

2008

• Torn Paper Drawings 1956-1964
  Washburn Gallery, New York
  January 10 – March 1, 2008

2007

• Leon Polk Smith: The Constellations Paintings,
  Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  Mar 15 – 25

2006

• Leon Polk Smith: 10 Paintings, 1945-1950,
  Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
  November 9 – December 22, 2006 [cat.]
• Leon Polk Smith: American Original
  (NOTE: please allow time for the slideshow to load when visiting this link),
  Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
  June 24 – September 24, 2006
• Leon Polk Smith: Invention: A Centennial Celebration of his Oeuvre,
  Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, New York

2005

• Forms and Functions in the 1950s
  Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
  January 21 – March 5, 2005 [cat.]; traveled to Wright, Chicago, Illinois

2002

• Baseballs, Basketballs and Tennis, c.1955
  Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
  February 1 – March 30, 2002 [cat.]

2001-2002

• Leon Polk Smith in the Arithmeum
  University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  September 4, 2001 – February 17, 2002 [cat.]

2000

• Cattlebrands and Columns and Columns from the 1940s.
  Washburn Gallery, New York

1999, 2000

• Cattlebrands and Columns
  Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
  March 30 – April 29, 2000 [cat.]
• Leon Polk Smith: Antigravity
  Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, Germany
  December 11, 1999 – April 2, 2000 [cat.]

1998

• Leon Polk Smith: Collages, 1954 – 1986
  Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
  July 6 – September 28, 1998

1996-1997

• Paintings of the Nineties,
  Jason McCoy Inc., New York City, New York

1995-1996

• Leon Polk Smith: American Painter
  Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York
  September 29, 1995 – January 7, 1996 [cat.]

1994

• Leon Polk Smith: Works on Paper
  ACA Galleries, New York
  November 17 – December 17, 1994
• Leon Polk Smith
  Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, Germany
  September 2 – 9 , 1994

1993-1994

• Leon Polk Smith: Selected Works, 1943-1992
  The Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York
  February 13, 1993 – January 2, 1994 [cat.]
  

1992

• Leon Polk Smith: Wegbereiter der hard-edge Malerei
  Galerie Istvan Schlégel, Zurich, Switzerland
  October 28 – December 19, 1992
  Iynedjian Art Galerie, Lausanne, Switzerland

1991

• Leon Polk Smith
  Galerie Hoffmann, Friedburg, Germany
  December 1991 – March 1992 [cat.]
  Myers-Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1989

• Leon Polk Smith
  Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
  February 4 – March, 27, 1989.
  Traveled to the Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
  May 12 – July 10, 1989 [cat.]
• Leon Polk Smith: 35 Years of Color
  Myers-Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
  October 19 – November 22, 1989

1987

• Leon Polk Smith: 5 Decades of Geometric Inventions
  DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, New York
  November 6 – December 19, 1987.
  Traveled to R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, Illinois
  January 22 – February 27, 1988;
  and The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
  May 7 – June 19, 1988 [cat.]
• Leon Polk Smith: Arbeiten von 1947-1987
  Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, West Germany
  May 30 – September 1, 1987
• Leon Polk Smith
  Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angles, California
  May 15 – June 20, 1987
• Leon Polk Smith
  Galerie A. Hoffmann, Basel, Switzerland
  May 30 – September 1, 1987 [cat.]
• Leon Polk Smith
  Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, New York
  Four Painters in New York
  January 3 – 24

1986

• Polk Smith: New Works
  DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, New York
  January 23 – March 1, 1986
• Torn Drawing Prints ’65
  The Brouhaha, Providence, Rhode Island
  January 1 – 14, 1986
• Leon Polk Smith: Retrospective
  The Third International Contemporary Art Fair, London, England
  May 29 – June 1, 1986

1984

• Leon Polk Smith: Constellations 1967-1973
  Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
  January 11 – February 25, 1984
• Leon Polk Smith Collagen 1981-1983
  Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
  May 31 – July 29, 1984

1983

• Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1982

• Paintings 1945-50 and Recent Paintings,
  in two locations of Washburn Gallery, New York

1981

• Leon Polk Smith: Black and White Tondos
  Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
  December 11, 1981 – January 30, 1982 [cat.]
• Leon Polk Smith: Large paintings, 1979-1981
  The Fine Arts Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
  October 28 – December 15, 1981 [cat.]
• Washburn Gallery (113 Greene Street), New York, New York
  March 4 – May 2, 1981
• Leon Polk Smith: Drawings, Collages and Paintings
  Washburn Gallery, (42 East 57th Street), New York, New York
  March 4 – April 4, 1981 [cat.]

1980

• Polk Smith: Constellations
  Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
  January 11 – February 25, 1980
• Leon Polk Smith: Eight Works/Paintings and Collages
  Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
  September 23 – October 12, 1980

1979

• • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York
    

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• Gallery Paula Anglim, San Francisco, California
  Painting and Collages, 1954-1977
  April 17 – May 12
• Ace Gallery, Ltd., Vancouver, Canada (October)
• Ace Gallery, Ltd., Venice, California (November)
• International Kunstmarkt, Cologne West Germany

1978

• Leon Polk Smith; A dialogue in black & white: an exhibition of paintings from 1946-1978
  Art Gallery, State University of New York at Old Westbury
  Nov. 15-25, 1978

1977

• Leon Polk Smith
  Galerie Denise René, New York
  Feb. 15-March 12, 1977
• Pelham-Von Stoffler Gallery, Houston, Texas

1973

• Leon Polk Smith
  Galerie Denise René, New York
  Dec. 1973
  

1975

• Galerie Denise René, New York

1970

• Geometric Painting 1945-1953 by Leon Polk Smith
  Galerie Chalette, New York
  Nov. 7, 1970

1969

• Museum of Fine Arts, Fort Worth, Texas
• Galerie Chalette, New York
  Constellations
  October 4 – November

1968

• Leon Polk Smith : an exhibition of the PosesInstitute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
  April 15 – May 8, 1968
• San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
  May 21 – June 30, 1968
• Galerie Chalette, New York

1967

• Galerie Chalette, New York

1965

• Leon Polk Smith: Torn Drawing
  Galerie Chalette, New York

1964

• Gallery Müller, Stuttgart, Germany
• Studio Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany

1963

• Stable Gallery, New York
  Recent Paintings, Sculptures, and Reliefs
  March 12 – March 30
  

1962

• Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
• Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
  Leon Polk Smith

1960

• Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

1958

• Camino Gallery, New York
• Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
  Leon Smith
  November 11 – November 29

1956

• Camino Gallery, New York

1955

• Mills College of Education Art Gallery, New York

1949

• The Pinacotheca Gallery, New York
• Rose Fried Gallery, New York

1946

• Egan Gallery, New York

1943-1944

• Santa Fe Museum, New Mexico

1942

• Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences, Savannah, Georgia
  Paintings by Leon Polk Smith
  February 13- February 15
• The Pinacotheca Gallery, New York

1941

• Uptown Gallery, New York
  Exhibitions of Paintings
  January 13 – February 6