Solo Exhibition History

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2023

2022

2021

2019

2018-2019

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

2018

2017-2018

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

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

2014

2013-2014

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

2008

2007

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

2006

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

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

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

  • 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