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2023
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Leon Polk Smith: Going Beyond Space
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
February 9, 2023 – May 7, 2023 -
2022
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Leon Polk Smith: 1945-1962
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
March 26, 2022 – August 28, 2022 -
2021
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Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
February 5, 2021 – July 3, 2021Leon Polk Smith: Big Form, Big Space
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
May 14, 2021 – August 22, 2021Leon Polk Smith
Lisson Gallery, East Hampton, New York
May 20 – May 31 2021Leon 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, 2019Leon Polk Smith: Prints
Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
June 15 – August 31, 2019Leon 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, 2017Geometry in Motion: Leon Polk Smith Works on Paper
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York
October 7 – December 31, 2017 -
2016
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Leon Polk Smith: Back to Oklahoma
Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma
May 31, 2016 – September 2, 2016Leon 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
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Linear Curves: Leon Polk Smith, Works from the 1960s
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
January 11 – February 22, 2014Space 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
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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
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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, 2006Leon 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
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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
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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
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Leon Polk Smith: Works on Paper
ACA Galleries, New York
November 17 – December 17, 1994Leon 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.]
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1992
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Leon Polk Smith: Wegbereiter der hard-edge Malerei
Galerie Istvan Schlégel, Zurich, Switzerland
October 28 – December 19, 1992
Iynedjian Art Galerie, Lausanne, Switzerland -
1991
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Leon Polk Smith
Galerie Hoffmann, Friedburg, Germany
December 1991 – March 1992 [cat.]
Myers-Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California -
1989
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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
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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, 1987Leon Polk Smith
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angles, California
May 15 – June 20, 1987Leon 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
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Polk Smith: New Works
DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, New York
January 23 – March 1, 1986Torn Drawing Prints ’65
The Brouhaha, Providence, Rhode Island
January 1 – 14, 1986Leon Polk Smith: Retrospective
The Third International Contemporary Art Fair, London, England
May 29 – June 1, 1986 -
1984
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Leon Polk Smith: Constellations 1967-1973
Washburn Gallery, New York, New York
January 11 – February 25, 1984Leon 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
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1982
- Paintings 1945-50 and Recent Paintings,
in two locations of Washburn Gallery, New York -
1981
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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, 1981Leon 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, 1980Leon 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 12Ace Gallery, Ltd., Vancouver, Canada (October)
Ace Gallery, Ltd., Venice, California (November)
International Kunstmarkt, Cologne West Germany
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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
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Leon Polk Smith
Galerie Denise René, New York
Feb. 15-March 12, 1977Pelham-Von Stoffler Gallery, Houston, Texas
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1973
- Leon Polk Smith
Galerie Denise René, New York
Dec. 1973
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1975
- Galerie Denise René, New York
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1970
- Geometric Painting 1945-1953 by Leon Polk Smith
Galerie Chalette, New York
Nov. 7, 1970 -
1969
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Museum of Fine Arts, Fort Worth, Texas
Galerie Chalette, New York
Constellations
October 4 – November -
1968
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Leon Polk Smith : an exhibition of the PosesInstitute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
April 15 – May 8, 1968San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
May 21 – June 30, 1968Galerie Chalette, New York
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1967
- Galerie Chalette, New York
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1965
- Leon Polk Smith: Torn Drawing
Galerie Chalette, New York -
1964
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Gallery Müller, Stuttgart, Germany
Studio Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
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1963
- Stable Gallery, New York
Recent Paintings, Sculptures, and Reliefs
March 12 – March 30
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1962
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Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
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1960
- Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
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1958
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Camino Gallery, New York
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Leon Smith
November 11 – November 29 -
1956
- Camino Gallery, New York
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1955
- Mills College of Education Art Gallery, New York
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1949
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The Pinacotheca Gallery, New York
Rose Fried Gallery, New York
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1946
- Egan Gallery, New York
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1943-1944
- Santa Fe Museum, New Mexico
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1942
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Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences, Savannah, Georgia
Paintings by Leon Polk Smith
February 13- February 15The Pinacotheca Gallery, New York
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1941
- Uptown Gallery, New York
Exhibitions of Paintings
January 13 – February 6