Exhibitions

2009

Seven Decades, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA
Retrospective, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA (solo)
Days Lumberyard Studios 1915-1972, ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA

2007

Painting’s 1940’s – 1950’s, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA
John Grillo, Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA (solo)
Paintings by John Grillo, The Garage Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)

2006

John Grillo: A Glimpse Through the Decades, 1945 – 2005, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA (solo)

2005

Early and Recent Works: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1950’s to present, Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2004

The Yellow Paintings, Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY

2003

The Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Aaron Galleries Modern, Chicago, IL

2002

John Grillo: A Painter’s Life of Expression, A retrospective of works from 1938 - 2002, The Museo ItaloAmericano, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Karl Kasten companiles and U.C. Berkeley Art School friends, Galerie Sho, Tokyo, Japan
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA (solo)

2001

Pioneers of 20th Century Art, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA

2000

John Grillo, the New York and San Francisco Years, Aaron Galleries, Chicago, IL (solo)
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA (solo)

1999

Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1998

The San Francisco years, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA (solo)
Galerie Zhouf, Prague, the Czech Republic (solo)

1996

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
The Yellow Paintings- 1960's, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1994

New York – Provincetown: A 50s Connection, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Provincetown Abstract Paintings 1915 – 1950” from the Penny and Hilton Yasuna Collection, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

1993

Paper Trails: San Francisco Abstract Expressionist Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA

1991

Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia (solo)
Amherst Gallery of Fine Art, Amherst, MA (solo)

1990

Carlson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hampden Gallery, Hampden Gallery University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (solo)

1989

Hampden Gallery, Hampden Gallery University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (solo)
Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia (solo)
Carlson Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Art Department Gallery Lane Community College, Eugene, OR (solo)
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA (solo)
The Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA (solo)

1988

Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA (solo)
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1984

Museo de Arte Moderno, La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia (solo)
Gal A.R.T., Bogota, Colombia (solo)

1983

Jean Lumbard Fine Arts, 57’th Street, New York, NY (solo)

1982

Sloan Rocotta Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
Galeria Pluma, Bogota, Colombia (solo)

1981

Museo Zea, Medellin, Colombia (solo)
Arte Actual Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
Museum of Fine Arts, Worcester, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA

1979

Hans Hofmann and His Student’s Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1978

Paintings from the 50’s and 60’s, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1977

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
40 Post War Painters, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1975

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1973

The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1972

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1970

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1969

The Geigy Collection, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

1968

Rigelhaupt Gallery, Boston, MA

1967

New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions in Modern Art, The University of California, Berkeley, CA

1966

Bundy Art Gallery Museum, Waitsfield, VT
Fourteen Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1964

Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH (solo)
Recent Acquisitions, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1963

Art Since 1950, Seattle World’s Fair, Seattle, Washington
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1962

1962, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA (solo)
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1961

Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Contemporary Painting, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1960

Tanager Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Sixty American Painters, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Repeat of the 813 Broadway Gallery Group Show, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY

1959

Experiences in Art 2, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Gallery Six, San Francisco, CA
HCE Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)

1957

Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The New York Painting and Sculpture Annual, The Stable Gallery, New York, NY

1956

The New York Painting and Sculpture Annual, The Stable Gallery, New York, NY

1955

The New York Painting and Sculpture Annual, The Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1954

The New York Painting and Sculpture Annual, The Stable Gallery, New York, NY

1953

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1952

Tanager Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1948

Artists' Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1947

Daliel's Gallery, Berkeley, CA (solo)

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

The British Museum, London, UK
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The University of Texas Museum, Austin, TX
Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH
The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH
Bundy Art Gallery Museum, Waitsfield, VT
Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA
Bennington College, Bennington, VA
Portland Museum, Portland, Maine
Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, VA
University of California, Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
The Springfield Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, MA
The Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Provincetown, MA
Museo de Antioquia. Medellin, Colombia
Foro de Arte Contimporaneo. Mexico City, Mexico
Museo Rayo, Roldanillo Valle, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Stamford Museum of Art, Stamford, CT
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ