Exhibitions

2009

1945-1949: Repartir a zero, comme si la peinture n'avait jamais existe, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France

2008

Peggy Guggenheim e la Nouva Pittura Americana, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Action Painting, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen

Die Hande der Kunst, MARTa Herford, Herford

2007

Arshile Gorky: Homage, Centre Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris

"Picasso and American Art," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2006

"Société Anonyme: Modernism in America," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

"After Cézanne," MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA; MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles, CA

"Into The Unknown: Abstraction From The Collection," MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

"Informalismo y Expresionismo abstracto en las colecciones Guggenheim," Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao

"Out of Site: Selections from the Marsha S. Glazer Collection," Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

"Surrealism USA," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2005

"Exil und Moderne," Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck, Lübeck

"Dream On: Surrealism and Beyond from the Phoenix Art Museum Collection," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2004

"Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

"Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings," The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

"Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York." Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

2003

"Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

"Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

"El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia

"The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculptures," MFAH: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

"International Abstraction: Making Painting Real," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

"Arshile Gorky," Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

"The Tiger’s Eye: The Art of a Magazine," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

"Surrealism: Desire Unbound," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

"Think Small: Little Treasures from the Permanent Collection," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

2002

"Arshile Gorky," Galerie 1900-2000, Paris

"Arshile Gorky: Portraits," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

2001

"The Kindness of Friends: A Selection of Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1919–2000" Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA

"Collecting the Vanguard: Art from 1900-1970," The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH

2000

"Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1999

"De Durero a Rauschenberg: La quintaesencia del dibujo," Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao

"Linhas de Sombra," Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

"Hannah Höch, Mit Pinsel, Feder und Schere," Galerie Remmert und Barth, Duesseldorf

1998

"Arshile Gorky: Paintings and Drawings, 1929-1942," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

"The New York School," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

"Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction-Selections," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

1996

Arshile Gorky, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Pedrigao, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

1994

Arshile Gorky Late Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

1993

Arshile GOrky, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Pedrigao, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

1990

Arshile Gorky, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1989

60 Meisterwerke aus der Solomon R. Gugenheim Foundation, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

1983 - 1984

Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927-1944, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1964

documenta 3, Documenta, Kassel

1962

Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1959

documenta 2, Documenta, Kassel

1958

The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX

1956

Large Scale Paintings II, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX

1953

5th Anniversary Exhibition, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY