Exhibitions

2011

Lee Bontecou: Insights, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany; Traveling to Kunst Sammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)

FreedmanArt, New York, NY (solo)

2010

Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)

American Painting 1959–2009, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Compass in Hand, Selection from the Contemporary Drawing Collection of the Judith Rothschild Foundation, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

Form in Translation: Sculptors Making Prints and Drawings, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO

Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2009

The Art Show 21st Annual Exhibition, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

2008 - 2009

Selections from the collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY

2008

In Their Own Words, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY

Great Women Artists: Feminist Art From The Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

Action/Abstraction, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO

Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, The Jewish Museum of New York, New York, NY

2007 - 2008

Modern Times: Alumni Collect, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

The Wandering Eye - Works on Paper from the 60s and 70s, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Black & White and a little red..., David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2007

Lee Bontecou: Vacuum-formed Sculptures and Related Drawings, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY (solo)

The third mind - Carte blanche a Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2006

Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Lee Bontecou: Fifth Stone Sixth Stone, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (solo)

2005

Organic Abstraction: Homage to Ruth Duckworth at 85, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY

2-D from 3-D: Contemporary and Historical Drawings by Sculptors, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

Part Object, Part Sculpture, Curated by Helen Molesworth, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Lee Bontecou: Selected Works, Gallery Salute to the 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY (solo)

54th Carnegie International 2004–5, Including a Monographic Exhibition of works by Lee Bontecou, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

2004

Lee Bontecou: Drawings 1958–1999, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY (solo)

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

2003 - 2004

Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, Curated by Elizabeth A.T. Smith with Ann Philbin, Co-organized with the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Modern Art, Queens, NY (solo)

2003

Crisis Response, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

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

Black White, Danese, New York City, NY

2002

Crisis Response, The RISD Museum, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI

True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

Vertigo, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Winter Group Exhibition, Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York, NY

2001

Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, NY

Lee Bontecou: Drawings, 1962–1998, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

About Objects, The RISD Museum, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI

Sculpture by Richard Artschwager, Lee Bontecou, John Chamberlain, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000

Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, NY

1999

Drawing from the 60s & 70s: Joe Baer, Lee Bontecou, Eva Hesse, and Agnes Martin, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York, NY

The American Century: Art and Culture 1900–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Lee Bontecou, 1958–1972, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York, NY (solo)

1998 - 2000

Twentieth Century American Drawings From the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Traveled to Sunrise Museums, Charleston, WV; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI

1996

Fiber and Form: The Woman’s Legacy: Hannelore Baron, Lee Bontecou, Nancy Grossman, Eve Peri, Anne Ryan, Betye Saar, Lenore Tawney, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

From a Curator’s Point of View: Making Selections and Forging Connections - Bontecou, Hesse, Judd, LeWitt, Marden, Morris, Smithson, Weatherspoon Arts Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greenboro, Greenboro, NC

Kingdom of Flora, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

50/50: Fifty Artists from Fifty Years of Skowhegan (Anniversary Exhibition & Raffle), PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, NY

Reliefs 1959-'60, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Lee Bontecou: Reliefs, 1959–60, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (solo)

1995

Lee Bontecou: Early Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

1994

Fine Lines, Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, CA

Printmaking in America: Collaborative Presses and Prints, 1960–1990, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; The Mary Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Animal Farm, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Bontecou, Higgins, Moskowitz - Work From the 1960s, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Selections from the Collection, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

1993 - 1994

Lee Bontecou: Sculpture and Drawings of the 1960s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Traveled to Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (solo)

1993

The Second Dimension: Twentieth Century Sculptors’ Drawings, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Sculpture and Drawings of the 1960's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

1991

Smith Collects Contemporary, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

20th Century Art in the Museum Collections; Direction and Diversity, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Alternative Supports: Contemporary Sculpture on the Wall, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

1987

Leo Castelli and His Artists: 30 Years of Promoting Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Arts Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

1986

The Sculptural Membrane, Sculpture Center, New York, NY

Definitive Statements: American Art 1964–66, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

1984 - 1985

The Third Dimension, Whitney Museum, New York, NY; Traveled to Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1984

Socialites and Satellites, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY

The Third Dimension, Whitney Museum, New York, NY; Traveled to Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

Dorthy C. Miller: With an Eye to American Art, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

1983

Nocturne, Seigel Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Universal Limited Art Editions: A Tribute to Tatyana Grosman, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY

Universal Limited Art Editions: A Tribute to Tatyana Grosman, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY

Women’s Art: Miles Apart, Aaron Berman Gallery, New York, NY; Traveled to Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL

1982

Castelli and His Artists: Twenty-Five Years, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Traveled to Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO; Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

The Americans: Collage 1950–82, Contemporary Art Museum, Austin, TX

1981

Selections from Castelli, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Heresies, ULAE: Works by Lee Bontecou, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Alexander Liberman, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, and Andre Voznesenski, The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY

From Reinhardt to Christo, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH

1980

Ed Ruscha, Billy Bengston, Edward Kienholz, Lee Bontecou, Ed Moses, Craig Kauffman - Paintings, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Eclectic Mood in Black, Aaron Berman Gallery, New York, NY

New York Collection Portfolio, Tyler Museum of Art, TX

Reliefs, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

Drawings to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, Inc., Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1978

Collection: American Sculpture, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Lee Bontecou in Retrospect: Drawings and Sculptures, Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (solo)

1977

The Liberation: 14 American Artists (organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), American House, Berlin, Germany; Traveled to American Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary; USIS Library Gallery, Rome, Italy; Ankara Bi-National Center Art Gallery, Ankara, Turkey

Lee Bontecou in Retrospect, Hawthorne Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

1976

Halper Gallery, Palm Beach, FL (solo)

American Artists ‘76: A Celebration, Marion Koogler McKnay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX

Contemporary American Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Halper Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

1975

Prints and Drawings by Lee Bontecou, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (solo)

Thirty Artists in America, Part, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY

1974

Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

In Three Dimensions, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

American Drawing: 1970–1973, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1973

Say it With Flowers, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

1972

Drawings: Barry, Bontecou, Daphnis, Flavin, Huebler, Johns, Judd, Kosuth, Lichtenstein, Morris, Nauman, Owen, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Ruscha Serra, Sonnier, Stella, Twombly, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Lee Bontecou, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)

1971

Lee Bontecou: Sculpture, Drawings & Lithographs, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1970

L’Art Vivant Americain, Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul-de-Vence, France

Pittsburgh International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

The Drawing Society National Exhibition, American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY

Contemporary Drawing Show, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX

Ars ’69 Helsinki, Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland

1969

An American Report on the Sixties, Denver Art Museum, CO

1968

Sculpture Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Lee Bontecou: skupturen, tekeningen, lithos, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (solo)

Lee Bontecou, Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (solo)

Stadtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Kunstverein Giannozzo, Berlin, Germany

Sculpture Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1967

Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Ten Years, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Lee Bontecou, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Sculpture Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Drawings, University of Texas, Austin, TX

1966

Flint Invitational, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI

National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Sculpture Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Jewish Museum, New York, New York:Harry N. Abrams Family Collection

1965

Lee Bontecou, 1965, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)

International Drawing Show, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany

International Prize, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Artists’ Reality, Morris International Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

100 American Drawings, Byron Gallery, New York, NY

Painting and Sculpture of a Decade: 1959–1964, Tate Gallery, London, UK

New York State Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

The Whitney Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Recent American Sculpture, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Group Show, The New School, New YorkLeo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

New American Sculpture, Pasadena Art Museum, CA

1964

The Whitney Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Whitney Annual Exhibition - Sculpture and Drawing, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Dealer's Choice, (Arman, Bontecou, Dine, Kienholz, Klein, Lichtenstein, Oldenberg, Parker, Rauschenberg, Raysse, Reinhardt, Rivers, Rosenquist, Tinguely), Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The South County State Bank, Saint Louis, MO

Mixed Media and Pop Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY

Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Whitney Annual Exhibition - Sculpture and Drawing, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

28th Biennial Exhibition, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Donner à Voir, Galerie Creuze, Paris, France

Aspetti dell’Arte Contemporanea, L’Aguilla, Italy

1963

Americans 1963, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1er Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France:Brandeis Universtiy, Waltham, MA

Continuity and Change, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

65th Annual American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1962

Lee Bontecou, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Art Since 1950, The Seattle World’s Fair, Seattle, WA

Society for Contemporary American Art, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL

Whitney Annual Exhibition - Sculpture and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

The Art of Assemblage, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

New York Scene, New London Gallery (Marlborough Fine Arts Limited), London, UK

Sculpture and Relief, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Le Nouveau Realisme, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France

Six Sculptors, (Peter Agostini, Lee Bontecou, Cesar, John Chamberlain, Edward Higgins, Louise Nevelson), The Dwan Gallery, New York, NY

Whitney Annual Exhibition - Sculpture and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Pittsburgh International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1961

Six Sculptors, The Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

VI São Paulo Bienal, The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil

Sculpture and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1960

Lee Bontecou: Constructions, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

New Media—New Forms I and II, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

Women of American Art, World House Galleries, New York, NY

Recent Acquisitions, 1960–61, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Summary 1959–1960, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1959

Contemporary American Sculpture, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Traveled to Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH

Gallery G, New York, NY

1958

Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy

1957 - 1958

Exhibition of Fulbright Awardees, Schneider Gallery, Rome, Italy