Exhibitions

2013

“Image to Gesture: California Post-war Abstraction,” David Findlay Jr Gallery, New York, NY

2012

“Gordon Onslow Ford: Centennial Celebration” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Stellar Orbits” Wendi Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Gordon Onslow Ford: Voyage and Visionary” Charlotte, NC

“Surrealism: New Worlds” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Gordon Onslow Ford: Paintings and Works on Paper 1939-1951” Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY

2009

“The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY

Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)

2008

“Landscapes of Consciousness” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007

“Dreams on Canvas” Nassau County Museum of Art, NY

“Gordon Onslow Ford: From the Vallejo: 1949-1959” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)

John F Kennedy University Arts & Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley, CA

“1937: Perfecktion und Zerstorung” Kunsthalle-Bielefeld, Germany

2006

“The Formative Years: Paintings from the 1930′s to 1940′s” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)

“Surrealism USA” National Academy Museum, New York, NY

2005

“The Great Spaces of the Mind: Paintings from the 1990′s to 2000′s” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)

2004

“Voyagers in Space: Paintings from the 1970′s and 1980′s” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)

2003

“Exploring the Open Mind: Paintings from the 1950′s and 1960′s” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)

“Shared Vision: Matta and Gordon Onslow Ford” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Gordon Onslow Ford: Recent Works” Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001

“Made in USA, l’Art Americain, 1908-1943” Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France

“Gordon Onslow Ford” Radiant Beings” Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)

“Vital Forms: American Art in the Atomic Age.” The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY

Traveling to The Walker Museum, Minneapolis, MN

2000

“Made in California” LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

“Gordon Onslow Ford Paintings” Cambell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)

1998

“Mirando en lo Profundo” Foundacion Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo exhibition)

Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997

“Through the Light: Exploration into Consciousness” A & C Gallery, JFK University, Berkeley, CA

1996

“Quest of the Inner-Worlds: A Retrospective” A & C Gallery, JFK University, Berkeley, CA (solo exhibition)

1995

“Inner World Images of the Unconscious” Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Pacific Dreams: Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art 1934-1957” The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

“Gordon Onslow Ford” Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile (solo exhibition)

1994

“Gordon Onslow Ford: A Retrospective” Bochum Museum of Art, Germany (solo exhibition)

1993

“Gordon Onslow Ford” Galerie Brochier, Munich, Germany (solo exhibition)

“Gordon Onslow Ford: The World of Line Circle Dot” Pavilion at the Botanical Garden, Munich, Germany (solo exhibition)

1992

“Dynaton Before and Beyond” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

“Light and Color – Dynaton Painters” Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1991

“André Breton et le Surréalisme” Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centro Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

“Gordon Onslow Ford” Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)

1990

“Pursuit of the Marvelous” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

“Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art” University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

“El Surrealismo Entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands

Smith Adnerson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (solo exhibition)

1988

“Visions of Inner Space” National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India

1986

David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA

1985

Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris, France

1978

“Creation” Gallery Schriener, Basel, Switzerland

1977

“Retrospective Exhibition (1931-1977)” Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

“Surrealitat-Bildrealitat (1924-1974)” Staalich Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, Switzerland

“Surrealism and American Art (1931-1947)” Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ

1974

Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA (solo exhibition)

1970

“Gordon Onslow Ford, Large Paintings” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)

1966

Rose Rabow Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1962

“Gordon Onslow Ford, 1951-1962” M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA

1958

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1956

Alexander Rabow Galleries, San Francisco, CA

1948

“Towards a New Subject in Painting” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)

1946

Karl Neirendorf Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)

1939

Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France