Biography
1933-1988
Lived and worked in New York
1950 Art Students League, New York
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
1951-54 Cooper Union School of Art, New York
1967 Fulbright Fellowship
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
2024
“Untitled (rooftops), 1987”, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles
“5 Paintings 1962-1963”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
Mamco, Geneva
2022
“Italian Hours”, La Fondazione, Rome
2021
“Interior / Landscape”, The Watermill Center, New York
“Relativity Clock”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2019
“I AM, AM I?”, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
2017
“Eye of the Beholder”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2016
Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
“Eye of the Beholder”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2015
“Ponza and Roma”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich & Alexander and Bonin, New York
“Rotterdam Cultural Histories #4: Paul Thek”, Witte de With Rotterdam
2013
“Nothing But Time: Paul Thek Revisited 1964-1987”, Pace, London
2012
“in Process”, Kunstmuseum Luzern
traveled to: Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg; Modern Museet, Stockholm
“if you don’t like this book you don’t like me”, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2011
“Cityscapes and other ideas”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
“Prelude - Paul Thek in Process”, Another Vacant Space, Berlin
2010
“Cityscapes and other ideas”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
“Diver, A Retrospective”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
traveled to Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2011); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011)
2007
“Werkschau im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunst”, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe
traveled to Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg (2008); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2009)
“Newspaper paintings 1981-1983”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
“Newspaper paintings 1981-1983”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Seamen’s Art Club, Hamburg
2005
“Paul Thek Luzern 1973/2005”, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2004
“Paintings 1980-1988”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
2003
“Paintings of the 1980’s”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2002
“The chinaman erases my mind: Skulptur, Objekt, Malerei, Zeichnung”, Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne
2001
Galerie Ascan Crone, Berlin
2000
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
1999
Camden Arts Centre, London
traveled to The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2000); Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall (2000)
“Selected Drawings, 1966-1988”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
1998
“Paintings, Works on Paper and Notebooks 1970-1988”, The Arts Club of Chicago (catalogue)
1997
Diözesanmuseum Köln, Sankt Peter Kirche, Cologne
1996
“A Station of the Cross”, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1995
“Opere Scelte”, Because I Love Gallery, Rome
“Etchings”, XX Multiple Galerie, Rotterdam
“The wonderful world that almost was”, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
traveled to Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1995-1996); Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (1996);
Kunsthalle Zürich/Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (1996); MAC Galeries Contemporaines des
Musées de Marseille (1996)
1993
“Paintings of the 1970’s and 1980’s”, Brooke Alexander, New York
“Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, 1964-1976”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
1992
“Paul Thek. A cura di Daniel Buchholz”, Castello Di Rivara - Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
1991
“Newspaper and Notebook Drawings”, Brooke Alexander, New York
1990
“Sculpture 1965-1976”, Brooke Alexander, New York
Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris
“Skulpturen, 1968-1971”, Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne
1989
“Technological Reliquaries”, The Clocktower Gallery, New York
1988
Greenville County Museum of Art
“Selected Works 1987-1988”, Brooke Alexander, New York
“Some New Works”, Mokotoff Gallery, New York
1987
“Small Works”, Mokotoff Gallery, New York
1984
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Recent Work”, Iolas-Jackson Gallery, New York
1983
“Some New Work”, Iolas-Jackson Gallery, New York
1982
“Little Paintings”, Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris
1981
“cityscapes, seascapes, other ideas, etc.”, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York
“A Procession in Honor of Aesthetic Progress: Reconstruction of the first solo exhibition in Germany 1968 in the Galerie M. E. Thelen”, Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne
1980
“Small Paintings”, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York
1978
“Jack’s Procession: What’s Going on Here?”, Lijnbaancentrum, Rotterdam
1977
“Processions”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
“Small bronzes and drawings”, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York
1976
“The Personal Effects of the Pied Piper”, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
1973
“Ark, Pyramid-Christmas”, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg
“Ark, Pyramid, Easter”, with The Artist’s Co-op, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Galerie Stähli Langenbacher und Wankmüller, Lucerne
1972
“A Station of the Cross”, Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen
1971
“Pyramid/A Work in Progress”, with The Artist’s Co-Op, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Stable Gallery, New York
1970
“Crèche”, with The Artist’s Co-op, Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot
“Blackboard Drawings”, Stable Gallery, New York
1969
“Decorations for a Tree, Wires and a Cross”, with The Artist’s Co-op, Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot
“The Procession”, with The Artist’s Co-op, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Fishman”, Stable Gallery, New York
“Work in Progress at Brüsseler Platz”, Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen
1968
“A Procession in Honor of Aesthetic Progress: Objects to Theoretically Wear, Carry, Pull or Wave”, Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen
1967
“The Tomb”, Stable Gallery, New York
“The Tomb - Death of a Hippie”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1966
“Recent Work”, Pace Gallery, New York
1964
Stable Gallery, New York
1963
Galleria 88, Rome
1957
Mirrell Gallery, Miami
Group Exhibitions
2025
“Sammlung Ringier 1995 - 2025, Kuratiert von Betraix Ruf & Wade Guyton”, Langen Foundation, Neuss
“Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark”, Raven Row, London
2024
“When painting is unveiled”, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
“Isa Mona Lisa”, Hamburger Kunsthalle
“Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur”, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
“Leaps of Faith”, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt
“Where Do You Come From?”, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2022
“Future Bodies from a Recent Past”, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
“Mad Women: Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg and Ward, Art Dealers on Madison Avenue in the 1960s”, David Nolan Gallery, New York
“Portraits in Life and Death: Paul Thek & Peter Hujar”, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
“(Re)Frame”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
“something new, something old, something desired”, Hamburger Kunsthalle
“Wild Strawberries”, Gallery 125 Newbury, New York
2021
“Get Lifted!”, Karma, New York
“I Know Where I’m Going - Who Can I Be Now”, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
“Technologies of the Self”, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills
2020
“The Blazing World”, S|2, London
“Installationen aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
“Peter Hujar & Paul Thek”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
2019
“Between Them: An Installation Composed of Drawings: Michael Buthe, Stefan Kürten, Paul Thek”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
“Direct Message: Art Language, and Power: Eugenio Dittborn, Paul Thek”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Faith (Part 1 of the exhibition trilogy ‘Faith, Love, Hope’)”, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen
“NEWS!”, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2018
“The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Willie Cole, Paul Thek”, David Lewis Gallery, New York
“Kunst ins Leben! Der Sammler Wolfgang Hahn und die 60er Jahre”, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
“Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body: John Ahearn, Paul Thek, Rigoberto Torres”, The Met Breuer, New York
“101 Drawings”, Alexander & Bonin, New York
“Pas de Deux - Romano-Germanic Kolumba”, Kolumba, Cologne
“Sanguine - Luc Tuymans on Baroque: Paul Thek”, Fondazione Prada, Milan
2017
“Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980: Paul Thek”, The Met Breuer, New York
“ICON”, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
“Jason Dodge / Paul Thek”, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
“The Transported Man”, Broad Art Museum, East Lansing
“We Are Here: Jonathas de Andrade, Doris Salcedo, Paul Thek”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2016
“Museum Revisited: 1996-2016”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
2015
“Painting 2.0: Malerei Im Informationszeitalter”, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
“Please write, Paul Thek, Franz Deckwitz”, Museum van Boijmans Beuningen, Rotterdam
2014
“Alexander the Great: The Isolas Gallery 1955-1987”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
“1965 - 1977: Richard Artschwager, Michael Buthe, Victor Grippo, Neil Jenney, Robert Kinmont, Ree Morton, Sylvia Plimack Mangold and Paul Thek”, Alexander and Bonin
“Playing by heart”, Kolumba, Cologne, traveled to Martos Gallery, New York
2013
“Paul Thek and His Circle in the 1950s”, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
“The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation”, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
“Tell it To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault”, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, traveled to Culturgest Lissabon
2012
“Affinity Atlas”, Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, New York
“Art is Liturgy - Paul Thek and the Others”, Kolumba, Cologne
“A document”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
“Chambres d’Amis | Collection presentation”, S.M.A.K., Ghent
“First Among Equals”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
“Natural History”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
“Out of the Blue”, Bortolami Gallery, New York
“Paul Thek, in Process”, Kunstmuseum Luzern
“The Perfect Show”, 303 Gallery, New York
“The Quality of Presence”, Chelsea Hotel, New York
“Sinister Pop”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Stimuli”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2011
“Colors for a new home, Signs of Love and other paintings”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
“Distant Star/Estrella Distante”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, kurimanzutto, Mexico City
“D’un autre monde”, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
“HAPPY HOLIDAYS! DRAWINGS!”, Alex Zachary Gallery, New York
“Influential Friends by Peter Hujar, John McWhinnie”, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York
“Time Again”, Sculpture Center, New York
2010
“Held Up By Columns”, Renwick Gallery, New York
“Inside Installations”, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
“Keeping it Real: An exhibition in Four Acts (Act 1: The Corporeal)”, Whitechapel Gallery, London
“Kunst aus der Kölner Privatsammlung Ulrich Reininghaus”, Sammlung Reininghaus, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
“Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual - Selected by Bob Nickas”, White Columns, New York
“Margins of Silence”, The Helga de Alvear Foundation, Caceres
“Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)”, Camden Arts Centre, London
“10,000 Lives”, The 8th Gwangju Biennale
“Dead Flowers”, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, traveled to Participant Inc., New York
2009
“Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Hinterlassenschaft - Ein deutsches Erbe”, Kolumba, Cologne
“Source Codes”, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
“Whaddaya Wanna Be, a Flower?!”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2008
“Der Mensch verlässt die Erde”, Kolumba, Cologne
“Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
“Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Painting Now and Forever, Part II”, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Sammlung, 1978-2008”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
“Sguardo periferico & corpo collettivo”, Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
“Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
“Traces du Sacré”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich
“2 x [ (2 x 20) + (2 x 2) ] + 2 = X x (desperately) trying to figure out the world”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
2007
“Bodycheck”, 10. Triennale Kleinplastik, Alte Kelter Fellbach
“Hold the Line”, Ferenbalm Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe
“Neolithic Porns”, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin
“A Point in Space Is a Place for an Argument”, David Zwirner, New York
“Strange Weight”, Martos Gallery, New York
“The Third Mind - Carte Blanche à Ugo Rondinone”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
“13”, International Project Space, Bournville Centre for Visual Arts, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
2006
“The Eighth Square: Gender, Life, and Desire in the Arts Since 1960”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
“Das Menschenbild der Moderne”, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
“Into Me/Out of Me”, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York, traveled to KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museo d’arte contemporanea Roma
“John Frumism”, Hotel, London
“The Last Show”, Cooper Union, Hewitt Memorial Building, New York
“Plane/Figure: Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Privatsammlungen und aus dem Kunstmuseum Winterthur”, Kunstmuseum Winterthur
“Six Feet Under: Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten”, Kunstmuseum Bern
“Small Sculpture”, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Twice Drawn”, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
2005
“Das Menschenbild der Moderne”, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
“Bidibidobidiboo: Works from Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
“Document 2 and 3 made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein”, Janos Gat Gallery, New York
“editions”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
“50 Jahre Documenta, 1955-2005”, Fridericianum, Kassel
“Looking at Words: The Formal Use of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
“Mythologies”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“At years end, rethinking The Family of Man”, De Appel, Amsterdam
2004
“De wereld deugt, wijzelf helaas wat minder; Ritsaert ten Cate”, De Appel, Amsterdam
“East Village USA”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
“the gallery selects…”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
“Klütterkammer: An Exhibition by John Bock”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
“L’Air du Temps”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
“Mike Kelley - The Uncanny”, Tate Liverpool, traveled to mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
“Stadtlicht - Lichtkunst”, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
2003
“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Architecture”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, traveled to Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia, Gdańsk
“Fuori Uso 2003: Great Expectations”, Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara
“Global Village: The 1960s”, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
“My People Were Fair and Had Cum in Their Hair”, Team, New York
2002
“Bits ’n Pieces”, Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne
“Das weiss dahinter”, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal
“A document made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein”, Janos Gat Gallery, New York
“From the Observatory”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love”, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen; The Modern Institute, Glasgow
“Imagine, You Are Standing Here in Front of Me: Caldic Collectie”, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
“Manifeste oder Ergriffenheit - was ist das? Frühe Standards seit 1960”, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
“The Object Sculpture”, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2001
“The Devil is in the Details”, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
“Eine Barocke Party: Augenblicke des Welttheaters in der zeitgenössischen Kunst”, Kunsthalle Wien
“Painting at the Edge of the World”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Prodigal Prodigy”, White Box, New York
“(Self) Portraits”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2000
“Face To Face: Works on paper from the Museum Overholland Collection”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Full Serve”, organized by Mixed Greens and Kenny Schachter, Rove, New York
“Sweet ’N Low”, organized by Mixed Greens and Kenny Schachter, Rove, New York
“Die verletzte Diva: Hysterie, Körper, Technik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts”, Kunstverein München and Städtische Galerie at Lenbachhaus, Munich, traveled to Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
1999
“The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Art in Our Time: 1950 to the Present”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Circa 1968”, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto
“Highlights from The Dillard Collection of Art on Paper: Drawn Across the Country”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro
“l’Ouverture”, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Gand, Ghent
1998
“Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus. Das Diözesanmuseum Köln zu Gast in der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden”, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
“From Warhol to Mapplethorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA”, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia
1997
“Belladonna”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
“From Body to Being: Reflections on the Human Image”, Des Moines Art Center
“Drawings”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
“The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
“A Living Testament to the Blood Fairies”, Printed Matter, New York
“Die Kunsthalle Bremen zu Gast in Bonn: Meisterwerke aus sechs Jahrhunderten”, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (catalogue)
“A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawings”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1996
“Arts’ Communities/AIDS’ Communities: Realizing the Archive Project”, Boston Center for the Arts
“Bringing It All Back Home”, Gracie Mansion/Fred Dorfman Projects, New York
“The Collection Reviewed: Contemporary Art”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
“Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1995
“Duck!”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
“Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe, Tod”, Kunsthalle Wien
“Géometrie Sacrée”, Galerie des Beaux-Arts Galerij, Brussels
1994
“Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives”, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Zurich (catalogue)
“Drawn in the 1970’s/Printed in the 1970’s”, Brooke Alexander, New York
“Prospect/Retrospect. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseums Luzern”, Kunstmuseum Luzern
“Significant Losses: Artists Who Have Died From AIDS”, The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland at College Park
1993
“Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
“Already Buddha”, Greenville County Museum of Art (catalogue)
“Lucian Freud, Paul Thek: Etchings”, Miami-Dade College Art Gallery, Kendall
“Nachtschattengewächse/The Nightshade Family”, Fridericianum, Kassel (catalogue)
“Sculpture & Multiples”, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
“The Uncanny”, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem
“Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Paul Thek”, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
“Wiederbegegnung mit Unbekanntem”, Diözesanmuseum Köln (catalogue)
1992
“Mssr. B’s Curio Shop”, Thread Waxing Space, New York
“Word & Image”, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
“Drawings”, Brooke Alexander, New York
1991
“Bildhauerzeichnungen des Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg”, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
“(Dis)member, on the Hundredth Anniversary of Gericault’s Death”, Simon Watson, New York
“Paris 1971”, Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich
1990
“Contemporary Assemblage: The Dada and Surrealist Legacy”, LA Louver, Los Angeles
“Fragments, Parts, Wholes - The Body and Culture”, White Columns, New York
“Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990”, Milwaukee Art Museum
traveled to Oklahoma City Art Museum (1990-1991); The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1991)
“(Dis)member, on the Hundreth Anniversary of Gericault’s Death”, Simon Watson, New York
1989
“Human Concern/Personal torment: The Grotesque in American Art, Revisited”, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, traveled to Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago (1990)
1987
“Artcake, 1980-1986: Private Sammeln Gegenwartskunst”, Kunsthaus Zurich
“The Pyramid Show”, Mokotoff Gallery, New York
“The Success of Failure”, organized by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York
traveled to Laumeier Sculpture Park and Gallery, St. Louis; Johnson Gallery at Middlebury College, Vermont; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson (1988)
1986
“Chambre d’Amis”, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (catalogue)
“The City and the Street: Paintings, Photographs, and Sculpture”, La MaMa Galleria, New York
1985
“Chiarobscuro”, Art City, New York
“18a Bienal Internacional de São Paulo”, São Paulo
“The Gathering of the Avantgarde: The Lower East Side”, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
“Memento Mori”, Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia
“Stigmata”, Bond Gallery, New York
1984
“Artists Call: 50/50”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
“Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
“Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament”, Art Museum Association
traveled to the Contemporary Arts Center, Cinncinati; University Art Gallery at San Diego State University; Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman (1985); New York State Museum, Albany (1985); University Art Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara (1985); Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica (1985); Fine Arts Gallery at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1986); Baxter Art Gallery at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (1986); Yellowstone Art Center, Billings (1986); Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (1986)
1983
“New Art at the Tate Gallery 1983”, The Tate Gallery, London
“Paul Thek”, part of the Special Projects Program that accompanied “Abstract Painting: 1960-69”, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York
“The Sixth Day: A Survey of Recent Developments in Figurative Sculpture”, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
“Terminal New York”, Harborside Industrial Center, New York
“Urban Pulses: The Artists and the City”, Pittsburgh Plan for Art
1982
“Tableaux. Nine Contemporary Sculptors”, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (catalogue)
1981
“Drawing Distinctions: American Drawings of the Seventies”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek
traveled to Kunsthalle Basel; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (1982); Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (1982) (catalogue)
“Contemporary Art Since 1939, (Death of a Hippie)”, International Exhibition, Cologne
“Continuous Creation”, Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)
“Drugs: Herbs from Heaven and Hell”, Museum voor Land en Volkenkunde, Rotterdam
“Figurative Sculpture”, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, New York
“Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939”, Rheinhallen, Cologne (catalogue)
“A Feast for the Eyes”, Hecksher Museum, Huntington
1980
“La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice (catalogue)
“Zeichen des Glaubens - Geist der Avantgarde”, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
1976
“Amerikanische Kunst heute: Bilder, Skulpturen, Objekte, Zeichnungen, Graphiken”, Berliner Festwochen
“La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice (catalogue)
1975
“Menace”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1974
“Return to Sender”, Galleria Schema, Florence
1973
Galerie M. E. Thelen, Cologne (catalogue)
1972
“documenta 5”, as part of The Artist’s Co-op, Neue Galerie and Kunsthalle Friedericianum, Kassel
1971
“Continuing Surrealism”, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (catalogue)
“Depth and Presence”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
“Fünf Sammler, Kunst unserer Zeit”, von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
“Gene Swenson: Retrospective for a Critic, The Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Kunsthistorici verzamelen eigentijdse kunst: van Appel tot Sykor”, Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Amsterdam
“The Riderless Boat”, Willard Gallery, New York
1970
“Figures/Environments”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (catalogue)
traveled to Cinicinnati Art Museum; Dallas Art Museum of Fine Arts (1970-1971)
1969
“Art ’69”, Atheneumin Taisemuseum, Helsinki, traveled to Tampereen Nykytaiteen Museo, Tampere
“The Dillard Collection”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro
Galerie 20, Amsterdam
“Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, traveled to University Art Museum at University of California, Berkeley (1970) (catalogue)
“Irritarte”, Galleria Milano, Milan
“Kunst der sechziger Jahre”, Sammlung Ludwig, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne (catalogue)
1968
“Art of the 60’s: Selections from the Collection of Hanford Yang”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
“documenta 4”, Kassel (catalogue)
“The Obsessive Image, 1960-1968”, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue)
“Painting and Sculpture Today”, Indianapolis Museum of Art
1967
“The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture”, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
1966
“Art in the Mirror”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Art on Paper”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro
“Contemporary American Still Life”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“The Other Tradition”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1965
“Beyond Realism”, Pace Gallery, New York
“A Contemporary Collection of Painting and Sculpture. Selected from the Collection of Eleanor Ward”, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London
“One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings”, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
1958
The Gallery, Miami