• SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
• ELLEN LANYON

2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
“Index Extended” Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL “Curiosities” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY “The Persistence of Invention” The Century Association, New York, NY “At The Sign of The Hat” Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago “Ellen Lanyon A Wonder Production” Curator & Catalog essay, Esther Sparks.
Brauer Museum, Valparaiso Un & The Washington County Museum, Hagerstown MD
“More Strange Games" Printworks Gallery, Chicago
2005-2006 "Paintings 1960-1990",Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago
"Paintings of the 1960s" Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago IL "Wonders of the World" Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York NY
2003 2001 2000 1999-00
"INDEX" Prints and Books, Printworks Gallery, Chicago "Recent Paintings" Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "Riverwalk Gateway Project", Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Retrospective: National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
(Catalog: essay by Debra Bricker Balken)

• 1999
• "Paintings: 1969 &1999" Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL

"New Works On Paper" Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL Adrian College, Adrian MI "Peregrine Proposals", Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA “Archaic Gardens / Recent Paintings", Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY "Recent Paintings", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "Anatomy of an Exhibition" Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano,
San Jose, Costa Rica
1998 1997

1996 1994
"Archaic Garden" collaboration with architect Laurence Booth, TBA Space, Chicago Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City IA Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL Struve Gallery, Chicago IL Berland-Hall Gallery, New York,NY (Catalog essay by Eleanor Heartney) Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City IA
1993 1992 1990 1989
"Works on Paper 1960-1990, Struve Gallery, Chicago IL Printworks Ltd, Chicago,IL Julian Pretto / Berland- Hall, New York NY Union League Club, Chicago IL

• 1987-88
• "The Art of Ellen Lanyon: Strange Games" Retrospective. Curator: Stephen Prokopoff.

Traveling exhibit: Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Il, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT., Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX.
(Catalog: essay by Donald Kuspit.)

• 1987
• J.L. Becker Gallery, Provincetown MA

Barat College, Lake Forest IL
1985 1983
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL Susan Caldwell Inc, New York NY N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Curators: Diane Lazarus and Pauline Saliga.
(Catalog: essays by Lucy Lippard and Dennis Adrian & Ellen Lanyon)
St. Louis Community College, St. Louis MO

• 1982
• Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ Alverno College, Milwaukee WI Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis CA Landfall Press, Chicago IL
1981 1980

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1980 1979
Odyssia Gallery, New York NY Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL Bradley University, Peoria IL Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington IL

• Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• 1978

Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston TX Northern Illinois University, Dekalb IL Kentucky State University, Frankfort KY Women's Building, Los Angeles CA Lake Forest College, Lake Forest IL Galleria Odyssia, Rome, Italy (Catalog: Essay by Dennis Adrian) Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston MA Krannert Performing Arts Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL University of Missouri, Kansas City MO
1977 1976

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL

• 1974
• Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheyboyan WI

Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis CA Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA Stephens College, Columbia MO Richard Gray Gallery, ChicagoIL Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY
1973 1972
Wabash Transit Gallery, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

• Madison Art Center, Madison WI
• ( Catalog: essay by Joe Wilfer)

National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago IL Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne IN (Catalog: essay by Donn L Young) B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago IL
1970 1969 1968 1967 1965 1964 1963 1962
Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY Haydon Calhoun Gallery, Houston TX Stewart Rickard Gallery, San Antonio TX Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago IL Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY
1958 1952 1948
Superior Street Gallery, Chicago IL Bordelon's, Chicago IL Carlebach Gallery, New York NY

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• SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
• ELLEN LANYON

• 2011
• “Objects/Objectivity” Ellen Lanyon/Phillip Pearlstein Valerie Carberry Gallery Chicago

“Luminous Ground/Artists With Histories” Illinois State Museum/Chicago Invitational” American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York City NY “On & Of Paper” Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery—Lockport Gallery etc. Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago
2010
Annual Painters Exhibition, The Century Association, New York, NY Summer show, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago

• 2009
• “Eye World” Triple Candie Gallery, New York NY

184^th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY Art Institute of Chicago, Prints & Drawings –Collections Installation Annual Painters Exhibition, The Century Association, New York, NY Annual Painters Exhibition, The Century Association, New York, NY “1968: Art And Politics In Chicago” DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago “Summerset” David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, NY
2008

• 2007
• “8 Women” David Findlay Jr. Gallery New York, NY

“Arcadia” Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NYCurator, Linda Horn “Wet” DFN Gallery NYC NY “Drawings”, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago “Flights of Fantasy”, Printworks, Chicago - Curator, Audrey Neffenegger 182nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, NYC NY “Drawn To The Edge”, Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC NY "Art in Chicago", Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA "Animal House" Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY
2006
"Fine Line", Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY NY “Salute to the National Academy” David Findlay Jr Fine Arts, NY NY "Art of the Bookplate", Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL "Landscape", Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago IL
2005-2007 “Paths To The Press” Organzed by the Beach Museum, Manhattan KS
Traveling to: The McNay, The Block, NWU & Louisiana State Museums

• 2005
• 180th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, NY NY

"John Cain's Side Show", Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago IL "Opulance", Racine Museum of Art, Racine WI

• 2004
• Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY NY

"Out Of The Blue" Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "The Age of Pluralism in Chicago", Northern Indiana Arts Assoc., Munster IN "The Artist As Collector", Northern Indiana Arts Assoc. , Munster IN

• "A Fine Line", National Academy Museum, New York NY
• 2003

"Artists & The Cultivated Landscape" Racine Museum of Art, Racine WI "Challenging Tradition, Women of the Academy" National Academy, New York NY 178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York NY "MADE IN CHICAGO ca. 1970" Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York NY "Natural History", Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago IL "Reflections", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL Members Bienniel: National Academy of Design, New York NY "Black And White", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL
2002 2001 2000
"Chicago Funk: Imagist Art 1950-1975" Whitney Museum at Champion "The Likeness of Being: Self Portraits by 60 Women"D C Moore Gallery, N Y, NY "Exquisite Corpse", Printworks Gallery, Chicago

• 1999
• "Cats and Dogs" organized by Gladys Nilsson & Ellen Lanyon, Jean Albano Gallery

"(Un)becoming", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "The 174th Annual Exhibition" National Academy, New York, NY (catalog)

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1999 1998
"Contemporary Classicism" Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase,NY (catalog) "Primary Colors", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "Collaborations", Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL "The Joe Wilfer Show", Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh NY (catalog)

1997

1997
Selections from the Collection, Krannert Museum, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign IL
"Silver and Gold" Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "Game of Chance" Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL "Small Works" Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL "Eleven for Ninety Seven", Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY "Women and Chicago Imagism" Illinois Art Gallery, State Of Illinois Bldg, Chicago IL (cat.) "Landfall Press/25 Years of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwakee WI
& Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL (catalog)

• 1996
• "Second Sight: Modern Printmaking in Chicago, Block Gallery, NU,Evanston IL (catalog)

"Women and Chicago Imagism", Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (catalog) Julian Pretto Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT New Drawings, Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL "Moderate Fable", Andre Zarre Gallery New York NY "Generations: Chicago Printers And Printmakers", Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Pk, Il "Art In Chicago 1945-95", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL (catalog) "Patchwork", Andre Zarre Gallery New York NY "Self Portraits 1996", Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL

• 1995
• New Drawings: Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL

Lucy Lippard Collection, Bard College, Rhinebeck, New York "Selections From The Toni Gutfreund Collection" Oakton College, Des Plaines IL “ Book As Art VII,” National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (catalog) 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY “The Peaceable Kingdom”, Babcock Gallery, New York NY 55th Anniversary Invitational, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL "The Aesthetics of Athletics" Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine WI "Artists' Sketchbooks: The Intimate Journeys" Curator: Krystyna Wasserman
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washinton DC (catalog)
"Through Thick and Thin”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY "Songs of Retribution" Curator: Nancy Spero, Richard Anderson Gallery, NY, NY "Landscape as Stage", Curator: Raphael Rubenstein, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA "From America's Studio: Drawing New Conclusions", Curator: James Yood
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Gallery, Chicago IL (catalog)
"Face to Face: Self Portraits by Chicago Artists" Curator: Greg Knight, (catalog)
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
1995 1994

1993 1992

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• 1991
• Berland-Hall Gallery, New York NY

Group Show: Print Works Ltd., Chicago IL Solo Press Gallery, New York NY Randall Gallery, St. Louis MO "A Celebration of Prints", New Visions Gallery, Ithaca NY "Burning in Hell", Franklin Furnace, Curator: Nancy Spero, New York NY Two Generations Chicago, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL Broken Rifles, The Cooper Union, New York NY Artists Christmas Cards, Midtown-Payson Gallery, New York NY Julian Pretto / Berland- Hall, New York NY
1990 1989
"For the Birds", Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine WI Recent Acquisitions, Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL 1989 1989

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"Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women",
Traveling exhibit: United States and South America (catalog)
"A Critical Subject: Portraits of Dennis Adrian", Struve Gallery, Chicago IL "Symbolism", Cooper Union , New York NY Curator: Lenore Malen (catalog) "Coming of Age", Madison Art Center, Madison WI (catalog)

• 1988
• "Nature in Art", Pennsylvania Plaza, New York NY Curators: Ronnie Cohen and

Carolla van den Houten
"100 Women's Drawings", Hillwood Gallery, C.W. Post, L. I. University, Greenvale, NY "Collage at N.A.M.E.", N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago IL, Curator: James Faulkner "The Legacy of Surrealism in American Art", Ben Shahn Gallery,
Wm Paterson College, Wayne, NJ (catalog)
"American Herstory: Women and the U.S. Constitution", Atlanta College of Art,
Atlanta GA Curator: Eleanor Tufts (catalog)
"Hothouse", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI "Alice, and Look Who Else, Through the Looking Glass",Steinbaum Gallery, NY NY (cat) "Realism Today - The Rita Rich Collection", Traveling exhibit: National Academy of Design, NY NY., Museum of Art, Smith College, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AK, Northampton, MA Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH (cat)
"Connections Project", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York NY "Made in the U.S.A.: Art from the 50's and 60's", Curator: Sidra Stich, Traveling
University Art Museum, Berkeley, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (catalog)
"Movietone Muse", One Penn Plaza, New York, New York, Curator: Gerald Haggerty " Retrospective Print Exhibition: Berdich, Golub, Lanyon", Printworks, Chicago IL "The American Landscape", Selections from the Metropolitan Life Collection, NY NY "Contemporary Screens", Curator: Virginia Butera, Traveling Exhibit: Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH.; Lowe Art Museum,
1987 1986
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.; Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH.; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (catalog) "The Atelier in America", Invitational, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb IL "Artists Source", Traveling exhibit. Curator: Dan Mills (catalog) "Monumental Space Variations", Penn Plaza, New York NY, Curator: Donald Kuspit "Big Containment", Curator: Josh Kind Northern Illinois University, Dekalb IL 1986 Group Exhibition, Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York NY

• 1985
• "Group Exhibition", Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York NY

"The Figure and the Landscape", Artists Choice Museum, New York NY
Curators: Jack Beal & Judd Tully (catalog)
"Small Works", The Bank of Boston, Boston MA Curator: John Arthur (catalog) "Silhouette", Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York, Curator: George Adams "The Baseball Card Portrait Show", Renaissance Society, University of Chicago "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, N C, Curator: Donald Droll (catalog)
"American Art, American Women", Stanford Museum, Stanford, Connecticut,
Curator: Dorothy Mayhall (catalog)
"Art, Design and the Modern Corporation", National Museum of American Art, "The Folding Image", Yale University, New Haven CT & The National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC. (catalog)
"Romantic Landscape", Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York NY "AdoRnmenTs", Traveling Exhibit: Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York NY (cat.) "American Realism", Glenn C. Janss Collection, Curator: Henry Hopkins, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & National Academy of Design, New York NY (catalog) "Summer Exhibition", Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana IL (catalog)

• "de Libros de Artistas", Bienale Internacionale, C.A.Y.C., Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1984

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• 1984
• "Offset: A Survey of Artists Books", Hera Foundation, Traveling Exhibition (catalog

"Animals, Animals", Stanford Museum, Stanford CT, Curator: Dorothy Mayhall (cat "Olympiad - Summer 1984", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles CA "Collectors Gallery XVII", Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio TX "Paintings and Sculpture Today", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis IN (cat "Selections from the Permanent Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "The Illinois Collection", Richard Gray Collection, Chicago IL1985 "Summer Exhibition", Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana IL "Images On Paper", Art & Arch Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (cat) "A New Look at American Landscape", Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago IL "Alternative Spaces", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL (catalog) "Landfall Press Publications", Landfall Press, Chicago IL
1984
"Screens", Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL
1983

1982
"The Artist and the Quilt",Traveling Exhibition, Curator: Charlotte Robinson (cat.) "20th Century American Watercolors", Independent Curators Traveling Exhibition
Curator: Janice Orseman (catalog)
"Fans", Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL Curator: Ellen Lanyon "Continuity and Change" Independent Artists, Chicago IL (catalog) "International Artists Book Invitational", Buenos Aires, Argentina "Multiples", Curator: Esther Sparks, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL,
National Academy of Design, New York NY, National Museum of American Art Washington, D.C., Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (catalog)
"Windows, Room, Furniture", Cooper Union, New York NY & Japan (catalog) "Realism & Realities: The Other Side of American Painting", Curator: Jeffrey Wechsler,Vorhees Museum, Rutgers University, Newark NJ (catalog) "Selections from the Dennis Adrian Collection",Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago IL, (catalog)
"American Prints 1960-80", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI "The Image of the House", University of Houston, Houston TX "Summer Invitational Exhibition", Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York NY "The American Landscape, Recent Developments", Whitney Museum, Fairfield CT "Carnevale del Teatro", Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy "Words and Images", Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh PA (catalog) "Re-Pages", New England Foundation for the Arts, Traveling Exhibition (catalog) "New Dimensions in Drawing", Curator: Dorothy Mayhall, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT (catalog)
1981 1980 1979 1978
"Animals in the Arsenal", The Arsenal, New York NY "LIS '80", Lisbon International Invitational; American Curator: Donald Kuspit
Lisbon, Portugal, (catalog)
Prizewinners Revisited", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL "Fire & Water", Ridgefield Center for the Arts, Ridgefield CT (catalog) "Mysterious and Magical Realism", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT Curator: Dorothy Mayhall, (catalog) "Black and White Drawings" Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY (catalog) "Artists Books", Parsons School of Design, New York NY "Printmaking in America Illustration" Pratt Graphics, New York NY "The Pastel in America", Odyssia Gallery, New York NY (catalog) "Self Portraits", Madison Art Center, Madison WI "The Watercolor Still Life", Gladstone Villani Gallery, New York NY "The George Irwin Collection", Krannert Art Museum, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana IL "100 Artists, 100 Years", Art Institute, Chicago IL Curator:KatherineKuh (cat.) "Chicago: The City and Its Artists 1945-1978"University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (cat)

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"Great Ideas",The Container Corporation of America, Chicago Cultural Center (cat) "Book Forms", Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH (catalog) "Sports", Queens Museum, Flushing NY

• 1977
• "Critics Choice", Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, Curator: Dennis Adrian

"Artists Choice: Figurative Art in New York" Greenmountain Gallery, New York NY "Figurative Paintings in the Midwest", Madison Art Center, Madison WI (catalog) "Private Images: Photographs by Painters", Los Angeles County Museum, LA,CA (catalog) "Contemporary Women: Consciousness and Content", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY "Recent Works on Paper", Madison Art Center, Madison WI (catalog) "Masterpieces of Chicago Art", Chicago Cultural Center, Curator: Dennis Adrian "Out of the House", Whitney Museum - Downtown, New York NY "The Book as Art", Curator: Daniel Fendrick, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. "Landscape Art In Illinois 1830-1976", Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, Illinois, Traveling Exhibition, (catalog)
1976
"American Artists '76", Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio TX "Hyde Park Art Center Retrospective", H.Y.P.C., Chicago IL (catalog) "America '76", US Department of The Interior Bicentennial Traveling Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D. C. (catalog) "Chicago Connection", E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento CA Traveling (catalog Society For Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL "Foodstuff", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI (catalog) "American Women Printmakers", University of Missouri, St. Louis MO "Still Life", Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago IL (catalog) "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro NC, Curator: Donald Droll (catalog)
1975 1974

• 1973
• "Artists' Books", Moore College, Philadelphia PA

"Chicago Style", Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago IL "National Invitational Drawing Exhibition", Krannert Art Museum,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL
"Works on Paper", Madison Art Center, Madison WI "Landfall Press Prints", Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., Traveling Ex. (catalog) Una Tendenza Americana", Curator: Luigi Carluccio, Galleria Comunale D'Arte, Arezzo, Italy, Traveling Exhibition. (catalog)
1973 1972
"Annual Exhibition", Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL "Chicago Imagists", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, (catalog) "Chicago Imagists", New York Cultural Center, New York NY(catalog) "American Women 20th Century", Lakeview Center, Peoria IL(catalog) "Unmanly Art", Curator: Lucy Lippard Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook NY (catalog) Society For Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL "National Invitational Drawing Exhibition", Southern Illinois Un. Carbondale IL. (catalog) "Each In His Own Way", Curator: Jan van der Marck, FTD Traveling (catalog) "Beyond Illustration", HMH Publishing, Traveling: U.S.A., Europe & the Far East "Acquisitions", University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA "Birds and Beasts", Graham Gallery, New York NY (catalog) "Annual Exhibition", Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL "Acquisitions", University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA "Annual Exhibition", Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL
1971 .1970 1969 1968
"Response", Artists' Protest Exhibition, Chicago IL "Violence", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL (catalog) "Nostalgia", American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition. Curator: Ivan Karp "Illinois Painters", Illinois Arts Council, Traveling Exhibition. (catalog)
1968-69 1968-71