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David Smith | Exhibition History: 1930-1964 | 1965-2007
Exhibition publications are noted only for solo shows and are indicated by an asterisk (*); see Bibliography for additional information. National and international exhibitions tours are noted; specific itineraries provided only for solo shows.

Solo exhibitions are listed first, followed by group exhibitions (designated "group").
1930 Print Club of Philadelphia, Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Block Prints, March 17-April 5. (group)
   
1934 Academy of Allied Art, New York, Winter Exhibition of Paintings by Four Contemporary Artists, January 18-February 10. (group)
   
1937 Boyer Galleries, New York, Group Show. (group)
   
1938 East River Gallery, New York, David Smith: Steel Sculpture, January 19 to February 5.*
   
  Fine Arts Galleries, New York, American Abstract Artists, February 14-28. (group)
  Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration at the Federal Art Gallery, New York, Sculpture Exhibition, March 23-April 16
 

John Wanamaker, New York, Second Annual Membership Exhibition of the American Artists' Congress, May 5-21. (group)

  Onya La Tour Gallery, New York, Summer Group Showing of Painters and Sculptors. (group)
  Municipal Art Society, Municipal Art Galleries, New York, 37th Exhibition, October 25-November 13. (group)
   
1939 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, David Smith.
   
  Riverside Museum, NY, Third Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, and Prints by American Abstract Artists, March 7-26. (group)
  ACA Gallery, New York, Group Show, September 18-30. (group)
   
  New School for Social Research, New York, United American Sculptors Exhibition, February. (group)
  New York Worlds Fair, Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, April 30-October. (group)
   
1940 St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, MN, David Smith, March. (Traveled to University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MI.)
  Neumann/Willard Gallery, New York, David Smith, March 25-April 15.*
  Willard Gallery, New York, Medals for Dishonor by David Smith, November 5-23.*
   
  Bonestell Gallery, New York, Twelve Sculptors, February 2-17. (group)
  Buchholz Gallery, New York, American Sculpture of Today, December 30-January 18, 1941. (group)
   
1941 Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI, Medals For Dishonor, February.
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Medals For Dishonor, November-December.
   
  Buchholz Gallery, New York, Contemporary U.S. Sculpture, January. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints, January 15-February 19. (group)
  Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, Sculptors Guild Traveling Exhibition, February. (group)
  Sculptors' Guild, Village Square, New York, Third Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, April 28-May. (group)
  Albany Institute of History and Art, NY, 6th Annual Exhibition of Artists of the Upper Hudson, May. (group)
  Congress of American Artists, Hotel Commodore, New York, Anti-War Show, June. (group)
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 15 American Sculptors, October 1-29. (group; traveled)
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20th Century Sculptures and Constructions, October 2-26. (group; traveled)
  Buchholz Gallery, New York, Seventy-Five Selected Prints/Small Sculptures, December 8-27. (group)
   
1942 Willard Gallery, New York, Jewelry by David Smith, January.
  Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, David Smith, January 8-28.
   
  Willard Gallery, New York, Group Show, March. (group)
  Sculptors' Guild, Rockefeller Center, New York, Fourth Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, September 15-October 15. (group)
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Artists for Victory, December 7-February 22, 1943. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1942-1943 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, November 24-January 6, 1943. (group)
  Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, Seventh Annual Exhibition--Artists of the Upper Hudson, May. (group)
   
1943 Willard Gallery, New York, David Smith, April 6-May 1.* (solo)
  Willard Gallery, New York, 7 Years, December 6-31. (solo)
   
  Buchholz/Willard Galleries, New York, American Sculpture of Our Time, January 5-23. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, November 23-January 4, 1944. (group)
   
1944 Albany Institute of History and Art, 9th Annual Exhibit of Artists of the Upper Hudson, April 26-June 3. (group)
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art in Progress, May 24-October 15. (group)
   
1945 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, January 3-February 8. (group)
  Buchholz Gallery, New York, Recent Work by American Sculptors, February 6-24. (group)
  Albany Institute of History and Art, Tenth Annual Exhibition of the Artists of the Upper Hudson, April 26-June 3. (group)
  Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY, Ten Masterpieces of Art, November 3-19. (group)
   
1946 American Association of University Women, Biennial Convention, Baker Hotel, Dallas, David Smith, April 13-20. (Circulating exhibition organized by the AAUW and Marian Willard Gallery, New York; traveled to: Gary Public Library, Gary, IN; Fort Wayne Civic Theatre, IN; Worcester Pressed Steel Museum, MA; Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute; East Central State College and Public Library, Ada, OK; City Library, Logan, UT; Provo Public Library, IT; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH; Roosevelt College, Chicago; Michigan State College, East Lansing; Junior Gallery, Louisville, KY; Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, 1946-52.)*
  Buchholz Gallery/Willard Gallery, New York, The Sculpture of David Smith, January 2-26.*
   
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, February 5-13. (group)
  City Art Museum of St. Louis, Origins of Modern Sculpture, March 30-May 1. (group)
  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture: Objects -- Constructions, April 4-May 6. (group)
  Albany Institute of History and Art, 11th Annual Exhibition of Artists of the Upper Hudson, May-June. (group)
  Wildenstein Gallery, New York, Sixth Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Members of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, September 18-October 5. (group)
  The Clay Club Sculpture Center, New York, Sculpture 1946, December. (group)
   
1947 Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, David Smith, opened January 17.
  Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Sculpture and Drawings by David Smith, February 4-25.
  Willard Gallery, New York, David Smith: Sculpture, 1946-1947, April 1-26.*
   
  Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Exhibition of Modern Sculpture, January-February. (group)
  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 142nd Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, January 26-March 2. (group)
  University of Nebraska, Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, 57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, March 2-30. (group)
  Willard Gallery, New York, Selections from the Marion Willard Gallery, March 4-25. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, March 11-April 17. (group)
  Clay Club Sculpture Center, New York, Abstract and Non-Objective Sculpture, October 27-November 29. (group)
  Art Institute of Chicago, Abstract and Surrealist American Art: 58th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, November 6-January 11, 1948. (group)
   
1948 Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, KY, David Smith Medals for Dishonor, November 29-December 18.*
   
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, January 31-March 21. (group)
  Worcester Art Museum, MA, Sculpture at the Crossroads, February 15-March 21. (group)
  Sculptors' Guild, New York, 10th Outdoor Sculptors Exhibition, April. (group)
  Kleeman Gallery, New York, Group Show, May. (group)
   
1949 Willard Gallery, New York, Group Show, January 4-20. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, April 2-May 8. (group)
  Fairmont Park Art Association, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Third Sculpture International Exhibition, May 15-September 11. (group)
  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Modern Sculpture, Ocober 28-November 27. (group)
  American University, Washington, D.C., 19th and 20th Century Sculpture, November 13-December 20. (group)
   
1950 Willard Gallery, New York, David Smith, April 18-May 13.*
   
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, Apr 1-May 28. (group)
  Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA, Works of Art Belonging to Alumnae, June 1950. (group)
  Middelheim Park, Antwerp, Belgium, International Open Air Exhibition, Summer. (group)
  Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA, Post-Abstract Painting 1950--France and America, August 6-September 4. (group)
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Carvers, Modelers, Welders: A Selection of Recent American Sculpture, October 5-26. (group; traveled)
  J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, Midwestern College Art Conference, Sculpture by Panel Members, October 26-28. (group)
   
1951 Willard Gallery, New York, David Smith, March 27-April 21.*
  Bennington College, VT, David Smith, November 16-25.
   
  American University, Washington, D.C., Tradition and Experiment: An Exhibition of Modern Sculpture, January 21-February 15 (exibition organized by the American Federation of the Arts). (group; traveled)
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, Januart 23-March 4. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, March 17-May 6. (group)
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 34 American Artists, June 4-August 30. (group)
  Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, I Bienal de São Paulo, U.S. Representation, October. (group)
  Art Institute of Chicago, 60th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, October 25-December 16. (group)
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, American Sculpture 1951, December 7-February 24, 1952. (group)
   
1952 Willard Gallery and Kleeman Galleries, New York, David Smith: Sculpture and Drawing, April 1-26.*
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Sculpture and Drawings: David Smith, April 12-May 11.*
  Catholic University, Washington, D.C., Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures by David Smith, October 22-November 14.
  Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, David Smith.
   
  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 147th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, January 21-February 24. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, March 13-May 4. (group)
  Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 12th Annual Exhibition, May 7-June 8. (group)
  Sculpture Center, New York, Exhibition: Welded Sculpture, October 6-31. (group)
  Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fairmount Park Association, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Oct 11-Dec 7. (group; traveled)
   
1953 Kootz Gallery, in association with the Willard Gallery, New York, David Smith: New Sculpture, January 26-February 14.*
  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, David Smith, February.
  Catholic University, Washington, D.C., Drawing, Paintings and Sculpture by David Smith, October 22-November 14.
  Willard Gallery, New York, David Smith: Drawings, December 15-30.
   
  Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, March. (group)
  University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, March 1-April 12. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, April 9-May 29. (group)
  Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Douze peintres et sculpteurs american contemporains [Twelve Modern American Painters and Sculptors] (exhibition organized by the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York), April 24-June 7. (group; traveled)
   
1954 Willard Art Gallery, New York, David Smith, January 5-30.*
  Contemporary Arts Center in the Cincinnati Art Museum, David Smith: Sculpture, Drawings, Graphics, May 19-June 13 (exhibition organized by the Cincinnati Modern Art Society).*
   
  Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, 64th Annual Exhibition, February 28-Mar 28. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, March 17-April 18. (group)
  XXVII Venice Biennale, American Representation: 2 Pittori, 3 Scultori [2 Painters, 3 Sculptors], June. (group)
  Art Institute of Chicago, 61st American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, October 21-December 5. (group)
  Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, Plastic and Graphic Expressions by Modern Sculptors, November 11-31. (group)
   
1955 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Watercolors, January 12-February 20. (group)
  San Francisco Museum of Art, Three Contemporary Sculptors, May 19-June 12. (group)
  Towle Silversmiths, Newburyport, MA, Sculpture in Silver from Islands in Time, September. (group; traveled)
   
1956 Willard Gallery, New York, David Smith Sculpture - Drawings, 1954-56, March 6-31.*
   
  Munson-Willliams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Jan 8-29. (group; traveled)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, April 4-June 10. (group)
  Musée Rodin, Paris, Exposition internationale de sculpture contemporaine [International Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture], Summer 1956. (group)
  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, American Sculpture Today, October. (group)
  Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, Monumentality in Modern Sculpture, December 13-January 13, 1957. (group)
   
1957 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, David Smith, September 10-0ctober 20.*
  Fine Arts Associates (Otto M. Gerson), New York, Sculpture by David Smith, September 17-October 12.*
  Widdifield Gallery, New York, David Smith (Sculpture in Silver), October 15-November 2.
   
  Art Institute of Chicago, LXII American Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture, January 17-March 3. (group)
  Albany Institute of History and Art, 20th-Century Moderns, February 1-23. (group)
  Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Irons in the Fire: An Exhibition of Metal Sculpture, October 17-December 1. (group)
  Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Group Show, December. (group)
   
1958 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Nature in Abstraction, January 14-March 16. (group; traveled)
  World's Fair, Brussels, United States Pavilion, April 3-October 30. (group)
  XXIX Biennale di Venezia, U.S. Representation: Lipton, Rothko, Smith and Tobey, June-October. (group)
  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Human Image, October 10-November 23. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, November 11-January 4, 1959. (group)
  Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, December 5-February 8, 1959. (group)
   
1959 The New Gallery, Bennington College, VT, David Smith, opened March 26.*
  French and Company, Inc., New York, David Smith: Paintings and Drawings, September.*
   
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Museum and Its Friends--18 Living American Artists, March 5-April 12, 1959. * (group)
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Recent Sculpture, U.S.A., May 13-August 16. (exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art Junior Council.) (group; traveled)
  Kassel, Germany, Dokumenta II: Skulptur, July 11-October 11. (group)
  Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, V São Paulo Bienal, U.S. Representation: Smith, Guston, Francis, Kadish, Frankenthaler, Goldberg, Kohn, Leslie, Marca-Reilli, Metcalf, Mitchell, Rauschenberg, September 21-December 31 (exhibition organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.) (group)
  Fine Arts Associates, New York, Sculpture & Sculptor's Drawings, September 21-October 10. (group)
   
1960 French & Company, Inc., New York, Sculpture by David Smith, February 17-March 19.*
  Everett Ellin Gallery, Los Angeles, David Smith, Sculpture & Drawings, November 7-December 3.*
   
  Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, Selections: Painting, Sculpture, Summer-Fall. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawing, December 7-January 22, 1961. (group)
   
1961 Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, , David Smith, November 3-24 (exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York; traveled to: The Phillips-Exeter Academy, Exteter, NH, December 1961-February, 1962; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, February-March, 1962; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., April 1962; Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, September 1962; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, October-November 1962; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, January 1963; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, February-March, 1963).
  Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, David Smith: Recent Sculpture, October 10-28.*
   
  Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, October 27-January 7, 1962. (group)
  Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, Paintings and Sculpture from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, January 15-March 5. (group; traveled)
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Art of Assemblage, October 2-November 20. (group; traveled)
  New School for Social Research, New York, Mechanism and Organism, October 5-November 27. (group)
  Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, Spotlight on Sculpture, December-January 1962. (group)
   
1962 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Geometric Abstraction in America, March 20-May 13. (group)
  Fine Arts Pavillion, World's Fair, Seattle, Art Since 1950, April 4-October 21. (group)
  Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, Monumental Sculpture, June-July. (group)
  Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, Sculpture in the City, Summer. (group)
   
1963 State University of New York. Plattsburg, OH, David Smith: Drawings, December 1-22. (exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York; traveled to: Bowling Green State University, OH; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Northern Michigan University, Marquette; Mankato State College, MI; State College of Oswego, NY; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Paterson State College, Wayne, NJ; Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT; Madison Art Association, WI; University of Detroit; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Wichita State University, KS; Fresno State College, CA).*
  Balin-Traube Gallery, New York, David Smith: A Decade of Drawings 1953-63, May 14-June 14.
   
  Art Institute of Chicago, 66th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, January 11-February 10. (group)
  Battersea Park, London County Council, Sculpture in the Open Air; Exhibition of Contemporary British and American Works, May-September. (group)
  Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., Sculptors of Our Time, September 17-October 31. (group)
   
1964 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, David Smith: Sculpture and Drawings, February 1-March 15.*
  The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, David Smith, June 7-July 5.
  Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York, David Smith, October.*
   
  Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at the Tate Gallery, London, '54-'64: Paintings and Sculpture of a Decade, April 22-June 28. (group)
  World's Fair, New York, New York State Pavilion, April 22-June 28. (group)
  Kassel, Germany, Documenta III, Summer. (group)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, December 9-January 31, 1965. (group)
 
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