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Exhibition History
Recent, Current & Future Exhibitions

"The Fields of David Smith," an essay by Candida N. Smith

"Lost" Sculptures
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David Smith | Exhibition History: | 1930-1964 | 1965-1999 | 2000-present |

Solo exhibitions are listed first, in boldface, followed by selected group exhibitions in chronological order. With occasional exceptions, exhibition catalogues and travel itineraries are noted only for solo shows.

To see images of the works by David Smith that were included in a particular exhibition, click on the highlighted exhibition titles.

2000 Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR, David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions, April 18-June 18 (organized by Arts Management Services/American Federation of Arts, New York; traveled to: Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, December 1, 2000-February 18, 2001; Mary and Leigh Block Art Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, March 7-April 26; Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, Connecticut College, New London, June 25-August 26; National Academy of Design Museum, New York, November 27, 2001-January 27, 2002; catalogue)
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, David Smith on the Roof, May 16-late Fall
  Gagosian Gallery, New York, David Smith. The Last Nudes, September 14-October 21 (traveled to Gagosian Gallery, London, January 25-March 3, 2001; catalogue)
  Indianapolis Museum of Art, Crossroads of American sculpture: David Smith, George Rickey, John Chamberlain, Robert Indiana, William T. Wiley, Bruce Nauman, October 14-January 21, 2001 (traveled; catalogue)
  Societe des expositions du palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Voici, cent ans d'art contemporain, November 30-January 28, 2001
   
2001 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, David Smith Ink Drawings from 1957, January 11-February 10 (catalogue)
 

Washburn Gallery, New York, Jackson Pollock and David Smith: Paintings and Sculptures from the 1930s and the 1940s, February 15-March 24 (catalogue)

   
2002 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, September 21-Feb 16, 2003 (traveled, in reduced form, to Knoedler Gallery, New York, November 13, 2003-January 4, 2004; catalogue)
   
2003 École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Chapelle des Petits-Augins, Paris, Dessins de David Smith: un choix d'Alain Kirili [Drawings by David Smith; Selected by Alain Kirili], March 18-April 27 (catalogue)
  American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, A Selection from the Estate: David Smith -- Works on Paper 1952-1960, September 12-November 29
  Acquavella Gallery, New York, 20th Century Sculpture, April 4-May 22
  Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain, El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas [American Abstract Expressionist Works in Spanish Collections], October 7-January 11, 2004
  Danese Gallery, New York, Black/White, November 21-December 19
   
2004 Gagosian Gallery, New York, David Smith, Related Clues: Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture 1931-1964, March 13-April 17 (catalogue)
  IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), Centro Julio González, Spain, David Smith: Dibujante. Entre Eros y Tánatos [David Smith: Draftsman. Between Eros and Thanatos], July 15-September 26 (catalogue)
  Gagosian Gallery, London, Drawings, January 29-March 27
  Donjon de Vez, France, Sculpture Monumentale Américaine
[Monumental American Sculpture]
, July 3-October 30, 2005
  Garth Clark Gallery, New York, Bare Clay: Ceramic Nudes in 20th-Century Art, September 7-October 30
  Sarah Lawrence College, Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Visual Arts Center, Bronxville, New York, Forging New Visions: Teaching the Visual Arts at Sarah Lawrence College, November 5-December 17
  Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Reuniting an Era: Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s, November 12-January 25, 2005
  Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Life Understood, November 20-January 30, 2005
   
2005 Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, David Smith: Drawing + Sculpting, April 16-July 17 (catalogue)
  Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, David Smith: Paintings and Drawings 1955-1958, July 9-August 20 (catalogue)
  Gagosian Gallery, New York, David Smith/Alexander Calder: Large Scale Works, January 22-February 26
  Tucson Museum of Art, Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, January 29-May 5
  National Academy of Design, New York, Surrealism USA, February 17-May 8
  Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Black, March 11-April 23
  Danese Gallery, New York, Works on Paper, April 21-May 27
  Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, Salute to the 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York, September 8-October 29
  ACA Galleries, New York, Continuum: Celebrating the 130th Anniversary of the Arts Students League of New York, October 15-November 26
  Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France, École de New York: Expressionisme abstrait américaine, oeuvres sur papier [New York School: American Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper] , December 8-March 5, 2006
   
2006 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, David Smith: A Centennial, February 3-May 14 (traveled to: Museé national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 14-August 21; and Tate Modern, London, November 1-January 21, 2007; catalogue)
  Gagosian Gallery, New York, David Smith: Personage, March 10-April 15 (traveled to Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, November 2-December 9; catalogue)
  Knoedler & Company, New York, Seeing David Smith: Photographs by Dan Budnik, March 18-May 26 (traveled to Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, June 16-July 16; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, December 2-February 25, 2007; catalogue)
  American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, David Smith: Sprays, September 8-November 17
  Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, Archival to Contemporary: Six Decades of the Sculptors Guild, January 30-April 8
  Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, Toward a New American Cubism, May 16-July 7
  The Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Film, Music, and Video, July 14-Sepember 10
  Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Coming of Age: American Art, 1950s to 1950s, September 9-January 7, 2007 (traveled nationally and internationally)
  Washburn Gallery, New York, The Picasso Influence in Pollock, Rothko and Smith, October 1-November 30
  Paul Kasmin Gallery & Edelman Arts, Inc., New York, Surrealism: Then and Now, October 11-November 11
   
2007 Art Basel Miami, Miami, David Smith, Object and Image: Small Paintings 1954-1958, December 6-9 (organized by Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles; traveled to Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, February 2-March 8, 2008; catalogue)
  Waqas Wajahat in association with Ingrao Gallery, New York, Landscape: Form and Thought, May 3-July 14
  The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of The Contemporary Museum, May 19-August 12
  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century. Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Centennial of Paul Mellon's Birth, September 18-January 13, 2008
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 18-February 3, 2008
  Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, "Don’t Look,” Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection (Martina Yamin, Class of 1958), September 19-December 9
  Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, 1937: Perfektion und Zerstörung [1937: Perfection and Destruction], September 30-January 13, 2008
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "Abstract Expressionist Drawings," November 1-February 3, 2008
  Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, The Luther W. Brady Collection at the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, November 27-April 3, 2008
   
2008 Gagosian Gallery, New York, David Smith: Sprays, January 17-February 23 (catalogue)
  Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, David Smith: Working Surface -- Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures 1932-1962, June 1-September 20 (traveled to Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany, February 1-May 4, 2009; catalogue)
  The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects, February 9-May 25
  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Collecting Collections: Highlights from The Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 10-May 19
  Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, An Educated Eye: The Princeton University Art Museum Collection, February 22-June 15
  Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Beyond the Grasp: Sculpture Transcending the Physical, March 13-August 31
  The Jewish Museum, Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, May 4-September 21 (traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum, October 17-January 25, 2009, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, February 27-May 31, 2009.
  National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man," June 6-September 7
  Art Institute of Chicago, Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage; Five Families Build Collections of Works on Paper for the Art Institute of Chicago, June 14-September 14
  The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, June 29-September 14
  Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Modernist Sculpture: The Teresa and Alvin S. Lane Collection, July 19-September 28
  Haunch of Venison, New York, Abstract Expressionism -- A World Elsewhere, September 12-November 12
  Gagosian Gallery, Moscow, "For What You Are About to Receive," September 18-October 25
  Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, In Pursuit of the Masters: Stories from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, September 20-January 4, 2009.
  Gagosian Gallery, New York, Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, September 23-December 20
  Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France, 1945-1949: Repartir à zero, comme si la peinture n'avait jamais existé, October 24-February 2, 2009
   
2009 Washburn Gallery, New York, The Cedar Bar, January 15-March 14
  Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, Geometry as Image, January 16-March 21
  Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Photography in the Abstract, January 17-March 7
  The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Acquisitions Since 2002, January 23-May 3
  Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time, January 24-May 24, 2009.
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1960-1989, January 30-April 19, 2009.
  Institut Valenciá d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain, La Escultura en la Coleccion del IVAM, February 5-May 3, 2009.
  Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, Marble, February 12-May 16, 2009.
   
   

 

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