ELLSWORTH KELLY

Born: Newburgh, N.Y., 1923

Education: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1941–42
Boston Museum School, 1946–48

Currently lives and works in upstate New York.


Selected One-Person Exhibitions:

2012
Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

2011
Reliefs 2009-2010, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Black and White Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: Black & White, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Will travel to Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Will travel to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (catalogue)

2010
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, Calif.
Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1954-62, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England. Traveled to the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

2009
Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonal, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1959–1962, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2008
Ellsworth Kelly Plant Lithographs, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2007
Ellsworth Kelly: The Rivers, Gemini G.E.L at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
Focus: Ellsworth Kelly, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Front Room: Ellsworth Kelly, Baltimore Museum of Art
Ellsworth Kelly in Resonance: Selections from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art

2006
Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly, Axa Gallery, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: New Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Drawings on a Bus—Sketchbook 23, 1954, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly in St Ives, Tate St Ives, St Ives, England
Ellsworth Kelly, The Serpentine Gallery, London

2005
Ellsworth Kelly: Tablet, The Menil Collection, Houston
Kelly In Color, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich. Traveled to the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; Tate Gallery, St Ives, England, and AXA Gallery, New York

2004
Ellsworth Kelly: Lithographs, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Ellsworth Kelly: New Editions, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York

2003
Ellsworth Kelly: Matrix and Ellsworth Kelly: Self-Portrait Drawings, 1944–1992, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogues)
Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Calif.. Traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

2002
Ellsworth Kelly, In-between Spaces, Works 1956–2002, Fondation Beyeler, Basel (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Tablet 1948–1973, The Drawing Center, New York. Traveled to Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (catalogue)
Selected Work by Ellsworth Kelly from St. Louis Collections, Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis

2001
Relief Paintings 1954–2001, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1999
Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings 1948–1955, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Traveled to High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Art Institute of Chicago; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Spectrums, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Five Decades of Line, Form, and Color, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Del.
Ellsworth Kelly, "Sculpture for a Large Wall" and Other Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Twentieth Century Sculpture in the White House: A View from Denver, organized by the Denver Art Museum, Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Ellsworth Kelly, Drawings 1960–1962, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1998
Ellsworth Kelly: On the Roof, The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Berlin Panels, Paul-Löbe-Haus, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Prints, Boston University Art Gallery. Traveled to New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Conn.; Newcomb Gallery of Art, Tulane University, New Orleans; and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Neb. (catalogue)
Four Paintings: Black with Color, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Ellsworth Kelly, New Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1997
American Embassy, Paris

1996
Ellsworth Kelly, Black and White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis
Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate Gallery, London; and Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1995
Ellsworth Kelly, Colored Paper Images 1976–77: The Creative Process, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1994
Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House, Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Paintings, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London. Traveled to Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Works from the Permanent Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum
Ellsworth Kelly, The Process of Seeing, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Eli Broad Family Foundation Exhibition, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif.

1993
New Displays: Ellsworth Kelly, Tate Gallery, London
Ellsworth Kelly Prints, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Ellsworth Kelly Editions, Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis

1992
Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France, 1948–1954, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris. Traveled to Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Munster, and National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings and Sculpture, Laura Carpenter Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.
Ellsworth Kelly: The Paris Prints, 1964–1965, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York (catalogue)
The Documenta Room, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Ellsworth Kelly: Installation, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1991
Ellsworth Kelly: At Right Angles, 1964–66, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. Traveled to John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Two Lithographic Suites 1964–65, Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton, N.Y.
Ellsworth Kelly: A Historical Selection: 1965–1988, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Ellsworth Kelly (Wall Reliefs), Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonals and Colored Panels 1970–1990, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Ellsworth Kelly: Wall Reliefs, Jack Glenn Gallery, Los Angeles

1990
Kelly: Portraits at Gemini G.E.L., Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints 1949–1989, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: Eleven Painted Wall Sculptures, Gallery Kasahara, Osaka (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Yellow Curve, Portikus, Frankfurt (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Painting and Sculpture, 65 Thompson Street, New York
Artist's Choice: Ellsworth Kelly, Fragmentation and the Single Form, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Portraits, Castelli Graphics, New York (catalogue)

1989
Ellsworth Kelly: Courtyard Installation, The Art Institute of Chicago
Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper, Overholland Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Curves/Rectangles, Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (catalogue)

1988
Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Prints, Castelli Graphics, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: New Work, Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: New Work, Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
The Eli Broad Family Foundation Exhibition, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif.

1987
Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., in conjunction with Ellsworth Kelly: Seven Paintings (1952¬–55/1987), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Both traveled to Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Baltimore Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. (catalogues)
Ellsworth Kelly: A Print Retrospective, The Detroit Institute of Arts. Traveled to Huntsville Museum of Art, Ala.; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, N.Y.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, Okla.; Berskhire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass.; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.; and Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Coral Leaf Drawings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: Small Sculpture 1958–1987, Bakalar Sculpture Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass. (catalogue)

1986
Ellsworth Kelly, Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Ellsworth Kelly, Sculpture, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York (catalogue)

1985
Ellsworth Kelly, New Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: New Wall Reliefs, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: Painted Wall Sculptures, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, N.Y.
Ellsworth Kelly Prints, Ann Weber Gallery, Georgetown, Maine

1984
Weathering Steel Wall Sculpture, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Painted Aluminum Wall Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Painted Wall Sculpture/Graphics, Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Chicago
Ellsworth Kelly: Works in Wood, Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1982
Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly at Gemini: 1979–1982, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Painted Wall Sculptures; The Concorde Series, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Ellsworth Kelly: Painted Wall Sculptures, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Steel Sculpture, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
Ellsworth Kelly: New Wall Relief Sculptures, Castelli Graphics, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: New Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York

1981
Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Plant Drawings, Castelli Uptown, New York
Paintings and Sculpture, Blum Helman Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Major Paintings and Sculpture, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles

1980
Paperworks by Ellsworth Kelly, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo

1979
Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Painting and Sculpture 1963–1979, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Traveled to Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Lithographien, Galerie Maeght, Zurich
Ellsworth Kelly Prints 1978–80, Castelli Graphics, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Blum Helman Gallery, New York

1978
Ellsworth Kelly: Twelve Leaves, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Colored Paper Images, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977
Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Colored Paper Images, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York

1976
Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Sculptures, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston

1975
Ellsworth Kelly: Matrix, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Sculptures, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: Gray Series, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Ellsworth Kelly: Steel and Aluminum Sculpture, Ace Gallery, Venice, Calif.
Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York

1973
Ellsworth Kelly, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and The Detroit Institute of Arts (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Chatham Series, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles
Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings and Prints, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings, Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
Ellsworth Kelly: Curved Series, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1972
The Chatham Series: Paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Galerie Renée Ziegler, Geneva
Ellsworth Kelly Paintings, Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

1971
Recent Paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Galerie René Ziegler, Geneva
Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis (catalogue)

1970
Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (catalogue)

1968
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Four Paintings and One Sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles

1967
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
A Suite of Twelve Lithographs by Ellsworth Kelly, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles

1966
New Work by Ellsworth Kelly, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Venice Biennale

1965
Kelly: Twenty-Seven Lithographs, Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris (catalogue)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
An Exhibition of Recent Lithography Executed in France by the Artist Ellsworth Kelly, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles

1964
Galerie Maeght, Paris (catalogue)

1963
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings by Ellsworth Kelly, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. Traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (catalogue)
Ellsworth Kelly: Painting and Sculpture, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

1962
Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd., London (catalogue)

1961
Kelly, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

1959
Ellsworth Kelly: Painting and Sculpture, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

1958
Galerie Maeght, Paris (catalogue)

1957
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

1956
Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings 1951–1956, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

1951
Kelly Peintures & Reliefs, Galerie Arnaud, Paris


Selected Group Exhibitions

2011
Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago
Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, Calif.
High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and 1970s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.
Contemporary Collections (From 1960 to Present), Centre Pompidou, Paris
September 11, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, New York
Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Art at the Origin: The Early 1960s, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Ma.
Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago

2010
Focus on Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Ellsworth Kelly, L'Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome (catalogue)
American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex.
Abstract Resistance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Monet and Abstraction, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
The Shape of Abstraction, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago
Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
On the Mark: Contemporary Works on Paper, Baltimore Museum of Art
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
From Line to Plane, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Drawing in Progress, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England
Men on Madison, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York

2009
Cézanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nueva York. El papel de las ultimas vanguardias, Museum de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings—Acquisitions since 2002,
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Classic Contemporary: Lichtenstein, Warhol & Friends, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas
Three. The Triptych in Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Matisse and The Abstraction: The Abstract Legacy of Matisse to the United States and Back, 1948–1968, Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
Selections from the Frances and John Bowes Collection, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, N.H.
Chance Aesthetics, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
The Modern Wing, The Art Institute of Chicago
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Focus on Artists: Selections from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2008
Face to Face, Part 2, The Daros Collection, Zürich
Attention to Detail, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York
Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from the MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Drawn Together, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York

2007
Five Works in Bronze: Darren Almond, Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Willem de Kooning, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Tate Liverpool
Ellsworth Kelly: The Rivers, Gemini G.E.L at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
In Monet's Garden: The Lure of Giverny, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Making Visible the Invisible: Abstract Art from MMoCA's Permanent Collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wis.
Water, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
Taking Shape, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York
Think With the Senses–Feel With the Mind, Venice Biennale
Paper, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
UBS Openings: Drawings from the UBS Art Collection, Tate Modern, London
Minimalism/Postminimalism: Selections from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Foundation, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.
Current, Robischon Gallery, Denver
Olga Hirschorn Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
French Kiss, JGM Galerie, Paris
Contemporary Prints: Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, and Others, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Va.
What is a Line? Drawings from the Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Modern Masters from the Chris Burmeister Collection, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Modern American Masters, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Calif.
Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville

2006
Small Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Graphics by 20th Century Masters from the Cochran Collection, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Fla.
redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ellsworth Kelly in Resonance: Selections from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Plane/Figure: Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Fogg Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass.
The Guggenheim Collection, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Contemporary (Re)Define, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
New York, New York: 50 Years of Art, Architecture, Photography, Film, and Video, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Le noir est une couleur, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France
Cézanne: mythe et pélerins, Galerie d'Art du Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône, Aix-en-Provence, France
Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Recent Drawings: Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Ken Price, Charles Ray, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2005
Theme and Variation: Twentieth Century Master Prints, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Quartet: Johns, Kelly, Mitchell, Motherwell, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Drawing from the Modern, 1945–1975, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Minimalism and Beyond, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
Les ateliers de la modernité, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France
L'action restreinte, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Sets, Series and Suites: Contemporary Prints, Torf Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Color Pattern Grid, Austin Museum of Art

2004
Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
Fresh Works on Paper, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, James Kelly Contemporary, Sante Fe, N.Mex.

2003
Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

2002
Henri Matisse/Ellsworth Kelly: Dessins de plantes, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, and Inverleith House, Edinburgh (catalogue)
Painting on the Move: A Century of Contemporary Painting 1900–2000, Kunstmuseum Basel

2001
Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2000
Correspondences: Isamu Noguchi and Ellsworth Kelly, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York
Tate Modern Collection 2000, Tate Modern, London
Color/Light, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Pasted Pictures: Collage and Abstraction in the Twentieth Century, Knoedler & Company, New York (catalogue)

1999
Willem de Kooning, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Lucian Freud, Katharina Fritsch, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Cézanne and Modernism, Fondation Beyeler, Basel

1998
Travel & Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

1997
The Artists of the Castelli Gallery 1957–1997, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1996
Abstraction in the Twentieth Century, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
Continuity and Contradictions: A New Look at the Permanent Collection,
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Calif.(catalogue)
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C. (catalogue)

1995
La tradición de lo nuevo: Obtas maestras de la colección Guggenheim 1945–1990, Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue)
Matrix is 20!, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Revolution: Art of the Sixties from Warhol to Beuys, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (catalogue)

1994
Art américain: Les années 60–70, Museé d'Art Moderne–La Terasse, Sainte-Étienne, France
Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, N.Y.

1993
A Private View: Artists' Photographs, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Indiana, Kelly, Martin, Rosenquist, Youngerman at Coenties Slip, Pace Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Amerikanische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert: Malerei und Plastik 1913–1933,
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalogue)
Copier créer: De Turner à Picasso: 300 oeuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, Louvre Museum, Paris (catalogue)
Rolywholyover: A Circus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
(catalogue)
Pflanzenwelten-Blütenträume. Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse,
Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Stiftung Jean Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp Bahnhof, Rolandseck, Germany (catalogue)
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York (catalogue)

1992
Documenta IX, Kassel (catalogue)

1991
Geometries of Color: American Post-Painterly Abstraction, Stux Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Carl Andre, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Long: Bronze, Steel, Stone, Wood: Three Installations of Sculpture, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
La sculpture contemporaine après 1970, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musée Temporaire, Fréjus, France (catalogue)
The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Traveled to Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Calif.; Lehman College, New York; Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, Va.; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago (catalogue)

1990
Five Artists from Coenties Slip: 1956–1965, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Classic Modernism: Six Generations—Mondrian, Albers, Newman, Kelly, Ryman, Halley, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

1989
Abstraction Geometry Painting: Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo. Traveled to Center for Fine Arts, Miami; Milwaukee Art Museum; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. (catalogue)

1988
Aspects of Collage, Assemblage and the Found Object in Twentieth-Century Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Rot Gelb Blau: Die Primärfarben in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland (catalogue)
La couleur seule: L'expérience du monochrome, Musée St. Pierre, Lyon, France (catalogue)

1986
After Matisse, Queens Museum, New York. Traveled to Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va.; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Fla.; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio; and Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass. (catalogue)
The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (catalogue)
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945–1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1985
A Second Talent: Painters and Sculptors Who Are also Photographers, The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Conn. Traveled to Baruch College Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910–1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela; and Museu de Arte de São Paulo (catalogue)
Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)

1984
La Grande Parade. Highlights in Painting after 1940, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)

1983
ARS 83 Helsinki, Helsinki Ateneum, Helsinki (catalogue)

1982
The New York School: Four Decades, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
Contructivism and the Geometric Tradition: Selections for the McCrory Corporate Collection, Denver Art Museum. Traveled to San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Tex.; New Orleans Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; Indianapolis Museum of Art; and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (catalogue)

1981
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Paris 1937–Paris 1957: Créations en France, Centre Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
Amerikanische Malerei: 1930–1980, Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)

1980
The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Twenty American Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)

1979
Thirty-sixth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
The Decade in Review, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1978
Grids: Format and Image in Twentieth-Century Art, Pace Gallery, New York. Traveled to Akron Art Institute, Ohio (catalogue)

1977
Paris–New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
Documenta VI, Kassel (catalogue)

1976
Aspects of Postwar Painting in America, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio (catalogue)
Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, and Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany (catalogue)

1975
Monumental Sculpture, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston
Sculpture: American Directions, 1945–1975, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
American Art since 1945 from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

1974
Nine Artists/Coenties Slip, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York
Johns, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Motherwell, Nauman, Rauschenberg, Serra, Stella: Prints from Gemini G.E.L., Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (catalogue)

1973
Maîtres de l'abstraction américaine aujourd'hui, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

1971
Structure of Color, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

1970
Color, Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles (catalogue)
L'art vivant aux États-Unis, Fondation Maeght, St-Paul-de-Vence, France (catalogue)

1969
New York 13, Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)
New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)

1968
Documenta IV, Kassel (catalogue)
Art of the Real, 1948–1968, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Serial Imagery, Pasadena Art Museum, Calif. (catalogue)

1967
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
American Painting Now, Expo 67, United States Pavilion, Montreal (catalogue)
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Guggenheim International Exhibition, 1967: Sculpture from Twenty Nations, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)

1966
Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, The Jewish Museum, New York (catalogue)
Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Jules Olitski, Venice Biennale. Traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Systemic Painting, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
Two Decades of American Painting, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (catalogue)

1965
The Responsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

1964
Post-Painterly Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Art Gallery of Toronto (catalogue)
Documenta III, Kassel (catalogue)
American Drawings, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
American Contemporary Drawings, New York State Pavilion, World's Fair, New York (catalogue)
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)

1963
Twenty-eighth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Toward a New Abstraction, The Jewish Museum, New York, (catalogue)
New Directions in American Painting, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, N.Y. (catalogue)

1962
Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (catalogue)
Art since 1950: American and International, World's Fair, United States
Pavilion, Seattle (catalogue)

1961
American Abstract Painters, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London (catalogue)
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)

1960
Modern Classicism, David Herbert Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1959
Sixteen Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1958
American Art: Four Exhibitions, United States Pavilion, World's Fair, Brussels (catalogue)
Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)

1957
Young America 1957, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

1956
Recent Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

1953
Exposición internacional de arte abstracto, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santander, Spain

1952
Tendance, Galerie Maeght, Paris (catalogue)

1951
6ème salon des réalities nouvelles, Salon des Réalities Nouvelles, Paris (catalogue)
75th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Galerie Maeght, Paris

1950
Premier salon des jeunes peintres, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris (catalogue)
5ème salon des réalities nouvelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (catalogue)

1948
Boris Mirski Art Gallery, Boston (catalogue)