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Alfonso Ossorio (1916 — 1990)



Life Dates
Born 1916, Manila, Philippines
Died 1990, East Hampton, NY

Selected Museum Collections

Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Holland
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Southampton College, NY
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
L’Art Brut Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Munich Modern Art Museum, Munich, Germany
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greenboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Solo Exhibitions

1941   Alfonso Ossorio, Drawings and Watercolors, Wakefield Gallery,
New York, NY
1945   Watercolors by Alfonso Ossorio, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, NY
1951   Alfonso Ossorio, Michel Tapie, Studio Paul Fachetti, Paris, France
Alfonso Ossorio, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1953   Alfonso Ossorio, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1956   Alfonso Ossorio, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1958   Alfonso Ossorio, Robert Keene Gallery, Southampton, New York, NY
Alfonso Ossorio, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1959   Alfonso Ossorio, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1960   Alfonso Ossorio, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
1961   Alfonso Ossorio, Cordier-Stadler, Frankfurt, Germany
Ossorio: A Selection 1941-1961, Cordier & Warren Gallery, New York, NY
Alfonso Ossorio, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
Alfonso Ossorio, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1963   Alfonso Ossorio, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1965   Alfonso Ossorio, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1967   Alfonso Ossorio, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1968   Works of Alfonso Ossorio, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Southampton, NY
Alfonso Ossorio, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1969   Alfonso Ossorio, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1972   Alfonso Ossorio, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1973   Garden Sculpture by Alfonso Ossorio, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1974   Alfonso Ossorio, Selection of Works, 1940-1971, Berkeley Center, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
Alfonso Ossorio, Tower Gallery, Southampton, NY
Alfonso Ossorio, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
1980   Alfonso Ossorio, 1940-1980, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Alfonso Ossorio, Tower Gallery, Southampton, NY
Selected Works: 1940-1980, Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1982   Alfonso Ossorio, Recent Watercolors, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY
1984   Bioscapes, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1985   Could I Ask You Something? Etchings for the Lewis Thomas Book Golden Legend Inc., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Alfonso Ossorio, Works on Paper/Constructions 1981-1985, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991   Alfonso Ossorio, 1916-1990, Jennifer Pinto & Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Alfonso Ossorio: The Victorias Drawings, 1950, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Springs, NY
Alfonso Ossorio, Works from 1934-1990, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1992   Alfonso Ossorio, Peintures 1950-53, Zabriskie Galerie, Paris, France
Alfonso Ossorio, Drawings 1940-48: The Anatomy of a Surrealist, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1993   Alfonso Ossorio, Works from the 1960s, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
1995   Alfonso Ossorio, Sculpture from the 1960s, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
The Recovery Drawings of Alfonso Ossorio, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1996   Reflection & Redemption: Alfonso Ossorio, The Surrealist Decade, 1939-1949, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1997   Alfonso Ossorio: Congregations, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Alfonso Ossorio: The Shingle Figures, 1962-63, Michael Rosenfeld, Gallery, New York, NY
1998   Alfonso Ossorio: Master Prints, 1932-1990, Ossorio Foundation, Southampton, NY
Alfonso Ossorio: The Child Returns, 1950-Philippines, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1999   Alfonso Ossorio: The Dance: Ballet and Costume Designs, 1935-48, Ossorio Foundation, Southampton, NY
2000   Alfonso Ossorio: The Creeks: Before, During And After, Ossorio Foundation, Southampton, NY
2001   ROAD: Alfonso Ossorio’s Response to Jackson Pollock’s Death, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY
Synergy: Alfonso Ossorio & Jackson Pollock, 1950-1951, Ossorio Foundation, Southampton, NY
2002   Horror Vacui, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2003   Alfonso Ossorio: The Dance: Ballet and Costume Designs, 1935-48, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
2007 Alfonso Ossorio: Masterworks from the Collection of the Robert U. Ossorio Foundation, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

1940    Contemporary Religious Art, Georgette Passedolt Gallery,
New York, NY
Flower Paintings by New England Artists, George R. Shaw Galleries,
Boston, MA
1950   Christmas Show, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1952   Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1953   Exhibition of Contemporary Religious Art, The Church of the Ascension, New York, NY
Selection from 12 East Hampton Collections, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
17 East Hampton Artists, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, NY
1954   7th Annual Art Exhibition, Art Association of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines
15 Artists of the Region, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, NY
Rive Droite, Paris, France
1955   4th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Ten Years, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1956   An Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, Executive House Gallery, New York, NY
The 2nd in a Series of Exhibitions of Paintings & Sculpture, Executive House Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1957   Opening Exhibition, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Artists of the Region, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Italian and American Artists, New York Art Foundation, Rome, Italy
The 6th in a Series of Exhibitions of Painting & Sculpture, Executive House Gallery, New York, NY
A Review of the Season, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Figure & Vision: The 7th in a Series of Exhibitions of Painting & Sculpture, Executive House Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1958   Vision of A Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Artist’s Vision: 1948-1958, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Human Image, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
An International Selection, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1959   Recent Gifts and Purchases, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Arte Nouva, Palazzo Graneric, Torino, Italy
Art: USA:59, A Force, a Language, a Frontier, American Art Expositions, New York, NY
The Animate Space, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
3rd Exhibition 1959, A Selection of Painting and Sculpture, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Ossorio: Paintings & Collages, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1960   New Forms, New Media, Junk Art, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Gutai, International Sky Festival, Osaka, Japan
Form Strukter Bedetuntg, Stadtische Galerie, Munich (Lenbachpalais), Germany
Second Exhibition 1960, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Third Exhibition 1960, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1961   New New York Scene, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Carnegie International, London, England
The Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Paintings and Sculpture, Cordier and Warren Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Paintings Selected from 1960-61 New York Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1962   Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Strutture E Stile, Galerie Civita d’Arte Moderna, Torino, Italy
East Hampton Collectors, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1963   Drawings and Sculpture, Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY
Toys by Artists, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1964   Cinquante Ans de Collages, Musee d’Art ed de l’industrie, Paris, France; Documenta III, Kassel, Germany
For Eyes & Ears, Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY
Festival of the Arts Exhibition, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Artists Select, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
1965   12th Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Art of the U.S., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1966   Hommage a Caussa, Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY
Soloists, Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY
Contemporary American Sculpture-Selection I, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
26th Annual Exhibition Society for Contemporary American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
7 Decades 1895-1965, Crosscurrents in Modern Art, Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY
Feast and Famine, Permanent Collection Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1967   Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Collage, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
Toys Old and New, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Campo Vitale, Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
The Little Show, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Artists of the Region, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1968   The Door, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY; Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY
Betty Parsons’s Private Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
New Art USA, Baroque – Minimal, Munich Modern Art Museum, Munich, Germany
Painting and Sculptures to Benefit Israel Emergency Fund, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY
Splash! Fountains by 11 Sculptors of the Region, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1968 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1969   Human Concern, Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture to Benefit Israel Emergency Fund, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY
The New American Painting and Sculpture: First Generation, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
French, American and Mexican Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY
Blocked Metaphors, Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY
1970   Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Jewelry, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY
Artists of Suffolk County, Part II, The Abstract Tradition, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1971   Regards, Galerie Messine, Paris, France
Spirit 1, Intimate Selections of the American, Willard Gallery, New York, NY
Inner Spaces, Outer Limits, Myth and Myth Makers, Compass Gallery, New York, NY; Lerner-Misrachi Gallery, New York, NY
Open Air Sculpture by Artists of the Region, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
20th Century Painting & Sculpture from New York University, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1972   Summer of ’72, Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1974   Twelve Artists, Tower Gallery, Southampton, NY
Then and Now, Artists of the Region: Early and Late Works, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1975   Artists of the Hamptons: Paintings and Sculpture, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, NY
Martha Jackson Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1976   Long Island Sculptors, Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College, State University of New York, Garden City, NY
30th Anniversary: Artists of the First 10 Years, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
23rd Annual Art Auction to benefit the Women’s Campaign United, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, NY
Exhibition of Liturgical Arts, 41st International Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA
Artists and East Hampton: A 100 Year Perspective, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Part II Inaugural Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the New York Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
The Object as Poet, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1977   30 Years of American Art, 1945-1075, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
6th Annual Group Show, Tower Gallery, Southampton, NY
Fall 1997: Contemporary Collectors, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Contemporary Religious Art, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
1980   Selections from a Growing Permanent Collection, Housatonic Museum of Art, Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT
Fire & Water: Paper as Art, The Visionary’s Tool for Transformation, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
17 Abstract Artists of East Hampton: The Pollock Years 1945-56, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Portraits Real and Imagined, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1981   East Hampton/New York: New York Museum Salute Guild Hall, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. Gallery, New York, NY
Classic Americans, XX Century Painters & Sculptors, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, CT
1982   Found Objects, Marisa Del Re, New York, NY
Twenty-five Artists, Phoenix II, Washington, DC
American Artists Abroad 1900-1982, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
Poets and Artists, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Androgyny in Art, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
1983   Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greenboro, NC
The Fertility Imperative, Cocalon Gallery, New York, NY
Matthew Hamilton Inaugural Exhibition, Matthew Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
30th Annual Art Auction: Benefit United Jewish Appeal-Federation, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, NY
The Sculptor as Draftsman, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Fragment/Fragmentary/Fragmentation, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
1984   20th Century American Drawing: The Figure in Context, International Exhibits Foundation, Washington, DC
Calligraffiti, Leila Taghinia-Milani Gallery, New York, NY
Some Major Artists of The Hamptons, Then & Now, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Exhibition, Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Out of Context, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
Collision, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1985   Eight Modern Masters, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
Connections, Leila Taghinia-Milani Gallery, New York, NY
30 Ans de Reontres, Derecheridies, de Partis Pris, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
1986   Other Gods: Containers of Belief, New York, NY, Washington, DC; New Orleans, LA; Los Angeles, CA
Jung and Abstract Expressionism: The Collective Image among Individual Voices, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
The 1950s, American Artists in Paris, Part III, Denise Cade Gallery, Art Prospect, Inc., New York, NY
Repulsion: Aesthetics of the Grotesque, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Winter Exhibit, Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Elders of the Tribe, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1987   Hamptons in Winter, Gallery International 52, New York, NY
Assemblage, Kent Fine Art, Gallery, New York, NY
20th Century Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
20th Annual Springs Invitational Show, Ashawagh Hall, Springs, NY
The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Contemporary American Collage 1960-1986, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1988   Drawing on the East End, 1940-1988, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1989   Donations Daniel Cordier, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1990   Magicite Informelle, Galerie 16, Paris, France
Watercolors from the Abstract Expressionist Era, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
13th Anniversary, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
East Hampton Avant-Garde, A Salute to the Signa Gallery, 1957-1960, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Three Generations, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
Long Island Collects, The Figure & Landscape, 1870s–1980s, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
1991   The Nude: Drawings of the Figure by New York School Artists, Twining Gallery, New York, NY
Aspects of Collage, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
On Paper, Of Paper, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
Black and White, Renee Fotouhi Fine Arts East, East Hampton, NY
1992   Paths to Discovery, The New York School, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University, New York, NY
Personages, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
Mssr. B’s Curio Shop, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Kunsthalle, Basil, Switzerland
1993   Multiples, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
The Collection: Abstract Expressionism, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
On Paper: The Figure in 20th Century American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Lines & Myths: Abstraction in American Art, 1941-45, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1994   Reclaiming Artists of the New York School: Toward a More Inclusive View of the 1950s, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY
Michel Tapie: Un Art Autre, Artcurial, Paris, France
Counterpoints: American Art 1930-1945, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
On Paper/Of Paper, Arlene Bejuse Gallery, East Hampton, NY
In Memory of a Friendshi: A Collaboration Between Dr. Lewis Thomas and Alfonso Ossorio, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
American Fantastica: Surrealism in American, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
In Memory of Douglas Morse Howell, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
1995   Accrochage, Zabriskie Gallery, Paris, France
Multiples, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1996   20 Years of Collecting Art at the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC
Mother and Child: A Contemporary View, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Milieu: Part II, Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY
1997   Dark Images, Bright Prospects: The Survival of the Figure After World War II, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Facets of the Figure, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Surrealism in American Art: 1932-1949, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Between, Selections from the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1998   The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
The Sixties and Seventies, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
Essence of the Orb, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Sea Change, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Surrealist Drawings, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Gifts for a New Century, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
L’Art Brut, de la clandestine a la consecration, Museum of Ethnography, Geneva, Switzerland; Shillermuseum, Germany; Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
Twentieth Century American Drawings, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK; Sunrise Museums, Charleston, WV; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
1999   Shaping a Generation: The Art and Artists of Betty Parsons, Hechscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Linear Impulse, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, TN
Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Cape Museum of Fine Art, Cape Denis, MA
The Surrealists in Exile and the Origin of the New York School, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“As America As…”: 100 Works from the Collection of the Parrish Art Museum and Keith Sonnier: Tri-Parrish, Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Postmodern Transgressions: Artists Working Beyond the Frame, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Impossible Landscapes of the Mind, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
2000   From the Molecular to the Galactic: The Art of Max Ernst and Alfonso Ossorio, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
The Hamptons After Pollock, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
2001   Flora: In Reverence of Nature, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Five Decades of East Hampton Artists, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1950-1965: Abstraction on Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract Expressionism-Expanding the Canon, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
Rupture & Revision: Collage in America, Pavel Zoubok, Inc, New York, NY
2001 Collector’s Show, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Mary Leigh Black Museum of Art
2002   Transitions at Mid-Century, Works on Paper 1945-1955, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003 The 1940s: Modern American Art & Design, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Building on Strength: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
2005 Surrealism USA, National Academy Museum, New York, NY; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Artists and Nature on Eastern Long Island: 1940's to the Present Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Organic New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Eye Contact: Painting and Drawing in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
The Second Time Around: The Art of Recycling Spring, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
2006 Pre – Post, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
2007 Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Works by Abstract Expressionism, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (traveling)
Body Beware: 18 American Artists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2008 Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Mirror Mirror: Fine Art/Decorative Art, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Repartir à Zéro, 1945-1949 (Starting from Scratch), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2009 Image Matter, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Layered / Boxed, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Exhibitions
1950 - 1965: Abstraction on Paper
Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence (Part One: Painting)
Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence (Part Two: Sculpture)
Alfonso Ossorio: Masterworks from the Collection of the Robert U. Ossorio Foundation
Alfonso Ossorio: Costume Designs from the 1930s and 1940s for Ballet and Greek Tragedies
Alfonso Ossorio: Horror Vacui, Filling the Void - A Fifty-Year Survey
Alfonso Ossorio: Master Prints, 1932-1990
Alfonso Ossorio: The Child Returns, 1950 - Philippines, Expressionist Paintings on Paper
Alfonso Ossorio: The Creeks - Before, During and After
Alfonso Ossorio: The Shingle Figures, 1962-1963
Body Beware: 18 American Artists
Collage: Made in America
Counterpoints: American Art, 1930-1945
Essence of the Orb
Exploring the Unknown: Surrealism in American Art
Facets of the Figure: A Spectrum of 20th Century American Art
Flora: In Reverence of Nature
Linear Impulse
Lines & Myths: Abstraction in American Art, 1941-1951
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade
On Paper: The Figure in Twentieth Century American Art
Organic New York, 1941-1949
Reflection and Redemption: The Surrealist Art of Alfonso Ossorio, 1939-1949
Road: Alfonso Ossorio
Surrealism and Magic Realism in American Art
Surrealism Embodied: The Figure in American Art, 1933-1953
Synergy: Alfonso Ossorio and Jackson Pollock, 1950-1951
The 1940s: Modern American Art & Design