Solo Exhibitions
 
   
2003
Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY
  "Dorothea Rockburne"
   
  Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York, NY
  “Dorothea Rockburne: New Paintings on Copper”
   
2000
Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg, Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY
"Ten Years of Astronomy Drawings"
 
1999
Art In General, New York, NY
 
1997
Ingrid Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 
1996
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
"Dorothea Rockburne: Visible Structure"
 
1995
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
 
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
"New Monoprints and Small Paintings"
 
1994
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
"Painting from Nature"
 
1992
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
"Dorothea Rockburne: Roman Wall Painting"
 
Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy
"Dorothea Rockburne: Painting"
 
1991
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
"Dorothea Rockburne: Circle and Square"
 
D.P.Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, CA
"Roman Wall Works, Painting In Situ"
 
1990
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
"Dorothea Rockburne, New Work: Cut-Ins"
 
1989
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"Dorothea Rockburne," Ten Year Painting Retrospective
 
1988
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
"New Paintings: Pascal and Other Concerns"
 
1987
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Dorothea Rockburne, Recent Painting and Drawings"
 
1986
Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY
"A Personal Selection: Paintings, 1968-1986"
 
1985
Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY
"Dorothea Rockburne, Painting and Drawing, 1982-1985"
 
1983
Galleriet, Lund, Sweden
"The Way of Angels"
 
1982
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Dorothea Rockburne: Recent Watercolors and Drawings"
 
Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY
"The Way of Angels, 1981-1982"
 
1981
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
"Works from the Egyptian Series"
 
Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY
"Egyptian Paintings and White Angels: 1979-1981"
 
David Bellman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"Angels and Conservation Drawings"
 
1979
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
"A Decade of Drawings"
 
1978
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
"Drawings: Structure & Curve"
 
1977
Galleria La Polena, Genova, Italy
 
Richard Eugene Fuller Gallery of Art, PA
"Dorothea Rockburne Drawings"
 
1976
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
"Working With the Golden Section, Structure and Color"
 
1975
Galerie Charles Kriwin, Brussels, Belgium
 
Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy
 
1974
Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italy
 
1973
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
 
Lisson Gallery, London, England
 
Hartford College of Art, Hartford, CT
 
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 
Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italy
 
Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy
 
1972
New Gallery, Cleveland, OH
 
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
 
Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italy
 
University of Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
 
Galleria D'Arte, Bari, Italy
 
1971
Sonnabend Gallery, Paris , France
 
1970
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
   
 
Group Exhibitions
 
   
2008
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
  "Shape Shifters: New York Painters" curated by James Biederman
   
2007 - 2008
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  "Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now" curated by Deborah Wye
   
  Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY
  "Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the
Old Masters"
   
  “High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965-75” (Independent Curators International)
  Traveled to:
  American University, Washington D.C.
  National Academy Museum, New York, NY
  Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
  Neue Gallerie Graz, Graz, Austria
  ZKM / Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
   
2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  "Equinox: Permanent Collection Works from the 1960s and 1970s"
   
  National Academy Museum, New York, NY
  "The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy, 1956-2006"
   
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  " What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection" organized by Anne Umland
   
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  " Lines, Grids, Stains, Words" organized by Christian Rattemeyer
   
  National Academy Museum, New York, NY
  "182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art"
   
  Galleria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY
  "Corpse of Time" curated by Ben LaRocco
   
  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
  "What is a Line?"
   
  St. Peter's College Art Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
  "Continuum" (American Abstract Artists)
   
  ARCO (Arte Contemporaneo), Madrid, Spain
   
  David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
  "Drawing Through It: Works on paper from the 1970's to now"
   
2006
Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC
  “High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965-75” (Independent Curators International)
   
  Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  “The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art”
   
  Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
  “Women’s Work: Paintings 1970 – 1990”
   
  National Academy of Design, New York, NY
  “Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Art by National Academicians”
   
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  “Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings”
   
  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
 
2005 Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
“Tête-á-Tête”
   
  Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
  “Artists and Nature in Eastern Long Island: 1940s to Today”
   
  Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY
  “Optical Simulations, American Abstract Artists”
   
  The Century Association, New York, NY
  “The Annual Professional Painters’ Exhibition”
   
  2005 Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, NC
  “Joseph Fiore: Painter/Teacher”
   
  Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, NY
Rail’s One Day Art Benefit”
   
  Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
“A Visual Feast of Promised Gifts and Bequests, Selections from the Dani and Jack Sonnenblick and the Isadore Friedman Collection”
   
2004 Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
“Black and White”
   
2003
The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
  "A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968"
   
  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  "Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection
   
2002
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
  "Plotting: An Exhibition of Artists Studies"
   
  Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, Spain
  "Black Mountain College: Experimenting With Power"
   
  The Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
  "Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection: Werner Kramarsky"
  traveled to: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA;
  Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
   
  Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
  "Linger"
   
  Marcus Ritter, New York, NY
  "Across the Universe"
   
  The Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
  "Art and Mathematics"
   
  The National Academy of Design, New York, NY
  "177th Exhibition of Contemporary American Art"
   
  The New York Studio School, New York, NY
  "Watercolor"
   
  The Armory Show, New York, NY
   
  Art in General, New York, NY
   
  Artemis Greenberg Van Doren,, New York, NY
  "All American II"
   
2001
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
  "The Universe: Contemporary Art and the Cosmos"
   
  On the Wall, 485 Lexington Avenue Lobby, New York, NY, curated by TIAA/CREF
  "Systems: Past-Present-Future"
   
  Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY
  "Painting and Drawing"
   
2000
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
  "Drawing & Photographs: An Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc."
   
  Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
  "This Is What It Is"
   
  David Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
  "Six Abstract Artists at the Millennium"
   
  Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
  "End Papers: 1890-1900 and 1990-2000"
   
  Americas Society, New York, NY
  "Art of the Americas from The Chase Manhattan Collection: Icon + Grid + Void"
   
  Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
  "Traces"
   
  Third Symposium on Realistic Near-Term Advanced Scientific Space Missions, Aosta, Italy
   
  Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
   
1999
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
  North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
  Illinois University, Normal, IL
  "Drawings in the Present Tense"
   
  P.S. 1, Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY
  "Primarily Structural"
   
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
  "Afterimage: Drawing Through Process 1966-74"
   
  Gemini G. E. L. at Joni Moisant Wehl, New York, NY
  "Elizabeth Murray, Bruce Nauman, Dorothea Rockburne, Ed Ruscha/ New Editions"
   
  Kendall Art and Design, Hudson, NY
  "The Spiritual in Art"
   
  The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
  "An American AsÉ 100 Works from the Collection of the Parrish Art Museum"
   
1998
Nations Bank Plaza, Charlotte, NC organized by LaSalle Partners
  "{Defining Structures}"
   
  Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
  "object/idea/image: The Serial Attitude"
   
  Dieu Donne Papermill Inc., New York, NY
  "Paper"
   
  Dorfman Projects, New York, NY curated by Art Resources Transfer, Inc.
  "The Tip of The Iceberg"
   
  Butler Institute of American Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
  "Masters of the Masters: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, NY 1983-1988"
   
  Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, NY
  "Vija Clemins, Elizabeth Murray, Dorothea Rockburne, Susan Rothenberg."
   
1997
Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York, NY
  "Women Artists of The 1970s"
   
  Addison Gallery of American Art Philips Academy , Andover , MA
  "Serial Attitude"
   
  717 Fifth Avenue Lobby Gallery, New York, NY
  "Rethinking Geometry"
   
  Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
  "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since the 1970s"
   
1996
1996 Curated by VIART, TIAA/CREF, New York, NY
  "Special Exhibition"
   
  TZ ART & Co., New York, NY
  "Bare Bones"
   
  65 Thompson Street Gallery, New York, NY
  "Maxs Kansas City 30th Anniversary Celebration"
   
  Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
  "More Than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the 70s"
   
  White Columns, New York, NY
  "What I Did On My Summer Vacation"
   
  New York Flower Show, New York Coliseum
   
1995
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
  "Geometric Abstraction"
   
  Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
  "Dorothea Rockburne"
   
  Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
  "Ellen Phelan, Dorothea Rockburne, Hiroshi Sugimoto"
   
  Rachel Adler Gallery, New York, NY
  "A Geometric Progression"
   
  The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
  "Drawn on the Museum"
   
  New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
  "10 + 10"
   
1994
Fred Spratt Gallery (Gallery III), San Jose, CA
   
  Raab Galarie, Berlin, Germany
  "Painterly Thought"
   
  Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collection National Gallery of Art, East Building, Washington D.C.
  "From Minimal to Conceptual Art"
   
  Museum of Modern Art, exhibition, 3rd Floor Contemporary Area, New York, NY
   
1993
To benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts
Statue of Liberty, New York, NY
  "Drawings, 30th Anniversary Exhibition"
   
  Foster Harmon Galleries of American Art, Sarasota, Florida
  "Harmon Galleries Feature Women Artists"
   
  Kohn-Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  "Works on Paper"
   
  The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
  "First Thoughts: Working Drawings by Seven Artists"
   
  Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies
  The residence of Ambassador Madeline K. Albright, American delegate to the United Nations, the Waldorf Towers in New York
   
  Tennisport Arts, Long Island City, New York, NY
  "Silent Echoes"
   
  Museum of Modern Art, exhibition, 3rd Floor Contemporary Area, New York, NY
   
  TZ Art & Company, New York, NY
   
  Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
  "Geometric Abstractions"
   
1992
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
  "Art s Night Out," Auction of the Neuberger Bowl
   
  American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
  "44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition"
   
  Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY
  "Egyptomania"
   
1991
The Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
  "Minimalism and Post Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions"
   
  Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
  "Aspects of Collage"
   
  Lingotto s.p.a., Torino, Italy
   
  School of Fine Arts, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
  "Annual Exhibition"
   
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  "Selections from the Permanent Collection: Pop Art and Minimalism 1960-1975"
   
  Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
  "Physicality"
   
  Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporanea, Mexico D.F., Mexico
  "El Sueno de Egipto"
   
  Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  "20th Century Collage"
 

traveled to:

  Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City, Mexico
  Musee dŐArt Modern et dŐArt Contemporain, Nice, France
   
1990
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
  "Drawing Highlights: Eric Fischl, Roy Lichtenstein, Esteban Vicente, and Selections from the Collection"
   
  Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
  "Grids"
   
  Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
  "Homage to the Square"
   
  Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  "Minimalism and Post-Minimalism"
   
  Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY
  "Minimalist Prints"
   
  The Century Association, New York, NY
   
  Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, England
   
  Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. , New York, NY
   
1989
"Making Their Mark," Randy Rosen, curator
  traveled to: Cincinnati Art Museum, New Orleans Museum, Denver Art Museum, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
   
  Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
  "Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women" curated by Judy Collischan Van Wagner, traveled to: Blum Helman Gallery, New York, Murray State University, Murray KY, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, University Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK
   
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  "Collage"
   
  Jacob J. Javits Federal Building, New York, NY
  "The Artist Project," Photographs by Peter Bellamy
   
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  "A Decade of American Drawing, 1980-1989"
   
  Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  "Abstraction, Geometry, Painting"
  traveled to: Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
   
  Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
  "Selected Artists from the First 20 Years"
   
1988
Old State House, Hartford, CT
   
  Janie C. Lee Master Drawings, New York, NY
  "Master Drawings, 1877 - 1987"
   
  Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  "Solid Abstraction: Shaped, Stacked, and Pierced"
   
  Hunter College, New York, NY
  "A Debate on Abstraction"
   
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
  "Recent Acquisitions"
   
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
  "Viewpoints: Postwar Painting and Sculpture from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans"
   
  The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
  "Drawing Now"
   
1987
Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  "American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art"
  (color ill. catalogue, 1986, ed. by Edward J. Nygren and Linda Crocker Simmons)
  traveled to: Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Queens Museum, Flushing, NY; Burling Library, Grinnell, IO; Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL; Midland Art Council, Midland, MI
   
  National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
  "Inaugural Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts"
  (Ill. book published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NY)
   
  Xavier Fourcade, Inc,. New York, NY
  "Drawings"
   
  Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  "Avery Distinguished Professors Exhibition"
   
  James Goodman Gallery, New York , NY
  "Strong Statements in Black and White"
   
  Galleria Schema, Firenze, Italy and Nuova Citt‡, Brescia, Italy
  "Conceptual Languages"
   
  Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY
  "In Memory of Xavier Fourcade: A Group Exhibition"
   
  American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
  "39th Annual Purchase Exhibition, Hassam and Speicher Fund"
   
  Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
  "Works on Paper"
   
  Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
  "The Arts at Black Mountain College," traveling exhibition,
  (color ill. book by Mary E. Harris)
   
  Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
  "Drawings from the Eighties"
   
  49th Parallel, New York, NY
  "The Idea of the North"
  (B&W illustrated catalogue)
   
1986
Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  "An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940"
   
  Stamford Museum Nature Center, Stamford, CT
  "American Art: American Women"
   
  John Weber Gallery, New York, NY