Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021  ‘How Black is that Blue’, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2020 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Gagosian, Rome, Italy

‘No to Prison Life’, Lisson Gallery, Online Exhibition 

‘FOCUS: Stanley Whitney’, Lisson Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA  

2019 ‘Stanley Whitney: Afternoon Paintings’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

2018  ‘Stanley Whitney: In the Color’, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Stanley Whitney, Paintings’, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany

2017 ‘Focus – Stanley Whitney’, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA 

2016 ‘Here Comes the Sun’, Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden 

‘Radical Times’, Lisson Gallery, London 

2015 ‘Dance the Orange’, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA

‘Stanley Whitney: Paintings’, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy 

‘Stanley Whitney’, Karma, New York, NY, USA

‘Team Colors’, Team (bungalow), Venice, CA, USA

'Paintings’, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway 

2013 ‘Other Colors I Forget’, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Goya’s Lantern’, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium 

2012 ‘Yellow, Noon and Night’, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany 

‘Left to Right’, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Six Paintings’, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY, USA

2010 ‘Untitled 10’, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2009 ‘I remember Clifford, still’, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria 

2007 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Galleria Ramis Barquet, Mexico City, Mexico 

‘bluetopic’, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria 

‘Stanley Whitney’, Lagorio Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy 

‘Stanley Whitney’, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy 

2006 ‘Colori al quadrato’, Galleria Carlina, Torino, Italy 

‘Breathing Sound’, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2005 ‘New Paintings’, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004 ‘Stanley Whitney: Recent Works’, A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy 

2001 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1999 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1997 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy 

1991 ‘Stanley Whitney’, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA

1990 ‘Stanley Whitney’, fiction/nonfiction gallery, New York, NY, USA

1987 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

1986 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

1985 ‘Stanley Whitney’, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA

‘Stanley Whitney’, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1984 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

1983 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY, USA

1972 ‘Stanley Whitney’, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 ‘Selected Works,’ Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2020 ‘Call and Response’, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China   

‘Horizon,’ Lisson Gallery, London, UK 

‘Reframing Minimalism: McArthur Binion and his Contemporaries in New York, 1973 – 1992’, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY, USA 

‘Painting the Essential: New York, 1980 – Present’, Online Exhibition, Timothy Taylor Gallery

2019  Yves Klein/Stanley Whitney: This Array of Colors’, Galería Cayón, Madrid/Minorca, Spain

‘It’s Urgent! – Part II’, Luma Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland

‘Painter’s Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now’, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air)’, Lévy Gorvy, New York, NY USA

‘The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction', DC Moore Gallery , New York, NY, USA

‘Playing Art’, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain 

‘Blue is the color of your eyes’,  Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden

2018  ‘Abstraction Today—Mapping the Invisible World’, Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zurich, Switzerland

‘Inherent Structure’, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA

‘Spheres of Influence: Al Held, Michael Craig-Martin, Judy Pfaff, and Stanley Whitney’, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2017 Documenta 14, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany 

2016 ‘Making and Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu’, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK 

‘bisou magique’, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France 

‘Paper in Practice’, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA, USA

‘Nice Weather’ curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, New York, NY, USA

2015 ‘For Troedsson Villa’, Troedsson Villa, Nikko, Japan 

‘The Painter of Modern Life’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Nero su Bianco’, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy 

2014 ‘Szalon’, Logan Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

‘Paintings on Paper’, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

‘More Material’, Salon 94, New York, NY, USA

‘This One’s Optimistic: Pincushion’, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, USA

‘Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy Today’, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

‘Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract, Part 2’, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, USA

2013 ‘Come Together: Surviving Sandy’, Industry City, New York, NY, USA

‘Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s’, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA

2012 ‘Awakening the Night. Art from Romanticism to the Present’, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria 

‘Predicting Memories’, Ehemaliges K.K. Telegrafenamt, Vienna, Austria 

‘The Annual: 2012’, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, USA

‘Pillow Talk’, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY, USA

2011 ‘Reverie’, Salon Zurcher, New York, NY, USA

‘Two Colors’, Kathleen Cullen, New York, NY, USA

‘Refocussing the Spotlight: 21 American Painters’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

‘bodybraingame’, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

‘The Venetians’, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA

2010 ‘2010 Ceremonial Exhibition’, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA

‘Ecstatic Structure’, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, USA

‘The Jewel Thief’, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

2009 ‘Cave #1’, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, NY, USA

‘Infinite Patience: James Drake, Kunie Sugiura, Stanley Whitney’, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY, USA

‘Einarsson, Rhodes, Whitney’, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2008 ‘Present Tense’, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY, USA

‘Sparks’, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA

2007 ‘The Color Line’, Luanda Triennial, Luanda, Angola; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY; Centre international d'exposition de Larouche, Québec, Canada; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; Galerie Fokus Wien, Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria 

‘Horizon’, EFA Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Something About Mary’, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA

‘Paintings of Color’, Tribes, New York, NY, USA

‘Matt Connors, Ryan McLaughlin, Shannon Mustipher, Stanley Whitney’, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA

‘Music to My Eyes’, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘ArteFiera’, Esso Gallery, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy 

2006 ‘I Was a Sunbeam: Eleven Works on Paper’, David Krut Projects, New York, NY, USA

‘Ten Years of Esso Gallery’, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2005 ‘Esso Gallery on Stage’, Nomadic Space, Turin, Italy 

2003 ‘Utopia Station’, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 

Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Stanley Whitney / Andreas Reiter Raabe’, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria 

2002 ‘Quiet As It’s Kept’, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria 

‘The Annual: 2002’, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, USA

2000 ‘Gallery Artists’, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Universal Abstraction’, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA

1999 ‘Drawings’, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA

1998 ‘Crossing Lines’, Art in General, New York, NY, USA

‘Bang on a Can’ (benefit), GAGA Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1997 ‘Colorflex’, Apex Art, New York, NY, USA

1996 ‘Deliberate Hand’, The Banyan Tree, New York, NY, USA

1995 ‘Lines of Force’, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘The Joy of Painting’, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY, USA

1994 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Stanley Whitney and David Hammons’, Vera Vita Gioia Gallery, Naples, Italy 

1993 Peg Alston Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1992 ‘African-American Artists in the 20th Century’, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, USA

‘Painting Self Evident: Evolution in Abstraction’, Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, SC, USA

1991 ‘Inaugural Exhibition’, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1990 Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA, USA

1989 fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA

1988 fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA

1986 Harris Brown Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

1985 ‘Master Contemporary Drawings’, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

1984 Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

‘Drawings Show’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

1983 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1982 Peg Alston Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1981 ‘New York Artists Group Show’, Jazzonia Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA

Cinque Gallery, New York, NY, USA

‘Post-Modernist Metaphors’, Alternative Museum, New York, NY, USA

‘Enroute: Six Contemporary Artists’, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA

Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

‘Drawing Show’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

1980 ‘The Page as Alternative Space’, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, USA

1979 ‘Drawing Show’, Bucks County Community College, Newton, PA, USA

1978 ‘Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1977 ‘Christine Jordan and Stanley Whitney: Abstract Paintings’, SoHo Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA

1976 ‘Arts of Our Time’, Passaic, NJ, USA

‘Contemporary Reflections’, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA

1975 ‘Exhibition for Artist’s Rights’, The Town Hall, New York, NY, USA

1972 ‘Group Painting Show’, University of Rhode Island, Newport, RI, USA

Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT, USA

1971 ‘Black American Artists ’71’, Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago, IL, USA

Awards

2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA 

2011 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, New York, NY, USA 

2010 Art Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA

2006 Great Teacher Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA 

2002 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY, USA 

1996 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY, USA 

Collections

A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, Modena, Italy 

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL, USA

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

The Helga de Alvear Foundation, Cáceres, Spain

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA

The Long Museum, Shanghai, China

The Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China 

Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA

The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, USA

Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy 

The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, USA

The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, USA

The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA