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This index collects solo and select group exhibitions; gallery, dates, location, catalog, and ephemera information provided, when available…
1953
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Freeland Gallery, San Francisco
1954
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
The Place, San Francisco
Jay DeFeo, Paintings/Jewelry
[solo exhibition]
Dover Gallery, Berkeley
1955
Second Annual Group Show
[group exhibition]
The Six Gallery, San Francisco
1956
Action 2: Works by West Coast Painters
[group exhibition]
Syndell Studio, Now Gallery, Los Angeles
1957
Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye
[group exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Altoon, Bengston, DeFeo, DeForest, Dixon, Gechtoff, Henderson, Lobdell, Richer, Smith, Wasserstein, Kauffman, Bartosh, Sarkisian, Irene and Gerd Koch
[group exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1958
Altoon, Kienholz, DeFeo
[group exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Altoon, Bengston, DeFeo, DeForest, Dixon, Johnson, Kauffman, Kienholz, Lobdell, Moses, Richer, Smith, Wasserstein
[group exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Opening Group Show: Works by Joel Barletta, J. DeFeo, Richard Diebenkorn, Sidney Geist, Muriel Goodwin, Craig Kauffman, Frank Lobdell, Robert Morris, Edward Branco Moses, Manuel Neri, Irving Petlin, Philip Roeber, Hassel Smith
[group exhibition]
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Jay DeFeo, Roy De Forest, James Budd Dixon, Muriel Francis, Craig Kauffman, Ed Moses, Arthur Richer, Irene Taverner, Sam Tchakalian, Julius Wasserstein, Dion Vigne
[group exhibition]
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1959
J. DeFeo: Drawings, Collages, Paintings
[solo exhibition]
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
Altoon, Bengston, DeFeo, Gechtoff, Irwin, Kauffman, Kienholz, Mason, Moses, Lobdell, Smith, Richer
[group exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Tribute to Mrs. Leonid Gechtoff
[group exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1st Anniversary Group Show
[group exhibition]
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
Group Show: Barletta, DeFeo, De Forest, Kanter, Kauffman, Moses, Neri, Remington, Roeber, Smith, Tchakalian, Valledor
[group exhibition]
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
Group Show: Small Works in Varied Media
[group exhibition]
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1960
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, J. DeFeo, Sonia Gechtoff, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, Edward Kienholz, Frank Lobdell, John Mason, Edward “Branco” Moses, Ken Price, Richards Ruben, Hassel Smith
[group exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Gangbang
[group exhibition]
Batman Gallery, San Francisco
Group Show: Anderson, Barletta, DeFeo, De Forest, Gordin, Jess, Kauffman, Kerr, Light, Moses, Neri, Remington, Roeber, Smith, Tchakalian, Trave
[group exhibition]
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1961
John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Sonia Gechtoff, Jay DeFeo, Robert Irwin, Edward Kienholz, Frank Lobdell, John Mason, Kenneth Price, Richards Ruben, Hassel Smith
[group exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
A Selection of Drawings by Jeremy Anderson, J. DeFeo, Roy De Forest, Norman Kanter, Craig Kauffman, Leslie Kerr, Frank Lobdell, Edward Moses, Manuel Neri, Deborah Remington, San Tchakalian
[group exhibition]
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
Group Show
[group exhibition]
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1963
Group Exhibition: Altoon, Bell, Bengston, DeFeo, Irwin, Kauffman, Lobdell, Mason, Moses, Price, Ruben, Ruscha
[group exhibition]
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1966
Nine California Artists: Abstract Expressionists
[group exhibition]
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena
1968
Late Fifties at the Ferus
[group exhibition]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1969
The Rose: J. DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena
The Rose: J. DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
1974
Jay DeFeo: Paintings
[solo exhibition]
Wenger Gallery, San Francisco
1975
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
Art as a Muscular Principle/10 Artists and San Francisco 1950–1965 (Roots and New Directions)
[group exhibition]
John and Norah Warbeke Gallery, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
1976
The Last Time I Saw Ferus 1957–1966
[group exhibition]
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach
1978
MATRIX/BERKELEY 11: Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1979
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, Hope
1980
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Whitman College, Walla Walla
1981
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Indian Valley Colleges, Novato
1983
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1984
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise
Jay DeFeo: Selected Works, Past and Present
[solo exhibition]
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1985
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Janus Gallery, Los Angeles
1986
Jay DeFeo/Madeline O’Connor: Paintings and Drawings
The Nave Museum, Victoria
1988
Jay DeFeo: Paintings and Works on Paper
[solo exhibition]
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Jay DeFeo: Paintings and Works on Paper
[solo exhibition]
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
1989
Jay DeFeo: In Memoriam—A Selection of Paintings, 1986–1989
[solo exhibition]
Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
1990
Jay DeFeo: Works on Paper
[solo exhibition]
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Jay DeFeo: Works on Paper
[solo exhibition]
The Menil Collection, Houston
Jay DeFeo: Works on Paper
[solo exhibition]
Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach
Jay DeFeo: Works on Paper
[solo exhibition]
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno
Jay DeFeo: Works on Paper
[solo exhibition]
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign
Jay DeFeo, An Intimate View: Small Paintings 1986–1989
[solo exhibition]
Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz
Jay DeFeo, An Intimate View: Small Paintings 1986–1989
[solo exhibition]
Antonio Prieto Memorial Gallery, Mills College, Oakland
Homage to Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1991
Jay DeFeo: 1980s Paintings
[solo exhibition]
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Jay DeFeo: 1950s Works on Paper
[solo exhibition]
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1992
Jay DeFeo: Photocollages
[solo exhibition]
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1993
Jay DeFeo: Works on Paper from the 1950s
[solo exhibition]
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City
1994
Jay DeFeo: Drawings and Photocollages from the 1970s
[solo exhibition]
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
1996
Jay DeFeo: Four Decades
[solo exhibition]
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Jay DeFeo: Dibujos y Foto-collages
[solo exhibition]
Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San José de Costa Rica
Jay DeFeo: Selected Works 1952–1989
[solo exhibition]
Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
Jay DeFeo: Selected Works 1952–1989
[solo exhibition]
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1997
Jay DeFeo: The Florence View and Related Works 1950–1954
[solo exhibition]
Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco
Jay DeFeo: The Florence View and Related Works 1950–1954
[solo exhibition]
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Jay DeFeo: The Florence View and Related Works 1950–1954
[solo exhibition]
The Rose, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
2001
Jay DeFeo: “Doctor Jazz” and Works on Paper 1952–1989
[solo exhibition]
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan
2002
Jay DeFeo: Photographs
[solo exhibition]
Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos
Jay DeFeo: Ingredients of Alchemy, Before and After “The Rose”
[solo exhibition]
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City
2003
Beside “The Rose”: Selected Works by Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Jay DeFeo: Her Tripod and Its Dress
[solo exhibition]
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City
2004
“out of my own head:” Photographs by Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
“out of my own head:” Photographs by Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley
2006
Jay DeFeo: No End and Botanicals
[solo exhibition]
Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe
2007
Jay DeFeo: “Applaud the Black Fact,”
[solo exhibition]
Nielsen Gallery, Boston
2008
Where the Swan Flies
[solo exhibition]
Moody Gallery, Houston
2009
Jay DeFeo: Samurai
[solo exhibition]
Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe
2010
Jay DeFeo: Photographs/Works on Paper
[solo exhibition]
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City
Jay DeFeo: Summer Landscape
[solo exhibition]
Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe
2011
DEFEO
[solo exhibition]
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2012
Jay DeFeo: Mechanics
[solo exhibition]
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
[solo exhibition]
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
[solo exhibition]
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
2013
Jay DeFeo: Chiaroscuro
[solo exhibition]
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2014
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York City
2015
Jay DeFeo – A Rose Is a Flame Is a Sun Is a Dove
[solo exhibition]
Peder Lund, Oslo
Jay DeFeo: Alter Ego
[solo exhibition]
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2016
Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
Jay DeFeo: Paintings on Paper 1986–1987
[solo exhibition]
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
2018
Outrageous Fortune: Jay DeFeo and Surrealism
[solo exhibition]
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York City
Object Lessons | Jay DeFeo: Works on Paper from the 1970s
[solo exhibition]
Galerie Frank Elbaz, Dallas
Jay DeFeo: The Texture of Color
[solo exhibition]
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills
2019
Undersoul: Jay DeFeo
[solo exhibition]
San José Museum of Art, San José
Jay DeFeo: The Language of Gesture
[solo exhibition]
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills