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2012 Ends of the Earth: Art of the Land to 1974, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA April 1 – July 30
2011 Alice in Wonderland, (traveling), Tate Liverpool, November 4, 2011 – January 29, 2012, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, February 25 - June 3, 2012, Hamburger Kunsthalle, June 23 - September 30, 2012 
  The Language of Less (Then and Now), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 
    Plot, Plan, Process: Work on Paper from the 1960s to Now, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY 
    The Garden, Alan Nederpelt, curated by James Salomon and Beverly Allan, Brooklyn, New York, NY 
    The Best of Both Worlds: Finely Printed Livres d’Artistes, 1910-2010, in Divan-E-Shams published by Vincent Fitzgerald & Company (1996), Grolier Club, New York, NY
  2010 Out of the Woods, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, curated with James Salomon, New York City
    On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, organized by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, and Catherine de Zegher, former director, The Drawing Center, New York City
     
  2009 Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
    Mixed Greens, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
    L’exposition des Collections, Musee d’art de Toulon, France
    Rare Editions: The Book as Art, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
    The Light of the Sufi’s, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
    184th Annual: An Exhibit of Contemporary American Art, 5/16-6/10, National Academy Museum, NYC, NY
  2008 Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970’s, Sculpture Center, LI, NY
    Metamorphosis, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
    Sense of Space, Jeanie Tengelson Gallery, Art League, LI, NY
  2007 Eyes on the Natural World, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
    Rumi’s Works in Modern Editions, Houghton, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    White as Color, Art League of Long Island. Dix Hills, NY
  2006 Drawn into the World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curator, Lynne Warren
    La Collection en Trois Temps Quatre Actes, Musee d’art Contemporain, Marseille, France*
    USA II, AYN Centro de Arte, Madrid, Spain
    Grafica Americana, Sala de Exposiciones, Cordoba, Spain
    Peace Tower, Whitney Museum Biennial, NY
    Guild Hall Collects Gifts in Honor of the 75th Anniversary, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
  2005 Disegno, National Academy, New York*
    Affinities, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
  2004 Recent Acquisitions: Framing the Collection, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
    North Fork/ South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY *
    Works from the Collection, National Collection of Australia, Canberra, Australia
    New Prints/2004 Spring, Selected by Barry Walker, IPCNY,NY
  2003 FINE LINES, from the collection of Wynn Kramarsky, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
    Challenging Tradition: Women of the Academy, 1826-2003, National Academy Museum, NY
  2002 Conversations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
    Berliner Kunstprojekt, Unforgettable, Berlin, Germany
  2001 Rags to Riches 25 Years of Paper Art, Dieu Donne Papermill, Kresge Art Museum, Traveling*
    Marking Time/Making Memory, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH*
    No!art and the Aesthetics of Doom, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL * traveling
  2000 Open Ends, Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
    Abundant Invention, Wavehill, Bronx, NY*
    Botanica, Contemporary Art & the World of Plants, Chicago Cultural Center, IL*
    Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX*
    Beyond the Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape, Boise Art Museum, ID. traveling*
    American Academy Invitational, Painting & Sculpture, American Academy of Arts & Letters, NY
  1999 Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA*
    Afterimage: Film + Video Program, The Museum of Contemporary Art., Los Angeles, CA
    Drawn Across the Century: Highlights from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art
Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC*
    Souvenirs: Collecting, Memory, and Material Culture, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
    Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, The Montclair Art Museum, NJ; Knoxville Museum of Art, KY*
    A Century for the Century: Fine Printed Books 1900-1999, Grolier Club, NY
    Botanica, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN*
    Surroundings: Responses to the American Landscape; San Jose Museum of Art, CA - a collaboration with works
from the Whitney Museum of American Art Collection Book As Art XI, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC*
    Radford Art Museum, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Radford, Virginia*
  1998 Dreams for the Next Century: A View of the Collection, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
    Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
    Beyond the Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape, Asheville Art Museum, N.C
    Landscapes, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA
    New Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Works on paper; Allentown Art Museum, PA
    Recent Publications by Diane Villani Editions, Quartet Editions, NY
    Matched Pairs: Sculptures and Drawings, The John Weber Gallery, NY
  1997 On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheiser Collection, MoMA, NY*  
    Land Marks, John Weber Gallery, NY
    Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY*
    Footfalls: Site Specific Sculpture, Greenport, New York*
    The 172nd Annual Exhibition, The National Academy  Museum, NY
  1996 More Than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the ‘70s, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis U. Waltham, MA*
    Under Glass, Charles Cowles Gallery, Inc. NY; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
  1995 Sniper’s Nest: Art That Has Lived With Lucy R. Lippard, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY* Travel, Gallery of Cont. Art, Univ. Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO*
    NO! art,  Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin*
    Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990, traveling, including, Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Northwestern U. Evanston, Ill.; Zimmerli Mus. NJ; National Mus.  Amer. Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC*
    Framing the Future, Recent Acquisitions, The Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ
    Monumental Propaganda, ICI, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
    American Academy in Rome 1995, Rome *
    Printmakers Workshop Collection: The Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
  1994 L’Art Americain dans les Collections Publiques Francaises de Province1960-1992 Musee de                                 Toulon, France*
    American Pavilion, Cairo Biennial, Cairo, Egypt* Traveling , 1994-1997
    Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
  1993 US Pavilion, Taejon International Exposition, Seoul, Korea*
    The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York City
    Women Artists’ Books 1969-1979, Printed Matter/Dia Center for the Arts, New York City
  1992 Painting, Self Evident: Abstraction 1992, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C.*
    Breakdown!   Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA*
    The Language of Flowers, Paul Kasmin Gallery, NY
    Intimate and Intense: Small Fiber Structures, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN*
    Form + Farbe, Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
    Revered Earth, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM*
  1991 Departures: Photography 1923-1990 ICI, curator Edmund Yankov, traveling Exh.*
    Sticks & Stones: Ten Artists Work With Nature, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY*
    A Bestiary, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC
    Presswork, The Art of Women Printmakers, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
    43rd Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters NYC
  1990 Diane Villani Editions Lorence. Monk Gallery, NYC
    Transparent Thread: Asian Philosophy in American Art 1955-1985, Hofstra Museum, NY (travel)*
    The Experience of the Landscape: Three Decades of Sculpture, Whitney Museum Downtown, NYC*
    Terra Incognita: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Museum of Art, RISD, Providence, RI*
    Botanica: The Secret Life of Plants, Lehman College of Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
    11th British International Print Biennale, Bradford Museum, Bradford, England*
    The (Un) Making of Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Plaza, New York and Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, CT*
    A Natural Order, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers,  NY*
    Revered EARTH, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX* (travel)
    The Transparent Thread, Edith C. Blum Art Gallery, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY*
    Grids, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York City
    Funf Jahre Zeitgenossische Kunst,Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich
  1989 Terra Firma: Land and Landscape in Art of the 1980's, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia U. NYC*
    Restructure/Subverting the Grid, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
    Portfolios and Projects: The 25th National Print Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY*
    Sounding Depths: 150 Years of American Seascape, The American Federation of Arts, New York City, Milwaukee, WI; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Fl; Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Inc, Bridgeport, CT; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Honolulu Academy of Art, HA*
    Lines of Vision, Blum-Helman Warehouse, New York City
    First Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; (Traveling): Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY*
    Maskunow, Art Museum, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, NFD.Canada
    The New/Old Landscape, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AR
    Contemporary Women Drawers, Blum-Helman Gallery, New York City
    Making Their Mark, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; traveling: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
  1988 Earthly Delights: Garden Imagery in Contemporary Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN*   
    Natural Sources, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
    New Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA*
    Off Site: Artists in Response to the Environment, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, VA
    Elemental Visions/Personal Landscapes, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
    Private Works for Public Spaces: Drawings, Maquettes and Documentation for Public Unrealized Artworks, RC Erpf Gallery, New York City; (traveled) Laumeier, St. Louis, MO
    Paperthick: Forms and Images in Cast Paper, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA; Art Museum of Santa Cruz, CA*
  1987 Sacred Spaces, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY*
    Ground: Sculpture by American Women,  The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH*
    The Tree Show: The Tree as Metaphor in Contemporary Art, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA,*
    Down to the Sea, Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Isl .NY
    The Eloquent Object,  Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK: (traveling) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.
  1986 Second Sight: Biennial IV, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA*
    Contemporary Primitivism, Art Gallery, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
    Paper Now: Bent, Folded and Manipulated, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH*
    38th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Institute of Arts & Letters, NY
    Imagining Antarctica, Stadtmuseum, Linz, Austria
  1985 The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY*
    Contemporary American Prints: Recent Acquisitions, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
    Livres D'Artistes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Bibliotheque Publique d'Information, Paris
    New American Paperworks, The Chicago Public Library, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN*
    La Strutture Della Visualita, Musei Civici, Varese, Italy*
    Nyforvarv 1980-1985 Acquisitions, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
    Tamarind: 25 Years 1960-1985, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque*
    Art on Paper 1985, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  1984 Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinities of the Tribal and the Modern, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
    Land Marks: New Site Proposals by 22 Original Pioneers of Environmental Art, Edith C. Blum Institute, Bard College, NY; Cranbrook Academy Museum of Art, Detroit, MI*
    Inaugural Exhibition: Permanent Collection, The Australian National Museum, Canberra*
    American Women Artists, Part 2 ,The Recent Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, NYC*
    Acquisitions, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
    Reflections: New Conceptions of Nature, Hillwood Art Center, LI University, NY*
    10 Years of Collecting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago *
    Large Drawings, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT*
  1983 ARS 83, Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland*
    New Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
    Paper as Image, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England, (traveling)
    Adamah La Terre, Centre d'Exchanges de Perrache, ELAC-Lyon, France*
    New American Paperwork, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Fine Arts Center of Korean Art, Seoul;
Hong Kong Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines; National Museum of Art, Republic of Singapore* (traveling)
    Made in Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
    Made on Paper 1983, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of NC, Greensboro*
    New York Linkoping, Ostergot, Lansmuseum, Ostergota, Sweden*
  1982 Sans-Titre-4 Annes d'Acquisition, Musee de Toulon, Toulon, France*
    Post Minimalism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT*
    New Acquisitions 1981-1982, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands*
    Making Paper: The Handmade Paper Book, American Craft Museum, New York City *
    The New American Paperworks, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL: Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX,* (traveling)
    New Directions, Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection*,  traveling: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fl; Oklahoma Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum  of Art; Grand Rapids Art Museum MI: Madison Art Center, WI; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL.
  1981 The Australian National Gallery at The Australian National University, Canberra
    New Dimensions in Drawing, 1950-1980, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT*
    Kunst Heute Acquisitions, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
    Directions 1981, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.*
    General Mills Art Collection, Lochhaven Art Center, Orlando, Florida*
    Bookworks: New Approaches to Artists Books,  (Organized by Franklin Furnace, NY), Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Art Center, Waco, TX; Eaton Schoen Gallery, S.F. CA; Utah Museum, Salt Lake City, UT; University of Arizona, Tucson, AR (traveling)
    Peintures/Sculptures Americaines, Hotel de Ville, Venissieux, France*
    New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
    La Moderna Museet de Stockholm A Bruxelles,  Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
    Artists Books, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
    With Paper/About Paper, Albright/Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Museum of Fine Arts Springfield, MA*
    Words As Images, University of Illinois, Renaissance Society, Chicago *
    Transitions II: Landscape/ Sculpture, Amelie Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, NY*
    Re: Pages, An Exhibition of Contemporary American Bookworks NE Fdn. for Arts*
    Mapped Art : Charts, Routes,  Regions University of Colorado, Boulder, Co
  1980 Viaggio in New York, Galerie Arco d'Alberti, Roma; Pallazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
    Originals, Graham Gallery, New York City *
    Selections from the Collection of Brutten and Herrick, William Patterson College, Newark, NJ *
    Paper As Medium, Univ. of Georgia, Athens; Honolulu Academy, HI; Traveling
    Artists in the American Desert, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
  1979 Paper As Medium, Tyler Museum, Tyler, TX* traveling extensively
    The Great Big Drawings Show, Inst. for Art & Urban Resources, P.S. Museum, NY
    Visual and Sculptural Bookworks, Montclair Art Museum, NJ
    New York Now, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
    Artists Books, Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
    The Presence of Nature 1978-79, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York City
  1978 ISBN:0.000.0 LCCN;   788-0000, Franklin Furnace, New York City
    Artists Books, USA, Independent Curators, Inc. New York, traveling
    Drawing Explorations 1930-1978, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles
    The Book of the Art of the Artists Book, Teheran Museum, Iran*
    Art on Paper, 1978, Weatherspoon Gallery, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro*
    Book Forms, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH*
    Iran-Nature-12 Americans, Iran -American Society, Teheran, Iran*
  1977 Drawings of the Seventies, Art Institute of Chicago *
    Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany**
    Primitivism, Walters Hall Gallery, Douglas College, Rutgers, NJ
    The Book as Art, Fendrick Gallery, Washington DC*
    Art 8'77 Basle Kunstmesse, (individual) Basle, Switzerland
    Painting 1975-77, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, FL; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH*
    Artists' Bookworks, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
    Collection in Progress: Brutten, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA*
    Contemporary Women: Consciousness & Content, Brooklyn Museum, NY
    Maps, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
    3-D Paper Systems, Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada
    New Acquisitions 75-77, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia*
    Small Objects, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York City *
    New Ways With Paper, National Collection of Fine Arts, Renwick, Smithsonian, Washington DC*
    Artists' Books, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
    Installation & Print Projects by Visiting Artists, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
    The Handmade Paper Object, Oakland Art Museum, CA; Inst. of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY*
    Strata: Graves, Hesse, Stuart, Winsor, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada*
    Four Artists, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
  1976 Handmade Paper, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
    Private Notations: Artists' Sketchbooks II, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia *
    Handmade Paper Objects, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara *
    Drawing Now: Ten Artists, Soho Center for the Visual Arts, New York City *
    Approaching Painting Gallery 219, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
  1975 New York Abstractionists, John Doyle Gallery, Chicago
    Young Americans, Galerie Alexandra Monett, Brussels, Belgium
    Artpark Art, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
    Collectors of the Seventies Part III: Milton & Helen Brutten, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, The Clocktower,
New York City
    Report from Soho, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York City
    Acquisitions 1973-1975, Power Inst. of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia*
    New York Award Winning Painters, Rockefeller Gallery, SUNY, Fredonia, NY*
    Abstraction Alive and Well, Fine Art Center Gallery, SUNY Pottsdam, NY*
  1974 Paperworks, Penthouse, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
    Four Americans, John Doyle Gallery, Paris
    Paperworks, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City
    Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Institute of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH*
  1973 Contemporary Reflections, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT*
    Women Choose Women, New York Cultural Center, New York City *
    Ten Artists, Michael C. Rockefeller Gallery, SUNY Fredonia, NY*
    Contemporary Artists, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, MA
  1972 Ten Artists, The Kenan Center, Lockport, NY*
    Outsize Drawings, Loeb Art Center, New York University, New York City