| Jay DeFeo: Her Tripod and Its Dress, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
| 2004 | "out of my own head:" Photographs by Jay DeFeo, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
| 2005 | "out of my own head:" Photographs by Jay DeFeo, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA |
| 2006 | Jay DeFeo: No End, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM |
| Jay DeFeo: Botanicals, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2007 | Jay DeFeo: Applaud the Black Fact, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2008 | Where the Swan Flies, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 1950 | San Francisco Annual Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA |
| 1953 | Richmond Annual Painting, Richmond, CA |
| Seventeenth Annual Watercolor Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA |
| 1954 | Eighteenth Annual Watercolor Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA |
| J. DeFeo, Paintings & Jewelry, Dover Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
| Eighteenth Annual Drawing and Painting Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA |
| 1955 | Action I: Concert Hall Workshop Presents Action Paintings of the West Coast (Merry-Go-Round Show) , Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles Groups, Los Angeles, CA |
| Second Annual Group, The Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| American Jewelry and Related Objects, The Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV |
| 1957 | Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1958 | San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Altoon, DeFeo, Kienholz, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Tribute to Mrs. Leonid Gechtoff, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1959 | Sixteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| Anniversary Group Show, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Artists Under 35, Dickson Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| San Francisco Annual Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco, CA |
| Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1960 | Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1961 | Drawing Show, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1963 | Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1966 | Nine California Artists: Abstract Expressionists Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA |
| 1968 | Late Fifties at Ferus, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| On Looking Back, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 1970 | Expo 70, Osaka, Japan |
| 1971 | New Work / Seven Bay Area Artists, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA |
| Exhibition of Dr. Wennesland's Collection, American Salvage Company, San Francisco, CA |
| 1975 | Poets of the Cities / New York and San Francisco 1950-65, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT |
| Art as a Muscular Principle / 10 Artist and San Francisco 1950-1965 / Roots and New Directions, John and Norah Warbeke Gallery, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA |
| 1976 | Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC |
| The Last Time I Saw Ferus 1957-1966, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
| James Willis Galley, San Francisco, CA |
| 1977 | Perceptions of the Spirit of 20th Century American Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA; McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH |
| 1978 | Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| California State University at Sonoma, Rohnert Park, CA |
| 1979 | Scenes from the Visual Arts, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA |
| Bay Area Painting Invitational, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
| American Women of Italian Descent, Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA |
| 1980 | Bay Area Artists, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA |
| 1981 | Selections from the Permanent Collection, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco., CA |
| 1982 | California: A Sense of Individualism, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
| Visiting Artists Revisited, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA |
| 1983 | Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| California: A Sense of Individualism, Part II, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
| Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| Directions on Bay Area Painting: A Survey of Three Decades: 1940s -1960, Nelson and Union |
| Memorial Galleries, University of California, Davis, CA |
| 1984 | 50th Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| The Dilexi Years, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA |
| Directions on Bay Area Painting, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE |
| 1986 | Bay Area Modernism: A Success or Failure? , Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA |
| In the Advent of Change, Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, CA |
| Dissonant Abstractions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA |
| New California Painting: Dealer's Choice, Rancho Santiago College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA |
| Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu II, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| Mills College Art Department Faculty Retrospective Exhibition, Mills College, Oakland, CA |
| 1987 | Painting, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Prints and Drawings by 17 Bay Area Masters, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA |
| American Painting: Abstract Expressionism and After, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Selections from the Collection, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
| A Painterly Vision: California 1960s Paintings and Works on Paper, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Bay Area Influences: Four Artists: Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA |
| 1988 | The Artists of California, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA |
| Bay Area Masters: Twelve Artists, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA |
| 1989 | Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA; Joselyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE |
| Order and Intuition: Aspects of Bay Area Abstract Painting, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA |
| 41st Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY |
| Private Collection/Personal Exchange: Bay Area Artists, 1950-1966, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA |
| 1990 | Lyrical Visions: The 6 Gallery 1954-1957, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA |
| 1991 | Geometric Abstraction in California 1940-1960, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, George Herms, Jess, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1992 | Drawings II, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY |
| Sight /Vision: The Urban Milieu III, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures VI, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Selected Recent Acquisitions, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA |
| 1993 | Photographic: Works of the Sixties and Seventies, Zabriske Gallery, New York, NY |
| Images: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Collection, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA |
| Postwar Abstract Painting & Sculpture from the Collection, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| Recent Photography Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Selections form the Permanent Collection: California Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA |
| Paper Trails: San Francisco Abstract Expressionist Prints, Drawings and Watercolors, Art Museum of Santa Cruz, Ca; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT; Redding Museum of Art and History, Redding, CA; Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA |
| San Francisco Abstract Expressionist Works on Paper: 1948-1963, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA |
| 1994 | Fractured Identity, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY |
| Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA |
| 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA |
| Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 1995 | Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
| Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| Drawing the Twentieth Century: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Picturing Modernity: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA |
| New Perceptions of the Spirit, Flora Lemson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA |
| Speaking Abstractly, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA |
| Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| 1996 | The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Bush Street, San Francisco, CA |
| A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA |
| San Francisco Art Institute: Illustrious History, Salander-O'Reilly, New York, NY |
| 1997 | A Lasting Legacy: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift, The Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Spheres of Influence, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1998 | Drawing, Cabrillo College Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA |
| First Decade: Highlights from The Contemporary Museum's Collection, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI |
| Material/Immaterial, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| 1999 | Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
| The Great Drawings Show, 1950 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Coming to Life: The Figure in American Art, 1955-1965, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2000 |
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY |
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Anatomically Incorrect, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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True Grit, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, Ca; Boise Museum of Art, Boise, ID; Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA; University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY: Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO |
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The Mills College Art Museum Permanent Collection: 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Mills Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
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Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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2000 Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 2001 |
1950s:
Abstraction on Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY |
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Fast Forward, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
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Points of Departure II: Connecting with Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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2001 Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 2002 |
Women Artists:
Their Work and Influence, 1950-1970, Gallery Paule Anglim, San
Francisco, CA |
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Ferus,
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
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Art/Women/California, 1950-2000: Parallels and
Intersections, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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An American
Legacy, A Gift for New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY |
| 2003 |
Not Exactly
Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Drawing Modern:
Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, OH |
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In Sequence,
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY |
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Zen and Modern
Art, University Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward,
CA |
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Presence,
Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY |
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Beat Generation and Beyond, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA |
| 2004 |
Turning
Corners, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA |
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The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selected Works from the di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC; de Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA |
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