Ibram Lassaw’s Exhibition History

Ibram Lassaw’s exhibition history spans nine decades. There are so many exhibitions that to even list only the important ones would take many pages. Therefore I offer this overview.

Ibram Lassaw first exhibited in the late 1920s with the Clay Club in Brooklyn. The Clay Club moved to New York City and later became The Sculpture Center, and Lassaw continued to participate in occasional exhibitions there until the 1980s.

As a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, he participated in A.A.A. exhibitions from 1936 until 2004. These exhibitions were held in different venues, from rented office spaces to galleries, to the Riverside Museum and various university art galleries. Concurrently, he also exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and other shows from 1936 until 2001, including The American Century of Art and Culture, 1900–2000, Part 1 and Part 2. His sculpture is in the permanent collection of the Whitney, MoMA, The Met, and many others.

His sculpture was exhibited at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, which later became the Guggenheim Museum, in five shows from 1944 to 1950 and again in 1970. His work is in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.

In 1951, Lassaw was invited to join the Kootz Gallery in New York City, and took part in many group exhibitions from 1951 to 1964 when the gallery closed, and between 1951 and 1964 had one-man shows every other year.

For sixty years he participated in various exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, including Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America (1951), Twelve Americans (1957), and Abstract Expressionism (2010). His work is in MoMA’s permanent collection.