Nakian, c.1930 ©Walker Evans
Selected One-Man Exhibitions
2015
September 17 – November 14
Reuben Nakian: The Divine Female Form, Rosenberg & Co., New York, NY
2012
November 11 – December 20
Reuben Nakian: Eight Decades of Creation, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2010
January 16 – March 20
Reuben Nakian: Sculpture & Works on Paper, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Inc., Los Angeles, CA
2009
August 14 – January 3, 2010
Reuben Nakian: A Modernistic Voyage to Roman and Greek Traditions, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, CA
2006
September 3 – September 30
Reuben Nakian: Twenty Year Memorial Exhibition, Cavalier Galleries, Inc., Nantucket, MA
2005
April 19 – June 3
Reuben Nakian: Terra cottas, 1955-1983, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
2002
June 6 – July 13
Reuben Nakian, Selections from the Centennial Retrospective, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
March 25 – May 25
Reuben Nakian, Selections from the Centennial Retrospective, University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library, Storrs, CT
2001
Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Gremillion & Company Fine Art, Houston, TX
1999
November 18 – January 28, 2000
Reuben Nakian, University of Connecticut at Stamford, Art Gallery, Stamford, CT
February 6 – April 4
Reuben Nakian: Centennial Retrospective 1897-1986, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1998
October 10 – January 10, 1999
Reuben Nakian: Centennial Retrospective 1897-1986, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
December 2 – January 30, 1999
Myths and Muses: Reuben Nakian, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
March 5 – April 11
Reuben Nakian: The Centennial Year, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1997
November 15 – February 22.1996
Reuben Nakian: Working the Image, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, CT
February 3 – March 9
Reuben Nakian: Prelude to the Centennial, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY,
1994
November 9 – December 31
Nymphs, Goats and Gods: The Mythology of Reuben Nakian, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Reuben Nakian, Gremillion & Company Fine Art, Houston, TX
Reuben Nakian, Batuz Foundation, Dresden, Germany
1991
October 10 – November 2
Reuben Nakian: Works from 1960-1985, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Reuben Nakian, Gremillion & Company Fine Art, Houston, TX
1990
November 9 – December 7
Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Reuben Nakian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1988
September
Reuben Nakian, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
January 9 – February 13
Reuben Nakian First Memorial Exhibition, DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, NY
Reuben Nakian: Sculpture, Drawings and Graphics, Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Immortals of Antiquity, Belian Art Center, Troy, MI
Reuben Nakian, Galerie Basmadjian, Paris, France
1987
Reuben Nakian Sculptures, Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Nakian, Batuz-Siftung, Schaumburg, West Germany
1986
September 18 – October 10
Reuben Nakian, Gremillion & Company Fine Art, Houston, TX
May 17 – June 19
Reuben Nakian: Sculpture, Drawings, Graphics, Belian Art Center, Troy, MI
May 23 – June 27
Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Drawings, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1985
October 24 – November 30
Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Works on Paper, DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, NY
May 12 – June 22
Reuben Nakian: A Retrospective, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
April 2 – June 23
Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, and Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT, September 8 – December 1.
March 29 – May 11
Reuben Nakian, Flushing Gallery, Flushing, New York, NY
1984
Reuben Nakian, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1983
Continuity and Change: The Nakian Tradition, Bergen Community Museum, Paramus, NJ
October 11 – November 3
Reuben Nakian: Leda and the Swan and Other Works, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IO
Reuben Nakian, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.
August 17 – September 3
Reuben Nakian., Art/Place, Southport, CT
1982
October 7 – November 3
Reuben Nakian: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Reuben Nakian, David Settles Gallery, Houston, TX
1981
Reuben Nakian, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Reuben Nakian, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
November 19
Recent Works on Paper by Reuben Nakian, HMK Fine Arts, Inc, New York, NY
1980
April 13 – May 25
First Public Showing of Graphic Works by Reuben Nakian, Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT
August 24 – January 4
Nakian: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution,Washington, D.C.
1979
October 29 – December 13
Reuben Nakian: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL
May 18 – June 22
Nakian at Landau-Alexander: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, Landau/Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978
November 8 – December 31
Reuben Nakian: New Sculptures, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
1977
August 5 – October 30
Reuben Nakian; Drawings & Sculpture, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, CT
1975
June
Nakian: “In Memory of Frank O’Hara”, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
January 9 – February 1
Nakian: Bronzes, Terra Cottas and Drawings, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
1967-68
Reuben Nakian: Small Bronzes, Terra Cottas and Drawings (circulating exhibition), Museum of Modern Art, NY
1967
July 24 – September 9
Sculpture and Drawings by Reuben Nakian. An Exhibition to Honor the Artist on his 70th Birthday, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dance of Death, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1966
June 22 – September 5
Nakian, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1965
Nakian: New Works including Judgment of Paris and Goddess with the Golden Thighs, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1964
Nakian: New Works, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1963
January 8 – February 18
Nakian, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.
1962
May 16 – June 24
Reuben Nakian Sculpture and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Reuben Nakian: Hecuba, Trojan Woman, Olympia, Voyage to Crete, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1961
US Representation, VI Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil
1960
Steel Pieces: Mars and Venus and Duchess of Alba, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1959
Nakian: Terra Cottas, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1958
November 12 – December 31
Nakian: Rape of Lucrece, Stewart-Marean Gallery, New York, NY
1955
La Chambre à Coucher de l’Empereur, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1953
One-man exhibition, including Venus, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1952
One-man exhibition, including Voyage to Crete, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1950
Terra cottas, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1949
Stone Drawings, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
1935
April 13 – April 28
Portrait Heads of the Officials of the Present Administration, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Downtown Gallery, New York, NY
1934
February 13 – March 3
Babe Ruth by Nakian, The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY
1933
February 27 – March 18
Reuben Nakian: Portraits of 10 Artists, The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY
1930
October 28 – November 16
Seven Sculptures of Seals, Downtown Gallery, New York, NY
1926
Reuben Nakian and Bob Chandler, Whitney Studio Club, New York, NY