ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 14 Sculptures, 1 Painting, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2017 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2014 A Story of Red and other works, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2008 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2005 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2002 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2001 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Arts, Boston
Sketches, Art Resources Transfer, New York
2000 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1999 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1997 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1996 Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1994 Patrick Callery, New York
1991 Berland/Hall, New York
1990 Julian Pretto/Berland Hall, New York
1989 Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago
1989 Julian Pretto/Berland Hall, New York
1988 Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago
1986 Wolff Gallery, New York
1984 Wolff Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 STUFF, curated by Arlene Schechet, Pace Gallery, New York
Ninth Street and Beyond: 70 Years of Women in Abstraction Part II: The Geometric, Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York
Make Art Not War: Pierogi for Peace, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2019 Through Thick and Thin - Betsy Kaufman and Polly Apfelbaum, Kerry Schuss, New York
Notebook, 56 HENRY, New York
2018 Out Of Control, Venus Over Manhatten, New York
2016 Drawing, Kerry Schuss, New York
2013 Julian Pretto Gallery, Minus Space, New York
2011 Betsy Kaufman: Many Paintings, Robert Watts: Some Objects, Lawrence Weiner: 3 Videos, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Plot: Plan: Process: Works on Paper from the 1960s to Now, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2010 The Jewel Thief, Tang Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (curated by Jessica Stockholder and Ian Berry)
Off The Grid: Betsy Kaufman, Oditi Donald Odita, W.C. Richardson, G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2004 The Fine Line (Between Something and Nothing), Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Colored Pencil, KS Art, New York
2003 “Ballpoint Inklings,” KS Art, New York (in association with Geoffrey Young)
Drawing, G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2002 Watercolor in the Abstract, The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, N.Y.; Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, SUNY College at Fredonia, N.Y.; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; DePauw University, Greene Castle, Ind.; Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson University, Wayne, New Jersey; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
2001 Paintings, 123 Watts, New York
2000 Solitude in the Museum: 10 Years of Solitude, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
1999 Pattern, James Graham & Sons, New York
Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green?, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
The Passion/Passions of Art, Richard Anderson Fine Art, New York
1998 Disappearing Act, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Asian Inspiration, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
1997 On the Wall, TIAA-CREF, New York (organized by Viart Corp.)
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1996 Seven Strangers, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
New York, Andrea Pintsch, Munich, Germany
Margaret Lipworth International, Boca Raton, Florida
1995 Like Young: 12 New York Artists, Three Rivers Arts Festival, an activity of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Partly Sunny Tomorrow, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1994 Six Artists Selected from the Artists File, Artists Space, New York
1993 Painting as Paradigm, Stark Gallery, New York
1992 Berland/Hall, New York
Neurotic Art Show, Artists Space, New York
Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York
1991 Ornament, John Post Lee Gallery, New York
1990 Nature/nature, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
1988 The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Art of the 1980s: Artists from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Mutations, Anina Nosei Gallery, New York
1987 Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago
Romanticism and Classicism, Queensborough Community College, New York
Elliot Smith Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri
Wolff Gallery, New York
Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, N.Y.
1986 New York on Paper, Wolff Gallery, New York
Current, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
JPMorgan Chase
The Capital Group
Citibank, N.A.
Eli Broad Family Foundation
Bank of America
Progressive Corporation
Goldman Sachs
Merrill Lynch
Amerada Hess Corp.
Arthur Anderson, Inc.
G. Heilman Brewing Co.
Pepsico
Prudential Insurance Co.
West Collection at SEI
Comcast
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