Taking Shape Exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery This list comprises a selection of the exhibitions organized by the Grey Art Gallery at New York University from its opening in 1975 through today. • 1975:
Inaugural Exhibition: Selections from the Abby Weed Grey Collection • 1976:
Inaugural Exhibition, Part II: Selections from the New York University Art Collection • 1976:
Parviz Tanavoli: Fifteen Years of Bronze Sculpture • 1978:
The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright. Co-organized by the
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center • 1981:
The Photography of Space Exploration • 1981:
Tracking The Marvelous • 1983:
Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti Organized by the
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London • 1984:
Giovanni Boldini and Society Portraiture: 1880–1920 • 1985:
Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties • 1989:
"Success Is a Job in New York": The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol. Organized by the Grey Art Gallery and the
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg. • 1989:
Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties. Organized by the
List Visual Arts Center at
MIT, the Japan Foundation, and the Grey Art Gallery • 1994:
From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS. Organized by the Grey Art Gallery and Independent Curators Inc. • 1997:
Nahum B. Zenil: Witness to the Self • 1999:
Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman • 1999:
When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland. Organized by the
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum • 2002:
Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture • 2004:
Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954–1968. Co-organized by the Grey Art Gallery and the
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver • 2006:
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974–1984. Co-organized by the Grey Art Gallery and
Fales Library, New York University • 2008:
New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection, Grey Art Gallery, New York University • 2008:
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art • 2009:
Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya. Organized by the
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at
Cornell University • 2011:
Art/Memory/Place: Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire • 2012:
Jesús Rafael Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970 • 2012:
Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore. Organized by the Grey Art Gallery and presented at the Grey Art Gallery and
Fales Library • 2015:
Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection • 2015:
Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera. Co-organized by the Grey Art Gallery and the
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. • 2016:
Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran • 2017:
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965 • 2018:
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Organized by the
Weisman Art Museum at the
University of Minnesota in collaboration with the
Cajal Institute, Spain • 2019:
Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989. Organized by the
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio • 2019: ''Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Weed Grey Collection'' • 2020:
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s. Co-curated with the
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE. • 2024:
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, March 2, 2024 – July 20, 2024 • 2024:
Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde, October 1, 2024 – March 1, 2025. Co-organized by Grey Art Museum, the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (exhibited May 10 – September 7, 2025), and the
Musée de l’Orangerie (exhibited October 8, 2025 – January 26, 2026). ==Awards==