Exhibition History

2026: “Remedios Varo (1908-1963): A Retrospective,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, September 18, 2026-January 10, 2027; and traveling to Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, February 20-May 9, 2027
2026: “The Out There is Right Here: Ian Collings and the Bishop Pine Preserve.” Blunk Space, Point Reyes Station, California.
2026: “Surrealism and Mexico: Magnetic Mirror.” CISCM // Maisons André Breton and Émile Joseph-Rignault, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France.
2026: “Dynaton: Convocation of Radiant Beings.” Château Shatto, Los Angeles, California.
2026: “Tarot!: Renaissance Symbols / Modern Visions." Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York.
2025: “Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100." Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2025: "Gordon Onslow Ford & Roberto Matta: The inner dynamic, the sincere friendship." Galerie Diane de Polignac, Paris, France.
2025: “Human | Nature: California Zen in Big Sur and San Francisco.” Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California.
2025: "From Dynaton to Lucid Art." Lucid Art Gallery, Inverness, California.
2025: "1924. Otros surrealismos." Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain.
2024: “Surréalisme.” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2024: "Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes." The Hepworth Wakefield Museum, West Yorkshire, England.
2024: "Roberto Matta: All Things Are Changing in All Dimensions." Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2024: "Gertrud Parker: The Possible." Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, California.
2023: “Four Horizons.” Blunk Space Gallery, Point Reyes Station, California.
2023: “In the Shadow of Mt. Tam.” Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Mill Valley, California.
2023: “Same Blue as the Sky.” Four One Nine, San Francisco, California.
2022: “Gordon Onslow Ford and JB Blunk.” Blunk Space Gallery, Point Reyes, California.
2022: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Member of the Lucid Art Movement.” Findlay Galleries, New York, New York
2022: "Tertium Organum: Traversing Space." Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California.
2022: “Surrealism Beyond Borders.” Tate Modern, London, England.
2021: "Surrealism in American Art." Centre de la Vieille Charité, Ville de Marseille, France.
2020: “FAULTline Art Show–The County Experience.” Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, California.
2019: “The Surrealist Revolution in America.” Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, California.
2019: “Surrealism in Mexico.” Di Donna Galleries, New York, New York.
2018: “Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein.” Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, California.
2018: “Reverberations: A Visual Conversation.” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California.
2018: “Collecting on the Edge.” Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
2018: “Hello World. Revising a Collection.” Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin.
2018: "Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo." Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, California; and 2019 at Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California.
2018: "Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times (Part I)." di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, California.
2017: "Surrealist Drawings on Paper." Galerie 1900–2000, Paris, France.
2017: "Los Modernos. Dialogues France/Mexico." Musée de Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France.
2016: “Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950.” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2015: "Science in Surrealism." Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, California.
2015: “Fields of Dream: The Surrealist Landscape.” Di Donna Gallery, New York, New York.
2015: “The Avant-Garde Collection.” Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California.
2014: "Restless Universe: Inner Thought/Outer Space." David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, New York.
2014: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Space Elements.” David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, New York. (solo)
2014: “Western Light, Ecstatic Landscapes.” Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho.
2013: “Farewell to Surrealism: The Dyn Circle in Mexico.” Getty Research Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.
2013: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Centennial Celebration.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California. (solo)
2013: “Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art.” The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California.
2013: “Action and Chance: A New Look at Drip.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2013: "Image to Gesture 1945-1969: California Postwar Abstraction." David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, New York.
2012: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Centennial Celebration.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2012: “Stellar Orbits.” Wendi Norris Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2012: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Voyager and Visionary.” Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. (solo)
2011: “The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art.” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2011: “Surrealism: New Worlds.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2010: "The Visionary Art of Morris Graves." Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2010: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Paintings and Works on Paper 1939 – 1951.” Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, New York. (solo)
2010: “Cosmic: Artists Consider Astronomy." Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho.
2009: “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia,1860-1989.” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York.
2008: “Landscapes of Consciousness.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2007: “Dreams on Canvas.” Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, New York.
2007: “Gordon Onslow Ford: From the Vallejo: 1949-1959.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California. (solo)
2007: “1937: Perfecktion und Zerstorung.” Kunsthalle-Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
2006: “The Formative Years: Paintings from the 1930’s to 1940’s.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California. (solo)
2006: “Threshold of a New Art - Artwork of the 1950's, A Selection from the Lucid Art Foundation Collection.” California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California.
2005: “The Great Spaces of the Mind: Paintings from the 1990’s to 2000’s.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California. (solo)
2005: "Surrealism USA.” National Academy Museum, New York, New York.
2004: “Voyagers in Space: Paintings from the 1970’s and 1980’s.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California. (solo)
2003: “Exploring the Open Mind: Paintings from the 1950’s and 1960’s.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California. (solo)
2003: “Roberto Matta and Gordon Onslow Ford: A Vision Shared.” Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2003: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Recent Works.” Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California. (solo)
2003: "Gordon Onslow Ford: The Seminal Years." Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2001: “Made in USA, l’Art Americain, 1908-1943.” Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France and other venues.
2001: “Gordon Onslow Ford Paintings.” Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California. (solo)
2001: “Vital Forms: American Art in the Atomic Age.” Brooklyn Museum, New York, and other venues.
2001: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Radiant Beings." Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California. (solo)
2000: “Made in California.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
2000: “Gordon Onslow Ford Paintings.” Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, California. (solo)
1999: “The Surrealists in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School.” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
1998: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Mirando en lo profound / Seeing in Depth.” Fundación Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (solo)
1998: “The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas” The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut.
1998: “Wegbereiter des Abstrakten Expressionismus in Amerika, Gordon Onslow Ford, Lee Mullican, Wolfgang Paalen” Kunstrverein Arnsberg, Nurnberg, Germany.
1997: “Through the Light: Exploration into Consciousness.” Arts and Consciousness Gallery, JFK University, Berkeley, California.
1997: “Aspekte Imaginativer Kunst.” Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
1997: “Années 30 en Europe 1929-1939.” Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
1997: “Surrealism and American Art 1932-1949.” Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida.
1997: "Hommage to the Getty.” Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1996: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Werke 1938 – 1995.” Kunstlerforum Bonn, Bonn, Germany. (solo)
1996: “Quest of the Inner-Worlds: Paintings by Gordon Onslow Ford.” Arts and Consciousness Gallery, JFK University, Berkeley, California. (solo)
1995: “Inner World Images of the Unconscious.” Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1995: “Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art 1934-1957.” Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, and other venues.
1995: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Retrospectiva.” Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile. traveled to: Galeria Municipal de Arte, Valparaîso, Chile; Pinacoteca Municipal, Concepción, Chile (solo)
1995: “Fifteen Profiles: Distinguished California Modernists.” Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California.
1994: "Gordon Onslow Ford: Bilder / Paintings." Höcherl-Verlag, Munich, Germany. (solo)
1994: “Gordon Onslow Ford: A Retrospective.” Bochum Museum of Art, Bochum, Germany. (solo)
1994: “Counterpoints: American Art 1930-1945." Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, New York.
1993: “Lateinamerika und der Surrealismus.” Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
1993: "Gordon Onslow Ford." Galerie Brochier, Munich, Germany. (solo)
1993: "Gordon Onslow Ford: The World of Line Circle Dot.” Pavilion at the Botanical Garden, Munich, Germany. (solo)
1993: “Gordon Onslow Ford: Paintings of the Inner-Worlds.” Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California. (solo)
1992: “Dynaton, Before and Beyond.” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California.
1992: “Light and Color – Dynaton Painters.” Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1991: “André Breton et le Surréalisme.” Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centro Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, and other venues.
1991: “Gordon Onslow Ford.” Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California. (solo )
1990: “Pursuit of the Marvelous: Stanley William Hayter, Charles Howard, Gordon Onslow Ford.” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California.
1990: “Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art.” University Art Museum, Berkeley, California.
1990: “El Surrealismo Entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo.” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain.
1990: Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California. (solo)
1987: “The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, and other venues.
1987: “Visions of Inner Space: Gestural Painting in Modern American Art.” Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California.
1986: “La Planéte Affolée Surréalisme, Dispersion et Influences, 1938 – 1947.” Centre de la Vielle Charité, Marseilles, France.
1986: “Moderns in Mind.” Artists Space, New York, New York.
1986: “Minotaure.” Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland, and other venues.
1986: “The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism,
Works on Paper 1938-1948.” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, and other venues.
1986: David Cole Gallery, Inverness, California.
1985: Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris, France.
1984: "Ceci n’est pas le surrealisme, California: Idioms of Surrealism." Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
1984: "Surrealism: Work on Paper." Arnold Herstand and Company Gallery, New York, New York.
1984: “Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century.” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
1982: “Peinture Surréaliste en Angleterre 1930 – 1960.” Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France.
1982: “L’Echange Surréaliste” Grand Palais, Paris, France.
1982: “Drawings by Painters." Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California.
1978: “Creation.” Galerie Schreiner, Basel, Switzerland. (solo)
1977: “Retrospective Exhibition (1931-1977).” Oakland Museum, Oakland, California.
1977: “Surrealitat-Bildrealitat (1924-1974).” Staalich Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany.
1977: “Surrealism and American Art (1931-1947).” Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1977: “California: 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History, Dynaton Revisited.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
1977: “Dynaton re-viewed: a show of three painters of the Dynaton movement that was first exhibited in 1951 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Lee Mullican, Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen." Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California.
1975: “Gordon Onslow Ford, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, 1937-1975.” Pyramid Galleries, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1973: Rose Rabow Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1971: "Other Landscapes and Shadow Land, Visionary Painting by Ten Bay Area Artists." University of Southern California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
1971: “Gordon Onslow-Ford: A Partial Retrospective.” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (solo)
1970: “Gordon Onlsow Ford, Large Paintings.” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. (solo)
1968: “Dada, Surrealism, and their Heritage.” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, and other venues.
1966: Rose Rabow Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1964: “Retrospective Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolors.” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. (solo)
1962: "Some Points of View-’62.” Stanford University Art Gallery and Museum, Stanford, California.
1962: “Fifty California Artists." San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California.
1962: “Gordon Onslow Ford, 1951-1962.” M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California.
1960: “Paintings by Gordon Onslow Ford.” Rose Rabow Gallery, San Francisco, California. (solo)
1959: “Gordon Onslow Ford and Richard Bowman.” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California.
1956: Alexander Rabow Galleries, San Francisco, California.
1951: "Dynaton." San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California.
1948: “Towards a New Subject in Painting.” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. (solo)
1946: Karl Nierendorf Gallery, New York, New York. (solo)
1941: New School for Social Research, New York, New York.
1940: "International Exhibition of Surrealism." Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico.
1940: “Surrealism.” Zwemmer Gallery, London, England.
1939: Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France.
1939: “Le Rêve dans l’art et la littérature.” Galerie Contemporaine, Paris, France.
1938 “Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme.” Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.