Selected Past Exhibitions

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Dynaton: Convocation of Radiant Beings
June 5 - August 1, 2026
Château Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Luminous Land, 1943. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.

Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100
November 8, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Image: The Circuit of the Light Knight Through the Dark Queen, 1942. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation

Gordon Onslow Ford & Roberto Matta: The inner dynamic, the sincere friendship
October 16-November 29, 2025
Galerie Diane de Polignac, Paris, France.

Image: Future of the Falcon (Version 2), 1948. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation

Surréalisme
September 4, 2024 - January 13, 2025
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Image: Propaganda for Love, 1940. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.

Gordon Onslow Ford and JB Blunk
November 13, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Blunk Space Gallery, Point Reyes Station, California

Image: Lunelipse Series, 1951.Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation

Tertium Organum: Traversing Space
August 20-October 15, 2022
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California

Review by Art and Cake magazine here

Surrealism Beyond Borders
February 24 – August 29, 2022
Tate Modern, London, England

Image: A Present for the Past, 1942. Collection of Tate Modern, London, England.

Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo April 28-June 10, 2018 at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and
January 12-March 17, 2019 at Bolinas Museum.
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Image: Forest Go Round (detail), 1951. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.

Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950
October 25, 2016 - January 8, 2017
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Image: The Marriage (detail), 1944. Private Collection.

Gordon Onslow Ford: Centennial Celebration
January 26 - February 26, 2013
Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California

Image: Analytical Landscape, 1939. Private Collection

Stellar Orbits
September 6 - October 27, 2012
Wendi Norris Gallery, San Francisco, California

Image:The Painter and the Muse, 1943. Collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.

Gordon Onslow Ford: Voyager and Visionary
February 11 - May 13, 2012
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
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Image: Storm Struck, 1947. Private Collection.

Gordon Onslow Ford: Paintings and Works on Paper 1939 – 1951
October 14 – December 23, 2010
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, New York
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Image: Temptation of the Painter, 1941. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.