1940s                 

16th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (November 3 –24, 1940)

Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (February 15 – March 18, 1945)

Drawings from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (April 15 – June 1, 1947)

1950s

Young American Printmakers, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (November 25, 1953 – January 31, 1954)

Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (April 21 – June 6, 1954)

First Salon of International Experimental Art, Proteo Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (March 17 – April 16, 1955)

Artists of the United States in Latin America, Pan American Union, Washington, DC (December 19, 1955 – January 14, 1956)

Golden Years of American Drawing: 1905–1956, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (January 22 –March 17, 1957)

Four Younger Americans, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (1958)

Young American Printmakers, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (1958)

Four Young Americans (with Joseph Easter, Robert Goudnough, and David von Schlegel), Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (April 29 – June 7, 1959)

1960s

The Great Beast, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (1960)

Fifty Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (October 1 – October 18, 1967)

Young Collections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (1961)

U.S. Artists in Latin America, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C. (1962)

Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1962)

Exhibition by Faculty of the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (December 9 – 10, 1963)

13th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (January 17 – February 17, 1963)

Color! Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (May 7 – May 31, 1964)

Christmas Exhibition, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas (December 11, 1964 – January 13, 1965)

Drawings from Seventeen States, Drawing Society Regional Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (February 11 – March 14, 1965)

An Exhibition of 24 Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Museum of Fine Arts, Capitol National Bank, Houston, Texas (1965)

Drawings, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Texas (December 23, 1965 – January 17, 1966)

Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1966, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (1966)

Painters and Pedagogues, Jewish Community Center of Houston, Texas (March 17 – April 8, 1966)

The Sphere of Art in Texas, Texas Fine Arts Commission, Texas Pavilion, Hemisfair ‘68, San Antonio, Texas (April 6 – October 6, 1968)

Invitational, The Art League Houston, Texas (1968)

Art on Paper Invitational Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, South Carolina (November 14 – December 18, 1968)

1970s                 

The Drawing Society National Exhibition: Drawings from Nine States, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (April 28 – May 31, 1970) organized by the National Drawing Society

Other Coasts Exhibition ‘71, California State College, Long Beach, California (1971)

A Blending of Cultures as Blending of Time, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas (October 24 – November 5, 1971)

The Larger Canvas: 5 Houston Artists Commissioned by Houston National Bank, Billboard Project, sited on billboards throughout Houston (May 16, 1971 – May 15, 1972)

New Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (May 24 – June 20, 1971)

Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century, Pollack Galleries, Owen Arts Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas (January 17 – March 17, 1971), traveled to: Witte Confluence Museum, HemisFair Plaza, San Antonio (March 21 – May 2, 1971); University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin (June 13 – July 18, 1971); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (September 16 – November 15, 1971); The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (January 9 – March 5, 1972)

Women in Art, State University of New York, Potsdam, New York (March 3 – March 28, 1972)

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New, York (November 8 – December 16, 1973)

American Three, US Embassy, Mexico City, Mexico (1973)

Abstract Painting and Sculpture in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (May 25 – July 7, 1974)

12/Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (September 28 – November 10, 1974)

IBM Invitational, Lincoln Center, New York, New York (1974)

Some Other Artists, One Allen Center, Houston, Texas (May 6 – May 30, 1974)

International Kunstmesse in Basel, Switzerland with La White Gallery (July 19 – July 29, 1974)

Selections from the Faculty of the Museum School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (January 17 –February 13, 1975)

Modern Painting: 1900 to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (July 15 – September 21, 1975)

Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Santa Barabara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California (September – October 1975)

Der Sammler Theodor Ahrenberg und Atelier, Chexbres Marz, Kunst Museum Dusseldorf, West Germany (1975)

American Artists ’76: A Celebration, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas (1976)

New Works in Clay by Painters and Sculptors, Everson Museum of Art and Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (January 24 – April 4, 1976); traveled to Edmonton Museum, Alberta, Canada

Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women, The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, California (February 3 – March 1, 1977)

The Texas Thirty, The Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas (March 26 – May 8, 1977)

Museum School Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (May 17 – July 17, 1977)

Women: Art: Houston, Alley Theater, Houston, Texas (October 14 – November 27, 1977)

Aaron Berman Gallery, New York, New York (Spring 1978)

Women from Nostalgia to Now, Alex Rosenberg Gallery, NY, New York (September 29 – October 28, 1978)

FIRE! Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (February 16 – April 15, 1979)

21st Annual Invitational Exhibition *Operation Update 1979, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, Texas (March 10 – March 29, 1979)

1980s                 

A Sense of Spirit, Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, Texas (September 12 – 25, 1981); traveled to Arizona

Recent Abstract Art by Masters of the Sixties, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas (September 24 – November 12, 1981)

Modern Masters: Women of the First Generation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (December 1 – 21, 1982)

Art from Houston in Norway, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway; Tromso Kunstforening, Norway; Christians and Kunstforening, Norway; Oslo Kunstforening, Norway (June – July 1982)

The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (July 11 – October 3, 1982)

Works by Women¸ Organized by the Gihon Foundation, Woodland Hills, California; traveled to Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas (June 16 – July 31, 1982); Longview Museum & Arts Center, Longview, Texas (August 1 – August 31, 1982); John E. Conner Museum, Texas A & I University, Kingsville, Texas (September 1 – October 15, 1982); Charles B. Goddard Center, Ardmore, Oklahoma (November 1 – November 30, 1982); Meadows Art Museum, Contemporary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana (December 1 – December 31, 1982); Weil Gallery, Center for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas (January 6 – January 31, 1983); The Warehouse Living Arts Center, Corsicana, Texas (February 1 – February 28, 1983); Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas (March 1 – March 31, 1983); Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas (April 1 – May 31, 1983)

In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, 1948-1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (October 23, 1982 – January 2, 1983)

New Art from a New City: Houston, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria, traveled to Galerie an der Stadtmauer, Villach, Austria; Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany (1983)

Images of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas (1983)

Contemporary Houston Art, Houston Women’s Caucus for Art, Houston, Texas (March 6 – 24, 1984)

Avant Olde Guard, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas (October 1984 – January 2, 1985)   

Fresh Roots/First Marks, Art League Houston, Texas (January 19 – February 8, 1985)

Works on Paper, Eleven Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (January 26 – March 8, 1985)

American Women in Art: Works on Paper, U.N. Focus International Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya (July 1985)

Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (January 25 – April 7, 1985), traveled to: MoMA PS1, Queens, New York (May 5 – June 23, 1985); Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Works on Paper: Eleven Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (January 26 – March 7, 1985) traveled in Austria and Germany.

Messages from 1985, The Light Gallery, New York, New York (August 1 – September 20, 1985)

Invitational: Salon des Nations a Paris, Centre International D’Art Contemporain, Paris, France (1985)

Private Collections, Public Treasures, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (1985)

Focus International Exhibition, United Nations, Kenya (1985)

44 Alumni, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (October 4 – December 29, 1985)

The Comet Show, Light Gallery, New York and Bard College, Annandale, New York (November 20, 1985 – January 11, 1986)

Paperworks, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas (February – March 1986)

Artists Choose Artists, Art League Houston, Texas (November 6 – 29, 1986)

The Anatomy of Drawing, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas (September 12 – October 7, 1987)

Abstract Sensibilities Now: A Selection from the Houston Area, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas (October 30 – November 28, 1987)

20 Centuries of Work on Stone: Lithographs, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas (October 30 –December 19, 1987); Traveled to San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (March 3 – April 3, 1988); Tyler Museum of Art (April 21 – July 3, 1988); Aspen Art Museum, (September 22 – October 30, 1988)

Houston 88 Group Exhibition, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas (February 11 – May 12, 1988)

Flights of Fancy, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (November 19 – December 16, 1988)

Texas Women, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (December 1, 1988 – February 26, 1989); traveled to Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas

Susan Teller Gallery, New York, (1989)

Organic Abstractions, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas (January 18 – February 17, 1989)

Another Reality, Hooks Epstein Galleries, Inc. New York, New York (May 20 – July 1, 1989)

Looking at Color, Transco Gallery, Houston, Texas (May 25 –July 1, 1989)

Important Works on Paper, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas (September – October 1989)

Master’s Choice, Art League Houston, Texas (September 7 – 30, 1989)

American Women Artists of the 20^th Century, Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, (October 27, 1989 –February 4, 1990) toured to Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, Bayside, New York (March 11 – April 5, 1990)

1990s                 

Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (February 17 – April 29, 1990) 

Feather, Fur, and Fin, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin Texas (March 10 – April 29, 1990)

The Power of Enduring Presence: 10 Texas Women Artists, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas (May 16 – July 13, 1990)

The Door Show, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas, (December 1990)

Important Works on Paper, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas (August 1991)

Important Works on Paper, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas (July 30 – August 31, 1992)

Darkness + Light: Twentieth-Century Works from Texas Collections, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas (January 22 – March 28, 1993)

Artists’ Progress: Seven Houston Artists 1943-1993, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (October 21 – November 28, 1993)

Images from Space, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (January 21 – March 5, 1995)

Artist Choice Selected by Elizabeth Murray, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (June 20
August 22, 1995)

Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (October 29 – December 31, 1995)

32 Texas Artists, University of Houston, Texas (May 6 – June 28, 1996)

Committed to Abstraction, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (October 25, 1997 – January 25, 1998)

Oil Patch Dreams: Images of the Petroleum Industry in American Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas,
Beaumont, Texas (September 12 – December 20, 1998), traveled to: Museum of the Southwest, Midland; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Austin Museum of Art, Austin; Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls

2000s

A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950-1965, Brazos Projects, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas (May 2004)

Houston Art in Houston Collections: Works from 1900 to 1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas (2006)

Of This Vast State: Women Artists of Texas, 1900–1960, Women’s Museum, Dallas, Texas (2006)

Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction (1935-1965), Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (January 2007)

Founders of Houston Art: Thirty Artists Who Led the Way, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (2008)

Timeless: A Retrospective of Selected Women Artists of Texas, 1940 to Present, David Dike Fine Art, Dallas, Texas (April 20 – May 19, 2008); William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (June 1 – June 23, 2008); Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas

Back to the Future: Elements of “Modern” in Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (September 11 – 26, 2009)

A Texas Sampler: Vintage Paintings by Thirty Texas Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (2009)

Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawing from the Lone Star State, 1938-2008, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (December 10 – December 19, 2009)

Texas Art Seen, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas (2009)

Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction (1935-1965), Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (September 17, 2009 – January 3, 2010)

2010s                 

Pioneering Women: Three Modernists in Houston—Dorothy Hood, Leila McConnell, Stella Sullivan, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (October 15 – November 6, 2010)

Third Anniversary Show: A Tribute to Houston Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (February 5 – 20, 2010)

Texas Collages: A Tribute to Kurt Schwitters, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (November 19 –December 18, 2010)

Lone Star Modernism: A Celebration of Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (April 1 – May 7, 2011)

Portrait of Houston: 1900 – 2011, Alliance Gallery, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas (2011)

Breakthrough: Sixty Years of Texas Abstraction, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (August 26 – September 17, 2011)

Texas Expressionism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (September 14 – October 13, 2012)

Rhythms of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (April 5 – May 4, 2013)

Summer Encore Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (July 26 – August 24, 2013)

Houston Founders at City Hall Art Exhibition, City Hall, Houston, Texas (June 1 – October 1, 2014

A New Visual Vocabulary: Developments in Texas Modernism 1935-1965, One Allen Center, Lobby Gallery, Houston, Texas (September 18 – October 8, 2014)

Lone Star Masters of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (2014)

Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (January 31 – April 26, 2015)

Soldier, Spectre, Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (October 24, 2015 – April 3, 2016)

Texas Originals: Six Bayou City Expressionists, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas (February – March, 2016) 

Abstract Dialog: The Artful Interactions of Ibsen Espada, Dick Wray, and Dorothy Hood, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas (September 2 – 24, 2016)

Focus on the 70s and 80s: Houston Foundations Part II, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas (August 26 – November 4, 2017)

DCG: Looking Back and Beyond, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas (February 3 – February 24, 2018)

The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in the Southern Abstraction, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (March 22 – July 22, 2018)

South and North of the Border: Houston Paints Mexico, Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas (August 25 – November 1, 2018)

Contemporary Artists in Houston from the Collections of William J. Hill and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Glassell School – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (August 3 – November 11, 2018)

Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (November 3, 2018 – February 3, 2019)

Cosmic Attraction: Dorothy Hood & Don Redman, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas (November 10, 2018 – January 5, 2019) American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (February 14 – May 19, 2019)

The Art of Texas: 250 Years, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (May 4 – August 25, 2019) 

Dorothy Hood: Illuminated Earth, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas (October 12 – December 21, 2019)

A Legacy of Firsts: The Everson Collects, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York (November 16, 2019 – January 3, 2021)

2020s                 

Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art, San Antonio Museum of Modern Art, San Antonio, Texas (February 7 – September 6, 2020)

Expanding Abstraction: Pushing the Boundaries of Painting in the Americas, 1958–1980, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (October 4, 2020 – January 3, 2021)

Off the Walls: Gifts from Professor John A. Robertson, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (November 8, 2020 – March 14, 2021)

Edge of the Devine, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas (February 27 – May 1, 2021)

how lovely the ruins, how ruined the lovely, Sargent’s Daughters, New York (May 20 – June 19, 2021)

Cosmic Eye of the Little Bird, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas (March 26 – May 27)

Texas Artists: Women of Abstraction, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (February 4 – May 8, 2022)

Women and Abstraction: 1741 – Now, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (January 28 – July 30, 2023)