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Once Upon a Time in London
Saatchi Yates
14 Bury Street
London
UK12th June - 17th August 2025
Gerald Laing's painting Cléo from 5 to 7 is being shown at Saatchi Yates gallery in London, as part of a major group exhibition of London-based artists from the 1950s to the present day. Laing's painting sits alongside works by his contemporaries such as Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. The exhibition also explores the London art scene of the 1990s, including works by Damien Hirst and Jenny Saville and features more recent works by Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Jade Fadoujitimi, Oli Epp and Benjamin Spiers.
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2016 Gerald Laing 1936–2011: A Retrospective, The Fine Art Society, 19 September – 13 October 2016.chevron_right
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2012 Gerald Laing: Prints and Multiples, Sims Reed Gallery, 17 October – 8 November 2012.chevron_right
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2011 Amy Winehouse, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd, 11 October – 10 November 2011.chevron_right
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2010 Gerald Laing: Drawings 1942–2010: A Retrospective, Sims Reed Gallery, 25 February – 19 March 2010.chevron_right
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2010 Graphics, Morton Metropolis, 10–24 February 2010.chevron_right
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2008 Gerald Laing: New Paintings for Modern Times, ocontemporary Gallery, 17 October – 15 November 2008.chevron_right
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2008 Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1965–1978, The Fine Art Society, 27 February – 11 March 2008.chevron_right
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2008 Gerald Laing: War Paintings, The Mayor Gallery.chevron_right
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2007 Sex and Speed: British Pop from the 1960s, Mary Ryan Gallery, August 2007.chevron_right
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2007 Gerald Laing: War Paintings, Galerie Beddekoetsje, 11 November - 16 December 2007.chevron_right
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2007 War Paintings, Stolen Space, 28 September - 13 October 2007.chevron_right
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2007 Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Globe Gallery, 26 January – 3 March 2007.chevron_right
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2006 Space, Speed, Sex: Prints and Multiples 1965–1976, Sims Reed Gallery, 15 November – 8 December 2006.chevron_right
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2006 Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 15 November – 8 December 2006.chevron_right
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2006 Gerald Laing: Shock and Awe, oontemporary Gallery, 23 June – 26 July 2006.chevron_right
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2005 Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Galerie Salvador, 26 May – 25 June 2005.chevron_right
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2005 Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Spike Gallery, 14 April – 28 May 2005.chevron_right
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2005 Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Kings College, 19 February – 3 March 2005.chevron_right
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2004 Gerald Laing: From 1963 to the Present, Bourne Fine Art, 8–29 October 2004.chevron_right
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2002 Gerald Laing: A Selected Retrospective of 40 Years' Work, Kilmorack Gallery, 23 August – 23 September 2002.chevron_right
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2002 Gerald Laing: Sculpture at Chisenbury Priory, Chisenbury Priory, 25 May – 2 June 2002.chevron_right
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2000 Gerald Laing: Pop Prints, The Fine Art Society, 17 April – 4 May 2000.chevron_right
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1999 Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1968–1999, The Fine Art Society, 22 March – 15 April 1999.chevron_right
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1996 Starlets, Skydivers and Dragsters, Whitford Fine Art, 19 September – 19 October 1996.chevron_right
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1994 Gerald Laing: The Galina Series, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, 2 July – 3 September 1994.chevron_right
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1993 Gerald Laing: Portraits, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd, 10 – 24 November 1993.chevron_right
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1993 Gerald Laing: Pop Prints from the Sixties, Harris Gallery, 7 July – 7 August 1993.chevron_right
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1993 Independent Gallery.chevron_right
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1993 Gerald Laing: A Retrospective 1963–1993, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 14 August – 18 September 1993.chevron_right
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1990 Gerald Laing, The Scottish Gallery, London, 3–28 July 1990.chevron_right
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1989 The Scottish Gallery, London.chevron_right
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1987 Albert Totah Gallery, 24 January – 21 February 1987.chevron_right
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1983 Joanne Lyon Gallery, September 1983.chevron_right
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1983 Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, 10 September – 9 October 1983.chevron_right
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1982 An Exhibition of the Hamburg Triptych, 27–29 Blenheim Gardens, 27 November – 11 December 1982.chevron_right
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1982 Gerald Laing: Hamburg Triptych (for the Edinburgh International Festival), Bannermans Bar, 20 August – 11 September 1982.chevron_right
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1982 Gerald Laing: Sculpture, Bacardi Art Gallery, 17 March – 15 April 1982.chevron_right
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1981 Gerald Laing: Sculpture, Gallery Camino Real, 3–21 February 1981.chevron_right
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1980 David Michie and Gerald Laing, The Scottish Gallery, November 1980.chevron_right
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1979 Gerald Laing: Bronze Sculpture, Max Hutchinson Gallery, 6 November – 1 December 1979.chevron_right
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1979 Max Hutchinson Gallery, 29 May – 17 July 1979.chevron_right
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1978 An Exhibition of Sculpture by Gerald Laing at the Edinburgh Festival 1978, Gladstone Court, 18 August – 9 September 1978.chevron_right
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1976 Zolla Lieberman Gallery.chevron_right
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1976 Max Hutchinson Gallery, November – December 1976.chevron_right
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1973 University of New Mexico Art Museum.chevron_right
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1973 Arthur Tooth and Sons.chevron_right
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1971 Nan Duskin, September 1971.chevron_right
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1971 Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.chevron_right
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1971 Contemporary Arts Center.chevron_right
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1971 1971: Gerald Laing, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 26 June – 1 August 1971.chevron_right
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1971 Multiples Inc., April 1971.chevron_right
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1970 Richard Demarco Gallery.chevron_right
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1970 Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, May 1970.chevron_right
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1969 Gerald Laing - Solo Exhibition, Galerie M.E. Thelen, 22 March – 24 April 1969.chevron_right
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1969 Witness, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, March 1969.chevron_right
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1968 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York.chevron_right
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1967 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York.chevron_right
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1966 Kornblee Gallery, 16 April – 5 May 1966.chevron_right
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1965 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, November 1965.chevron_right
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1965 Gerald Laing: Paintings, Drawings, Constructions, Prints, Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, 9 March – 3 April 1965.chevron_right
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1964–5 Feigen-Palmer Gallery, 7 December 1964 – 2 January 1965 1964–5.chevron_right
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1964 First Jump Course (One Man Show), Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, 29 September – 24 October 1964.chevron_right
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1964 Gerald Laing Prints, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 27 May – 23 June 1964.chevron_right
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1963 Paintings of Photographs/Photographs of Paintings, Saint Martin’s School of Art, 18–29 March 1963.chevron_right
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1963 Gerald Laing: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Laing Art Gallery, 11–25 May 1963.chevron_right
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2025 Once Upon a Time in London, Saatchi Yates, 12th June - 17th August 2025.chevron_right
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2019 Lyndsey Ingram at the Armory Show, Lyndsey Ingram at the Armory Show, March 7–10 2019.chevron_right
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2018 Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing, Lévy Gorvy, London, March 6 – April 28 2018.chevron_right
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2016–7 This Was Tomorrow: Pop Art in Great Britain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 30 October 2016 – 19 February 2017 2016–7.chevron_right
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2015 Pop in Space: We Choose to go to the Moon, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 21 February – 18 July 2015.chevron_right
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2013–4 Pop Art to Britart: Modern Masters from the David Ross Collection, Djanogly Art Gallery, 23 November 2013 – 9 February 2014 2013–4.chevron_right
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2013 The New Situation: Art in London in the Sixties, Sotheby’s, 4–11 September 2013.chevron_right
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2013 When Britain Went Pop. British Pop Art: The Early Years, Christie’s King Street, 9 October – 23 November 2013.chevron_right
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2012–3 Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now, The Fine Art Society, 30 November 2012 – 12 January 2013 2012–3.chevron_right
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2012 On the Bowery, Westwood Gallery.chevron_right
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2010 Pop Protest: Art for an Anxious Age, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 1 May – 30 October 2010.chevron_right
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2007–8 Pop Art! 1956–1968, Scuderie del Quirinale, 26 October 2007 - 27 January 2008 2007–8.chevron_right
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2007–8 Pop Art Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 11 October 2007 – 20 January 2008 2007–8.chevron_right
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2007 Sealladh 5, An Tuireann Arts Centre, 4 August – 22 September 2007.chevron_right
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2006 London in the 60s, The Mayor Gallery, 12 September – 5 October 2006.chevron_right
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2005–6 Aspects of British Abstract Art (1959–1966), Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, 25 October 2005 – 15 January 2006 2005–6.chevron_right
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2005–6 British Pop, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 17 October 2005 – 12 February 2006 2005–6.chevron_right
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2004 British Prints, The Fine Art Society, October 2004.chevron_right
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2004 Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, 30 June – 26 September 2004.chevron_right
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2004 Pop Art UK: British Pop Art 1956–1972, Galleria Civica di Modena, 18 April – 4 July 2004.chevron_right
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2003–4 Global Village: The 60s (Village Global: Les Annees 60), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2 October 2003 – 7 March 2004 2003–4.chevron_right
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2001 Pop Art: U.S./U.K. Connections, 1956–1966, The Menil Collection, 26 January – 13 May 2001.chevron_right
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1999–2000 From the Bomb to the Beatles - Britain 1945–1965, Imperial War Museum, March 1999 – May 2000 1999–2000.chevron_right
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1999 Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, 18 February – 18 May 1999.chevron_right
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1999 Liberation and Tradition: Scottish Art 1963–1975, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, 5 June – 31 July 1999.chevron_right
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1997 Les Sixties: Great Britain and France 1962–1973, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, 25 April – 29 June 1997.chevron_right
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1997 Pop 60s: Travessia Transatlântica/Transatlantic Crossing, Centro Cultural de Belém, 11 September – 17 November 1997.chevron_right
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1995 Images from Space, Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, 20 January – 6 March 1995.chevron_right
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1993 The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, 11 March – 13 June 1993.chevron_right
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1992 500 Years of Design in Scotland, McLellan Galleries, 22 November – 13 December 1992.chevron_right
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1991 Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland, 1540–1990, Royal Scottish Academy, 18 July – 15 September 1991.chevron_right
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1990 Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia.chevron_right
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1990 Sculpture Exhibition, The Highland Council.chevron_right
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1989 The Scottish Gallery, London.chevron_right
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1988 Royal British Society of Sculptors.chevron_right
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1987 Royal Scottish Academy.chevron_right
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1986–7 Pop Art, Minimal Art, Etc., Artists in Residence in Aspen 1965–1970, Aspen Art Museum, 11 December 1986 – 8 February 1987 1986–7.chevron_right
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1984 Royal Scottish Academy.chevron_right
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1984 Barbican Art Fair, Barbican Art Gallery.chevron_right
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1982 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts.chevron_right
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1981 Nancy Margolis Gallery.chevron_right
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1981 University of New Mexico Art Museum, January – March 1981.chevron_right
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1981 Art 12 '81, , 17–22 June 1981.chevron_right
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1980 Sculpture in the Highlands: Landmark and Glenshee, The Landmark Sculpture Park.chevron_right
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1979 Royal Scottish Academy.chevron_right
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1978 Drawings for Outdoor Sculpture, Aspen Art Museum, 11 March – 1 April 1978.chevron_right
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1978 Objects and Constructions: Selected Scottish Scuplture, Edinburgh College of Art.chevron_right
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1978 Cubist Syntax in the Seventies, Ingber Gallery, 7 January – 1 February 1978.chevron_right
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1976 Four From The Art Faculty, University of New Mexico Art Museum, 31 October – 28 November 1976.chevron_right
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1975 Laing Mylius Scobie, Cleish Castle, 7–31 August 1975.chevron_right
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1971 Kölner Kunst Markt/Cologne Art Fair/Cologne Foire d'Art, Kunsthalle Kunstverein Forum, 5–10 October 1971.chevron_right
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1971 Galerie Neuendorf, October 1971.chevron_right
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1971 Photo-Graphics, University of New Mexico Art Museum, 7 February - 15 March (and touring) 1971.chevron_right
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1970 The Highway, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 14 January – 25 February 1970.chevron_right
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1970 Monumental American Sculpture, Cincinnati Art Museum, 13 September – 1 November 1970.chevron_right
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1970 Peace Show, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 19 May – 21 June 1970.chevron_right
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1969 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2 March – 6 April 1969.chevron_right
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1969 Big New York, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York.chevron_right
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1968–9 1968 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, 17 December 1968 – 9 February 1969 1968–9.chevron_right
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1968 Macy's Great Festival of Great Britain: British Painting Here and Now, Macy’s.chevron_right
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1968 Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly The New Gallery).chevron_right
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1968 Prospect 68, Konrad Fischer Gallery, 20–29 September 1968.chevron_right
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1968 Richard J. Daley, Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago.chevron_right
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1968 Selections from the Collection of Hanford Yang, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 29 September – 22 December 1968.chevron_right
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1967–9 British Drawings: The New Generation, Museum of Modern Art, October 1967 – April 1969 (circulating exhibition) 1967–9.chevron_right
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1967–8 Greek Gold Exhibition, Byron Gallery.chevron_right
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1967–8 Around the Automobile, Museum of Modern Art, February 1967 – May 1968 (circulating exhibition) 1967–8.chevron_right
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1967–8 9th Bienal de Saõ Paulo, , 22 September 1967 – 8 January 1968 1967–8.chevron_right
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1967 Englische Kunst, Galerie Bischofberger.chevron_right
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1967 Nuove Tecniche D'Immagine, Palazzo dei Congressi, San Marino, 15 July – 30 September 1967.chevron_right
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1967 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 5 March – 9 April 1967.chevron_right
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1967 Art Objective, Galerie Stadler.chevron_right
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1966–7 Vormen van de kleur/New Shapes of Color, Stedelijk Museum, 20 November – 15 January 1967 (and touring) 1966–7.chevron_right
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1966 Banners, Marian Goodman Gallery.chevron_right
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1966 Selections from the John G. Powers Collection, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 25 September - 11 December 1966.chevron_right
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1966 Highlights of the 1965–66 Art Season, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 10 July – 11 September 1966.chevron_right
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1966 26th Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 8 April – 10 May 1966.chevron_right
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1966 Four Seasons Restaurant, January 1966.chevron_right
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1966 Contemporary Drawing, Contemporary Art Gallery: Loeb Student Center, 12 December – 6 January 1967 1966.chevron_right
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1966 Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, The Jewish Museum, 27 April – 12 June 1966.chevron_right
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1965 Far Out, Paintings and sculpture from the Collection of John G. Powers, New Jersey, State University College at Plattsburgh, 10–22 January 1965.chevron_right
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1965 Pop and Circumstance, Four Seasons Hotel, 14 March 1965.chevron_right
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1965 A New York Collector Selects ..., San Francisco Museum of Art.chevron_right
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1965 Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka.chevron_right
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1964–5 Eröffnungsausstellung, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, 5 December 1964 – 31 January 1965 1964–5.chevron_right
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1964 (and touring) The New Generation, 1964, Whitechapel Gallery, (and touring) 1964 (and touring).chevron_right
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1964 Artist Collects, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, May 1964.chevron_right
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1964 First International Girlie Show, Pace Gallery.chevron_right
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1964 New Images, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, June 1964.chevron_right
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1964 Gerald Laing, Keith Lingard, David Milne, Saint Martin’s School of Art, 6–10 April 1964.chevron_right
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1964 Stars for Freedom, Feigen-Palmer Gallery, September 1964.chevron_right
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1964 Young Contemporaries 1964, RBA Galleries, (and touring) 1964.chevron_right
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1964 Four Young Artists, Institute of Contemporary Arts, October 1964.chevron_right
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1964 Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, 27 October – 29 November 1964.chevron_right
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1963 Third Paris Biennale of Young Artists, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 28 September – 3 November 1963.chevron_right
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1963 Young Contemporaries 63, RBA Galleries, 6–23 February 1963.chevron_right
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1962 Paintings by Shmuel Dresner and Gerald Laing, St Martin’s Gallery, 16–28 July 1962.chevron_right