Don Van Vliet by Anton Corbijn, used with kind permission
Don Van Vliet © Anjon Corbijn, used with kind permission.
This is a list of all known Don Van Vliet exhibitions and exhibition catalogues. Follow the links for all kinds of info about the exhibitions including paintings shown, reviews, press articles, etc.

If you have any information to add to what is listed below, please do get in touch. Any corrections, additions or more precise dates would be very welcome.

1972 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool – “Paintings” – solo exhibition

1976 Evergreen State College Library Gallery – “An exhibition of drawings and paintings: Don Van Vliet and Cal Schenkel” – group exhibition with poster

1982 The Museum of Modern Art, New York – “Performance Video” – group exhibition

1985 New York Studio School, New York – “From Organism To Architecture” – group exhibition

1985 Massimo Audiello Gallery – “The Chi-Chi Show” – group exhibition

1985 Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York – “Fractura” – group exhibition

1985 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Don Van Vliet – Sechs Bilder” – solo exhibition with catalogue

1985 Mary Boone Gallery, New York – solo exhibition

1986, 3-26 April Waddington Galleries, London – see exhibition info – solo exhibition with catalogue

1987 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Byars, Chamberlain, Salle, Fischl, Lasker, Van Vliet” – group exhibition

1987 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Don Van Vliet – Zehn Bilder” – solo exhibition with catalogue

1987 Galerie Brinkmann, Amsterdam – solo exhibition with catalogue

1988 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Accrochage” – group exhibition

1988 Centre d’Art Contemporain, Abbaye – “St. Andre, Maymac, Correze A la surface de la Peinture: Les Annees 80” – group exhibition with catalogue

1988 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Don Van Vliet – Neun Bilder “- solo exhibition with catalogue

1988 Galerie Lelong, Zurich – solo exhibition

1989 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Accrochage” – group exhibition

1989 Museum Ludwig, Rheinhallen der Kolner Messe, Koln – “Bilderstreit, Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960” – group exhibition with catalogue

1989 Galerie Frank Hanel, Frankfurt / Main – “Accrochage” – group exhibition

1989 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco – “Don Van Vliet – New Work” – solo exhibition with leaflet

1990 Kunsthallen Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense – “Bilder des Rock” – group exhibition with catalogue

1990 Galerie Frank Hanel, Frankfurt / Main – “Don Van Vliet 1986 / 1989” – solo exhibition with catalogue

1990 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Don Van Vliet – Zehn Bilder – solo exhibition with catalogue

1990 Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica – “New Paintings and Drawings” – solo exhibition with catalogue

1991 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – solo exhibition with catalogue

1991 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – solo exhibition

1991 Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense – solo exhibition

1993 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln “Accrochage” – group exhibition

1993 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – solo exhibition

1994 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Accrochage” – group exhibition

1993/4 27 November – 16 January Bielefelder Kunstverin, Museum Waldhof, Bielefeld – “Don Van Vliet – Stand Up To Be Discontinued” – solo exhibition with catalogue

1994 11 February – 10 April Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense – “Don Van Vliet – Stand Up To Be Discontinued” – solo exhibition with catalogue (same as above)

1994 3 September – 13 November Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton – “Don Van Vliet – Stand Up To Be Discontinued”  – solo exhibition with catalogue (same as above)

1995 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam – “Dancing Girls, in honour of Gustav Mahler, along the edge of Expressionism” – group exhibition

1995 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Major Works by Georg Baselitz, James Lee Byars, Per Kirkeby, Markus Lupertz, Sigmar Polke, Don Van Vliet” – group exhibition

1995 25 January – 18 March Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “God’s Empty Socks and Other Paintings” – solo exhibition

1995 Galleri Aveny, Goteborg – solo exhibition

1995 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – solo exhibition

1996 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – group exhibition

1996 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – solo exhibition with catalogue

1998 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Accrochage” – group exhibition

1998 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Georg Baselitz, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Jorg Immendorff, Eugene Leroy, Markus Lupertz, A.R. Penck, Don Van Vliet: Works on Paper” – group exhibition

1998 11 November – 5 December Knoedler & Company, New York “Don Van Vliet – New Work” – solo exhibition with catalogue

1999 28 January – 26 March Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Works On Paper 1999” – solo exhibition

2000 7 – 20 January The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia – see exhibition info page – solo exhibition with on-line catalogue.

2001 9 February – 4 March Cultureel Centrum Sint-Niklaas, Belgium – “Rockin’ Art” – group exhibition with catalogue

2001 12 July – 8 September Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Paintings from the Eighties” – solo exhibition

2007 31 May – 29 June Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Don Van Vliet – Paintings and Poems” solo exhibition with catalogue

2007 31 May – 6 July Anton Kern Gallery, New York – “Don Van Vliet – Paintings and Poems” solo exhibition with catalogue (same as above)

2007 3 September – 20 October Michael Werner Gallery, Cologne – “Don Van Vliet – Paintings and Poems” solo exhibition with catalogue (same as above)

2007 27 October – 1 December David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles – “Works on Paper 2007” – solo exhibition

2008 29 January – 15 February Galleria dell’Arco, Palermo, Sicily – “Zig Zag Wandering” – solo exhibition

2009/2010 12 December – 23 January – Zach Feuer Gallery, New York – “JR and Sons” – group exhibition

2011 30 June – 10 September Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Flowers for Summer” – group exhibition

2013 21 January – 22 March Michael Werner Gallery, Trebbin – Drawings – solo exhibition

2015 5 September – 24 October Michael Werner Gallery, Cologne – “Don Van Vliet: Beatle Bones ‘n’ Smokin’ Stones. Paintings and drawings from the late Seventies and Eighties.” – solo exhibition

2015 30 September – 5 December 2015 Michael Werner Gallery, London – “Body Shop” – group exhibition

2016 8 July – 17 September Michael Werner Gallery, London – “Flora, Fauna and Other Forms of Life” – group exhibition

2017 14 May – 1 October 2017 Brant Foundation, Greenwich – “Animal Farm” – group exhibition

2017 1 July – 13 August 2017 The Pit, Glendale, Los Angeles – “Press Your Face Close To Mine” – group exhibition

2017 13 July – 9 September 2017 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Works on Paper” – solo exhibiton

2018 11 July – 31 August 2018 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Vile Bodies” – group exhibition (2 paintings)

2018 12 July – 15 September 2018 Michael Werner Gallery, London – “Vile Bodies” – group exhibition (1 painting)

2020 31 January – 11 April [changed to spring/summer due to Covid-19] Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Don Van Vliet: Parapliers the Willow Dipped, Paintings 1967-1997” – solo exhibiton (16 paintings) – no catalogue – installation views

2020 5 March – 11 April Kasmin Gallery, New York – “Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric” – group exhibition (1 painting – ‘Bad Vuggum’)

2020 25 June – 4 September 2020 Michael Werner Gallery, London – “About the Human Figure” – group exhibition

2021 4 September – 16 October Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne – “Ralf Love Don” – solo exhibition (45 paintings and drawings) – catalogueinstallation views

2022 9 September – 29 October Kewenig Galerie, Bruderstrasse 10, Berlin – “Paracusia: Of Sounds & Visions – group exhibition

2022 16 November – 17 December Michael Werner Gallery, East Hampton, New York – “Cold Furniture” – solo exhibition (18 paintings and drawings) – no catalogue –  exhibition views

2023 23 November – 17 February 2024 Michael Werner Gallery, Brook Street, London – “Standing on One Hand” – solo exhibition – catalogue