Exhibitions
The artist’s work has been exhibited at museums, public institutions and highly regarded galleries in the United States and Europe from 1937 to the present.
Solo Exhibitions
1947
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
University of Oregon Art Gallery, Eugene
1952
Five Years of Painting and Sculpture, King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco
1955
East and West Gallery, San Francisco
The New Arts Gallery, Houston
1957
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1958
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1959
The New Arts Gallery, Houston
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions
1937
Fifty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art
1941
Paintings by Lloyd Wulf and Hassel Smith, San Francisco Museum of Art
Sixty-First Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art
1944
Annual Exhibition of Drawings and Prints, San Francisco Museum of Art
1945
Iron Pot Bar and Restaurant, San Francisco
Contemporary American Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1948
Park - Bischoff - Smith, San Francisco Museum of Art
1950
Fifteen Paintings by Nine Artists in San Francisco, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Two-artist exhibition with Richard Diebenkorn, The Lucian Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco
1952
Large-Scale Drawings, King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco 1953
Two-artist exhibition with Edward Corbett, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Twelve Painters, King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco Common Art Accumulations, The Place, San Francisco
1955
Action: Paintings, Collages, Lithographs; Contemporary Music of the West Coast, Group Exhibition (organized by Walter Hopps, Ben Bartosh and others, including the Six Gallery Artists), Merry-Go-Round Building, Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California
1957
Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angele
Solo Exhibitions
1960
Gimpel Fils, London
1961
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Hassel Smith: A Selection of Paintings, 1948-1961, Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.
University Gallery, Northrup Memorial Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
The New Arts Gallery, Houston, Tx
1962
Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1963
Hassel Smith paintings, Gimpel Fils, London
Hassel Smith: An Exhibition of Painting Done in Cornwall During a Year's Stay in England 1962-1963, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
1964
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
Hassel Smith Twenty Years, Gallery Lounge, San Francisco State College
Smith-Woelffer, Marylhurst College, Oregon Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1965
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1966
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1968
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1969
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1970
Suzanne Saxe Gallery, San Francisco
1972
City Art Gallery, Bristol, England
1973
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
Suzanne Saxe Gallery, San Francisco
1974
Hassel Smith in Houston, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Houston
1975
Hassel Smith: Paintings, 1954-1975, San Francisco Museum of Art
1977
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1978
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions
1962
Bi-Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1969
West Coast, 1945-1969, Pasadena Art Museum
1976
American Painters Living in England, traveling exhibition at museums of Leeds, Hull et al., England
Painting and Sculpture in California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1978
Atlantic Richfield Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles
1979
Group show with Jay DeFeo and Manuel Neri, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Solo Exhibitions
1980
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1981
Hassel Smith: Selected Works, 1945-1981, Oakland Museum
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1982
Two-artist exhibition with Jay DeFeo, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1983
San Jose Museum of Art, Calif.
1984
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Theatre of the Primitive Future, London
1985
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1987
Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1988
Hassel Smith: Recent Paintings, 1986-1987, Gallery 44, Oakland
Hassel Smith: Selected Works, 1948-1963, Wiegand Art Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, Calif.
Hassel Smith: Measured and Figurative Paintings, 1964-1985, Monterey Museum of Art, Calif.
Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath, England
lannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco
1989
Natsoulas-Novelozo Gallery, Davis, Calif.
1991
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, Calif.
1995
Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, San Francisco
1996
The Bevan-Thornton Arts, London
1997
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, Calif.
Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, Calif.
Group Exhibitions
1984
The Art of California, Oakland Museum
1987
Hassel Smith - Charles Strong: Monotypes, Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, Calif.
1988
Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
1989
King Ubu Retrospective, Natsoulas-Novelozo Gallery, Davis, Calif.
1991
The Bristol Group, Bristol Art Gallery, England
The Breakfast Group, Holy Names College, Oakland
Six Gallery Lyrical Vision, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, Calif.
1994
89th Annual Exhibition, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
1995
Studio Gallery, London
1996
The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Solo Exhibitions
2002
Hassel Smith: 55 Years of Painting, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, Calif.
2003
Hassel Smith: 55 Years of Painting, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Calif.
2004
Hassel Smith: Jazz of Color, Lenbachpalais, Credit Suisse, Munich
2008
Paintings and Drawings by Hassel Smith, San Jose Museum of Art, Calif.
2011
Hassel Smith, Silk Mill Studios, Frome, England
2012
Hassel Smith: Here And Now, Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.
2013
Hassel Smith COSMOTIANA: The Measured Paintings (1970-1986), 333 Montezuma Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2017
Hassel Smith: The Ferus Years, Washburn Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2001
The Art of the Gift, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, Calif. (with Toni Berlant)
The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints, Worcester Art Museum
2002
Ferus, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2005
West Coast Painting, Galerie Biedermann, Munich (with Lawrence Carroll, Marcia Hafif, Mark Harrington, and Lucas Reiner)
Hassel Smith: Tiptoe Down to Art, Camera Artis, Schauplatz für moderne Kunst, Munich (with Mark Harrington)
2008
Culture of Spontaneity: San Francisco Abstract Expressionism from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, Calif.
2011
Bay Area Abstraction: 1945-1965, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexiko
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Hassel Smith: The Measured Paintings, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, Calif.
Group Exhibitions
2022
Lines of Thought: Gestural Abstraction in the BAMPFA Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Calif.
2024
The Incorrect Museum: Vignettes from the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, Calif.
San Francisco the Golden Age 1930-1960: Making a Scene, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan