Group Exhibitions
Ronald Davis has been included in numerous local, national, and international shows since 1963.
• A Dot [•] denotes an exhibition of special interest.
San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, California, 1961, 62, 63
Art Exhibition and Concert at Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, Yale/Norfolk Campus, Norfolk, Connecticut. August 10, 1962
• Painting and Drawing Annual, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California. Was given the First Place Award ($100.00) in the show juried by Tony De Lapp. December 8, 1963 – January 5, 1964
Valentine Day Show, New Mission Gallery, San Francisco, California. February 14 – March 15, 1964
Hard Edge, Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, California. May 16 – June 6, 1964
• Summer Invitational, Laynon Gallery, Palo Alto, California. First meeting with then gallery director, Nicholas Wilder. June, 1964
Arts of San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. July 7 – August 9, 1964
II Bienal Americann de Arte, Ciudad Universitaria, Cordoba, Argentina. The painting Ball Point Pen was water damaged in shipment, then purchased and restored by the Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California. Catalogue September 25 – October 12, 1964
• Current Painting and Sculpture of the Bay Area, Stanford University Art Gallery, Palo Alto, California. Catalogue October 8 – November 29, 1964
Painting-Drawing ’64 Annual, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California. November 20 – December 15, 1964
Some Aspects of California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California. February 28 – April 11, 1965
• 12th Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, Champaigne, Illinois. Catalogue March 7 – April 11, 1965
California at Macy's Herald Square, New York City, New York. April 28, 1965
New Directions in California Art, Unitarian Community Church, Santa Monica, California. June 5th & 6th, 1965
Critic’s Choice, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California. April 3 – May 1, 1965
New Modes in California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California. May 20 – June 26, 1966
Some Continuing Directions, The Pavillion Gallery, Balboa, California. November 9 – December 4, 1966
• A New Aesthetic, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D. C. Curated by Barara Rose. Catalogue May 6 – June 25, 1967
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Rowan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. June 1967
• Drawing Power, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California. A two-man show with Joe Goode. September 1967
Art for Embassies from the Woodward Foundation Collection, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D. C.. September 30 – November 5, 1967
Young Artists of the Sixties, Paintings and Sculpture from the collection of Charles Cowles, Stanford Museum, Palo Alto, California. November, 1967
• 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York. Catalogue December 13, 1967 – February 4, 1968
Plastics: Paintings and Sculptures from Los Angeles, California State College at Los Angeles, California. February, 1968
Selection of Paintings from the 50’s and 60’s from the Collection of Gifford and Joann Phillips, The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, California. March 12 – April 7, 1968
• Los Angeles Six, Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Catalogue March 31 – May 5, 1968
• 4 Documenta International, Ausstellung, Kasel, Germany. June 27 – October 6, 1968
Small Works Invitational, Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, California December 10, 1987 - January 30, 1988
Blue Chip Prints, Schwartz/Cierlak Gallery, Santa Monica, California February 18 - March 20, 1988
• 31st Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. February 1 – March 16, 1969
The George Waterman Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. October 22 – November 23, 1969
Plastics: New Art, Institute of Contempory Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1969
The Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Rowan Collection, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California. October, 1970
Technics and Creativity, Gemini G. E. L., Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York. 1971
The 73rd Western Annual, Denver Art Museum. Denver, Colorado. October 3 – November 21, 1971
Six Painters, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. October 3 – November 21, 1971
Modern Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture Collected by Louise & Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 15, 1971 – January 3, 1972
International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland. 1972
Dealer’s Choice, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California. 1972
Color-Field Painting, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California. 1972
U. S. A. West Coast, Kunstverein in Hamberg, Hamberg, Germany 1972
The Last Plastics Show, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California. March 14 – April 15, 1972
Paintings: New Options, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota April 23 – June 4, 1972
Masters of the Sixties, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. May 4 – June 4, 1972
• U. S. A., XXXVI International Biennial Exhibition of Art, Venice, Italy. June 11 – October 1, 1972
Catalogue Eighteenth National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. November 22, 1972 – February 4, 1972
The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. 1972 – 1973
Twenty-five Years of American Painting, 1948 – 1973, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa March 6 – April 22, 1973
Art in Space: Some Turning Points, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan. May 15 – June 24, 1973
Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California. June, 1973 11
Artistes Americains, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. November 4 – December 2, 1973
Drawings, Margo Levin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1973
The Cusak Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1973
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, New York, 1974.
15 Abstract Artists from Los Angeles, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California. January 19 – March 10, 1974
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture 1974, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois. March 10 – April 21, 1974
Selected Works from the Collection of Carter Burden, Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York City, New York. May 9 – June 1, 1974
• Seventy-first American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. June 15 – August 11, 1974
Works on Paper, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California. July 2 – 31, 1974
New Acquisitions/Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California. 1974
Castelli at Berggruen, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California. 1974
Nicholas Wilder, The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada. 1974
Zeichnumgen 3, U. S. A., Stradtisches Museum, Leverkkusen, Germany 1975
Current Concerns – Part I, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California January 1975
Color, an Exhibition in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Columbia. February – March, 1975
34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. February 22 – April 6, 1975
Ron Davis/Tom Holland, Works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Rowan, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdale Park, Los Angeles, California August 13 – September 9, 1975 Catalogue
Painting, Drawing and Sculpture of the ’60s and the ’70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 7 – November 18, 1975
Collectors Choice, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. November 1975
Hansen Fuller Gallery Pays Tribute to the San Francisco Art Institute (Part II), Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California. November 11 – 29, 1975
30 Years of American Printmaking, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. November 20, 1976 – January 30, 1977
Large Scale Paintings From the Collection of Security Pacific Bank, Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, California. November 23, 1976 – January 15, 1977
Private Images: Photographs by Painters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. January 18 – March 27, 1977
Collectors, Collecting, Collections of American Abstract Art Since 1945, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. April 22 – June 5, 1977
• Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. September 3 – November 21, 1976
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.. May 20 – September 11, 1977American Abstract Art Since 1945, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York. 1977
Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors, University of California, Santa Barbara, California. 1977
Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. 1977
Biennial of Graphic Art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. May 13, 1977
California: 3 X 8 Twice, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii. February 3 – March 5, 1978
The Theodora Pottle Memorial Collection of Contemporary Art, Macomb Public Library, Macomb, Illinois May, 1978
14. 7 Artistes Américains - 7 Artistes Européens, Casino de Deauville, Hall et Gallerie Doree, Paris, France. September 1978
Berggruen at Art Center, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. November 5 – 30, 1978
The Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California Art, The Art Museum Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, California. 1978
Four Contemporary Painters, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 1978
Late Twentieth Century Art, Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. December 5, 1978 – January 8, 1979
American Painting of the 1970’s, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York. December 8, 1978 – January 14, 1979;
Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, California; Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; Art Museum of Southern Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Krannart Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaigne, Illinois. February, 1979 – January 1980• The Museum of Drawers, A miniature Museum featuring five hundred contemporary artists. Created by Herbert Distel, it was shown in galleries and museums internationaly before taking up permanent residence at the Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland.
Aspekte der 60er Jahre, Aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany February 2 – April 23, 1978 Catalogue
Art Off the Picture Press: Tyler Graphics, Ltd., The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hampstead, New York. 1979
Reality of Illusion, Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado. Catalogue. July 13 – August 26, 1979 University of Southern California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California. October 11 – November 25, 1979 Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu. April 4 – May 18, 1980 Oakland Museum, Oakland, California. June 17 – July 27, 1980 University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. September 4 – October 19, 1980 Jonson Museum of Art, Cornell University November 15 – December 30, 1980
Los Angeles Prints, 1883 – 1980. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue Part I: September 4 – November 30, 1980 Part II: June 25 – Skeptember 20, 1981
• Art in Los Angeles – Seventeen Artists in the Sixties. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue July 21 – October 4, 1981 San Antonio Musem of Art, San Antonio, Texas. November 20, 1981 – January 31, 1982
Southern California Artists: 1940-1980, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California. July 24 – September 13, 1981 Catalogue
L. A. Art: An Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings. Curated by Noriko Fujinami. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdale Park, Los Angeles, California. April 13, – May 2, 1982;
Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan February 16 – March 14, 1982Miró in America, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Texas. Curated by Barbara Rose. April 21 – June 27, 1982
Theatrical Abstraction, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Charles Kessler. July 7 – July 31, 1982
The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, July 11 – October 3, 1982, Catalogue
California Contemporary: Recent work of twenty-three artists, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, May 1-29, 1983, Catalogue
California Drawings, “Drawings by 50 California Artists,“ Modernism [Gallery], Art of the 20th Century, San Francisco, California December 16, 1983 – January 28, 1984
Modern Sculpture from the Guggenheim, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania April 14, 1984
Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California June 22 – August 26, 1984, Catalogue
Prints from Tyler Graphics, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota September 23 , 1984 – March 17, 1985
• Gemini, G. E. L.: Art and Collaboration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.. Catalogue-Book November 18, 1984 – February 24, 1985
Sunshine and Shadow: Recent Painting in Southern California, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. January 16 – February 23, 1985
FORTISSIMO! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contempory Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. February 28 – April 28, 1985
Printer’s Prints from Gemini, G. E. L., 1970 – 75, Selections from the Silkscreens printed by Jeffery Wasserman, Pink’s/Fine Arts, Santa Monica, California. April 27 – June 15, 1985
Black And White Drawings from the David Nelis Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, California. September 23 – October 18, 1985
Paperworks From Tyler Graphics, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. October 21 – December 22, 1985
New Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California. January 27 – March 28, 1987
Abstract Painting, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, California. April 18 – May 16, 1987
Summer, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York City, New York. August 15.–.September 15, 1987
• Digital Visions: Computers and Art, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. Opened September 18, 1987 This show traveled to: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, Ohio. I. B. M. Galleries, New York City, New York. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio. Closes January 8, 1989.
Small Works Invitational, Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, California December 10, 1987 - January 30, 1988
Blue Chip Prints, Schwartz/Cierlak Gallery, Santa Monica, California February 18 - March 20, 1988
The View from Denver, Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria. June 7, 1997 - August 31, 1997
New Mexico Sculpture, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM, 1991, Curated by Ron Cooper
Louis Catusco and the Modernists, TAA Stables Gallery, Taos, New Mexico September 20 - November 9, 1994
• Seven Painters, Nicholas Alexander Gallery, NY, 1995, Curated by Ronnie Landfield, Included: Pink Mirror, 1969
Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, Catalogue for a four-venue exhibition. Davis’ painting Wyoming Slab, 1975 was included in Influences: Selections from the Contemporary Collection of the Norton Simon Museum.
The Rowan Collection – Passion and Patronage, Painting in Los Angeles and New York, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California September 9 – October 24, 1999
Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art. Catalogue accompanied the exhibition, May 23 – September 12, 1999. Davis’ painting Seven Part Arch, 1977 was included.
The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1999. Corcoran Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D. C.
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition and included Davis’ painting T Beam, 1974, acquired in 1975 during the Corcoran’s 34th Biennial through the Leo Castelli Gallery.
Included: T Beam, 1974, PTG 451
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, Catalog for the exhibition of the same name.Harwood Museum, Taos, NM, 2001
the eclectic eye, Frederich R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles. At the New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 4 – October 31, 2004"translucence", Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, June - August 2006
Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980, Riverside Art Museum, CA, August 17, 2006
Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma, May 10, 2007
AFA "Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–75", curated by Karen Wilkin
Denver Art Museum; November 9, 2007–February 3, 2008
Smithsonian American Art Museum; February 29–May 26, 2008
Frist Center for the Visual Arts ; June 20 –September 21, 2008