Selected Exhibition History
From "Modern Mystic: The Art of Hyman Bloom"
Compiled by Robert Alimi
Solo Exhibitions
1945
Hyman Bloom: New Paintings, Stuart Art Gallery, Boston, November 6-December 1
1946
Paintings by Hyman Bloom, Durlacher Bros., New York, January 7-February 2
1948
Hyman Bloom, Durlacher Bros., New York, March 30-April 24
1949
Hyman Bloom, Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, February 4-March 5
1954
Hyman Bloom, Durlacher Bros., New York, March 9-April 3
Hyman Bloom, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, April 9-May 16; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, August 11-September 8; Albright Art Gallery,Buffalo, October 16-November 14; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 23-April 3, 1955 [as Hyman Bloom-Jack Levine]
1955
Little Show of Work in Progress: Paintings by Hyman Bloom, Detroit Institute of Arts, April 12-May 1
1957
Hyman Bloom-The George and Sally Kennedy Collection, Santa Monica Library Art Gallery, California, May 6-June 5
Drawings by Hyman Bloom, Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, June 17-July 6
Drawings by Hyman Bloom, Currier Gallery of Art , Manchester, New Hampshire, November 2- December 15; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, January 10 February 9, 1958; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, February 25-March 30, 1958 Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, April 19- May 19; San Francisco Museum of Art, June 27- August 4; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 17-October 27; Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts Gallery, November 8-December 7
1965
Hyman Bloom Landscape Drawings 1962-1964, Swetzoff Gallery, Boston , February 2-27
1968
The Drawings of Hyman Bloom, University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, April 19- May 19; San Francisco Museum of Art, June 27- August 4; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 17-October 27; Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts Gallery, November 8-December 7
1971
Hyman Bloom Drawings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, November 2-27
1972
Hyman Bloom Drawings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, March 28-April 22
1975
Hyman Bloom: Recent Paintings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, April 1-26
1983
Hyman Bloom: Recent Paintings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, April 2-28
1989
Hyman Bloom Paintings, St. Botolph Club, Boston, November 15, 1989-January 5, 1990
1990
Hyman Bloom: Overview 1940-1990, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, October 11- November 8
1992
Hyman Bloom: Paintings and Drawings, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, January 29-April 19
Hyman Bloom: The Lubec Woods, Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, Lewiston, Maine, September 14-October 17
1996
The Spirits of Hyman Bloom: Sixty Years of Painting and Drawing, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts, April 14-July 7
2002
Color and Ecstasy: The Art of Hyman Bloom, National Academy of Design, New York, October 1-December 29
2006
Hyman Bloom: A Spiritual Embrace, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts, December 1, 2006-March 11, 2007
2009
Hyman Bloom: A Spiritual Embrace, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, September 13, 2009-January 24, 2010
2019
Hyman Bloom: American Master, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY, June 27-September 28, 2019
2019
Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Jul 13, 2019 – Feb 23, 2020
Group Exhibitions
1933
An Experiment in Art Teaching, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 9-March 9
1942
Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States, Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 21-March 8
1943
Romantic Painting in America, Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 17, 1943- February 6, 1944
1944
Religious Art Today, Institute of Modern Art, Boston, January 13-February 12
1945
Contemporary American Paintings, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, February 26-March 18
The Critic’s Choice of Contemporary American Painting, Cincinnati Art Museum, March 10- April 8
American Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May 17-June 17
1946
American Painting from the Eighteenth Century
to the Present Day, Tate Gallery, London, June 14-August 5
1947
American Painting of Today, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, March 20-April 13
Giving of the Law and the Ten Commandments, Inaugural exhibition of the Jewish Museum, New York, June 5, 1947-January 1, 1948
Fifty Eighth Annual American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, 1947, Art Institute of Chicago, November 6, 1947-January 11, 1948
Thirty Massachusetts Painters, Institute of Modern Art, Boston, November 7-December 21
1948
XXIV Venice Biennale, Italy, January 5-September 30
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 13, 1948-January 2, 1949
1949
Milestones of American Painting in Our Century, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, January 20-March 1; Art Association of Montreal, March 15-April 15; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, May 5-June 25; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, July 10- August 25; Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, September 7-0ctober 16; Cleveland Museum of Art, November 3- December 18
1950
35 American Painters, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, February 22-March 19
Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, April 2-June 4
XXV Venice Biennale, Italy, June 8-0ctober 15
Contemporary Paintings from the Addison Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, November 8-15
4th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, November 25, 1950-January 1, 1951
1951
Amerikanische Malerei: Werden und Gegenwart,
Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, September 20- 0ctober s
Sixtieth Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, October 25-December 16
1952
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana, March-April
Expressionism in American Painting, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, May 10-June 29
1953
Sao Paulo Biennial, Museum de Arte Moderna, Brazil, December 15, 1953-February 28, 1954
1954
Younger American Painters, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May
1955
An American Dream World: Romantic Realism 1930 1955, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 30-March 5
Pittsburgh International 1955, Carnegie Institute, October 13-December 18
1956
The Roy and Marie Neuberger Collection: Modern American Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 13-April 8
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolor, and Drawings, 1956, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 10-June 10
Expressionism 1900-1955, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, April 11-May 13
Scope in Collecting, 25th anniversary exhibition, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, October 19- December 24
Seventy-Five Years of American Painting, Festival of American Arts, Brooks Memorial Union, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (dates unknown)
1957
Contemporary American Painting 1957, University of Illinois, Urbana, March 3-April 7
Expressionism 1900-1955, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, April 11-May 13
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (dates unknown)
1959
Four Boston Masters: Copley, Allston, Prendergast, Bloom, Wellesley College Art Museum, Massachusetts, April 10-May 11; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19-June 26
The Romantic Agony: From Goya to de Kooning, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston , April 23-May 31
The Collection of the Sara Roby Foundation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 29-June 14
Moscow Fair-American Paintings and Sculpture 1930-1959, Moscow, July 25-August
Paintings and Sculpture from the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 28- November 28
1960
Edith Gregory Halpert Collection, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, January 16-February 28
Works from Private Collections, Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts Gallery, April 23-May 14
Francis Bacon I Hyman Bloom, The Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles, October 30-December 11
Selections from the Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York (dates unknown)
1961
American Art of Our Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 15- December 10
1962
Selections from the Dana Collection: A Memorial Exhibition for Lester H. Dana 1901-1962, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, October 17- November 11
1964
Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art, 1939-1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 24-September 23
1966
Art of the United States: 1670-1966, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28-November 27
1968
Modern American Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, June
1969
New England Art from New England Museums, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts, January 15-March 3
A Memorial Exhibition: Selections from the Nathaniel Saltonstall Collection, In stitute of Contemporary Art, Boston, November 11- December 14
1972
American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Mu seum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 19-June 18
1974
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, March 1-31
Exhibit of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, May 23-June 23
1975
Jewish Experience in American Art,Jewish Museum, New York, October 1975-January 1976
1979
Boston Expressionism: Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, Karl Zerbe, In stitute of Contemporary Art, Boston, January 9-February 25
1980
The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 25-September 28
1982
Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 17-March 26
2002
Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massac husetts, September 14, 2002-February 23, 2003
2009
Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, January 23-May 10; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, June 20-September 13; Memorial Art Gallery, Ro chester, New York, October 24, 2009-January 3, 2010