1. “Jackson Pollock: First Exhibition — Paintings and Drawings” at Art of This Century, 1943

2. “Jasper Johns — Paintings” at Leo Castelli Gallery, 1958

3. “Don Judd” at the Green Gallery, 1963

4. “Eccentric Abstraction” at Fischbach Gallery, 1966

5. “Benefit for the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam” at Paula Cooper Gallery, 1968

6. “Synthesis” at Just Above Midtown, 1974

7. “Cindy Sherman” at Metro Pictures, 1981

8. “Felix Gonzalez-Torres” at Andrea Rosen Gallery, 1990

9. “Carrie Mae Weems" at PPOW Gallery, 1990

10. “Barbara Kruger” at Mary Boone Gallery, 1991

11. David Hammons’s “Concerto in Black and Blue” at Ace Gallery, 2002

12. Marina Abramović’s “The House With the Ocean View” at Sean Kelly Gallery, 2002

13. Yayoi Kusama’s “I Who Have Arrived In Heaven” at David Zwirner, 2013

14. Arthur Jafa’s “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 2016

15. “Philip Guston, 1969-1979” at Hauser & Wirth, 2021

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