selected solo exhibitions

2023 Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2018-23 Mahncke Park, San Antonio, TX, 4 bronzes on extended loan for 5 yrs

2018 Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin TX, “Catherine Lee, The Ney Project”

Mark Smith’s Texas ArtHouse, Johnson City, “Transtitional Spaces, Kay Whitney & Catherine Lee”

2017 Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX

Hillsboro Gallery, Dublin Ireland

2016 Omi International Arts Center/ Omi Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent NY

2015 Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

Omi International Arts Center/ Omi Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent NY

2014 Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

Blue Star Contemporary Arts, San Antonio TX

Omi International Arts Center/ Omi Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent NY

2013  McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX – Installation of recent bronze sculpture acquisition, Lewis, and the raku installation, Alice, on extended loan

2012 San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo TX

Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX

The Old Jail Art Center, Albany TX

Grace Museum, Abilene TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum, Odessa TX

Galerie Lelong, New York City

2011 Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany

Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

2009 Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2008 dberman gallery, Austin TX

Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

Annely Juda Fine Art, London

2007 Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

Galerie Lelong, New York City

2006 Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France

Musée d’Arte Moderne, St. Etienne, France

2005 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2004 Galerie Lelong, New York City

Southwest School of Art, San Antonio TX

2003 Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

2002 Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

2001 Galerie Karsten Greve, Milano, Italy

Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland

2000 Lyman-Allen Art Museum, New London CT

Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Austria

Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain

1999 San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego CA

Galerie Lelong, New York City

Lafayette College, Easton PA

1998 Bemis Art Foundation, Omaha NE

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

1997 Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma CA

Galleria Karsten Greve, Milano, Italy

1996 Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Austria

Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland

ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio TX

1995 Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

Galerie Lelong, New York City

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1994 Hill Gallery, Birmingham MI

1993 Galerie Lelong, New York City

Annely Juda Fine Art, London, England

Limestone Press, San Francisco, CA

1992 Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria

Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Austria

1991 Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1990 Marisa del Re Gallery, New York City

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco CA

1989 Annely Juda Fine Art, London, England

Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston MA

1988 Michael Maloney Gallery, Santa Monica CA

1986 John Davis Gallery, New York City

1985 Gallery Bellman, New York City

1984 John Davis Gallery, Akron OH

1983 The University of Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio TX

1980 P. S.1., New York City

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selected group exhibitions

2023 Femmes, Frauen, Women, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

Xαίpε, Galerie Ratton & Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland

Parallels and Rupture, curated by Matthew Garrsion, Freedman Gallery,  Albright College, Reading, PA

2022 Texas Artists, Women of Abstraction, Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

78th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Scripp’s College, Claremont, CA

Abstract Works, Hillsboro Fine Arts, Dublin

2021 Nasher Mixtape, Nasher Center for Sculpture, Dallas, TX

Texas Artists: Women of Abstraction,” Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi TX

State of Sculpture, Tenth Anniversary of the Texas Sculpture Group, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX

2020 Texas Women, A New History of Abstrect Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

2019 50 Years, 50 Artists, Annely Juda Fine Arts, London

2018 In Collaboration with Rino Pizzi: 12 x 12, Grayduck Gallery, Austin, TX

2017 past / present, Texas ArtHouse, Johnson City, TX

Gallery Artists, Hillsboro Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2016 Pure, Texas ArtHouse, Johnson City, TX

Hurt, Hillsboro Gallery, Dublin

San Antonio Collects: Contemporary, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

Summer Show, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

Ceramix, La Maison Rouge, Paris

2015 Texas!, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India

Art on the Green, Kemp Center for the Arts, Wichita Falls, TX

The Thin Line, Cinnabar Gallery, San Antonio, TX, curated by Pamela Auchincloss

2014 Return: George Krause, Catherine Lee, McKay Otto, Cinnabar Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Creativity, Change, Commitment, Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State Univeristy, CA

2013 Women in Art, Lakeview College, San Antonio TX, curated by James Miller

Stranger than Fear is Hope, Galerie Schmalfuss Berlin, curated by Bodo Korsig

Edge Order Rupture, Galerie Lelong, NYC

Aîtres, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg

Polari Film Festival, Animated Short Films, Austin, TX

2012 First Annual Salmon Sculpture Competition, in association with the San Angelo Mueum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX

25^th Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen

Sculpture, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

2011 Signs of Change, Catherine Lee and Bodo Korsig, University of Texas at San Antonio Satellite Space, San Antonio, Tx

78701 > 78676, dberman gallery, Wimberley, TX

2010 Collecting the New, Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

On Paper II, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

Black and White, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

10^th Anniversary Exhibition, dberman gallery, Austin, TX

2009 WE, Galerie Academia, Salzburg

Gifted, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA

2008 Landscape and Geometry, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Clach an Trushal installation, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX

A Year in Drawing, Galerie Lelong, New York City

Exhibition of the Hôtel des Arts Collection, Maison du Cygne, Six-Fours- les-Plages, France

2007 Shadow, Galerie Lelong, New York City

Annely Juda: a Celebration, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

3 Women, 3 Generations, 3 Continents, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX

20th Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Raku Amends acquisition

(I’m Always Touched) By Your Presence, Dear – New Acquisitions – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2006 Lee, Huber, Redl, Galerie Mauroner, Vienna

Paradiso & Inferno, Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Austria

2005 Summertime, Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Austria

2003 Shift, Galerie Lelong, New York City

Accrochage, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

Six Visions: Contemporary Ceramics, curated by Steve Reynolds, University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, TX

2002 2300F – 2002, curated by Kathleen Whitney, Grounds For Sculpture, the Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ

Selected Works, A Collection, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland

2001 Minimalism, Past and Presence, Galerie Lelong, New York City

X Biennial Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, Univ of Texas at San Antonio, TX

20 Years of Collaboration, Garner Tullis Workshop, New York City and the Tucson Museum of Art, AZ

2000 New Works, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland

1999 Group Exhibition, Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain

Black & White III, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

25 Years, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland

Encaustic Works, Watermark/Cargo Gallery, Kingston, NY

Das Gedächtnis öffnet seine Tore, die Kunst der Gegenwart im Lenbachhaus, München, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Collaborative Papers: Contemporary Works of Art from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA

Some New York Artists, BGH Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998 Group Show: Chillida, Judd, Lee, LeWitt, Mangold, Ryman, Galerie Lelong, New York City

Zeit und Materie, Baukunst, Köln, Germany

Group Exhibition, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

Oud en Nieuw, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands

1997 Gallery Group Exhibition, parts I & II, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich

New Editions, Galerie Lelong, New York City

1996 Jill Moser & Catherine Lee, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Serienbilder – Bilderserien, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

1995 Summer Group Exhibition, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland

Group Show, Galerie Lelong, New York City

Black & White I, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

U S Print / Grafiikkaa U S A, Garner Tullis Workshop, Retretti Art Center, Finland

Recent Acquisitions, Hofstra Museum, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hempstead, NY

1994 Shape, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York City

Contemporary Prints, The Tate Gallery, London

29th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery,  University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

Sculpture & Drawing, Galerie Lelong, New York City

1993 Italia – America, L’astrazione Ridefinita, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, San Marino, Italy

Couples, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC

Transcending Boundaries, curated by Cynthia Gallagher and Arthur Williams, 92nd Street Y, New York City

Garner Tullis Workshop, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Contemporary Prints, Ten Years of Acquisitions, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Prints from the Garner Tullis Workshop, The Australian Print Workshop & the Darian Knight Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia

Drawings, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City

5 One Man Shows, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland

1992 Geteilte Bilder, Das Diptychon in der neuen Kunst, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Reliefs, Konstructive Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden

Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Collection, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Women Critics, Bruton Street Gallery, London

1991 Drawings, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York City

Group Exhibition, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York City

Contemporary Sculpture from the Weatherspoon Collection, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Catherine Lee Monotypes, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York City

IIIème Biennale de Sculpture, Monte Carlo, Monaco

Art for Children’s Survival, Unicef, Lawrence Monk Gallery, New York City

1990 Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Malmgran Gallery, Göteborg, Sweden

Inaugural Exhibition, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Minimal Sculpture, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York City

Artists in the Abstract, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1989 Sitings: Drawing with Color, traveling exhibition: Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona, Spain / Casa Revilla, Valladolid, Spain / Museo Barjola, Gijon, Spain / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal / Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City / Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York City

Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Small Paintings, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Boston, MA

Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Persons-Lindell Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Drawings, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Geometry and Abstraction, curated by Pamela Auchincloss, Persons- Lindell Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Recent Acquisitions, Prints and Monotypes, The Tate Gallery, London

18th International Biennale of Graphic Art, International Centre of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

1988 Ten Americans, curated by John Caldwell, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

Collaborations in Monotype, curator Phyllis Plous, traveling exhibition:  University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA / Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX / Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Works from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

Works on Paper: Selections from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York City

Seven American Abstract Artists, Ruggiero-Henis Gallery, New York City

40th Annual Academy Institute Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City

Works on Paper Invitational, Shea & Beker Gallery, New York City

Works on Paper, Ruggiero-Henis Gallery, New York City

1987 Lee, Lewczuk, Witek, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

5 Abstract Artists: Amar, Gitlin, Glick, Lee, Wiley, Michael Maloney Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Gallery Artists, John Davis Gallery, New York City

Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York City

Art Against Aids, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City

Drawn Out, Kansas City Art Institute, MO

Black in the Light, Genovese Graphics, Boston, MA

Selected Works, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY

1986 Inaugural Exhibition, John Davis Gallery, New York City

Catherine Lee and Sean Scully, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Past and Present, curated by Steven Reynolds, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX

Gallery Artists, John Davis Gallery, New York City

Invitational, Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Works on Paper, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York City

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

24 x 24, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York City

The Constructed Image, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York City

1985 The Non-Objective World – 1985, curated by Stephen Westfall, Kamikaze, New York City

An Invitational, curated by Tiffany Bell, Condeso-Lawler Gallery, New York City

Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, John Davis Gallery, Akron, OH

1984 Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc, Akron, OH

Contemporary Art, National City Bank, Cleveland, OH

Fifteen Abstract Painters, curated by Per Haubro Jensen, Susan Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Small Works: New Abstract Painting, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, John Davis Gallery, Akron, OH

Acquisition Priorities, curated by Laurie Rubin, William Beadleston Gallery, New York City

Summer Group Show, Gallery Bellman, New York City

1983 New Acquisitions, Franklin Furnace, New York City

All Over Painting, Grommet Gallery, New York City

MCAD Faculty Show, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Institute of Art,  Minneapolis, MN

Third Anniversary Exhibition, John Davis Gallery, Akron, OH

Contemporary Abstract Painting, Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Allentown, PA

Multiples, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City

1982 Critical Perspectives, curated by Joseph Masheck, P.S.1, the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York City

Group Invitational, Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston. MA

Pair Group, curated by William Zimmer, Jersey City Museum of Art, Jersey City, NJ

Pastiche, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York City

1981 CAPS at the State Museum, New York State Museum, Albany, NY

Arabia Felix, curated by William Zimmer, Art Galaxy, New York City

New Directions, curated by Sam Hunter, traveling exhibition:  The Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL / Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK / Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA / Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI / Madison Art Center, Madison, WI / Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL

1980 Mind Set,  John Weber Gallery, New York City

Contemporary Works, curated by Sam Hunter, Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ

1979 New Wave Painting,  curated by Per Jensen, The Clocktower, New York City

Fourteen Painters, Lehman College, CUNY, New York City

principal publications

Catherine Lee, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland and Charta Art Books, 2005; forward by Enrique Juncosa, essays by Lorand Heygi, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Nancy PrincenthalHôtel des Arts, Toulon, France, 2006; forward by Gilles Altieri, essays by Lorand Heygi, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Nancy Princenthal (in French)

Catherine Lee, Musee d’Art Moderne, St Etienne, France, 2006; essays by Lorand Heygi, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Nancy Princenthal (in French)

Outcasts, New Works by Catherine Lee, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1992 (catalog), essays by Helmut Friedel, David Carrier

Shards. The Work of Catherine Lee, The Southwest School of Art and Craft, 2004, San Antonio, TX, introduction by Paula Owen, essays by Elizabeth Ferrer, Francis Colpitt and Catherine Lee

Catherine Lee: the Alphabet Series, University of Washington Press, 1999 (2nd edition), essays by Carter Ratcliff, Faye Hirsch

Catherine Lee / West Texas Triangle, Charta Art Books, 2011; essays by Stephen Westfall, Lilly Wei, Hearne Pardee

selected public collections

Städtishe Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

The Metropolitan Opera, New York City

Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Tate Gallery, London

The San Francisco Museum of Art

Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia

Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Austria

Milwaulkee Art Museum

Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Edward R. Broida Trust, Los Angeles

United States Department of State, Washington, D.C.

State University of New York, Cortland

Chemical Bank

Kröller-Mueller Museum, Netherlands

Phillip-Morris, Inc

Kenan Center, Lockport, NY

San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX

IBM Corporation

Buscaglia-Castellani Art Gallery, Niagara University, NY

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina

The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA

The Contemporary Austin

The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Hôtel des Arts, Toulon

Musée d’Arte Moderne, St. Etienne, France

The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Indianapolis Museum of Arts

The Contemporary Austin

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

Museum of the Southwest, Midland

The McNay Museum, San Antonio

Dallas Museum of Art

Omi International Arts Center, Omi Fields, Ghent, NY

The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas