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Hannelore Baron (1926-1987)


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Untitled (B82028), 1982 painted metal box assembla...

Untitled (B82028), 1982
painted metal box assemblage of metal, ink and  monotype
4 1/2 x 5 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches / 11.4 x 14.3 x 4.4 cm
signed

Untitled (B81059), 1981 box assemblage of wood, na...

Untitled (B81059), 1981
box assemblage of wood, nails, fabric and ink
9 1/2 x 6 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches / 24.1 x 17.1 x 6.3 cm
signed

Untitled (B86047), 1986 box assemblage of wood, fa...
Untitled (B86047), 1986
box assemblage of wood, fabric, paint, and metal wire
9 x 6 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches / 22.9 x 17.1 x 3.8 cm
 
Untitled (C80086), 1980 mixed media collage with f...

Untitled (C80086), 1980
mixed media collage with fabric, paper and ink
14 3/8 x 7 5/8 inches / 36.5 x 19.4 cm
signed

Untitled (C82317), 1982 mixed media collage with p...

Untitled (C82317), 1982
mixed media collage with paper, ink, watercolor and monoprint
10 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches / 26.7 x 21.9 cm
signed and dated

Untitled (C86106), 1986 mixed media collage with f...
Untitled (C86106), 1986
mixed media collage with fabric, paper and ink
10 x 8 3/4 inches / 25.4 x 22.2 cm
signed

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“Everything I’ve done is a statement on the, as they say, human condition…The materials I use in the box constructions and cloth collages are gathered with great care. The reason I use old cloth and boxes is that the new materials lack the sentiment of the old, and seems too dry in an emotional sense.”[i]

Hannelore Baron (1926–1987) is celebrated for her intimate collages and assemblages that, as Michael Brenson wrote in a 1989 New York Times review, “suggest both the condition of entrapment and the possibility of release.”[ii] The compassion, anger, dissent, humor, and silence that animate her work are often rooted in her traumatic experiences as a Jewish child in Nazi Germany. However, she was often reluctant to discuss this part of her life out of concern that extensive discussion on the subject would limit the interpretive possibilities of her artwork, which were intended to be multifarious. Influenced by “ancient religious texts such as Tantric art, the illuminated pages of the Koran, and Persian miniatures, as well as old botanical prints,” Baron translated her experiences and interests into abstract forms, creating a poignant and necessary “art of concealment and protection,” as she wrote. “The thoughts and feelings that underlie [my work] are those of concern with the social issues and problems of the century, as well as the precariousness of existence at any time,”[iii] she explained.

Baron was born Hannelore Alexander in 1926, in the small German town of Dillingen, not far from the French border. She experienced a childhood fractured by violence and displacement. By the age of ten, she and her younger brother Hans were removed from the local school and had to travel to neighboring Saarbrücken to attend the Jewish school there. On November 9th, 1938, infamously known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), vigilantes organized by the Nazi party invaded Jewish homes throughout Germany, including the Alexander’s, destroying the house and terrorizing the family. Hannelore’s school years were continually disrupted as she and her brother made their way through Luxembourg, France, and Spain, eventually arriving in Portugal after being reunited with their parents. In March of 1941, the United States consulate granted the Alexander family an emigration quota number, and they were able to make their way to New York later that year. Shortly upon her arrival, Baron enrolled in the Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan, graduating in May 1945. In 1947, she met bookseller Herman Baron, whom she married in 1950; they had two children, Julie and Mark, in 1952 and 1956, respectively.

A largely self-taught artist, Baron began producing paintings in the late 1940s. Her move to collage and mixed media began in the late 1960s, after seeing the work of John Heliker at Kraushaar Gallery; she was able to connect with Heliker, who would occasionally provide critiques of her work. A member of the National Association of Women Artists, Baron began making assemblages from found wood, driftwood, and wire in 1968, when a volunteer teaching position at the Yonkers Jewish Community Center gave her access to woodworking tools. The following year, she had a solo exhibition at Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge, New York, and she became the director of the short-lived Tyndall Creek Gallery in Riverdale. Baron continued to experiment with new techniques throughout her career. In the 1970s she developed a unique monoprint technique in which she would cut forms out of paper or thin sheets of copper, sometimes wrap them in string or wire, ink them, and then create a print using a handpress she kept in the basement of her home; the resulting monotypes were then incorporated into her collages and assemblages. She also often employed a “transfer drawing” technique that was popularized in the 1920s by Paul Klee. For Baron, “mixed media” meant more than the convergence of a variety of materials and approaches; her art reveals a singular capacity for drawing out the visual, textural, and conceptual continuities among the varied elements of her work.

Baron understood her collages as a form of political expression as well as therapeutic release, as the persecution she survived as a child resulted in depression and phobias as an adult. The political aspect of her work became more pronounced throughout the 1970s, when she began to incorporate motifs of torn flags, war-time letters, children’s games, and anti-war protests into her imagery. The formal motifs in her collages and assemblages often resemble a lost pictographic language executed in a deliberately illegible script. The delicate materials and frenetic linework characteristic of Baron’s collages reflect the anxiety she felt witnessing the recursive precariousness faced by the disenfranchised, an awareness heightened by her understanding of the fragility inherent to all forms of life. Her art unfailingly expresses a fierce consideration for the disempowered as well as sharp criticism of the interrelated forces of nationalism, war, and environmental destruction.

[i] Hannelore Baron, undated typed Artist’s Statement, Gallery Schlesinger Limited, Estate of Hannelore Baron.

[ii] Michael Brenson, “Pieced-Together History: Hannelore Baron’s Collage,” The New York Times, June 2, 1989.

[ii] Hannelore Baron, undated typed Artist’s Statement, Gallery Schlesinger Limited, Estate of Hannelore Baron.

 

Beginning in 1977, Baron began to receive effective psychological treatment to cope with her debilitating anxiety. She was able to travel more freely and began to be represented by significant commercial galleries in New York, initially the Katheryn Markel Gallery in 1977, then the Schlesinger-Boisanté Gallery by 1981. Schlesinger-Boisanté would continue to show her work throughout the decade, also organizing the exhibition of her work in Europe, including a solo show in her hometown of Dillingen, which featured a special box assemblage incorporating various German documents, including her father’s passport, which Nazi authorities had stamped with a large red “J.” Although Baron did not travel to Germany, she gave specific instructions that this construction and her artist statement be hung in a hall outside of the exhibition space. Beginning in 1973, Baron battled recurring bouts of cancer, finally succumbing to the disease in 1987, at the age of 60.

Commercial solo exhibitions of Baron’s work have been consistently presented since 1969. Her first major museum survey was at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1989. In 2002, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES) organized the retrospective Hannelore Baron: Works from 1969 to 1987, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, which traveled to eight venues across the country through 2004 and was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. In the fall of 2002, the Art Museum at the University of Memphis presented Hannelore Baron: Fragments Shored Against Ruins, which was also accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by critic Frederic Koeppel.

Baron has been included in numerous major museum group exhibitions including The Poetic Object (San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, 1988); Deep Storage: Collecting, Storing, and Archiving Art (Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 1997); Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004); The Keeper (New Museum, New York, NY, 2016); The Warmth of Other Suns (The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2019; curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell and organized by the New Museum); and “Good Artists,” curated by Jenny Holzer for Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2019); Women to the Fore at the Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, NY, 2020); Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection at the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 2020); Portable Sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute (Leeds, United Kingdom, 2021); and Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 2022). Since taking on the Baron estate’s representation in 2017, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has included her work in several group exhibitions including Collage: Made in America (2017), The Time Is N♀w (2017), Art of Defiance: Radical Materials (2019) and Paper Power (2020). In 2021, the gallery mounted its first solo exhibition of Baron’s work, Hannelore Baron: Collages, which was followed by a solo exhibition of her box assemblages and collages, Hannelore Baron, in 2024.

Works by Hannelore Baron are in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, CA; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA; Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; International Collage Center, Milton, PA; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, The George Washington University, Washington, DC; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Moderne Galerie, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Pannell Gallery, Anne Gary Pannell Center, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; Richard F. Brush Art Gallery and Permanent Collection, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY; RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is the exclusive representative of the Estate of Hannelore Baron.

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
International Collage Center, Milton, PA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Kunstsammlung der Stadt Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Moderne Galerie, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster (Ulster County Community College), Stone Ridge, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Pannell Gallery, Anne Gary Pannell Center, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery and Permanent Collection, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Warehouse Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1969
Hannelore Baron: Paintings-Collages, Ulster County Community College, Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY

1973
6 solos, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Hannelore Baron, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY

1976
Hannelore Baron, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY

1977
Hannelore Baron, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY

1978
Hannelore Baron, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY

1980
Hannelore Baron: Collages, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY

1981
Hannelore Baron: Collages and Boxes, The Member’s Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Hannelore Baron: Collages and Boxes, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron: Boxes, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY

1982
Hannelore Baron: Collage, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hannelore Baron: Selected Collages, 1982, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron: Gouaches/Collages, Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Waalwijk, The Netherlands
Hannelore Baron, Moderne Galerie des Saarland-Museums, Studiogalerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
Hannelore Baron: New York, Textilbilder + Textilcollagen, Galerie Domberger, Reutlingen, Germany

1983
Hannelore Baron: New York, Collagen, Galerie Alvensleben, Munich, Germany
Hannelore Baron: Recent Collages, Robert Brown Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Galerie im Rathaus, Kunstverein Dillingen, Dillingen, Germany
Hannelore Baron: 60 Arbeiten 1976-1982, Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany
Hannelore Baron: Boxes, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY

1984
Hannelore Baron: Collages & Boxes, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Hannelore Baron, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron: Collagen, Galerie im Rathaus, Kunstverein Dillingen, Dillingen, Germany

1985
Hannelore Baron: Collage, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hannelore Baron, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY

1986
Hannelore Baron: Collages & Boxes, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Hannelore Baron, Galerie Lopes AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Hannelore Baron: Collages, Galleri Zero, Stockholm, Sweden
Hannelore Baron: 27 Collages, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY

1987
Hannelore Baron: Recent Collages, Robert Brown Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Hannelore Baron: The Last Ten Years, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron: In Memoriam, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hannelore Baron: The Last 10 Years, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA

1988
Hannelore Baron (1926-1987): The Last Ten Years, Collages and Boxes, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
In Memoriam: Hannelore Baron, Collagen und Box-Assemblagen, Galerie Lopes AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Hannelore Baron: Bird Imagery, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY

1989
Hannelore Baron: Collages & Boxes, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Hannelore Baron, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron: Collages, Robert Brown Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Hannelore Baron: Monoprints 1978-81, Baron/Boisanté, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron, Fujii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hannelore Baron: Collage, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990
Hannelore Baron: Assemblages, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991
Hannelore Baron, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY

1993
Hannelore Baron, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron: Collages & Box Constructions, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron, John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis, MN

1994
Hannelore Baron, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995
Hannelore Baron: Collages & Box Constructions, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron: Collages & Box Constructions, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1996
Hannelore Baron, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA
Hannelore Baron: Collagen und Schaukasten, Farbklang Kulturverein, Dillingen, Saar, Germany

1997
Hannelore Baron: Kollazsok es Dobozok, Isrvam Kiraly Muzeum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
Hannelore Baron: Collagen und Schaukasten, ACA Galleries, Munich, Germany

1998
Hannelore Baron: A Selection of Monoprints, Collages and Box Constructions, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hannelore Baron: Box Constructions and Collages, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA

2000
Hannelore Baron: Early Works, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001
Hannelore Baron: Collages and Box Constructions, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron (1926-1987): Selected Works, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

2002
Hannelore Baron: Works from 1969 to 1987, organized by SITES (Smithsonian Institution  Traveling Exhibition Service) and curated by Ingrid Schaffner; Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Macalester College Art Gallery, St. Paul, MN; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, FL; Luther W. Bradly Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Hannelore Baron: Fragments Shored Against Ruins, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Hannelore Baron: Collages & Assemblages, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY

2003
Hannelore Baron: Collages, Box Constructions, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
Hannelore Baron: Collages, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

2004
Hannelore Baron: Constructions and Mixed Media Collage, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hannelore Baron, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA           

2005
Hannelore Baron: Collages and Box Constructions, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Hannelore Baron, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hannelore Baron: Fragments Shored Against Ruins, Ford Graphics Gallery, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

2008
Hannelore Baron: Collages and Box Constructions, 1969-1985, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY

2012
Hannelore Baron, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hannelore Baron, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY

2015
Hannelore Baron: Collage & Assemblage, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2016
Hannelore Baron, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY

2021
Hannelore Baron: Collages, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2024
Hannelore Baron, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

1951
Creative Gallery, New York, NY

1958
Art Directions Gallery, New York, NY

1959
Twenty-Third Annual Competition for a First New York Show, ACA Galleries, New York, NY

1962
48th Annual Yonkers Art Association Exhibition, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

1963
49th Annual Yonkers Art Association Exhibition, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

1965
51st Annual Yonkers Art Association Exhibition, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

1966
52nd Annual Yonkers Art Association Exhibition, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

1968
National Society of Painters in Casein 14th Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
National Association of Women Artists 1968 Annual Exhibition, National Academy Galleries, New York, NY

1969
55th Annual Yonkers Art Association Exhibition, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

1970
Audubon Artists 28th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Galleries, New York, NY
Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY

1971
A.M. Sacks Gallery, New York, NY
Audubon Artists 29th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Galleries, New York, NY
1971
Open Juried Show, Westchester Ethical Society, White Plains, NY

1972
Audubon Artists 30th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Galleries, New York, NY

1973
Audubon Artists 31st Annual Exhibition, National Academy Galleries, New York, NY
Atkinson, Baron, Fanto, Pollan, Drawings and Collages, Herbert E. Feist Gallery, New York, NY
Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY

1975
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Celebration: Women in the Arts, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY
Audubon Artists 33rd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
150th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Mamaroneck Artists Guild 22nd Anniversary Open Juried Exhibition, Community Unitarian Church, White Plains, NY

1977
The Hudson River Open, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

1978
Collage 1978, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, NY
Contemporary Collages, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
New Acquisitions, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1979
Formations on Paper, Gallery Alexandra Monett, Brussels, Belgium
The Art of Collage Today, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA

1980
Artist’s Books, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY; Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1981
Sixty Years of Collage, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY
Selections 81, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
Words and Images, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Women Artists, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY
Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY
The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Joyce Hunsacker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
Contemporary Collage, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Artist’s Books, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France

1982
Small Sizes, Galerie La Cite, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Hannelore Baron: Collages and Wood Assemblages and Paul Harnett: Collages, Rosenberg Fine Arts Ltd., Toronto, Canada

1983
Galerie Gamma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Les Etats du Livre, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France; Contemporary Art Center, Rouen; Le Grand Palais, Paris, France
Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany
uitnodiging, Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Waalwijk, The Netherlands

1984
Selected Drawings by Eleven Artists, Willard Gallery, New York, NY
Dealer’s Choice, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC

1985
Collage, The State of the Art, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ

1986
Fetish Art: Obsessive Expressions, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Collagen, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Paper Variations, Lever-Meyerson Gallery, New York,
IV Sommerausstellung, Galerie Gilbert, Remetschwiel, Germany
Jewish Themes / Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Spertus Museum of Judica, Chicago, IL; National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
Small Format, Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY
Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
For the Holidays, Collages, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

1987
Crime and Punishment, Schrieber / Cutler, Inc., New York, NY
Joseph Cornell and His Legacy, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Collector’s Choice 1987, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI

1988
The Poetic Object, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX

1989
Werke auf Papier, Galerie Lopes AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Collagen, Assemblagen und Objekte, Galerie im Trudelhaus, Baden, Switzerland

1991
Art on Paper 1991, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

1992
Papers, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Proud Possessions: A Community Collects, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

1993
Recent Acquisitions to the Weatherspoon Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Recycled Lives: Collages from the Weatherspoon Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

1994
Word and Image: Selections from the Weatherspoon Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Fractured Identity: Cut and Paste, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995
American Collage, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Air-Conditioned Abstraction All Summer Long, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Selections, Barbara Mathas Gallery, New York, NY
Collage: Made in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
New Acquisitions: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Isreal Museum, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Dillard Room Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Pasted Papers: Collage and the 20th Century, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA

1996
Picasso and Friends, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA
Dissimilar & Unrelated Sculptures, Baron/Boisanté, New York, NY
Box, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY
Fiber and Form: The Woman’s Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Signs & Symbols, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
In Pursuit of the Invisible: Selections from the Collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin, The Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT

1997
Collage & Assemblage, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Deep Storage, Arsenale der Erinnerung (Deep Storage, Collecting, Storing, and Archiving in Art), Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Kulturforum,Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Works on Paper, Baron/Boisanté, New York, NY

1998
Deep Storage, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Atrium Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Summer Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Small Treasures III, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA

1999
The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Voices from Here and There: New Acquisitions in the Department of Prints and Drawings, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of The Jewish Museum, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; The Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WA
1945-1985: Hannelore Baron, Dorothy Dehner, Margeret Ponce Isreal, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

2001
Air Conditioned Abstraction, Volume Two, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
A Private Reading, The Book as Image and Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
Rupture & Revision: Collage in America, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

2002
Three Approaches to Collage: Hannelore Baron, Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Endurance of Art, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
A Way with Words, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

2003
Old Friends, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC
Collage Construction, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
First Person, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY

2004
Cult Following, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Pannell Art Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA

2005
Abstraction: The Poetic Visual Image, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
Winter Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
COLLAGE signs & surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
It’s About Art, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Summer 2005, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Growing the Addison: Recent Acquisitions, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

2007
Winter Selections, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In Context, Collage + Abstraction, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
September Selections, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In Circulation: Works on Paper, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC

2008
Mostly Black and White, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
[un]common threads, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2009
Toxic Assets, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY

2010
Coalescence: Collages from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

2011
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Some Assembly Required: Assemblage & Collage, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Fragments: 1915-2011, Modern and Contemporary Collage, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
In Context: Celebrating Pioneering Los Angeles Artist Betye Saar, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Material Witness, Venessa German, Hannelore Baron, Donna Sharrett, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, State Fair Community College, Sedalia, MO; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Bates College Museum of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

2012
Into The Winter, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Printin’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Spring into Summer, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
From the Vault, University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

2013
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

2014
Some Collages, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

2015
Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
The Last Picture Show, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Tiny Picture Show, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

2016
The Keeper, New Museum, New York, NY

2017
Collage: Made in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
The Time Is N♀w, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2019
By Any Means: Modern and Contemporary Drawings from the Morgan, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell and organized by the New Museum, New York, NY; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Art of Defiance: Radical Materials, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
“Good Artists,” curated by Jenny Holzer, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
In Poetry and Silence: The Work and Studio of Lenore Tawney, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2020
Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Remainders, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Paper Power, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Women to the Fore, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2021
Portable Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, London, England
Arrivals, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

2022
Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
On the Nature of Things, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY

2024
Twentieth Century Paintings and Drawings: Stuart Davis to Robert Motherwell, Graham Shay 1857, New York, NY