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Mary Bauermeister (1934-2023)


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Progressions, 1962-2014 stones on plywood coated w...
Progressions, 1962-2014
stones on plywood coated with sand
21 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 6 inches / 54 x 54 x 15.2 cm
signed
This is a Commentary Work, 1964-2017 ink, watercol...
This is a Commentary Work, 1964-2017
ink, watercolor, lenses, wooden spheres, wooden pencil, metal, stones, offset print, glass
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches
signed and dated
Red China Tinta-Import Forbidden, 1966 ink, glass,...

Red China Tinta-Import Forbidden, 1966
ink, glass, glass lens and painted fabric and wood construction
16 5/8 x 16 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches / 42.2 x 42.5 x 15.9 cm
signed

China Tinta-Import Forbidden, 1966-69 ink, offset...

China Tinta-Import Forbidden, 1966-69

ink, offset print, glass, glass lens, wooden sphere and painted canvas and wood construction

78 x 24 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches

signed

Ora et Labora, 1968 wood, stones, and replicas of...

Ora et Labora, 1968
wood, stones, and replicas of pebbles on sanded particle board
31 1/2 x 45 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches / 80 x 114.8 x 12.4 cm

Corner Easel, 1969-70 wooden artist easel, small p...

Corner Easel, 1969-70
wooden artist easel, small prints and objects in the two drawers
80 7/8 x 24 7/8 x 23 7/8 inches / 205.4 x 63.2 x 60.6 cm

Brian O'Doherty Commentary Box, 1967-2017 ink,...

Brian O'Doherty Commentary Box, 1967-2017
ink, stone, offset print, glass, glass lens, paint brush, metal and wood tools and painted wood construction
17 x 24 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches
signed

All Revolutions End Up In The Boutique Nr.2, 2019...

All Revolutions End Up In The Boutique Nr.2, 2019
ink, watercolor, mirror, glass, glass lens and painted wood construction
10 x 9 1/2 x 7 inches
signed

Title Drawing No. 1, 2019 ink and graphite on pape...

Title Drawing No. 1, 2019
ink and graphite on paper
19 3/4 x 25 5/8 inches
signed


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“The question interests me, not the answer. The question is infinity; the answer, too definite…Art is for me the possibility for plurality. Therefore my interest in science is only to find out some other systems, not because I like systems, but the ways to find them and break them. In art 1 + 1 = 3 or something else. It might be 2 but that is the unimportant solution.”[i]

A multidisciplinary artist known for her intricate, enigmatic assemblages, Mary Bauermeister (1934–2023) often defies categorization. A precursory figure of the Fluxus movement—her studio was the meeting point for a number of movement-defining Happenings—her work plays an integral role in the evolution of both the European and American avant-gardes of the 1960s. Her reliefs and sculptures, which incorporate drawing, text, found objects, organic materials, fabric, and more reference myriad concepts: natural phenomena, astrology and other cosmologies, astronomy, art history, mathematics, the nature of language, and her own “spiritual-metaphysical experiences” were all engaged as conceptual underpinnings in Bauermeister’s multifarious works. Maturing amidst the currents of Minimalism and Pop Art, Bauermeister’s art has resisted labels due to the singular expression of her interests and concerns. Overarching tropes in her oeuvre ponder the simultaneous transience and permanence of the natural world, the optical effects of transparency and magnification, and key dichotomies such as multiplication and variation, structure and order, chance and ephemerality, introversion and extroversion. Her three-dimensional works act as receptacles for her thoughts, ideas, and notes as she investigates a variety of visual and philosophical paradoxes related to the nature of perception, offering a literal and metaphorical window into the inner workings of the artist’s mind.

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Bauermeister’s childhood was defined by totalitarianism and war. This environment of tremendous destruction and suffering naturally shaped her as a person and, later, as an artist. Finding respite in her studies of nature, science, and mathematics, Bauermeister attended secondary school in Cologne from 1946 to 1954. There, her artistic talent emerged under the direction of her drawing teacher, Günther Ott, who encouraged her to pursue an art practice. In 1954, she enrolled at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (the Ulm School of Design) where she took courses with the Swiss artist, architect, and designer Max Bill and the textile artist Helene Nonné-Schmidt, who had studied under Paul Klee. Unable to align herself with the school’s rigid Constructivist mandates, Bauermeister decided to leave after a semester, explaining in a letter to Ott: “The only artworks which receive serious attention here are constructed, mathematically provable, rectangular…”[i] She then enrolled at the Staatliche Schule für Kunst und Handwerk (State School of Arts and Crafts) in Saarbrücken, studying with photographer Otto Steinert. In late 1956, Bauermeister returned to Cologne, where she supported herself by selling her pastel works on paper while cultivating a career as an artist. Between 1960 and 1961, she rented a studio on the top floor of Lintgasse 28, a space that not only fostered her mature art practice, but also became the venue for numerous vanguard exhibitions, concerts, and performances among Bauermeister’s wide circle of friends. John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, Christo, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many other visual artists, musicians, poets, and dancers convened at the studio to participate in what became the earliest Happenings, earning Bauermeister the title “mother of the Fluxus movement.” She continued to nurture a close friendship with Stockhausen, an influential composer of electronic and serial music, with whom she also collaborated in a creative capacity; the couple married in 1967 and had two children, Julika and Simon, before divorcing in 1973. Bauermeister’s two younger daughters, Sophie and Esther, were born from subsequent relationships with musician David Johnson and artist Josef Halevi.

In 1962, Bauermeister presented an interdisciplinary selection of work executed between 1958 to 1962 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands—her first museum exhibition. Organized by legendary museum directory Jan Willem Sandberg, Bauermeister’s exhibition was augmented by recordings and scores by Stockhausen and other composers; the exhibition traveled to two other Dutch venues, the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam and the Groninger Museum in Groningen. Fortuitously, Sandberg had also mounted a concurrent exhibition at the museum, Four Americans, featuring Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Alfred Leslie, and Richard Stankiewicz. Profoundly impacted by the work of Rauschenberg and Johns in particular, Bauermeister was inspired to leave Germany for New York in October 1962 at the age of twenty-nine. Specifically, Rauschenberg’s famous combine Monogram (1955–59, Moderne Museet, Stockholm, Sweden), which features a taxidermized goat adorned with an automobile tire, had a profound effect on Bauermeister, who determined that the United States—and New York especially—could offer her an environment of artistic freedom that Germany, at that time, could not.

In New York, Bauermeister entered the art world swiftly, moving into a studio at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park in early 1963 and participating in the International Artists’ Summer Seminar at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ, later that year. The program resulted in an exhibition at Riverside Art Museum, where the young gallerist Alfredo Bonino encountered her work for the first time. Bauermeister joined Galeria Bonino that winter and her work was initially presented at the gallery in the group exhibition 2 sculptors, 4 painters. Bonino mounted her first solo show in 1964, which garnered institutional and critical attention. The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden all acquired work by Bauermeister in the wake of the show’s success, prompting The New York Times art critic Brian O’Doherty to write: “It will be interesting to see if she has the intelligence and cunning to cope with the major success she is obviously going to have.”[iii] The exhibition included early work as well as examples from series that would define her time in the United States: meditative compositions constructed from stones, works created from sewn textiles, and the first lens boxes. Three more solo exhibitions at Galeria Bonino, in 1965, 1967 and 1970, would follow. Bauermeister ultimately stayed in New York for ten years, forming lasting friendships with a number of artists, musicians, choreographers and writers; in addition to Johns, Rauschenberg, Cage, Cunningham, and Paik, her circle also included Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Hans Namuth, and Allen Ginsberg.

Throughout the 1960s, Bauermeister exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including the esteemed Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture and Prints at the Whitney Museum (1966) and the seminal Pictures to be Read/Poetry to be Seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1967). In related exhibition materials, Bauermeister was frequently referred to as an American artist, and she was often included in surveys of young American artists, demonstrating the outsize influence she had on the contemporary American art scene. In 1971, Bauermeister returned to Europe, settling in a house she designed in collaboration with Erich Schneider-Wessling in the small town of Rösrath, outside of Cologne, in 1968. Though she would continue to visit New York on a regular basis for installations and events, Rösrath would remain her home for the rest of her life, and the sprawling garden that surrounded the house would become an artwork in its own right throughout the following decades. In 1972, Bauermeister was awarded her first museum retrospective; held at the Mittelrhein Museum in Koblenz, Germany, the exhibition featured paintings, assemblages, sculptures, and works on paper executed between 1952 and 1972. That same year, she had her first solo exhibition at Galleria Arturo Schwarz in Milan, Italy. In 1974, she was given another retrospective showcasing her two decades of work at the Rathaus Bensberg, the town hall of Bergisch Gladbach.

[i] Mary Bauermeister as quoted in Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, April 20, 1965, www.moma.org, accessed March 29, 2016.
[ii] Mary Bauermeister artist website, https://www.marybauermeister.org/
biography.html, accessed April 2018.
[iii] Brian O’Doherty, “International Selection of Painting and Sculpture in Local Galleries,” The New York Times, December 29, 1963, X21.

 

In the late 1970s and continuing into the mid-1980s, Bauermeister began working accepting commissions to design gardens intended for meditation and leisure. Often including water features and crystal arrangements, Bauermeister earned a reputation for her Zen-like landscape designs, leading to several notable commissions including the Landeszentralbank Wiesbaden in Wiesbaden; the Kölnische Rückversicherung in Cologne; and the Federal German Foreign Office in Bonn. In 1980, the Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach presented Bauermeister’s third museum retrospective, Retrospektive 1955-1980. In 1985, she was included in the International Crystallography Congress held at the Universität Bielefeld, where she presented a solo exhibition of her work and discussed the topic “Symmetries and Serial Processes in Art and Music” with faculty members of the university’s mathematics department. The following year, Bauermeister joined the Postnukleare Aktionstage (Post-Nuclear Action Days), a festival of cultural programming in Wuppertal, where she spoke with political scientists and art historians on the “Socio-Political Relevance of Contemporary Art.” Additional exhibitions that highlighted Bauermeister’s prominent role in the art scene of the 1950s and 1960s were Die sechziger Jahre, Kölns Weg zur Kunst-Metropole – vom Happening zum Kunstmarkt (The Sixties – Cologne’s Road to Becoming an Art Metropolis – from Happening to Art Market) at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne (1986) and Return to the Object: American and European Art from the Fifties and Sixties at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1988).

In 2011, Edition Elke Heidenreich bei C. Bertelsmann published Bauermeister’s autobiography, Ich hänge im Triolengitter – Mein Leben mit Karlheinz Stockhausen (Hanging in a Triplet Grid – My Life with Karlheinz Stockhausen). In 2019, Bauermeister received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse), the highest honor that the Federal Republic of Germany can bestow on individuals, in recognition of her contributions to culture and her artistic achievements. Most recently, Bauermeister was honored as the first winner of the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Prize, awarded by the NRW Ministry of Culture in 2021.

Bauermeister continued to explore the signature themes that occupied her practice for sixty years until the final years of her life. In her last two decades, her work has been included in numerous important solo and group exhibitions, most notably WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2007); Welten in der Schachtel (Worlds in the Box) at the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen (2010), which also featured the work by Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, and Andy Warhol; Zero - Die internationale Kunstbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre (The International Art Movement of the 50s and 60s) at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (2015); Point – Line – Plain – TV at the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, South Korea (2016); Zwischen den Zeilen. Kunst in Briefen von Niki de Saint Phalle bis Joseph Beuys (Between the Lines: Art in Letters from Niki de Saint Phalle to Joseph Beuys) at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover (2017); Sound Goes Image. Partituren zwischen Musik und Bildender Kunst (Scores Between Music and Fine Art) at the Horst Jannssen Museum in Oldenburg (2017); Fountain of Youth, ESPE (École supérieure du professorat et de l'éducation), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France (2018); Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2018); Light, Line, Color and Space, University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery (2018); Objects Like Us, The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives On Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2018); KÖLN 68! Protest. Pop. Provokation, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne (2018); “Cry Gold and See Black,” curated by Julie Mehretu for Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2019); Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2020); and Surrealism in American Art, Centre de la Vielle Charité, Marseille, France (2021).

Notable solo surveys of her work include Mary Bauermeister. Die 1950er Jahre at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum in Düren (2013); Mary Bauermeister-Da capo-Werke aus 60 Jahren at the Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz (2015); Mary Bauermeister: The New York Decade at the Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA (2015), which included the most thorough English-language publication on her work thus far; Pli Score Pli: Mary Bauermeister at the Kunstmuseum Solingen (2017); and Mary Bauermeister – Zeichen, Worte, Universen at the Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach (2017).

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery first exhibited Bauermeister’s work in 1998 and has featured her work in several acclaimed group exhibitions including The Time Is N♀w (2017). The gallery took on the artist’s representation in 2018 and presented its first solo exhibition of her work the following year: Mary Bauermeister: Live in Peace or Leave the Galaxy.

Mary Bauermeister passed away in March of 2023 in her home in Rösrath. The Studio of Mary Bauermeister had already begun work on a Catalogue Raisonné, which Michael Rosenfeld Gallery will continue to support while championing her legacy in the years to come.

Bauermeister is represented in numerous museum collections worldwide including the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Bundesministerium des Innern, für Bau und Heimat, Bonn, Germany; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Bonn, Germany; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; CUBO, Gruppo Unipol, Bologna, Italy; The David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; Goethe Institut, London, United Kingdom; Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY; Guild Hall, London, United Kingdom; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany; Kunstsammlung Deutsche Bundesbank, Berlin, Germany; Kykuit, LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn, Germany; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Mittelrheinmuseum, Koblenz, Germany; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA; Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren, Düren, Germany; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin, Germany; The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; and the Zero Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC is the exclusive representative of the Estate of Mary Bauermeister.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Bundesministerium des Innern, für Bau und Heimat, Bonn, Germany
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Bonn, Germany
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
City of Herten, Germany
City of Rösrath, Germany
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
CUBO, Gruppo Unipol, Bologna, Italy
The David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Goethe Institut, London, United Kingdom
Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Guild Hall, London, United Kingdom
Hampshire College Art Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Kulturamt für den Stadtkölnischen Kunstbesitz, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Kunstsammlung Deutsche Bundesbank, Berlin, Germany
Kykuit, The Rockefeller Estate, Pocantico Hills, NY
LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn, Germany
The Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mills College Art Museum, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museumsverein Düren am Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren, Düren, Germany
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetries, University of Iowa Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
University Art Museum, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Wheaton College Permanent Collection, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Zero Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Bundesministerium des Innern, für Bau und Heimat, Bonn, Germany
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Bonn, Germany
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
City of Herten, Germany
City of Rösrath, Germany
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
CUBO, Gruppo Unipol, Bologna, Italy
The David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Goethe Institut, London, United Kingdom
Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Guild Hall, London, United Kingdom
Hampshire College Art Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Kulturamt für den Stadtkölnischen Kunstbesitz, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Kunstsammlung Deutsche Bundesbank, Berlin, Germany
Kykuit, The Rockefeller Estate, Pocantico Hills, NY
LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn, Germany
The Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mills College Art Museum, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museumsverein Düren am Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren, Düren, Germany
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetries, University of Iowa Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
University Art Museum, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Wheaton College Permanent Collection, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Zero Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany

1962      
Mary Bauermeister schilderijen & Karlheinz Stockhausen electronische muziek, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands; Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands; Stedejilk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1964      
Bauermeister: Paintings and Constructions, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Drawing Exhibition (exhibition in conjunction with Karlheinz Stockhausen concert), Jerrold Morris International Gallery, Edward Johnson Building, Macmillian Theatre, Toronto, Canada

1965      
Large Six-Foot Tall Lorelei, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Bauermeister: Paintings and Constructions, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY 

1966      
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY

1967      
Bauermeister: Paintings and Constructions, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY

1969      
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY

1970      
Mary Bauermeister: paintings and constructions, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Art Center, Summit, NJ

1971      
mary bauermeister. zeichnungen konstruktionen, Galerie Atelier 67, Ulm, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: Überbleibsel, Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany
howevercalls, Galerie Judith Weingarten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1972      
Petschek Arts, London, UK
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Mary Bauermeister: Gemälde und Objekte, Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: Recent Paintings and Constructions, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
Mary Bauermeister, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy 

1973      
Mary Bauermeister, Galerie Schloss Remseck, Neckar Rems, Germany 

1974      
20 Jahre Retrospektive Mary Bauermeister Gemälde und Objekte 1954-74, Rathaus Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 
Mary Bauermeister, Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1978      
Mary Bauermeister Oeuvre d’art, Galerie La Cité, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

1979      
Mary Bauermeister, Galerie Rolandshof, Bonn, Germany

1980      
Mary Bauermeister Retrospektive 1955-1980, Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders (now Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders), Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

1981      
Galerie La Cité, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

1986      
Lichtkreuze - Kruezbäume - Baumskulpturen, Haus Stammen, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

1987      
Mary Bauermeister, Galerie Rolandshof, Remagen-Rolandseck, Germany

1991      
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY

1992      
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY

2002      
Galerie Inge Becker, Cologne, Germany 

2003      
Mary Bauermeister: Auf den Punkt gebracht - Arbeiten von 1955 bis 2002, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany

2004      
Needless Needles, Zum 70. Geburtstag von Mary Bauermeister, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: All things involved in all other things, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany

2009      
Mary Bauermeister: Aus meinem Skizzenbuch – Ein Tag in New York, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany

2010      
Welten in der Schachtel: Mary Bauermeister und die experimentelle Kunst der 1960er Jahre, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

2012      
Mary Bauermeister: Zopf ab, Museum Fluxus+, Potsdam, Germany
Mary Bauermeister. Kulturgewächs - Spektrum über 60 Jahre, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany

2013      
Mary Bauermeister. Die 1950er Jahre, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum, Düren, Germany
Zopf ab, Gold oben!, Kunstverein Nümbrecht, Germany

2014      
Die Visionärin (The visionary), 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Kunst(t)träume, museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam Germany

2015      
Mary Bauermeister – Da Capo – Werke aus sechzig Jahren, Mittelrheimuseum, Koblenz, Germany
Mary Bauermeister. The New York Decade, Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA

2016      
Farbrausch (Blaze of Colour), 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: Omniverse, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Mary Bauermeister: Point the way: with different material, Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany
Horizonte – Mary Bauermeister und chinesische Künstler, Nanjing Xinchen Wenhua Yishu Zhongxin (Whenshine Galerie), Nanjing Xuanhe Meishuguan (Xuanhe Galerie), Goethe Institut, Beijing, China
Querschnitt durch das Oeuvre der Künstlerin Mary Bauermeister, Museum Fluxus+, Potsdam, Germany
Mary Bauermeister, Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn, Switzerland
Farbrausch, Kunstinitiative Wurzeln und Flügel e.V., Schloss Reuschenberg, Neuss, Germany

2017      
Pli Score Pli, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Germany
Mary Bauermeister 1 + 1 = 3, Studio Gariboldi, Milan, Italy
Mary Bauermeister: Das ernste Spiel - die Chiffernschrift von Natur und Transzendenz, himmel und himmel Gallery, Munich, Germany
Mary Bauermeister - Zeichen, Worte, Universen, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: No Fighting on Christmas. The air-conditioned nightmare, DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden, Germany 

2019      
Mary Bauermeister: Live in Peace or Leave the Galaxy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2022     
Mary Bauermeister: Zuvielisation, satellite exhibition of the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Humor-Kirche Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Wiesbaden, Germany
1+1=3: Die Kunstwelten der Mary Bauermeister, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

2023    
Mary Bauermeister: Fuck the System, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

1961      
Opening Exhibition Moltkestr, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany
Der Geist der Zeit in Malerei und Plastik, Atelier Neufert, Sachsenturm, Cologne, Germany 
originale. musikalisches theater, Atelier Bauermeister Lintgasse, Cologne, Germany

1962      
Ars Viva, Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
30 deutsche Maler: Situation 1962, Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Sommerausstellung (together with Waldemar Grzimek), Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany

1963      
2 Sculptors, 4 Painters, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
International Artists’ Summer Seminar, Gallery Lounge, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ; Riverside Museum, New York, NY
Schrift en beeld, Art and writing / L’Art et l’ecriture, Schrift und Bild, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany 

1964      
1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Box Show, Byron Gallery, New York, NY
Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
World Art Show, Washington Square Galleries, New York, NY
Museum of Art, Science and Industry (now the Discovery Museum), Bridgeport, CT
“Old Hundred”: Selections from The Larry Aldrich Contemporary Collection, 1951-1964: Sculpture, The Larry Aldrich Museum (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT

1965      
Selected Works by Contemporary New Jersey Artists, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 
1+1=3: An Exhibition of Retinal and Perceptual Art, Lower Gallery, University Art Museum of the University of Texas (now the Blanton Museum of Art), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 
Highlights of the Season 1964/65, The Larry Aldrich Museum (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT 
Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists Under Thirty-Five, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 
John S. Newberry: A Memorial Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Arnot Art Gallery (now Arnot Art Museum), Elmira, NY
44 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions: Assemblage, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Deceived Eye, Fort Worth Art Center (now the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth), Fort Worth, TX 
Stone and Crystal Exhibition, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY 
The Box Show, Byron Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Boxes and Wall Sculpture, RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Paintings and Sculpture from the Contemporary Collection, 1951-1964, of The Larry Aldrich Museum, organized by the Fine Arts Committee of the Friends of Channel 13-WNDT, Alexander’s Department Store, Fifth Floor Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings from the Collection of Betty Parsons, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
Art Today: Kinetic and Optic, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Premio Nacional e Internacional. Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Centro de Artes Visuales Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculptors’ Drawings, School of Art Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 

1966      
European Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; DeCordova Museum (now the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum), Lincoln, MA 
Artists for Core, Grippi & Waddell Gallery, New York, NY
2e Salon international de Galerien pilotes Lausanne. Artistes et découvreurs de notre temps, Museé Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland
Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Structure, Contemporary Study Wing, Finch College Museum of Art, Finch College, New York, NY; Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery, Boston, MA 
American Landscapes: A Changing Frontier, National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
American Painting, 1966, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
The Katonah Gallery (now the Katonah Museum of Art), Katonah, NY
Contemporary Art USA, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Science (now the Chrysler Museum of Art), Norfolk, VA
Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Drawings from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The First Flint Invitational: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Flint Institute of Arts at DeWaters Art Center, Flint, MI
Twenty Years of American Sculpture 1946-1966: From the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Monmouth Museum, Asbury Park, NJ
50 Op-Pop Prints, Closson’s Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Mary Bauermeister, Marcelo Bonevardi, Robert Breer, Pietro Cascella, Fernandez-Muro, Armando Morales, Alicia Penalba, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Maximum 12 x 20, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY 
Exhibition of Works to Benefit Channel 13, Finch College Museum of Art, Finch College, New York, NY
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY
Towards A Cold Poetic Image, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy 

1967      
1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art (now Carnegie Museum of Art), Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Pictures to be Read/Poetry to be Seen, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
VI Biennale Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
Selection 1967: Recent Acquisitions in Modern Art, University Art Gallery (now Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive), University of California, Berkeley, CA 
Art for your Collection VI, RISD Museum of Art (now RISD Museum), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 
Nuove tecniche d'Immagine, 6. Biennale D'Arte Repubblica Di San Marino, Palazzo Dei Congressi, City of San Marino, San Marino, Italy
N.Y. - L.A. Drawings of the 1960's, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Collectors 1967, Akron Art Institute (now Akron Art Museum), Akron, OH 
The First Kent Invitational of Painting and Sculpture, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Art from New Jersey - 1967, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The Range of Art, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Fifty One Paintings Sculptures and Drawings, Benefit Auction for The Artist’s Technical Research Institute, The Artist Technical Research Institute, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, NY

1968      
1968 Annual Exhibition; Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Graphics '68, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Third Annual Art from New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Sculpture, murals & fountains: an anthology of contemporary art from the works of one hundred and sixteen artists from twenty-nine nations and six continents, HemisFair '68 (1968 World’s Fair), San Antonio, TX
Listening to Pictures, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Art of Organic Forms, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Mary Bauermeister, Fletcher Benton, Agostino Bonalumi, Marcelo Bonevardi, Robert Breer, Pietro Cascella, Antonio Fernandez-Muro, Gyula Kosice, Ronald Mallory, Umberto Mastroianni, Armando Morales, Alicia Penalba, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Wragge Room, Bonwit Teller Department Store, New York, NY

1969      
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Black/White: Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions, Van Wickle Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Society for Contemporary Art 29th Annual, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Superlimited: Boxes and Things, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Contemporary American Painting & Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Painting and Sculpture Today 1969, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Contemporary Art: Acquisitions 1966–1969, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1970 National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), San Francisco, CA
The Owens-Corning Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

1970      
Arts from New Jersey 1970, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
January ‘70: Contemporary Women Artists, Hathorn Gallery (now The Schick Art Gallery), Skidmore College, Saragota Springs, NY 
Popular Mechanics in Printmaking, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Benefit exhibition for Preventative Medicine Strang Clinic, Pepsi Cola Building, 500 Park Avenue, New York, NY 
The Permanent Collection--Women Artists, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selections from the Guggenheim Collection, 1900-1970, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1971      
Artistas de la Galeria Bonino de New York, Estudio Actual, Caracas, Venezuela
Park East Synagogue Art Show, Park East Synagogue, New York, NY
Drawings USA/71, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN 
Contemporary Selections 1971, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
31st Annual Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Drawings in St. Paul from the permanent collection of the Minnesota Museum of Art, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
Rudolph Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Multiples: The First Decade, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Introduction to artists recently joining the gallery; Mary Bauermeister, Morris Broderson, Cristóbal Toral, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

1972      
III. Bienal de Arte Coltejer, Medellin, Columbia
Women: A Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists, Salem Fine Arts Center (now the Robert E. Elberson Fine Arts Center), Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Women in Art: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Art Gallery, Brainerd Hall (now the Gibson Gallery), State University College (now The State University of New York at Potsdam-SUNY Potsdam), Potsdam, NY
Unique/Multiples: Sculpture/Photos, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Movement, Optical Phenomena and Light: Kinetic and Optic Painting and Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
After Surrealism: Metaphors and Similes, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University, Sarasota, FL
Selections from the The Aldrich Museum Collection and Paintings on Paper: Selections from the Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Galerie Pelart, Kassel, Germany
American Woman Artists Show, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Focus on Women, Van Deusen Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Szene Rhein-Ruhr '72, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Critics’ Choice, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Opus Demercificandi, Centro Tool, Milan, Italy
Detroit Collects Prints and Drawings, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1973      
Bildhauerinnen, Berlin, Germany
Tableaux Modernes. Art Contemporain, Espace Cardin, Paris, France 

1974      
Within the Decade: Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Permanent Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The 20th Century - 35 American Artists, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy
Ars Intermedia, Galerie Les Contemporains Genval-Lac with Galerie Kümmel Cologne, Genval, Belgium
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 1964-1974: Selections from the Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Multiples: ein Versuch die Entwicklung des Auflagenobjektes darzustellen = An Attempt to Present the Development of the Object Edition, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, Germany

1975      
Feminie 75, UNESCO, Paris, France
JP1: Art International, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
A Change of View, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1976      
Bosces, Museé de l'art Moderne, Paris, France
Fall Selections 1976: the Museum and its Resources. Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection, New Gifts and Loans, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT 

1977
The Magic Circle, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Private Images: Photographs by Sculptors, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
Künsterlinnen International, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Künstlerinnen international 1877-1977, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
Fall, 1977: Contemporary Collectors, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT

Spacescapes, Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY                             

1978                     
Turm - Lebensbaum, Goethe Institut, London, UK
Selections from the Collections 1978: New Acquisitions--Gifts and Loans, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
The Sixties Collection Revisited, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT

1979      
Kölner Künstler persönlich vorgestellt von Mitgliedern aus Vorstand und Ausschuss des Kölnischen Kunstvereins, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

1980      
Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Sculptural Forms, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Signale aus dem Verborgenen: Magisch-Meditatives in der Kunst von Mary Bauermeister Rita Furore Ingeborg Lüscher, Galerie Rolandshof, Remagen-Rolandseck, Germany
Drawings in Saint Paul: Selections from the Miriam B. and Malcolm E. Lein Collection, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota

1981      
Fluxus: Aspekte des Phänomens, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Bildhauertechniken, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

1982      
Meditationsecke (Happening), Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik, Rodenkrichen, Germany
Fästwel -mit F. Lauten und P. Fuchs, Kürten, Germany
Medium Papier, Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders (now Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders), Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany 
Exhibition of works by women artists as part of “Women’s Week,” Denison University Art Galleries, Denison University, Granville, OH
Galerie Burg Zweiffel, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

1983      
Twenty Contemporary Women, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

1984
Intermedia: Between Painting and Sculpture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT

1985      
Vom Klang der Bilder: die Musik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Kunst und Technik, Bonn, Köln, Aachen, Augsburg, München, Düsseldorf, Germany
Licht, Zeit, Bewegung, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Aspects of Constructivism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Atrium Gallery, Schenectady, NY

1986      
Die 60er Jahre - Kölns Weg zur Kunstmetropole; vom Happening zum Kunstmarkt, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Von Salatköpfen und Neutönern, WDR Produktion mit Mary Bauermeister, Bazon Brock, Hans G Helms, Allan Kaprow, Thomas Schmidt, Arthus Caspari, Jörg Immendorf im Rahmen der Eröffnung des Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
New Acquisitions and Permanent Collection, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ
Relief Sculpture: Selections from the Museum's Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Odd and Intense, Pictogram Gallery, New York, NY
Archetype: Eastern Cultures - Western Art of the Twentieth Century, Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Assemblage: Piece by Piece, Cox Fine Arts Center, Ohio State Fair, Columbus, OH
Accent on Sculpture: Small-scale Works from the Permanent Collection, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

1988      
The Art of the Object of the Sixties, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Kunst der 60er und 70er Jahre, Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders (now Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders), Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany

1992      
Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
Fluxus Virus, Temporäres Museum, Praterinsel, München, Germany
Contemporary European Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Transparency, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
Shizen: Exhibition of German Contemporary Art, Japanese-German Center, Berlin, Germany, Aula Carolina, Aachen, Germany; Gallery Yamaguchi SOKO, Gallery Tsubaki; TOTO Super Space Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie Villa Rolandseck, Bonn, Germany

1993      
Fluxus Virus 1962-1992, Temporäres Museum, Kaufhof Parkhaus Köln, Cologne, Germany;Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Haus zum Roten Ochsen, Erfurt, Germany; Smolny Kathedrale, St. Petersburg, Russia; Haus des Künstlers, Moscow, Russia  
In the Spirit of Fluxus, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts (now Wexner Center for the Arts), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain  

1994      
Worlds in a Box, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Favorite Things: The Community Selects, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

1995      
Artist's Choice: Elizabeth Murray - Modern Women, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 
Transparenz - Verdichtung, Weisse Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1996      
Ruhm: Werke von Künstlerinnen in nordrhein-westfälischen Museen, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany

1998      
Fazit, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Kölnische Galerie der Wünsche, Kölnische Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Return to the Object: American and European Art from the Fifties and Sixties, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Essence of the Orb, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
The Big Picture: American Art Since 1950, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Mary's und Ben's Lustspiel, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany

1999      
Wasserklage, Kunst- und Musikperformance, Rösrath, Germany
WordVolume, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Carved, Modeled, Welded, Assembled, Drawn: Sculptors’ Works in the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2000      
Museum der Wünsche, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Nicht ans Wort gebunden, Deutsches Buch und Schriftenmuseum, Leipzig, Germany
positions, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany 
The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2002      
As time goes by, Kunstverein Region Heinsberg, Germany
Nature Art, Birdland, Madison, CT
Sammlung Rosenkrantz, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Fluxus und Freunde: Sammlung Maria und Walter Schnepel/Fluxus and Friends: The Maria and Walter Schnepel Collection, Neues Museum Weserburg (now Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst), Bremen, Germany; Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Stille Betrachtung, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Kleine Formate, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany

2003      
Skulpturen zum Frieden, Leichingen, Germany
American Sculpture from the FIA’s Collection, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

2004      
25 Jahre Rösrather Künstler, Alte Lederfabrik, Rösrath, Germany
Contemporary American Sculpture: Collection of the FIA, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, MI 

2005      
Broken Glass: Glas in Kunst en Architectuur, Glaspaleis Heerlen, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Dual Vision: The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

2006      
Webs, Loops, and Skeins in Modern and Contemporary Art, RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 
ConFLUXaction, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Besonderheiten / Exceptionals, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany

2007      
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; PS.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), Long Island City, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2008      
To become more like music, Mummery+Schnelle, London, United Kingdom

2009      
Twentieth-Century Prints from the Collection, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
That 70’s Show, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
“Privat”: Wuppertal Sammler der Gegenwart im Von der Heydt-Museum, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

2010      
Eye Rhymes, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Power Play, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Anarchy of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway; SCHUNCK Museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands

2011      
Surveyor, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

2012      
Abstract Expressionism: Then & Now, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
On the Road to Fluxus, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Nostalgia is an Extended Feedback, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea
Rationale III: Raum + Bau. Architektinnen, Planerinnen, Künstlerinnen der Konkreten Kunst, Stadtkritik und Bonnnova, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Best of, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
SchlussPunkt, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany

2013      
Shakers & Movers, Galerie Veneklasen Werner, Berlin
Nur Hier: Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Ankäufe von 2007 bis 2011, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Bonn, Germany
Gut aufgelegt. Die Sammlung Heinz Beck, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
RESONANZEN: Mary Bauermeister - Jakob Mattner, 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Wonder Room: Into the Woods, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

2014      
Spielobjekte - Die Kunst der Möglichkeiten, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Intermedial, 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Single Moms - alleinstehende Mütter und ihre Lebenswelten, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
ornamental structures, Kunstverein Worms, Worms, Germany
transparent - durchsichtig - transluzid - durchscheinend, Kunstinitiative Wurzeln und Flügel e.V., Schloss Reuschenberg, Neuss, Germany
LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn, Germany

2015      
Zero - Die internationale Kunstbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Frauen in Krieg und Frieden. 15-45-15. Geschichte, Dokumente, zeitgenössische Kunst, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
accompagnata, Galerie Rosemarie Bassi, Remagen, Germany
It’s Never Just Black or White, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2016      
Flux-us, CUBO Centro Unipol, Bologna, Italy
Neupräsentation der Sammlung, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Das Neue, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Point – Line – Plain – TV, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea
Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
It's Elemental: Water, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 
Rendezvous der Künstler – Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Helmut Klewan, Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, Schaezlerpalais, Augsburg, Germany;  Regional Gallery in Liberec (Oblastní Galerie Liberec), Liberec, Czech Republic

2017      
Präsent: zwischen den Zeilen : Kunst in Briefen von Niki de Saint Phalle bis Joseph Beuys, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Sound Goes Image: Partituren zwischen Musik und Bildender Kunst, Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg, Germany
Spielraum: Kunst, die sich verändern lässt, Landesgalerie Linz, Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums, Linz, Austria; Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany 
The Time Is N♁w, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Masterclass: A Survey of Work from the Twentieth Century, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Supernature, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Katharina von Bora: Von der Pfarrfrau zur Bischöfin - Die Geschichte der widerlichen Reformation - Künstlerpaare, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
The Klewan Collection: Portrait(s) of Modernism, Orangerie, Lower Belvedere, The Belvedere, Vienna
aRtoRT, AdK Arbeitskreis der Künstler e.V. Bergisch Gladbach, Technologie Park, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

2018      
Fountain of Youth, ESPE (École supérieure du professorat et de l'éducation), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Light, Line, Color and Space, UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Alma Thomas: The Light of the Whole Universe, Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA          
Objects Like Us, The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
KÖLN 68! Protest. Pop. Provokation, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany

2019      
Art of Defiance: Radical Materials, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
“Cry Gold and See Black,” curated by Julie Mehretu, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
33 Positionen in einer Aussergewöhnlichen Ausstellung von Werken Unterschiedlichster Materialien und Techniken, Kunst Kabinett Hespert, Reichshof, Germany
Spiritual by Nature, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Galeria Bonino, organized by Fundación Espigas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Centro de Promoción en Nueva York, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto, República Argentina (Consulate General of Argentina in New York), New York, NY
Transverse Wave: Mary Bauermeister and Rashid Al Khalifa with Sound Design by Simon Stockhausen, me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Geschenkt, gekauft und wiedergefunden, Mittelrheinmuseum, Koblenz, Germany
Zeitgenössische Kunst Künstlerfreunde aus der Sammlung Mary Bauermeister (Contemporary Art
Friends from the Collection of Mary Bauermeister), Kunst Kabinett Hespert, Reichshof, Germany
es ist alles eitel, AdK Arbeitskreis der Künstler e.V. Bergisch Gladbach, Kulturhaus Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Oppositions: Art and Power in the Vietnam Era, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Inventur I: Die Dinge, Galerie Friese, Berlin, Germany

2020      
Sibylle Mania – Blicke in 19 Ateliers, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Fight Art: Arte “Face to Face”, Spazio Arte, CUBO, Bologna, Italy
KölnSkulptur #10: ÜberNatur – Natural Takeover, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany 
Neu aufgestellt: Neuerwerbungen, Schenkungen, Dauerleihgaben und mehr (Reorganized: New Acquisitions, Donations, Permanent Loans and more), Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
DETOX, Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar, Germany
FLUXUS – Kriegskinder (Children of War), Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany
Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Paper Power, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2021     
Surrealism in American Art, Centre de la Vielle Charité, Marseille, France
KRAUTSCAPES, suns.works, Zürich, Switzerland
Alternative Worlds: Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Claire Falkenstein & Alma Thomas, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Beyond Belief, Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Wish Tree, Galerie Rosemarie Bassi, Remagen, Germany
Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum – Oberbergischer Kreis, Museum und Forum Schloss Homburg, Nümbrecht, Germany

2022
Mary Bauermeister and Azami Pour, basement16, Bergisch Gladback, Germany
Live on Air: The Sound of the Material in the Art of the 1950s to 1970s, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Everyday, Someday and Other Stories: Collection 1950-1980, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mary Bauermeister - Kunst von Anderen, Warum eine Künstlerin Kunst sammelt, Galerie Rosemarie Bassi, Remagen, Germany, and Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
On the Nature of Things, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY

2023
No Man’s Land, Shari Brownfield Fine Art, Jackson, WY
Crossing: From Klimt to Basilé, from Sironi to Bauermeister, Cubo, Unipol Group, Bologna, Italy
Artist’s Choose Parrish: Part II, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY