“I find that the dictates of my vision are something I can’t control. For me, the concept of abstract painting is still the primary visual challenge of our time. It might get harder and harder to make an abstract image that’s believable, but I think that just makes the challenge greater.”[1]

A leading figure of the second generation of abstract expressionists who came into artistic maturity at the height of the New York School’s ascendancy, Michael Goldberg was born Sylvan Irwin Goldberg in 1924. Growing up in the Bronx, Goldberg was a precocious student who read Lautréamont, Baudelaire, and Nerval; after finishing high school at the age of fourteen, he enrolled in City College and began taking Saturday classes at the Art Students League. Goldberg soon found New York’s jazz scene to be a far more stimulating environment than City College and began skipping classes to frequent the Harlem clubs near campus. Jazz would become a lifelong passion for the artist as well as a formative influence on his compositional approach. From 1940 to 1942 he studied at Hans Hofmann’s recently founded school, where an array of modernist luminaries such as Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock would often drop in.

Goldberg’s artistic development was interrupted in 1943 when he decided to enlist in the army; he ultimately became a master sergeant, serving in North Africa and the China-Burma-India Theater. After receiving a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for his service, Goldberg was honorably discharged and traveled to Venezuela to work in the oil fields there. In 1946 he returned to New York, where he resumed his studies at Hofmann’s school and the Art Students League. Goldberg had been wounded three times during combat, leaving his arm partially paralyzed; on the advice of his physical therapist at the Veteran’s Association, he began taking stone carving and other classes taught by sculptor José de Creeft at ASL. Not only did the stone carving classes successfully rehabilitate him physically, but de Creeft’s classes also exposed Goldberg to the collage techniques that would later become an essential aspect of his painting practice. In these years Goldberg frequented the legendary Cedar Bar, a popular watering hole for many avant-garde artists living in lower Manhattan; there he befriended many of the New York School painters, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko, the latter of whom allowed Goldberg to take over his studio on the Bowery in the mid-1950s. Golberg was also active in the Eighth Street Club, a discussion group founded by downtown artists working in abstraction in 1949.

In 1951, Goldberg’s work made its public debut when he was included in the landmark Ninth Street Show, co-organized by Leo Castelli, Conrad Marca-Relli, and the Eighth Street Club; open for three weeks at a temporary space at 60 East 9th Street, the exhibition also featured Hofmann, Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, and many others. In 1953, Tibor de Nagy Gallery gave Goldberg his first solo exhibition, and three years later Goldberg’s friendship with the painter Norman Bluhm led to the purchase of seventeen paintings from Goldberg’s studio by art collector Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Martha Jackson Gallery began representing him shortly thereafter. In 1960, he collaborated with his close friend, the poet and curator Frank O’Hara, on book of poems and prints titled Odes. He spent the following year in Berkeley, CA, working as a visiting artist for the University of California.

In 1969, he met artist Lynn Umlauf, with whom he would remain partnered for the rest of his life; they married ten years later. Both Goldberg and Umlauf cultivated long and impactful teaching careers at the School of Visual Arts, and Goldberg remained on staff there until his death. Beginning in 1980, Goldberg and Umlauf spent five months of the year in Tuscany, during which Goldberg would frequently drive to Siena to enjoy the city’s 14th-century frescoes. These trips were of vital importance to Goldberg’s work, as he conceived of painting as a dialogue between artists of the past, artists of the present, and the viewers who engaged with their work. An enthusiastic conversationalist with a rowdy sense of humor, Goldberg welcomed anyone and everyone to share his boundless passion for painting through the study and discussion of art.

Goldberg died of a heart attack on December 31, 2007, amid a resurgent interest in his oeuvre. Since his death, his work has been exhibited in numerous solo and

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, A Place for Nature and the Arts, Indianapolis, IN
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Museum of Modern Art, Jerusalem, Israel
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, RI
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
UB Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT

1953
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY

1956
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY

1958
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY

1960
Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
New Paintings by Michael Goldberg, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

1961
Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, IL

1963
Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris, France
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

1964
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

1966
New Paintings: Michael Goldberg, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

1971
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York, NY

1972
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York, NY

1973
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Ghent Gallery, Norfolk, VA
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York, NY

1975
Cunningham-Ward Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Hecate, Paris, France

1976
Cunningham-Ward Gallery, New York, NY

1977
Clocktower, New York, NY
Galerie Denise René, New York, NY

1978
Galerie December, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Loyse von Oppenheim, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1979
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

1980
Galerie Art in Progress, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Artline, Den Haag, Holland
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

1981
Adam L. Gimbel Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Loeb Galerie, Bern, CH
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

1982
L.A. Louver, Venice, Italy
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy

1983
Baruch College, New York, NY
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Young-Hofmann Gallery, Chicago, IL

1984
Galleria Nadia Bassanese, Trieste, Italy
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Michael Goldberg: Major Paintings of the Fifties, Vanderwoude Tannanbaum Gallery, New York, NY

1985
Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Goldberg: Major Paintings of the Sixties, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY

1986
Paintings by Michael Goldberg, Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College, Waterville, ME
Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY

1987
Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY

1988
Galleria Claudia Nastuzzo, Salo, Italy
Michael Goldberg: Detwiller Visiting Artist, Lafayette College Gallery, Easton, PA
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy

1989
CompassRose, Chicago, IL
Galerie Stalke, Copenhagen, Denmark

1990
CompassRose, Chicago, IL
Michael Goldberg: Paintings of the 50s, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Turchetto/Plurima, Milan, Italy
Michael Goldberg: Paintings of the 50s, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

1991
Michael Goldberg: Arbeiten auf Papier, Bilder, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Michael Goldberg, Galerie Lauter, Mannheim, Germany
La Memoria Dell Antico: Pittura Michael Goldberg, Palazzo Communale, Venzone, Italy
Michael Goldberg, Turchetto/Plurima, Milan, Italy

1992
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Gallerie Lauter, Manheim, Germany
Michael Goldberg: Paintings 1960–1993, Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY

1993
Michael Goldberg: Recent Paintings, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Michael Goldberg: Swans Mate for Life, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Michael Goldberg, Turchetto/Plurima,  Milan, Italy
Michael Goldberg, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

1994
Michael Goldberg: New Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Michael Goldberg: Selected Paintings, 1951–1961, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Michael Goldberg: Recent Paintings, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

1996
Michael Goldberg, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Michael Goldberg: New Paintings, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Michael Goldberg: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Michael Goldberg: Paintings from 1994–1996, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy

1997
Michael Goldberg, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

1998
Michael Goldberg: New York, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999
Michael Goldberg: Paintings, Drawings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Michael Goldberg: Paintings of the 1960s, Manny Silverman Gallery,Los Angeles, CA
Michael Goldberg: Untitled, lavori su carta, 1962/1999, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy; Galleria
Aam Architettura e Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy
Michael Goldberg, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy

2000
Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Michael Goldberg: Disegni e Quadri Recenti da Spannocchia, Galleria Miralli, Viterbo, Italy
Galerie Weinberger, Copenhagen Denmark

2001
Michael Goldberg: opera su tela e su carta, 2000–2001, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
Michael Goldberg, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy

2003
Michael Goldberg, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Michael Goldberg Over the Moon: Paintings 2000–2002, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,  CA; Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Michael Goldberg: dipinti 2002–2003, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy

2004
Michael Goldberg, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

2005
Marc de Puechredon, Basel, Switzerland
Michael Goldberg, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy

2006
Michael Goldberg, Libreria Sopra Tuttolibri, La Vera Croce, Prato, Italy
Michael Goldberg, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Michael Goldberg: Gemälde und Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Biedermann, München, Germany
Michael Goldberg: New Paintings and Drawings, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Michael Goldberg, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
Michael Goldberg, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Michael Goldberg: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008
Ode to Ode to Michael Goldberg, University of Buffalo Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Goldberg: 1924–2007, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010
Michael Goldberg: The Red Paintings 1962 –1963, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Michael Goldberg: Selected Works 1972-2004, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Perpetual Motion: Michael Goldberg, California State University, Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Michael Goldberg, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark
Omaggio a Michael Goldberg, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy

2013
Abstraction Over Time: The Paintings of Michael Goldberg, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL

2015
Michael Goldberg: Making His Mark, Paintings and Drawings, 1985-2005, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2018
Michael Goldberg: End to End, The 1950s & 2000s, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Michael Goldberg: A Tribute, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy

1951
Ninth Street Show, New York, NY

1952
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

1953
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY

1954
Stable Gallery, New York, NY

1955
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
U.S. Painting: Some Recent Directions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Vanguard 1955, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1956
The Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
Four Younger Artists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Stable Gallery, New York, NY

1957
Fourth Annual International Art Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Young America 1957: Thirty American Painters and Sculptors Under 35, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1957 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1958
The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary
Painting and Sculpture, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA
Gimpel Fils, London, England
The Enormous Room, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Gutai 9, Osaka Festival, Osaka, Japan
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1959
Six Young Americans, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Documenta II, Kassel, Germany
Ten Painters and Sculptors, The Fifth Säo Paulo Biennale, Brazil
Turin Art Festival, Torino, Italy

1960
Contemporary American Painting, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH
Invitational Annual, Jane Street Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Painting, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Robert Keene Gallery, Southampton, NY
Sixty American Paintings, 1960: Abstract Expressionism of the Fifties, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Michael Goldberg and Alfred Leslie, Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, IL
Opening Exhibition, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Third Exhibition, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY

1961
The Visitors, Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA
The Internationals, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1962
Annoncent L’Ouverture D La, Galerie Anderson-Meyer, Paris, France
The Arts Around Us, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

1963
Survey of American Paintings, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Eleven Americans: New Acquisitions, Painting International, Martha Jackson Gallery,
New York, NY
Salon Galeries Pilotes, Musée Cantonal Beaux-Arts,Lausanne, France
Hans Hofmann and His Students, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1964
Artists for CORE: Third Annual Art Exhibition and Sale, Gallery of American Federation of Arts, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY

1965
International Art '65–'66, American Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Inform and Interpret, American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY
Figuration, Sale, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1966
13th Annual, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
American Landscape, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Artists for CORE Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund, Fifth Annual Exhibition and Sale, Grippi & Waddell Gallery, New York, NY

1967
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1968
Six Painters from Martha Jackson, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1969
Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Tenants of Sam Wapnowitz, Star Turtle Gallery, New York, NY

1970
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

1971
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York, NY

1972
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York, NY

1973
Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1974
Works on Paper, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1975
Art Acquisitions 1974-1975, Griffiths Art Center Gallery, Saint Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Leah Levy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Works on Paper: 1947–1975, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY

1976
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Rooms, P.S.1,New York, NY
Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1977
Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Michael Goldberg Drawings, Galerie Denise Rene, New York, NY
G. Mollet-Vieville/J.P. Najar, Paris, France
Galerie Loyse von Oppenheim, Eleven Artis a New York, Geneva, Switzerland 
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1978
Artist's Space, New York, NY
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
Five New York Artists, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY

1979
Adler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Painting: Five Views—Lynda Benglis, Michael Goldberg, Judith Murray, Lucio Pozzi, Lynn Umlauf, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
New York Now, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1980
Builder und Zeichnungen 1975 – 1979, Galerie Art in Progress, Dusseldorf, Germany
Selections from the Collection of Dr. Milton Brutten & Dr. Helen Herrick, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College of New Jersey, Wayne, NJ
Gathering of the Avant-Garde – Lower East Side 1948 – 1970, Henry Street Settlement –   Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1981
4 x 7 from the Vogel Collection, Ben Shahn Gallery William Patterson College of New Jersey, Wayne, NJ

1982
Group Show, Galerie Plurima, Udine, Italy
The Gelco Collection” Gelco Corporation, Eden Prairie, MN
20th Anniversary Exhibition of The Vogel Collection, Brainer Gallery, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Recent Trends in Collecting – 20th Century Painting & Sculpture From The National Museum of   American Art, Washington DC
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy

1983
Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Selections From The Collection Of Robert Vogel, Swen Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL
8 Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Rapids, IA
Michael Goldberg/Lynn Umlauf, Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1984
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Michael Goldberg/Richards Ruben Paintings Since 1970, Baruch College, New York, NY
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
The Bronx Celebrates Vito Acconci, Michael Goldberg, Al Held, Alfred Leslie, Larry Rivers, Ann Sperry, George Superman, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955–60, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

1985
Painting as Landscape, Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1 + 1 = 2, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract Painting Redefined, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA; Bucknell University   Center Gallery, Lewisburg, PA;  Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY;  Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas At Austin, Austin, TX; Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, “Major Paintings of the 60’s”, New York, NY
Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1986
Art from Two Continents, Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Abstract Painting Redefined, The Fine Art Center Gallery – SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
Drawings, Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Drawings From The Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, University of Arkansas, Little Rock,  AR

1987
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Bette Stoller Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Camino Real, “The Art of Abstract Painting”, Boca Raton, FL
Post Abstract Expressionism, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Prints: Goldberg, Humphrey, Hunt, Lane, Rothenberg, Sultan, Willard Gallery, New York, NY

1988
6 Abstract Paintings, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY

1989
Abstract Expression: Paintings 1950–60, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Mono Types from Garner Tullis, Zolla – Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990
Drawings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY

1991
Private Stories, Anderson Gallery Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Poets and Painters Collaborations, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
Spring/Summer Exhibition. Part One: Painters, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Monotypes Eseguiti Nel Laboratorio Di Garner Tullis a New York, Galerie Plurima, Milan, Italy
Abstract Americans: 1940s–1960s,Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Paper: Abstractions of the 1950s & 1960s, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY

1992
Recent Acquisitions and Donations, BoCA Museum, Boca Raton, FL
Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, TennisportArts, Long Island City, NY

1993
Collage and Assemblage Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Works on Paper by Gallery Artists, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
The Usual Suspects, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The League at the Cape, Part 2—Invitation of Contemporary Well-Known Artists, Museum   Galleries of the Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA
29th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

1994
46th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting in Miami, Center of the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Gallery Artists, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Works on Paper Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jean Outland Chrysler Collection of Abstract Expressionist Paintings, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
New York–Providence: The 50's Connection, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA

1995
Group Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Air-conditioned Abstraction All Summer Long, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1996
American Art Today: Images from Abroad, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Pictures of the United States: Abstract Expressionist Paintings, Centro Culturale Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City, Mexico

1997
Annual Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
An Exhibition of Works by Curators of the Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1998   
Twentieth Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR;  Sunrise Museums, Charleston, WV;  Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL;  Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN;  Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Boise Museum of Art, Boise, ID;  Mobile Museum of Art, AL; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX;  Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX:  Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE;  Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
The Forty-fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1999
National Drawing Invitational (7th Biennial), Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Abstraction A Tradition of Collecting in Miami, Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL
O'Hara, Bluhm and Goldberg: un poeta e due pittori a new york degli anni '50, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Rocca, Livorno, Italy
The Forty-fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Historically Speaking, UAM: 25 Years of Excellence University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA

2000    
Grey Art Gallery, Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950's and 60's, New York University, New York, NY

2001
Michael Goldberg, Paolo Patelli, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Abstract Expressionism: Expanding the Canon, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA;  The Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH;  Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX;  Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwest University, Evanston, IL

2002
New Year New York New Work, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
The Most Difficult Journey: The Poindexter Collections of American Modernist Painting, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from The Lois Orswell Collection, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

2004 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Group Show, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
30 Years Galerie Biederman, Biedermann Gallery, Münich, Germany
Baume, Galerie Biederman, Munich, Germany

2005
New York School: Another View, Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, NY

2006
Elements of Abstraction: In Stillness, Trumbull Butler Art Museum, Youngstown, OH
10 Opere Su Carta: Emilio Vedova, Michael Goldberg, Arte Contemporanea, Andrea Vicenza, Italy

2007
Künstlerpaare, Gallerie Grashey,Konstanz, Germany
Grand Gestures, The Gordon F. Hampton Collection, University Art Museum California State University, Long Beach, CA
Carlo Ciussi, Michael Goldberg, Paolo Patelli, Plurima Gallery, Udine, Italy

2008
Goldberg / Umlauf, St. Peter's Cultural Church, Lübeck, Germany
Dorothy & Herbert Vogel Collection – Fifty Works for Fifty States, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

2010
It’s a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Knoedler & Co., New York, NY
…On Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2011
The Incomparable Gallerist – Martha Jackson, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract Expressionism: Reloading the Canon, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2012
Ronald Bladen in Context, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Review, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
INsite/INchelsea The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

2013
Abstract Expressionism / In Context: Seymour Lipton, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Anthony Caro and Michael Goldberg, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark
Offices of Ambassador Rufus Gifford, United States Embassy, Denmark

2014
Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
It’s What You Do With What You View”: Selections from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, UB Anderson Gallery, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

2015
On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at The Art Students League of New York, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
A Few Days, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY

2016
It's Not Your Nature, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2017
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Sitting Still, Bravinlee programs, New York, NY

2018      
State of Excellence: Treasures from Florida Private Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Celebrating 50 Years of the US Open Championships, United States Tennis Association (USTA) President’s Suite, Arthur Ashe Stadium, Flushing Meadows, NY

2019
Abstract Expressionism: A Social Revolution, Selections from the Haskell Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN
Globalism Pops BACK Into View: The Rise of Abstract Expressionism, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2020
Paper Power, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2021
Distinctive/Instinctive: Postwar Abstract Painting, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Wild and Brilliant: The Martha Jackson Gallery and Post-War Art, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY

2022
Summer At Its Best, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY