Solo exhibitions
1942 Sari Dienes – Twenty Drawings, New School for Social Research, New York
1943 Sari Dienes, Wittenborn Gallery, New York
1944 Sari Dienes, Parsons School of Design, New York
1948 Sari Dienes – Paintings Drawings, Carlebach Gallery, New York
1949 Sari Dienes – Etchings and Engravings, Wittenborn Gallery, New York
1950 Dienes – Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
1952 Sari Dienes, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
1954 Sari Dienes, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
1955 Sari Dienes, Paintings and Objects, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
1955 Sari Dienes, Mills College of Education, New York
1956 Sari Dienes – Found Objects and Constructions, Mills College, New York
1956 Sari Dienes – Petroglyph Rubbings, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1957 Sari Dienes, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri
1957 Sari Dienes, Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco
1957 Sari Dienes – Petroglyph Rubbings, Mills Gallery, Mills College, New York
1958 Sari Dienes, Yamada Art Gallery, Kyoto
1958 Dienes, Toyoko Gallery, Tokyo
1959 Sari Dienes – Sidewalk Rubbings, The Contemporaries, New York
1959 Sari Dienes – New Paintings and Ceramics, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
1964 Sari Dienes – A Surrounding, Smolin Gallery, New York
1965 Sari Dienes, Nobles County Art Center, Worthington, Minnesota
1968 Sari Dienes – Petroglyph Rubbings, Davidson Art Center, Weslyan University,
1968 Middletown, Connecticut
1971 Sari Dienes – Prints and Projections, Rockland Community College,
1971 Suffern, New York
1972 Sari Dienes – Works 1930-1972, The Rockland Foundation,
1972 West Nyack, New York
1972 Sari Dienes, Lily Ente and Louise Nevelson, Buecker & Harpsichords, New York
1972 Sari Dienes – Petroglyph Rubbings, New York Public Library,
1972 Hudson Park branch, New York
1973 Dienes – Recent Work, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1974 Sari Dienes, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
1974 Sari Dienes – Petroglyph Rubbings, Byrd Hoffman Foundation, New York
1975 Sari Dienes – Sound Sculptures – Glass, Wood, Metal, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1975 New School for Social Research, New York
1976 Sari Dienes, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1977 Sari Dienes – Portraits, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1977 Sari Dienes – Ceramics, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York
1977 Sari Dienes – Color Xerox, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack,
1977 New York
1979 Sari Dienes, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1980 Sari Dienes – New Works, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1980 Sari Dienes – Sidewalk Rubbings, Donnel Library Center, New York
1981 Sari Dienes, Altos de Chavon, La Romana, Dominican Republic
1981 Sari Dienes, Modern Art Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1981 Sari Dienes, Maurice M. Pine Free Public Library, Fair Lawn, New Jersey
1981 Sari Dienes, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1982 Sari Dienes, Creative Re-Use, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1983 Sari Dienes – Past and Present – Creative Works, Hopper House Gallery,
1983 Nyack, New York
1983 Sari Dienes – No Squares, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1986 Sari Dienes – New Work, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1986 Sari Dienes Retrospective, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, New York
1987 Sari Dienes, Morin-Miller Galleries, New York
1988 Sari Dienes – New Work, Multi Media, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1988 Sari Dienes, Tomkins Cove Public Library, Tomkins Cove, New York
1989 New Works by Sari Dienes, New City Library, New City, New York
1990 Sari Dienes – New Work, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1990 Sari Dienes – Retrospective 1950-1970, Galerie J & J Donguy, Paris
1991 Sari Dienes – Retrospettiva 1950-1970, La Giarina, Verona
1992 Sari Dienes – Now and Then, Selected Works 1930-1992, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1993 Sari Dienes 1898-1992 – Rubbings, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
1995 Sari Dienes – Ölbilder, Zeichnungen und Objekte, Galerie Etage, Münster
2011 Sari Dienes Retrospective, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, New York
2013 Sari Dienes – Invocation, Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, New York
2014 Sari Dienes, The Drawing Center, New York
2014 Sari Dienes – The Spirit Lives in Everything, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2014 Sari Dienes – Selected Work, Ear Up Gallery, New York
2015 Sari Dienes, Rare Gallery, Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, New York
2017 “Dear Sid, With Love” Sari Dienes: The Hollywood Rubbings,
2017 Marc Selwyn Fine Art Gallery, Hollywood
2019 Sari Dienes: Atmospheric Changes, Pavel Zoubok Fine Art/Jill Newhouse Gallery
2020 Sari Dienes: Atmospheric Changes, Pavel Zoubok Fine Art/Jill Newhouse Gallery
2021 Sari Dienes
2017 Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts,curator Sid Sachs
2023 Sari Dienes
2017 Garner Art Center, Garnerville, NY, curators: Joan Harmon, James Tyler
2023 Sari Dienes: Incidental Nature
2017 Boca Raton Museum Boca Raton, Fl curator: Kelli Bodl
Group exhibitions in public spaces
1948 Second National Print Annual Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1949 Third National Print Annual Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1950 Tenth Annual Jury Exhibition, The Water Color Society of Alabama,
1950 Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, Alabama
1952 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
1952 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1952 Atelier 17, Milwaukee Art Museum
1953 Seventh National Print Annual Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1953 First Annual Dallas National Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art
1954 Seventh Annual Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1956 Design by the Yard – Textile Printing from 800 to 1956, Cooper Union, New York
1957 American Exhibition 62nd Annual, Art Institute of Chicago
1958 Living Today: An Exhibition of Contemporary Architecture, Furniture,
1958 Interior Decoration, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1959 Art and the Found Object, American Federation of Arts touring exhibition
1961 The Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York (traveled to
1961 Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art and San Francisco Museum of Art)
1962 Hayter and Atelier 17, Associated American Artists, New York
1962 Continuity and Change, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
1963 Contemporary Wall Sculpture, American Federation of Arts touring exhibition
1963 Moods of Light, American Federation of Arts touring exhibition
1966 Recent Still Life, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
1966 Light as a Creative Medium, American Federation of Arts touring exhibition
1968 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
1971 Jack Lenor Larsen Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1975 Year of the Woman, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1975 Nine Artists at Work, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1975 Works on Paper, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1976 40 Years of American Collage, St. Peter’s College Art Gallery,
1976 Jersey City, New Jersey
1976 Artists’ Choice, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1979 As We See Ourselves – Artists’ Self Portraits, Heckscher Museum,
1979 Huntington, New York
1979 Expressions of Self – Women and Autobiography, Douglass College Art Gallery,
1979 New Brunswick, New Jersey
1981 A.I.R Gallery New York, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
1984 The Sound Art Show, The Sculpture Center, New York
1989 American Women Artists – The 20th Century, Knoxville Museum of Art,
1989 Knoxville, Tennessee
1996 Colony Printmakers – MacDowell Colony Printmakers 1925-1995,
1996 Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1999 No Limits, Judson Memorial Church, New York
2005 Drawing from the Modern 1945-1975, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008 A.I.R. Gallery – The History Show, Tracy/Barry Gallery,
2008 Bobst Library, New York
2013 L’Objet Trouvé: Readymades, Rectified, and Reassembled,
2013 Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2014 The Art Show, ADAA Park Avenue Armory, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2015 The Art Show, ADAA Park Avenue Armory, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2015 Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings From 1860 to Now, Curator: Allegra Pesenti
2015 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
Menil Museum, Houston
2016 The Precarious, Curator: David Breslin, Menil Museum, Houston
2017 Inventing Downtown Artist Run Galleries in New York City 1952-1965,
2017 Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York. Curated by Melissa Rachleff.
2017 Fokus: Papier Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Curator: Dr. Anita Haldemann
2017 The Art Show, ADAA Park Avenue Armory, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2017 The Armory Show, 92nd Street Pier, NY, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Hollywood
2017 Masterclass: A Survey of Work from the 20th Century,
2017 Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2017 EXPO Chicago, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2017 Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends, MoMA, NY, Curator: Leah Dickerman
2017 Bob’s New York Slideshow, Robert Rauschenberg, Among Friends, MoMA
2019 Stamp, Scavenge, Crush Collection 1940’s-1970’s, MoMA
2019 Master Drawings New York, Pavel Zoubok Fine Art/ Jill Newhouse Gallery
2020 American Modernism:20th Century Influencers in Rockland County,
2020 Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack NY Curator Daly Flanagan
2020/21 Degree Zero Drawing at Midcentury, MoMA, Curator Samantha Friedman
2020/21 Nothing is So Humble ,
2020/21 Whitney Museum of American Art, curator Kim Conaty
2020/21 Four Years: Joseph Helfenstein, Kunstmuseum Basel
2021 Ray Johnson:What a Dump, David Zwirner Gallery, Curator Jarrett Earnest
2021 Up To and Including Her Limits, Halsey & McKay Gallery,
East Hampton NY
2021 71/21 Women In the Arts 50th Anniversary Exhibition , Ceres Gallery, NY
2022 Past | Present: Expanding the Stories of Glass,
2021 Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY
2022 The House of Dust: Women’s Work 1960-2020
2021 Musee d’Art Moderne et Contmporain Saint-Etienne Metropole
2021 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France curator: Alexandre Quoi
2022 Proto-Feminism in the Print Studio
2021 Arcadia University Glenside, PA curator Christina Weyl
2022 Fluxus Sex Ties / This is where the music plays!
2021 The Nassau Art Association, Wiesbaden and Archivio Conz, Berlin, Germany
Public collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Centre national des arts plastiques, France (formerly FNAC)
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
Maitland Art Center, Orlando, Florida
Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, Texas
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri
Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside
University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York (Martha Jackson Collection)
University of Iowa, Iowa City (Lil Picard Collection)
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1959 – photo Michael Gilligan
A Surrounding, Smolin Gallery, New York, 1964 – photos Ferdinand Boesch
New York Professional Women Artists, Walk Through Art: Art in the Park, New York, 1974 – photos, left: Andrew Holbrooke, center: Laima Druskis, right: unknown
Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, 1974 – photo Laima Druskis
Outdoors – Indoors – Recent Work, Buecker & Harpsichords, New York, 1975 (Sari’s work on left) – photo Mary Ellen McCourt
Recent Portraits of Sari Dienes, Buecker & Harpsichords, New York, 1976 – photo Mary Ellen McCourt
Sari Dienes – Ceramics, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, 1977
Installing Bone Fall, PS1, New York, 1978
Creative Re-Use, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, 1982 – photo by Peter Moore © Barbara Moore/Licensed by VAGA, NY
Sari Dienes Retrospective, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY, 1986 – photo Warren Inglese
Sari Dienes - New Work, Multi Media, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, 1988