SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
One Wall, One Work, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
2015
Bronze Bowl with Lace, Bluhm Family Terrace, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Giardino della Marinaressa, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2014
Permeated Shield, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Kloster Schoenthal, Langenbruck, Switzerland
2013
Shadows Remain, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
2011
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991-2009, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, USA; travelled through 2012 to deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA; and Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, USA
2010
ERRĀTUS, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
New Works with Paper from Dieu Donné and a Recent Sculpture, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
Deckle Deckle, Dieu Donné, New York, USA
2009
Primitive Pull, Pilane, Sweden
2007
Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
2006
Sylwetka, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Mad. Sq. Art at Madison Square Park, New York, USA
2004
Galerie Lelong Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2003
Recent Sculpture, Lafayette College, Easton, USA
A Psychological Landscape, Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
Primitive Jarring, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
2002
On an Epic Scale, Neuburger Museum, SUNY Purchase, New York, USA
Cedar Lace and Tossing Loops, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2000
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, USA
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, USA
Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
Sculpture, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
1998-1999
Sculpture, Madison Art Centre, Madison, USA; travelled to Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA; Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, USA; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, USA; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA; and to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, USA
1997
Sculpture, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
1996
Hand-e-Over, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
1995
Socks on my Spoons, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, USA
1994
Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
1992-1994
Ten Year Retrospective, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, USA
1992
Zamek Ujazdowski, Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw, Poland
1991
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, USA
1990
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, USA
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA
1989
Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, USA
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, USA
1988
Exit Art, New York, USA
Laumeier Sculpture Gallery, St. Louis, USA
1985
Studio Bassanese, Trieste, Italy
1984
Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, USA
1982
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
1981
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
1980
55 Mercer, New York, USA
Jorgensen Gallery, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
1979
55 Mercer, New York, USA
1978
Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, USA
1977
55 Mercer, New York, USA
SoHo Center for Visual Arts, New York, USA
1975
Columbia University, New York, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Art Basel Miami Beach with Galerie Lelong, Miami, USA
Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space, Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné, Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA; Williams
Museum of Papermaking, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA; Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, USA
A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemissegger Collection of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, USA
Large Sculptures, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
The Armory Show with Galerie Lelong, Pier 94, New York, USA
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016, Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles, USA
2015
Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard and Others: Materials and Manipulations, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
Art Basel, Messe Basel, Switzerland
The Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface, National Academy, New York, USA
2014
Frieze Masters, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom
Branching Out: Trees as Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
Drawings & Works on Paper, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Fact of the Matter, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, Brooklyn, USA
Glasstress: White Light/ White Heat, Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Istituto Veneto di Scienze ed Arti, Venice, Italy
Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA; travelled to Mint Museum, Charlotte, USA
2012
Wunderkammer/ Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects: 13th International Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
An Odyssey: A Narrative of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, USA
HERe First: Woman as Protagonist, The Art Show 2012, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
The Annual: 2012: Contemporary Since 1826, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
Glasstress New York: New Art From The Venice Biennales, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
Do Not Destroy: Trees Art and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA
2011
Glasstress 2011, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Istituto Veneto di Scienze ed Arti, Venice, Italy
Lynen: Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Kiki Smith, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
Four Sculptors 1968-1980, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, USA
Fifty Works for Fifty States: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, USA
2010
5+5:New Perspectives, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, USA
Sculpture: Twelve Independent Visions, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
2009
With You I Want to Live: The Collection of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Landmarks, The Public Art Program of the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
Sculpture at Pilane 2009, Tjorn, Sweden
2008
Exhibition of Works by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
A Year in Drawing, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Origins, Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA
Drawn by Sculptors, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, USA
2007
Out There, The Art Students League of New York, New York, USA
Blickachsen 6, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg Kurpark in collaboration with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bad Homburg, Germany
2006
POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
From Postwar to Postmodernism, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, USA
The Bong Show, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, USA
Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
2005
The Art of 9/11, Apexart, New York, USA
City Art, Centre for Architecture, New York, USA
Eco-photo: Art as if Nature Mattered, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, USA
Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, USA; traveling through 2008 to Museum of Art and History, McPherson Centre, Santa Cruz, CA; Palm Springs Art Museum, USA; University of Arizona, USA; Amarillo Museum of Art, USA; Memphis Brooks, USA; Herron School of Art, Purdue, USA; Cheekwood Museum and Botanical Garden, USA; Columbia Museum of Art, SC; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA; Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, USA
New at the Neuberger: Recent Acquisitions, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, USA
2004
Life Understood, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, USA
Ten, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, USA
Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art, (from the permanent collection) Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, USA
The 179th Annual An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
2002
Lesley Dill and Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Baltimore, USA
Shift, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Primal Screams and Songs: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA
globe>miami>island, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, USA
Encounter at the Bass Museum: Installation Performances, Bass Museum, Miami, USA
2001
Clay On The Wall, Gallery 128, New York, USA
Silver and Gold, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, USA
The End: An Independent Vision of the History of Contemporary Art, Exit Art, New York, USA
1999-2001
KolnSkulptur 2, Cologne, Germany
1999
GEEZE LOUISE, Art After Louise Nevelson, Educational Alliance Gallery, USA
Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary Art, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, USA
1998
Sculptors and Their Environments, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
Masters of the Masters: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA
1997
A Moveable Feast, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, USA
Wood Work, Fisher Landau Centre, Long Island City, USA
1995-1996
The Shape of Sound, Exit Art, New York City, USA
Beyond Gender, Snug Harbor Cultural Centre, Staten Island, USA
1995
Body as Metaphor, Procter Art Centre, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, USA
American Sculpture: A Contemporary Perspective, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, USA
Crossing Counties: 20th Century Art from Private Collections in Westchester and Fairfield Counties, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, USA
1994-1995
Landscape as Metaphor, Columbus Art Museum, Columbus, USA and Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
1994
Beyond Nature: Wood into Art, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, USA
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
Group Show, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, USA
Landscape not Landscape, Gallery Camino, Boca Raton, USA
1993
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, USA
Drawings, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, USA
The Second Dimension: Twentieth Century Sculptors’ Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
Group Show, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Grounds for Sculpture, Johnson Atelier, Technical Institute of Sculpture, Merceville, USA
1992
Zygmunt, A Collaboration by Judy Pfaff and Ursula von Rydingsvard, The Cultural Space, New York, USA
Then & Now, Philippe Staib Gallery, New York, USA
1991
The Hybrid State, Exit Art, New York, USA
Five Central European Artists, Cultural Centre, Chicago, USA
Sowers of Myth, Cultural Centre, Chicago, USA
Jestesmy, Central Bureau for Art Exhibitions-ZACHETA, Warsaw, Poland; travelled to Krakow, Poland
1990
Out of Wood, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York, USA
The Art of Drawing, Lehman College of Art Gallery, Bronx, USA
Diverse Representations, The Morris Museum, Morristown, USA
1989-1993
Recent Acquisitions, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
1989
New Acquisitions, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
1989-90
100 Drawings by Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, C. W. Post, Greenvale, USA
Blum-Helman, New York, USA
1989
Totem, Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, USA
Ellen Driscoll, Robert Lobe, and Ursula von Rydingsvard, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, USA
Encore: Celebrating Fifty Years, The Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, USA Sculpture, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
1988
Life Force, Robeson Centre Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
Home Show, Santa Barbara Contemporaty Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, USA
1987
Sculpture of the Eighties: Aycock, Ferrara, Frank, Lasch, Miss, Pfaff, Saar, Sperry, von Rydingsvard, Zucker, Queens Museum, Flushing, USA
Standing Ground, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
The Levels of Volume, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, USA
1985
Selections from the Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefeild, USA
Judith Murrary and Ursula von Rydingsvard, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, USA
In Three Dimensions: Recent Sculptures by Women, Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Sculpture: Penns Landing, Philadelphia, USA
1984
Henri Gallery, Washington, USA
The Ways of Wood, OIA, Queens College, USA
Transformation of the Minimal Style, Sculpture Centre, New York, USA
Contemporary Art at One Penn Plaza, New York, USA
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
1983
The Inaugural Exhibition of Six Sculptors, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, USA
55 Mercer/12 Years, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, USA
1981
Architecture by Artists, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
55 Mercer: 10 Sculptors, Fine Arts Gallery, Stony Brook, USA
1980
Sculpture exhibition in conjunction with the XI International Sculpture Conference, The Maryland Institute, College Art Gallery, Baltimore, USA
Nineteen at Twenty Six, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, USA
Site Sights: Outdoor Sculpture at Pratt, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
1979-80
NY/8, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
1979
Twin Tower I, New York City, a sculpture installation
1978
Artists by the Sea, Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, USA
Small Works, 55 Mercer, New York, USA
Seven Sensibilities, Thorpe Intermediate Gallery, Sparkill, USA
Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, P.S. 1 (Institute for Art and Urban Resources), Long Island City, USA
1977
Wood and Other Works, Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, USA
Wood, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, USA
1976
This Doesn’t Look Like a Work of Art II, Truman Gallery, New York, USA
Contemporary Reflections, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
1975
Queensborough Community College, Bayside, USA
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, USA
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, USA
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, USA