Exhibitions

2012

Oils, sculptures and mixed media, Galleria d'Arte Maggiore, Bologna, Italy

2011

Matta100, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago, Chile
Matta 1911-2011, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain

2009

Latitudes, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2008

Descubritorio Matta, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile (solo)

2007

Gravures: Roberto Matta, Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)

2004

Roberto Matta, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C. (solo)
Matta, Malingue, Paris, France (solo)
Matta: Making the Invisible Visible, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA (solo)

2003

Matta 1938-1971, Galleria de'Foscherari, Bologna, Italy (solo)

2002

Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (solo)

2000

Matta: Oper Dal 1957 al 1993, Galleria Patrizia Poggi, Ravenna, Italy (solo)
Matta El Ano de los Tres 000, Fundacion Telefonica, Santiago, Chile (solo)

1999

Matta, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina (solo)

1998

Matta: Surrealism and Beyond, Haggerty Museum of Art, Chicago, USA (solo)

1997

Roberto Matta: Paintings and Drawings 1937-1959, Galeria Lopez Quiroga, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
Matta: Paintings and Drawings, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Matta: Re-generation, Boca Raton Museum of Art, USA (solo)
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

1995

Transparency in the Art of the 20th Century, Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France

1993

Matta: Engravings, Galeria Arte Actual, Santiago, Chile (solo)
Matta: Works from Chicago Collections, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA (solo)

1992

Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

1991

matta Exhibition: One verse 11-11-11, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile (solo)

1990

Matta: Drawings 1937-1946, Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York, USA (solo)

1989

Aspects of Modern Art in France, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris, France

1988

Matta: Drawings 1937-88, Museum Bochum, Germany (solo)
Italy Matta: Matta in Italy, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy (solo)
Matta: The Early Years, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

1985

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)

1984

The Logic of Hallucination [Drawings], Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England (solo)
Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

1982

60 Works: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

1981

Graphics, American Academy of Rome, Rome, Italy (solo)
A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy of Art, London, England

1978

Hom'mere (Etchings), Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge University, Cambridge, USA (solo)

1976

Homage aux Pyrénées, Château de Castellnou, Castellnou, Spain (solo)

1975

A Totemic World, Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, USA
Pastelli, L'Homme Descend du Signe, Galleria dell'Oca, Rome, Italy (solo)
Surrealism, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1974

The Early Years: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from the Years 1939 - 1957, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

1973

Sebastian Matta/dipinti, disegni e incisioni 1957 - 1973, Galleria Schubert, Milan, Italy (solo)

1971

In the Space of a Chilean Week, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France (solo)

1970

Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturebesitz, Berlin, Germany (solo)

1969

The Revolution is Architecture, Centre Culturel Municipal, Villeparisis, France (solo)

1968

Painting in France 1900 - 1967, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1967

Galeria Latinoamerica, Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba (solo)
Matta, Being with, Saint Denis, France

1965

La Llave de los Campos, Galeria del Techo, Caracas, Venezuela
The Open Cube, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland (solo)

1963

Sebastian Matta: Mostra Antologica in Bologna, Museo Civico, Bologna, Italy (solo)
Within the Easel Convention: Sources of Abstract-Expressionism, The Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

1962

Drawings, Pastels and Paintings, Allan Frumlin Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
Art Since 1950, American and International, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, USA

1960

Sculptures by Matta, Galerie du Dragon, Paris, France (solo)

1959

15 Forms of Doubting, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Retrospective, Stockholm, Sweden

1958

50 Ans d'Art Moderne, Palais International des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

1957

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)

1955

Matta of Chile, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C. (solo)

1952

Designs by Matta, Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris, France (solo)
L'Ouvre du XXe siècle, Peintures, Sculptures, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France

1951

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England (solo)

1948

40,000 Years of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

1947

Matta (Preface by Andre Breton), Galerie René Drouin, Paris, France (solo)
Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture: Abstract and Surrealist American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

1944

Twelve Contemporary Painters, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1943

War and the Artist, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, USA

1942

Oils, Pencils and Paintings, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Peggy Guggenheim's Collection of Paintings, Sculpture, Collages, Drawings, Objects and Photography...Pioneer Art Movement, Art of this Century Gallery, New York, USA

1940

Tchelitchew, Matta and Walt Disney, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, USA

1938

Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France