Exhibitions
Berta Walker, Director of the Graham Modern Gallery in New York, sitting at her desk during an exhibition of Carmen’s work, c. 1983
Solo Exhibitions
2020s
2024
Drawings and Watercolors, 1954–2024, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2022
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, June Kelly Gallery Booth, Park Avenue Armory, New York
2021
Watercolors: 1985–2017, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2020
The Human Condition, essay by John Yau, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2010s
2019
Artists on the Bowery, Part I: Carmen Cicero and Alan Steele, Westwood Gallery, New York
2018
Battle of The Sexes: 1965–1982, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2015
Carmen Cicero: Early Works: 1970s–1980s, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2012
Carmen Cicero: Visionary, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Carmen Cicero: The Visionary Work, curated by Bill Evaul, Provincetown Art
Association and Museum
2011
Carmen Cicero, Shore Galleries, Provincetown
2010
Carmen Cicero: Watercolors, Shore Galleries, Provincetown In the Still of the Night, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2000s
2007
Things That Happen in the Moonlight, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Watercolors, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2004
Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2002
Carmen Cicero: Figurative Expressionist Painter, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown
2001
New Work, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2000
Carmen Cicero: A Survey of Paintings, Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Carmen Cicero: Recent Work, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown Carmen Cicero: Watercolors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
1990s
1998
Unseen Events: Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Paintings and Watercolors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
1997
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1995
Paintings and Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1994
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1993
New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1991
Improvisations in Painting and Music, Montclair State College Art Gallery, Upper Montclair, NJ
The James Howe Gallery, Kean College, Union, NJ Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1990
Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Chicago
Paintings and Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1980s
1988
Paintings, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1987
Recent Watercolors, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1986
Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1985
Carmen Cicero, Maurice M. Pine Free Public Library, Fair Lawn, NJ
Recent Paintings, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1984
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
Paintings and Drawings, 1975–1984, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1983
Art Academy of Cincinnati
1982
Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
1981
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1970s
1979
Gurewitsch Gallery, New York
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1978
Lisa Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles
1977
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1976
Collages and Drawings, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ
1975
Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York
South Houston Gallery, New York
1974
Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York
1972
Simone Stern Gallery, New Orleans
1971
Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York
1970
Wellfleet Art Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, and Palm Beach, FL
Drawings and Serigraphs, New School for Social Research, New York
Fair Lawn Art Gallery, Madison, NJ
1960s
1969
Peridot Gallery, New York
1968
Peridot Gallery, New York
Galleri Promenade, Tromsø, Norway
Simonne Stern Gallery, New Orleans
1967
Galerie Puntvier, Rotterdam, Holland
1966
Peridot Gallery, New York
Drawings & Gouaches, American Gallery, New York
1964
Peridot Gallery, New York
1962
Peridot Gallery, New York
1961
Peridot Gallery, New York
1950s
1959
Peridot Gallery, New York
1957
Peridot Gallery, New York
1956
Peridot Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2020s
2024
Loft Law: The Last of New York City’s Original Artist Lofts, Westwood Gallery, New York
Annual members’ exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
2023
Mel Leipzig and Friends, Provincetown Art Association and Museum
2010s
2019
Creative Couples, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown
2017
Celebrating 30 Years, Gallery Artists: Drawing and Photography, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Mel Leipzig and Friends, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2012
Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Long Point: An Artists’ Place, curated by Mary E. Abell, Provincetown Art Association and Museum ArtHamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
2011
Celebrating 25 Years, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2010
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York
2000s
2009
Hidden Gems: Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York
2008
ArtHamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Chicago at Merchandise Mart, Chicago
2007
The 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York
Anniversary Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
2006
The Figure in American Painting and Drawing 1985–2005, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Art Chicago at Merchandise Mart, Chicago
2005
180th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Art Chicago in The Park, Chicago
2004
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, 69th Regiment Armory, New York
Navy Pier Exhibition, Chicago
2003
178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Navy Pier Exhibition, Chicago
Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown
2002
177th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Navy Pier Exhibition, Chicago
2001
Many Moons, curated by Barbara J. Bloemink, Hammond Museum & Japanese
Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY
176th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown
2000
175th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Expressionist Watercolors, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown
1990s
1999
Dreamworks: 20th Century Artistic and Psychological Perspectives, The
Equitable Gallery, New York; State University of New York Art Museum, Binghamton, NY;
Historisches Museum der Stadt Wein, Vienna;
Passage de Retz, Paris
174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
1998
173rd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Contemporary Selections from the National Academy at Silvermine, New Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT
Long Point Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown -A Tribute to Long Point Gallery, curated by Ann Wilson Lloyd, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
A Salute to the Long Point Gallery, curated by Edward Giobbi, Nardin Gallery, New York
The Art Show: Art Dealers Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown Art Association and Museum
1997
The Artist’s Eye: Will Barnet Selects Portraits from the Permanent Collection, National Academy of Design, New York
Our Century: Selections, Housatonic Museum of Art, Burt Chernow Galleries, Bridgeport, CT American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
172nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Selections: Drawing, curated by Elissa Tatigikis Iberti and Catherine Valenza, Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
Collector’s Show, selected by Townsend Wolfe, director and chief curator, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock -20th Anniversary Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1996
Inaugural Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
Collector’s Show, curated by Townsend Wolfe and Ruth Pasquine, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock -The Boat, Object and Metaphor, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, and the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
A Story to Tell, Eros, Summer’s Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1995
170th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Secrets and Summer’s Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1994
Italian-American Artists, 1945–1968: A Limited Survey, Works on Paper, curated by Anthony Panzera with Lisa Panzera Melchor and Eloise Romais Jacobs, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art -Gallery, Hunter College, New York, and Krasdale Foods Gallery, Bronx
The Art of Italian Americans: Is Ethnicity Relevant? curated by Sigmund R. Balka, Krasdale Foods, and Susan Hoeltzel, director Lehman College Art Gallery, Krasdale Foods Gallery, White Plains, NY
June Kelly: A Particular Vision, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo
Series, Ghosts: Poets & Artists, Summer’s Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
The Drum Lithographs: 1960–1963, Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
1993
Celebrating Long Point, Station Gallery, Katonah, NY
Salute to Long Point, Stuart Levy Gallery, New York
New York Art Scene Comes to Buffalo, Albright-Knox Members Gallery, Buffalo
Art and the Law, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition
Keeping the Faith and Summer’s Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
The League at the Cape, Provincetown Art Association and Museum
1992
167th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Artists–New York, City Arts, Marine Midland Bank, SoHo, New York
Drawings, 1967, Summer Show, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1991
166th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Art in the Garden, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Music of Long Point, Belltable Arts Center, Limerick, Ireland
Key Works, Those Lovely Golden Thighs, New Works, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1990
American Art Today: The City, Florida International Art Museum, University Park, Miami
-Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art and the Law, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition
From the Studio Wall, Squares, Summer Show, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1980s
1989
Contemporary Provincetown: 75 Years of American Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum; travels to Los Angeles
Katzen-Brown Gallery, New York
Myth & Ritual and Summer’s Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
Four on Four, Chandler Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1988
Previews of the Past, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
Opposites and Black, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1987
Gone Fishing, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
The Interior Self: Three Generations of Expressionists’ View of the Human
Image, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Contemporary Painting, Boca Raton Museum of Art
-Four Artists from New York City, Goldman-Kraft, Chicago
Nightworks, Krasdale Foods Gallery, Bronx, curated by Sigmund Balka and Holly Block, sponsored by the Bronx Museum of the Arts
Art and the Law: The Bicentennial of the Constitution of the United States, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition venues include: Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO; Muscarelle Art Museum, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul; Plaza Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco
Sensibility of the Artist and Homeric Themes, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1986
Life in the Big City, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Short Stories, One Penn Plaza, New York
Yellow, Tribute to Arthur Berger, Favorite Work, Paper Anniversary, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
Art and the Law, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition
1985
Summer Yellows, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
Red, Tribute to Stanley Kunitz, Summer’s Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
Art and the Law, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition Survivors, Ingber Gallery, New York
1984
Woman: A Changing Picture, Graham Gallery, New York
Summer Celebrations, Graham Modern, New York
The Early Work and Premiere of Summer Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
Situations, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore Emotional Impact: New York School Figurative Expressionism, curated by April Kingsley, Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco, traveled 1984–86 to Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, AK; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City; Beaumont Art Center, Beaumont, TX; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX Art and the Law, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN; circulating exhibition
1983
Food for Thought, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
Lovely are the Curves, Blue, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
Bodies and Souls, Artists Choice Museum (eleven-gallery survey exhibition)
1982
Group Show, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
The Famous Show, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
The Art of Drawing, Gray Day Studies, Variations of a Theme, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1981
14 Provincetown Artists of Today (Long Point Gallery), Western Carolina
University, Candler, NC; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro
Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
Discovery Gallery, Upper Montclair, NJ
1980
Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
Grippi Gallery, New York
22 Fine Arts Alumni, Kean College, Union, NJ
Collages by Carmen Cicero, Drawings by George Mueller, Silkscreen Prints by Babe Shapiro, Raymond Zimetbaum Gallery, West Orange, NJ
1970s
1979
Collage: American Masters, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Group
Drawing Show, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
1978
Group Exhibition, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown
Paintings, Prints and Collages by Carmen Cicero and Ansei Uchima, Discovery Gallery, Upper Montclair, NJ Gurewitsch Gallery, New York
1976
Drawings, Landmark Gallery, New York
Carmen Cicero, Maynard Sandol, and George Mueller, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
1973
New Acquisition/Gifts and Loans/Selections from the Collection, Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ridgefield, CT
37th Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1971
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
1970
In Memoriam: Louis Pollack, 1921–1970, Peridot Gallery, New York
Serigraphs, Grippi Gallery, New York
1960s
1969
American Drawings, New School of Social Research, New York
1968
Sarah Lawrence Art Festival, Riverside Museum, New York
Grippi Graphics, New York
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Homage to Morandi, School of Visual Arts, New York
1967
Newark Museum
International Young Artists, Tokyo
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Artists Technological Research Institute, Parke-Bernet Gallery, New York
1966
1966 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Newark Museum Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; traveling exhibition New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Selections from the Museum Collection 1951–1965, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Drawings: USA, St. Paul Art Center, MN
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Artists for C.O.R.E., Grippi-Waddell Gallery, New York Galerie Punt Vier, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Simonne Stern Gallery, New Orleans
1965
Annual Exhibition 1965: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Decade of American Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
International Artists Workshop, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
Art in Roosevelt House, New Delhi, India, under the auspices of Ambassador Chester Bowles
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaig
Mysteries and Dreams, Dorsky Gallery, New York
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Art in Science, Albany Institute of Art, Albany, NY
1964
New York World’s Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion
American Conscience, New School Art Center, New York
Newark Museum
Old One Hundred: Selections from the Larry Aldrich Contemporary Collection,
1951–1965, Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Fairleigh Dickinson University Gallery, Madison, NJ
Hudson
River Museum, Yonkers, NY Ohio
Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH Artists’ Tribute to JFK, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1963
Annual Exhibition 1963: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Review of the Season, Art Dealers Association of America, Parke-Bernet Gallery, New York
National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
1962
Fifty Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Annual Exhibition 1962: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Forty Artists under Forty, curated by Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; traveled to Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Roberson Memorial Center, Binghamton, NY; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Jerold Morris International Gallery, Toronto
1961
Annual Exhibition 1961: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
64th American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Loeb Student Center, New York University
1960
100 Drawings from the Museum Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art Lending Service Retrospective: 1950–1960, sponsored by the Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Annual Exhibition 1960: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
University of Colorado, Boulder
1950s
1959
Inaugural Selections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1959 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Premiere Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
63rd American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago Art Foundation Exhibition, Rome and New York (concurrent shows) Peridot Gallery, New York
Richard Brown Baker collection exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC International Watercolors, Brooklyn Museum
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1958
New Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
University of Nebraska, Lincoln Worcester Art Museum
Carmen Cicero, Karl Knaths, Walter Plate, John Levee, Gerard Schneider, Arts Club of Chicago
1957
Drawings Recently Acquired for the Museum Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
62nd American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Art Foundation Exhibition, Rome and New York (concurrent shows)
1956
Recent Drawings, U.S.A., Museum of Modern Art, New York University of Colorado, Boulder
New Talent: USA, American Federation of Arts, traveling exhibition
Annual, Stable Gallery, New York
1955
Forum Gallery, New York
Newark Museum 1955 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Painting,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Recent Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Young American Printmakers, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI