• 2008 Fictions, Christopher Henry Gallery, January 31 - March 10, New York, NY
  2008 New Paintings, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, March 15 - April 30, Columbus, OH
  2005 Jonathan Shorr Gallery, NYC, NY
  2002 Post Gallery, LA, CA
  2001 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
  1995 Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, curated by Dave Hickey, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NE
  Rebecca Ibel Gallery (Allez les Filles), Columbus, OH
  1994 Mary Delahoyd Gallery, NYC, NY
  1987 ‘Lynton Wells: Paintings and Drawings: 1985-1986,’ Ruth Siegel Ltd, NYC, NY
  1985 Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  1984 Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  1983 Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC, NY
  1982 Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  1981 Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC, NY
  Holly Solomon Editions, NYC, NY
  1980 Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC, NY
  Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  1979 ‘Lynton Wells, Paintings 1971-1978 The Art Museum,’ Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Tortue Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
  1978 Droll/Kolbert Gallery, NYC, NY
  Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  1977 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  Andre Emmerich Gallery, NYC, NY
  1976 Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  1975 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NYC, NY
  Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  1974 Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Cunningham Ward Gallery, NYC, NY
  1973 Cunningham Ward Gallery, NYC, NY (in cooperation with Fourcade-Droll Gallery)
  1972 Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  1971 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
  1969 Newark College of Engineering, Newark, NJ
  Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

• 2003 'Ten Years in Columbus, Part 1,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
  2002 'New Years Show,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
  2000 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
  1997 Rebecca Ibel Gallery (Ibel Simeonov), Columbus, OH
  Schafler Gallery, Pratt, Brooklyn, NY
  1996 'Body Language,' curated by Judith Page and Adam Straus, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
  'New Paintings,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery (Allez les Filles), Columbus, OH
  'Spring '96,' Mary Delahoyd Gallery, NYC, NY
  'Photographism (in painting),' Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, NY
  'Body Language,' Art Museum of Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  1997 ‘Murder,’ Bergamot Station, Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA;
  Thread Waxing Space, NYC, NY; Centre Gallery, Miami, FL
  1994 ‘Forecast/Shift in Direction,’ Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
  1993 ‘Group Show,’ Mary Delahoyd Gallery, NYC, NY
  1992 ‘Ecstasy Shop,’ Dooley le Cappellaine Gallery, NYC, NY
  Group Show, Baron/Boisante, NYC, NY
  1991 ‘Lyric uses of Beauty,’ White Columns, NYC, NY
  1990 Invitational, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NYC, NY
  ‘Drawings,’ Staempfli Gallery, NYC, NY
  1989 ‘Four Painters,’ Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI
  1987 ‘Art and Photography,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, CA
  ‘Facets of the Collection: Photographs from the Last Decade,’ San Francisco
  Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  1986 ‘Square and...,’ Ruth Siegel Ltd, NYC, NY
  1984 ‘Five Painters,’ Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  'Group Exhibition,' Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  ‘Man and his Dog,’ University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  ‘Drawing: New Dimension,’ Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  ‘Artist’s Call,’ Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY
  ‘Painting/Photography,’ Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkhill, NY
  ‘Update Cranbrook,’ Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
  1983 'Inaugural Exhibition,' Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC, NY
  ‘Art on Paper,’ Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
  ‘Contemporary Light,’ Katheryne Markell Gallery, NYC, NY
  ‘Untitled, 1983,’ Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  ‘Post-Minimalism,’ The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,CI
  1982 ‘Still Modern After All These Years,’ Chrysler Museum, Norfolk,
  VI; Carol Getz Gallery, Miami, FL
  ‘36.18.6.1.,’ Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY
  ‘PhotoStart,’ Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
  ‘Drawings/Visions of New York,’ Janus Gallery, LA, CA
  ‘The Photograph Transformed,’ Stefanotti Gallery, NYC, NY
  ‘15 Artists’ Painting and Sculpture,' Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  ‘Aspects of Post-Modernism,’ Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  1981 ‘New Work in Black and White,’ Art Lending Service, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY;
  Dancer, Fitzgerald & Sample, NYC, NY
  ‘The Markers,’ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,CA
  ‘Out of New York,’ Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
  1980 ‘Drawings,’ Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY
  ‘Selections from the Art Lending Service,’ Penthouse Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY
  'Other Media,' Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL
  1979 'Judy Pfaff, Janis Provisor, Marianne Stikas, Lynton Wells,' Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC, NY
  'Summer Show,' Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC, NY
  'Summer Show,' Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  ‘Omnium Gathering ‘79,’ Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  ‘Attitudes: Photography in the 1970’s,’ Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
  ‘A Personal Selection of the Seventies,’ Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Dootson, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
  ‘New York Now,’ Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
  ‘24 by 24,’ St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
  ‘Uniquely Photographic,’ Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts, Honolulu, HA
  ‘From A to Z,’ Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  1978 ‘Selections from the Collection,’ Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY
  ‘Aesthetics of Graffiti,’ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  ‘Interchange,’ Mount St. Mary’s College of Fine Art Gallery, LA, CA
  1977 ‘For Collectors,’ Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
  ‘This is Today,’ Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
  ‘Drawings,’ Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  ‘What’s New in SoHo,’ Mechanic Theater Gallery, Baltimore, MD
  ‘75 76 77,’ Sarah Lawrence Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY; American Foundationfor the Arts, Miami, FL; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
  1976 ‘From Women’s Eyes: An Exhibition of Eight Artists,’ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
  ‘24 x 24,’ Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY
  ‘Approaches to Painting: New York,’ University Art Galleries, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
  'Summer Show,' Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  ‘Painting and Sculpture Today 1976,’ Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
  'Group Exhibition,' Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  ‘An Exploration of Photography 1839-1976,’ C.W. Post College Art Gallery,Canton Art Institute, Canton, NY
  ‘Photo/Synthesis,’ Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  ‘Photographic Process as Medium,’ Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
  'Recent Abstract Painting,' S.U.N.Y. at Brockport, NY
  'Nineteen Artists,' Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
  'Report from SoHo,' Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, NYC, NY
  1975 'Contemporary Selection,' Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
  Edward Halper Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
  Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  ‘Contemporary Exhibition,’ Ontario Gallery of Art, Toronto, Canada
  1974 'Art of Collection-Exhibition I,' Miami Art Center, Miami, FL
  Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Henri I Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  'Recent Abstract Painting,' Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  'Waves,' Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  1973 '1965 - 1971,' Cunningham-Ward Gallery, NYC, NY
  'New York Avant-Garde,' Saide Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada
  'Opening Exhibition,' Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Arnot Museum, Elmira, NY
  ‘Options ‘73/30, Recent Works of Art,’ Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
  ‘Art in Evolution,’ Xerox Exhibition Center, Rochester, NY
  ‘New American Abstract Painting,’ Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Ill
  The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH
  ‘21 Artists,’ New York Institute of Technology, Westbury, NY
  ‘Painting...Yesterday and Tomorrow,’ Art In America Benefit Exhibition, NYC, NY
  '1973 Biennial,' Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY
  1972 'Opening Exhibition,' Cunningham Ward Gallery, NYC, NY
  Group Show, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  ‘Third Annual Invitational,’ O.K. Harris Gallery, NYC, NY
  ‘New American Abstract Painting,’ Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
  ‘Purchase Show,’ Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
  ‘Selectors Show,’ Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
  1971 ‘What’s Happening in SoHo,’ Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  ‘New Realism, Old Realism,’ Bernard Dannenberg Galleries, NYC, NY
  'Group Exhibition,' M. Knoedler & Co., NYC, NY
  ‘Untitled II,’ Art Lending Service, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY
  1970 ‘Artist/Photographer - Photographer/Artist,’ Bloomfield Art Association, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  ‘Critics Choice,’ New York State Council on the Arts; traveling exhibition organized by Max Kozloff and Lucy Lippard
  ‘Summer Selection,’ O.K. Harris Gallery, NYC, NY
  ‘Figures/Environments’, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  Photography Into Sculpture,’ Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY
  ‘Ten Alumni Sculptors,’ Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

• Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NE
  Museum of Modern Art, NY
  Collection of MOMA
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
  Collection of Princeton University Art Museum
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
  Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Indiana
  Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, Michigan
  University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, California
  Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
  H.F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York
  Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
  Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
  University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
  Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
  Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
  University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
  Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
  Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany
  Parrish Art Museum, Southhamption, NY
  Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut

• "Art at Princeton," Town Topics, Princeton, New Jersey, November 28, 1979, p.22.
  Andre, Michael. "Reviews and Previews," ArtNews, March 1974.
  Bannon, Anthony. 'Yield is Rich in Garden of Artist’s Mind," Buffalo Evening News, November 1977.
  Beals, Kathie. "Old-Style Painting Makes a Come-Back," Westchester Weekend, April 15, 1977.
  Bodolai, Joe. "Six Exhibitions," Arts Canada, April/May 1976, p. 62.
  Boice, Bruce. Artforum, May 1973.
  Bunnell, Peter. "Photograph into Sculpture," Museum of Modern Art, Essay Accompanying The Exhibition, May 1970
  Bunnell, Peter. Lynton Wells, Paintings ,1971-1978, exhibition catalogue, Princeton University Art Museum, 1979.
  Canaday, John. "Odd Thing to Worry About, Ethics," The New York Times, June 7, 1970.
  Chelz, Carol. Lynton Wells, exhibition catalogue, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, November, 1971.
  Cohen, Ronny H. "Lynton Wells," Art Forum, January 1981, p. 71.
  Coleman, A.D. "Sheer Anarchy, or a Step Forward?," The New York Times, April 12, 1970.
  Dreiss, Joseph. exhibition review, Arts Magazine, March 1974.
  Dreiss, Joseph. "Lynton Wells," Arts Magazine, October 1975.
  Duncan, Michael, 'Beaus of Holly', Artforum, November, 2005
  Duncan, Michael, 'Lynton Wells at Post - Los Angeles', Art in America, January, 2002
  Eckhoff, Sally. "Branching Out," Village Voice, November 26, 1979, p. 87.
  Frank, Peter. exhibition review, ArtNews, April 1973.
  Frankenstein, Alfred. "A Unique Approach to Photography and More," San Francisco Chronical, November 12, 1977, p. 36.
  Friedman, Martin. Figures/Environments, exhibition catalogue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1970.
  Freudenheim, Tom L. "The Critic’s Turn as Art Director," Baltimore Sun, December 3, 1972.
  "Ghostly Sculpure at Cranbrook" The Birmingham Eccentric, July 31, 1969, p. 10D.
  Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. exhibition review, Artforum, January 1974, p.70.
  Gold, Barbara. "Where is Art Taking SoHo -- and Vice Versa," Baltimore Sun, October 24, 1971.
  Gold, Barbara. "Good Painting Makes a Comeback," Baltimore Sun, December 3, 1972, p.18.
  Gold, Barbara. "New Art Show at Mechanic," Baltimore Sun, March 6, 1977.
  Gold, Barbara, "The Synthetic Look of the Seventies," Baltimore Sun, March 13, 1977.
  Gruen, John. 'Photo Imagery in Painting," SoHo Weekly News, October 25, 1975, p. 20.
  Guard, Roscoe. "James Rosenquist and Lynton Wells," Proof Only, May 22, 1974.
  Hall, Carolyn. "Art for Art’s Sake," The Birmingham Eccentric, July 31, 1969, p. 10D.
  Hall, Jacqueline. exhibition review, The Columbus Dispatch, May 19, 1996.
  Harder, Karen. "Lynton Wells at Foster Gallery: Photos and Paintings Merge,"Spectator, January 25, 1979, p. 11.
  Hedgepeth, Ted. "Modernism -- A Photographic Response," Artweek, June 20, 1981, pp. 1, 16.
  Hess, Thomas. "Polypolyptychality," New York Magazine, February 19, 1973.
  Hickey, Dave. "Lynton Wells: The Heart of Wit,' at the Donna Beam Fine Art Center Gallery, University of Las Vegas, NE
  Hickey, Dave. "lynton Wells: the Secrets of Ornament. Catalogue for Rebecca Ibel Ana Post. Exhibitions 2001-2002
  James, Elizabeth Ann, ‘Art Blossoms On The Wind: Celebrating Time and Talent-Past and Present,’ The Short North Gazette, 2003. p.12.
  Kelly, Bill. "Artist Makes Painting, Photography," Leader Telegram, January 27, 1979, p. 3.
  Kingsley, April. "New York," Art International, May 1974.
  Kohles, Jeanne Fryer. exhibition review, 'Shimmering images weave a captivating web,' The Columbus Dispatch, March 18, 2001, C10.
  Kohles, Jeanne Fryer. exhibition review, "Flaws are few in intriguing 'Selected Works'," The Columbus Dispatch, October 8, 2000, p. H9.
  Kramer, Hilton. exhibition review, The New York Times, November 1, 1975.
  Kritzwiser, Kay. exhibition review, Toronto Globe and Mail, April 6, 1974.
  Larson, Kay. "Art," Village Voice, September 24, 1979, p. 87.
  Larson, Kay. exhibition review, ArtNews, January 1979, p. 156.
  Lord, Barry. "The Eleven O’Clock News in Color," Arts Canada, June 1970.
  Lubell, Ellen. "Lynton Wells," Arts Magazine, May 1977, p. 37.
  Lubell, Ellen, "Lynton Wells: New Leaf in Country Color," Avenue, September 1980, pp. 87-90.
  Mann, Marjory. "Margella, is that You?," Popular Photography, June 1970.
  "New Dimensions," Time Magazine, April 13, 1970.
  Packard, Frank. "Lynton Wells: Familiar Abstractions," Daily Princetonian, January 7, 1980, p. 5.
  "Photography Takes Shape," Modern Photography, June 1970.
  Pincus, Robert L. exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, July 16, 1982.
  Ratcliffe, Carter. "New York Letter," Art International, December 20, 1975, p. 40.
  "Reviews and Previews," Arts Magazine, February 1974.
  Rice, Leland. "A Painter’s View in Photographic Perspective," Art Week, December 4, 1976, p. 6.
  Rush, David. "Painting with a Sculptural Character," Art Week, October 30, 1976, p. 1.
  Shirey, David. "Unresigned Artist Shown in Princeton," New York Times/ New Jersey Weekly, December 9, 1979, p. 26.
  Siegel, Jeanne. "Abstraction and Representation Made Visible," Arts Magazine, November 1976.
  Skoggard, Ross. exhibition review, Art in America, January/February 1976, p.101.
  Skoggard, Ross. "Lynton Wells at Holly Solomon," Art in America, January 1982, p. 140.
  Stitleman, Paul. "New York Art Galleries," Arts Magazine, December 1973, p.60.
  Stitleman, Paul. "Notes on the Absorption on the Avant-Garde into the Culture," Arts Magazine, May/June 1973.
  Stitleman, Paul. exhibition review, Arts Magazine, February 1974, p. 67.
  Teres, Rosemary. "News About Art," Times Union, February 7, 1976, p. 12.
  Watkins, Eileen. "Life Size Works Merge from Photographic Base," Sunday Star Ledger, New Jersey, January 6, 1980, p. 10.
  Welling, James. "Working Between Photography and Painting," Art Week, February 4, 1977.
  Willig, Nancy. "Franklin Street Exhibit: Lurking Mystery," Courier Express, November 1977.
  Wilson, William. exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, March 23, 1979, p.8.
  Wortz, Melinda. "Exposure to Process," ArtNews, December 1977, p. 88.
  Yard, Sally. exhibition catalogue, From Women’s Eyes, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, May 1977.
  Yau, John. exhibition review, Art in America, May/June 1979, p. 141.
  Yau, John. "Lynton Wells," Artforum, May 1987, p. 143.
  Zimmer, William. exhibition review, SoHo Weekly News, March 17, 1977, p.24.

• 1977 New York State Council on the Arts
  1975 National Endowment for the Arts
  1973 New York State Council on the Arts

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