2011
Maxwell Hendler: Seen and Unseen, Selected Works, Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery, Wilmington, CA
2010
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Two Approaches to Monochrome, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two-person exhibition with James Hayward)
2005
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
1989
Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
1987
Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
1986
Selected Paintings 1978-1986, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
1985
Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
1983
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
King of Hearts II, Mendocino, CA
1978
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1976
Maxwell Hendler: Sandpainting, 1969-1976, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1975
Maxwell Hendler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1969
Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1965
Ceeje Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1962
Ceeje Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two-person exhibition with Arlene Goldberg)
1962
Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
70 Years of Abstract Painting - Excerpts, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
AKA Zen, David Richards Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Pieceable Kingdom, Beacon Art Center, Inglewood, CA
Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Groupings, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Made in America, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Mostly Black & White, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Color Blind: Black, White and Gray in Contemporary Art, Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art, Culver City, CA
Fall Selections, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Monochrome Paintings: Some Versions from Ad Reinhardt to Present, Cardwell-Jimmerson Contemporary Art, Culver City, CA
2005
Pink, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica Originals, Curated by Bruria Finkel, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
2004
White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Paper, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Hyperrealismees - USA, 1965-1975, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg, France
2002
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Fitz Gibbon Exhibition, The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2001
Simply Complex: Monochrome Paintings from L.A., Curated by Reuben Baron and Joan Baron, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
Group Exhibition, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Conceptual Color: In Albers' Afterimage, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, College of Creative Arts, San Francisco, CA
Cloud 9, Curated by David Pagel, Gensler & Assoc., Santa Monica, CA
Made, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Simply Complex: Monochrome Painting from LA, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to Storres, CT; Boston, MA; Santa Fe, NM
The Flower Show: An Invitational, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
LuminocitA' Colori Dalla California: Hendler, Huerta, Kaufmann, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
1999
Size Matters, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Painting: Fore and Aft, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Hendler/Kraal/Thurston, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1997
Some Lust, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Painting Beyond the Idea, Curated by Bennett Roberts. Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Seven Strangers, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Red Painting, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
Fifteen Artists, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995
Murder, Curated by John Yau, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY and Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
Very Visual Dialogue, Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA
1994
Recent Painting, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
Visual Dialogue: Personal Journeys in Abstract Painting, Rancho Santiago College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
Blue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Plane/Structures, traveling exhibition, Curated by David Pagel, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; White Columns, New York, NY; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX; Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV.
Painting Perspectives, Jerrold Burchman Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
California, Jerrold Burchman Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1993
From Concept to Realism, Random Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Inad' Verently, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
1992
I to Eye 2, Cirrus, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Art-Over-the Sofa, Curated by Jan Butterfield, Boritzer/Gray, Los Angeles, CA
Not on Canvas, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Group Show, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hollywoodland, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
California A-Z and Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1987
Reduced Scale, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
Industrial Icons: Painting, Photography and Sculpture, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
1986
A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Invitational Drawing Show, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
American Realism/20th Century Drawings & Watercolors, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1985
Levels of Reality: the realist paintings of Michiel Daniel, Maxwell Hendler and Mark Wethli, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA
California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
To the Astonishing Horizon, Curated by Peter Frank, Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
New Work, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
Crime and Punishment, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
California: Idions of Surrealism, Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1984
New Work, Paintings 1984, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
A Focus on California, Ahmanson Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Ceeje Revisited, Curated by Faith Flam, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Frederick Weisman Foundation Collection of Contemporary Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1983
Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
California: Idioms of Surrealism, traveling exhibition organized by The Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; The USC Atelier, Santa Monica, CA; Art Gallery, California State College, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA; Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY; Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
American Accents, traveling exhibition Curated by Henry Geldzahler, The Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario; College Park, Toronto; Musee du Quebec, Quebec, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta; Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
West Coast Realism, traveling exhibition, curated by Lynn Gamwell, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Center for Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA; Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baron Rouge, LO; Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Spiva Art Center, Joplin, MO; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX; Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Edison Community College, Fort Meyers, FL
Limited Palettes, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
1982
Drawings by Painters, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1980
Three Realist Painters, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Still Life Today, Curated by Janice Oresman, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, NY
Contemporary Naturalism, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Nassau, NY
1978
Representations of America, Curated by Henry Geldzahler, The Hermitage, Leningrad; Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
A Sense of Scale, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, Co-curated by Walter Hopps & Henry Hopkins, The National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1976
Los Angeles Eight: Painting and Sculpture, 1976, Curated by Maurice Tuchman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
America As Art, The National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1975
The Realist Image, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1973
Separate Realities, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1971
Eleven Los Angeles Artists, traveling exhibition, curated by Maurice Tuchman and Jane Livingston, Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, West Germany; Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium; The Hayward Gallery, London, England
Faculty Exhibition, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1970
22 Realists, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Beyond the Actual: Contemporary California Realist Painters, Pioneer Museum of Art, Stockton, CA
American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, CA
Directly Seen: California Realist Painters, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, CA
Realist Painters, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Albright Knox Museum of Art, Buffalo, NY
1969
New Faculty Exhibition, California State College, Long Beach, CA
California Artist, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Third Annual Small Images Exhibition, California State College, Los Angeles, CA
1968
Artists Who Teach, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Beach Show, San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, CA
1967
Aspects of Realism, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Faculty Exhibition, San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, CA
1966
Faculty Collections Exhibition, San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, CA
All City Art Festival, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Annual National Competition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1965
Annual Southern California Competition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1964
Fifth Annual Festival of the Arts, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
1961
Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, University of California, Lake Arrowhead, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, Art Rental Gallery, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
