ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022

Cassandra: Truth and Madness, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco

2018

The Kennecott Diaries, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2017

Theory of Machines, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles

2016

Dean Byington: “Tout le Necessaire,” Aires Libres 2016, Montreal, Canada

2015

The New City, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.

2010

Black Maps: New Paintings, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2009

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

Dean Byington: Terra Incognita, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee

2007

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2005

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2003

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1999

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1997

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

California Gold, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

2022

Prêt à Placer, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco

2021

Affinities, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco

2020

Labor & Materials, 21 C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

2019

Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Florida

Extraction, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

2018

Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art, The Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, N.Y.

Unconscious Rationale, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco

DNA of PAINTING, Anglim Gilbert Gallery/Gallery 200 at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco

Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn.

2017

The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2016

Order & Nature, Anglim Gilbert Gallery at Minnesota Street Project
Land/Sky: Temporal Concepts, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2015

Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2014

Fusion: Art of the 21st Century, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Summer in Black & White … and Color, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2013

New Contemporary Acquisitions, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Hybridity: The New Frontier, 21c Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas

2012

Rarely Seen Contemporary Works on Paper, Art Institute of Chicago

2011

Stream of the Unknown, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, N.Y.

Land of Magic, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California

2010

Skeptical Landscapes, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

2009

New Acquisitions, The Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, N.Y.

Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas

Tales of Wonder and Woe: Fable and Fairy Taled in Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, N.Y.

utopia/dystopia, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2006

The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Here's the Thing, Gallery 16, San Francisco

2005

Recent Acquisitions, Indianapolis Museum of Art

2004

Random Encounters, San Jose Museum of Art, California

2003

Pocket Atlas, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, Calif.

Bytes and Pieces: Contemporary Collage, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

1998

Art + Tech, Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

1997

Untitled, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.

1994

Negative Energy, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.

The 6 x 9 Show, Victoria Room, San Francisco

Shudder, Victoria Room, San Francisco

1993

New Work, Turn of the Century, Berkeley, Calif.

1991

66th Annual Crocker Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

1990

A Boar’s Head, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, California

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Institute of Chicago
Berkeley Art Museum
21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
The Capital Group, Los Angeles
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Reno
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Nevada Museum of Art
The Progressive Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Rene diRosa Collection, Napa, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, N.Y.
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia BIBLIOGRAPHY

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