solo exhibitions

1936 First One Man Exhibition, The Artist’s Gallery, New York
1937 Paintings and Drawings, East River Gallery, New York
1942 Recent Works, Bonestell Gallery, New York
1943 Ben-Zion, Bonestell Gallery, New York
1946 Paintings, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
1947 Paintings, Baltimore Museum of Art
1948 Biblical Paintings, The Jewish Museum, New York
1948 Ben-Zion, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1949 Small Paintings, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1951 Biblical Themes, Buchholz Gallery, New York
1951 Ben-Zion, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1952 Biblical Paintings, The Jewish Museum, New York
1953 Etchings, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1953 Etching in IGAS (International Graphic Arts Society)
Fourth Series Edition, New York
1955 Paintings, Duveen-Graham, New York
1956 The Second and Third Portfolios of Biblical Etchings,
Duveen-Graham, New York
1957 Ben-Zion, The Bezalel National Museum, Israel
1958 Watercolors, Gouaches, and Etchings, Peter H. Deitsch,
New York
1959 A Retrospect, The Jewish Museum, New York
1961 Recent Paintings, A.C.A. Gallery, New York
1964 Drawings, F.A.R. Gallery, New York
1964 Judges and Kings; Eighteen Etchings, F.A.R. Gallery,
New York
1965 A Retrospective, B’nai B’rith, Washington, D.C.
1968 Exhibition of Paintings, B’nai B’rith Building, Washington, DC
1969 Paintings and Etchings, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
1975 Exhibition of Works by Ben-Zion,
The National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel
1978 Exhibition of Works by Ben-Zion, Haifa Museum, Israel
1985 Iron Sculpture, Terry Dintenfass, New York
1986 Paintings, Terry Dintenfass, New York
1986 A Tradition of Independence, Judah K. Magnes Museum,
Berkley, California
1986 Ben-Zion; Artist, Poet, Collector, Haifa Museum, Israel
1997 Centennial Exhibit, In Search of Oneself, B’nai B’rith Klutznick
National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC
1998 Ben-Zion: In Search of Oneself, Mizel Museum of Judaica,
Denver, Colorado
1998 Ben-Zion: Iron Sculpture, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York
1998 Exhibit, Washington, DC; travels to: Hebrew Union College,
New York
1999 Early Works, Mercury Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 Ben-Zion: In The Grip of the Five Senses, Mitchell Gallery
at Saint John’s College, Maryland
2017 Ben-Zion Iron Works: A Voyage of Rediscovery, Michael Steinberg, NYC

group exhibitions

1934 Guest Exhibitions; T’was the Night Before Christmas,
Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York
1934 “Sailing, Sailing!”, Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York
1936 Group Exhibitions, Gallery Secession, New York
(under the direction of Robert Ulrich Godsoe)
1936 First Exhibition,The Ten, An Independent Group, Montross Gallery, New York 
1936 Paintings, The Artist’s Gallery, New York
1936 The Ten: Whitney Dissenters, Mercury Galleries, New York
1936 Paintings at Uptown Gallery, New York 
1936 7 Madonnas, Uptown Gallery, New York
1936 Americans and Mexicans, Uptown Gallery, New York
1936 The Ten, Galerie Bonaparte, Paris, France
1938 The Ten, Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York
1939 The Ten: Whitney Dissenters, Mercury Galleries, New York
1939 Art in a Skyscraper, American Artist’s Congress, New York
1942 The Ten, Bonestell Gallery, New York
1943 7 Years, Willard Gallery, New York
1943 Drawings, Buchholz Gallery New York
1944 An Exhibition of Religious Art Today, Boston, Massachusetts
1947 Oils and Watercolors, University Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan 
1947 Paintings, University of Iowa
1948 Paintings, The Art Institute of Chicago
1949 Fact and Fantasy, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1949 Drawings and Watercolors, Forsyte Gallery, Los Angeles
1949 “The Artist and the Spectator”, The Washington Workshop, Washington, DC
1950 35 American Painters of Today, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
1951 Fact and Fantasy, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1952 Contemporary Religious Art, Union Theological Seminary, New York
1954 The Traveling Roy and Marie Neuberger Collection, shown at The Whitney Museum of
American Art, The Arts Club of Chicago, Art Gallery of the University of California,
San Francisco Museum of Art, City Art Museum of St. Louis, and the Cincinnati Art
Museum.
1955 Contemporary American Painting, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, New York
1955 An Exhibition in honor of the Jewish Tercentenary in the US; Biblical Themes, Paintings,
and Etchings, The City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri
1957 Paintings (Prophet on the Ruins), Amerikanische Maler der Gegenwart- US Committee
of the International Association of Plastic Arts, (traveling exhibition)
1959 Art and the Found Object, Time-Life Reception Center at Rockefeller Plaza, New York
1960 Artists as Collectors, Yandes Gallery, New York
1961 2nd Annual “8x10” Exhibition by the Members of the American Artist’s Congress,
A.C.A. Gallery, New York
1963 Contemporary and Ancient Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
1984 The Expressionist Vision: A Central Theme in New York in the 1940’s,
Hillwood Art Gallery, Greenvale, New York
2000 REMEMBER, The Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York

publications

1921 The Struggles of a Violin, Nymin
1951 Biblical Themes, Curt Valentin, Portfolio of 18 etchings
1951 Prophets, Curt Valentin, Portfolio of 18 etchings
1954 The Book of Ruth, Job, Song of Songs, Curt Valentin, Portfolio of 18 etchings
1956 Etchings & Poems, Morris Gallery, New York, Etchings of 21 artists for 21 Poets
1960 The Wisdom of the Fathers, The Limited Editions Club, Drawings by Ben-Zion
1963 “An Artist’s View of a Jewish Museum”, The Jewish News
1964 Judges & Kings, Graphophile Associates, New York, Portfolio of 18 etchings
1965 The Life of a Prophet, Artist’s Edition, Portfolio of 18 etchings
1966 The Epic of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Graphophile Associates, New York, 36 etchings
1967 In Search of Oneself, Artist’s Edition, 14 self-portraits in drypoint
1975 The 36 Unknown, Artist’s Edition, Portfolio of 36 etchings and poems
1979 From the Songs of Ben-Zion, Eked (Written 1919)
1980 From the Songs of Ben-Zion II, Eked (Written 1923)

1980 From the Songs of Ben-Zion III, Eked (Written 1960-78)
1980 The 36 Unknown, Eked, (English & Hebrew). Book based upon portfolio of same name
1980 Advertisement, Eked (Written 1930)
1980 King Solomon, Eked (Written 1919)
1980 In Those Days, Eked
1981 The Street, Eked (Written 1918)
1981 REMEMBER, Eked, Drawings and Paintings done during the holocaust years
1982 Walks on Paths and Roads, Eked (Written 1960-78)
1982 Reflections on Symbolism and the Abstract; Two Essays, Eked
1983 In the Beginning (Epic Poem), Eked
1983 From the Songs of Ben-Zion V, Eked
1983 In the Primeval Forest, Eked
1983 On the Inner Life, Eked