Selected Exhibitions by Decade

1950s

Karamu House Theater, Cleveland, Ohio, December 1957 

This was Lyanne’s first professional exhibition, a two-person show with a former classmate in the MFA Program at the University of Iowa, Harold W. Bradley, a football player with the Cleveland Browns.

Other notable exhibitions: Group shows, including 29th May Show, Cleveland Art Museum, 1957; The May Show—40th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen, 1958; 30th Traveling Exhibition of Oils by Cleveland Artists, 1958-59; and Artzt Gallery Group Exhibition, New York, New York, 1959. 

1960s

Lyanne/ J. Rubinowitz: Oils Watercolors, Artzt Gallery, New York, New York, 1960 

Another notable exhibition: City Center of Music and Drama, City Center Gallery, New York, New York, 1960.

1970s

Lyanne Malamed: Paintings and Pastels, Balcony Gallery, Somerset Art Association (now the Center for Contemporary Art), Bedminster, New Jersey, 1975 

1980s

Lyanne Malamed: Later Thoughts, Hunterdon Art Center (now Hunterdon Art Museum), 1982

This exhibition introduced Lyanne’s new body of work focusing on elderly women. 

Other notable exhibitions: Women Artists Series at Douglas College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1984-85, which was a series of solo exhibitions by eight female artists; Lyanne Malamed: Paintings and Drawings, Rider College, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 1985; New Jersey State Council on the Arts Show, Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, 1987; Solo exhibition for New Jersey Artists Series, Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1989.

1990s

Lyanne Malamed: Paintings, Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1990

Other notable exhibitions: Plain Song: The Art of Lyanne Malamed, 1990 and Lyanne Malamed, 1999, at Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey; 20th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1992; Imaging Aging: Visual Responses to Getting Older, organized by Johnson and Johnson and the Alzheimer’s Association, Northern New Jersey Chapter, for Bucknell University, Lewiston, Pennsylvania, 1993.

2000s

Lyanne Malamed: Paintings and Drawings, Somerset Art Association (now Center for Contemporary Art), Bedminster, New Jersey, 2004

Other notable exhibitions: Lyanne Malamed: Paintings and Drawings, Curated by Toshiko Takaezu, Hunterdon Museum of Art, 2000; Lyanne Malamed: Women and their Masks, The Chubb Atrium Gallery, Warren, New Jersey, 2001; Lyanne Malamed: Paintings and Drawings, Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 2000-01, Lyanne Malamed: Pringle Gallery Artists, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004.

2010s

Lyanne Malamed/Sandra Malamed, Shannondell, Audubon, Pennsylvania, 2019

2020s

Lyanne Malamed: Life/Afterlife, Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 2024

Other notable exhibitions: Mystery, Memory, and Magic, Morris Arts, Atrium Gallery, Morristown, New Jersey, 2023-24; Mystery, Memory, and Magic: The Art of Lyanne Malamed, Morpeth Contemporary, Hopewell, New Jersey, 2004.