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Solo Shows:

1944            War Drawings, Farnham Castle, Surrey, England

1951            Clearwater Museum of Art, Clearwater Florida

1953            Lowe Art Gallery, university of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

1954            University of Floria, Gainesville, Florida

1955            Associated American Artists Galleries, New York,

                    (catalogue essay by  Everett Austin, Jr.)

1956            Florida Gulf Coast Art Center Clearwater, Florida

1959            Saidenberg Gallery, New York, New York 

                    (forward by Budd Schulberg)

1960            Safari Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

                    Tel Aviv Museum, Israel

                    331 Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

1961            Frank H. McChung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

                    Sarasota Art Association, Civic Center, Sarasota, Florida

1962            Saidenberg Gallery, New York, New York

1964            James David Gallery, Ltd., Miami Beach, Florida

                    Group Gallery, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida

1966            St. Armands Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

                    James David Gallery, Ltd., Miami Beach, Florida

1967            Saidenberg Gallery, New York, New York

1968            Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida

1969            Berenson Gallery, Miami, Florida

1970            Saidberg Gallery, New York, New York

1971            Midtown Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

1973            Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Floria

1973-74       Retrospective Exhibition  New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

                    The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

1974            Berenson Gallery, Miami, Florida

1975            Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellair, Florida

                    Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York

                    New Works, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1976            Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

                    Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, Florida

1977            University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida

                    Recent Painting, Boca Raton Center for the Arts, Boca Raton, Florida

                    Harmon Gallery, Naples, Florida

1978            Adley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

                    The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida

1979            Works on Paper with Antonio Tapies and Anita Gibson

                    Coastal Series, Adley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

                    The Seventies, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

                    Current Paintings, Genesis Gallery, New York

                    Solo Exhibition, McDowell Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1980            Shore Sentinel Series, Adley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

1981            The Flow of Wilderness, Galapagos Series,

                    The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida,

                    Nardin Gallery, New York, New York

                    Recent Paintings, Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York

1982            Recent Paintings, Harmon Gallery, Naples, Florida

                    Recent Paintings, Adley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

                    Recent Paintings, Phoenix II, Washington, D.C.

1984            Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

                    Moosart Gallery, Miami, Florida

                    Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida,

                    Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio

                    Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida

1986            Manatee Jr. College (with Michael Solomon), Bradenton, Florida

1987            Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1988            Corbino Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

1989            Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York

                    Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida

1990            Corbino Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

                    Scheele Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

1990-92       Syd Solomon: A Dialogue with Nature, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,
                    Sarasota, Florida, and The Polk  Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida

1998            Butler Museum of Art Youngstown, Pennsylvania

2001            Syd Solomon Revisited 

                    Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida

Posthumous:

2005            Windscapes and Lightscapes, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center East Hampton, New York

2006            Genesis of a Sensibility, Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, Florida

2007            Survey, Greene Contemporary Sarasota, Florida

Group Shows

1951            Paintings of the Circus, Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, Florida / John and Mable
                    Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

1952            International Hallmark Exhibition, Wildenstein Gallery, New York

                    American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints

                    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

                    Florida International Exhibition, Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

                    International Exhibition, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York

1953            National Centennial Exhibition of Twentieth Century Art University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

1955            Annual Exhibition, American Water Color Society, National Academy of Design,  New York, New York

                    Fifty Florida Painters, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota, Florida

                    Paintings for Collectors, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas

                    Houston International Exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

                    Three Sarasota Collections, The John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

1956            Fifty-ninth Annual Exhibition, Water Color Society,

                    National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

                    Twenty-first Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

                   

                    Seventeenth Southeastern Exhibition, Contemporary American Painting,

                    Golf Coast Art Center, Clearwater, Florida (traveling exhibition)

                    National Water Color Annual, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

1957            National Annual Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

                    National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, Riverside Museum, New York, New York

                    Four Florida Painters, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
                    (Organized by the American Federation of Arts)

                    Fifteenth Annual Exhibition, Audubon Artist, National Academy of Design, New York

1958            Accessions, Butler Institute of American Art,Youngstown, Ohio

                    Seventy-fifth Portland Summer Art Festival, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

                    National Color Print Exhibition, Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

                    Colombia Museum Biennial, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina

1959            Invitation Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

                    Art U.S.A. Coliseum, New York

                    Painting of the Year, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

                    Annual Exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

                    Twenty-sixth Biennial of Contemporary American Painting

                    Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

                    Contemporary American Painting

                    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

                    Gulf-Caribbean Exhibition

                    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

                    Summer Exhibition, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1960            135th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design,
                    New York Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela

1961            Florida Showcase, Rockefeller Center, New York

                    Sixty-fourth American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture Art Institute of Chicago

1963            Paintings by Artists of the Region, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

1964            Friends Collect. Seventh Annual Exhibition

                    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1965            Some Recent Gifts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

                    Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

                    Exhibition of Paintings: Fine Arts Institute of New College,
                    The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

                    New Acquisitions, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

                    New College Fine Arts Institute, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

1966            New Acquisitions U.S.A., Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado

                    Six Artists In Sarasota, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

                    Collectors Loan Exhibit, Halifax Cultural Foundation, Daytona Beach, Florida

1968            Florida Seventeen, Pan American Union Washington, DC

                    Litografias de la Colecci6n Mourlot, Museo de la Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico

                    Florida Creates, Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida (traveling exhibition)

1972            Paintings by Artists of the Region, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

1973            Flowing Form, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

1974            Then and Now, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

1976            Artists and East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

1976            Florida Painters 1976, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

1977            Florida 5 Plus 10, The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida

                    Master Works from Private Collections, The Gallery of Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida

                    Major Florida Artists, Harmon Gallery, Naples, Florida

1978            Six Contemporary Painters with Richard Anuskiewicz, Leon Berkowitz,
                    Paul Jenkins, Doris Leeper, Robert Natkin 

                    Guild Hall Art Collection, in memory of Harold Rosenberg, 1906-1978,

                    Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

1979            Memorial and Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and
                    Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York

                    The East Hampton Art Colony, An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting,
                    Graphic and Sculpture from the Guild Hall Collection

                    Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida, Mississippi Museum of Art,Jackson,
                    Mississippi, and Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1980            American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

                    Selections from the Guild Hall Collection, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

1981            International Florida Artists Exhibition

                    The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

1982            Poets and Artists, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

                    The Enez Whipple Print and Drawing Collection, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

                    25 Artists: Photographer Hans Namuth and Twenty-four Artists, Phoenix II, Washington, DC

1983            Five from the Hamptons, Harmon Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida,

                    Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee

                    Regionalism vs Abstraction: American Art of the ‘30s and’ 40s

                    Mitchell Museum of Art,  Mt. Vernon, Illinois

                    Group Exhibition, Bologna Landi Gallery, East Hampton, New York

                    Painting in the South: 1564-1980, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

1985            Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1987            Made in Florida, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1988            The Americanization of Art: Drawings and Sculpture 1940-1950,

                    Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1990            United States Embassy, Madrid, Spain

                    East Hampton Avant Garde-A Salute to the Signa Gallery, 1957-6,

                    Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

1998            Gift for a New Century, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

                    Selections from the Collection

                    Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

2003            Modern Art in Florida, 1948-1970

                    Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida

Posthumous:

2007            Art Miami, Greene Contemporary Booth, Miami, Florida

2007-08      East End Artists Past and Present, Tefair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia