Solo Exhibitions

2025 “Against the Grain”, Gazelli.Art House, London, England
2014 "Rewind Replay”, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013 “High Contrast”, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012 “Current Work”, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011 “White and Other Colors”, Exhibit/208, Albuquerque, NM
2007 “Just You, Just Me”, Artspace 116, Albuquerque, NM
2005 “Waferboard Series”, New Directions, Taos, NM
2004 “Just You/Just Me”, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos NM
2001 “Deconstructing The Surface”, Exhibit/208, Albuquerque, NM
2001 “Lilly Fenichel”, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
1996 “Two Views”, Site 2121, Albuquerque, NM 
1990 “Lilly Fenichel: The Early Paintings”, The Carlson Gallery, SF, CA
1987 “Dimensional Paintings”, The New Gallery, Houston, Texas
1983 “Lilly Fenichel”, The New Gallery, Taos, NM
1981 “The Bridgehampton Series: Painting on Paper”, Taylor Gallery, Taos, NM
1980 “Lilly Fenichel in Taos”, Lutz-Bergerson Gallery, Taos, NM
1968 “Lilly Fenichel Paintings”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, SB, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 “Montage”, Gazelli Art House, London, England
2024 “Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists in Global Abstraction - 1940- to 1970”, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England; Arles, France; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
2024 “The Collectors’ Dinner”, The Albuquerque Museum, NM
2023 “West Coast Women of Abstract Expresssionism”, Berry Campbell, New York
2019 “Santa Monica: Now & Then”, BG Gallery/Venice Institute of Contemporary Art,
Santa Monica, CA
2019 “The Collectors’ Dinner”, The Albuquerque Museum, NM
2017 “San Francisco to Taos”, 203 Fine Arts, Taos, NM
2016 “Miniatures & More”, The Albuquerque Museum, NM
2015 “Bent Perimeters: The Shaped Canvas and Abstraction, 1960s to Today”,
David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014 “The Collectors’ Dinner”, The Albuquerque Museum, NM
2014 “Beauty Fierce as Stars, Groundbreaking Women Painters 1950s and Beyond”,
Mythos Fine Art & Artifacts at Firehouse North Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2013-5 “An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and their Circle”, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York; Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2013 “High Contrast”, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012 “Miniatures & More” The Albuquerque Museum, NM
2012 “Abstract Expressionism: 1945-1965” David/Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012 “Current Work” David/Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2011-2 Art Shows:  Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago
2011 “Bay Area Abstraction: 1945-1965”, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011 “Miniatures & More”, The Albuquerque Museum, NM
2011 “Anniversary Show”, Exhibit/208, Albuquerque, NM
2011 “Holiday Group Show”, Exhibit/208, Albuquerque, NM
2010 “Miniatures & More”, The Albuquerque Museum, NM
2010 “Gallery Artists”, Exhibit/208, Albuquerque, NM
2010 “Albuquerque Now” fall, The Albuquerque Museum, NM
2005 “While Pollock Was Sleeping: Bay Area Abstract Expressionism from the Blair Collection”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2005 “Drawing, Group Show”, Exhibit/208, Group Show, Albuquerque, NM
2004 “Drawing”, Exhibit/208 Albuquerque NM
2004 “Taos Modernists”, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2003 “Drawing Now”, Stewart Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2003 “Taos Modern”, Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002 “Taos Modern Postwar Abstract”, Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002 “Art of Albuquerque/2002”, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2002 “From Abstraction to Minimalism”, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2002 “Jewish Artists: On the Edge”, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY
2001 “Originals: An Exhibition of New Mexico Women Artists”, Harwood Museum of Art,
Taos, NM
2001 “Taos Modern Postwar Abstract Painters in New Mexico”, Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001 “Contemporary Art Without a Mouse”, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2000 “Jewish Artists: On the Edge”, College of Santa Fe, NM
2000 “Northern California Painters”, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2000 “Revisiting Abstraction”, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
1999 “The Power of Paint”, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
1998 “New Talent II”, Neiter Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA                                                                                     1997 “San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA
1997 “San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1997 “New Work”, Neiter Fine Arts, New Work, Los Angeles, CA
1997 “CAS Collects”, Anderson Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
1996 “Art of Discovery, Galleries of the Beat Generation & Beyond”, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1996 “The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism 1940-1960”, Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1995 “Air-Conditioned Abstraction", Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 “Works on Paper”, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 "Shrine Show", Owings-Dewey,  Santa Fe, NM
1993 “CAS Anniversary Exhibition” (Invitational), Cafe Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1992 "Southwest Visions", Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, Kentucky
1992 Rio Del Norte Sculpture Show (invited featured artist), Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
1991 Group Show, Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1990 "Appropriations and Transformations", The Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1990 "The Art of Abstract Expressionists in Northern California, 1945-1960: An Historical Survey", Carlson Gallery, San Francisco, CAz
1990 "The Art of Albuquerque", Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1990 "The Art of Albuquerque 1990 Season Debut", Dartmouth Street Gallery,
Albuquerque, NM
1989 "Introductions", Paul-Luster Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 "10th Annual Venice Art Walk", Venice, CA
1989 "7th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition", Dartmouth Street Gallery,
Albuquerque, NM
1989 "The Painter’s Light", PW Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
1989 "An Art of Wondering: The King Ubu Gallery, 1952-53", Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery,
Davis, CA
1988 “Nine Artists”, KiMo Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1988 "Abstraction", Wade Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 “Wallworks”, June Celebration of the Arts, Albuquerque, NM
1986 "Art On & Off Paper", Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
1986 "Taos Moderns”, Invitational Group Show, Taos NM
1985 “drawings", Albuquerque United Artists", Albuquerque, NM
1984 “Taos Invited Taos”, Kachina Lodge, Taos, NM
1984 "The Artists of Santa Fe", Dallas Theater Center at the New Arts District, Dallas, TX
1984 "New Art/New Mexico", Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
1983 "April in Taos", The New Gallery, Taos, NM
1983 Taos Arts Festival, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
1982 "New Artists”, Sebastian-Moore Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1979 "Small Images Exhibition", Santa Barbara College, Santa Barbara, CA
1977 "California Show", Frost Brothers, San Antonio and Austin, TX
1977 "Five California Artists", Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 “Small Images Exhibition”, Cal State University, Santa Barbara, CA
1975 “The Sky Show”, Otis Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1975 "The Last Picture Show", Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA
1974 San Bernardino Art Association, San Bernardino, CA
1973 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1953 The King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1951 San Francisco Art Festival, San Francisco, CA
1951 “Two Painters and Two Sculptors”, Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Honors and Awards

1997-1998  International Pollock-Krasner Grant
1991               Grant from the Peter and Madeline Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts, San Francisco, CA
1982             Taos Arts Festival, First Prize, Contemporary Category
1976              California State University, Honorable Mention,
1975              Laguna Beach Museum of Art Award
1950-52      San Francisco Art Institute Scholarship (two years)
1946-47      Chouinard Art Institute Scholarship (two summers)

Selected Public and Private Collections

Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins, Mougins, France
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (Promised gift of George Y. and LaVona J. Blair)
Barbra and Paul McGuire, Albuquerque, NM
Dr. Jim Lowry, Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico Capitol Art Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
The Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Venice, CA
ARCO, Los Angeles, CA
AMOCO, Oil Corporation, Denver, CO
ADP Corporation, Houston, TX
Elizabeth Taylor, Beverly Hills, CA
Mrs. Suzanne Cohen, Baltimore, MD
Ms. Rona Barrett, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Chet Firestein, Beverly Hills, CA
Mr. Leonard Friedman, Houston, TX
Mrs. Barbara Goetz Windom, Tesuque, NM
Mr. & Mrs. Kai Erickson, New Haven, CT
Mr. George Blair, Fresno, CA
Mr. G. Peter Bidstrup, Paradise Valley, AZ
Mr. & Mrs. Carlos Diniz, Los Angeles, CA
& other private and public collections in the United States and Europe

Education

1950-52   San Francisco Art Institute
1947-48   Los Angeles City College
1946-47   Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Bibliography

An Opening of the Field, Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle, by Michael Duncan and Christopher Wagstaff for the Crocker Art Museum, 2013. Essays by Michael Duncan, Christopher Wagstaff, William Breazeale, James Maynard, Foreword by Lial A. Jones.

San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, Crocker Art Museum, 2004. Essays by Scott A. Shields, Susan Landauer, John Natsoulas, Vanessa Bolden, C. L. Wysuph, David J. Carlson, Foreword by George Y. Blair, Acknowledgements by Lial A. Jones.

The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, by Susan Landauer for Laguna Art Museum, 1996. Foreword by Naomi Vine, Introduction by Dore Ashton.

Visualizing Albuquerque: Art of Central New Mexico, by Joseph Traugott for the Albuquerque Museum, 2015. Foreword by Cathy Wright and Andrew Connors, Acknowledgements by Joseph Traugott and Cathy Wright.

Women of Abstract Expressionism, Denver Art Museum, 2016. Edited by Joan Marter, Introduction by Gwen Chanzit, Foreword by Christopher Heinrich.

L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists before 1980, by Lyn Kienholz, Preface by Barbara Isenberg.

San Francisco to Taos, 2017, 203 Fine Art, Taos, New Mexico.

ARTlines Archive, Lilly Fenichel: "I Don't Make Hemline Art”, 1984.

Los Angeles Times, Home Q & A: Lilly Fenichel, by Marshall Berges, Nov. 23, 1977.

Los Angeles Times, Sky Show, An Aurora of Knowns and Unknowns by Henry J. Seldis, Nov. 23, 1975.

Lilly Fenichel: Against the Grain, 2018, Video by Venice Institute of Contemporary Art for the Lilly Fenichel Foundation.