Although Etel Adnan had been exhibiting internationally since 1961, her artworks came to prominence only later in her life, when they appeared in dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012.
More recent solo exhibitions of Etel Adnan’s work include Etel Adnan: Light’s New Measure, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2021); Impossible Homecoming, Pera Musuem, Istanbul (2021); Seasons, Galerie Lelong & Co. New York (2020); Etel Adnan: Each day is a whole world, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2019); Etel Adnan: New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2018); The Weight of the World, Serpentine Gallery, London (2016); White Cube, Hong Kong (2015); Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (2013).
Selected group exhibitions include Converging Horizons, Waddington Custot, London (2021); Hiding in Plain Sight, Pace Gallery, New York (2021); A yellow sun with anger, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg (2020); An Instant Before the World, Rabat Biennale, Morocco (2019); Painting the Night, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2018); Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London (2018);Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014).
