Willem de Kooning’s artworks have been exhibited extensively nationally and internationally.
Important exhibitions include de Kooning: A Retrospective, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (2011); Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, The 1980s, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995); Willem de Kooning: Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (1994); Willem de Kooning: Drawings — Paintings — Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1983); Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1978); Willem de Kooning, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1968); and Willem de Kooning: Paintings on the Theme of the Woman, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (1953).
Recent exhibitions featuring his work include Soutine / de Kooning: Conversations in Print, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris (2021); Willem de Kooning: Late Paintings, Skarstedt Gallery, London (2017); and Willem de Kooning from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection, Artizon Museum (formerly known as the Bridgestone Museum of Art), Tokyo (2014).
