2026

LA Monumental. The Ranch, Montauk, New York.

2019

The Foundation of the Museum. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. ARTZUID 2019. Amsterdam.

2018

Sculpture in the City. London.

2017

Paper into Sculpture. Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas.

LA Invitational. Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York.

Gray Matters. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH.

2015

Prototypology: An Index of Process and Mutation. Gagosian Gallery, Rome. 2014 tc: temporary contemporary. Bass Museum, Miami.

Public Sector. Art Basel, Miami Beach.

Horror vacui. Gagosian Gallery, Geneva.

Horror vacui. Gagosian Gallery, Athens.

No. 2: A Graphite Exhibition. DC Moore Gallery, New York.

Group Show. Gagosian Gallery, Rue de Ponthieu, Paris.

2013

The Black Mirror. Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles. 2012 BIGart at Navy Pier. Gateway Park, Navy Pier, Chicago.

Prism. Drawings from 1990 to 2012. Contemporary Art Museum of Olso; National Museum of Norway, Oslo.

2011

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Mondes Inventés, Modes Habités. Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg.

Salvatore Scarpitta: Trajectory. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. 2006 Los Angeles 1955-1985. Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Paper Trails. Howard House, Seattle.

Sixteen Tons. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles.

2005

On Paper: Drawings from the 1960’s to the Present. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles.

Cross Section. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. Works on Paper. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.

2004

Sculpture. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

Paper. Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

100 Artists See God (curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston). The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.

Traveled to: Laguna Art Museum, CA; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Institute of Contemporary Art, London.

2003

M_ARS Art and War. Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria.

Belvedere dell’Arte Orizzonti (curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Sergio Risaliti). Forte Belvedere, Florence.

The American Landscape. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003 AD. Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles.

Sculpture. Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles.

American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.

2002

Unknown Quantity (Ce Qui Arrive). Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.

Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950-2000. San Jose Museum of Art, CA.

Mesure de Mesure. Galeries Poirel, L’Ecole Nationale Superiere d’Art de Nancy, Nancy, France.

Markings: Constructing Form Through Drawing. MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles.

2001

Summer 2001. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

2000

Metal: Austin Ackles, Ross Bleckner, Nancy Rubins. Steffany Martz, New York.

1999

The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999. Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles.

Group Show: Walton Ford, Suzanne McClelland, Santi Moix, James Nares, Elliott Puckette, Nancy Rubins, and Michael Zwack. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

Powder: The Myth of Mortality. Aspen Art Museum, CO.

1998

Group Show: Suzanne McClelland, Elliott Puckette & Nancy Rubins. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

1997

Art on Paper. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Trash: When Waste Materials Become Art. Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea d’Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy.

Summer 97. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawings. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.

Traveled to: Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Italy; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles.

1996

Sculpture: Donald Baechler, Konstantin Kakanias, Nancy Rubins. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

Serge Spitzer, Fred Sandback, Nancy Rubins. Burnett Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

1995

Whitney Biennial (curated by Klaus Kertess). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

The Mind has a Thousand Eyes. Burnett Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Summer 1995. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

1994

Summer ‘94. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

Untitled... Postmasters Gallery, New York.

Country Sculpture. Le Consortium, Dijon, France.

International ‘94. Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY.

1993

Thoughts That Fit Like Air: Herbert Hamak, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Thom Merrick, Nancy Rubins. Art & Public, Geneva.

Enclosion: Sonia Labouriau, Kirsten Mosher, Dan Peterman, Nancy Rubins. New York Kunsthalle, New York.

Artificial Paradises: Balka, Burden, Gormley, Hayward, Potter, Rubins. Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles.

Aperto. 45th Venice Biennale.

Differentes Natures: Visions de l’Art Contemporain. Etablissement Public pour l’Amenagement de la region de la Defense, Lindau, France.

Ordnung und Zerstorung. Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt, Munich.

The Elegant, Irreverent and Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California. Arts Gallery, California State University, Fullerton.

Simply Made in America. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.

Traveled to: The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; Butler Museum of American Art, OH; Krannert Museum of Art, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

1992

Lax. Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.

Matthew Barney, Sam Reveles, Nancy Rubins. Stein/Gladstone Gallery, New York. Pedro Cabrita Reis, Nancy Rubins, Franz West. Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles.

Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

1991

Marking Time: Nancy Rubins, Angela Bulloch, John Reilly, Jacob El Hanani. Drawing Center, New York.

Lost & Found. SculptureCenter, New York.

Object/Context. The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

1990

Art in the Anchorage 1990: In the Vaults of the Brooklyn Bridge. Creative Time, New York.

1988

Sculpture at the Point. Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh.

1987

Spatial Considerations. Maryland Institute College of the Art, Baltimore.

Artist’s Statements. U.N. Plaza, Vienna.

1986

Group Show at the Alexandra Hotel, Los Angeles.

Southern California Assemblages. Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA.

1985

A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: Faculty 1975-1985. The Art Museum, Princeton University, NJ.

1983

Urban Site: Art in the City. New Langton Arts, San Francisco.

1982

Sculptors at UC Davis, Past and Present. University of California, Davis.

1981

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

1980

Art on the Beach. Battery Park Landfill, Creative Time, New York.

1977

Works in the World. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Installation. University of California, Davis.