Exhibition History
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Museum Installations | Selected Group Exhibitions
1970
March 1970
“Realism and Beyond Realism: An exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Kanso”
Seventy Sixth Street Gallery, New York, New York
1971
November 5 – 30, 1971
“An exhibition of paintings, pastels, and watercolors (1968-71) by Nabil Kanso”
Seventy Sixth Street Gallery, New York, New York
1972
May 27 – June 24, 1972
“N. Kanso Drawings”
Seventy Sixth Street Gallery, New York, New York
1985
May 23 – June 30, 1985
“Nabil Kanso’s Othello”
Nexus Center of Contemporary Art/Atlanta Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta, GA
September 1985
“The Split of Life”
Nexus Center of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
1987
April – May 1987
“Pinturas De Nabil Kanso (Retrospective of Paintings by Nabil Kanso)”
Ateneo De Caracas, Galeria “Los Espacios Calidos,” Caracas, Venezuela
July – August, 1987
“Nabil Kanso: Arte Para La Paz (Nabil Kanso: Art for Peace)”
Museo Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
July 1987
“Arte por la Paz: II Symposium Iberoamericano Sobre Municipio y Medio Ambiente (Art for Peace: Nabil Kanso)”
Museo Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
1988
May 13 – 20, 1988
“Arte Para La Paz: Nabil Kanso (Art for Peace: Nabil Kanso)”
Instituto Nacional De Cultura, Galeria De Arte INAC, Panamá, Panamá
1989
April 13 – 30, 1989
“Nabil Kanso: Apocalypse”
Museu De Arte Do Rio Grande Do Sul (MARGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
October – November, 1989
“Nabil Kanso: Exposicion de Pintura (Nabil Kanso: Exhibition of Paintings)”
Museo Universitario Del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
1992
March – April, 1992
“Desert Storm: Invasion of Kuwait”
Free Atelier Art Center, Kuwait City, Kuwait
July 10 – August 24, 1992
“Compromis pour la paix: Peintures de Nabil Kanso"
(Compromise for Peace: Paintings by Nabil Kanso)
International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland
2024
December 2023 - November 2024
Nabil Kanso: The Journey of Art for Peace
Special Installation of Paintings from Nabil Kanso's America series
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
April 30 - October 27
Nabil Kanso: Endless Night
IAIA (Institute of Arab and Islamic Art)
New York, NY
September 6 - October 5
Nabil Kanso: The Tomorrows
Martos Gallery
New York, NY
February 15 - June 29
Nabil Kanso: Echoes of War
The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum of Art
East Lansing, MI
2025
Selected Group Exhibitions | Selected Solo Exhibitions
1985
September 6-October 5, 1985
“Fantastic Visions”
Nexus Center of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
1986
March 22 – May 19, 1986
“Inside Out: 20 artists from Atlanta, U.S.A.”
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
1988
February 6 – March 27, 1988
“The Art of Atlanta”
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1993
August 6 – September 6, 1993
“Works of Peace: 111 Artists”
Galerie Bhak, Seoul, South Korea
2010
July 2010
“Artistas del Segundo Centenario”
Joint exhibition of the Consul Generals of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela
Consulate General of Argentina, New York, New York
2022
April - July 2022
“Picasso et les avant-gardes arabes”
Joint exhibition of the the Institut du Monde Arabe, Tourcoing, and Musée Picasso, Paris
Institut du Monde Arabe, Tourcoing, France
January - November 2022
“Memory Sews Together Events That Hadn't Previously Met”
Sharjah Art Museum, Featuring Works from the Barjeel Art Foundation
Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2023
October 4, 2022 - January 28, 2023
“A Banquet for Seaweed: Snapshots from the Arab 1980s”
University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts & Design, Guest Curated by Nada Shabout
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
