b. 1921, Philadelphia - d. 2010, New York City
Tyler School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1945-1947
Art Students League, New York, NY 1947-1948
Hans Hoffman School, New York, NY 1948-1950
Studies with Fernand Léger, Paris, France 1950-1951
Julie Keyes Gallery, Fay Lansner Tribute on her 100th Birthday. June 2021
Julie Keyes Gallery, About the Light, Sag Harbor, NY, June 2020
Quogue Gallery, Fay Lansner: Figure and Form, Quogue, New York - 2018
The Betsy Hotel, Miami Beach, FL - 2017
Poets House, New York, NY - 2016
ArtHamptons Fair, Bridgehampton, NY - 2009
PG Art Venture, Larchmont, NY - 2008
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY- 2003, 1991, 1988, 1986
Benson, Elaine Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, 1992, 1984, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1977, 1976, 1972
Ingber Gallery, New York, NY - 1983, 1980
Phoenix II, Washington, DC, - 1982
Loonam Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY - 1980
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA - 1976
Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ - 1975
Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY - 1965, 1963
James David Gallery, Coral Gables, FL - 1963
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY - 1961 (Drawings)
David Herbert Gallery, New York, NY - 1961 (Drawings)
Chapel Art Gallery, Hood College, Baltimore, MD -1961
Hansa Gallery, New York, NY - 1958, 1956, 1954
Peretz Johannes Gallery, New York, NY - 1952
Galerie Huit, Paris, France – 1951
2021
Market Art and Design: The Hamptons; Julie Keyes Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, August 2021
2020
Julie Keyes Art Gallery, About The Light: Fay Lansner and Lester Johnson, Sag Harbor, September 2020.
2018
Market Art + Design, Quogue Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art on Paper Fair, Quogue Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Grey Art Gallery, Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965, New York, NY
2013
Southampton Cultural Center, Levitas Center for the Arts, The Flower Show, Southampton, NY
2007
Spanierman Gallery, Women and Abstraction: Then and Now, Easthampton, NY, September
1996
Smithsonian Institute, Rebels: Poets and Painters of the 50’s, Washington, DC, February-June
Arlene Bujese Gallery, Mother and Child: A Contemporary View, East Hampton, NY, May 4-30
Arlene Bujese Gallery, Portraits, East Hampton, NY, June
Heckscher Museum of Art, A Garden of Earthly Delights, Huntington, NY, June-August
Mabel Douglass College, Rutgers University, Women’s Artist Series: 25 Years of Feminism, 25 Years of Women’s Art, New Brunswick, NJ, October 1996-March 1997
1995
Southampton Civic Center, Women Artists, Southampton, NY, May
Arlene Bujese Gallery, Subject into Object, East Hampton, NY, May 4-30
Arlene Bujese Gallery, The Matter of Synthesis: Collage and Assemblage, East Hampton, NY, May 27-June 15
Arlene Bujese Gallery, Light in Summer, East Hampton, NY, August 19-September 17
Arlene Bujese Gallery, Figure as Form, East Hampton, NY, September 9-28
Arlene Bujese Gallery, Multiples (Tapestry), East Hampton, NY, October 28- November 2
1994
Arlene Bujese Gallery, Drawings by Contemporary Artists, East Hampton, NY, April
Arlene Bujese Gallery, Divertissement, East Hampton, NY, December
1993
Benton Gallery, Women, Multiples, Wall to Wall, Southampton, NY
1992
Benton Gallery, Group Drawings, Southampton, NY, April
Benton Gallery, Personages, Southampton, NY, May
1991
Brooke Alexander Gallery, Poetry & Painting, New York, NY, March
1989-1990
Knoxville Museum of Art, American Women Artists, The 20th Century, Knoxville, TN
Queensboro Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY
EHCCA – East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, The Figure, East Hampton, NY, May-June 1989
Alice Baber Collection of Contemporary American Art, Lafayette Museum, Lafayette, IN, Spring 1989
Photographs of Women artists by George Aguirre, Madrid, Spain, 1989
Benton Gallery, Group, Southampton, NY, May 1989
Springs, Invitational, Artists of the Region, August 1989
Benton Gallery, Figure as Form, Southampton, NY, November – December 1989
1988
Guild Hall, 50th Golden Anniversary, East Hampton, NY
1987
Ashawagh Hall, Artists of the Region, East Hampton, NY
Benton Gallery, Group, Southampton, NY December
1986
Elaine Benson Gallery, Watercolors, Bridgehampton, NY
Benton Gallery, Group, Southampton, NY
Ashawagh Hall, Artists of the Region, East Hampton, NY
Suzanne Gross Gallery, Group, Philadelphia, PA
1985
Ingber Gallery, Survival of the Fittest, New York, NY
W.C.A.; The Mirrored Image, New York University, New York, NY
Ashawagh Hall, Artists of the Region, East Hampton, NY
1984
Guild Hall Museum, Ordinary and Extraordinary Uses: Objects by Artists, East Hampton, NY (Tapestry)
Elaine Benson Gallery, Major Painters of the Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
Suzanne Gross Gallery, Major American Women Artists: In Celebration of Simone de Beauvoir, Philadelphia, PA
Ashawagh Hall, Artists of the Region, East Hampton, NY
1983
Hans Hoffman as Teacher, Drawings by Hoffman and his Students, A.F.A. Traveling: Bass Museum, Miami, FL; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison WI; Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Montreal Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Community Gallery, Santa FE College, Gainesville, FL; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1982-1984
Ashawagh Hall, Artists of the Region, East Hampton, NY
Suzanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Tapestry)
A.I.R. Gallery, A.I.R. Invitational, New York, NY
1982
Guild Hall, Poets and Painters of the Region, East Hampton, NY
Firehouse Gallery, Expressionism and the Figure, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
Westbeth Gallery, Women and Art in Society, Sexuality in Art from a Feminist Perspective, Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, NY
Ingber Gallery, Art as Furniture, Furniture as Art, New York, NY (Curator)
1981
Phoenix II Gallery, Drawings (Inaugural Exhibition), Washington, DC
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, 17th Annual, Art on Paper, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Grey Art Gallery, Heresies Benefit, New York, NY
Spectrum Gallery, Fruits and Vegetables, New York, NY
Mabel Douglass Library, Women Artists: 10th Anniversary Retrospective, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1980
Graham Gallery, Originals, American Women Artists, New York, NY January
Harold Reed Gallery, Self Portraits by Artists, New York, NY
1979
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hans Hoffman as Teacher: Drawings by his Students, Traveling, New York, NY January-March
Denver Museum of Art, Poets-Painting, Denver, CO, Traveling: La Jolla Museum, La Jolla, CA; Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Fine Art, Kansas City, MO, November 1979-September 1980
Suzanna Gross Gallery, Sculpture and Tapestries, Art for architecture, Interior Design, Philadelphia, PA
The First Women’s Bank, New York, NY (Tapestry No. III)
1978
Moran Gallery, Guild Hall, Palette to Palate, New York Times Book Company, East Hampton, NY
Graduate Center of City University, Women Artists ’78, Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, NY, January- February
Landmark Gallery and Noho Gallery, Tenth Street Days – The Co-Ops of the ‘50s, New York, NY, December
Hechsher Museum, Aspects of Change – Drawing Today, Long Island, NY, October
1977
Ashawagh Hall, Women Artist Here and Now, East Hampton, NY
Neuberger Museum, Work on Paper, College at Purchase, State University of New York, November 1976 – January 1977
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Himmelfarb Gallery, Watermill, NY
1976
Sordoni Art Gallery, Three, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
New York Studio School, New York, NY
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center, Works on Paper, Ciba-Geigy, Wichita Falls, KS, September-November
Parke-Bernet Gallery, Guild Hall Auction, New York, NY
1975
Douglass College, Women’s Artist Series – Year V, New Brunswick, NJ, November –December
Brooklyn Museum Gallery, Works on Paper, Women in the Arts, Brooklyn, NY, September – November
Women’s Inter-Art Center, Color, Light and Image, New York, NY
1974
Triangles (Walk Through Art), New York Professional Women Artists (NYPWA), Battery Park and Central Park, New York, NY, September
Moran Gallery, Guild Hall, Prints by Artists of the Region, East Hampton, NY, September – November
Suffolk Museum, The Artists Use of Paper, Stony Brook, NY, March
Lehigh University, Ten Women, New York Professional Women Artists, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Kresge Art Center Gallery, Works by Women, Ciba-Geigy Collections, Michigan state University, Lansing MI, March
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Works by Women, Ciba-Geigy Collections, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, April
Suzy Langlois Gallery, Art Mural, Tapestry, Paris, France
1973
New York Cultural Center, Women Chose Women, New York, NY January – February
Fordham University at Lincoln Center, 9 Painters, New York, NY February – March
1970-1972
Guild Hall, How A Screen Print is Made, American Federation of the Arts, Moran Gallery, East Hampton, NY, 1972
Stanford Museum, Women in the Arts, Stanford, CT, 1972
LaDemeure Gallery, Tapestry, Paris, France, 1971-72
17th Annual Brooklyn Museum Print, Brooklyn, NY, 1970
1961-1969
Contemporary Art Museum, One Hundred American Drawings, The Emerging Figure, Houston, TX
Krannert Art Museum, Philip Bruno Collection (Traveling), American Federation of the Arts, Tennessee Fine Art Center, Nashville, TN
Kornblee Gallery, Out of Doors, New York, NY
Davis Gallery, Still Life, 20th Century Americans, New York, NY
Zabriskie Gallery, Portraits, New York, NY
Louis Alexander Gallery, Recent American Drawings, New York, NY
Kornblee Gallery, Figures, New York, NY
Riverside Museum, West Side Artists, New York, NY
School of Visual Arts, The Landscape, Visual Arts Center, New York, NY
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Art on Paper, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
New York University, Contemporary Drawings, Loeb Student Center, New York, NY
Inform and Interpret, American Federation of the Arts Traveling Show
Washington Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Rose Fried Gallery, Group, New York, NY
1955-1960
Davis Gallery, Life Drawing by Abstract Artists, New York, NY
Southampton Museum, Southampton, NY
Zabriskie Gallery, Portraits, New York, NY
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Portraits, New York, NY
Alice Baber Collection of American Art, Greater Lafayette Museum, Lafayette, IN
Bass Museum, Video of “The Circle of Charmion Von Wiegand”
Bryn Mawr Museum, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA
Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY
Cité des Arts, Paris, France
Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC
Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ
Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Hood College, Frederick, MD
Kenton Corporation, New York, NY
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Newark Museum
Newsweek Magazine, New York, NY
New York University Art Collection
Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Southampton Hospital, Southampton, NY
University of Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ
University of Texas Museum, Austin, TX
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Mary Abbott, Mary Ellin Barrett, Bethany Beardslee, Richard Bellamy, Barbara Bluestein, Arlene Bujese, Joseph Buttinger, Lawrence Campbell, David Herbert Gallery, Osborne Elliot, Diane Erwitt, T.H. Fields, Jane Frielicher, Paul Georges, Barbara Guest, Guild Hall, Thomas B. Hess, Himmelfarb Gallery, Ferydoun Hoveyda, Barbara Kafka, Wolf Kahn, Belle Kogan, Barbara Kulicke, Robert Kulicke, Gordon Manning, Bertram Meyers, Duane Michaels, Joan Mitchell, Alphonso Penuranda, Beverly Pepper, Richard Mellon Collection, Dr. de la Riviere, Harold Rosenberg, Meritt Safford, Robert Schoelkopf, James Schyler, Aaron Shickler, Saul Steinberg, Jule Styne, Yvonne Thomas, George Vicas, Sandra Wagonfeld, Lally Weymouth, Enez Whipple, Daniel Wiener, Frederick Wiseman
The Party’s Over Now, Gruen, John, The Viking Press, New York, NY, 1972, p. 171.
A Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, Cummings, Paul, ed., 2nd Edition, St. Martin’s Press, New York, NY, 1971, 1980; 3rd Edition 1993.
Who’s Who in American Art, Gilbert, Dorothy B., ed., R.R. Bowker Company, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1992, 1994.
Who’s Who in American Women, Marquis Who’s Who, Inc. Chicago, IL, 8th Edition, 1974-197, 7th Edition, 1972-73, 1977-1978, 1992, 1994.
Art Collector’s Annual, Five reproductions.
The New York Arts Calendar, Five Reproductions.
Who’s Who in the East, 1974, 1975 – etc.
Fay Lansner, Monograph, Introduction and poem by Barbara Guest; Interview with Irving H. Sandler, 25 Color Plates, 23 Black & White Plates, AVA Books, Box 66, Swarthmore, PA, 19018, 1977
Originals – American Women artists, Munro, Eleanor C., Simon and Shuster, 1979, p. 205-206, Illustration p. 205.
American Women Artists 1984, Russo, Alexander, University Publications of America, Fredrick, MD; Interview pp. 135-145.
The Power of Feminist Art, Abrams, 1994.
Guild Hall, Whipple Enez, 1994
Henry, Gerrit, Fay Lansner at Ingber, Art in America, January 1981, color illustrations, p. 126.
Guest, Barbara, Fay Lansner: Deliberate Contraries, Art News, Volume 62, no. 8, December 1963, pp/ 36-37, 67. Four reproductions.
de Lallier, Alexandra, Women as Metaphor, Women’s Art Journal, Fall/Winter, 1987.
de Lallier, Alexandra, Drawings as Process and Presence, 12 illustrations, September 1983; unpublished.
Shapiro, David, Fay Lansner, Arts Magazine, September 1980, color illustration p. 3.
Reno, Doris, Lansner Paintings Show Unique Use of Figure, Miami Post Herald, Miami, FL, 1964. Reproduction – “Real and Ideal”.
Rosenberg, Harold, Hoffman students, Art News Annual, December 1963.
Interview, Hunter College, New York, Two-hour tape recording and transcript in the Vanguard Artist, Fliegel, Norris and Rosenberg., University of Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1965.
The Artist Speaks, interview by Josephine Lyon, broadcast over WBAI/FM radio, New York City, half-hour tape recording and transcript, 1967.
Experience and Space, panel discussion: Fay Lansner Adolph Gottlieb, Lester Johnson, Richard Lindner, Paul Georges. Artist Club, New York City, Tape recording and transcript; January 1972.
Are the Museums Relevant to Women?, panel discussion, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, January 1972.
Does Art Have a Gender?, panel discussion, Lansner, Bourgeois, Baker, E., WMCA, New York, NY, January 1972; taped and broadcast over WMAI/FM, New York, 1972, with transcript.
Dialogue with Gillespie, Schwartz and Lansner, Broadcast over WKLF/FM radio, March 1973. One-half hour tape and transcript.
Anonymous was a Woman, Collections of Letters to Young Women artists, Feminist Art Program, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 1974, pp.97-100. Miriam Shapiro, Editor.
Art: A Woman’s Sensibility – Feminist Art Program, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 1975. Statement p. 40. Miriam Shapiro, Editor.
Women Artists Series Year Five, Mabel Douglass Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Expressionism and The Figure, Slide lecture, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, 1982. Lecture on the Work of Fay Lansner.
Poets on Painters, at Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, July 1982, ¾ - inch color, 15 minutes
Beskind, Dorothy, Fay Lansner at 810 Broadway Studio in New York, 1977, Black and White, 15 Minutes. Exhibition, New York Coalition of Women Artist, October 1979
The Circle of Charmion Von Wiegand, Co-producer, Editor, Writer c. A.V.A. Artists Video Archives, ¾ - inch color, 43 Minutes. Broadcast on Channel 13, November 5, 1978. Available: Chicago Bank, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Review of Barbara Chase-Riboud, Cover Story, Craft Horizons, vol. XXXII, no. 2, April 1972, pp. 22-25, 65
Interview with Arthur Cohen on Sonia Delaunay, Cover Story, Feminist Art Journal, New York, pp. 5-10
Women in the Arts, Co-Founder, 1972
Women in the Arts, Coordinating Board
Women in the Arts, Negotiating Board
AVA – Artist Video Archives, Partner
International Awards for Fulbright Scholarship
Award Committee for Crafts, 1985, 1986, 1988, Juror
Women in the Arts – Award: Fay Lansner Lithograph to Lee Krasner for Distinguished Women of 1986
Whitney Museum, Panel on Hans Hoffman, September 25, 1990
Panelists: I. Sander, M. Matter, L. Kiesler, C. Goodman, F. Lansner
New School for Social Research, New York, NY – Women Artists of the 50’s
Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ – Women Artists
Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY – On My Work
Southampton College, Southampton, NY – Master Classes Critique