| January 29, 1913 - Born in Chicago, IL |
| September 20, 1992 - Died in New York, NY, |
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| Education | |
| 1930 | Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1931 | Stickney School of Art, Pasadena, CA |
| 1932 | Los Angeles School of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1938 | Atelier 17, S.W. Hayter, San Francisco, CA |
| 1944-45 | Atelier 17, S.W. Hayter, San Francisco, CA |
| 1950 | Brooklyn Museum School, Brooklyn, NY |
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| Solo Exhibitions |
| 1937 | Stanley Rose Gallery, Hollywood, California |
| 1961 | Poindexter Gallery, New York |
| 1963 | Graham Gallery, New York |
| 1969 | 10 Downtown, New York |
| 1972 | Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY |
| 1973 | David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
| 1974 | Lawrence University, Appelton, WI |
| 1976 | Gallery 641, Washington, DC, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1978 | Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1986 | Reuben Kadish - Survey: 1935 -1985, Guest Curator: Judd Tully. Artists'Choice Museum, New York, NY |
| 1986 | Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1989 | Grace Gallery, New York City Technical College, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1989-90 | Judy L. Magnes Museum, The Jewish Museum of the West, Berkeley, CA |
| 1990 | Reuben Kadish, Works from 1930 to the Present, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ |
| 1992 | University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY |
| 2000 | Reuben Kadish Terra Cottas, Ball State Univeristy, Muncie, IN |
| 2004 | Reuben Kadish Metamorphosis, Pollock Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY |
| 2007 | Reuben Kadish Holocaust Series - Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Reuben Kadish: Witness, Univeristy of Kentucky College Art Museum, Lexington, KY |
| 2022 | Reuben Kadish: Earth Mothers, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 1937 | 57th Annual Art Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art. San Francisco, CA |
| 1944 | Institute of Modern Art, Boston, MA |
| 1958 | Stable Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1959 | V Biennial, Museo de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 1960 | Aspects of American Sculpture, Stable Gallery, New York, NY; Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France; Pentagon Museum, Washington, DC; Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY |
| 1961 | Recent Painting and Sculpture (traveling exhibition), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; American Culture Show, Helsinki, Finland; Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Rochester Memorial Art Museum, Rochester, NY; Boston Arts Museum, Boston, MA |
| 1962 | Riverside Museum, New York, NY |
| 1965 | Cooper Union Museum, New York, NY |
| 1968 | Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
| 1969 | Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC |
| 1971 | Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York |
| 1977 | Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York |
| 1978 | The Root Art Center at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY |
| 1981 | Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NY |
| 1984 | Objects from the Studio, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY |
| 1986 | Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York |
| 1986 | The Brutal Figure:Visceral Images, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ |
| 1987 | Eight New York Artists (traveling exhibition), Kenkeleba Gallery, Kenkeleba House Inc.,New York, NY; Bockley Gallery, New York, NY; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| 1987-88 | Ancient Inspirations: Six Figurative Sculptors (traveling exhibition), Alberta College of Art,Calgary, Canada; Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; The City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC |
| 1988 | The New Sculpture Group - A Look Back: 1957-1962, The New York Studio School, New York, NY |
| 1989 | Made in New York: Encounters with Contemporary Sculpture, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Eighteen Jewish Americans, The Jewish Chapel at Westpoint, Westpoint, NY |
| 2005 | Surrealism USA - National Academy Museum, New York, NY |
| 2019 | Backroom - Front Room, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2021 | 13 American Artists: A Celebration of Historic Work, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY |
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| Selected Bibliography |
| 1935 | The Los Angeles Times, A Fresco in Mexico, February 10 |
| Time, On a Mexican Wall, Philip Goldstein & Reuben Kadish, April 1 |
| 1936 | Los Angeles Sanatorium Newsletter, New Mural Enhances Beauty of I.L.G.W.U, Reuben Kadish and Philip Goldstein, September |
| 1937 | Evening News, Lithographs at Stanley Rose Galleries, April 19 |
| San Francisco News, The San Francisco State College Mural, June 26 |
| 1941 | Stackpole, Ralph, Reuben Kadish, California Arts & Architecture April |
| 1946 | Dance, Lawrence,The Boston Herald, Regarding Art, January 20 |
| Christian Science Monitor, Mexican & American Artists on Display, Boris Mirski Gallery, January 21 |
| 1961 | Campbell, Lawrence, Art News, Reviews & Reviews: New Names This Month, January |
| The New York Times, Art: Abstract Sculpture, January 13 |
| The New York Times, Gallery Guide, January 15 |
| Smith, Lawrence, Arts, In the Galleries: Reuben Kadish, February |
| 1962 | Lithographs from the Tamarind Workshop |
| 1963 | Fuller, Mary, Artforum, Emblems of Sorrow - The W.P.A Art Projects in San Francisco, November |
| 1971 | Shapiro, David, Craft Horizons, Reuben Kadish, February |
| 1972 | The Milwaukee Journal, Kadish Displays His Women, December 24 |
| 1973 | Taylor, John Lloyd, Craft Horizons, Exhibitions: Reuben Kadish, April |
| 1976 | Art/World, Reuben Kadish Show at Borgenicht Gallery, November 20 |
| Kramer, Hilton, The New York Times, Art: Drawing from the American Past - Reuben Kadish, November 26 |
| Conrad III, Barnaby,Art/World, Reuben Kadish, November 26 |
| Block, Jean Libman, Arts, Reuben Kadish, December |
| 1977 | Ruppel, Philip,The Spectator, One of the Best, October 21 |
| Dickinson-brown, Roger, Syracuse Guide, The Visual Arts, January |
| 1978 | Tannenbaum, Judith, Arts, Sculpture in Grace Borgenicht Gallery, September |
| 1983 | Braff, Phyllis,The East Hampton Star, From the Studio, July |
| 1985 | Taubes, Timothy, Artists Choice Museum, Reuben Kadish Survey, February 22 |
| 1986 | Tully, Judd, Artists’ Choice Museum, Reuben Kadish – A Chronicle in Terra Cotta and Bronze, November |
| Michael Brenson,The New York Times, Art in Review, February |
| G.H., ARTnews, Reuben Kadish, Artist's Choice, Grace Borgenicht, April |
| 1987 | Tully, Judd, Kenkeleba Gallery, Eight New York Artists, March |
| 1988 | Tully, Judd, The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, The New Sculpture Group – A Look Back:1957-1962, January |
| 1989 | Tully, Judd, Williams Center for the Arts, Made in New York: Encounters with Contemporary Sculpture, January |
| 1990 | New Jersey State Museum, Museum Offers Reuben Kadish Retrospective, January |
| Weld, Alison, New Jersey State Museum, Reuben Kadish, Solo Exhibition Catalog,January |
| Cherry, Herman, New Jersey State Museum, Notes, Solo Exhibition Catalog,March |
| Zimmer, William, The New York Times, A Lifetime of Social Concern, February 25 |
| Cherry, Herman, Staller Center for the Arts, Notes, March |
| 1992 | Dore, Ashton, Staller Center for the Arts, Reuben Kadish: Man of Substance, March |
| The New York Times, First Painting; Now Sculpture, June 21 |
| Wix, Elizabeth, Newsday, Unearthing the Treasures of Reuben Kadish, July 17 |
| Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, Reuben Kadish, 79, A Sculptor Of Works Evoking the Ancient, September 22 |
| 1994 | Adlow, Dorothy,Christian Science Monitor, Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, July 31 |
| 1998 | Muchnic, Suzanne, The Los Angeles Times, The Shock of the Old, June 7 |
| 2004 | Guzmán, María Esther, Miercoles, Rescatan ‘La inquisición, May 12 |
| 2004 | Harrison, Helen, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Helen A. Introduction: Reuben Kadish, August |
| Tully, Judd, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Reuben Kadish: Metamorphosis, August |
| Budick, Ariella, Newsday, Studies of the Grotesque both Primal and Sensual, September |
| Genocchio, Benjamin, The New York Times, What He Learned in the War, September 19 |
| 2005 | Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, Filling In the Many Gaps in American Surrealism, March 31 |
| 2006 | Wilson, Kristin, Herald Mail, Abstract Expressionist Comes to Washington County Museum, February 2 |
| 2007 | Landau, Ellen G., Smithsonian, Double Consciousness in Mexico: How Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish Painted a Morelian Mural, May |
| Conor, Jill, The Brooklyn Rail, Reuben Kadish’s Holocaust Sculptures, June |
| 2009 | Tully, Judd, Kresge Museum of Art Bulletin, Reuben Kadish: A Personal Portrait in Three Dimensions, January |
| 2010 | Conor, Jill, The Brooklyn Rail, Tracks: Reuben Kadish, The Anti-Hero of American Modern Art, December 7th |
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| Collections |
| Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution - Washington, DC |
| Ball State University Art Gallery - Muncie, IN |
| Currier Gallery of Art - Manchester, NH |
| Dillard University - New Orleans, LA |
| Harvard University - Cambridge, MA |
| Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, CA |
| Museum of Modern Art - New York, NY |
| New York Public Library - New York, NY |
| Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art - Logan, UT |
| Pentagon Museum - Arlington, Virginia |
| San Francisco Museum of Art - San Francisco, CA |
| Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame - South Bend, IN |
| Whitney Museum of American Art - New York, NY |
| Worcester Art Museum - Worcester, MA |
| University of Kentucky - Lexington, KY | |
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