Looking at America. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

2001

ReAppearance, Realism in Contemporary Art. Simmons Visual Arts Gallery, Brenan University, Gainesville, Georgia. (exh. cat.)

Fresh Kills: Artists respond to the Closure of the Staten Island Landfill. Snug Harbor Cultural, Staten, New York. (exh. cat.)

2000

Inside/Out. The Space of Landscape & Architecture. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Making Choices. Modern Art despite Modernism. Museum of Modern Art. New York. Curated by Robert Storr. (exh. cat.)

Crossing State Lines: Texas Art From The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Texas.

New York Perspectives II. MB Modern, New York.

Landscape 2000. The New Topography. Late Twentieth Century American Landscape Painting. The University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming.

In the Spirit of Landscape V. Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.

Artists in Maine. Hay Gallery. Portland, Maine.

2000

Elogio de lo Visible, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain. (essay by Fernando Huici)

1999

Green Woods and Crystal Waters, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma. (exh. cat.)

Darkness and Light, Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, West Virginia.Contemporary American Realist Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. (exh. cat.)

1998

Summer, Lennon,Weinberg, Inc., New York.

Beyond The Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape, Asheville Art Museum.

Tendences Actuelles de la Peinture a Houston, Texas, oeuvres sur papier, Musee de l¢ Echevinage, Santes, France (exh. cat. with artist’s statement).

1998

Landscapes, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, Washington.

Malcolm Morley, Ellen Phelan, Rackstraw Downes. Suzanne Hillsbury Gallery, Detroit, Michigan.

1997-98

Best of the Season: Selected Works from 1996-97 Gallery Exhibitions, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Landscape, Seen & Unseen, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York. Traveling exhibition: Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

CityScapes, Marlborough Gallery, New York.

Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

1997

Art 1997 Chicago: 5^th Annual Expo of International Galleries Featuring Modern and

Contemporary Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois.

1996

Realism After 7 a.m. - Realist Painting After Edward Hopper, curated by Richard Milazzo, The Hopper House, Nyack, New York. (exh. cat.)

Reinterpreting Landscape, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph- Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia. (exh. cat. with essay by Hearne Pardee)

Finders, Keepers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. 1997 (exh. cat.)

Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow & Gayle Maxon- Edgerton. (exh. cat.)

1995

Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas.

Urban Landscape; Yvonne Jacquette, Rackstraw Downes, John Moore, Wright State University Galleries, Dayton, Ohio.

The City: New York Visions 1900-1995, ACA Galleries, New York City, New York .

The Urban Landscape, Wunderlich & Co, New York and The Murray Collection, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Painting, the Intimate View, curated by Betty Cuningham. The Painting Center, New York.

1994

10 + 10, New York Studio School, New York.

The Long View, curated by Robert Storr, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

New York Realism Past and Present, curated by Douglas Drieshpoon, Tampa Museum, Florida, and 5 museums in Japan. (exh. cat.)

1992

American Realism and Figurative Art: 1955-1990, The Muyagi Museum of Art, Japan, and other cooperating museums, curated by John Arthur. (exh. cat.)

Island Inspired, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas.

The Map is Not the Territory, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia College of Arts and Design, Pennsylvania. (exh. cat.)

The Artist’s Eye, curated by Rackstraw Downes, visiting curator Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College, Waterville, Maine.

City Views, Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York

1991

Drawings By, curated by John Lees, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Alienation in the Industrial Landscape, First Street Gallery, New York.

Fairfield Porter and Rackstraw Downes: The Act of Seeing, Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Vermont. (interview with Emmie Donadio)

The Painted Landscape: Seen, Translated, Imagined, Fantasized, Conjured, Constructed, Apprehended, and Eulogized, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.

Motion as Metaphor, The Automobile in Art, curated by Sue Scott, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts. (exh. cat.)

The Contemporary American Landscape, curated by Marianne Friedland, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida. (exh. cat.)

1990

Wolf Kahn/Rackstraw Downes/Paul Resika, Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, Jersey.

Mixed-Use District, The Institute of Art & Urban Resources, New York.

1989-90

The Landscape Observed, Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.

Urban Images, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin.

Landscape: A Travelogue Painted from Memory, Imagination or Reality, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York.

Paintings and Sculpture by the Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, New York.

City By Day/City By Night, Gallery Henoch, New York.

American Art Today: Contemporary Landscape, Florida International University, Miami. (exh. cat.)

1989-90

Direct Response: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York.

Art of the 80’s from The Collection of Chemical Bank, The Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey. (exh. cat.)

1988-89

The World is Round: Contemporary Panoramas, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York. (exh. cat.)

1988

Selections From The Ellen and Jerome Westheimer Collection, curated by Sue Scott, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City. (exh. cat.)

Realism Today, American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection, traveling exhibition organized by the National Academy of Design. (exh. cat.)

20th Century American Realism from the Blum Collection, Aetna Institute Gallery, Hartford, CT. (exh. cat.)

1987

Urban Visions: The Contemporary Artist and New York. Adelphi University, Garden City, Long Island, New York.

Contemporary American Landscapes: Reflections of Social Change, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey. (exh. cat.)

Animal Life, One Penn Plaza, New York.

Drawing and Drawings, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York.

Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans and New York Academy of Art, New York.

20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Connecticut. (exh. cat.)

1986

American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from The Glenn C. Janss Collection, organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. (exh. cat.)

Mainly on the Plain, 56 Bleeker Street Gallery, New York.

1985

Visiting Artists, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri.

Views: Interior and Exterior, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles.

The Realist Landscape, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

New American Painters: Figuration, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.

American Realism: The Precise Image, traveling exhibition organized by Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan. (exh. cat.)

Survival of the Fittest II, Ingber Gallery, New York.

Drawing Acquisitions 81-85, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (exh.cat.)

The Primacy of Just Seeing, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, New York.

1984

Landscape, Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

New Narrative Painting: Selections from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.

Artists’ Choice Museum: The First Eight Years, Artists’ Choice Museum, New York.

Mood and Landscape, Sherrie French Gallery, New York.

New Realism Behind the Scenes, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas. (exh. cat.)

New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscape, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York. (exh. cat.)

1983-84

Painting New York, Museum of the City of New York, New York. (exh. cat.)

1983

Contempoary Landscape Painting, traveling exhibition organized by Wesleyan University, Connecticut. (exh. cat.)

Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism, Works on Paper, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (exh. cat.)

A Heritage Renewed, Representational Drawing Today, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California. (exh. cat.)

Painted Light, traveling exhibition organized by Queens Museum, New York. (exh. cat.)

Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (exh. cat.)