Received high school diploma from the Francis Parker School in Chicago
1942 - 1944
Smith College, Northampton, MA
1944 - 1947
BFA, The Art Institute of Chicago
1948 - 1949
Traveling fellowship to France, Italy and Spain from The Art Institute of Chicago
1950
MFA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Attended Columbia University, New York, NY
1955
Moved to France with Canadian-born French painter Jean Paul Riopelle
1992
Died, October 30, Paris
Exhibitions
2005
Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima Matuszakaya Museum, Nagoya. Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Group Exhibition" Cheim & Read, New York, "Fremicourt Paintings 1960-62," Nagano Tokyu, Nagano
2003 - 2004
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC Tibor de Nagy, “Working with Poets” Lennon, Weinberg, “Joan Mitchell: Petit”
2002
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth Texas Cheim & Read, New York Whitney Museum of American Art,, “The Paintings of Joan Mitchell” Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL
1998
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1997
Selected Paintings, Lennon-Weinberg New York Abstract Expressionism in the United States, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo Mexico City
1996
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery Los Angeles, CA Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1995
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1994
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Les derniéres années, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume Paris, France
1993
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Joan Mitchell Prints and Illustated Books: A Retrospective, Susan Sheehan Gallery New York
1992
Joan Mitchell Pastels, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1991
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo) The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
1990
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1989
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1988 - 1989
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, (solo)
1987
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1984
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1983
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
1982
American Artists Abroad, 1900-1950, Washburn Gallery New York Choix des peintures 1970-1982, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris, France
1980
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1978
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo) Ruth Shcaffner gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
1976
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1975
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1974
Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY (solo)
1973
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY Ruth Shcaffner gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
1972
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo) "Joan Mitchell, 'My Five Years in the Country,'" Everson museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1971
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo) Younger Abstract Expressionists of the Fifties, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1969
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1968
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1967
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1965
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY Stable Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1962
"Paintings by Joan Mitchell," THe New Gallery, Hayden Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (solo)
1961
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY Stable Gallery, New York, NY (solo) "Joan Mitchell Paintings 1951-61," Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (solo) Group Show, Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT
1960
Gallery Neufville Paris, France
1959
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
1953 - 1958
Stable Gallery, New York, NY (solo) "Nature in Abstraction," The Whitney museum of American Art, New York, NY
1957
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1956 - 1957
Group Show, The Museum of Modern, Art, New York, NY
1953 - 1957
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY "New York Painting and Sculptural Annual," Stable Gallery, New York, NY
1956
Group Show, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY "Four Younger Americans: Paul Brach, MIchael Goldberg, Robert Goodnough, Joan Mitchell," Sidney Janice Gallery, New York, NY
1955
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY "Vanguard 1955: A Painter's Selection of New American Painting," Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
1953
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1951
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY New Gallery, New York, NY (solo) "New York Painting and Sculptural Annual," Stable Gallery, New York, NY
1950
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Saint Paul Gallery St. Paul, Minnesota (solo) Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana
