1981
Humorous California Artists, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
American Painting of the 60s and 70s, Columbus Museum of Art, OH
The Image of the House in Contemporary Art, University of Houston, TX
Alternative Realities in Contemporary American Painting, University of Minnesota
Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Welcome to the Candy Store!, Crocker Museum Invitational, Sacramento, CA
Forty Famous Californians, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY
100 New Acquisitions, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
20th Century Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Remember It's Only Art, Civic Arts Center, Walnut Creek, CA
Fashion Mode, Gallery de la Raza/Studio 24, San Francisco, CA

1980
Tamarind Institute Invitational, Albuquerque, NM
The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Figurative Art: Joan Brown, Robert Colescott, Roy De Forest, Janis Provisor, Gaison, and Wurm, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, La Jolla
American Drawings in Black and White: 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
The Candy Store, De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Visions and Figurations, California State University, Fullerton, CA
A.A.D.H.J.M.N.P.S.S.T.T., Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Drawings: The Pluralistic Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1979
Images '79, Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, TN
Decade in Review: Selections from the 70s, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Works from the Collections of Mills Alumnae, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
National Drawing Annual, Central Washington University
5 from Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
The Palm Gallery, San Diego, CA

1978
Works on Paper, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
West Coast Artists, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Dog Images Through the Century, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA
6th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Yugoslavia
Artists Working in Wood, University of California

1977-78
Roy De Forest, Robert Hudson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Recent Works on Paper, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1977
Late 20th Century Art: The Lewis Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
New in the 70s, University of Texas, Austin
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Works on Paper, San Jose Museum of Art, CA

1976-77
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA

1976
Large Scale Works on Paper, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Six from California, Washington State University Museum, Pullman, WA

1975
Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Art on Paper: 1975, The Dillard Paper Company and the Weatherspoon Guild, NC

1973
The Small Format, Saint Mary's College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA
Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1973
Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
American Drawings 1963-1971, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection, Pasadena, CA

1972
A 20th Century Bestiary, Art Department Gallery, San Jose State College, San Jose, CA
Crown Point Press, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Richmond Area Artists, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Sacramento Sampler I, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Sacramento Delta Show, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
An Invitational Exhibition of Intimate Works, Art Department Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
It's for the Birds, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
The Crocketts, Student Art Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Hayward, CA
California Works on Paper: 1950-1971, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, CA

1971
The Fantasy Watercolors of Roy De Forest, The Sculpture World of David Gilhooly, The Leadville Galleries, Sun Valley, ID
Roy De Forest: Drawings, James Pennuto: Sculpture, Kenneth Price: Silkscreens, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1970
Looking West 1970, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Drawings by Roy De Forest, Harold Schlotzhauer and Franklin Williams, The Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, CA
Acid Painters of San Francisco, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Dwight Boehm Gallery, Polomar College, San Marcos, CA
Toys of the Artist, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1969
The Spirit of the Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1968
Summer Group Show, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1967
Funk, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley

1966
2e Salon International de Galeries pilotes (Dilexi Gallery presentation, including: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Rodger Jacobsen, Leslie Kerr, Alan Lynch, Deborah Remington, Charles Ross, Richard Van Buren, Wilfred Zogbaum), Mus e cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

1965
The Eighth Selection by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Young California Artists, Macy's, New York, New York
Imagadventure, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Special Group Exhibition: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Sidney Gordin, Rodger Jacobsen, Leslie Kerr, Alan Lynch, Deborah Remington, Charles Ross, Hassel Smith, H.C. Westermann, Richard Van Buren, Wilfrid Zogbaum, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Twelfth Exhibition of contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
The Drawing Society Regional Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

1964
Bay Area Art for the Collector, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Arts of San Francisco, Part II, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Four California Artists, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
67th American Exhibition-Directions in Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Current Painting and Sculpture of the Bay Area, Stanford Museum, Stanford, CA
67th American Exhibition, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Drawings and the Like: Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Leslie Kerr, Frank Lobdell, Deborah Remington, Hassel Smith, Richard Van Buren, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1963
Fourth Selection by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Group Show: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Sidney Gordin, Alvin Light, Leslie Kerr, Hassel Smith, Wilfrid Zogbaum, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Works by San Francisco Artists, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA

1962-63
Fifty California Artists, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

1962
The Arts of San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Selections – Gallery Artists, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Some Points of View - 62, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
Small Collages, Constructions and Watercolors by Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Fred Martin and Nell Sinton, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
8 Large Works: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Leslie Kerr, Alvin Light, Deborah Remington, Hassel Smith, Sam Tchakalian, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1961
Group: Anderson, Barletta, DeFeo, De Forest, Gordin, Jess, Kauffman, Kerr, Light, Moses, Neri, Roeber, Smith, Tchakalian, Trave, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA

1960
Group Show: Jeremy Anderson, Jay DeFeo, Roy De Forest, Craig Kauffman, Leslie Kerr, Alvin B. Light, Edward Moses, Manuel Neri, Deborah Remington, Philip Roeber, Hassel Smith, Sam Tchakalian, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Forms-New Media I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
A Look at Recent Bay Area Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA

1959
A Rationale for Modern Art, The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
Group Show: Including works by Barletta, DeFeo, De Forest, Kanter, Kauffman, Moses, Neri, Remington, Roeber, Smith, Tchakalian, Valledor, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP SHOW Small Works in Varied Media by: Willam A. Bengston, Sy Boardman, Joan Brown, Charles Cajori, J. DeFeo, Roy De Forest, Sam Francisco, Norman Kanter, Craig Kauffman, Bernard Langlais, Lois Lazarus, Alvin Light, Fred Martin, Edward B. Moses, Manuel Neri, Deborah Remington, Milton Resnick, Arthur Richer, San Tchakalian, Julius Wasserstein, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1958
John Altoon, B. A. Bengston, J. DeFeo, Roy De Forest, James Budd Dixon, Muriel Francis, Craig Kaufman, Ed Moses, Arthur Richer, Irene Taverner, Sam Tchakalian, Julius Wasserstein, Dion Vigne, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Larson Gallery, Yakima Junior College, Yakima, WA
Six San Francisco Painters, Brata Gallery, New York, NY
(Inaugural Group Show), Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA

1957
Painting and Sculpture Now: Some Contemporary Statements by Artists of the Bay Region, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Action 3, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Survey of Pacific Coast Art, Reed College, Portland, OR
Annual Watercolor, Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1955
Second Annual Group Show, 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Action 1, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
III Biennal, Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1954
A New Language in Painting, Kaufman Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA

1953
King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
 

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, California
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
City and County of San Francisco
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Denver Art Museum, CO
Des Moines Art Center, IA
di Rosa, Napa, California
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fralin Museum of Art at The University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Honolulu Museum of Art, HI
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Oakland Museum of California
Palm Springs Art Museum, California
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, State College
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Portland Art Museum, OR
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT