Skip to main content

Roberto Matta

♂  Chilean, 1911–2002

Roberto Matta has been in 45 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1943 and 1988.

45 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Artist
Photo of the exhibition The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art

31 March to 6 June 1943

José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Roberto Matta and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others, were involved.

Artist
Recent Acquisitions: European and American Paintings and Rugs

28 July to 26 September 1943

Giorgio de Chirico, Piet Mondrian, André Masson and Edward Hopper, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Modern Drawings

16 February to 10 May 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

24 May to 15 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

15 February to 18 March 1945

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

20 June 1945 to 13 February 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
The Museum Collection of Painting

19 February to 5 May 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

2 July 1946 to 12 September 1954

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Large-Scale Modern Paintings

1 April to 4 May 1947

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

15 April to 1 June 1947

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

6 December 1949 to 26 March 1950

Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Roberto Matta and William Zorach, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

5 December 1950 to 7 January 1951

Jackson Pollock, Roberto Matta, William Zorach and Victor D'Amico, among others, were involved.

Artist
Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

4 December 1951 to 6 January 1952

Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, William Zorach and Victor D'Amico, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism

23 June to 4 October 1953

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
American Prints of the 20th Century

8 September to 28 November 1954

William S. Lieberman, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions

5 March to 24 April 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Matta

11 September to 20 October 1957

Roberto Matta, William S. Rubin and Sam Hunter were involved.

Artist
Second Floor Permanent Collection

Started 8 October 1958

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

Artist
Art Lending Service Retrospective

27 January to 20 March 1960

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition 100 Drawings from the Museum Collection

11 October 1960 to 2 January 1961

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection

1 February to 4 March 1961

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

20 November 1962 to 13 January 1963

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Paul Cézanne, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Started 27 May 1964

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection

27 May 1964 to 23 March 1965

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers

15 September to 24 October 1964

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection

17 March to 4 June 1967

José Clemente Orozco, Dorothy C. Miller, Diego Rivera and Roberto Matta, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

17 January to 4 March 1968

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

27 March to 9 June 1968

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

Artist
Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

28 April to 4 November 1969

Fernand Léger, Marc Chagall, Paul Cézanne and Piet Mondrian, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

5 November 1969 to 2 January 1973

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection

11 February to 18 April 1971

Giorgio de Chirico, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta and William S. Rubin, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition The Artist as Adversary

1 July to 27 September 1971

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Ways of Looking

28 July to 1 November 1971

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Permanent Collection

Started 29 March 1972

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Artist
Dream/Reality/Dream

26 September to 28 November 1977

Max Ernst, Odilon Redon, Jean Dubuffet and André Masson, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition The James Thrall Soby Bequest

22 March to 9 May 1979

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Giorgio de Chirico and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Gifts of Drawing

9 August to 13 November 1979

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Four Recently Discovered Picabias and Other Modern Master Acquisitions

25 January to 22 April 1980

Jean (Hans) Arp, Roberto Matta, Georgia O'Keeffe and William S. Rubin, among others, were involved.

Artist
Reinstallation of the Collection

Started 23 October 1980

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Drawings

19 March to 2 June 1981

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Drawing since 1940

25 June to 13 October 1987

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

Artist
Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

6 August to 8 December 1987

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

Artist
Master Prints from the Collection

20 November 1987 to 8 March 1988

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.