SOLO SHOWS

1956 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Dusti Bongé.

1957 YWCA Boston Workshop, Boston, MA, Dusti Bongé.

1958 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Dusti Bongé: Paintings.

1960 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Dusti Bongé.

1962 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Dusti Bongé.

1971 Gallery Up, Ocean Springs, MS, Dusti Bongé.

1975 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Window Paintings by Dusti Bongé.

 

1995 Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS, The Art of Dusti Bongé: A Retrospective.

2006 Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL The Poetic Eye: Dusti Bongé Surrealist Images.

2009 The Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center, Ocean Springs, MS 

2012 Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS, Dusti Bongé: Revisiting the Legacy.

2013 Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS, Dusti Bongé.

2019-21 Traveling Exhibit: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé.

2021 McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL, Dusti Bongé: Southern Exposure.

2021 Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS, Dusti Bongé: Joss Paper.

2022 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons.

2023-24 Traveling Exhibit: Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, Spotlight: Dusti Bongé.

2023-24 Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, Dusti Bongé: The Creative Life.

2025 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, Dusti Bongé: Portals and Passages, Surrealist Works from the 1940s–‘50s

2025 Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS, Dusti Bongé (1903-1993): Modernist of the South

 

Date unknown:

xxxx Lafitte Gallery, New Orleans, LA

xxxx Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, FL

xxxx Old Capitol Museum, Jackson, MS

 

GROUP SHOWS

1939 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, NY, Water, Water Everywhere, (works: Trawl Boats, Back Bay)

1945 Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, NY.

1951 Village Art Center, New York, NY.

1952 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Drawings Exhibition.

1953 Contemporaries Gallery, New York, NY.

1953 Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS.

1954 Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA. The Art Association of New Orleans 53rd Annual Spring Exhibit. (work: Bottle Blue).

1954 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX, Third Annual, (work: Recurrent Thoughts)

1954 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Drawings Exhibition

1955 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

1955 Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA. The Art Association of New Orleans 54rd Annual Spring Exhibit. (work: Escape Through Meditation).

1955 Atlanta Arts Association, Atlanta, GA.

1955 Old State Capitol, Annual Louisiana State Art Exhibition, Baton Rouge, LA

1955 University of Utah 3rd Annual Exhibition of American Drawings & Prints. (works: #4 (1953), #5 (1954)).

1955 Four Arts Society, Palm Beach, FL, $100 award. (work: Vapors and Times Essence).

1955 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX, Fourth Annual (works: Chablis Essence, Sea Wrack).

1955-56 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show: Drawing Show.

1956 Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX. 1956.

1956 Four Arts Society, Palm Beach, FL, $350.00 prize. (work: The Soul of the Idea)

1956 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX. Fifth Annual (work: Three Forces)

1956 Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX. Southwest Exhibition of Prints and Drawings. (work: Thoughts of Chrystal (ink drawing)).

1956 Whitney Museum, New York, NY, Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings.

1956 Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, FL.

1956 Museo Nacional, Havana, Cuba.

1956 Elizabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX.

1956 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1956-57 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show: Preview for ’57.

1957 Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, TN. Mid-South Exhibition of Painting, (work: Piercing the Target).

1957 Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL.

1957 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX. Sixth Annual, (work: Summer Storm).

1957 16th Annual National Watercolor Exhibit, Jackson, MS.

1957-58 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show.

1958 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX. (work: Glow of Beginning).

1959 Barnard College, New York, NY, An Exhibition of Abstract Art, (work: Essence).

1959 Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY, Trends in Watercolor Today, (work: Glow of Beginning).

1959 18th Annual National Watercolor Exhibit, Jackson, MS, Honorable Mention.

1959 Birmingham Arts Museum, Birmingham, AL, Painters of the New South, (work: Two Thrusts).

1959 John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN, Contemporary American Watercolors (work: November 5, 1956).

1960-61 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show: Drawings.

1961 Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY, International Watercolor Exhibition 21st Biennial.

1962-63 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show: Drawings.

1965 Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Ithaca, NY, Betty Parsons Collection of Drawings.

1973 Ars Longa Galleries, Houston, TX. (works: Ghosts of the Sea, Songless Faces).

 

1999 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.

2005 Art in Embassies, US State Department, Maputo, Mozambique (work: Camps on Point Cadet, Biloxi).

2009 Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS American Masters.

2014 LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, LA, Dusti Bongé: An Abstract Master Reconsidered.

2016 Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, Paper: Selections from the Permanent Collection.

2016 Art in Embassies, US State Department, Maputo, Mozambique (work: Mask No. 2 or Untitled (Black, Blue and White Composition)).

2016 Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, Reflections: Works by Modern Masters from the Collection.

2018 Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Whole Drum Will Sound. (works: Swamp at Midnight, Circles Penetrated).

2018-19 Mississippi Arts & Entertainment Experience, Meridian, MS (works: Seafood Factory with Steam Pipe, Gazebo).

2018-19 Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, Style and Attitude: Abstract Art in the South.

2018-19 Walter Anderson Museum of Art “90 Years of Shearwater” (works: Plate Designs).

2018-19 Traveling Exhibit: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MS; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, Central to Their Lives, The Johnson Collection (work: The Family).

2021 Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 100 Years of Art from the Collection, (works: Distillate of the Past, Black Swans).

2021 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, The Armory Show, Hollis Taggart Booth 331, NY.

2022 Huxley Parlour Gallery, London, Women and the Void: Abstract Expressionism on Paper, (works: Untitled (Black Trapezoid w/ Rouge), Untitled (Black Lines and Curve), Untitled (Black Abstract)).

2022 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, Dallas Art Fair, Hollis Taggart Booth, Postwar.

2023-24 Traveling Exhibit: Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–70, or Action, Gesture, Color: Female Artists and Abstraction Worldwide 1940–70 (work: The Beckon).

2023 Columbia Museum of Art, Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection (work: The Family).

2023 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, From Provincial Status to International Prominence: America Art of the 1950s (work: Untitled (White, Tan, Red and Black Abstract)).

2023 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, Of the Past and Present: Estates and Contemporary Artists at Hollis Taggart (work: Magic Promised, No. 9-12).

2023 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, The Armory Show, Hollis Taggart Booth 321.

2023-24 Traveling Exhibit: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (works: The Balcony, Where the Shrimp Pickers Live).

2024 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, Dynamic Rhythm: Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s to the Present (work: Small World).

2024 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary (work: Untitled (Black Abstract)).

2024 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, The Armory Show, Hollis Taggart Booth 118.

2025 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, The Winter Show, Hollis Taggart Booth C-13.

2025 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, Take Notice: Women’s History Month (work: Dream Series # 4).

2025 Bonner Kunstverein Bonn, Germany, Philosopher of Her Own Ruin (works: 3 joss papers).

 

Date unknown:

xxxx Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

xxxx Lilienfeld Gallery, New York, NY

xxxx Rocco Gallery, New York, NY

xxxx Norlyst Gallery, New York, NY

xxxx American British Gallery, New York, NY

xxxx E. Lorentz Borenstein Gallery, New Orleans, LA

xxxx Lafitte Gallery, New Orleans, LA

xxxx Old Capitol Museum, Jackson, MS

xxxx Randolph Macon College, Lynchburg, VA