1965 -Scholastic Art Award
1978 -National Endowment For the Arts
-Awards in the Visual Arts
1984 -National Endowment For the Arts
1986 -New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship
1988 -Guggenheim Fellowship
1990 -National Endowment For the Arts
1993 - Academy Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2000 -The Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
2007 - The Doors, City of Scottsdale, AZ
-Leaves of Grass, Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, NC
2006 -The Lorelei Club Minneapolis Central Library
2005 -Nails' Tales University of Wisconsin
-Intimate Apparel & Pearl Earrings Fort Worth Convention Center
-Sylvia, Arthur City of Chicago
2004 -Got Any Jacks? Miami International Airport
2003 -Five Easy Pieces, Washington DC Convention Center
2001 -Tools, Wellington Webb Municipal Building, Denver, Colorado
2000 - Rodin Rodannadanna, Avenue of the Arts, Kansas City
-Sirshasana, Grand Central Market, Grand Central Terminal, New York City
1997 -The Yearling, Doris Friedman Plaza, Central Park, sponsored by the Public Art Fund, New York, NY.
The Yearling now resides at the Denver Public Library
-The LaGuardia Suite, Concert Hall, La Guardia High School for Music and Art, New York
Sparks, Nev. –Regional Bus Terminals –Completion date –2008
Indy 500 Festival – Indianapolis, In. –Completion date –May, 2008
San Diego Public Library -Completion date—2010
Reno , Nev. –Regional Bus Terminals –Completion date –2009
San Antonio Airport – Completion date-2010
Houston, Tex., The Water Works Museum -Completion date --2009
Goodyear, Az., Cleveland Indians' Ball Park -Completion date --2009
Denver, Co. Havana Town Center, Stapleton, –Completion date –2009
The Art Museum of South West Texas, Midland
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York
The City of Denver, Denver, Colorado
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
Laguardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Art, New York
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
The Miami Art Museum
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The Minneapolis Museum of Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, Miami
The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Panza Collection, Italy
The Raymond Nasher Sculpture Collection
The Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona
The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1974 Contemporary Arts Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1975 Everson Museurn of Art, Syracuse, New York.
1976 MacAlaster Galleries, St. Paul, Minnesota.
1977 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1978 Artists Space, New York City.
Anthology Film Archives, New York City.
1979 Museum of Modem Art, New York City.
Anthology Film Archives, New York City.
1980 Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1981 Braathen‑Gallozzi Gallery, New York City.
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California.
1982 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon.
1983 Germans van Eck Gallery, New York City. (also 1985, 1987, 1988)Anders
Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden. (also 1987, 1992)
1984 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. (also 1986, 1988, 1991, 2001)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
P.B. van Voorst van Beest Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands.
1985 University of Delaware, University Gallery, Newark, Delaware.
New Orleans Museum of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Carpenter & Hochman Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1986 Edward Totah Gallery, London, England.
1987 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California. (also 1989, 1993)
Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland.
Center on Contemporary Art, in cooperation with Boeing International, Seattle
Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post College, Long Island Univ., Brookville, NY
1989 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts.
1990 Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas. (also 1991, 1993)
Evenston Art Center, Evenston, Illinois.
Donald Lipski: Poetic Sculpture, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading,
PA. Traveled to University Galleries, Normal, IL; Otis Art Institute, Los
Angeles; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY;
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.
Waterlilies, Lennon/ Weinberg Gallery, New York City.
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City.
Donald Lipski: Glass. New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Who's Afraid qf Red, White, & Blue?, The Fabric Workshop; The Philadelphia
College of Art; & Beaver College, Philadelphia; The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York City.
1991 Robert Lehman Gallery, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
The Bells, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Anselino Alvarez Galerie de Arte, Madrid, Spain.
1992 Galerie Lelong, New York City (also 1994, 2000, 2003)
Americas, Monasterio de Santa Clara, Moguer (Huelva)
The Bells, P.S. 1, Long Island City, November 8 ‑ January 10, 1993.
1993 Wave (installation), Allen Center Gallery, Houston, TX
Pieces of String Too Short to Save, Grand Lobby installation, The Brooklyn
Museum, NY
The Starry Night, CappStreet Project, San Francisco, California
Donald Lipski, Johson Community College, New York
1994 Oral History, South Eastern Contemporary Arts Center, Winston‑Salem, NC
Donald Lipski: Sculpture, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (also 1998)
1995 Donald Lipski, Galerie Lelong, Paris
Donald Lipski, Galleria Il Ponte, Roma, Italy
Donald Lipski, Piero Cavellini, Brescia, Italy
Donald Lipski: The Humidors, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
Donald Lipski, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1996 The Cauldron: An Installation by Donald Lipski, Parrish Art Museum,
Southampton, New York
1997 Donald Lipski: Pond Life, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
Donald Lipski: The Yearling, Central Park, The Public Art Fund of New York.
Donald Lipski: Sculpture, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery for Contemporary Art,
Kansas City, Missouri
1998 Donald Lipski, Book Works, 1982‑1997 John Gibson Gallery, NY; (also 2000)
Barbara Davis, Houston, TX (also 2000, 2004)
1999 Donald Lipski Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria (Dec 16, 1999- Feb 27, 2000)
2000 Donald Lipski: A Brief History of Twine, Madison Art Center, Madison,
Wisconsin. Traveled to Blaffer Gallery- The Art Museum of the University of
Houston, Chicago Cultural Center
2001 Donald Lipski, Ah-Roma, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2002 Donald Lipski, New Works, Miami Art Museum, Miami
Marvels from the Exquisite Copse, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2004 Non-Fiction Galerie Lelong, NY
Books, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston2002
2005 Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.
2007 Spilt Milk, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX.
1977 X International Encounter on Video, Tokyo, Japan.
1978 Atlanta Film Festival. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
1981 Seven Artists. Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY
Stay Tuned. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City.
Art on the Beach. Creative Time, Inc., New York City.
The Artists at Work in America. Varna, Bulgaria. The Intn. Communications Agency, U.S.State Department.
1982 15 Artists. Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
1983 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York City.
Language, Drama, Source and Vision. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Awards Exhibition. The American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York City.
1984 Twelve on 20 x 24. School of the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA. Traveled.
The End of the World. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Awards in the Visual Arts 3. San Antonio Art Museum, Texas. Traveled
Premio Internacional de Escultura. Museo Orensanz y Artes del Serrable, Spain.
1985 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartt‑Neue Bilder. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg.
Working in Brooklyn/Sculpture. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
Selections from the Collection of William J.Hokin. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
1986 Joseph Cornell and His Legacy: Part II. A.C.A. Galleries, New York City.
Donald Lipski, Matt Mullican, Kiki Smith. The Clocktower, New York.
1988 Sculpture/Aspen 88. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado.
Sculpture Inside/Outside. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Traveled
The Objects of Sculpture. Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois.
1989 Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York.
Clockworks. List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1990 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Two person show with Buzz Spector.
National Garden Festival, Gateshead, England.
1991 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
Le Verre, International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass, Espace Duchamp‑Villon, Rouen, France.
1992 Eva & Adele, Christian Boltanski, Barbara Kruger, Donald Lipski, Allan McCollum, Bruce Nauman, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen.
1993 Simply Made in America, The Aldrich Museum, CT. Exhibition. Traveled
Annual Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
Annual Summer Exhibition, Wånas Castle, Sweden
1994 Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
1996 The Northeast, curated by Marcia Tucker,
The White House Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC,
1997 Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, State University of New York, Purchase
20/20: CAF Looks Forward and Back, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California
Recent Glass Sculpture: A Union of Ideas, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee,Wisconsin
1999 Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of nature in Contemporary Art, The Hudson Museum, Yonkers, NY
2000 Pleasure Treasure:From the Collections of Eileen & Peter Norton, California State Univ., LosAngeles,
2002 Five by Five: Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
The 177th Annual National Academy of Design,
National Academy of Design Museum
2004 North Fork-South Fork, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
2005 Life Understood Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Mi.
Material Terrain, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis (traveled)
2006 Big Juicy Paintings, Miami Art Museum
Art, Chicago, IL.
1986 Joseph Cornell and His Legacy: Part II. A.C.A. Galleries, New York City.
Donald Lipski, Matt Mullican, Kiki Smith. The Clocktower, New York.
1988 Sculpture/Aspen 88. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado.
Sculpture Inside/Outside. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Traveled
The Objects of Sculpture. Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois.
1989 Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York.
Clockworks. List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA
1990 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Two person show with Buzz Spector.
National Garden Festival, Gateshead, England.
1991 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
Le Verre, International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass, Espace
Duchamp‑Villon, Rouen, France.
1992 Eva & Adele, Christian Boltanski, Barbara Kruger, Donald Lipski, Allan
McCollum, Bruce Nauman, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen.
1993 Simply Made in America, The Aldrich Museum, CT. Exhibition. Traveled
Annual Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
1994 Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art
1996 The Northeast, curated by Marcia Tucker,
The White House Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC,
1997 Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, State University of
New York, Purchase
20/20: CAF Looks Forward and Back, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts
Forum, California
Recent Glass Sculpture: A Union of Ideas, Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee,Wisconsin
1999 Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of nature in Contemporary Art, The Hudson Museum, Yonkers, NY
2000 Pleasure Treasure:From the Collections of Eileen & Peter Norton, California State Univ., LosAngeles,
2002 Five by Five: Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
The 177th Annual National Academy of Design,
National Academy of Design Museum
2004 North Fork-South Fork, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
2005 Life Understood Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Mi.
Material Terrain, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis (traveled)
2006 Big Juicy Paintings, Miami Art Museum