| Exhibitions and Mural Installations
Selected Exhibitions:
Goupil Galleries, London, 1928-29
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1928-29
Salon de Printemps, Paris, 1928-29
Caz-Delbo Gallery, New York, 1933 (solo)
The Wanamaker Regional Art Exhibition, New York, 1934
Gallery Artists, Midtown Galleries, New York, 1935
Museum of Modern Art, 1935
Designs for the 1937 Worlds Fair, Architectural League, New York, 1937
Federal Art Project Exhibition, Federal Art Gallery, New York, 1937
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1935, 1938
Works from the Mount Bethel Art ColoNew York, Arthur U. Newton Galleries, New York, 1938
American Artists Congress, Wanamaker Gallery, New York, 1938, 1939, 1940
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, 1939, 1948
Newark Preparatory School, Newark, New Jersey, 1940 (solo)
The Women, Associated American Artists, New York, circa 1940s
The American Mining Scene, American British Art Center, New York, 1941
Associated Artists of New Jersey, Riverside Museum, New York, 1943
Carnegie Institute, 1943, 1949, 1950
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey 1940, 1941, 1944-1946, 1952, 1955, 1961, 1964, 1965
Midtown Galleries, New York, 1944
Riverside Museum, New York, I944-1946, 1950
Tribute to FDR, Vanderbilt Gallery, New York, 1944
Associated Artists of New Jersey, Riverside Museum, New York 1947
Bonestell Gallery, New York, 1947 (solo)
Laurel Gallery, New York, 1950 (solo)
Kende Gallery, New York, 1951 (solo)
Newark Jewish Center, Newark, New Jersey 1951 (solo)
Associated Artists of New Jersey, Barbizon Plaza New York, 1952
Montclair Art Museum, NJ, Montclair, New Jersey 1953, 1957-1959, 1961-1963, 1970 (solo)
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1955
Hunterdon County Art Center, 9th Annual New Jersey Exhibition, 1962
Cober Gallery, New York, 1962 (solo)
Providence Rhode Island Art Club, 1963
New York Worlds Fair, New Jersey Pavilion, 1964
Glassboro State College, New Jersey, 1965 (solo)
Butler Institute of American Art, 1965
WPA Artists Then and Now, Essex County YM-YWHA, New Jersey, 1967 Trenton Museum, New Jersey, 1968, 1970
Ringwood Association of the Arts, Ringwood, New Jersey, 1975 (solo)
New Deal for Art, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 1980
William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, 1986 (solo retrospective)
Painting America: Mural Art in the New Deal Era, Midtown Galleries and Janet Marqusee Fine Arts, New York, 1988
New Jersey by Day, New York by Night, Susan Teller Gallery, New York, 1991
Michael Lenson: Real and Surreal, Rutgers University, Hunterdon Art Center, Monmouth County Museum, New Jersey, 1993 (solo retrospective)
Surrealism in America During the 1930 and 1940s, Dalvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, 1999
Art of the People, U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1999
Michael Lenson: Magical Surrealism, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, 2003 (solo)
Masters and Mavericks, Seraphin Gallery, Phildelphia, 2005
"Hard Times, Good Times: The Art of Michael Lenson," The Jewish Museum of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, 2011 (solo retrospective)
"Michael Lenson: Time, Place and Substance," The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2014 (major solo retrospective)
"Michael Lenson: A Humanist Vision," The Dorothy Quick Center for the Arts at Saint Bonaventure University, Olean, New York, 2016 (solo retrospective)
"Michael Lenson: A Humanist Vision," The Clifton Arts Center, Clifton, New Jersey, 2016 (solo retrospective)
"Michael Lenson: A Humanist Vision," The Noyes Museum of Art, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 2016 (solo retrospective)
Upcoming Exhibitions:
The New Jersey Instititue of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 2018
The Jewish Community Center, West Orange, New Jersey, 2018
Mural Commissions:
New Jersey History, Essex Mountain Sanitorium, Verona, NJ, 1936 (destroyed)
History of the Enlightenment of Man, Weequahic High School, Newark, NJ, 1939 (extant)
New Jersey Agriculture and Industry, New Jersey Pavilion, New York Worlds Fair, 1939
(destroyed)
History of Newark, Newark City Hall, 1941 (extant)
Mining, Mount Hope, West Virginia Post Office, 1942 (extant)
Electronics, Electronic Corporation of America, New York (believed destroyed)
Lincoln and Douglas, Charlton Street School, Newark
The Four Freedoms, 14th Avenue School, Newark
Lenson also supervised the design and execution of murals now installed in over 15 public buildings throughout New Jersey comprising the major part of all mural decorations done in the state.
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