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1958 Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos, Bogotá, Colombia.
1961 Galería El Callejón, Bogotá, Colombia.
1966 Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela.
1966 Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
1966 Galería T. A. B., Bogotá, Colombia.
1967Olga de Amaral: Exhibition of Contemporary Weaving, Skidmore Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY, USA, November 13–22.
1967 Hall’s, Kansas City, Missouri.
1967Weavings by Olga de Amaral, Jack Lenor Larsen Showroom, New York, NY, USA, February 14 – March 31.
1970Muros Tejidos: Olga de Amaral, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia, January.
1970–1971Woven Walls by Olga de Amaral, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, USA, September 30, 1970 – January 3, 1971.[1]
1972 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
1973 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
1973Olga de Amaral: Marañas Tejidas, Galerie La Demeure, Paris, France, May 15 – June 8.
1974Olga de Amaral: Woven Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, USA, December 1 – January 5.
1975Olga de Amaral: Tapisseries, Galerie Rivolta, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1975Olga de Amaral, Melville Hall, Australian National University, Acton, Australia, November 27 – December 10.
1976Fragmentos Completos, Serie Incompleta, Galería Belarca, Bogotá, Colombia, December 7–24.
1977Olga de Amaral, La Galería, Quito, Ecuador.
1979Olga de Amaral, Instituto Panameño de Arte, Panama City, June.
1980Olga de Amaral, Galería Témpora, Bogotá, Colombia, November 13 – December 20.
1983Olga de Amaral: Woven Matter, Modern Masters Tapestries, New York, NY, USA, April 28 – May 24.
1984Olga de Amaral, The Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 17 – June 23.
1985Olga de Amaral, The Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 5–28.
1986Colombia nelle Corderie dell’Arsenale, 42nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
1987Olga de Amaral: Recent Work, The Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 5–28.
1987Olga de Amaral, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA, July to August.
1988New Art Forms Exposition: 20th Century Decorative and Applied Arts, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, USA.
1989Olga de Amaral: Tapestries from the Moonbasket and Montaña Series, essay by Jack Lenor Larsen, The Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 9 – January 6.
1990Olga de Amaral: New Works, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, travelling to New York, NY, October 31 – December 15.
1992Olga de Amaral: Lost Images, Inherited Landscapes, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas, USA, May 31 – July 10.
1992Olga de Amaral: Lost Images, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 8 – September 22.
19715th International Biennial of Tapestry, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 18 – October 3.
1971 Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
1971Textile Constructions, Ruth Kaufmann Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
1971Deliberate Entanglements (travelling exhibition), University of California at Los Angeles Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA; University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; and the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, USA.
1972 Tercera Bienal de Arte Coltejer, Medellín, Colombia.
1973Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italia.
1973 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
1973Fibre work, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA, April 29 – May 27.
1974 XXV Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand.
1975 7th International Biennial of Tapestry, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1975Arte Colombiano a Través de los Siglos, Musèe Petit Palais, Paris, France.
1975Superficies, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
1976 Musèe Ingres, Montauban, France.
1977 8th International Biennial of Tapestry, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1977 National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan.
1977 The Cleveland Museum of Fine Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
1980 Garces Velasquez Galeria, Le Grand Palais, F.I.A.C., Paris, France.
1981Olga de Amaral, Grau Garriga, Tapta, Varbanov, Musèe d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, October.
1982 FIAC Madrid, Spain.
19833 x 5: Works in Fiber, Modern Master Tapestries, Inc., December 1 – January 4.
1983 Musèe des Ecoles des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.
1985Threads: Small Scale Textiles, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
1985Fiberworks, Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Fiberworks, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas, USA.
1985Olga de Amaral and Valentina Dubasky, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor, FL, USA, April 3–27.
1986Contemporary Crafts: A Concept in Flux The Society for Art in Crafts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
198713th International Tapestry Biennale, Musée Cantonal des Beaux- Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1987Interlacing: The Elemental Fabric, curated by Jack Larsen, The Pavillon, Dallas, TX, USA; travelled to The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.
1987Six Decades of American Fiber, curated by Jack Larsen, Oregon Historical Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA.
19894th Annual Exhibition curated by Jack Lenor Larsen, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA, June–August.
1989La Mujer Artista, Galeria Alfred Wild, Bogota, Colombia, October.
1990High Fiber, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, USA, November 1–24.
1990Olga de Amaral and Robert Turner, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, June 30 – July 21.
1990Arte Colombiano: La Presencia Femenina, U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, October.
199215th International Lausanne Biennial Contemporary Textile Art, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland, from April 4 – June 28; travelled to Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands (October 3, 1992 – January 17, 1993), and at the Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark (March 26 – May 10, 1993).
1992Modern Design: 1890-1990 (with exhibition catalog), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA.
1994The Gold Show, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
1994Focus on Fiber Art: Selection from the Growing 20th Century Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
1995Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995 (with exhibition catalog), Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
1995 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
1995 Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA.
1995 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA.
1999The Saxe Collection Donation, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California.
2001Barro de América, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
2001Mes de Colombia, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July.
2001Beauty Without Regret, curated by Robert Kushner, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 28 – August 4.
2002 SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
2003 Gary Nader Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.
2006Tradición y vanguardia en el arte colombiano, Salon Nacional de Artistas, Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia.
2008 FIA Caracas, Galería La Cometa, Caracas, Venezuela.
2008 Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá, ArtBO, Galería La Cometa, Bogotá, Colombia.
2008 Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY.
2009Plusultra Oltre il barocco: Arte latino-americana a confronto, curated by Giorgio Antei, Santa Giulia Museo della Città, Brescia, Italy, December 4 – July 27.
2009Estructuras y Esculturas: Jim y Olga de Amaral, Galería Club El Nogal, Bogotá, Colombia.
2009Huellas: Olga de Amaral, Presencia: Jim Amaral, Corpbanca, Caracas, Venezuela, May–June.
2012Œuvres textiles & Sculptures, Galerie Agnès Monplaisir, Paris, France.
2012Sourcing the Museum, Textile Museum, Washington D.C., USA, March 23 – August 19.
2014–15Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, October 1, 2014 – January 4, 2015; travelled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (January 30 – April 5, 2015) and Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (May 8 – August 2, 2015).
2014Artevida, Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 28 – September 21.
2014Chic Matière(s). Galerie Agnès Monplaisir, Paris, France.
2014Paper Trail, Latin American Masters, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May–July.
2014Decorum, Power Art Station, Shanghai, China.
2014-15Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture, curated by Jose Roca, Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, April–August 2014; travelled to Centro Conde Duque, Madrid.
2014–15Gold, curated by Jose Carlos Diaz, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, August 8, 2014 – February 15, 2015.
2015Embracing Space & Color: Art On & Off the Wall, Vero Beach Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, February 20 – June 7.
2015–16Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA, April 28 – September 27; travelled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (October 30 – February 28, 2016).
2019Beyond the Loom: Fiber as Sculpture / Subversive Threads, as featured in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston's Women Take the Floor exhibition, "which challenges the dominant history of 20th-century American art by focusing on the overlooked and underrepresented work and stories of women artists."[11] September 13, 2019 – May 3, 2021.
Awards and recognitions
1968–72 Colombian representative for the World Crafts Council in Lima, Perú.
1970–74 Latin American representative for the World Crafts Council.
1971 First Prize in the XXII Salón Nacional de Artistas in Bogotá, Colombia
1972 First Prize in the Tercera Bienal de Artes de Coltejer in Medellín, Colombia.
1989 Honorary Chair in the Art Department at the University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
1989 Arts Council member, the University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
2005 Visionary Artist recognition by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, USA.
2006 Olga de Amaral Award established at the 4th International Biennial of Textile Art, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2008 Honorary Co-Chair for the benefit of the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA.
2009 Olga de Amaral Award given to Dr Ruth Corcuera at 5th International Biennial of Textile Art, organized by the World Textile Art Organization (WTA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.