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1951
East End Academy: 13 January - 24 February
Eighteenth Century Venice
East End 1851 (Festival of Britain): 2 May - 30 June
Black Eyes and Lemonade (Festival of Britain related exhibition of popular and traditional art): 11 August - 6 October
William Powell Frith: 25 October - 1 December

1952
The Arts of India and China: 14 March - 3 May
Setting Up Home: 4 June - 24 July
Looking Forward: British Realist Pictures: 23 Sep - 2 November
East End Academy: 13 November - 7 December

1953
James Goldsmith
JMW Turner: 5 February - 15 March
Twentieth Century Art Form: 9 April - 31 May
James Gillray: June - July
Thomas Rowlandson: June - July
John Martin: 23 Sep - 1 November
East End Academy: 29 November - 31 December

1954
Pictures for Schools: 23 January - 14 February
Barbara Hepworth: 8 April - 6 June
British Painting and Sculpture: 23 September - 31 October
East End Academy: 27 November - 2 January

1955
Pictures for Schools: 5 February - 27 February
Bearstead Collection: 9 March - 7 April
American Primitive Art 1670-1950: 3 June - 3 July
Piet Mondriaan: August - September
Michael Ayrton: September - October
London Group : 10 November - 9 December
East End Academy: 17 December - 12 January

1956
Pictures for Schools: 10 February - 4 March
Josef Herman: 14 March - 23 April
Nicolas De Staël: May - June
Charles Howard: June - July
This is Tomorrow: 9 August - 9 September
Merlyn Evans: October - November
Jewish Artists in England 1656-1956: 8 November - 9 December
East End Academy: 29 December - 27 January

1957
George Stubbs: 27 February - 7 April
Bellotto, Bernadro: 30 April - 30 May
Nolan, Sidney: June - July
Women's International Art Club: 3 October - 23 October
Hayter, SW: November
East End Academy: 14 December - 5 January

1958
Guggenheim Painting Award
Recent Paintings by 7 British Artists
Pictures for Schools: 1 - 23 February
Colquhoun, Robert: May
Davie, Alan: June - August
Women's International Art Club: 2 October - 26 October
Pollock, Jackson: November - December

1959
Pictures for Schools: 31 January - 21 February
East End Academy: 7 March - 26 March
Graven Image, The: Recent British Prints and Drawings: April - May
Smith, Jack: May - June
Armitage, Kenneth: July - August
Malevich, Kasimir: October - November
Collins, Cecil: November - December

1960
Richards, Ceri
Women's International Art Club
Pictures for Schools: 8 January - 31 January
East End Academy: 13 February - 6 March
Kar, Ida: March - April
de Maistre, Roy: May - June
Clough, Prunella : September - October,
Moore, Henry: November - December

1961
Contemporary Art Society
Pictures for Schools: 27 January - 18 February
Vanishing Stepney: Paintings by Rose Henriques: March - March
Kapp, Edmond: April - May
Australian Painting, Recent: June - July
Rothko, Mark: October - November
Hill, Derek: November - December

1962
East End Academy
Hepworth, Barbara
Pictures for Schools
Tobey, Mark: 1 January - 4 March
VAugusthan, Keith: March - April
Boyd, Arthur : June - July
HallMark Collection: September - October
Hulbert, Thelma: October - November

1963
Marchzotto, Prize
Guston, Philip: 17 January - 17 February
Poliakoff, Serge: April - May
British Painting in the Sixties : 1 June - 30 June
Caro, Anthony: September - October
Medley, Robert: November - December

1964
Young Commonwealth Artists
Rauschenberg, Robert: February - March
New Generation, The: 1964: March - May

Kline, Franz: May - June
Painting and Environment: Nigeria, Uganda: 12 May - 25 July
Potter, May: 7 October - 8 November
Johns, Jasper: December - December

1965
Marchzotto Prize
Stuyvesant Foundation, Peter
New Generation, The: 1965: March - April
Cohen, Harold: May - June
Louis, Morris : June - July
Krasner, Lee: September - October

1966
Motherwell, Robert
Kneale, Bryan: February - March
Plastics: Exploration in Design: 8 February - 26 March
Smith, Richard : May - May
New Generation, The: 1966: June - July
Women's International Art Club: September - 16 October
Printmaking: Exeter College of Art: 4 October - 15 December, Upper Gallery

1967
East London Open
Craxton, John: January - February
Hoyland, John: April - May
Scott, Tim : June - July
Face of London, The: 26 September - 13 December
Hermes, Gertrude: October - November
British Sculpture and Painting from the Collection of Leicestershire Education Authority: December - February

1968
Contemporary Art Society: Recent Acquisitions
New British Painting and Sculpture, New: January - February
New Generation, The: 1968 Interim: April - May
Ghika: July - August
King, Philip: September - October
Parsons, Betty: November - December

1969
Shalom of Safed
Oiticica, Helio: 25 February - 6 April
Frankenthaler, Helen: 7 May - 8 June
Downing, Robert: 10 July - 24 August

Gaucher, Yves: 9 December - 11 January
Israeli Artists, Three: Agam, Lefshitz, Zaritsky: December - January

1970
Hockney, David: 2 April - 3 May
Graham, Robert: 27 May - 21 June
Modern Chairs: 1918 - 1970: 22 July - 30 August
Judd, Don: 29 September - 1 November
New Multiple Art: 19 November - 3 January

1971
Smith, Jack: 27 January - 21 February
East London Open: 2 February - 21 February
Upton, Michael
Binder, Douglas: 5 May - 30 May
Martin, Marchy and Kenneth: 5 May - 30 May
Dali, Art-in-Jewels: 8 June - 10 July
Hollweg, Alexander: 23 June - 31 July
Gilbert and George: 18 July - 31 July
Long, Richard: 9 November - 21 November

1972
East London Open
Kossoff, Leon: 19 January - 20 February
Strike for Kids under 12: 7 January - 9 January
Beuys, Joseph: 27 February - unknown date
Systems : 8 March - 9 April
James, David: 18 April - 27 April
Peek, John: 18 April - 27 April
Pre Raphaelites; 16 May - 14 June
Davies, John: 21 June - 16 July
Heron, Patrick: 21 June - 16 July
This is Whitechapel (Ian Berry): 28 July - 3 September
Woodrow, Bill: 28 July - 12 August
Charlton, Alan: 8 September - 15 September
Logan, Peter: 26 September - 15 October
Decemberade '40s: 1 November - 26 November
Williams, Evelyn: 1 November - 26 November
Milligan, Spike: 5 December - 23 December
Perton, Michael: 5 December - 23 December
Prints and how they are made: 5 December - 23 December
Xavier, Llewellyn: 5 December - 23 December, Small Gallery

1973
Coleman, James
Boden, Neville: 3 January - 28 January
Hayman, Patrick: 3 January - 28 January
Sweets: 3 January - 28 January
Crackers at the Popular Palace: 8 February - 23 February
East London Open : 8 February - 23 February
Holland, John F: 8 February - 23 February, Small Gallery
Adams, Norman: 7 March - 26 March
Greaves, Derrick: 7 March - 26 March
Ashington Group 1932 - 1972: 4 April - 22 April
Banner Bright: Trade Union Banners: 25 April - 11 May
Rogers, Claude: 4 April - 22 April
Shaffer, Brian: 4 April - 15 April
Jaray, Tess: 30 May - 24 June
Meneeley, Ed: 30 May - 24 June
Inside Whitechapel: 7 August - 16 September
Jones, Dan: 7 August - 16 September
Boshier, Derek: 26 September - 21 October
Four Painters: Stephen Amor, Christopher Daviees, Keith Dean and David Kay: 25 September - 7 October
Bell, Trevor: 30 October - 25 November
Jones, Gareth: 30 October - 25 November
Few, Elsie: 4 December - 23 December
London Group, The: 4 December - 23 December

1974
Watts, G F: 22 January - 3 March
Earth Images: Ceramic Sculpture: 19 March - 7 April
East London Open: 19 March - 6 April
Albion Island Vortex: April - Unknown date
Head, Tim: 18 April - 5 May
Uglow, Euan: 18 April - 19 May
Atkins, Ray: 16 May - 30 June
Chopin, Henri: 29 May - 30 June
Hepher, David: 29 May - 30 June
Dip. A D - London - '74: ILEA Art Collages: 9 July - 26 July
Collins, Frank : 6 August - 25 August
Present Printing Pastimes: 6 August - 25 August
Printed in Watford: Watford School of Art: 6 August - 25 August
van den Broeke, Floris: 3 September - 13 October
Niikuni, Seiichi: 3 September - 13 October
Weschke, Karl: 3 September - 13 October

1975
Belle Epoque, La Belgian posters, water-colours and drawings 1892-1914: 4 January - 9 February

Cox, Alan: 4 January - 9 February
Exworth, Ray: 4 January - 9 February
McInnerery, Michael: 4 January - 9 February
Cooke, Barrie: 25 February - 6 April
Lacey, Bruce: 25 February - 6 April
Mommens, Norman: 25 February - 6 April
Uhart, Pedro: 25 February - 6 April
Cunliffe, Peter: 17 April - 9 May
East London Open: 17 April - 9 May
Fifty Drawings by the Blind: 17 April - 9 May
Women and Love: 17 April - 9 May
Abakanowicz, Magdalena: 29 May - 6 July
Benedit, Luis Fernando: 29 May - 6 July
City Poems and City Music: 29 May - 6 July
Hewlett, Francis: 'Big Hand': 29 May - 6 July, Foyer
Lifton, John : 'Green Music': 29 May - 6 July
Setch, Dianne: 29 May - 6 July
Dent, Peter: 15 July - 9 August
Sculptures from London Art Schools: 15 July - 9 August
Nissen, Brian: 9 September - 19 October
Petherbridge, Deanna: 9 September - 19 October
Schmidt, Peter: 9 September - 19 October
Themerson, Franciszka: 9 September - 19 October
Lanceley, Colin: 9 September - 19 October
Austin, Anthony: 'The Toymaker': 4 November - 21 December
Davies, John: 4 November - 21 December
Sharifi, Pury: knitted costumes and wall hangings: 4 November - 21 December
Sonnabend, Yolanda: 4 November - 21 December
Werkman, NH: 4 November - 21 December

1976
Flower Show of Tower Hamlets: 3 January - 8 February
Harrison, Liz: 3 January - 8 February
Logan, Andrew: 3 January - 8 February
Participation Projects including ILEA Cockpit Arts Workshop: 3 January - 8 February
Word-Images by Flowers, by pupils of Cayley PriMarchy School: 3 January - 8 February
Druks, Michael: 26 February - 4 April
Maler, Leopoldo: 26 February - 4 April
Norton, Tom: 26 February - 4 April
Toynton, Norman: 26 February - 4 April
Goldsmith, Derek: 26 February - 4 April
Cook, Berol: 23 April - 14 May
East London Open: 23 April - May
Hooykaas, Madelon: 23 April - 14 May
Stansfield, Elsa: 23 April - 14 May
Tapestries from the Royal College of Art: 23 April - 14 May

Les Lelanne: François Xavier and Claude Lelanne: 2 June - 4 July
de Boer, Saskia: 2 June - 4 July
Orr, Chris: 2 June - 4 July, Experimental Gallery
Meecham, Charlie: 2 June - 4 July
Inner London Education Authority Arts Schools : 20 July - 4 August
Embroidery and Fashion: Goldsmth's College of Art and St. Marchtin's School of Art: 20 July - 4 August
Kantor, Tadeusz: 22 September - 31 October
Chilton, Michael: 22 September - 31 October
Tower Hamlets Arts Project: 13 November - 12 December

1977
Brown, Stanley: 25 January - 27 February
Long, Richard: 25 January - 27 February
Pearly Kings and Queens; 25 January - 27 February
Hawksmoor, Nicholas: 23 March - 1 May
Kilims: Plain-weave tapestries from Persia, Turkey and the Caucasus: 25 March - 1 May
Arnatt, Keith: 18 May - 26 June
Pichler, Walter: 18 May - 26 June
Smithson, Robert: 18 May - 26 June
Feldman, Morton and the Creative Associates : 31 July
Graphic Design Works: ILEA Art Schools: 6 June - 17 July
Whitechapel Open: 3 August - 28 August
Ryman, Robert: 21 September - 23 October
Working Party: Böhmler, Brehmer, Helms, Mitzka, Oehms, Polke, Rückriem, Rühm, Walther: 26 - 30 October
Fairground, The: 9 November - 18 December

1978
Visser, Carel; 18 January - 26 February
Mother Goose Comes to Cable Street: 10 February - 28 February
Andre, Carl: 17 March - 23 April
Artists' Placement Group: 2 March - 5 March
Art for Society: 10 May - 18 June
Liberty, Equality and Sisterhood: 28 June - 13 July
Whitechapel Open: 26 July - 27 August
Law, Bob: 15 September - 29 October
Live Arts: Summer School: 16 September - 22 September
Webb, Boyd: 15 September - 29 October
Working Lives: 15 September - 29 October
Thirteen Degrees East: eleven artists working in Berlin: 10 November - 22 December
Christchurch Gardens Mural: 10 November - 22 December

1979
Willats, Stephen: 12 January - 25 February
Up The Broadway: 12 January - 28 February
Jonas, Joan: 9 - 16 February
Bow Mission Mural: February - March
Circles and Spirals from Straight Lines: 1 - 29 February
Fulton, Hamish: 14 March - 22 April
Richter, Gerhard: 14 March - 22 April
Barber, Edward: 'People Portraits': 14 March - 17 June
Brick Lane 1978: 4 March - 17 June
Hesse, Eva: 4 May - 17 June
Tomkins, Riduan: 4 May - 17 June
Uses of Drawing: ILEA Schools, Colleges and Adult Education Institutes: 27 June - 12 July
Live Arts Workshops 1979: 11 August - 2 September
Whitechapel Open: 9 August - 9 September
Blackwall Adventurers' Club: drawings: 9 August - 9 September
Gough Grove Community Group: weaving and puppet making: 9 - 9 September
Bomberg, David: 21 September - 28 October
Lüpertz, Marchkus: 21 September - 28 October
Lockie, Jude: woodcuts: 20 September - 10 October
World's End Press: 11 October - 1 November
Arts of Bengal: 9 November - 30 December
Memories of Village Life in Bangladesh: Shafique Uddin: 9 November - 9 December
Lloyds: Proposed Redevelopment: 1 November - 30 November
Contemporary Artists from Bangladesh: 11 December - 30 December

1980
Merz, Marchio: 18 January - 2 March
Shapiro, Joel: 18 January - 24 February
Larkins, William : 7 January - 31 January
Pictures for an Exhibition: 13 March - 18 May
Brüs, Gunter: 4 June - 13 July
Rainer, Arnulf: 4 June - 13 July
Police Mug-Shots of the Nineteenth Century: 2 June - 30 June
Four Jewish Artists of London's East End: June - June
Whitechapel Open: 1 - 31 August
Holborn Underground Competition : 1 August - 31 August
Fotografia Polska: 17 September - 26 October
Growing Up With Art: The Leicestershire Collection for Schools and Colleges: 17 September - 26 October
Blacker, Harry: The East End in the Thirties: 1 - 31 October
Beckmann, Max: 13 November - 11 January, Upper Gallery
Baselitz, Georg: 13 November - 11 January
Arapoff, Cyril: An East End Slum Tenement: 13 November - 14 December
To Build A Jerusalem: 15 December - 11 January

1981
Lockey, Eva: 12 January - 15 February
Cornell, Joseph: 27 February - 12 April
Cragg, Tony: 27 February - 22 March
Rodin at Bethnal Green: 27 February - 12 April
Gormley, Antony: 26 March - 12 April
Marden, Brice: 8 May - 21 June
Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft in East London: 8 May - 21 June
Gilbert and George: 3 July - 16 August
Breaking Through: Television from East London: 3 July - 16 August
British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century: 11 September - 24 January

1982
Whitechapel Open:L 12 February - 7 March
Islington Schools Environment Project: 21 February - 7 March
Kahlo, Frida: 26 March - 2 May, Upper Gallery
Kiefer, Anselm: 26 March - 2 May
Moddotti, Tina: 26 March - 2 May
Gill, Madge: 26 March - 2 May
Kounellis, Jannis: 14 May - 20 June
Old Billingsgate Market: 14 May - 20 June
Wren, Christopher: 9 July - 26 September
Guston, Philip: 13 October - 12 December
Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood: 13 October - 12 December

1983
Clemente, Francisco: 7 January - 20 February
Flanagan, Barry: 7 January - 20 February
Auschwitz Exhibition: February
Whitechapel Open: 9 March - 10 April
A Child's View of Docklands in 1961: 9 March - 10 April
Atkinson, Terry: 27 April - 5 June
McLean, Bruce: 27 April - 5 June
A Visit to Bangladesh: 27 April - 5 June
Purbo London: 27 April - 5 June
Morley, Malcolm: 22 June - 21 August
The New Whitechapel: 22 June - 21 August
Baselitz, Georg: 7 September - 30 October
Work From A Salvation Army Hostel: 6 September - 2 October
Hollis, Richard: 3 October - 30 October

1984
Whitechapel Open: 18 January - 19 February

1985
Whitechapel Open: 12 March - 31 March

Hodgkin, Howard: 20 September - 3 November
Poncelet, Jacqueline: 20 September - 6 October
Heron, Susanna: 8 October - 3 November
Kirkby, Per: 22 November - 12 January
Laib, Wolfgang: 22 November - 12 January

1986
Walker, Ray: 24 January - 23 February
Whitechapel Open: 24 January - 23 February
In Tandem: The Painter-Sculptor in the Twentieth Century: 27 March - 13 April
East End Festival: 27 March - 13 April
O'Farrell, Terry: 15 April - 25 May
Dennis, Jeffrey: 6 June - 20 July
Willing, Victor: 6 June - 20 July
Tower Hamlets Women's Arts Festival: 6 June - 20 July, Foyer
From Two Worlds: Sixteen Artists of Non-European Background: 30 July - 7 September
Family Books: 30 July - 7 September
Schnabel, Julyian: 19 September - 26 October
Boston-London Art Exchange: 9 September - 26 October
Smith, David: 7 November - 4 January

1987
Lanceley, Fernand
Nauman, Bruce: 16 January - 8 March
Three Artists in East London Schools: 20 March - 26 April
Whitechapel Open: 20 March - 26 April
East Ham Graphics: 18 March - 26 April
Webb, Boyd: 8 May - 21 June
Epstein, Jacob: 3 July - 13 September
Twombly, Cy: 25 September - 15 November
Léger, Fernand: 27 November - 21 February
Murphy, John : 27 November - 21 February
Homerton Hospital Painting Commission: 27 November - 21 February

1988
Island Seen
Jamdani Weavers
Kesseler, Rob (tape/slide),
Woven Air: The Muslin and Kantha Tradition of Bangladesh: 4 March - 1 May
Boyce, Sonia: 13 May - 26 June
Sandle, Michael: 13 May - 26 June
Fontana, Lucio: 8 July - 18 September
Kirk, Joanna: 8 July - 7 August
Hale, Matthew: 9 August - 18 September
Whitechapel Open : 30 September - 6 November

Deacon, Richard: 25 November - 22 January
Whiteford, Kate: 25 November - 22 January

1989
Artists in East London Schools
Davis, Kate
Hines, Naomi
Miro, Joan: 3 February - 23 April
Scully, Sean: 5 May - 25 June
Tunga: 5 May - 25 June
Lafontaine, Marie-Jo: 7 July - 3 September
Uglow, Euan : 7 July - 3 September
Whitechapel Open: 15 September - 29 October
Craig-Martin, Michael: 10 November - 7 January,

1990
Gorky, Arshile: 19 January - 25 March
Boltanski, Christian: 6 April - 3 June
Gonzalez, Julio: 15 June - 5 August
Klingelholler, Harald: 15 June - 5 August
Seven Obsessions : 17 August - 30 September
McKeever, Ian: 12 October - 2 December
Nolde, Emil: 12 October - 2 December
Whitechapel Open : 14 December - 20 January

1991
Whitechapel Open
Andrews, Michael: 1 February - 24 March
Pinkham Ryder, Albert: 1 February - 24 March
Luskacova, Marketa: 5 April - 26 May
Yeats, Jack B: 5 April - 26 May
Disler, Martin : 7 June - 21 July
Without Walls: 7 June - 21 July
Sherman, Cindy: 2 August - 22 September
Doig, Peter: 2 August - 22 September
Tickle, Matthew: 2 August - 22 September
Diebenkorn, Richard : 4 October - 1 December
Cabinet of Signs, A Contemporary Art From Post Modern Japan: 13 December - 2 February

1992
Jaar, Alfredo: 14 February - 29 March
Living Wood: Sculptural Traditions of Southern India: 10 April - 31 May
Whitechapel Open: 19 June - 30 August
Gris, Juan: 18 September - 29 November
Head, Tim: 11 December - 28 February

1993
Solano, Susana: 11 March - 2 May
Bevan, Tony: 14 May - 11 July
Nathan, Piotr: 14 May - 11 July
Rave Machine: 12 August - 17 August
Freud, Lucian: 10 September - 21 November
Bill Viola

1994
Rosso, Medardo
Mundanzas: Six Spanish Aritsts - Civera, Gomez, Pelaez, Rom, Ulsé, Valldosera, Eulalia
Whitechapel Open
Franz Kline
Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horatic
Miquel Barcelo
Worlds in a Box: Cornell, Fluxus, Herms, LeWitt, Samaras

1995
Kiki Smith
New Art from Cuba: Bruguera, Kcho, Rodriquez, Los Carpinteros
Kuitca, Guillermo
Drawing the Line: Michelangelo, Duchamp, Modersohn-Becker
Egyptian c1400BC
Vitrue, John
Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa: Koloane, Samb, Abdalla, Kentridge, Emokpae
Nolde, Emil

1996
Wall, Jeff
Guttuso, Renato
The Open/Open Studios
Inside the Visible 38 Artists - Lygia Clark, Gego, Hiller, Mendieta, Salomon, Woodman

1997
Cragg, Tony: Sculpture and Drawing
Antechamber: Alys, Pippen, Heath, Strba, Austin
Krishna, the Divine Lover
De Monchaux, Cathy
Siqueiros, David: Portrait of a Decade
Lines from Brazil: Grindberg

1998
Schütte, Thomas
Whitechapel Open/Open Studios
Doig, Peter
Williams, Aubrey
Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age: Flavin, Hamilton, Gursky, Hapaska, R.Graham
Trockel, Rosemarie

1999
Winters, Terry
Michaux, Henri
Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings: Bacon, Beecroft, Guston, Halley, Raedecker
000zerozerozero: Tegala, Islam, Fernandes, Sawhney, Biswas
Boetti: The Maverick Spirit of Arte Povera
Hume, Gary

2000
Live in your Head - Latham, Brisley, Hilliard, Breakwell, Judy Clark
Toledo, Francisco
Andre, Carl
Protest & Survive: Fahlstrom, Gonzalez-Torres, Creed, Spence
A Different Kind of Show