Polly Apfelbaum has been showing consistently in New York and abroad since her first one-person show in New York 1986. A major mid-career survey of her work opened in 2003 at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. The show traveled through 2004, and a catalogue surveying 15 years of work was published by ICA. Selected personal and group exhibitions include: Second That Emotion: Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (2013); Flatland: Color Revolt, Hansel und Gretel Picture Garden, New York (2012); Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Haunted House, Amden, Switzerland (2011); Off Colour, D'Amelio Terras, New York (2010); Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007); As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2001); Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994).