Solo Exhibitions | |
| 1956 | Limelight Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1956 | First Federal Savings Bank, New York, NY |
| 1958 | East River Savings Bank, New York, NY |
| 1958 | New York Public Library, St. Luke's branch, New York, NY |
| 1959 | First Federal Savings Bank, New York, NY |
| 1960 | Berkshire Playhouse, Stockbridge, Massachusetts |
| 1961 | Duluth Public Library, Duluth, Minnesota |
| 1961 | Wisconsin Historical Society, Superior, Wisconsin |
| 1962 | Unitarian Fellowship, Morristown, New Jersey |
| 1963 | Greenberger's Department Store, Morristown, New Jersey |
| 1966 | Eastman Kodak Gallery, Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY |
| 1973 | Federal Hall, New York, NY |
| 1974 | Federal Hall, New York, NY |
| 1984 | Ledel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1988 | Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY |
| 1989 | Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1990 | Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1990 | University at Buffalo, State University of New York: "Esther Bubley on Assignment, Photographs Since 1939" |
| 1991 | Minnesota University, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1995 | Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
| 2001 | UBS/PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York, NY and on tour: "Esther Bubley: American Photojournalist" |
| 2001 | Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA: "Esther Bubley: American Photojournalist" |
| 2003 | Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH: "America As It Was: The Photojournalism of Esther Bubley" |
| 2003 | Gallery 292, New York, NY: "Esther Bubley . . .And leave the driving to us" |
| 2003 | Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA: "Esther Bubley: American Photojournalist" |
| 2005 | Deborah Bell Photographs, New York, NY: "Esther Bubley: On Assignment" |
| 2005 | University of Louisville, Louisville, KY "Esther Bubley: American Photojournalist" |
| 2005 | Paul Paletti Gallery, Louisville, KY: "High Standards: Esther Bubley Photos from the Standard Oil Collection" |
| 2007 | Lyceum Gallery, Riverhead, NY: "Esther Bubley: American Photojournalist" |
Group Exhibitions | |
| 1948 | Museum of Modern Art: "In and Out of Focus" curated by Edward Steichen |
| 1950 | Dallas Museum of Art |
| 1952 | Museum of Modern Art: "Diogenes With a Camera" curated by Edward Steichen |
| 1953 | Grace Church Guild Hall, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1955 | Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1955 | Museum of Modern Art: "Family of Man" curated by Edward Steichen view images |
| 1956 | Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1957 | Westchester Art Society |
| 1960 | Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Photography in the Fine Arts" view images |
| 1965 | Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and on tour: "Profiles of Poverty" |
| 1976 | International Center of Photography, New York, NY and Rochester, NY |
| 1976 | Eastman Kodak Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1981 | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1981 | Museum of Modern Art: "American Children" |
| 1983 | Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas: "Out of the Forties" |
| 1983 | Brooklyn Museum of Art, "The Great East River Bridge", Brooklyn, NY |
| 1984 | International Center of Photography, New York, NY |
| 1987 | Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY |
| 1988 | Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1988 | Library of Congress, Washington, DC and on tour: "Documenting America" |
| 1989 | Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY |
| 1990 | Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1990 | Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY |
| 1992 | Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1992 | Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design (2 shows), New York, NY |
| 1993 | Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY |
| 1994 | Art Institute of Chicago: "The Reckless Moment" |
| 1994 | Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY |
| 1995 | Library of Congress, Washington, DC and on tour: "Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters During World War II" |
| 1995 | Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey |
| 1996 | The New York Public Library, and on tour: "A History of Women Photographers", New York, NY |
| 1997 | Paine Webber Gallery, New York, NY: "Beaux Arts New York" |
| 1997 | St. Louis Art Museum: "Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century" |
| 1998 | Keith DeLellis Gallery, New York, NY: "Motherhood" |
| 1998 | New York Public Library, New York, NY: "Eight Million Stories: Twentieth-century New York Life in Prints and Photographs from The New York Public Library" |
| 1998 | Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA "Childhood: 19th and 20th Century Vintage Photographs" |
| 1999 | Wichita Art Museum: "Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century" |
| 1999 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY: "The American Century: Art & Culture 1900 - 1950" |
| 1999 | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and on tour: "Propaganda & Dreams, Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US" |
| 2000 | Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA: "Sitting Pretty: Photographs from the Marianne Moore Collection" |
| 2002 | Deborah Bell Photographs, New York, NY: "John Cohen and Other Musicians" |
| 2002 | Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City, NV: "Railroads and Photography: 150 Years of Great Images". Organized by the Center for Railroad Photography & Art. |
| 2003 | Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY: "Celebrating Central Park, 1853-2003" |
| 2005 | Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY: "Picturing the Park" |
| 2005 | Deborah Bell Photographs, New York, NY: "summertime is children's time..." |
| 2005 | Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France: "Dedans - Dehors: Le Portugal en Photographies". Travel venues: C.G.D. Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2005/2006 | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA: "Witness to the Fifties: Selections from the Pittsburgh Photographic Library, 1950 to 1953" |
| 2006 | Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA: "Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism" |
| 2006 | Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA: "Women Artists: Selections from the Corporate Collection of A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc." |
| 2006 | Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY: "The Beach" |
| 2006 | Snite Museum of Art, Southbend, IN: "New Photographs: Selections from the Permanent Collection" |
| 2006-2007 | Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY: "Looking Back from Ground Zero: Images from the Brooklyn Museum Collection" |
| 2007 | Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation, Lisbon, Portugal: "INGENUITY Photography and Engineering 1846-2006" |
| 2007 | Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM: "Women Who Shot the 20th Century" |
| 2007 | Cartier Foundation, Paris, France: "Rock n' Roll 1939-59" |
| 2008 | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: "Chance Encounters: Photographs from the Collection of Norman Carr and Carolyn Kinder Carr" |