EXHIBITIONS
CURRENT
2026-27 The Art of Memory in Paintings by Felix Lembersky, WCEE Exhibition, the University of Michigan, Art Gallery at Weiser Hall, 10th floor, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. September 2026-June 2027
PAST
2023 Holocaust in Ukraine: Babyn Yar paintings by Felix Lembersky, Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, October. Programming: public lectures by Yelena Lembersky at the museum and the University of Southern Florida, Tampa
Art Comes Before Anything Else: Felix Lembersky, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall (online exhibition). Programming: academic symposium, public lecture by Yelena Lembersky, screening of student video essays
2022 Babyn Yar in Art and Culture,scheduled to open in Kyiv, canceled due to Russian invasion of Ukraine. Organized by Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
2014 Felix Lembersky: Soviet Form, Jewish Context, Brechner Gallery, Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts. Essay by Yelena Lembersky, PaknTreger magazine. Programming: public lecture by Yelena Lembersky; podcast interview with Professor Joel Berkowitz, Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin
2013 Felix Lembersky: Soviet Form, Jewish Context, Jewish Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Catalogue. Programming: public lectures by Yelena Lembersky and Joel Berkowitz. Traveling show.
Beings and Being: Felix Lembersky, Pushkin House, London. Catalogue. Programming: public lectures by Robert Chandler, J. C. Troncale, and Yelena Lembersky. Reviewed in Jewish Quarterly, Financial Times, Russian Art and Culture
2012 Torn from Darkness: Works by Felix Lembersky, University of Richmond, Virginia. Catalogue. Programming: academic symposium, lectures by J. C. Troncale, Yelena Lembersky, and Lourdes Figueroa
2011 Faces of Revival: Postwar Russia in the Art of Felix Lembersky, Florence & Chafetz Hillel House, Boston University. Programming: lectures by Ori Soltes and Yelena Lembersky; academic symposium with Alison Hilton, David Shneer; J. C. Troncale, Katherine O’Connor, and Irina Karasik
Faces of Babi Yar in Felix Lembersky’s Art: Presence and Absence, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Catalogue. Programming: academic symposium, talks by CheaRan Freeze, Yelena Lembersky, and Olga Litvak. Reviewed in Tablet Magazine, by CheeRan Freeze, and The Jewish Advocate, by Leah Burrow
2009 Point. Line. Fence. Felix Lembersky: Paintings and Drawings, Library & Academic Center,Newbury College, Massachusetts, 2009. Programming: lecture by Galina Lembersky and Daniel Breen
“Felix Lembersky,” Rediscovered Names (online program); awarded first prize in the Festival of Museum Projects, InternetMuseum–2009, Moscow
2007–8 Restoration as the Rebirth of Art: Restoration of Painting from the Sixteenth through the Twentieth Centuries from the Collection of the Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Art, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2006 Leningrad Artist Felix Lembersky, Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Art
2005 The Art of Portraiture, Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Art
2004–5 Painting of the First Half of the Twentieth Century from the Collection of the Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Art,Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Art
2004 Exhibition for the Sixtieth Anniversary of the End of the Leningrad Siege, Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (The Siege Survivor, 1949)
1999 Felix Lembersky. From Socialist Realism to Expressionism, 1942–65, Hillwood Art Museum (now Steinberg Museum of Art), Long Island University, Brookville, New York. Catalogue. Programming: radio interview with Yelena Lembersky
1989 Felix Lembersky, The J, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1988 Felix Lembersky, Jewish Community Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1970–80 Private exhibitions at artist’s home, Leningrad, USSR
1970 Commemorative Exhibition of the Art of Felix Lembersky, LOSKh, Leningrad
1961 Art by Leningrad Artists, Russian Museum, Leningrad (At Factory Tracks, oil, 1961; Daughter’s Portrait, oil, 1961; The Wharf, oil, 1961)
1960 Paintings by Felix Lembersky and Sculpture by Mikhail Vayman, LOSKh, Leningrad Catalogue. (76 oils, 55 works on paper in watercolor, gouache, and pastel, and 87 drawings)
Art by Leningrad Artists, Russian Museum, Leningrad. Catalogue
1955 Exhibition of the National Art, Manezh Exhibition Hall, Moscow
1954 Art by Leningrad Artists, Russian Museum, Leningrad. Catalogue
1951 Art by Leningrad Artists, Russian Museum, Leningrad. Catalogue
1945–8 Group exhibitions, Central Navy Museum and Museum of Leningrad Defense, Leningrad
1945–65 Private exhibitions at artist’s studio, Leningrad
1945 Exhibition of Paintings by Leningrad Artists, LOSKh, Leningrad. Catalogue
1944 Frontlines and Homefront, Sverdlovsk and Leningrad, USSR
1943 Untitled exhibition (dedicated to active Soviet troops), Sverdlovsk
1942 The Decade of the Urals,Sverdlovsk
