1979

Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine.

1972

San Francisco Art Institute, California.

1970

Santa Monica College, California.

2006

‘Dan McCleary Etchings from Oaxaca Taller De Grabado’, Simayspace at Art Academy of San Diego, San Diego, California.

2005

Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas.

2004

New Work’, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
‘Prints and Drawings’, The Colburn School of Performing Arts, Los Angeles, California.

2003

‘Prints 1990-2003’, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California.
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.
‘Drawings’, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California.
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kanas

2002

Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.

2001

David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York.
‘Works on Paper’, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

2000

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California.

1999

David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York

1998

Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

1997

‘Watercolors’, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

1996

Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

1995

Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, New York.
‘Flower Paintings’, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.

1994

Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Northpoint Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1993

Galeria Isa, Montecastello, Italy.
Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, New York

1992

Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, Caliifornia.

1991

Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, New York.

1990

Krygier-Landau, Los Angeles, California.

1989

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California.
Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, New York.

1988

Krygier-Landau, Los Angeles, California.

1987

Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, New York.

1986-84

Newspace, Los Angeles, California.

1982

Newspace, Los Angeles, California.

2006

‘Works on Paper’, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.

2004

‘A Selection of Portraits from the Doug Simay Collection’, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California.

C.O.L.A. Awards, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, California.

2002

‘Bouquet-Art of Flowers’, Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, Connecticut.

2001

‘Self Interest: Autobiography and Myth in Recent Figurative Art’, RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, New Jersey.

1999

‘Portraits from L.A.’, California State University, San Bernardino, California.

1997

‘Real, is it?’, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.

1996

‘Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves’, California Center for the Arts Museum,
Escondido, California.

1995

‘Flowers’, Boritzer/Gray/Hamano, Santa Monica, California.

1994

‘Room with a View’, Northpoint Gallery, San Francisco, California.

‘Flora: Artists’ Gardens’, 400 South Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

1993

Ledis-Flam Gallery, New York, New York.

1991

‘Figure Drawing’, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, New York.

1989

‘Art-Narrative or Not’, Hayward, California.

1987

‘Figuration/Imagination’, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.
‘Relationships’, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California.

1986

‘Movietone Muse’, 1 Penn Building, New York, New York.
‘Hollywood: Legend and Reality’, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia.

1985

‘Sunshine and Shadows’, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

1984

‘Hollywood: The Muse’, Palos Verdes Community Arts, Palos Verdes, California.

1983

‘Sentiments and Obsessions’, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California.

1982

‘Domestic Relations’, Newspace, Los Angeles, California.

1981

‘The Human Figure’, Pence Gallery, Davis, California.

1980

‘New Narrative Work’, Newspace, Los Angeles, California.

1979

Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, California.

1977

‘Introductions ’77’, Ana Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, California.

2005

Ollman, Leah, The New Masters, Los Angeles Times.

2004

Myers, Holly, Finding an Intimate Simplicity, Los Angeles Times,

December 3.

2002

Haggerty, Gerard, Art News, February.
Nott, Robert, Abstractions of Life, Santa Fe Pasatiempo, September 6.
Ollman, Leah, Studying what gets overlooked, LA Times, August 2.

2001

Drohojowska-Phillip, Hunter, Faces that reveal rigorous restraint, Los Angeles Times. Naves, Mario, The New York Observer, September 24.
The New Yorker, September 20.

2000

Grimes, Nancy, Art in America, May.

1999

Johnson, Ken, New York Times, December 17.
Naves, Mario, New York Observer, December 27

1998

Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, October.

1996

Kandel, Susan, Los Angeles Times, July.

1995

Muchnic, Suzanne, Innovations and Optimism, Art News, March.

1994

Greene, David A., About Face, LA Reader, June.
Pagel, David, Intimate Anonymity, Los Angeles Times, June 3.

1993

Cavaugh, Tim, Bloom of the Sensuous, Cover Magazine, September.

1992

Davis, Bruce, Dan McCleary, Art Issues, September/October.

1989

Freudenheim, Susann, ArtForum, February.

1988

Carrino, David, Dan McCleary, New Translations, Arts Magazine, November.
Clark, Orville C., Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, October 21

1985

Wilson, William, Los Angeles Times, March 8.

1984

Wolf, Leslie, Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, July 19.

1983

Knight, Christopher, 10 Events that Shook the Local Art World, LA Herald Examiner, December. Knight, Christopher, Los Angeles: Art on the Move, ArtNews, January.
Larson, Susan, McCleary at Newport Art Museum, ArtForum, December.

Public Collections
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California.
California Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles, California.