Solo Exhibitions and Major Solo Presentations

  • 2023The Life and Art of Alice Lok Cahana, Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, USA, (Feb 3–Apr 9, 2023).

  • 2009Alice Lok Cahana: From Ashes to the Rainbow, Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland Art Museum, and Portland Center Stage, Portland, Oregon, USA.

  • 2005 – Solo exhibition, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church (with Central Synagogue Holocaust commemoration program Through My Mother’s Eyes), New York City, USA.

  • 2004No Kaddish for the Children, Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

  • 2002The Soul of the People: Commemorating the Shoah, Iona College, New Rochelle, New York, USA.

  • 2001From Ashes to the Rainbows: A Tribute to Raoul Wallenberg, Pittsburgh Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

  • 2000Mirrors and Memories: Images of the Holocaust, Hunt-Cavanaugh Gallery, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

  • 1996Remembering Not to Forget (solo retrospective; opening exhibition), Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, USA (Mar–Nov 1996).

  • 1991Remembrance, Bortizer Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA.

  • 1989Walls, The New Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.

  • 1988 – Solo exhibition in the Rotunda, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., USA.

  • 1987The Paintings of Alice Lok Cahana, The New Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.

  • 1986From My Mother’s Prayerbook, Live Oak Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.

  • 1985From My Mother’s Prayerbook, Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

  • 1983 – Solo exhibition, Drawing Room Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.

  • 1982From Ashes to the Rainbow, Houston Art Council / National Conference of Christians and Jews, Houston, Texas, USA.

  • 1981Qumran Series, Robert Molina Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.

  • 1978 – Solo exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.

  • 1977 – Solo exhibition, Robert I. Kahn Gallery (Temple Emanu-El), Houston, Texas, USA.

Touring solo exhibition

  • 1986–1988From Ashes to the Rainbow: A Tribute to Raoul Wallenberg (touring, presented by ARCO and Hebrew Union College), shown at venues including The Judaic Museum (Rockville, MD), Skirball Museum (Los Angeles), Blaffer Gallery (Houston), Jewish Community Museum (San Francisco), and PA Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Philadelphia).

Group Exhibitions and Featured Inclusions

  • 2025Survival and Intimations of Immortality: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, Oregon, USA (Jan 26–May 25, 2025).

  • 2006When They Came to Take My Father – Mark Seliger, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, USA (Jan–Sep 2006) — exhibition of survivor portraits including Alice Lok Cahana.

  • 1998Art Out of Atrocity: Works by Alice Lok Cahana and Robert Barsamian, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA.

  • 1997History, Memory, and Representation: Responses to Genocide (three-person exhibition), List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA.

  • 1995Witness and Legacy (traveling group exhibition; organized by Stephen C. Feinstein), Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (traveled to 17 U.S. cities per the catalog appendix).

  • 1993Sacred Image, Sacred Text: Art of the Holocaust (three-person exhibition), B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C., USA.

Publications, Exhibition Catalogs, and Major Features

  • 2020 – Ori Z. Soltes (ed.), Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana (Fritz Ascher Society; exhibition/catalog publication.

  • 2003Michael Berenbaum, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors (Bulfinch Press; library records/author bio describe the book; the National Library of Israel entry lists Alice Lok Cahana among the survivors featured).

  • 1996Mark Seliger, When They Came to Take My Father: Voices of the Holocaust (Arcade Publishing; bibliographic details/review), including Alice Lok Cahana as a portrait subject/interview (Seliger archive + table of contents listings).

  • 2000 – Alice Lok Cahana, Mirrors and Memories: Images of the Holocaust (exhibition catalog; Providence College / Hunt-Cavanaugh Gallery exhibition documentation).

  • 1998 – Peter Balakian and Jennifer Olson-Rudenko, Art Out of Atrocity: Works by Alice Lok Cahana and Robert Barsamian (Picker Art Gallery / Colgate University exhibition catalog).

  • 1986From Ashes to the Rainbow: A Tribute to Raoul Wallenberg (exhibition catalog; documented as a traveling exhibition catalog; Skirball Museum/Hebrew Union College context).