Creates Seated Figure, his first carved plastic sculpture illuminated from within. Moholy-Nagy recounts later that Archipenko invents his own machine at the Bauhaus to carve plastic.

May 4 – May 22: 78. Solo Show, Associated American Artists Galleries, New York. Presents “new” plexiglas works.

June 1 - 16: Solo show, Berlin, Germany, Amt für Kunst, first exhibition after war in Europe

Solo show of drawings, Seattle Art Museum, exhibition travels to Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.

Solo show, University of Nebraska, Omaha

April 1 – May 28: Participates at Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

July 1 - 31: Drawing exhibition, Bowdoin College Museum of Fine Arts, Brunswick, Maine

Teaches at University of Missouri in Kansas City.

Extensive teaching on art and creativity

Commissioned to create two statues for the entrance of the University of Missouri. The two identical “Iron Figures,” 14-foot high constructions with crossing planes, were completed in 1951. >> read

Drawing exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Takes part in group exhibition, “American Sculpture”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Teaches at Carmel Institute of Art, California, at the University of Washington, Seattle, and at the University of Delaware.

March 13 – May 4: Participates at Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

July 15 - August 17: Participates at “L’Oeuvre du XXe siècle, Peintures, Sculptures,” Musée National D’Art Moderne, Paris, exhibition travels to The Tate Gallery, London, “XXth Century Masterpieces.”

October 11 – December 7: Takes part in “Sculpture of the Twentieth Century,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, exhibition traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, January 22 – March 8, 1953, and to The Museum of Modern Art, April 29 – September 7, 1953.

November: Drawing exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Presents 32 drawings.

Elected Associate Member of International Institute of Arts and Letters.

January 30 - April 9: Takes part in “Le Cubisme,” Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris.

Solo show, works on paper, El Instituto Guatemalteco-Americano, Guatemala City, Guatemala


May – September: “Sculpture in the Open Air”, Holland Park, London

October 16 – November 14: Retrospective “110th Exhibition, Fifty Years Production,” at Associated American Artists Galleries, New York