Arrives in Paris. Finds the Ecole des Beaux-Arts too academic and leaves after approximately two weeks for independent study at the Louvre and other Parisian museums.

Establishes an independent studio at Montparnasse. Frequents the artists’ colony La Ruche where he meets Modigliani, Léger, Apollinaire, Cendrars, Gaudier-Brzeska and Raynal.

First public exhibition in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants with Cubists, including Delaunay, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Le Fauconnier, Gleizes, Léger, Lhote and Metzinger. He also takes part in the Salons of 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1920.

Frequents the Duchamp brothers’ salons.

Shows with Cubists at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne.

Review of Salon d’Automne caricatures Woman With Cat.

Opens art school in Paris.

Boccioni who arrived in Paris in 1911, visits Archipenko in his studio.

Creates Médrano I, a sculpture with movable parts and constructed of various materials: wood, glass, and metal wire.

Shows at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne.

Shows in La Section d’Or, Galerie La Boétie, Paris.

Solo show at Museum Folkwang, Hagen, Germany. Apollinaire writes an introduction for the exhibition catalog.

Shows at the Salon des Indépendants.

Shows at the Armory Show in New York.

Galerie Der Sturm: “17. Ausstellung: Alexander Archipenko,” catalog foreword by Apollinaire.

Develops La Vie Humaine, a cubist play.

Correspondence with Theo van Doesburg, De Stijl Group.

Blaise Cendrars dedicates his poem “La tête” to Archipenko.

Sally Falk acquires Archipenko’s work.

Marthe Donas becomes a close friend.

Shows in “Exhibition of French Art 1914 - 1919,” Mansard Gallery, Heal & Son, Ltd., London.

Spends time in Nice working on sculpto-paintings, which he presents the following year at the Salon des Indépendants.

November: Marcel Duchamp brings Katherine Dreier to Archipenko’s studio.

“Tournée de l’exposition de sculptures, sculpto-peintures, peintures, dessins de Alexandre Archipenko,” opens in Geneva, Switzerland. Traveling to other locations in Zurich, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dresden, Munich, Düsseldorf and New York.

Shows in “Erste Russische Kunstausstellung,” Galerie van Diemen, Berlin.

Solo shows in Germany at Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin and Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt.

Receives patents for “Archipentura”, an "Apparatus for Displaying Changeable Pictures and Method for Decorating Changeable Display Apparatus."

Purchase of 13 acres of land on rock quarry site in Bearsville, near Woodstock, New York.

Becomes American citizen.

Establishes “Arko,” a school of ceramics in New York City.

“An Exhibition of Sculpture and Paintings,” The Arts Club, Chicago.

“The Archipenko Exhibition,” Braxton Gallery, Hollywood. Josef von Sternberg purchases 18 works from the exhibition.

Solo show at John Levy Galleries, New York City.

Lectures on creativity at universities and colleges on Pacific Coast, Midwest and the East Coast.

Teaches at Mills College, Oakland, California and at the Chouinard School, Los Angeles.

Shows 44 works, including the Mâ-series at the Ukrainian Pavilion at the World Fair “A Century of Progress.” His narrative “M” is reproduced in the exhibition catalog.

Lives in Chicago. Invited by László Moholy-Nagy to teach at the New Bauhaus Chicago as head of Modelling Workshop.

“The credit for the first conscious use of concaves in sculpture – to replace saliences – is due to Archipenko... His attempt leads the observer, by its evident deviation from the customary naturalistic treatment, to a realization of the elementary possibilities of the positive-negative relations.”
– László Moholy-Nagy, 1932.

Solo show at Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago.

Germany, Nazis confiscate works by Archipenko as “Degenerate Art.”

Solo show at Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago.

Creates Moses, a seven-foot high sculpture, to benefit artists exiled by the Fascist regimes in Europe.

Solo show at University of Omaha. The exhibition travels to Springfield Museum of Art and Philadelphia Art Alliance.

Shows in “We like Modern Art”, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Solo show at Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago.

Teaches at Dalton School, New York.

Solo show at Nierendorf Gallery, New York.

Teaches summer art school in Bearsville.

Returns to Chicago, teaches at the Institute of Design (formerly Bauhaus).

Shows new acrylic glass works at Associated American Artists Galleries, New York.

First exhibition after the war in Europe at Amt für Kunst, Berlin, Germany.

“Colored Drawings of Archipenko,” Seattle Art Museum, exhibition travels to Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.

“Alexander Archipenko,” University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Shows in Annual Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Teaches at University of Missouri in Kansas City.

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

Shows in “American Sculpture”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

Shows in Annual Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Shows in “L’Oeuvre du XXe siècle, Peintures, Sculptures,” Musée National D’Art Moderne, Paris, exhibition travels to The Tate Gallery, London, “XXth Century Masterpieces.”

Shows 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.

“Desenhos de Archipenko,” Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Elected Associate Member of International Institute of Arts and Letters.

Shows in “Le Cubisme,” Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris.

Retrospective “Archipenko 110th Exhibition, Fifty Years Production,” Associated American Artists Galleries, New York

Large traveling retrospective in Germany, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen.

Traveling retrospective in Germany continues, Städtische Kunstsammlung Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Freiburg, Charlottenburger Schloss, Berlin.

Teaches at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Shows in Annual Exhibition at Whitney Museum, New York.

“Archipenko: Recent Polychromes,” Perls Galleries, New York. Catalog with foreword by Alexander Archipenko. Read.

On December 5 his wife Angelica dies at the age of 65, after a long illness.

“Alexander Archipenko: Bronzes,” Perls Galleries, New York.

Awarded Medaglia d’Oro at XIIIa Biennale d’Arte Trivenata, IIIo Concorso Internazionale del Bronzetto, Salla della Ragione, Padua, Italy.

Represented in “Bildhauer des 20. Jahrhunderts,” Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.

Represented in 6e Biennale Voor Beelhouwkunst, Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium.

Represented in “Der Sturm: Herwarth Walden und die Europäische Avantgarde Berlin 1912 - 1932”, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

“Alexander Archipenko, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen,” Galerie Stangl, Munich, Germany.

Alexander Archipenko dies on February 25 in New York, shortly after casting his last bronze King Solomon.

Retrospective, “Archipenko: Content and Continuity 1908 - 1963,” Kovler Gallery, Chicago.

Represented in “Pioneers of Modern Sculpture”, Hayward Gallery, London.

“Archipenko at Pace,” Pace Gallery, New York.

“Alexander Archipenko – A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture,” Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo. Catalog with introduction by Frances Archipenko Gray.

“Archipenko –Polychrome Sculptures”, Zabriskie Gallery, New York; exhibition travels to Arts Club of Chicago.

“Archipenko,” Contemporary Sculpture Center Tokyo; travels to Contemporary Sculpture Center Osaka.

“Alexander Archipenko 1887 - 1964: The Late Experimental Years,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

Represented in “Three American Sculptors And The Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko,” Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; exhibition travels to Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.

Represented in “Herwarth Walden and Der Sturm,” Helen Serger la boétie, inc., New York.

“Archipenko: Naturalism of the 1920s and 1930s,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

“Archipenko, The Early Works: 1910 - 1921,” The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv.

“Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings, and Prints, 1908 - 1963,” Norton Center, Center College, Danville, Kentucky.

“Archipenko: Drawings, Reliefs and Constructions,” Edith C. Blum Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York.

“Alexander Archipenko: The Last Decade 1954 - 64,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

Represented in “The Development of Sculptural Form: Auguste Rodin, Alexander Archipenko, Louise Nevelson, David Smith, Nancy Graves,” Associated American Artists, New York.

“Alexander Archipenko: The Sculptor As Printmaker,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

“Archipenko,” Galeria Freites, Caracas, Venezuela.

“Archipenko on Paper,” Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston.

Represented in “Tanz in der Moderne. Von Matisse bis Schlemmer,” Kunsthalle Emden, Germany.

“Archipenko,” Galerie Maeght, Paris.

Frances Archipenko Gray establishes The Archipenko Foundation, a non-profit organization.

“Alexander Archipenko: Terra Cotta Sculptures,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York.

“Process and Exploration: Recurring Motifs in the Work of Alexander Archipenko,” Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, Florida.

Represented in “Modigliani & The Artists of Montparnasse,” Albright-Knox-Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

Represented in “My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four,” Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California.

Represented in “Pleasures of Collecting: Part II. Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art,” Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Represented in "Russisch Paris 1910-1960," Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; traveled to The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg and Musée des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux.

"Refashioning the Figure: The Sketchbooks of Archipenko," Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England. Essay by Marek Bartelik.

Represented in “European Art Between the World Wars,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York.

Represented in “A Secret History of Clay: From Gauguin to Gormley,” Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

“Alexander Archipenko: Unknown Works,” Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, Germany.

“Alexander Archipenko: Vision and Continuity,” The Ukrainian Museum, New York City, traveled to Smith College Museum of Art and Chazen Museum of Art.

Represented in "Facets of Cubism," Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

The Archipenko Foundation publishes the proceedings of the symposium "Alexander Archipenko Revisited," held at Cooper Union, New York, 17 September 2005.

“Alexander Archipenko,” Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Represented in “La Ruche, cité des artistes 1902-2009,” Palais Lumière, Evian, France.

Represented in “Oublier Rodin? La sculpture á Paris, 1905 á 1914,” Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.

“Alexander Archipenko: Skulpturen, Sculptures,” Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany.

Represented in “Van Doesburg & The International Avant-Garde. Constructing a New World,” Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Represented in “Modigliani Sculptor,” Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy.

Represented in "Zentrum der Avantgarde: Der Sturm," Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany.

Represented in “The Figure in Modern Sculpture,” Forum Gallery, New York City, curated by Dr. Kenneth Wayne.

Represented in “Embracing the New: Modernism's Impact on Woodstock Artists,” Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY.

Represented in “The Human Face and Form,” McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.

Represented in “1913 Armory Show Revisited: The Artists And Their Prints,” International Print Center, New York City.

Represented in “The Armory Show at 100: The New Art Spirit,” New York Historical Society, New York City.