Pearlstein has been recognized
in several museum exhibitions among which are: Philip Pearlstein: a Retrospective at Milwaukee
Art Museum, which travelled to The Brooklyn Museum, NY, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, Philadelphia PA, and Toledo Museum, Toledo, OH, 1983 - 84; The Abstract Landscapes and Other Early Works on Paper, Butler Institute of American
Art, Youngstown, OH, 1992; Philip Pearlstein Retrospective Exhibition: Works on Paper 1959 - 1994, University of Pittsburgh, Frick Fine
Arts Building, 1995 - 96; Philip Pearlstein:
World War II Paintings, Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998 - 99; An Economy of Specific Bodies and Particular Objects: Philip Pearlstein Drawings, Frye
Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2005; Philip Pearlstein, The Dispassionate Body, Tweed Museum of
Art, Duluth, MN, which travelled to the Michener
Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, 2006 - 08; Philip Pearlstein: Objectifications, Montclair
Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, 2008 - 9; Philip Pearlstein: Recent Works, Lyme Academy College of Fine
Arts, Old Lyme, CT, 2009; Philip Pearlstein's
People, Places, Things, Museum of Fine
Arts, St Petersburg, FL, 2013; Philip Pearlstein: Six Paintings, Six Decades, National Academy of
Art, New York, NY, 2014; Pearlstein Warhol Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, 2015; Philip Pearlstein: Seventy - Five Years of Painting, Susquehanna
Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 2017 among others.