Exhibitions included:

1928, Lille: Neoplastic work with the STUCA group

1929–*1930: Exhibition with the Cercle et Carré group created by Michel Seuphor and Torrès-Garcia.

1930, Nantes: with the L’Etrave artistic group

1931, Paris: Display of his first relief in an exhibition of Groupe *1940

1945, Paris: Exposition Art concret, Galerie René Drouin.

1946: Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, of which he was secretary

1948, New York: Exposition of abstract constructive art

1957, Paris: 50 years of abstract paintings organized by the Creuze gallery. 

First one-man show at the Galerie Colette Allendy

1958, Saint-Étienne: The first generations of abstract art

1960, Liège: Musée de l’Art Wallon

1965, Nantes: Retrospective at the Musée des Beaux-Arts

1966, Chicago: Exposition at the Kazimir Gallery

1967, Amsterdam: Retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum

1969, Paris: Retrospective at the Centre national d’art contemporain

1974, Paris: Exhibition at the Galerie Denise René

1977, Nantes: Retrospective at the Musée des Beaux-Arts

1977, Paris: Centre Pompidou

1999, Blain: Hommage du mouvement Madi à Gorin, Château de la Groulais

1999, Grenoble: Exposition Jean Gorin

Albert Jean Gorin was born at Saint-Emilien-de-Blain (Loire-Atlantique) December 2, 1899. From 1914-1916 he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts at Nantes and then from 1919 to 1922, the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. Initially influenced by Matisse, Van Gogh, Cezanne and the Expressionist movement he discovered Cubism in 1923 and was particularly impressed by Albert Gleizes’ book Du Cubisme (Paris 1921) After a period painting primarily in a pure Cubist vein, Gorin executed his first abstract painting in 1925 and in 1926 discovered the work of Piet Mondrian. Further development of the Cubist aesthetic resulted in an interest in furniture design and avant-garde architectural applications.