Retrospectives in Paris in 1955 and Amsterdam in 1961 are the earliest to historically document the place of Torres-García in the currents of abstract art. In the United States, he exhibited in New York's 1920s when the Whitney Studio Club, The Society of Independent artists and the Societe Anonyme were just emerging. In the 1930s, Albert Eugene Gallatin exhibited his work in the Museum of Living Art alongside such Modern masters as Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, etc. The Museum of Modern Art opened its Latin American collection exhibition in the 1940s with the acquisition of his works. Sidney Janis and Rose Fried Galleries sponsored important shows from the 1950s. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened a retrospective exhibition in the 1970s. Recent retrospectives in The Museum of Modern Art (2015) and Acquavella Galleries (2018), exhibited his art from a contemporary perspective.