During his lifetime, David Garfinkiel organized five personal exhibitions.Thereafter, the Salon des Independants devoted a tribute, and then five other exhibitions have been organized.
These exhibitions are:

Personal exhibitions

Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris	Paris	2017
Musée du Montparnasse	Paris	2010
Centre d’art et de culture Espace Rachi	Paris	2006
Galerie Colette Dubois	Paris	1989
Galerie Aleph	Paris	1979
Rétrospective au Salon des Indépendants	Paris	1972
Katz Art Gallery	Tel Aviv	1961
Musée Bat-Yam	Bat Yam / Israel	1961
Galerie Zak	Paris	1958
Famous Café	Los Angeles	1947
Provinces de France	Lyon	1942

ÉDOUARD RODITI  About the Aleph gallery tribute-exhibition in 1979:
Among the paintings, aquarelles and drawings of Garfinkiel (…) [there are] some subjects that take inspiration from Jewish Eastern Europe folklore, but moreover landscapes and still-lifes that convey to us joie de vivre and a very personal painter’s sensuality ; and these latter qualities indeed distinguish Garfinkiel’s painting not only from Soutine’s, so tortured, that he admired, but also from so many other darker painters from Montparnasse school he knew and frequented.

Edouard Roditi, ( 1910- 1992), linguist, poet, novelist, art critic, biographer, translator and essayist. He dedicated many works to the painters Delacroix, Degas, or Beardsley and conducted interviews with modern artists like Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Oskar Kokoschka, Philippe Derome, Hannah Höch, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Carlo Carrà, and Leonor Fini most of which were assembled in « Propos sur l’art ».

WALDEMAR GEORGE  About the Zak Galerie exhibition in 1958 : Garfinkiel acknowledges that he draws with a paint-brush and paints by visible, translucent, free and dense strokes. Sometimes his material recalls mosaïc (…). The painted work of Garfinkiel, this discreet visionnary man, is a  double polarity work. It includes, first of all, a sequence of pictures which find in themselves their intimate reason to be [like some portraits or still lifes]….. To these gamuts, to these prose poems, to these gratuitously-marked chords, visions with a dramatic accent are opposed. The fineness and the extreme acuteness of visual  perception from a purely impressionnist educated painter give place this time to an apocalyptic and romantic expressionnism (…) . Waldemar George 1893-1970, is tied to the first School of Paris and wrote many of  monograhies on Picasso, Matisse, Utrillo, Gris, Léger, Gromaire, Maillol, etc. He was among the first art critics talking to artists like Chagall and Soutine and many others originating in eastern Europe. Exhibition organiser, he was also an accomplished revue-director, collaborating with  L’amour de l’art, Formes, La Renaissance, l’Art et les artistes, Beaux-Arts…

MOUSSIA TOULMAN About the Colette Dubois exhibition in 1989: Besides his pure painting pages, with surprisingly strong figures, we can find in his work the eternal Jewish weddings,the traditional musicians, but dealing with these regular topics, to which the artist will manage to give a personal accent; Garfinkiel knows how to go beyond the anecdote: with him the painter overcomes the story teller  (…). David Garfinkiel, gentle and modest man, used to hide his beautiful authentic creator’s personality by showing us quiet still-lives, modest and decent flowers but, suddenly we delightedly find voluptuous nudes, vast compositions in which the passionate temper of the artist reveals itself with strength and with unsuspected eagerness. Garfinkiel, unobtrusive painter who during his life will stay in half light, now appears to us as the most deserving descendant of his great elders [from the School of Paris]. Moussia Toulman (1903-1997) was a listened art critic and a collectionneuse. She donated part of her collection to the museum of Ein Harod in Galilee.

Salon des Indépendants	Paris	1932, de 1951 à 1970
Salon d’Automne	Paris	de 1961 à 1965, 1967
GAJEF devenu APSJF (Association des artistes, peintres, et sculpteurs juifs de France	Paris	de 1945 à 1970…
Galerie Drouant	Paris	1945
Salon de l’Art Libre	Paris	1951, 1952, 1954
Galerie Vibaud	Paris	1952
Salon de l’Ecole Française	Paris	1955
Exposition Internationale du musée des  Beaux-Arts de Paris	Paris	1956
4ème salon de peinture et sculpture	Taverny	1960
6ème Salon artistique	Pré Saint Gervais	1963
Salon du XIXé arrondissement	Paris	1963
Société des amis des arts de Vanves	Vanves	1963
Salon de Versailles	Versailles	1966
Galerie Welter	Paris	1968
Galerie Katia Granoff « Peintres de l’Ecole de  Paris	Paris	1968
International Art Exhibition	Tel-Aviv	1970
Centre Culturel Juif	Paris	1973
Paris Marseille De la Canebière à Montparnasse	Musée du Montparnasse – Paris	2003
Paris Marseille De la Canebière à Montparnasse	Château Borély à Marseille	2003-2004