2018 The Met Breuer, ‘Everything is Connected. Art and Conspiracy’, New York NY
Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, ‘This Brush’s For Hire. Norm Laich and Many, Other Artists’, Los Angeles CA
San Jose Museum of Art, ‘The House Imaginary’, San Jose CA
The Getty Villa, ‘Plato in L.A.. Contemporary Artists’ Visions’, Los Angeles CA
Nottingham Contemporary Art, ‘The House of Fame’, Nottingham, UK
MAMCO Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, ‘Art & Entertainment’, Geneva, Switzerland
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center, ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’, Los Angeles CA
2017 Bortolami, ‘Social Surfaces. A Fundraising Exhibition to Support Artists Space's Relocation to 80 White Street in 2018’, New York NY
SI Offsite, ‘On Half a Tank of Gas’, New Glarus WI
Le Tripostal, ‘PERFORMANCE!’, Lille, France
DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art Montreal, ‘The Ontology of the Gift’, Montreal, Canada
Acquavella Galleries, ‘Three Dimensions. Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Relief and Sculpture’, New York NY
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle WA
W. Hawkins Ferry House, ‘Unobstructed Views’, Grosse Pointe Shores MI
Hammer Museum, ‘Living Apart Together. Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection', Los Angeles CA
The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'MEDUSA. Jewellery and Taboos', Paris, France
Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, ‘Process and Reality Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection Celebrating 25 Years of Acquisitions’, Malibu CA
Luhring Augustine, ‘White Trash’, New York NY
Deitch Projects, ‘Heidi, Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone 1992’, New York NY
Edward Ressle Gallery, ‘ANOTHER MAN’S TREASURE’, New York NY
The Jewish Museum, ‘The Arcades. Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin’, New York NY
Regen Projects, ‘What I Loved. Selected Works from the 90’s’, Los Angeles CA
Simon Lee Gallery, ‘Screen Memory’, London, UK
Edward Ressle Gallery, 'PROVOCATEUR. From Picabia to Prince', New York NY
2016 Musée Rath, ‘Nightfall’, Geneva, Switzerland
Contemporary Jewish Museum, 'from Generation to Generation', San Francisco CA
Art Basel, Miami Beach, ‘Art Basel, Miami Beach’, Miami Beach FL
Charles Riva Collection, 'The Power and the Glory', Brussels, Belgium
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, ‘[sic] works from the CAPC Collection’, Bordeaux, France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ‘The Campaign for Art. Drawings, Part II’, San Francisco CA
The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, ‘Open This End. Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne’, Portland OR
Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, ‘Strength in Numbers. Photography in Groups’, Pittsburgh PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ‘The Campaign for Art. California and the West’, San Francisco CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ‘The Campaign for Art. Modern and Contemporary’, San Francisco CA
Hammer Museum, 'Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary Collection', Los Angeles CA
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, ‘Open This End. Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne’, New York NY
MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, ‘Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead. Little Library Originals’, Detroit MI
Hauser & Wirth Schimmel, ‘Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’, Los Angeles CA
g39, ‘Public Service’, Cardiff, UK
2015 Skarstedt Gallery, 'Condo, Gonzalez-Torres, Kelley, Prince, Salle, Sherman, Trockel, Wool', New York NY
Presentation House Gallery, 'My House. Mike Kelley and Ryan Trecartin', Vancouver, Canada Susanne Hilberry Gallery, ‘Thirty Nine Years. Anniversary Exhibition Honoring the Memory of Susanne Feld Hilberry’, Ferndale MI
Contemporary Art Centre, 'Flying over the Abyss', Thessaloniki, Greece
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, ‘Black and White Mike’, Los Angeles CA
Williams College Museum of Art, ‘Your smarter than me. i don’t care’, Williamstown MA
Paris Opera, ’20 Dancers for the XXth Century’, Paris, France
Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, ‘What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from 1960 to the Present’, Providence RI
Luma Westbau, Pool, 'A Blind Man in His Garden', Zurich, Switzerland
Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, ‘Open This End. Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne’, Columbus OH
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 'Avatar and Atavism – Outside the Avantgarde', Dusseldorf, Germany
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from 1960 to the Present’, New York NY
Haus der Kunst, ‘Random Sampling – Painting from the Goetz Collection’, Munich, Germany
Messe Basel, ‘Art Basel’, Basel, Switzerland
La Ferme du Buisson, ‘ALFRED JARRY ARCHIPELAGO . LA VALSE DES PANTINS - ACTE II’, Noisiel, France
Inigo Philbrick, ‘Spray, Memory’, London, UK
La Casa Encendida, ‘ARS’tronomy’, Madrid, Spain
Tate Modern, ’20 Dancers for the XXth Century’, London, UK
Onomatopee@Designhuis, ‘Can You Hear Me?’, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'America Is Hard to See', New York NY
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, ‘Open This End. Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne’, Durham NC
Centre d’art de la Cité Radieuse, MAMO Marseille Modulor, ‘COOL / As a State of Mind’, Marseilles, France
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, ‘Pretty Raw. After and Around Helen Frankenthaler’, Waltham MA
Lune Rouge, ‘The Storyteller’, Ibiza, Spain
2014 Patrick Painter Inc., 'Titans of the Stratosphere', Santa Monica CA
Hammer Museum, ‘Take It or Leave It. Institution, Image, Ideology’, Los Angeles CA
Wexner Center for the Arts, ‘Comic Future’, Columbus OH
Museum Brandhorst, ‘Dark Pop’, Munich, Germany
Marianne Boesky Gallery and Marlborough, ‘Another Look at Detroit (Part I and II)’, New York NY
Patrick Painter Inc., ‘Bas Jan Ader, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Mike Kelley’, Santa Monica CA
David Zwirner, ‘No Problem. Cologne/New York 1984–1989’, New York NY
2013 Palais de Tokyo, ‘New Impressions of Raymond Roussel’, Paris, France
Patrick Painter Inc., ‘Destruction to Utopia’, Santa Monica CA
New Museum, ‘NYC 1993. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star’, New York NY
2012 Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘This Will Have Been. Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s’, Boston MA (Travelling Exhibition)
Walker Art Center, ‘This Will Have Been. Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s’, Minneapolis MN (Travelling Exhibition)
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Whitney Biennial 2012’, New York NY
Villa Arson, ‘L’Institut des archives sauvages’, Nice, France
MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘This Will Have Been. Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s’, Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition)
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, ‘The Spectacular of Vernacular’, Chapel Hill NC (Travelling Exhibition)
2011 MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Under the Big Black Sun. California Art 1974-1981’, Los Angeles CA
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, ‘Museum der Wünsch/Museum of Desires. Jeff Wall, Louise Lawler, Mike Kelley, Isa Genzken, Franz West, Stephen Prina’, Vienna, Austria
Patrick Painter Inc., ‘Rear Window. Brought to you in high-def’, Santa Monica CA
Camden Arts Centre, ‘David Askevold. The Disorientation Scientist’, London, UK
Luxembourg & Dayan, ‘Unpainted Paintings’, New York NY
Halle für aktuelle Kunst, ‘Zwei Sammler. Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falckenberg’, Hamburg, Germany
Guggenheim Museum, ‘The Luminous Interval’, Bilbao, Spain
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, ‘Power to the Imagination – Artists, Posters and Politics’, Hamburg, Germany
Walker Art Center, ‘The Spectacular of Vernacular’, Minneapolis MN (Travelling Exhibition)
Gagosian Gallery, ‘Made in Italy’, Rome, Italy
Institute of Modern Art, ‘Let the Healing Begin’, Brisbane, Australia
Museum Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, ‘Heinz and Marianne Ebers Foundation. A Collection with Stature’, Krefeld, Germany
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, ‘Move. Choreographing You’, Düsseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, ‘The Spectacular of Vernacular’, Houston TX (Travelling Exhibition)
Montclair Art Museum, ‘The Spectacular of Vernacular’, Montclair NJ (Travelling Exhibition)
Haus der Kunst, ‘Move. Choreographing You’, Munich, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
2010 Patrick Painter Inc., ‘Medium. Photography’, Los Angeles CA
Gagosian Gallery, ‘Summer Shows’, New York NY
West of Rome Public Art presented at The Farley Building, ‘A Voyage of Growth and Discovery’, Los Angeles CA
Gagosian Gallery, ‘Crash. Homage to JG Ballard’, London, UK
Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, ‘Martin Kippenberger + Mike Kelley’, Madrid, Spain
Gagosian Gallery, ‘Meet Me Inside’, Beverly Hills CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, ‘Ordinary Madness’, Pittsburg PA
Hayward Gallery, ‘Move. Choreographing You’, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
8th Gwangju Biennale, ‘10,000 Lives’, Gwangju, South Korea
Contemporary Arts Museum, ‘Dance With Camera’, Houston TX (Travelling Exhibition)
National Gallery of Canada, ‘Pop Life. Art in a Material World’, Ottawa, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Rewind. 1970s to 1990s’, Chicago IL
Hamburger Kunsthalle, ‘Pop Life. Art in a Material World’, Hamburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, ‘SONIC YOUTH etc.. Sensational Fix’, Móstoles, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ‘The View from Here’, San Francisco CA
2009 SculptureCenter, ‘A Voyage of Growth and Discovery’, New York NY
Palazzo Grassi, Punta Della Dogana, ‘Sequence 1. Paintings and Sculptures from the François Pinault Collection’, Venice, Italy
Kunsthaus Graz, ‘Rock – Paper – Scissors. Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art’, Graz, Austria
Galerie Chantal Crousel, ‘A Certain State of the World? Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Bijoux de Famille’, Paris, France
Mary Boone Gallery, ‘Mike Kelley/Terence Koh/Jeff Koons’, New York NY
Skarstedt Gallery, ‘Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley’, New York NY
Swiss Institute, ‘Regift’, New York NY
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, ‘Trahison’, Bordeaux, France
Tate Modern, ‘Pop Life. Art in a Material World’, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, ‘Dance With Camera’, Philadelphia PA (Travelling Exhibition)
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Collecting History. Highlighting Recent Acquisitions’, Los Angeles CA
Malmö Konsthall, ‘SONIC YOUTH etc.. Sensational Fix’, Malmö, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition)
Tate Liverpool, ‘Color Chart. Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today’, Liverpool, UK
Frye Art Museum, ‘The Puppet Show’, Seattle WA (Travelling Exhibition)
MOMA Museum of Modern Art, ‘Compass in Hand. Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection’, New York NY
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, ‘SONIC YOUTH etc.. Sensational Fix’, Düsseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Contemporary Arts Museum, ‘The Puppet Show’, Houston TX (Travelling Exhibition)
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, ‘All Creatures Great and Small’, Warsaw, Poland
2008 Museion, ‘SONIC YOUTH etc.. Sensational Fix’, Bolzano, Italy
The Fruitmarket Gallery, ‘Close-up. Proximity and Defamiliarization in Art, Film, and Photography’, Edinburgh, Scotland
Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall, ‘Yokohama 2008. International Triennale of Contemporary Art’, Yokohama, Japan
7th Shanghai Biennale, ‘Translocalmotion’, Shanghai, China
The Contemporary Museum, ‘The Puppet Show’, Honolulu HI (Travelling Exhibition)
LiFE, ‘SONIC YOUTH etc.. Sensational Fix’, Saint-Nazaire, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Santa Monica Museum of Art, ‘The Puppet Show’, Santa Monica CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Carnegie Museum of Art, ‘Life on Mars. 55th Carnegie International’, Pittsburgh PA
The Getty Center, ‘California Video’, Los Angeles CA
55th Carnegie International, ‘Life on Mars’, Pittsburgh PA
Gagosian Gallery, ‘for what you are about to receive’, Moscow, Russia
Gagosian Gallery, ‘Prefab’, New York NY
Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, ‘Painting Now and Forever, Part II’, New York NY
ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Paul Thek in the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art’, Karlsruhe, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK
Fotomuseum Winterthur, ‘Jedermann Collection – Set 5 from the Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection’, Zurich, Switzerland
Complesso del Vittoriano, ‘Adotta un Disegno (Adopt a Drawing)’, Rome, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Wako Works of Art, ‘Wako Works of Art. 15 Years / Part IV’, Tokyo, Japan
Chicago Cultural Center, ‘Slightly Unbalanced’, Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition)
MOMA Museum of Modern Art, ‘Color Chart. Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘BCAM - Broad Contemporary Art Museum’, Los Angeles CA
Centre National d’Art Contemporain, ‘Do Not Play with Dead Things’, Nice, France
Orange County Museum of Art, ‘Disorderly Conduct. Recent Art in Tumultuous Times’, Newport Beach CA
SESC Serviço Social do Comércio Avenida Paulista, ‘Colateral 2. Quando a arte olha o cinema’, São Paulo, Spain
Stedelijk Museum CS, ‘Eyes Wide Open’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, ‘The Puppet Show’, Philadelphia PA (Travelling Exhibition)
2007 ‘Skulptur Projekte Münster 07’, (cur. Kasper König, Brigitte Franzen), Münster, Germany
Gagosian Gallery, ‘Fit to Print’, New York NY
Gagosian Gallery, ‘Pop Art Is…’, London, UK
Gladstone Gallery, ‘Makers and Modelers’, New York NY
Galeri Dennis Kimmerich, ‘L.A. Desire’, (cur. Wilhelm Schürmann), Düsseldorf, Germany
BUIA Gallery, ‘Quotidian’, (cur. Thomas Duncan), New York NY
Mandarin, ‘Alone In the Jungle’, Los Angeles, CA
Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, ‘The 80s. A Topology’, Porto, Portugal
MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Sympathy for the Devil. Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967’, Chicago IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Make Your Own Life. Artists In and Out of Cologne’, North Miami FL (Travelling Exhibition
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, ‘Make Your Own Life. Artists In and Out of Cologne’, Seattle WA (Travelling Exhibition)
2006 Gagosian Gallery, ‘Sculpture’, Beverly Hills CA
Kunstraum Grässlin, ‘Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen’, St. Georgen, Germany
MOMA The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Without Boundary. Seventeen Ways of Looking’, New York NY
Fundacion BIACS, ‘BIACS 2’, Seville, Spain
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Los Angeles 1955-1985’, (cur. Catherine Grenier), Paris, France
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘Into Me / Out of Me’, Long Island City NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Lehmann Maupin, ‘Partial Recall’, New York NY
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, ‘The Other Side’, New York NY
Galleria Civica di Modena, ‘EGO mania’, (cur. Milovan Farronato), Modena, Italy
Pace Wildenstein Gallery, ‘Constructing Realities’, New York NY
Cheekwood Museum of Art, ‘100 Artists See God’, Nashville TN (Travelling Exhibition)
Power Plant, ‘Make Your Own Life. Artists In and Out of Cologne’, Toronto, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Make Your Own Life. Artists In and Out of Cologne’, Philadelphia PA (Travelling Exhibition)
Haus der Kunst, ‘Im Anfang war das Wort’, Munich, Germany
2005 Kunstmuseum Basel, ‘Flashback. Revisiting the Art of the Eighties’, Basel, Switzerland
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Mixed-Up Childhood’, Auckland, New Zealand
The Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘The Blake Byrne Collection’, Los Angeles CA
Palais de Tokyo, ‘Translation’, Paris, France
ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, ‘Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht’, Karlsruhe, Germany
Galleri s.e, ‘With us against reality or against us!’, Bergen, Norway
Steven Wolf Fine Arts, ‘AB OVO’, (cur. Stephen Hull), San Francisco CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, ‘Drunk vs. Stoned’, New York NY
Freedman Art Gallery, ‘100 Artists See God’, Reading PA (Travelling Exhibition)
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, ‘100 Artists See God’, Virginia Beach VA (Travelling Exhibition)
2004 DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, ‘Monument To Now. The Dakis Joannou Collection’, Athens, Greece
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, ‘WOW (The Work of the Work)’, Seattle WA
Kunstverein Braunschweig, ‘Jahresgaben 04/05’, Hannover, Germany
Site Santa Fe, ‘Site Santa Fe. Fifth International Biennial/Disparities and Deformations. Our Grotesque’, Santa Fe NM
Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, ‘Planet B’, Bregenz, Austria
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ‘Taschen Collection’, Madrid, Spain
Museo Cantonale di Lugano, ‘Les Enfants Terrible. Il linguaggio dell’infanzia nell’ Arte 1909-2004’, Lugano, Switzerland
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Off the Record. Sound Arc’, Paris, France
Independent Curators International, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, ‘Likeness. Portraits of Artists by Other Artists’, (cur. Matthew Higgs, Kevin Killian, David Robbins), San Francisco CA
Haunch of Venison, ‘Animals’, London, UK
ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, ‘100 Artists See God’, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition
Laguna Art Museum, ‘100 Artists See God’, Laguna Beach CA (Travelling Exhibition)
The Jewish Museum San Francisco, Independent Curators International, ‘100 Artists See God’, (cur. John Baldessari, Meg Cranston), San Francisco CA (Travelling Exhibition)
California State University Fullerton and Grand Central Art Center, ‘100 Artists See Satan’, Fullerton CA
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, ‘Paradiso e Inferno’, Venice, Italy
2003 International Center for Photography, ‘White. Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, ‘White. Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art’, Baltimore MA (Travelling Exhibition)
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, CCA California College of Arts and Crafts, ‘Capp Street Project. 20th Anniversary Exhibition’, San Francisco CA
2nd Valencia Biennial, ‘Micro Utopías, Art and Architecture’, Valencia, Spain
Musée d’Art Contemporain, ‘Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2003. C’est Arrivé Demain’, Lyon, France
ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, ‘Fast Forward, Media Art Sammlung Goetz’, Karlsruhe, Germany
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Sitings. Installation Art 1969-2002’, Los Angeles CA
San Jose Museum of Art, ‘The Not-So-Still-Life. A Century of California Painting and Sculpture’, San Jose CA
Bowdoin College Museum, ‘The Disembodied Spirit’, Brunswick MN
Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’art Imprimé, ‘Numéro O – Magaines. du messafe au medium’, Chatou, France
École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Tours, ‘Stars. Une Exposition – Promenade Parodic’, Tours, France
MART- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, ‘Il racconto del filo. Ricamo e cucito nell'arte contemporanea’, Trento, Italy
MAN Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, ‘Catastrofi minime’ (cur. Fernando Castro, Saretto Cincinelli, Cristiana Collu), Nuoro, Italy
Athens School of Fine Arts, ‘Outlook. International Art Exhibition Athens’, Athens, Greece
California Historical Society and the Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, ‘At Work. The Art of California Labor’, San Francisco CA
Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprimé, ‘Numéro Zéro’, Chatou, France
Institute of Contemporary Arts, ‘Video Acts. Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust’, London, UK
Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, ‘Micropolitics. Art and Everyday Life (2001-1968)’, Valencia, Spain
Fundació Joan Miró, ‘False Innocence’, Barcelona, Spain
Musee d’ Art Moderne et d’ Art Contemporain de Strasbourg, ‘Trésors Publics (w/ Paul McCarthy)’, Strasbourg, Germany
Soo Visual Arts Center, ‘Do It’, Minneapolis MN
Neue Galerie Graz and Stadtmuseum Graz, ‘Phantom of Desire. Visions of Masochism in Art’, Graz, Austria
Margo Leavin Gallery, ‘Raid The Icebox—From the Backroom. Artists Select’, Los Angeles CA
Gesellschaft der Freunde der Neuen Galerie, ‘MARS – Art and War’, Graz, Austria
Podewil, ‘Sonic Process. A New Geography of Sounds’, Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
2002 Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘2002 Whitney Biennial Exhibition’, New York NY
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Sonic Process. A New Geography of Sounds’, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ‘Sonie Process. A New Geography of Sounds’, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Henry Moore Institute, ‘The Object Sculpture’, Leeds, UK
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘Video Acts’, Long Island City NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Almost Warm & Fuzzy. Childhood and Contemporary Art’, Cleveland OH
Historical Museum of Murten, ‘Garden of Violence’, Murten, Switzerland
Wall Street Rising, ‘Art Downtown’, New York NY
MET The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Permanent Collection Exhibition’, New York NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, ‘Shoot the Singer. Music on Video’, Philadelphia PA
Galerie Krinzinger, ‘Hommage an Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 30 Jahre Galerie Krinzinger’, Vienna, Austria
Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, ‘Five by Five. Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art’, New York NY
Wako Works of Art, ‘Self-portraits and portraits’, Tokyo, Japan
Patrick Seguin Gallery, ‘Last Spring in Paris’, Paris, France
Academy of Fine Arts, ‘Conversations?—Recent acquisitions of the Van Abbemuseum’, Athens, Greece
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Material World. From Lichtenstein to Viola, 25 Years of The Fabric Workshop and Museum’, Sydney, Australia
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, ‘Multiples Objets de Désir. Acquisitions 2001 du fonds national d’art Contemporain’, Nantes, France
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, ‘Music in Me’, Bremen, Germany
Bergen Kunsthall, ‘Laid Bare’, Bergen, Norway
2001 The Detroit Institute of Arts, ‘Artists Take on Detroit. Projects for the Tricentennial’, Detroit MI
‘Bienal de Valencia’, Valencia, Spain
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘Almost Warm & Fuzzy’, Long Island City NY (Travelling Exhibition)
MOMA Museum of Modern Art, ‘Collaborations with Parkett. 1984 to Now’, New York NY
Galerie Rudolfinum, Centre of Contemporary Art, ‘American Art from the Goetz Collection’, Prague, Czech Republic
Yamagata Studio, ‘Los Angeles Artists for the Benefit of New York City’, Los Angeles CA
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘A Room of Their Own. From Rothko to Rauschenberg, From Arbus to Gober’, Los Angeles CA
Arcadia University Art Gallery, ‘Desire Admire Acquire’, Glenside PA
Stedelijk Museum, ‘Eye Infection’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Patrick Painter, ‘Painter Editions. Recent Projects’, Santa Monica CA
Stazione Leopolda, ‘Uniform Order and Disorder’, Florence, Italy
Walker Art Center, ‘Painting at the Edge of the World’, Minneapolis MN
Marianne Boesky Gallery, ‘Camera Works. The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art’, New York NY
Centre Cultural de la Fundació “la Caixa,” ‘Retorn al País de les Meravelles. L’art contemporani I la infància’, Barcelona, Spain
Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Neue Welt’, Frankfurt, Germany
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ‘The Global Guggenheim. Selections from the Extended Collection’, New York NY
Generalitat Valenciana, ‘Bienal de Valencia’, Valencia, Spain
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, ‘un art populaire’, Paris, France
Bergen Art Museum, ‘After the Beginning and Before the End. Instruction Drawings’, Bergen, Norway
Henry Moore Institute, ‘Homes for the Soul. Micro-Architecture in Medieval and Contemporary Art’, Leeds, UK
Art Gallery of the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, ‘Play’s the Thing. Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art’, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Art>Music (rock, pop, techno )’, Sydney, Australia
MOMA Museum of Modern Art, ‘Beautiful Productions, art to play, art to wear, art to own. Collaborations with Parkett, 1984 to now’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Chac Mool Gallery, ‘Trans>Editions’, Los Angeles CA
Miami Art Museum, ‘Let’s Entertain’, Miami FL (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, ‘Let’s Entertain’, Wolfsburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
2000 Royal Academy of Arts, ‘Apocalypse. Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art’, London, UK
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Sons et Lumières’, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Portland Art Museum, ‘Let’s Entertain’, Portland OR (Travelling Exhibition)
Walker Art Center, ‘Let's Entertain’, Minneapolis MN (Travelling Exhibition)
Casino Luxembourg, ‘Many Colored Objects Placed Side by Side to Form a Row of Many Colored Objects’, Luxembourg, Belgium
MOMA Museum of Modern Art, ‘Open Ends’, New York NY
CoCA Center on Contemporary Art, ‘Destroy All Monsters. Postmodern Multimedia and Musical Mutations (Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and Cary Loren)’, Seattle WA
Sammlung Goetz and Lenbachhaus, ‘Mike Kelley and Peter Fischli & David Weiss’, Munich, Germany
Tacoma Art Museum, ‘Almost Warm & Fuzzy’, Tacoma WA
MAR Museum of Art of the City of Ravenna, ‘Arte Americana. Ultimo Decennio’, Ravenna, Italy
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘Art in the 80’s’, New York NY
Wako Works of Art, ‘American Photographs’, Tokyo, Japan
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, ‘There is Something You Should Know. Die EVN Sammlung im Belvedere’, Vienna, Austria.
Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Haus der Kunst, ‘Food for the Mind. Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst’, Munich, Germany
Printed Matter, Inc., ‘Sonic Matters. Sonic Collaborations’, New York NY
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘Made in California’, Los Angeles CA
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, ‘Zeitenwende, Ausblick’, Vienna, Austria
1999 Kunstmuseum Bonn, ‘Zeitenwende, Ausblick’, Bonn, Germany(Travelling Exhibition)
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘The American Century. Art and Culture 1950 – 2000’, New
York NY
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, ‘On the Sublime’, Malmö, Sweden
Dunlop Art Gallery, ‘Fluffy’, Regina, Canada
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, ‘Vergiss den Ball und speil’weiter. Das Bild des Kindes in zeitgenössischer Kunst und Wissenschaft’, Nürnberg, Germany
Casino Luxembourg and Musee National D’Histoire et D’art, ‘Veronica’s Revenge. Photographies de la collection LAC-Suisse’, Luxembourg, Belgium
ATA Centre d’Art Contemporain and Galerie Ata-ray, ‘Art de Vivre. une exposition d’oeuvres de la collection du Frac Languedoc-Roussillon’, Sofia, Bulgaria
Skarstedt Fine Art, ‘Six Americans. Gober, Kelley, Koons, Prince, Sherman, Wool’, New York NY
David Adamson Gallery, ‘A.R.T. Press Portfolio’, Washington, D.C.
Metro Pictures, ‘Drawn By’, New York NY
Independent Curator’s International, ‘Making It Real’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979’, Tokyo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ‘Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979’, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
MAK, ‘Out of Actions. Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979’, Vienna, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, ‘Out of Actions. Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, ‘Destroy All Monsters Archive’, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, ‘LA Times’, Guarene, Italy
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, ‘Plaisir déplaisir’, Bordeaux, France
Deichtorhallen, ‘Emotion’, Hamburg, Germany
Metro Pictures, ‘The Poetics Project. 1977-1997 (collaboration with Tony Oursler)’, New York NY
Marianne Boesky Gallery with Friedrich Petzel Gallery, ‘Real Stories’, New York NY
Anderson Gallery, School of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, ‘Presumed Innocence’, Richmond VA (Travelling Exhibition)
Moderna Museet, ‘Wounds. Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art’, Stockholm, Sweden
Patrick Painter, Inc., ‘Figurative Sculpture’, Santa Monica CA
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘10 Years. Portikus Frankfurt’, Long Island City NY
Galerie Krinzinger, ‘L.A. on Paper 1’, Vienna, Austria
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Crossings’, Vienna, Austria
Hammer Museum, ‘Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960 - 1997’, Los Angeles CA
Castello di Rivoli, ‘Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960 - 1997’, Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
1997 ‘Documenta X, The Poetics Project. 1977 -1997’, Kassel, Germany
ICA The Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Gothic’, Boston MA
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, ‘Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960 - 1997’, Wolfsburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ‘Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960 - 1997’, Humlebaek, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition)
Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘The Poetics Project. 1977 -1997 (collaboration with Tony Oursler)’, Tokyo, Japan
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Art at the End of the 20th Century’, New York NY
The Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, ‘Display. International Exhibition of Painting’, Copenhagen, Denmark
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, ‘Chambres d’Amis’, Ghent, Belgium
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, ‘Im Reich der Phantome. Fotografie des Unsichtbaren’, Mönchengladbach, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunsthalle Krems, ‘Im Reich der Phantome. Fotografie des Unsichtbaren’, Krems, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
Fotomuseum Winterthur, ‘Im Reich der Phantome. Fotografie des Unsichtbaren’, Winterthur, Switzerland
1996 Galerie der Gegenwart, ‘Family Values. American Art in the Eighties and Nineties’, Hamburg, Germany
Athens School of Fine Arts, ‘Everything that's interesting is new. The Dakis Joannou Collection’, Athens, Greece.
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Féminimasculin. Le sex de l’art’, Paris, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘L'Informe. le Modernisme a Rebours’, Paris, France
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, ‘DISTEMPER. Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s’, Washington, D.C.
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, ‘Shift’, Berlin, Germany.
1995 Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition’, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘ARS 95 Helsinki’, Helsinki, Finland
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, ‘Zeichen & Wunder’, Galego, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Turner/Krull Galleries, ‘Action/Performance and the Photograph’, Los Angeles CA
Kunsthaus Zurich, ‘Zeichen & Wunder’, Zurich, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Feminin-Masculin. Le Sexe de l'Art?’, Paris, France
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Passions Privees’, Paris, France
1994 Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Radical Scavenger(s). The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art’, Chicago IL
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Hors Limites. L'Art et La Vie 1952-1994’, Paris, France
Deichtorhallen, ‘Temporary Translation(s). Sammlung Schurmann’, Hamburg, Germany
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ‘Zimmer in Denen die Zeit Nicht Zahlt’, Basel, Switzerland
Center on Contemporary Art, ‘Kustom Kulture. Von Dutch, Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth, Robert Williams & Others’, Seattle WA
1993 Maryland Institute College of Art, ‘Kustom Kulture. Von Dutch, Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth, Robert Williams & Others’, Baltimore MD
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘1993 Biennial Exhibition’, New York NY
Martin-Gropius-Bau, ‘American Art of this Century’, Berlin, Germany
Royal Academy of Art, ‘American Art of this Century’, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Abject Art. Repulsion and Desire in American Art’, New York NY
Gemeentemuseum, ‘The Uncanny, organized by Mike Kelley for Sonsbeek '93’, Arnhem, Netherlands
Laguna Art Museum, ‘Kustom Kulture. Von Dutch, Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth, Robert Williams & Others’, Laguna Beach CA
The Israel Museum, ‘Post Human’, Jerusalem, Israel (Travelling Exhibition)
Deichtorhallen, ‘Post Human’, Hamburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
1992 Deste Foundation, ‘Post Human’, Athens, Greece (Travelling Exhibition)
Castello di Rivoli, ‘Post Human’, Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
‘Documenta IX’, Kassel, Germany
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Helter Skelter. L.A. Art in the 1990s’, Los Angeles CA
Hayward Gallery, ‘Doubletake. Collective Memory and Current Art’, London, UK
MOMA Museum of Modern Art, ‘Allegories of Modernism. Contemporary Drawings’, New York NY
FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, ‘Post Human’, Lausanne, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, ‘Désordres. Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, Tunga’, Paris, France
Newport Harbor Art Museum, ‘The Devil on the Stairs. Looking Back on the Eighties’, Newport Beach CA
Wiener Festwochen, ‘Expanded Art. II’, Vienna Austria
North Carolina Museum of Art, ‘Knowledge. Aspects of Conceptual Art’, Raleigh NC (Travelling Exhibition)
Santa Monica Museum of Art, ‘Knowledge. Aspects of Conceptual Art’, Santa Monica CA (Travelling Exhibition)
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, ‘Knowledge. Aspects of Conceptual Art’, Santa Barbara CA (Travelling Exhibition)
1991 Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘1991 Whitney Biennial Exhibition’, New York NY
Fundación Caja de Pensiones, ‘El jardín salvaje Savage Garden’, Madrid, Spain
Martin-Gropius-Bau, ‘Metropolis. International Art Exhibition’, Berlin, Germany
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Lieux Communs, Figures Singulières’, Paris, France
Carnegie Museum of Art, ‘Carnegie International 1991’, Pittsburgh PA
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘The Devil on the Stairs. Looking Back on the Eighties’, Philadelphia PA
1990 Milwaukee Art Museum, ‘Word as Image. American Art, 1960-1990’, Milwaukee WI
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, ‘Just Pathetic’, Los Angeles CA
Villa Arson, ‘Le désenchantement du monde’, Nice, France
Galerie Gisela Capitain, ‘Editionen’, Cologne, Germany
1989 MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘A Forest of Signs. Art in the Crisis of Representation’, Los Angeles CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘1989 Whitney Biennial Exhibition’, New York NY
Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Prospect 89. Eine Internationale Ausstellung aktueller Kunst’, Frankfurt, Germany
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, ‘What is Contemporary Art?’, Malmö, Sweden
1988 ‘Aperto ’88. La Biennale di Venezia’, Venice, Italy
Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘The BiNational. American Art of the Late 80's/German Art of the Late 80’s’, Boston MA (Travelling Exhibition)
Grazer Kunstverein and Stadtmuseum Graz, ‘Graz 88’, Graz, Austria
1987 Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘1987 Biennial Exhibition’, New York NY
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Toyama Now ‘87’, Toyama, Japan
Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles CA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, ‘LA. Hot and Cool. The Eighties’, Cambridge MA
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, ‘CalArts. Skeptical Belief(s)’, Chicago IL
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘Avant-Garde in the Eighties’, Los Angeles CA
1986 MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Individuals. A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986’, Los Angeles CA
LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, ‘Social Distortion’, Los Angeles CA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, ‘Spectrum. Natural Settings’, Washington, D.C.
1985 Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘1985 Biennial Exhibition’, New York NY
The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, ‘Art in the Anchorage’, New York NY
Steirischer Herbst Festival, ‘Artificial Intelligence in the Arts. Nr. 1 ‘Brainwork’’, Graz, Austria
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘B & W’, Los Angeles CA
1984 Newport Harbor Art Museum, ‘First Newport Biennial. Los Angeles Today’, Newport Beach, CA
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, ‘The Fifth Biennale of Sydney – Private Symbol. Social Metaphor’, Sydney, Australia
1983 MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘The First Show. Painting & Sculpture From Eight Collections, 1940-1980’, Los Angeles CA
LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, ‘Headhunters’, Los Angeles CA
1981 The Mudd Club, ‘Beware of the Dog. Work from Artists in the Cave Canem Book Project’, New York NY
1980 Annina Nosei Gallery, ‘Jim Casebere, Michael Glier, Mike Kelley, Kathryn Mish, Tom Sansone, and Others’, New York NY
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, ‘By-Products. Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Mitchell Syrop’, Los Angeles CA
1979 P.S.1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, ‘Sound’, Long Island City NY
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Sound’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Foundation for Art Resources, ‘The Poltergeist. A Work Between David Askevold and Mike Kelley’, Los Angeles CA