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1972 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool – “Paintings” – solo exhibition
1976 Evergreen State College Library Gallery – “An exhibition of drawings and paintings: Don Van Vliet and Cal Schenkel” – group exhibition with poster
1982 The Museum of Modern Art, New York – “Performance Video” – group exhibition
1985 New York Studio School, New York – “From Organism To Architecture” – group exhibition
1985 Massimo Audiello Gallery – “The Chi-Chi Show” – group exhibition
1985 Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York – “Fractura” – group exhibition
1985 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Don Van Vliet – Sechs Bilder” – solo exhibition with catalogue
1985 Mary Boone Gallery, New York – solo exhibition
1986, 3-26 April Waddington Galleries, London – see exhibition info – solo exhibition with catalogue
1987 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Byars, Chamberlain, Salle, Fischl, Lasker, Van Vliet” – group exhibition
1987 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Don Van Vliet – Zehn Bilder” – solo exhibition with catalogue
1987 Galerie Brinkmann, Amsterdam – solo exhibition with catalogue
1988 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Accrochage” – group exhibition
1988 Centre d’Art Contemporain, Abbaye – “St. Andre, Maymac, Correze A la surface de la Peinture: Les Annees 80” – group exhibition with catalogue
1988 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Don Van Vliet – Neun Bilder “- solo exhibition with catalogue
1988 Galerie Lelong, Zurich – solo exhibition
1989 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Accrochage” – group exhibition
1989 Museum Ludwig, Rheinhallen der Kolner Messe, Koln – “Bilderstreit, Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960” – group exhibition with catalogue
1989 Galerie Frank Hanel, Frankfurt / Main – “Accrochage” – group exhibition
1989 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco – “Don Van Vliet – New Work” – solo exhibition with leaflet
1990 Kunsthallen Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense – “Bilder des Rock” – group exhibition with catalogue
1990 Galerie Frank Hanel, Frankfurt / Main – “Don Van Vliet 1986 / 1989” – solo exhibition with catalogue
1990 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Don Van Vliet – Zehn Bilder – solo exhibition with catalogue
1990 Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica – “New Paintings and Drawings” – solo exhibition with catalogue
1991 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – solo exhibition with catalogue
1991 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – solo exhibition
1991 Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense – solo exhibition
1993 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln “Accrochage” – group exhibition
1993 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – solo exhibition
1994 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Accrochage” – group exhibition
1993/4 27 November – 16 January Bielefelder Kunstverin, Museum Waldhof, Bielefeld – “Don Van Vliet – Stand Up To Be Discontinued” – solo exhibition with catalogue
1994 11 February – 10 April Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense – “Don Van Vliet – Stand Up To Be Discontinued” – solo exhibition with catalogue (same as above)
1994 3 September – 13 November Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton – “Don Van Vliet – Stand Up To Be Discontinued” – solo exhibition with catalogue (same as above)
1995 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam – “Dancing Girls, in honour of Gustav Mahler, along the edge of Expressionism” – group exhibition
1995 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Major Works by Georg Baselitz, James Lee Byars, Per Kirkeby, Markus Lupertz, Sigmar Polke, Don Van Vliet” – group exhibition
1995 25 January – 18 March Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “God’s Empty Socks and Other Paintings” – solo exhibition
1995 Galleri Aveny, Goteborg – solo exhibition
1995 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – solo exhibition
1996 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – group exhibition
1996 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – solo exhibition with catalogue
1998 Galerie Michael Werner, Koln – “Accrochage” – group exhibition
1998 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Georg Baselitz, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Jorg Immendorff, Eugene Leroy, Markus Lupertz, A.R. Penck, Don Van Vliet: Works on Paper” – group exhibition
1998 11 November – 5 December Knoedler & Company, New York “Don Van Vliet – New Work” – solo exhibition with catalogue
1999 28 January – 26 March Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Works On Paper 1999” – solo exhibition
2000 7 – 20 January The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia – see exhibition info page – solo exhibition with on-line catalogue.
2001 9 February – 4 March Cultureel Centrum Sint-Niklaas, Belgium – “Rockin’ Art” – group exhibition with catalogue
2001 12 July – 8 September Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Paintings from the Eighties” – solo exhibition
2007 31 May – 29 June Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Don Van Vliet – Paintings and Poems” solo exhibition with catalogue
2007 31 May – 6 July Anton Kern Gallery, New York – “Don Van Vliet – Paintings and Poems” solo exhibition with catalogue (same as above)
2007 3 September – 20 October Michael Werner Gallery, Cologne – “Don Van Vliet – Paintings and Poems” solo exhibition with catalogue (same as above)
2007 27 October – 1 December David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles – “Works on Paper 2007” – solo exhibition
2008 29 January – 15 February Galleria dell’Arco, Palermo, Sicily – “Zig Zag Wandering” – solo exhibition
2009/2010 12 December – 23 January – Zach Feuer Gallery, New York – “JR and Sons” – group exhibition
2011 30 June – 10 September Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Flowers for Summer” – group exhibition
2013 21 January – 22 March Michael Werner Gallery, Trebbin – Drawings – solo exhibition
2015 5 September – 24 October Michael Werner Gallery, Cologne – “Don Van Vliet: Beatle Bones ‘n’ Smokin’ Stones. Paintings and drawings from the late Seventies and Eighties.” – solo exhibition
2015 30 September – 5 December 2015 Michael Werner Gallery, London – “Body Shop” – group exhibition
2016 8 July – 17 September Michael Werner Gallery, London – “Flora, Fauna and Other Forms of Life” – group exhibition
2017 14 May – 1 October 2017 Brant Foundation, Greenwich – “Animal Farm” – group exhibition
2017 1 July – 13 August 2017 The Pit, Glendale, Los Angeles – “Press Your Face Close To Mine” – group exhibition
2017 13 July – 9 September 2017 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Works on Paper” – solo exhibiton
2018 11 July – 31 August 2018 Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Vile Bodies” – group exhibition (2 paintings)
2018 12 July – 15 September 2018 Michael Werner Gallery, London – “Vile Bodies” – group exhibition (1 painting)
2020 31 January – 11 April [changed to spring/summer due to Covid-19] Michael Werner Gallery, New York – “Don Van Vliet: Parapliers the Willow Dipped, Paintings 1967-1997” – solo exhibiton (16 paintings) – no catalogue – installation views
2020 5 March – 11 April Kasmin Gallery, New York – “Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric” – group exhibition (1 painting – ‘Bad Vuggum’)
2020 25 June – 4 September 2020 Michael Werner Gallery, London – “About the Human Figure” – group exhibition
2021 4 September – 16 October Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne – “Ralf Love Don” – solo exhibition (45 paintings and drawings) – catalogue – installation views
2022 9 September – 29 October Kewenig Galerie, Bruderstrasse 10, Berlin – “Paracusia: Of Sounds & Visions – group exhibition
2022 16 November – 17 December Michael Werner Gallery, East Hampton, New York – “Cold Furniture” – solo exhibition (18 paintings and drawings) – no catalogue – exhibition views
2023 23 November – 17 February 2024 Michael Werner Gallery, Brook Street, London – “Standing on One Hand” – solo exhibition – catalogue