exhibitions
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Exhibition Spotlight
National Portrait Gallery, London. 21 March - 16 June 2024
Gagosian, New York. March 13–April 27, 2024
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Francesca Woodman, Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York
2021
Francesca Woodman: Alternate Stories, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Francesca Woodman, Light Society, Beijing, China
2020
Francesca Woodman: New York Works, Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy
2019
Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation, MCA Denver, Denver, Colorado (Including works by George Lange) (exhibition catalogue)
2018
Francesca Woodman: Italian Works, Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy
Francesca Woodman, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
2017
Francesca Woodman: Ausencia/Presencia, Bernal Espacio, Madrid, Spain
Francesca Woodman: Obras de la Colección Verbund, Patio Herreriano Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
2016
Francesca Woodman, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
The Second Space, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015
On Being an Angel, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; traveled to Foam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016; Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson, Paris, France, 2016; Moderna Museet, Malmo, Sweden, 2017; Finnish Museum of Photography, 2017; Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain, 2019; C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2020 (exhibition catalogue)
I’m trying my hand at fashion photography, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)
2014
Francesca Woodman: Artist Rooms, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales
Zigzag, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Francesca Woodman: Artist Rooms, Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire, Wales
Francesca Woodman: Works from the Sammlung Verbund, Vertical Gallery, Vienna, Austria (exhibition catalogue)
2012
Francesca Woodman, Mendes Wood, São Paulo, Brazil
Francesca Woodman, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
Francesca Woodman: The Blueprints, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)
2011
Francesca Woodman, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; traveled to Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, 2012 (exhibition catalogue)
Francesca Woodman: Unseen Photographs and Selected Works, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain
Artist Rooms: Francesca Woodman, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England
Francesca Woodman Photographs 1977-1981, Il Museo del Louvre, Rome, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
2010
Francesca Woodman, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
2009
Francesca Woodman, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain
Francesca Woodman, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Artist Rooms: Francesca Woodman, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Francesca Woodman, Espacio A.V., Murcia, Spain; traveled to SMS Contemporanea, Siena, Italy, 2010; Palazzo della Ragione, Milano, Italy, 2010 (exhibition catalogue)
2008
Francesca Woodman, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
2007
Francesca Woodman, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Francesca Woodman, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Artist Rooms: Francesca Woodman, Poetry and Dream Collection Display, Tate Modern, London, England
2006
Francesca Woodman: Do I still exist if you don’t see me?, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan
Antologica/Retrospective Francesca Woodman, Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia and Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Francesca Woodman, George Woodman, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2005
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Francesca Woodman: Photographs 1973-1981, Galleria Davide Di Maggio, Berlin, Germany
2004
Francesca Woodman: Photographs 1975-1980, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)
2003
Francesca Woodman: Photographs, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (exhibition catalogue)
Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Clara Marie Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
2001
Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium
2000
Francesca Woodman: Providence, Roma, New York, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1999
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1998
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Galleria Dryphoto, Prato, Italy
Francesca Woodman, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France; traveled to Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1998; Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, 1999; The Photographers' Gallery, London, England, 1999; Centro Cultural TeclaSala, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain, 2000; Carla Sozzani Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2001; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2001; PhotoEspana, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain, 2002 (exhibition catalogue)
Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France (exhibition catalogue)
1996
Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
1995
Casetti Galleria Libreria, Rome, Italy
1994
PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, New York
1992
Francesca Woodman: Photographische Arbeiten, Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland, 1992; traveled to Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany, 1992; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 1992-1993; Suomen Valokuvataiteen Museo SÄÄTIÖ, Helsinki, Finland, 1993; DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 1993; Galleri F15 Alby, Moss, Norway, 1993 (exhibition catalogue)
1989
Francesca Woodman, Photographic Work, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1986
Francesca Woodman, Photographic Work, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, New York, 1986; traveled to Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1986; University of Colorado Fine Arts Gallery, Boulder, Colorado, 1987; UCI Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, California, 1987; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, 1988 (exhibition catalogue)
1978
Francesca Woodman Photographs, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Immagini, Libreria Maldoror, Rome, Italy
1976
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Group Exhibitions
2024
Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
Summer Glow, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, New York
PHotoESPAÑA 2024: Surrealist Centennial, Leica Gallery Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk, Meeting Point Projects, London, UK
Présences, trésors photographiques de la collection Gilman Gonzalez-Falla, La Maison Caillebotte, Yerres, France
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Spaces Embodied, Draiflessen Collection, Mettigen, Germany
Forks & Spoons, Galerie Buchholz, New York, New York
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; traveled to Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
20 Years of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
2023
Descending the Staircase. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Inner Worlds: Sigmund Freud and Art. Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Remedios: Directions to the old ways. TBA21, C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain
Photography: Real and Imagined, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, England
Arbus – Sherman – Woodman: American Photography from the 1960s and 1970s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Between Art and Nature: Photographs from the Collection of Carla Sozzani, Lake Como Design Festival, Lake Como, Italy
The Rose, Lumber Room, Portland, Oregon
Somebodies: Cunningham, Iveković, Woodman, Bombas Gens Centre d'Art, PhotoESPAÑA, Museo Cerralbo, Madrid, Spain
The Performative Self-Portrait, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Remedios: Where new land might grow. Works from the
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection. TBA21, C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain
A Space for Dialogue 111, Taking Up Space: Forming Body and Identity, Milanne Berg, Class of 2024, Homma Family Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Twenty-five, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2022
FEMME FATALE. Gaze–Power–Gender, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Books Revisited, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York
Embodied: Artist as Medium, Isadora Italia, MALS Class of 2022, Sol Lewitt Wall, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
girls girls girls, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland
A Century of the Artist's Studio: 1920-2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Women and Change, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Image Gardeners, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2021
A Nexus of Rainbows: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
New Time: Contemporary Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, UC Berkeley Art Museum and PacificFilm Archive, Berkeley, California (exhibition catalogue)
Breaking the Frame, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Interior Scroll or What I Did on My Vacation, S&S Corner Shop, Springs, New York
re:collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Rinconstrarsia Venezia, Spazio Berlendis, Venice, Italy
Learning to Look: The Addison at 90, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Les Citoyens Uno sguardo di Guillermo Kuitca sulla collezione ella Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
2020
The Body Electric, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Australia
Photography and the Surreal Imagination, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Just Connect, MCA Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Bodyscapes, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (exhibition catalogue)
2019
Le Drapé: Degas, Christo, Michel-Ange, Rodin, Man Ray, Dürer…, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France (exhibition catalogue)
The Enchanted Interior, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (exhibition catalogue)
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today, VitraDesign Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; traveling to CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona,Spain, 2020; CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2021; CaixaForum Sevilla, Sevilla,Spain, 2021; CaixaForum Girona, Girona, Spain, 2021—2022 (exhibition catalogue)
Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
SELBSTBILDNIS, Société, Berlin, Germany
There I Belong. Hammershøi by Elmgreen & Dragset, Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark
(In)visible: The Sublime of the Blurry, Bernal Espacio Galeria, Bogota, Colombia
Artist Rooms: Self Evidence | Photographs by Woodman, Arbus, and Mapplethorpe, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sara Cwynar: Image Model Muse, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
No Time, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2018
The Body: Concealing and Revealing, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Blink: Memories Contained, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
The Pulse Of The Body. Uses And Representations Of Space. Per Amor A L’art Collection, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain (exhibition catalogue)
Laid Bare in the Landscape, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
I See You, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Life in Motion: Egon Schiele/Francesca Woodman, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (exhibition catalogue)
Haus der Sinnsuche, Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin, Germany
My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection (Part II), Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan
Balance: Gravity in Contemporary Art, Bernal Espacio, Madrid, Spain
2017
Les Visitants: Guillermo Kuitca and the Fondation Cartier Collection, CCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Videoinsight® CollectionRiso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
Women House, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
Drawing with Light, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina (exhibition catalogue)
Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London, England
From Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
L'arte del femminile: Julia Margaret Cameron, Florence Henri, Francesca Woodman, Museo Villa Pignatelli, Napoli, Italy
Making Home: Contemporary Works from the DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Corpo a corpo | Body To Body, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Gravity & Grace, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Room, Sadie Coles, London, England
2016
Between Art and Fashion: The Carla Sozzani Collection, Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, France (exhibition catalogue)
photograpHER – Donne che fotografano le donne, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
The Deception of Perception: Exploring Distortion and Ambiguity in Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Behold the Man - 100 Years, 100 Faces, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, the Netherlands
Die zu sein scheint, die bin ich, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
The Lives of Others: Portraits from the Photography Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Elizabeth Price Curates: IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY, The Whitworth, Manchester, England, 2016; traveled to De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, England, 2017; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, England, 2017 (exhibition catalogue)
Conversation autour d'une collection. Collection Jocelyne et Fabrice Petignat, Villa Bernasconi. Centre d’art, Lancy, Switzerland
Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Illumination. New Contemporary Art at Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, England (exhibition catalogue)
A Photograph Rarely Stands Alone. Pairs, sequences, and series from the Kunstbibliothek's Collection of Photography, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
PRIERE DE TOUCHER - The Touch of Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue)
Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams: Images of Home, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
2015
The Hara Museum Collection – 35 Years of International Exchange, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan
Surrealism: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Forces in Nature: Curated by Hilton Als, Victoria Miro Gallery II, London, England
Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Pair(s), Maison Particulière, Ixelles, Belgium
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)
Bare Wunder, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Nach dem frühen Tod, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklanski Selects from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Francesca Woodman & Birgit Jurgenssen. Works from the Sammlung Verbund Collection, Vienna, Kunst Meran, Meran, Italy
Edith Schloss: Still Life, Myths and Mountains, A Retrospective, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, New York
The Self: Portraits of the Artists in Their Absence, The National Academy Museum, New York, New York
Absence, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pliure, prologue (la part du feu), Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France (exhibition catalogue)
Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria (exhibition catalogue)
Grand Opening Exhibition of the Walter Wing, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
About Face: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2014
Selbstauslöser, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Memórias da Obsolescência, Paço das Artes, Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS-SP), São Paulo, Brazil
Secret Passions, Private Flemish Collections, Lille3000, Euralille, France (exhibition catalogue)
La piel translúcida. Obras de la Colección Iberdrola, Patio Herreriano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
Exterior Spaces, Interior Places, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Sigmund Freud and the Play on the Burden of Representation and the Play of the Burden of Representation: An installation by Joseph Kosuth, Belvedere 21 (formerly 21er Haus), Vienna, Austria
Made by... Feito Por Brasileiros, Cidade Matarazzo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Punctum. Bemerkungen zur Photographie, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Sei camere chiare sei fotografi, Palazzo Barbò, Bergamo, Italy
Self-Timer Stories, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, New York; traveled to Museumder Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, 2014 – 2015; MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain, 2015 (exhibition catalogue)
Le mur, la collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (exhibition catalogue)
Vivid Memories, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France (exhibition catalogue)
enticing the eye / exploring the frame, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Le amazzoni della fotografia. Dalla collezione di Mario Trevisan, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
2013
Girl: Continued... The Legacy of Francesca Woodman, SCAD Museum of Art, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Wonder Room: Exploring Nature, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Anni '70. Arte a Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Sie. Selbst. Nackt. Paula Modersohn-Becker und andere Künstlerinnen im Selbstakt, Museen Böttcherstraße Stiftungs GmbH, Bremen, Germany (exhibition catalogue)
Joy before the object, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2Q13 | WOMEN ARTISTS, WOMEN COLLECTORS, Lloyds Club, London, England
Someone Like You – Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
SHADOWPLAY: Transgressive Photography from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Self, Model, and Self as Other, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Look behind | Der Blick dahinter, Märkische Museum Witten, Witten, Germany
WOMAN: The Feminist Avant-Garde from the 1970s, Works from the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; traveled to BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2014; Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden, 2014 – 2015; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2015; The Photographers´ Gallery, London, England, 2016 – 2017; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria, 2017; ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Deutschland, 2017 – 2018; Stavanger Kunstmuseum, MUST, Stavanger, Norway, 2018; Dům umění mě sta Brna | The Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic, 2018 – 2019; CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2019; Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2022; Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles,Photographic Festival, Arles, France 2022 (exhibition catalogue)
Biographical Forms: Construction and Individual Mythology, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (exhibition catalogue)
Shaping a Modern Identity: Portraits from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Reproductibilitat 1.1, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Illes Balears
Reproductibilitat 1.0, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Illes Balears
Memorias de la obsolescencia: Videos en la Colección de Ella Fontanals Cisneros, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
L’altro ritratto, MART Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
Between Memory and Archive, Museo Coleçäo Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Homebodies, MCA Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Altérité: Je est un autre, Espace Cultural Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
I, You, We, Whitney Museum of America Art, New York, New York
Corpi In Azione / Corpi In Visione, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in collaboration with Galleria Fumagalli and Spazioborgogno, Prato, Italy
(Un)seen, Fountain Gallery, New York, New York
International Women's Day: Artworks from the collection of Slava Nakovska and Nedko Solakov, ICA-Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Novecento. La fotografia, Museo Ken Damy di Fotografia Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
La Colección de Alicia Aza en el Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain
The Four Woodmans, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2012
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Gallery of Modern Art and the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (exhibition catalogue)
Ritratto di una città. Arte a Roma 1960 – 2001, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
Her, Bi8: Ogni squardo un passo, Fondazione Rolla, Bruzella, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue)
The Angels of Klee, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue)
Now Here is also Nowhere: Part I, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Letizia Battaglia / Francesca Woodman, Galleria Massimo Minini, Italy
La fotografia della Collezione Trevisan: con gli occhi, con il cuore, con la testa, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Roverto, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
Mindscapes, or How to Make the Invisible Visible?, La Centrale Électrique, Brussels, Belgium
Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (exhibition catalogue)
The Woodmans, Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida
The Quality of Presence, The Chelsea Hotel, New York, New York
Femmescapes, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California (exhibition catalogue)
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; traveled to Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 2012; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico, 2012 – 2013
2011
Frames and Documents, Conceptualist Practices: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO Art Space, Miami, Florida (exhibition catalogue)
Lo Schermo dell'Arte Film Festival, Cinema Odeon, Florence, Italy
Alice in Wonderland, Tate, Liverpool; traveled to: MART, Rovereto, Italy, 2012; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany, 2012
80 @ 80, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
barely there (part two), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, Michigan
Altered States and Visions, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Quattro nuove tematiche per le collezioni della GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino (GAM), Turin, Italy
Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Off the Wall, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2010
Autoritratte: ‘Artiste di capriccioso e destrissimo ingegno', Galleria degli Uffizi
Betty, Charlie, Francesca & George, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts
Inside Out, Photography After Form: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO Art Space, Miami, Florida (exhibition catalogue)
Brune/Blonde, la Cinémathèque française, musée du Cinéma, Paris, France
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: the Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Incognito: The Hidden Self-Portrait, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York
Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England (exhibition catalogue)
Sous la dictée de l’image, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Donna: Avanguardia Femminista Negli Anni ’70 dalla Sammlung Verbund di Vienna, Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Rome, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
2009
Being In The World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO Art Space, Miami, Florida (exhibition catalogue)
The Rose at Brandeis: Works from the Collection, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England (exhibition catalogue)
Camouflage, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; traveled to Espacio para el Arte Caja Madrid, Zaragoza, Spain, 2010; Museo del Patrimonio Municipal, Ayuntamiento de Malaga, Malaga, Spain, 2010; Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain, 2010 (exhibition catalogue)
The Lens and the Mirror, Part 2: Self–Portraits from the Collection, 1957–2000, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Fail Again Fail Better 2, MK Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Transitory Objects, Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria (exhibition catalogue)
The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim and Read, New York, New York
elles@centrepompidou: Artistes femmes dans les collections du Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (exhibition catalogue)
Elogio della bellezza, Museo Ken Damy di Fotografia Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
Subversive Spaces: Contemporary Art and Surrealism, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, England; traveled to Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England, 2009; Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2009
This is Not a Fashion Photograph, International Center of Photography, New York, New York
2008
Diana and Actaeon—The Forbidden Sight of Nudity, Düsseldorf Kunst Palast Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany (exhibition catalogue)
Double face, Vertical Gallery of the Verbund Collection, Vienna, Austria
Conversations, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Archeology of Mind (from the Morra Greco Collection), Malmö Konstmuseum and Fondazione Morra Greco of Naples, Malmö, Sweden
La Sostenibile Leggerezza dell'Essere (The Bearable Lightness of Being: The Metaphor of the Space), Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
Darkside—Part One: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterhur, Winterhur, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue)
RISD and Photography, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Shapes of time, Biennale di Alessandria Video e Fotografia Contemporanea, Alessandria, Italy
Nostalgie, L'istante e la durata del tempo, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
Implant, Horticultural Society of New York, UBS Art Gallery, New York, New York
Female Trouble, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (exhibition catalogue)
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (exhibition catalogue)
Body Memory, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
2007
Autoritratto/Autobiografia, Museo Handrik C. Andersen, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
The Woodman Family, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
30/40, A Selection: Forty Artists from Thirty Years of Exhibitions at Marian Goodman Gallery (Part II), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (exhibition catalogue)
Ellipsis: Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie, Francesca Woodman, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico; traveled to Lund Kontshall, Lund, Sweden, 2008; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, 2008 (exhibition catalogue)
Francesca Woodman & Richard Serra, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Surreal Aesthetic, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Held together with Water: Art from the Sammlung Verbund, MAK, Vienna, Austria; traveled to Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009 (exhibition catalogue)
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, California; traveled to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 2007; P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, New York, 2008; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008 – 2009 (exhibition catalogue)
Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
D’Ombra, Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
Punch! Works by Women Artists from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
2006
Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
D’Ombra, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
GORGE(l), Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium (exhibition catalogue)
Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia and Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (exhibition catalogue)
In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (exhibition catalogue)
New to the Collection: Contemporary Art Photography, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Eye Level: Self-Portraits from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
Domir, rêver…et autres nuits, CAPS musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (exhibition catalogue)
Screened and Selected: Recent Photography, Film, and Video Acquisitions, 1999-2000, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont (exhibition catalogue)
Decades of Influences: Colorado Art 1985 to Present, MCA Denver, Denver, Colorado
2005
Indeterminate States: Video in the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO, Miami, Florida (exhibition catalogue)
Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (exhibition catalogue)
Seven - everything goes to hell, Palazzo Pretorio, Tuscany, Italy
Shirley/Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Fashion and Photography, Megaron, Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece (exhibition catalogue)
Profumo di Donna, Galleria del Tasso, Bergamo, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
Secession—Die Regierung Paradiesische Handlungsräume, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection 1960-Present (2005), Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
Challenging Roles, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
2004
How do we want to be governed?, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida; traveled to The Secession, Vienna, Austria, 2005; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2005 (exhibition catalogue)
Missing: Photographs from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Artists' Self Portraits from the Collection of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York
American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection 1960-Present Weatherspoon Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
Photography and Place: Contemporary Works from the Museum's Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
That bodies speak has been known for a long time, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria (exhibition catalogue)
Physical Presence: Photographs from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Ideal and Reality: A History of the Nude, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2003
Passage, IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, Maine; traveled to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2004; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, 2004 (exhibition catalogue)
Incommunicado, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England; traveled to City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2004; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, 2004 (exhibition catalogue)
After Image, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; traveled to Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, 2004; Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England, 2004
Claude Cahun, Francesca Woodman, and Justine Kurland, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
A Room of Their Own: Images of Interiors from the Permanent Collection Weatherspoon Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
Chance Encounters: (Un)Selected Works from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Women Artists from the Permanent Collection Weatherspoon Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
2002
Modern Photographs from the Collection V, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Vis à vis: autoritrarsi d'artista, Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro (MAN), Sardinia, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
Hexenwahn, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
2001
Camera Women, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey; traveled to The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York, 2002 (exhibition catalogue)
Relative Positions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (exhibition catalogue)
Volontà Antropiche, Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy
Cool and Collected: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions Weatherspoon Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
The Big Id, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
2000
Collecting Ideas: Works from the Collection of Polly and Mark Addison, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado (exhibition catalogue)
The Wounded Diva: Hysteria, Body, Technology in 20th Century Art, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria; traveled to: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2000 (exhibition catalogue)
Raw, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Muscle: The Power of the View, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
1999
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Sculpture in Context, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Salone della Fotografia Storica Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Venice, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
1998
Space/Sight/Self, The University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois (exhibition catalogue)
F-Comme Photographie, Fri-Art Centre D'art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland
The Skopelos Center, Skopelos, Greece
From the Heart: The Power of Photography--A Collector's Choice, The Sondra Gilman Collection, South Texas Institute of the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas (exhibition catalogue)
Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representations, MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, 1998; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 1999 (exhibition catalogue)
1997
Recent Acquisitions: American Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Objectif corps, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France (exhibition catalogue)
Im Reich der Phantome, Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany; traveled to Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria, 1998; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, 1998 (exhibition catalogue)
Engel, Engel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, 1997; traveled to Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic 1997-1998 (exhibition catalogue)
1996
Inside the Visible, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; traveled to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1996; Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, 1996; The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1997 (exhibition catalogue)
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (exhibition catalogue)
1994
Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (exhibition catalogue)
Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia, 1994; traveled to The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 1995; Rockford Museum of Art, Illinois, 1995; Rahr-West Museum, 1995; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York (exhibition catalogue)
1992
Current 92: The Absent Body, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Sprung in die Zeit, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany (exhibition catalogue)
1989
Vanishing Presence, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; traveled to Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan, 1989; Winnipeg Art Center, Winnipeg, Canada, 1989; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1989 – 1990; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1990; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, 1990 (exhibition catalogue)
1988
Identity: Representation of the Self, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, New York
1987
Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera, Center for Exploratory Arts Gallery, Buffalo. New York; traveled to Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York-Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York, 1987; New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California, 1988; Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York 1988 (exhibition catalogue)
1986
Memento Mori, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1980
Pictorialism, Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York, New York
Beyond Photography 80, The Alternative Museum, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)
Friends of the Gallery, Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York, New York
1978
Group Show, Rhode Island School of Design Gallery in Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy
Cinque Giovani Artisti, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy
1977
Juried Competition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Photographs and Portraiture, Womanspace, Boulder, Colorado
1976
Juried Competition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island