2020

Forget ( Part II: Don´t Forget Your Mask ) – Jahn und Jahn, Munich

Albert Oehlen. Maschinenwesen – Museo d´arte della Svizzera italiana ( MASI ) LAC, Lugano, Switzerland

Moving Energies – 10 Years me Collectors Room Berlin – me Collectors Room, Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin

2019

LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS. William N. Copley, Robert Frank, Saul Leiter & Saul Steinberg ( in cooperation with Kicken Berlin ) – Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin

Fringe. William N. Copley, Saskia Pintelon & Jenny Watson – Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle

Recline: Portraiture & Henri Matisse Prints – McClain Gallery, Houston

2018

Played – Galerie Ebensperger, Salzburg

40+10+1 – Jahn und Jahn, Munich

Paris pese a todo: Artistas extranieros, 1944-1968 ( Lost, Loose and Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris, 1944 – 1968 ) – Museo Nacional Centro de Arta Reina Sofia, Madrid

Atlas – Fondazione Prada, Milan

Nudes – Sadie Coles, London

Kinder Gentler Nation – Karma, New York

Mr. Unatural; And Other Works from the Allan Frumkin Gallery ( 1952 – 1987 ) – VENUS, New York

Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting – NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Trance Aïshti Foundation, Jal Ed Dib, Lebanon

2017

America! America! Now Real is Real? – Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

Animal Farm – The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut

2016

Grün II – Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin

PAINTING 2.0: Malerie im Informationszeitalter – Museum Brandhorst, Munich

Drawing Room –David Nolan Gallery, New York

Impasse Ronsin – Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

William Copley, Elma Talbot, Ina van Zyl – Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam

2015

The Written Trace – Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2014

Pop Abstraction – Fredericks & Freiser Gallery and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York

Amerikanische Zeichnungen – Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich

Alexander the Great: The Iolas Gallery 1955 1987 – Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2013

Building The Sukka – House of Gaga, Mexico City

Ruhe-Störung - Streifzüge durch die Welten der Collage – MARTa Herford

B.A.B.E. - The Best Artists Books and Editors, Immanence – espace d´art contemporain, Paris

Re-View: Onnasch Collection – Hauser & Wirth Gallery, London

Summer Show – Galerie Leu, Munich

Frieze Masters, London

Art Cologne, Cologne

Kaboom! Comic in der Kunst, Weserburg – Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen

Gang Bust: William Copley & Big Fat Black Cock Inc. – Venus Over Manhattan, New York

Masculine/Feminine – Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin

2012

A Selection of Pop Art – Galerie Leu, Munich

Bode Xmas Gallery – Galerie & Edition Bode GmbH, Nuremberg

Météorologies mentales – Centre culturel Suisse, Paris

Interios – Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

2011

William N. Copley und Andreas Slominski – X-RATED, me Collectors Room, Berlin

Mémoires du future - la collection Olbricht – La Maison Rouge, Paris

Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection – The Art Institute of Chicago

Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

After Shelley Duvall ´72 ( Frogs on the High Line ) – Maccarone Gallery, New York

Images from a Floating World: 18th and 19th Century Japanese Erotic Prints and the Echo in Modern and Contemporary Art – Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York

ADAA: The Art Show, New York

2010

Nur Wahrheit – ehrlich, tod-sicher: Maske, Handschuh und Skelett – Werke der Sammlung Kopp und weitere – 8. Salon, Hamburg

La maison et l´infini – La collection de Christian Zacharias – Fondation de l´Hermitage, Lausanne

Don Juan in the Village – Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm

Accrochage – Galerie Lelong, Zurich

Que du papier, L.A.C. – Lieu ´Art Contemporaine, Sigean

Die Bilder tun was mit mir... – Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

Permanent Trouble, Aktuelle Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp, KOG – Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg

S.M.S.: An Archive of the 60s, UAM – University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA

Aus privaten Sammlungen – Galerie Renate Kammer, Hamburg

Intimacy! Baden in der Kunst – Kunstmuseum Ahlen

2009

JR. And Sons – Zach Feuer Gallery ( LFL ), New York

Originalgrafiken, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen – Galerie Biedermann, Munich

Memorizer– Der Sammler Andreas Züst – Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau

Die Gegenwart der Linie – Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Exile on Main St. – Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

2008

Diana und Aktaion. Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit – Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf

Liebe, Love, Paare: Von Munch bis Warhol – Museum Ulm

Carte Blanche III: "Gedichte der Fakten" – Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Arend und Brigitte Oetker – Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst – GfZK Leipzig

Liebe. Love. Paare – Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm

2007

Liebe. Love. Paare – Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg

Deutsche und Amerikanische Malerie – Aus der Sammlung Frieder Burda, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

Rockers Island – Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen

Sixties! – Art, fashion, design, film and photography – Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

2006

Die anderen Bilder – Museum der Stadt Ratingen

En Masse – Heskin Contemporary, New York

Six Feet Under Autopsie unseres Umgang mit Toten – Kunstmuseum Bern

Ele-Mental – David Nolan Gallery, New York

L´amateur d´estampes – MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing

Collage Effect, Los Angeles Group Show – David Nolan Gallery, New York

Summit – Galerie Leu, Munich

Models and Prototypes – Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis

Not Quite Ten Years Without Martin Kippenberger – Unit 54/5th floor Regents Studois, London Group Show, David Nolan Gallery, New York

2005

Internationale Zeichner – Galerie Biedermann, Munich

Bilderwechsel III – Amerikanische Malerei – Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

2004

FUNNY CUTS – Cartoons und Comics in der zeitgenössischen Kunst – Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Eröffnungsaustellung Sammlung Frieder Burda – Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

Sammlung Frieder Burda. Eröffnungsausstellung – Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

Christmas Art Gifts – Artiscope, Brussels

Bäume – Galerie Biedermann, Munich

European-Art-Expo 2004 Fashion Düsseldorf – European Art Expo, Dusseldorf

2003

Imagine – Selections from the permanent collection – Museum of Contemporary Art – North Miami ( MOCA ), Miami

2001

Das Museum unserer Wünsche – Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne

10 Jahre Kunstverein Salzdefurth – Kunstverein Bad Salzdefurth e.V., Bodenburg

2000

Prints – David Nolan Gallery, New York

Landschaften – Stilleben – Portrait Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich

1998

Summer Group Show – David Nolan Gallery, New York

Imagined World – David Nolan Gallery, New York

1997

Magie der Zahl in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts – Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Spiral Village – Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

1996

Hommage à Copley – Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich

Think – Galerie Brigitte Ihsen, Cologne

Amerikanische Zeichnungen – Galleria Milano, Milan

Surrealistic Pillow – David Nolan Gallery, New York

A Labor of Love – New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1995

Drawing the Line – South Bank Centre, London, Southampton City Art gallery, Southampton, Manchester City Art Gallery, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Bunnies – A Group Show – David Nolan Gallery, New York

1994

Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art – Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art

1990

Arbeitswelt – Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden

1989

Bilderstreit. Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960 – Museum Ludwig in den Rheinhallen der Kölner Messer, Cologne

1988

Roger Brown, William Copley, Duncan Hannah – Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami

Gran Pavese - The Flag Project – MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium

1987

The Amused Eye: A National Sampling of Humor in Art – The Evanston Art Center, Evanston

1986

Column – Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem

Europa / Amerika. Die Geschichte einer künstlerischen Faszination seit 1940 – Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Vom Zeichnen. Aspekte Der Zeichnung 1960 – 1985 MUMOK, Vienna / Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel

1985

Cinquante ans de dessins américains: 1930 – 1980 – École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Amerikanische Zeichnungen – Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt / Main

Vom Zeichnen. Aspekte der Zeichnung 1960 – 1985 – Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main

Paravents – Schloss Lörsfeld, Kerpen

1984

Auto and Culture – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / Detroit Institute of Arts

1983

Looking at Women – Artemisia Gallery, Chicago

Festival of the Arts – Muhlenberg College, Allentown

Contemporary Paintings from the Weatherspoon Art Gallery – University of North Carolina at Greensboro

The Last Laugh – Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth

1982

documenta 7, Kassel

the Erotic Impulse – Roger Litz Gallery, New York

1981

Westkunst, Cologne

1980

American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real – The Ideal – The Fantastic. A Selection from The Whitney Museum of American Art – Montgomery Museum of Fine Art / Joslyn Art

Museum, Omaha / Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg / Columbus Museum of Art / Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado / The Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno

The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art – The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1978

Aspekte der 60er Jahre aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch – Nationalgalerie, Berlin

American Nude – Harold Reed Gallery, New York

Box Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York

1977

Artists´ Rendering of Paintings – Brera Museum, Milan / Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Dada/Surrealist Heritage – Sterling and Francis Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Art Outside the Mainstream: Bad Painting – The New Museum, New York

1976

The William Seitz Memorial Exhibition – Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton

1975

Three Generations of the American Nude – New York Cultural Center, New York

1972

documenta 5, Kassel

1971

Erotic Art, The Art Center of the New School for Social Research – The New Museum, New York

1970

Hat Show – Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York

Copley, Brauner and Magritte – Louisiana Gallery, Houston

Box Top Art – Illinois State University, Bloomington

1968

The Obsessive Image 1960 – 1968, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1967—1968

Around the Automobile – The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Arlington State College, Arlington / Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids / Iowa Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hannover / Carroll Reece Memorial Museum, Johnson City / Bates College, Lewiston / Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown / Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis / The Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills

1967

Mixed Masters – University of St. Thomas Art Department, Houston

1966

Hommage à Caissa. Exhibition for the Chess Foundation for the Duchamp Fund – Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York

Surrealist Exhibition – University of California, Santa Barbara

Le Portrait – Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

25 Years of Art in San Diego – La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla

Society for Contemporary Art 26th Annual – The Art Institute of Chicago

1965

Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Surrealist Exhibition – Byron Gallery, New York

Visiting Artist at the Tamaring Lithography Workshop – Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles

Group Show – Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles

Whence Pop – Heckscher Museum, Huntington

Personal Choice: Paintings and Sculpture from Houston Private Collection – Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

1964

Selections from the L.M. Asher Collection – University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico – Fine Arts Center, Albuquerque

New Directions in American Painting – Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham

Nieuwe realisten – Haags Gemeetemuseum, The Hague

The Maremont Collection – Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C.

Le Surréalisme Sources – Histoire – Affinités – Galerie Charpentier, Paris

1963

Pop Art USA – Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland

XIXe Salon de Mai – Musée d´Art Moderne de la Vielle de Paris, Paris

18ième Salon de Réalités Nouvelles – Musée Municipal d´Art Moderne, Paris

Les Sources Surréalisme – Galerie Charpentier, Paris

Lettriste – Galerie Schmidt, Paris

1962

Collage out of California – Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena

Antagonismes: 2. L´Objet – Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris

Surrealismus. Phantastische Malerei der Gegenwart – Künstlerhaus, Vienna

XVIIIe Salon de Mai – Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

1961

XVIIe Salon de Mai – Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

Bewogen beweging / Rörelse i konsten – Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / Moderna Museet, Stockholm

1959

XVe Salon de Mai – Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

Exposition internationale du Surréalisme – Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris

Arte Fantastica – Museo di Castillo di San Giusto, Trieste

The Marernont Collection at the Institute of Design – Illinois Institute of Technology at Crown Hall, Illinois

1957—1958

Verzameling Urvater – Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo / The Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester / City of York Gallery, York / The Tate Gallery, London

1957—1958

Verzameling Urvater – Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo / The Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester / City of York Gallery, York / The Tate Gallery, London

1956

XIIe Salon de Mai – Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

Exposition Internationale de l´Art Actuel – Nagaoka Museum, Nagaoka, Japan

1954

Americans in Paris – Galerie Arthur Cravan, Paris