| 2024 | What Presence, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
| 2023 | Sediment, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 2023 | Modern and Contemporary, Waddington Custot, London |
| 2022 | Crazy, Chiostro Del Bramante, Rome |
| 2022 | Summer Exhibition, Carling Dalenson, Stockholm |
| 2021 | Artists of the Gallery - Christmas Edition, Gallery Andres Thalmann, Zurich |
| 2021 | British Abstraction, Gazelli Art House, London |
| 2021 | Colourspace, Mucciaccia Gallery, Rome |
| 2020 | Momentum, Museum Voorlinden, Netherlands |
| 2020 | Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2020 | Ian Davenport and Peter Monaghan, Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin |
| 2020 | Summer Exhibition, Cristea Roberts, London |
| 2020 | Colour in Motion, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge |
| 2020 | Best of British - Modern and Contemporary Masterpieces, Private and Public, Jersey |
| 2020 | we are here!, Galerie Haas & Gschwandtner, Salzburg |
| 2019 | The Interaction of Colour, Cristea Roberts, London |
| 2019 | A misura d’uomo: Tribute to Leonardo, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
| 2019 | Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London |
| 2018 | Scorribanda, Galleria Nazionale Arte Moderna, Rome |
| 2017 | Colour Is, Waddington Custot, London |
| 2017 | Pearls, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London |
| 2016 | The World Meets Here, Custot Gallery Dubai |
| 2016 | Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate |
| 2015 | Black Paintings, Charlie Smith London |
| 2015 | British Artists, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich |
| 2015 | At First Light, Luca Tommasi. Milan |
| 2015 | Right Now!, Mission Gallery, Swansea |
| 2014 | Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London |
| 2013 | Hidden in Plain Sight: British Abstract Art from the Collection, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery |
| 2013 | Once upon a time and what a very good time it was…, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2013 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2013 | Linear Abstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2013 | Thirteen, Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2012 | Route 66: Ian Davenport / Alberto Di Fabio, Luca Tommasi, Monza |
| 2012 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2012 | Means Without Ends, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London |
| 2012 | Sweethearts, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London |
| 2012 | PiH Contemporaries 2012, Bonhams, London |
| 2012 | Duchamp and Cage: 100 Years Later, The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk |
| 2012 | The Materiality of Paint, The Fine Art Society, London |
| 2011 | Gravity’s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2011 | Why Patterns?, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 2011 | Lineage, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh |
| 2011 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2011 | Editions & Acquisitions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2011 | UK and US Contemporary Artists, Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid |
| 2011 | I Promise to Love You: Caldic Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam |
| 2010 | John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2010 Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| 2010 | John Moores Prize Paintings in Korea, Seongnam Art Centre, Korea |
| 2010 | The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
| 2010 | Pictures on Pictures: Discursive Painting from Albers to Zobernig from the Daimler Art Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna |
| 2010 | Ian Davenport, Mark Francis, Peter Halley and Dan Walsh: Abstract Vision Now, Art + Art Gallery, Moscow |
| 2010 | Derek Jarman Building, University of Kent, Canterbury (stampe / prints) |
| 2010 | Art-curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Haas and Fuchs, Berlin Save Us, Macclesfield Visual Arts Festival |
| 2010 | Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (stampe / prints) Summer Exhibition, Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2010 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2010 | Process/Abstraction, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York |
| 2010 | Fast Forward, British Contemporary Art in Brazil, Espaço David Ford - Brazilian British Centre Galleries, Pinheiros, Brazil |
| 2010 | Cream (Damien Hirst & Contemporaries), Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
| 2010 | Abstraction and Structure, con opere di / with paintings by Ian Davenport, Katharina Grosse, Joanne Greenbaum, Frank Nitsche, Albrecht Schnider, Esther Stocker, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt Paintings in Hospitals: Colouring in the Clinical, Menier G |
| 2009 | Ian Davenport Michael Craig-Martin Julian Opie: Múltiple, Galeria Estiarte, Madrid |
| 2009 | Setting the Pattern, Koraalberg Contemporary Art, Antwerp |
| 2009 | Contemporary Prints: Including Lichtenstein, Davenport, Opie, Alan Cristea Gallery, London Northern Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (stampe / prints) |
| 2008 | New Gallery Editions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2008 | Blitzkrieg Bop, Man&Eve Gallery, London |
| 2008 | Weight Watchers, Galerie Xippas, Paris |
| 2008 | New Contemporary Art Displays, Tate Britain, London |
| 2008 | Cover Versions, Ermenegildo Zegna, Milano (organizzato da / organized by Wallpaper* Magazine) |
| 2008 | 20 at The Hospital Club, The Hospital Club Gallery, London |
| 2008 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2007 | Between the Lines, Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea (stampe / prints) |
| 2007 | Painting in the Noughties, Regional Cultural Arts Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Jerwood Space, London |
| 2007 | New Space New Work, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (stampe / prints) |
| 2007 | A Summer Selection, Crane Kalman Gallery, London |
| 2007 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2007 | Turner Prize: A Retrospective 1984-2006, Tate Britain, London |
| 2006 | Abstract Painting and the University of Warwick Art Collection, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick |
| 2006 | Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol; |
| 2006 | Passion for Paint, National Gallery, London; |
| 2006 | Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Artists + Alchemists, Sherborne House, Sherborne, Dorset |
| 2006 | Compilation 2, Rocket Gallery, London |
| 2006 | How to Improve the World: British Art 1946-2006, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London Concrete Matters, Nieuwe Vide Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands |
| 2006 | Thread, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2006 | Edition, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2006 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2006 | The hardest thing to draw is a kiss, Wimbledon School of Art, London (a cura di / curated by David Austen) |
| 2006 | Compilation 3, Rocket Gallery, London |
| 2006 | You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference (Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition), Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; touring to Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Lowry, Salford; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie House Museum, Carlisle (until 2 |
| 2006 | Drawing Breath, The Jerwood Drawing Prize-Special Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Art, London (until 2008) |
| 2006 | Monochromed, The Fine Art Society, London |
| 2005 | Elements of Abstraction, Southampton City Art Gallery |
| 2005 | Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue?, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2005 | Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin |
| 2005 | Ian Davenport, Kaoru Tsunoda, Rachmaninoff’s, London |
| 2005 | Painting : London, Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice |
| 2004 | John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| 2004 | Other Times: Contemporary British Art, City Gallery, Prague (in association with the British Council) Post Impact, Xippas Gallery, Athens |
| 2004 | Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore |
| 2003 | Exodus: between promise and fulfilment, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge Circular, Rocket Gallery, London Prints Published by the Alan Cristea Gallery, Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2003 | Blanc en Blanc, Galerie Xippas, Paris |
| 2003 | Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain, London |
| 2003 | Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2003 | On, Xippas Gallery, Athens |
| 2002 | Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Rocket Gallery, London |
| 2002 | In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London |
| 2002 | Colour - A Life of Its Own, Mücsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest |
| 2002 | Super-Abstr-Action 2, Galerie No Code, Bologna |
| 2002 | Peintures - Contrainte ou recette, Galerie du Cloître, Rennes (organizzato da / organised by L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Rennes) |
| 2002 | Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam |
| 2002 | Abstraction, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2002 | John Moores 22, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (sezione del / part of the Liverpool Biennial 2002) |
| 2002 | Jerwood Drawing Prize, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham; touring to other UK venues including Jerwood Space, London Berlin/London/Minimal, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin |
| 2002 | New Commissions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2002 | Prospects 2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Essor Project Space, London (offerto da / sponsored by Pizza Express) |
| 2001 | UBS Warburg Exhibition, UBS Warburg at Planit Arches, London |
| 2001 | Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London; touring to Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow |
| 2001 | British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London |
| 2001 | Complementary Studies: Recent Abstract Painting, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston |
| 2000 | Profiles of Young European Painting, Premio del Golfo, La Spezia |
| 2000 | Fact & Value, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen |
| 2000 | Surface, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, Scotland |
| 1999 | Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
| 1999 | Now Showing II, Houldsworth Fine Art, London |
| 1999 | John Moores Liverpool 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| 1999 | 21 Years of Spacex, Spacex Gallery, Exeter |
| 1999 | A Line in Painting, Gallery Fine, London |
| 1998 | Roberto Caracciolo, Ian Davenport, Galleria Moncada, Roma |
| 1998 | Up to 2000, Southampton City Art Gallery |
| 1998 | Elegant Austerity, Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1997 | Finish, Spacex Gallery, Exeter |
| 1997 | Ian Davenport, Michael Craig-Martin, Zebedee Jones, Michael Landy and Fiona Rae, Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1997 | Treasure Island, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon |
| 1996 | About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; touring to The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (until 1998) |
| 1996 | Nuevas Abstracciones, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; touring to Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona |
| 1996 | Ace! Arts Council Collection new purchases, South Bank Centre exhibition touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Oldham Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Mappin Art Gallery, She |
| 1996 | 50 Jahre Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal, Kunsthalle Barmen, WuppertalBarmen, Germany British Abstract Art Part 3: Works on Paper, Flowers East, London |
| 1995 | Real Art - A New Modernism: British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s, Southampton City Art Gallery; touring to Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium; Leeds City Art Gallery (until 1996) |
| 1995 | 30 Years of Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester |
| 1995 | From Here, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London |
| 1994 | Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1994 | British Painting 1988-1994: a selection from stock, Richard Salmon Ltd, London |
| 1994 | Summer 94, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York |
| 1994 | British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London |
| 1992 | Dumb Painting, Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
| 1992 | The Vertical Flatbed Picture Plane - En Valise, Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 1992 | New Voices: recent paintings from the British Council collection, British Council exhibition: touring to Centre de Conferences Albert Borschette, Brussels; EEC Presidency Exhibition, Brussels; Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg; Istanbul Greater City Municipality Taksim Art Gallery; Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery; Izfas Gallery, Izmir, Turkey; Santa Monica Contemporary Art Centre, Barcelona; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain; Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid; Veronicas: Sala de Exposiciones, Murcia, Spain; Pescaderia Vieja: Sala de Arte, Jerez, Spain; Kulthurhistorisches Museum, Magdeburg, Germany; National Theatre Galleries, Bucharest, Romania; Art Halls of the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens, Athens; Cultural Centre for the National Bank of Greece, Thessaloniki; The Russian Museum, St Petersburg; Kremlin Museum, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia; Mirbachov Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia; Cultural Centre for the National Bank, Thessaloniki, Greece; The House of the Black Madonna, Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague; Museum of Modern Art, Skopje, Macedonia (until 1997) |
| 1992 | L’Attico, Fabio Sargentini, Rome |
| 1992 | Gifts to the Nation: Contemporary Art Society Purchases, Camden Arts Centre, London |
| 1991 | Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1991 | London Metropolis Internationale Kunstausstellung, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin |
| 1991 | Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis, James Nares, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York |
| 1991 | Abstraction, Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1991 | Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London |
| 1991 | New Displays, Tate Gallery, London |
| 1991 | Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin |
| 1991 | Confrontaciones: Arte ultimo britanico y espanol, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid (in collaborazione con / in collaboration with The British Council) (until 1992) |
| 1991 | British Art from 1930, Waddington Galleries, |
| 1990 | Carnet de Voyages - 1, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France (until 1991) |
| 1990 | Painting Alone, Pace Gallery, New York |
| 1990 | The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; touring to Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1989 | West Norwood 1, West Norwood Railway Arches (7, 8, 9), London |
| 1989 | Current, Swansea Arts Workshop (Old Seamen’s Chapel), Swansea |
| 1988 | Ian Davenport, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London |
| 1988 | Freeze, Surrey Docks, London |
| 1985 | Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester |