2019
Recline: Portraiture & Henri Matisse Prints
McClain Gallery, Houston
Fringe: William N. Copley, Saskia Pintelon & Jenny Watson
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem
2018
Kinder Gentler Nation
Karma, New York
Mr. Natural: And Other Works from the Allan Frumkin Gallery (1952 – 1987)
VENUS, New York
Nudes
Sadie Coles, London
Atlas
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting
Nova Southeastern University Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale
Trance
Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib
París pese a todo: Artistas extranheros, 1944-1968 (Lost, Loose and Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris, 1944 – 1968)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arta Reina Sofia, Madrid
2017
Animal Farm
The Brant Foundation, Greenwich
Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros
Hall Art Foundation, Reading
Itinéraires
Musée D’Arts de Nantes, Nantes
Schlaf: Eine produktive Zeitverschwendung
Museen Böttcherstrasse, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940 – 2017
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
America! America! How Real Is Real?
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
2016
William Copley, Elma Talbot, Ina van Zyl
Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam
Olymia
Karma at Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
The Revolutionary Suicide Mechanized Band
Rob Tufnell Gallery, Cologne
Impasse Ronsin
Kasmin Gallery, New York
2015
The Shadow is Taken
Algus Greenspon, New York
Viewer Discretion: Children of Bataille
Stux & Haller, New York
L’Impasse Ronsin
Kasmin Gallery, New York
The Violent Crab
David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Saul Steinberg and William Copley: Take on the Life
Galerie Klauss Gerrit Friese, Berlin
Painting 2.0: Expressions in the Information Age
Museum Brandhorst, Munich and Mumok Museum, Vienna
2014
Alexander the Great: The Iolas Gallery 1955 – 1987
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Live and Let Die
Modern Art, London
Purple States
Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Pop Abstraction
Fredericks and Fraser Gallery and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
The Surrealist Bungalow
Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf
What Nerve!: Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present
RISD Museum, Providence
2013
Re-view
Hauser & Wirth, London
Masculin/Feminine
Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin
2012
Interiors
Andrew Kreps, New York
2011
After Shelly Duval ’72 (Frogs on the High Line)
Maccarone Gallery, New York
2009
And Other Essays
Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson
Exile on Main St.
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Jr. and Son’s
Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
2008
Diana und Aktaion: Der Verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Karl Bohrmann - William N. Copley
Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
Carte Blanche III: Gedichte der Fakten
Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig
Liebe, Love, Paare
Gustav-Lübcke Museum, Hamm
Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
Ulmer Museum, Ulm
Mirror, Mirror
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
2007
Deutsche und Amerikanische Malerei
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Sixties! Art, Fashion, Design, Film and Photography
Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague
AFFINITIES
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2006
Die anderen Bilder
Museum der Stadt, Ratingen
Ele-Mental
David Nolan Gallery, New York
Six Feet Under: Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Models and Prototypes
Mildred Land Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis
L’Amateur d’estampes
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing
Collage Effect
1301PE, Los Angeles
Nolan/ Eckman 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 zeitgenössische Kunst
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Eröffnungsausstellung Sammlung Frieder Burda
Museum Frieder Burda and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
Christmas Art Gifts
Artiscope, Brussels
Baume
Galerie Biedermann, Munich
2003
Imagine: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary art, North Miami
2001
Kunst Sammeln I: Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst aus den Sammlungen von Cramm
Falckenburg, Kalkmann, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg
Museum Unserer Wünsche
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2000
Prints
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
Im Gegenüber: Landschaften, Stilleben, Portraits
Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich
1998
Summer Group Show
Nolan/ Eckman 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 a Copley
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Think
Galerie Brigitte Ihsen, Cologne
Disegni americani degli anni ottanta: 15 artisti
Galleria Milano, Milan
1995
Bunnies - A Group Show
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
Drawing the Line: Reappraising Drawing Past and Present
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (traveled to Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London)
1994
Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
1989
Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960
Museum Ludwig in den Rheinhallen der Kölner Messe, Cologne
1988
Gran Pavese, The Flag Project
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp
Roger Brown, William Copley, Duncan Hannah
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami
1987
The Amused Eye: A National Sampling of Humor in Art
The Evanston Art Center, Evanston
1986
Column
Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frenchen-Bachem
Europa/Amerika: die Geschichte einer kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1985
Cinquante ans de dessins americains, 1930–1980
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Paravents
Schloss Lorsfeld, Kerpen
1984
Auto and Culture
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
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
Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne
1980
American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real, Ideal and the Fantastic
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of Art
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
Artist’s Renderings of Paintings
Pinoteca di Brera, Milan and Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Dada/Surrealist Heritage
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
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
1974
Seventy-First American Exhibition
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1972
Documenta 5
Kassel
1971
Erotic Art
The Art Center of the New School for Social Research, The New Museum, New York
1970
Hot Show
Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York
Copley, Brauner and Magritte
Louisiana Gallery, Houston
Box Top Art
Illinois State University, Bloomington
1967
Around the Automobile
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mixed Masters
University of St. Thomas, Houston
1966
Hommage à Caissa: Exhibition for the Chess Foundation of 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, San Diego
1965
Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Surrealist Exhibition
Byron Gallery, New York
Visiting Artists at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
Group Show
Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
Whence Pop
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington
1964
Selections from the L. M. Asher Collection
University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
New Directions in American Painting
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
Nieuwe realisten
Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague
The Maremont Collection
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.
Le Surrealisme: Sources, Histoire, Affinities
Galerie Charpentier, Paris
1963
Pop Art USA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland
XIX Salon de Mai
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
18 Salon de Réalitiés Nouvelles
Musée Municipal d’Art Moderne, Paris
Paris Lettriste
Galerie Schmidt, Paris
1962
Collage out of California
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena
Antagonismes 2: L’objet
Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris
Surrealismus: Phantastiche Malerei der Gegenwart
Künstlerhaus, Vienna
XVIII Salon de Mai
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1961
XVII Salon de Mai
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Bewogen beweging-Rorelse i Konsten
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1959
XVI Salon de Mai
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Arte Fantastica
Museo de Castello di San Giusto, Trieste
The Maremont Collection at the Institute of Design
Illinois Institute of Technology at Crown Hall, Chicago
1957
Verzameling Urvater
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
The Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; City of York Gallery, York; The Tate Gallery, London
1956
XV Salon de Mai
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Exposition Internationale de l’art actuel
Nagaoka Museum, Nagaoka
1954
Americans in Paris
Galerie Arthur Craven, Paris
Selected Works
