Since the 1980s, Shaw has been exhibiting his works internationally in both solo and group presentations.
Selected solo exhibitions include Before and AfterMath, Metro Pictures, New York (2021); Hope Against Hope, Simon Lee Gallery, London (2020); Strange Beautiful, Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2019); The Wig Museum, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2017); Jim Shaw: The End is Here, New Museum, New York (2015); Jim Shaw, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2013); Dream Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012).
Select group exhibitions include NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2021); Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas (2019); TOM House, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2018); Living Apart Together, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017); Dream States, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2016).
