The Black Diamond, Copenhagen, Denmark, Solo show in the Black Diamond

Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany, First German solo museum show

Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, South Korea, Suwon Museum of Art

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA, April Fool 2020 & Im Wald, 2020

Danysz Gallery, Shanghai, China, Solo Exhibition at Danysz Gallery

Patricia Conde Galería, Mexico City, Mexico, Solo exhibition Patricia Conde Galería

Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, First solo exhibition at Ron Mandos Gallery

Izzy Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 'Trilogy' Solo gallery exhibition

Gallery Kong, Seoul, South Korea, Post Covid 19, part 2 - Erwin Olaf, April Fool

Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy, Paci Contemporary

Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France, Erwin Olaf - April Fool

Exhibition with a selection of the acquired works at Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12x Erwin Olaf at Rijksmuseum

Xie Zilong Photography Museum (XPM), Changsha, China, Erwin Olaf

Shanghai Center of Photography (SCoP), Shanghai, China, Parallel

Gemeente Museum The Hague & The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague, The Netherlands, Anniversary Solo Show

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA, Solo exhibition

MIS - Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Large multimedia retrospective

Izzy Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 'Erwin Olaf Retrospective'

National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 'Erwin Olaf - Four Series'

Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga , Malaga, Spain, 'Cell of Emotions'

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia, 'Homage Louis Gallait'

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina, 'Erwin Olaf: The Empire of Illusion'

Fundação Oriente Museu, Macau, China, 'Retrospective'

The Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA, 'Erwin Olaf: Breakfast in America'

MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary, 'Erwin Olaf: Karussell'

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, 'Empire of Illusion'

Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku, Gdańsk, Poland, 'Choreography of Emotions'

La Sucrière, Lyon, France, 'Emotions, Installations by Erwin Olaf till 2012'

MMKA, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 'Regressive'

Gaasbeek Castle, Gaasbeek, Belgium, 'Exquisite Corpses'

CerModern, Ankara, Turkey, 'Erwin Olaf: Captured Senses'

Hermitage Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Dusk / Dawn'

Fondazione FORMA, Milan, Italy, 'Vite Private' (Private lives)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'A Journey to Excellence'

Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, 'Moving Targets'

Domus Artium 2002 (DA02), Salamanca, Spain, 'Darts of Pleasure, Erwin Olaf 1984 - 2009'

Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France, 'Photographie & Video: Rain, Hope, Grief, Fall et d'autres Oeuvres'

Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium, 'Erwin Olaf - EyeCandy 1984 - 2009'

Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia, 'Selected Works'

Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art, Salem, USA, 'Still Living: Structure, Surface and Expression'

Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands, 'Rain, Hope, Grief & Fall'

Space E6, Shenzhen, China, Erwin Olaf's first exhibition on the Chinese mainland

City Arts Centre, Shoalhaven, Australia, 'Elegance and Perversity'

Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia, 'Elegance and Perversity'

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, 'Fashion & Style in Photography'

Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 'Imitation of Life'

MonteVideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Moving Targets'

Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, 'Silver'

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 'Chessmen'

Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 'Joy'

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, 'Erwin Olaf'

Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy, True Fictions

Gallerie d'Italia in Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy, Futuro

Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, What will the neighbours say?

Gallerie d'Italia Venice, Vicenza, Italy, Il Futuro è ora. Arte e società dagli anni Sessanta a oggi

Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, Museum Morsbroich

Conciergerie, Paris, France, Marie-Antoinette, Metamorphoses of an Image

Danysz Gallery, Shanghai, China, Story Smuggler

Hangar Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium, Photo Brussels Festival

Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia, Cairns Art Gallery

Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenagen, Denmark, Vogue Like a Painting

Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, The Netherlands, Museum Jan Cunen

Villa Rot, Rot, Germany, Villa Rot

Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie

Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, 'After Rodin - Groninger Museum'

Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea, Hangaram Art Museum

K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China, 'Women's Independence'

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA, 'Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography'

Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland, 'In Search of the Present'

Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands, 'Dutch Identity - Dutch Portrait Photography Now'

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Catwalk'

Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei, New Zealand, 'Hendrik Kerstens + Erwin Olaf'

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, 'Vogue: Like A Painting'

Fondation Francès, Senlis, France, 'Juke Box'

MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 'Memory Lab: Photography Challenges History'

Kasteel D'Ursel, Hingene, Belgium, 'Sweet 18'

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 'Memory Lab: The Sentimental Turn. Photography Challenges History'

Amsterdam City Archives, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Studio Portretten'

Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 'WHITE!'

GuatePhoto, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 'GuatePhoto 2012'

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, 'Vanitas Contemporary Reflections'

OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China, 'Basic Instincts'

Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria, 'MEGACOOL 4.0, Jugend und Kunst'

BIP 2012, Liege, Belgium, 'Only You Only Me - Images of Love, Love of the Image'

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, 'No Fashion, Please!'

Museum De Lakenhal , Leiden, The Netherlands, 'The Siege of Leiden'

Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, 'Kunst Macht Schule'

Hermitage Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Alexander The Great'

Gallerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, 'Decadence Now! Visions of Excess'

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada, 'Cinema X: I Like to Watch'

CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, 'Atopia, Art and the City in the 21st Century'

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 'Peguena Historia de la Fotografia'

Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, 'The Non-Age'

Museum of the City of New York, New York City, USA, 'Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered'

Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, USA, 'Why Look at Animals?'

Museum Für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland, 'Short Stories in Contemporary Photography'

The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, USA, 'Expressive Bodies'

FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Oog / Eye'

Phillips, New York City, USA, 'NYC Photo'

Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, USA, 'Dangerous Beauty'

Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 'Cross-Referenced Messages - Talk with Reality in Time'

Salamanca Arts Centre, Salamanca, Spain, 'Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautifull'

Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA, 'Going Dutch'

Cultural Centre Es Pantagruélico, Santiago, Chile, 'Foto America 2004'

Mostra Internazionale D’arte Contemporánea, Trieste, Italy, 'Shock & Show. Realtra e Alternative'

Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 'The Body of Art'

Museum Für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, 'Bodies, Clothing, Surfaces'

Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, 'Haks Was Here'

The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK, 'Behold the Man'