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

MD Gallery, Shanghai, China, Solo show with new work

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

Izzy Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Solo show

Flatland Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, Solo show with new work

Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France, Indochine

Gallery Kong, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Gallery Kong - Human & Nature

Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Málaga, Málaga , Spain, 'Erwin Olaf - Four Series'

National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, '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'

Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenagen, Denmark, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen

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

Gallery Art & Business, Zurich, Switzerland, Petra Lossen - Political Poetical

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'

Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, USA, 'Beauty Culture'

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

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

DeLaMar Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'DeLaMar'

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 Men'