- 1980Her first solo show was at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
- 1982Solo show, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge
- 1982Group show, "Objects and Figures: New Sculpture in Britain", The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
- 1983Solo show, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Syracuse, Italy
- 1983Solo show, Galleria Massimo Minini, Milan
- 1983Solo show, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
- 1983Group show, "Beelden-Sculpture", Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam
- 1983Group show, "New Art", Tate Gallery, London
- 1984Solo show, Lisson Gallery, London
- 1984Group show, "British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions", City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
- 1984Group show, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
- 1984Group show, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
- 1984Group show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
- 1984Group show, Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton
- 1985Group show, "The British Show", Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- 1985Group show, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
- 1985Group show, The Show Hall, Melbourne, Australia
- 1985Group show, "Seconds Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire", Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France
- 1985Group show, "The Poetic Object", The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
- 1985Group show, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- 1985Group show, National Art Gallery, Wellington
- 1985Group show, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
- 1986Solo show, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
- 1986Group sculpture show, "Sonsbeek 86", Arnhem, Netherlands
- 1986Group sculpture show, "9 Kunstnere fra Storbrittanien", Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek
- 1987Solo show, "Breath", Lisson Gallery, London
- 1987Group show, "Skulptur Projekte 87", Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster
- 1987Group show, "Vessels", Serpentine Gallery, London
- 1988Solo show, Centre D'Art Contemporarian, Geneva
- 1988Solo show, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
- 1990Group show, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
- 1992Solo show, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome
- 1992Solo show, "Isthmus", Lisson Gallery, London
- 1993Solo show, "Turning Around the Centre", Amherst Fine Art Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
- 1993Solo show, York University Art Gallery, Ontario
- 1993Solo show, Harn Museum, Gainesville, Florida
- 1993Solo show, "Dancing Around My Ghost", Camden Arts Centre, London
- 1993Group show, Second Tyne International, Newcastle
- 1993Participated in "State of Siege", Bienal Internacional de Óbidos, Portugal
- 1993Group show, "Tresors de Voyage", Monastero dei Padri Mechitaristi dell' Isola di San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice
- 1994Solo show, "The Sense of Unity", Lisson Gallery, London
- 1994Group show, "Skulptur statt Denkmal", Galerie Marion und Roswitha Fricke, Dusseldorf
- 1994Group show, "Sculptors", Tate Gallery, London
- 1994Group show, "Turner Prize", Tate Gallery, London
- 1994Group show, "Sculpture at Goodwood", Hat Hill Sculpture Foundation, Chichester
- 1995Solo show, "Isthmus", Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble
- 1995Solo show, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
- 1995Solo show, "British Council Touring Show", Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
- 1995Group show, "Contemporary British Art in Print", Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
- 1995Group show, "British Art of the 1980s and 1990s: Works from the Weltkunst Collection", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- 1995Group show, "Dialogues of Peace", Palais des Nations, Geneva
- 1995Group show, "A Changing World: Fifty Years of Sculpture from the British Council Collection", Castle Riding Hall, Prague
- 1995Group show, "Arte Inglese: A New Generation", Galleria Marabini, Bologna
- 1995Group show, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
- 1996Group show, "Negotiating Rapture", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 1996Group show, "Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection", Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- 1997Solo show, Islamic Gallery, British Museum, London
- 1997Group show, "Meditation", Madrasa Ibn Youssef, Marrakesh
- 1997Group show, "Sculpture at Goodwood", Goodwood Sculpture Park, Chichester
- 1997Group show, "Follow Me. Britische Kunst an der Unterelbe", Schloß Agathenburg
- 1999Solo show, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 1999Group show, "Art Worlds in Dialogue", Museum Ludwig, Cologne
- 1999Group show, "10 Intensita in Europa", Museo Pecci Prato, Italy
- 1999Group show, "British Sculpture", Skulptur im Schloßpark Ambras, Germany
- 2000Solo show, "Self-Portraits", Lisson Gallery, London
- 2001Group show, "Contemporary Sculpture", Lyon
- 2001Group show, "New Works", Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 2002Solo show, Museum SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 2002Group show, "A Century of Innocence", Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
- 2002Group show, "Skultur", Basel
- 2002Group show, "Tenable", Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, England
- 2002Group show, "As Fontes!", Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Netherlands
- 2002Group show, Lehmann Maupin, New York
- 2002Group show, "Thinking Big: Concepts for 21st-Century British Sculpture", Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
- 2003Solo show, "Recent Works", Lehman Maupin, New York
- 2003Solo show, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
- 2003Solo show, Lisson Gallery, London
- 2003Group show, "Back in Shape", Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
- 2003Group show, "From Dust to Dusk", International Show of Contemporary Art, Charlottenborg Show Hall, Copenhagen
- 2003Group show, "Happiness", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
- 2004Solo show, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
- 2004Solo show, Lehmann Maupin, New York
- 2004Solo show, "Playground", Gloucester Primary School, London
- 2004Solo show, "Breath", Lisson Gallery, London
- 2004Solo show, "Breath", Battery Park, New York
- 2004Group show, "The Search for Identity, New Visions", Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Doncaster
- 2004Group show, "20 Years", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
- 2005Group show, "Effervescence", Musée des Beaux Arts, Angers, France
- 2006Solo show, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 2006Group show, "Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking", Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2006Group show, "A New East Window for St Martin-in-the-Fields", London
- 2006Group show, "Motion on Paper", Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
- 2007Solo show, "The Paradise", The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
- 2007Group show, "What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection", Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2007Group show, "Reverence", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
- 2007Group show, "Pure", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
- 2008Solo show, Lisson Gallery, London
- 2008Solo show, Saint Martin-in-the-Field Church, London
- 2008Group show, "Tropismi", Valentina Moncada Arte Contemporanea, Rome
- 2008Group show, "More Than Words", Von Lintel Gallery, New York
- 2008Group show, "Fatto Bene!", Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
- 2009Group show, "Lisson Presents 5", Lisson Gallery, London
- 2010Solo show, "Light Darkness", Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 2010Group show, "Drawing to Form", Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
- 2011Solo show, "No Boundary Condition", Lisson Gallery, London
- 2011Solo show, "Altar", Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, London
- 2011Group show, "Creating the New Century", Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
- 2012Solo show, "String Quintet", LA Louver Gallery, California
- 2012Solo show, Lisson Gallery, Milan
- 2013Solo show, "Breath", Torre di Porta Nuova, Venice
- 2013Solo show, "Breath", Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
- 2013Solo show, Lehmann Maupin, New York
- 2013Group show, "Sculpture in the City", London
- 2013Group show, "Pattern: Follow the Rules", Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan
- 2013Group show, "Writings Without Borders", Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
- 2013Group show, "Glasstress: White Light- White Heat", Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice
- 2014Participated in International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
- 2014Group show, "Genius Loci – Spirit of Place", Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice
- 2014Group show, "Reductive Minimalism: Women Artists in Dialogue, 1960–2014", University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- 2015Solo show, "Smell of First Snow", Lisson Gallery, London
- 2015Solo show, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
- 2015Group show, "Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art", Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
- 2015Group show, "Au rendez-vous des amis", Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Collezione Burri, Citta di Castello, Perugia
- 2015Group show, Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
- 2016Solo show, Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
- 2016Solo show, "Grain's Swirling and Rippling Move", Espace Muraille, Geneva
- 2016Group show, "Mass Individualism: A Form of Multitude", Ab-Anbar, Tehran
- 2016Group show, "5 50 500", Lisson Gallery, Milan
- 2016Group show, "Mass Individualism", Ab Anbar Gallery, Tehran
- 2017Group show, "Sculpture in the Close", Jesus College, Cambridge
- 2017Solo show, "Nothing Is Deeper than the Skin", Lisson Gallery London, New York
- 2019Group show, "The Weather Garden", Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
- 2019Group show, "The Eye and The Night", Institut Cultures Islam, Paris
- 2020Solo show, "A Thousand Folds - Online Viewing", Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 2020Group show, "Turning the Axis of the World", STPI Gallery, Singapore
- 2020Solo show, "As Time Stood Still", Lisson Gallery, Shanghai
- 2020Solo show, "Shirazeh Houshiary", Lisson Gallery, London
- 2020Group online show, "London Calling", Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 2020Solo show, "East Window", Non Gallery Spaces, Tehran
- 2020Group show, "Group Presentation", Lisson Gallery, London
- 2020Group show, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 2021Solo show, "A Thousand Folds", Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 2021Group show, "Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspira", Moody Center for the Arts Rice University, Houston
- 2021Solo show, "Pneuma", Lisson Gallery London, London
- 2021Group show, "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Asia Society Museum, New York
- 2021Group show, "Ink Dreams", LACMA, New York
- 2021Group show, "Material Space", Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 2021Group show, "Material Space", Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- 2022Group show, "Sculpture", L A Louver, California
- 2022Solo show, "Shirazeh Houshiary's Artworks", Lisson Gallery, London
- 2023Group show, "Beneath the Surface", Cromwell Place, London
- 2023Solo show, "Rhizome", Long Museum, Shanghai
- 2024Solo show, "The Sound of One Hand", Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2025Group show, "Beyond Material", Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
