SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1951
CPLY: Paintings by William N. Copley, Royer’s Book Shop, Los Angeles
1953
Nina Dausset, Paris, France
1954
Galleria Montenapoleone, Milan, Italy
1956
Copley: Peintures Recentes, Galerie du Dragon, Paris, France
1958
Paintings by William Copley, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
1959
XPSN CPLY, Galerie Furstenberg, Paris, France
1960
Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy
Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy
1961
Recent Paintings by CPLY, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
William Copley—Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
1962
The Flags (Les Etats-Unis du Monde), Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, France
Galleria Arturo Schwarz, Milan, Italy
1963
CPLY, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
Les Suffragettes Erotiques de Bill Copley, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, France
W.N. Copley: Paintings, Hanover Gallery, London, England
1964
CPLY, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1965
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Southwestern College, Chula Vista
Louisiana Gallery, Houston
1966
Projects for Monuments to the Unknown Whore, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York; Galerie Iolas, Paris, France
Copley (retrospective exhibition), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1967
Homage to Robert W. Service, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
Ballads, Galerie Iolas, Paris, France
Bodley Gallery, New York
1969
Ballads, Galerie Iolas, Geneva, Switzerland
Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy
Merida Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1970
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
Galerie Aspects, Brussels, Belgium
William Copley, Galerie Neuendorf, Cologne, Germany
William Copley, Galerie Springer, Berlin Germany
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1971
Recent paintings: “Nouns”, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
1972
Mail Order, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
Gallery Suzanne Saxe, San Francisco
Galerie Iolas, Milan, Italy
Galerie Iolas, Paris, France
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1973
CPLY, Galleria Il Fauno, Turin, Italy
1974
X-Rated: An Exhibition of New Paintings and Drawings, New York Cultural Center, New York
Bill Copley: Works 1948 – 1972, Onnasch Gallery, New York; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia
Western Songs, Onnasch Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1975
Erik Nord Gallery, Nantucket
1976
The Patriotism of CPLY: 1776 and All That, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
The Patriotism of CPLY, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
Washington Art Association, Washington, Connecticut
C.E. Gallagher and Co. of Garden Alley, Atlantic City, New Jersey
1977
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1978
The Temptation of St. Anthony, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Fassbender, Munich, Germany
Pictures and Drawings, Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
1979
Variations on a Theme by Francis Picabia, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York
Variations on a Theme by Francis Picabia, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
CPLY: Reflection on a Past Life, (retrospective exhibition), Rice Museum, Rice University, Houston
X-Rated Paintings, Galerie Fassbender, Munich, Germany
1980
Bill Copley, Galerie Maier-Hahn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Whorses, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York
1980 – 1981
William N. Copley, (traveling retrospective), Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Musee National D’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
1981
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
A RetrospeCPLYtive, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York
Lens Fine Art, Anvers, Belgium
William N. Copley: Bilder und Zeichnungen, Galerie Klewan, Munich, Germany
CPLY, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany
1982
CPLY – Recent Paintings, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1983
Post-Raphaelite Paintings, Onnasch Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1984
CPLY, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1985
Acopleyshments, 1955 – 1985, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
The Quay Gallery, San Francisco
William N. Copley, Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zurich, Switzerland
1986
The Tomb of the Unknown Whore, The New Museum, New York
1987
William N. Copley, Paintings – Drawings, 1966 – 1987, Galerie Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Germany
CPLY: New Work, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1988
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
1989
William Copley, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1990
Galerie Klewan, Munich, Germany
1991
Paintings and Drawings 1956 – 1991, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Zechnungen: 1964 – 1991, Galerie Fred Jahn, Stuttgart, Germany
Trust Lust Heed Greed, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York; Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
CPLY: Designi su carta e piccole tele, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
1992
Disegni 1964 / 1991, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
William Copley: Zeichnungen, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Bilder: 1956 – 1992, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1993
Galleria Zell Am See, Schloss Rosenberg, Austria
Berliner Amerikaner, (with Dorothy Iannone & Emmett Williams), Haus Am Lutzowplatz, Berlin, Germany
1994
William Copley: Recent Paintings & Drawings, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie Klewan, Munich, Germany
William Copley: Bilder und Ziechnungen 1964-1993, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria
1995
William N. Copley: Heed Greed Trust Lust, (retrospective exhibition), Kestner-Gessellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Selected Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Kurt Schafer, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Zell Am See, Schloss Rosenberg, Austria
Galerie Michael, Heidelberg, Germany
Galerie Brigitte Ihsen, Cologne, Germany
1996
William N. Copley: New Paintings, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
William N. Copley: Bilder Aquarelle Zeichnungen, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1997
True Confessions, (retrospective exhibition), Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Galerie Kurt Schafer, Berlin, Germany
William N. Copley: Gedächtnisausstellung Bilder und Zeichnungen 1961-1993, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1998
Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
Tekeningen, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam, Holland
The Essential CPLY, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
1999
William N. Copley: Nouns, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
L.A.C., Lieu D’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
William N. Copley: Missing Link, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Germany
CPLY 1919-1996: The Art of William Copley, Forum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis
2000
Copley Collects CPLY, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
William N. Copley: 1919 – 1996, Galerie Leu GmbH & Co. KG
2001
Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
2002
Drawings 1954 – 1994, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
2003
Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
Easy to Read Storybook, (retrospective exhibition), BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Johann Konig, Berlin, Germany
2004
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
2005
Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam, Holland
2006
Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie manus press Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
2007
Linn Lühn, Cologne, Germany
2009
Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stutgaart, Germany
Western Songs, El Sourdog Hex, Berlin, Germany
Linn Lühn, Cologne, Germany
2010
X-Rated, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2011
X-Rated, Sadie Coles HQ, London, England
William N. Copley: See Yourself As Lovers See You, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
2012
The Patriotism of CPLY and All That, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
William N. Copley: Works 1948 – 1983, Galerie Von Braunbehrens, Munich, Germany
Copley, (traveling retrospective), Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany; Max Ernst Museum Bruhl Des LVR, Bruhl, Germany; Siftlung Ahlers Pro Arte / Kestner Pro Arte, Hanover, Germany
2013
Finally We Laugh, Linn Luhn, Dusseldorf, Germany
Confiserie CPLY, Paul Kasmin Gallery and Venus Over Manhattan, Basel, Switzerland
2014
William Copley: Paintings and Mirrors, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2015
Drawings: 1962-1973, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris, France
William N. Copley: Paintings from 1960 – 1994, Showroom by Paul van Esch & Partners Art Advisory, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY, (traveling retrospective), The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
ART Cologne, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin
William N. Copley, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
2017
William N. Copley: Women, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2018
Publishing the Portable Museum: William N. Copley’s The Letter Edged in Black Press, Alden Projects, New York
William N. Copley: The Coffin They Carry You Off In, ICA Miami, Miami, Florida
2020
The Ballad of William N. Copley, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
William N. Copley: The Temptation of St. Anthony (Revisited) and Drawings: 1964 – 1991, Nino Mier, Los Angeles
The New York Years, Kasmin, New York
2022
William N. Copley, Sadie Coles HQ, London
William N. Copley: Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2023
AUTOEROTICISM: Paintings from 1984 and related works, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2024
William N. Copley: LXCN CPLY, Kasmin, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1953
Americans in Paris, Galerie Arthur Craven, Paris, France
1956
XII Salon de Mai, Musee D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Exposition Internationale de l’Art Actuel, Nagaoka Museum, Nagoaka, Japan
1957
Verzameling Urvater, (Urvater Collection), Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands; The Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, England; City of York Gallery, York, England; The Tate Gallery, London, England
Picture Fair, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
1959
XV Salon de Mai, Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris, France
The Maremont Collection at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology at Crown Hall, Chicago
Picture Fair, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
1960
International Surrealist Exhibition, D’arcy Galleries, New York
1961
XVII Salon de Mai, Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Bewogen Bewgin (Moving Movement), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Holland; Rörelse I Konsten (Object in Motion) Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Bevagelse i kunsten (Movement in Art), Louisiana Museum, Humlbaek, Denmark
Contemporary Modern Paintings Drawings Collages Objets-Peinture Sculpture Property of The American Chess Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York
Sculpture and Picture Fair, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Surréalisme Et Précurseurs, Palais Graneville, Besançon, France
1962
Collage out of California, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena
Antagonismes 2: L’Objet, Musée D’Art Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre – Pavillon de Marsan, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, France
Surrealismus: Phantastiche Maleri der Gegenwart, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
XVIII Salon de Mai, Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles
Picture Fair, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Piccola Biennale, Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice, Italy
1963
Pop Art USA, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
XIX Salon de Mai, Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
18 Salon de Réalitiés Nouvelles, Musée Municipal D’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Paris Lettriste, Galerie Schmidt, Paris, France
Aspetti dell’Arte Contemporanea, L’Aquila Castello Cinquecentesco, L’Aquila, Italy
Surrealist Exhibition, Galerie Carpenter, Paris, France; New York
1964
Arte Fantastica, Museo de Castillo di San Giusto, Trieste, Italy
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, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
Le Surrealisme: Sources, Histoire, Affinities, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France
Around Travel, P.V.I. Gallery, New York
May Twelfth Twelve Artists, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
100 American Drawings, Byron Gallery, New York
1965
The Maremont Collection, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.
Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Etc., Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Surrealist Exhibition, Byron Gallery, New York
Visiting Artists at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
Arena of Love, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
Whence Pop, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
The Box Show, Byron Gallery, New York
Exquisite Torsi, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles
Drawings, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
Recent Acquisitions of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966
Hommage á Caissa: Exhibition for the Chess Foundation of the Duchamp Fund, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York
Dada Lever, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Surrealist Exhibition, University of California, Santa Barbara
Portraits: Peinture, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
25 Years of Art in San Diego, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California
Birthday Party for George Washington, Henri Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
26th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Limited Works by Important Artists, The Egg and The Eye, Los Angeles
Around the Automobile, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Arlington State College, Arlington; Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; B. Caroll Reece Memorial Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine; Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee; The Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1967
Mixed Masters, University of St. Thomas, Houston
Angry Arts: Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam, Associated American Artists, New York
Fifty American Artists of the Twentieth Century, North Shore Community Arts Center, Great Neck, New York
27th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1968
The Obsessive Image, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Language II, Dwan Gallery, New York
1969
Blocked Metaphors, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York
1970
Recent Acquisitions of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Copley, Brauner and Magritte, Louisianna Gallery, Houston
Box Top Art, Illinois State University, Bloomington
1972
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
1973
Erotic Art, The Art Center of the New School for Social Research, New York
1974
Seventy-First American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1975
Three Generations of the American Nude, New York Cultural Center, New York
University of Houston/Fine Art Center, Houston
1976
The William Seitz Memorial Exhibition, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
1977
Artist’s Renderings of Paintings, Pinoetca di Brera, Milan, Italy; Musée du Louvre, Paris France
The Dada / Surrealist Heritage, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1978
“Bad” Painting, The New Museum, New York
American Nude, Harold Reed Gallery, New York
Box Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York
1980
American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real, The Ideal, and the Fantastic, Whitney Museum of Art, New York; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Joslyn Art Museum; Omaha; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs; The Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
1981
Westkunst, Museen Der Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
The Erotic Impulse, Roger Litz Gallery, New York
1983
Looking at Women, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Festival of the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Contemporary Paintings from the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Last Laugh, Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, Ohio
1984
Auto and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Paravents, Schloss Lorsfeld, Kerpen, Germany
1985 – 1986
Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americans: 1930-1980, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France; Städtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut; Frankfurt, Germany
1986
Column, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Germany
Europa / Amerika: die Geschicte einer kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940, Museum Ludwig, Germany
Line Drives, Gallery 53/Smithy Artworks, Cooperstown, New York
1987
The Amused Eye: A National Sampling of Humor in Art, The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
1988
Gran Pavese, The Flag Project, Muhka Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Roger Brown, William Copley, Duncan Hannah, Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami
1989
Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig in den Reinhallen der Kölner Messe, Cologne, Germany
1992
My Father’s House Has Many Mansions, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1993
Darkness and Light: Twentieth-Century Works from Texas Collections, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of Houston, Houston
1994
Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
1995
Bunnies – A Group Show, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
Drawing the Line: Reappraising Drawings Past and Present, Southhampton City Art Gallery, Southhampton, England; Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1996
A Labor of Love, The New Museum, New York
Bilder – Aquarelle – Zeichnungen, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Hommage a Copley, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Think, Galerie Brigitte Ihsen, Cologne, Germany
Disegni Americani degli anni ottanta: 15 artisti, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
1997
Magie der Zahl in der Kunst des 20, Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1998
Summer Group Show, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
Then and Now and Later: Art at Yale Since 1945, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Imagined World, David Nolan Gallery, New York
1999
Bad-bad: That is a good excuse, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
2000
Prints, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
Im Gegenüber: Landschaften, Stilleben, Portraits, Galerie Von Braunbehrens, Munich, Germany
Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalnd and Melvin Jacobs Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami
2001
Kunst Sammeln I: Werke Zeitgenössischer Kunst aus den Sammlungen von Cramm, Faklckenburg, Kalkmann, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Museum Unserer Wunsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2003
Imagine: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami
2004
Funny Cuts: Cartoons und Comics in der Zeitgenössische Kunst, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Eröffnungsausstellung Sammlung Frieder Burda, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Christmas Art Gifts, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium
Baume, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
2005
International Zeichner, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Bilderwechsel III: Amerikanische Maleri, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
2006
Die anderen Bilder, Museum Der Stadt, Ratingen, Germany
Ele-Mental, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Six Feed Under: Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Models and Prototypes, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
L’Amateur D’Estampes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France
Collage Effect, 1301PE, Los Angeles, California
Group Exhibition, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2007
Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Deutsche und Amerikanische Maleri, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Sixties! Art, Fashion, Design Film and Photography, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Affinities, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
2008
Diana und Aktaion: Der Verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Museum Kunst Palest, Düsseldorf, Germany
Karl Bohrmann – William N. Copley, Galerie Klauss Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
Carte Blanche III – Gedichte der Fakten,Galerie Fur Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Liebe, Love, Paare, Gustäve-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm, Germany
Museum Im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany
Ulm Museum, Ulm Germany
Mirror, Mirror, Ed Thorp Gallery, New York
2009
And Other Essays, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Exile On Main St., Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Jr. and Son’s, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, Pace MacGill Gallery, New York
2010
Sixties – Seventies, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
Intimacy! Bathing in Art, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany
Permanent Trouble: Sammlung Kopp, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
2011
After Shelly Duval ’72 (Frogs on the High Line), Maccarone Gallery, New York
Andreas Slominski & William N. Copley – X-Rated, M.E. Collector’s Room, Berlin, Germany
ADAA Art Fair, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2012
Interiors, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2013
Re-View, Hauser and Wirth Gallery, London, England
Gang Bust: William N. Copley & Big Fat Black Cock. Inc, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Masculine / Feminine, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Building the Sukka, House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico
2014
Pop Abstraction, Fredericks and Fraser Gallery and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Purple States, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Live and Let Die, Modern Art, London, England
Alexander the Great: The Iolas Gallery 1955 – 1987, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Art Basel Miami Beach, Sadie Coles HQ, Miami
The Surrealist Bungalow, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany
What Nerve!: Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, RISD Museum, Providence
2015
The Violent Crab, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, England
L’Impasse Ronsin, ADAA Art Fair, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Viewer Discretion: Children of Bataille, Stux & Haller Gallery, New York
The Shadow is Taken, Algus Greenspon, New York
Saul Steinberg and William Copley: Take on the Life, Galerie Klauss Gerrit Friese, Berlin, Germany
Painting 2.0: Expressions in the Information Age; Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany; Mumok Museum, Vienna, Switzerland
2016
William Copley, Elma Talbot, Ina van Zyl, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Olympia, Karma at Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
William N. Copley and His Mentor, Magritte, VENUS at FIAC, Gran Palais, Paris, France
The Revolutionary Sucide Mechanized Band, Rob Tufnell Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Impasse Ronsin, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2017
Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut
Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont
Itinéraires, Musée D’Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Schlaf: Eine produktive Zeitverschwendung, Museen Böttcherstrasse, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany
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, Germany
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, England
Atlas, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Trance, Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
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, Spain
2019
Fringe: William N. Copley, Jenny Watson & Saskia Pintelon, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Recline: Portraiture & Henri Matisse Prints, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2020
Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric, Kasmin, New York
Karel Appel, André Butzler, William N. Copley, Ida Ekblad, Jeff Elrod, Walton Ford, Tursic & Mille, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, England
Helmut Newton 100 / William N. Copley 101 / Jonathan Monk 51, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin, Germany
Impasse Ronsin. Murder, Love, and Art in the Heart of Paris, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2023
SEE YOURSELF AS LOVERS SEE YOU: William N. Copley | Dorothy Iannone, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Pictures Girls Make: Portraitures, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2023–2024
Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries, Fondazione Prada, Milan
2024
Americans in Paris: Artists working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, The Grey Art Museum, New York University, New York