2019                 
Synesthesia, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2018                 
New Works on Paper, Slewe Gallery, London
Horizons, Dallas Contemporary, Texas
Colourscapes, Waddington Custot, London
2017–18          
Cascade, Custot Gallery, Dubai
2017                    
Melismatic, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2016
Cadence, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich 
Galleria Tega, Milan 
Doubletake, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2015
Pace Prints, New York (stampe / prints) 
Dan Galeria, São Paulo
Galerie Flore, Brussels Melismatic, 
Galerie Xippas, Geneva 
2014
Colourfall, Waddington Custot Galleries, London
2013
Colourfall, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 
2012
Between the Lines, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore 
Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
Reflex, Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Roma
2011
Pavillion des Artes et du Design, Jardin des Tuileries and Galerie Hopkins, Paris Quick Slow Quick Quick Slow, Waddington Custot Galleries, London Prismatic, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (stampe / prints)
2010
AllerArt Bludenz, Austria Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
2009
Fabstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (stampe / prints) 
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York Puddle Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London Ian Davenport - Biography and bibliography (27/05/2015) 
2008
Poured Lines, Waddington Galleries, London
Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea 
Ian Davenport & The Simpsons, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2006
Ovals Arches Lines, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (prints)
2005
Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam 
Galerie Xippas, Paris
2004
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2003
Waddington Galleries, London 
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 
2001
The Box Associati, Turin 
Galerie Xippas, Paris 
Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
2000
Waddington Galleries, London Tate Liverpool
1999
Dundee Contemporary Arts 
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
1998
Galerie Xippas, Paris
1997
Galerie Limmer, Cologne
Galleria Moncada, Rome
1996
Statements, Waddington Galleries, Art 27’96, Basel
Ridinghouse Editions, London Waddington Galleries, London
1994
Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1993
Waddington Galleries, London
1992
Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany 
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin 
Galerie Limmer, Freiburg, Germany 
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
1990
Waddington Galleries, London

2019
A misura d’uomo: Tribute to Leonardo, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2018
Scorribanda, Galleria Nazionale Arte Moderna, Rome
2017
Pearls, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Colour Is, Waddington Custot, London
2016
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate
The World Meets Here, Custot Gallery Dubai
2015
Right Now!, Mission Gallery, Swansea 
British Artists, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich 
Black Paintings, Charlie Smith London 
At First Light, Luca Tommasi. Milan 
2014
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2013
Thirteen, Alan Cristea Gallery, London 
Linear Abstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 
Once upon a time and what a very good time it was…, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Hidden in Plain Sight: British Abstract Art from the Collection, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery 
2012
Means Without Ends, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Sweethearts, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 
The Materiality of Paint, The Fine Art Society, London 
Duchamp and Cage: 100 Years Later, The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk 
PiH Contemporaries 2012, Bonhams, London
Route 66: Ian Davenport / Alberto Di Fabio, Luca Tommasi, Monza
2011
Why Patterns?, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam 
I Promise to Love You: Caldic Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam 
Lineage, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh 
Gravity’s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 
Editions & Acquisitions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
UK and US Contemporary Artists, Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid
2010
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Pictures on Pictures: Discursive Painting from Albers to Zobernig from the Daimler Art Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Ian Davenport, Mark Francis, Peter Halley and Dan Walsh: Abstract Vision Now, Art + Art Gallery, Moscow
Derek Jarman Building, University of Kent, Canterbury (stampe / prints) 
Art-curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Haas and Fuchs, Berlin Save Us, Macclesfield Visual Arts Festival 
John Moores Prize Paintings in Korea, Seongnam Art Centre, Korea
Abstraction and Structure, con opere di / with paintings by Ian Davenport, Katharina Grosse, Joanne Greenbaum, Frank Nitsche, Albrecht Schnider, Esther Stocker, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt Paintings in Hospitals: Colouring in the Clinical, Menier G
Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (stampe / prints) Summer Exhibition, Alan Cristea Gallery, London 
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Process/Abstraction, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 
Cream (Damien Hirst & Contemporaries), Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Fast Forward, British Contemporary Art in Brazil, Espaço David Ford - Brazilian British Centre Galleries, Pinheiros, Brazil
John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2010 Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2009
Contemporary Prints: Including Lichtenstein, Davenport, Opie, Alan Cristea Gallery, London Northern Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (stampe / prints) 
Setting the Pattern, Koraalberg Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Ian Davenport Michael Craig-Martin Julian Opie: Múltiple, Galeria Estiarte, Madrid
2008
Blitzkrieg Bop, Man&Eve Gallery, London
20 at The Hospital Club, The Hospital Club Gallery, London 
Weight Watchers, Galerie Xippas, Paris 
New Gallery Editions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London 
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
New Contemporary Art Displays, Tate Britain, London
Cover Versions, Ermenegildo Zegna, Milano (organizzato da / organized by Wallpaper* Magazine)
2007
Painting in the Noughties, Regional Cultural Arts Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Jerwood Space, London
Turner Prize: A Retrospective 1984-2006, Tate Britain, London 
New Space New Work, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (stampe / prints) 
Between the Lines, Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea (stampe / prints) 
A Summer Selection, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2006
Passion for Paint, National Gallery, London; 
Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol; 
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Artists + Alchemists, Sherborne House, Sherborne, Dorset
Compilation 2, Rocket Gallery, London
How to Improve the World: British Art 1946-2006, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London Concrete Matters, Nieuwe Vide Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Thread, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 
Abstract Painting and the University of Warwick Art Collection, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick 
Monochromed, The Fine Art Society, London
Edition, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The hardest thing to draw is a kiss, Wimbledon School of Art, London (a cura di / curated by David Austen) 
Compilation 3, Rocket Gallery, London
You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference (Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition), Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; touring to Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Lowry, Salford; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie House Museum, Carlisle (until 2
Drawing Breath, The Jerwood Drawing Prize-Special Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Art, London (until 2008)
2005
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue?, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 
Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin 
Painting : London, Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice 
Ian Davenport, Kaoru Tsunoda, Rachmaninoff’s, London 
Elements of Abstraction, Southampton City Art Gallery 
2004
Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore 
Other Times: Contemporary British Art, City Gallery, Prague (in association with the British Council) Post Impact, Xippas Gallery, Athens 
John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2003
Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain, London
Blanc en Blanc, Galerie Xippas, Paris
Exodus: between promise and fulfilment, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge Circular, Rocket Gallery, London Prints Published by the Alan Cristea Gallery, Alan Cristea Gallery, London 
On, Xippas Gallery, Athens 
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 
2002
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London
Prospects 2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Essor Project Space, London (offerto da / sponsored by Pizza Express) 
Super-Abstr-Action 2, Galerie No Code, Bologna 
Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Rocket Gallery, London
Peintures - Contrainte ou recette, Galerie du Cloître, Rennes (organizzato da / organised by L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Rennes) 
Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam 
Abstraction, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 
John Moores 22, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (sezione del / part of the Liverpool Biennial 2002) 
Jerwood Drawing Prize, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham; touring to other UK venues including Jerwood Space, London Berlin/London/Minimal, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin
New Commissions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London 
Colour - A Life of Its Own, Mücsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest
2001
Complementary Studies: Recent Abstract Painting, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London; touring to Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
UBS Warburg Exhibition, UBS Warburg at Planit Arches, London
2000
Surface, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Fact & Value, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen 
Profiles of Young European Painting, Premio del Golfo, La Spezia
1999
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 
A Line in Painting, Gallery Fine, London
John Moores Liverpool 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 
Now Showing II, Houldsworth Fine Art, London 
21 Years of Spacex, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1998
Elegant Austerity, Waddington Galleries, London
Up to 2000, Southampton City Art Gallery
Roberto Caracciolo, Ian Davenport, Galleria Moncada, Roma
1997
Treasure Island, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon 
Ian Davenport, Michael Craig-Martin, Zebedee Jones, Michael Landy and Fiona Rae, Waddington Galleries, London 
Finish, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1996
Nuevas Abstracciones, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; touring to Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona
50 Jahre Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal, Kunsthalle Barmen, WuppertalBarmen, Germany British Abstract Art Part 3: Works on Paper, Flowers East, London
Ace! Arts Council Collection new purchases, South Bank Centre exhibition touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Oldham Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Mappin Art Gallery, She
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; touring to The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (until 1998)
1995
From Here, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London
30 Years of Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Real Art - A New Modernism: British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s, Southampton City Art Gallery; touring to Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium; Leeds City Art Gallery (until 1996)
1994
Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London
British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London
Summer 94, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
British Painting 1988-1994: a selection from stock, Richard Salmon Ltd, London
1992
The Vertical Flatbed Picture Plane - En Valise, Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Dumb Painting, Centraal Museum, Utrecht 
L’Attico, Fabio Sargentini, Rome
Gifts to the Nation: Contemporary Art Society Purchases, Camden Arts Centre, London
New Voices: recent paintings from the British Council collection, British Council exhibition: touring to Centre de Conferences Albert Borschette, Brussels; EEC Presidency Exhibition, Brussels; Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg; Istanbul Greater City Municipality Taksim Art Gallery; Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery; Izfas Gallery, Izmir, Turkey; Santa Monica Contemporary Art Centre, Barcelona; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain; Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid; Veronicas: Sala de Exposiciones, Murcia, Spain; Pescaderia Vieja: Sala de Arte, Jerez, Spain; Kulthurhistorisches Museum, Magdeburg, Germany; National Theatre Galleries, Bucharest, Romania; Art Halls of the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens, Athens; Cultural Centre for the National Bank of Greece, Thessaloniki; The Russian Museum, St Petersburg; Kremlin Museum, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia; Mirbachov Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia; Cultural Centre for the National Bank, Thessaloniki, Greece; The House of the Black Madonna, Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague; Museum of Modern Art, Skopje, Macedonia (until 1997)
1991
British Art from 1930, Waddington Galleries, 
London Metropolis Internationale Kunstausstellung, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin 
Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London 
Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis, James Nares, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 
Abstraction, Waddington Galleries, London 
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London 
New Displays, Tate Gallery, London 
Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
Confrontaciones: Arte ultimo britanico y espanol, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid (in collaborazione con / in collaboration with The British Council) (until 1992)
1990
The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; touring to Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London 
Painting Alone, Pace Gallery, New York
Carnet de Voyages - 1, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France (until 1991)
1989
Current, Swansea Arts Workshop (Old Seamen’s Chapel), Swansea 
West Norwood 1, West Norwood Railway Arches (7, 8, 9), London
1988
Freeze, Surrey Docks, London 
Ian Davenport, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
1985
Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester