| Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 2025 | | El Anatsui: Go Back and Pick, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | The Iron Curtain commission, Vienna State Opera, Vienna, Austria |
| | | El Anatsui, Solo exhibition, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2024 | | Music, Fluidity and Reinvention: El Anatsui's Record Collection, Efie Gallery, Dubai |
| | | Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
| | | El Anatsui: After the Red Moon, Museum of Art Pudong (MAP), Shanghai, China |
| 2023-2024 | | Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom |
| 2023 | | El Anatsui: TimeSpace, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 2022-2023 | | El Anatsui: Day After Night, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2022 | | El Anatsui: Freedom, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
| | | El Anatsui: Shard Song, Efie Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, UAE |
| 2021 | | El Anatsui: En quête de liberté (In quest of freedom), Conciergerie, Paris, France |
| 2020 | | Focus on El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 2019-2020 | | El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Travelled to: Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland and Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain. |
| 2019 | | Material Wonder, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
| | | El Anatsui: Recent Works (selected prints), Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 2018 | | El Anatsui – Meyina, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
| | | Ofrendas, Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA |
| 2017 | | Proximately, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium |
| | | Meyina, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| | | El Anatsui: Topology of Generosity, Barakat Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| | | Benchmarks: New Prints by El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | The Beginning and the End, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium |
| 2016 | | El Anatsui: Meyina, Prince Claus Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| | | El Anatsui: New Works, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | El Anatsui; Five Decades, Carriageworks, Sydney Festival 2016, Sydney, Australia |
| | | Afrikas Stjerne: Monumentale vaerker af El Anatsui (Star of Africa – Monumental works by El Anatsui), Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst, South Jutland, Denmark |
| 2015 | | El Anatsui, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | El Anatsui: Five Decades, Jack Shainman Gallery - The School, Kinderhook, New York, USA |
| | | El Anatsui: Of Dzi, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway |
| | | El Anatsui, Le Fenil Gallery, domain du Chaumont-sur-Loire, France |
| 2014 | | El Anatsui – Theory of Se, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong |
| | | El Anatsui: Playing with Chance, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | El Anatsui: New Worlds, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA |
| | | El Anatsui: Trains of Thought, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | El Anatsui, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2012 - 2015 | | Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA |
| 2012-2013 | | Broken Bridge II, the High Line, New York, USA |
| 2012 | | Pot of Wisdom, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | Stitch in Time, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
| | | Gravity and Grace; Monumental Works by El Anatsui, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA. Travelled to: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA |
| 2011 | | El Anatsui, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA |
| 2010-2012 | | El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote To You About Africa, organised by the Museum for African Art, New York, USA; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
| 2010-2011 | | A Fateful Journey, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. Travelled to The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama; Tsuruoka Art Forum, Tsuruoka Art; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan |
| 2010 | | Gli, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA |
| | | El Anatsui, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2009 | | El Anatsui, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
| | | Process and Project, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| 2008 | | Earth Growing Roots, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA |
| | | Zebra Crossing, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2006 | | Asi, David Krut Projects, New York, USA, in collaboration with October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Nyekor, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy, in collaboration with October Gallery, London, UK |
| 2005 | | Danudo: Recent Sculptures of El Anatsui, Skoto Gallery in collaboration with Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2003-2008 | | El Anatsui: Gawu, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK; Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland; Gallery Oldham, Oldham; October Gallery, London; Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson; The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
| 2002 | | New Works, October Gallery, London, UK |
| 1998 | | A Sculpted History of Africa, October Gallery, London, UK |
| 1997 | | Hakpa, French Cultural Centre, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1995 | | El Anatsui: Sculptures and Reliefs, October Gallery, London, UK |
| 1991 | | Old and New: An Exhibition of Sculpture in Assorted Wood, National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1987 | | Venovize: Ceramic Sculpture by El Anatsui, Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, Cornwall College, Redruth, UK |
| | | Pieces of Wood: An Exhibition of Mural Sculpture, The Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1982 | | Sculptures, Photographs, Drawings, Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1980 | | Wood Carvings, Cummington Community of Arts, Cummington, Massachusetts, USA |
| 1979 | | Broken Pots: Sculpture by El Anatsui, British Council, Enugu, Nigeria; Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
| 1976 | | Wooden Wall Plaques, Asele Art Gallery, Nsukka, Nigeria |
| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 2025 | | Kings and Queens of Africa: Forms and Figures of Power, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| | | You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, Dallas Contemporary, Texas, USA |
| | | Summer Exhibition 2025, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| 2024 | | Entangled Pasts, 1768 – Now: Art, Colonialism and Change, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| | | New on View, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| | | Vital Force, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Lines —Aligning Your Consciousness with the Flow, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan |
| | | Summer Exhibition 2024, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| | | Echoes of Circumstance, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | Frieze Los Angeles, Santa Monica, California, USA |
| | | After Rain: Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Jax District, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia |
| | | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| | | HARD/SOFT: Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, MAK- Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria |
| | | Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland with Goodman Gallery, London and Shainman Gallery, New York |
| | | Rewilding, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland |
| | | Soft Power, Das Minsk, Potsdam, Germany |
| | | Variations: Selections from the Benefit Print Project, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | Contours of Memory, Montague Contemporary, New York, USA |
| | | Iraparu, Goodman Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Rupture & Connection, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA |
| | | Kindred Spirits: A Gathering of the Aka Circle of Artists, kó art space, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Ensaio Sobre a Terra, Simões de Assis, São Paulo, Brazil |
| | | Entangled Pasts, 1768–now; Art, Colonialism and Change, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| | | Art Basel Paris 2024, Grand Palais, Paris, France with Goodman Gallery |
| | | Manual Assembly: Fragments of a Whole, The Goldfarb Gallery, York University, Ontario, Canada |
| 2022-2023 | | Journeys Through the Tate Collection: The Port and Migrations, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK |
| | | Sections/Intersections: 25 Years of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection, Bilbao, Spain |
| 2022 | | Nomadic Resonance, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Threading the Needle, The Church, Sag Harnour, New York, USA |
| | | Stressed World, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook New York, USA |
| | | Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms, ICA Watershed, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| | | The Clowes Pavillion Reimagined, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
| | | Africa, Imagined: Reflections on Mondern and Contemporary Art, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA |
| 2021-22 | | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| | | Diaspora at Home, KADIST, Paris, France |
| | | The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| | | New Light: Encounters and Collections, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
| | | Seeing the Invisible, Augmented Reality Exhibition, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, appearing simultaneouslyacross twelve botanical gardens across the world. |
| 2021 | | Duende At Projects: THREADS, Zwartzusters Monastery, Antwerp, Belgium |
| | | Tomorrow is a Different Day, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| | | Textures: A Print and Fiber Showcase, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| | | PORTALS, NEON, Athens, Greece |
| | | Invisible Sun, The Broad, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| | | Gold and Magic, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunts, Denmark |
| | | First Look: Recent Acquisitions & Rarely Seen Gems, MW Gallery, Flint, Michigan, USA |
| 2020-2021 | | Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| | | Royal Academy Summe Exhibition: Reclaiming Magic, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| | | Black Stories, Des Moines Art Centre, Des Moines, Iowa, USA |
| | | Grace Before Jones: Camera. Disco. Studio, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK |
| | | Making the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| | | Small World Real World, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2020 | | Atmospheres; Artists of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Re-Materialize, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| | | New Beginnings: the Epoch of African Art, Pure Lagos Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia, USA |
| | | Myths, Martyrs, Monsters and Masterpieces , Everard Read Gallery, Franschhoek, South Africa |
| | | Socle du Monde Biennale 2020: Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends, Kunst Aspekte, Düsseldorf, Germany. Travelled to: St John’s Church, Herning, Denmark |
| | | Now Sculpture 2020, Nigerian National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 2019 | | Prête-moi ton rêve, Casablanca, Morocco. Travelled to: Dakar, Abidjan, Lagos, Addis Ababa, Cape Town and Marrakech |
| | | Ghana Freedom, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| | | The Moon, Royal Museums Greenwich, London, UK |
| | | Magdalene Odundo: The Shape of Things, Hepworth Wakefield Gallery, Wakefield, UK, travelling to the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK |
| | | Dream No Small Dream: Celebrating 40 Years of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | South South / Between Land and Sea: I don't understand what you're talking about, but I know what you mean, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
| | | A National Treasure: Fred Meijer, His Collection and Legacy, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA |
| | | I've grown roses in this garden of mine, Goodman Gallery, London, UK |
| 2018 | | International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yerevan, Armenia |
| | | 0.10 Reloaded Avantgarde, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany |
| | | Domestic Alien, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan |
| | | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK |
| | | Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Sedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair, The 8th Floor, New York, USA |
| | | Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA |
| | | Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA |
| | | MAD Collects: The Future of Craft Part 1, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA |
| | | Parking on Pavement, Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook, New York, USA |
| 2017 | | Masterpiece, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, UK (represented by Factum Arte, Madrid) |
| | | Afriques Capitales: Cape of Good Hope Here We Come, Lille 3000, Lille, France |
| | | La Terra Inquieta/The Restless Earth, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy |
| | | Three Dimensions: Modern & Contemporary Approaches to Relief and Sculpture, Acquavella Galleries, New York, USA |
| | | A Journey. El Anatsui, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 | | Marrakech Biennale 6; Not New Now, Marrakech, Morocco (represented by October Gallery, London) |
| | | The Woven Arc, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| | | Festival Internationale des Jardins, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France |
| | | El Anatsui, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Maya Lin: Of a Different Nature, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York |
| | | Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| 2015 | | Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil |
| | | Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA |
| | | Embracing Space and Color: Art On & Off the Wall, Vero Beach Museum of Art, USA |
| | | Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | Re:Purposed, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University, Sarasota, Florida, USA |
| | | Piece Work, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| | | Summer Exhibition 2015, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| | | Atopolis, Wiels in collaboration with Mons 2015, Manège de Sury, Mons, Belgium |
| | | PROPORTIO, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy |
| | | Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany. Travelled to: Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico; Blanton Museum of Art, Texas, USA. Surface Tension, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA |
| 2014 | | Mise En Scène, The School,Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, USA |
| | | The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain |
| 2013 | | 245th Summer Exhibition, installation of sculpture on the façade of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| | | ArtZuid 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| | | Masters of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
| 2012 | | El Gran Sur, 1st Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| | | All Our Relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| | | Intense Proximity,Paris Triennial 2012, Palais de Tokyo/ Musée Galliera, Paris, France |
| | | African Cosmos: Stellar Art, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
| | | Dialogues, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| | | We Face Forward, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK |
| 2011-12 | | Environment and Object: Recent African Art, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, New York; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA |
| | | Architectural Environments for Tomorrow: New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | | The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy |
| | | ARS 11, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland |
| | | Hunters and Gatherers: The Art of Assemblage, Sotheby’s, New York, USA |
| | | The Splendour of Truth, The Beauty of Charity, The Vatican, Rome, Italy |
| 2010 | | Who Knows Tomorrow, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany |
| | | Human Rites, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, USA |
| | | A Collective Diary, an African Contemporary Journey, Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzilya, Israel |
| 2009 | | Against Exclusion, 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia |
| | | Intramoenia Extra Art, Castelli di Puglia, Barletta Castle, Barletta, Italy |
| | | Chance Encounters: Seven Contemporary African Artists, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India |
| | | Transvangarde: Leading Contemporary Artists, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Confines Extremos. Confines Urbanos, Institut Valencia D’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain |
| | | Off the Grid, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
| | | Homecoming, Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana |
| | | Promoter-of- Nigerian-Art Series, Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Embrace! Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA |
| 2008 | | Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum for Arts and Design, New York, USA |
| | | The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| | | Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum for Arts and Design, New York, USA |
| | | World Histories, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA |
| | | Angaza Afrika: African Art Now, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Recycling: The Whole House, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway |
| | | Juego Africano de lo Contemporáneo: Pre-figuraciones Postcoloniales, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa (MACUF), A Coruña, Spain |
| | | Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| | | Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, The Netherlands |
| 2007 | | Artempo – Where Art Becomes Time, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy |
| | | Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, Arsenale, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| | | Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK |
| | | Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
| | | Un/Fair Trade: The Art of Justice, Neue Galerie, Graz; Landesmuseum Joanneum, Styria, Austria |
| | | From Courage to Freedom, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Living Masters, Terra Culture, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | The Boys Craft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel |
| | | Still Life: Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Change, 8th Sharjah Biennial, UAE |
| 2006-11 | | The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California; Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois; Rubin Museum of Art, New York; Visual Arts Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA; Hillside Terrace Galleries, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan; Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain; The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA; Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania; Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, USA |
| 2006 | | Altered, Stitched and Gathered, MoMA PS1, New York, USA |
| | | DAK’ART 2006, 7th Biennale of African Art, Dakar, Senegal |
| | | -poiesis, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | Europe-Afrique: Regards Croisés, Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium |
| | | Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA |
| | | Primitivsm Revisited: After the End of an Idea, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | Expanding Africa: New Art, New Directions, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| | | Body of Evidence, National Museum of African Art, Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
| 2005 | | In the Making: Materials and Process, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
| | | Out There, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, UK |
| | | AKA . . . of Age 2005, Maison de France, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 2004-7 | | Afrika Remix, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2004 | | A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water, 5th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea |
| | | Intelligence Now! October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Afrika Remix, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2003 | | Africa Informs, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Villa Groppallo, Vado Ligure, Italy |
| | | Transfer(t)s, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium |
| | | Homage to Asele, National Museum Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Selected Works, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2002 | | The Independent, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK |
| 2001-02 | | The Happy Face of Globalization, 1st Albissola Ceramics Biennale, Albissola, Italy; Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2001 | | El Tiempo de Africa, Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands; Consejería de Cultura de Comunidad, Madrid, Spain |
| | | Encounters with the Contemporary, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
| | | Africas: The Artist and the City, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain |
| | | News from the Front, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Jazz and Visual Improvisations, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA |
| | | Ebony Soliloquy: A Five Year Retrospective (1996–2001), Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, USA |
| | | Messagers de la Terre, Rur’Art– Espace d’Art Contemporain d’Lycée Agricole Xavier Bernard, Rouille, France |
| 1999 | | New Colours From Old Worlds, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | The Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Les Champs de la Sculpture, Champs Elysées, Paris, France |
| | | Contemporary Art from West Africa, October Gallery, London, UK |
| 1998 | | 7 Triennale der Kleineplastik, Stuttgart, Germany |
| | | 9th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan |
| | | Riddle of the Spirits - Twelve African Artists, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1997 | | The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA |
| | | Free Form and Precision, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | Container ’96: Art Across Oceans, Langelinie, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| | | Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Images of Africa, Torpedohallen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| | | Africana, Sala 1, Rome, Italy |
| | | Transforms, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | Group Exhibition, Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria |
| | | El Anatsui & Tesfaye Tessema, Contemporary African Gallery, New York, USA |
| | | El Anatsui & Sol Le Witt, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1995-96 | | An Inside Story - African Art of our Time, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima; Himeji City Museum of Arts, Himeji; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama; Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), Marugame; Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan |
| 1995 | | AKA ’95, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Contemporary African Art, World Intellectual Property Organisation Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland |
| | | 6th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan |
| | | Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden |
| | | Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany |
| | | The Right to Hope, Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; touring to Cairo; Amman; Gaza; Jerusalem; Tel Aviv |
| | | Africus, 1st Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| | | Uli Art– Master Works, Skoto Gallery, NY, USA |
| 1994 | | Arte/ Sociedad/ Reflexion, 5th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba |
| | | AKA ’94, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1993 | | New Currents ’93 - Avant-Garde Nigerian Art, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Six African Artists, October Gallery, London, UK |
| | | AKA ’93, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1992 | | Arte Amazonas, Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; traveled as: Klima Global to Staatliche Kunalle, Berlin; Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany |
| | | AKA ’92, Bona Gallery, Enugu and Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Begegnung mit den Anderen, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany |
| 1991 | | El Desafi de Colonization, 4th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba |
| | | South of the World, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Italy |
| | | AKA ’91, Bona Gallery, Enugu; Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Works by a Group of African Artists, The World Bank Art Society Gallery, World Bank Headquarters, Washington D.C., USA |
| | | The Sculptor’s Guild of Nigeria Inaugural Exhibition, Murtala Mohammed Park, Enugu, Nigeria |
| 1990 | | Five Contemporary African Artists, 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| | | The Calabash 1st Art Exhibition, The Calabash, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | AKA ’90, The Presidential Hotel, Enugu; Goethe-Insitut, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Achebe Celebration Exhibition, Continuing Education Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
| | | Contemporary African Artists: Changing Tradition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia; Chicago Public Library Cultural Centre, Chicago; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.; Museum of the National Center of African-American Artists, Boston, USA |
| 1989 | | Zeitgenössische Nigerianische Kunst, Bonn, Bocholt and Mönchengladbach, Germany |
| 1988 | | Walls and Gates - El Anatsui & Liz Willis, Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria |
| | | Thoughts and Processes - El Anatsui & Ndubisi Onah, The Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | AKA ’88, Nigerian Union of Journalists’ Press Centre, Enugu; Contemporary Art Gallery, Institute of African Studies, Nsukka; National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1987 | | AKA ’87, The Presidential Hotel, Enugu; National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Original Prints from the 3rd Nsukka Workshop, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1986 | | AKA ’86 - Inaugural Exhibition of the AKA Circle of Artists, the French Centre, Enugu and Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria |
| | | Nigerian-German Prints, University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1983 | | Four Contemporary African Artists, Mintec Gallery, Port Harcourt, Nigeria |
| 1982 | | Okike 10th Anniversary Exhibition, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
| 1981 | | Drawing on the World, Billingham Art Gallery, Billingham; Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough and the House of Commons Gallery, London, UK |
| 1979 | | Christian Arts in Nigeria, Holy Trinity Cathedral Hall, Onitsha, Nigeria |
| | | The Nsukka School, Art Gallery of the Rivers State Council for Arts and Culture, Port Harcourt, Nigeria |
| 1975 | | Fabric Wall Hangings, Burnt Wooden Wall Plaques, The Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |
| 1974 | | Tekarts Expo 5, National Arts Centre, Accra; Specialist Training College, Winneba, Ghana |
| 1969-70 | | Ghana National Collection, National Arts Centre, Accra, Ghana; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA |
