Berlin Chair in Pieces, Postmasters, New York

David Diao: Traces of Modernism, Gazelli Art House, London
David Diao, ShanghART, Singapore

New Work, Office Baroque, Antwerp

Studios and Sales, Postmasters, New York

Kin, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, ShangART, Beijing

David Diao: America Beckoning, Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
David Diao: Hong Kong Boyhood, Postmasters Gallery, New York

Ref : Barnett Newman, Office Baroque, Brussels

David Diao, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

David Diao: Front to Back, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
David Diao, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid
David Diao + Christian Bjone, The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut

David Diao: TMI, Postmasters, New York

Walid Raad & David Diao, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Franklin Street, 5th Floor, 1972-2012, (curated by Pavel S, Pys in collaboration with Tanya Leighton), 72 Franklin Street, New York

Da Hen Li House, I lived there until I was 6..., MC Contemporary, Madrid
Design Matters, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid

David Diao, Office Baroque, Antwerp

I Lived there until I was 6…, Postmasters Gallery, New York

Best Laid Plans, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Da Hen Li House, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing

Co To Jest Konstuktywizm & After, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland; Galeria Klimy Bochenskiej, Warsaw

Demolished/At Risk, Postmasters Gallery, New York

Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium

Postmasters Gallery, New York
Galerie Joseph Dutertre, Rennes, France
Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France

Galerie “Westersingel 8,” Rotterdam, Holland
Postmasters Gallery, New York

Postmasters Gallery, New York

Postmasters Gallery, New York

Rosa Esman Gallery, New York

Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

115 Spring Street, New York (Artist’s Studio)

Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York

Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto
Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York

Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto

Reese Palley Gallery, New York

Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto

New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Françoise Lambert Galleria, Milan
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Eugenics in the Garden, Tureen, Dallas
Schema: World as Diagram, Marlborough, New York

blinking last and laughing first, Rumpelstiltskin, New York
Chambres d’Amis: Ikea, Office Baroque, Antwerp

Coloring, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky

Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, curated by Daniel Sturgis, Bauhaus University, Weimar

New York: the 1980s; Part Two, Le Consortium, Dijon
Genealogías del Arte, curated by Manuel Fontán del Junco, Fundación Juan March
Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, curated by Daniel Sturgis, Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London
There will never be a door. You are inside, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, Sala de Arte of Fundacion Santander, Madrid, Spain

Walk Right In… (with Gwenn Thomas), Jeffrey Stark, New York
Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin

Social Photography V, Carriage Trade, New York

Prelude / Subversion, Gallery Baton, Seoul
Three American Painters: David Diao, Sam Gilliam, Sal Sirugo, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Museum Studies, Barman Museum, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Some Artists, Minus Space, Brooklyn
Affinity Atlas, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York

Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
ICA@50: Pleasing Artists and Publics Since 1963, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

Swing State, Jane Kim Gallery, New York

Conceptual Abstraction, (curated by Pepe Karmel and Joachim Pissarro), Hunter College Gallery, New York
Context Message, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
Richteriana, Postmasters Gallery, New York
Open::Closed, (curated by David Howe), 601Artspace, New York
Painters Painting, (curated by Stuart Horodner), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, on the occasion of David Diao’s Induction to the National Academy of Art, New York
The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s
to now, (curated by Daniel Sturgis, Martin Clark and Sarah Shalgosky),
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, United Kingdom

One Suitcase Per Person, 1a Space, Hong Kong
The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s
to now, (curated by Daniel Sturgis, Martin Clark and Sarah Shalgosky), Tate St. Ives, United Kingdom
Art/systems/poesie, In Situ, Paris
The Horizon Behind Us, (curated by Michele D'Aurizio), Kaleidoscope,
Milan

Lonely At The Top: Modern Dialect, (curated by Wim Van den Abbeele), MuHKA, Antwerp
Matthew Brannon, Mathew Cerletty, David Diao, Daniel Sinsel, Office
Baroque, Antwerp

Images & (Re)Presentations, Magasin-CNAC, Grenoble, France

Unnamablename, (curated by Kim Asbury and Todd Ayoung), Københavns Hovedbibliothek, Copenhagen
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Museo de Arte Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
National Academy Museum, New York
American University Museum, Washington D.C.
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

Dialogues, Le Quartier, Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, France
Stripes, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Sarotoga Springs, New York

Dreaming of A More Better Future, (curated by Saul Ostrow), Cleveland Institute of Art, Rehberger Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio
2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Design for Living, Islip Museum of Art, East Islip, New York
David Diao and Zhao Gang, Hanart/TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

About Painting, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Black Belt, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California

Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Temporal Surfaces, Vanouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
David Diao / Gang Zhao: at Mid Career, Asian American Arts Centre, New York

The Sensibility of the 80's, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich

Personal Space: the Domesticated Long Island Landscape, The Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York

After the Fall, Painting in New York Since 1970, Snug Harbor Center for the Arts, Staten Island, New York

Landscape Reclaimed, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical
Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Time Wise, The Swiss Institute, New York

Raw, Postmasters Gallery, New York
True Lies, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York

East/West, Cross Cultural Influences in Painting, E.S. Vandam, New York
About Time, Testwall, TZ’Art & Co., New York
Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover

Gegen den Strich — Against the Grain, Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna
C’est pas la fin du monde — une vue des annees 80, La Cour d’Or, Musee de Metz, France
Generiques, le Visuel et l’Ecrit, Hotel des Arts, Paris
Oeuvres Americaines, Autour de la Collection, Fonds Régional d'art
Contemporain de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Slow Art: Painting In New York Now, P.S.1, Queens, New York
then & NOW, Philippe Staib Gallery, New York
Quotations, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
En Noir et Blanc, Galerie du Tnb, Rennes, France

Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Schwerelos, Grossen Orangerie, Charlottenbourg Castle, Berlin
Le Consortium Collectione, Chateau d'Oiron, Oiron, France
Words & #s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Marta Cervera Gallery, New York
The Construction of Knowledge, Diane Brown Gallery, New York
PASTFUTURETENSE, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

The Charade of Mastery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia
All Quiet On The Western Front?, Espace Dieu, Paris

Une Autre Affaire, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Jet Lag, Turon Travel, Inc., New York
Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, USIA traveling exhibition to Asian capitals
Diagrams and Surrogates, Shea and Beker Gallery, New York
Diao, Dona, Goldstein, and Ladda, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Hybrid Nuetral: Mode of Abstraction and the Social, traveling exhibition, Independent Curators, Inc., New York
Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Meaningful Geometry, Postmasters Gallery, New York
Michael Corris, David Diao, Olivier Mosset, Shafrazi Gallery, New York

Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York
Post–Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Corris, Diao, IFP, Parrino, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Avant–Garde in the 80’s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d’Art, Nice, France
Ultrasurd, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
The Use of Geometry in the 80’s, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Red, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
Abstract Appropriations, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New
York
Spiritual America, CEPA, Buffalo, New York

Cult and Decorum, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
The Non–Objective World, Kamikaze Club, New York

The Terminal Show, Brooklyn, New York

The Chinese Response: Paintings by Leading Overseas Artists, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

Geometric Abstraction: A New Generation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Mind Set: An Ongoing Involvement with the Rational Tradition, John
Weber Gallery, New York

The New York School: The State of the Art, New York State Museum,
Albany, New York

Maler, Painters, Peintres, Prospect ‘73, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

8 New York Painters, Museum of Art, Berkeley, California
David Diao and Cy Twombly, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts

The White Monochrome in 20th Century Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Two Generations of Color Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Using Walls, Jewish Museum, New York

Scenic Landmarks of New York presents a Scenic Landmark for Toronto, David Diao and Brice Marden, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto
David Diao and Peter Young, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
David Diao and Brice Marden, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Albert Pilavin Collection: 20th Century American Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

Park Place Gallery, New York