John Smith: Introspective (1972 – 2022), The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
Waldeinsamkeit: Films from the 21st Century, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany

S.O.S – Recent Films by John Smith, Kate MacGarry, London
John Smith Programme of Short Films, CAST, Cornwall

John Smith: The Girl Chewing Gum, Fine Arts, Sydney

John Smith: Films in Sheep's Clothing, Alma Zevi Gallery, Venice
John Smith: Dad's Stick, Kunstmuseum Madgeburg, Germany
THE MAN GIRL PHONING CHEWING MUM GUM, Tanya Leighton, Berlin

The Girl Chewing Gum, LOOK Gallery, Budapest
John Smith, Kate MacGarry, London
Hotel Diaries, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton

Sign Language, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
John Smith: Is It True, GFZK, Leipzig
Synchronicity: John Smith, Vita Kuben, Umea
Frames: John Smith, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg
Unlimited: John Smith - The Girl Chewing Gum, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin
Dad's Stick, Suburban PS, Rotterdam

White Hole, The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
The Kiss, La Galerie, Noisey-le-Sec, Paris
The Black Tower, Lulu, Mexico City
The Girl Chewing Gum, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
John Smith, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University

Associations, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Cologne
The Girl Chewing Gum, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon
Object Lessons, Tanya Leighton, Berlin

The Black Tower, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, United Kingdom
Horizon, Turner Cotemporary, Margate, England
The Girl Chewing Gum, Le Bal, Paris
Bildstörung, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
Slow Glass, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Hotel Diaries, Grand Hotel Atlantic, Bremen
Worst Case Scenario, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen

John Smith: Short Films, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden
unusual Red cardigan, PEER Gallery, London
John Smith, Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France
The Girl Chewing Gum, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The world seems a long way away, Pallas Projects, Dublin
Lost Sound, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri

Accident, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg
The Offset, Aside, But (Part 4), Kunstsaele, Berlin
Flag Mountain/Black Tower, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Worst Case Scenario, Gallery 210, St. Louis, Missouri
John Smith: Solo Show, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
I’m Lying, I Promise, Sala Diaz Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

John Smith – Selected Films and Videos, Ikon Gallery Birmingham
Hotel Diaries – Video Diaries by John Smith, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, Ireland

John Smith – London and Other Worlds, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany

The Black Tower, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
The Kiss, AVA Gallery, University of East London

John Smith, Pearl Gallery, London
The Girl Chewing Gum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Small World, 13th Taipei Biennial, Taipei City
Life is More Important than Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Street Life: The Street in Art from Kirchner to Streuli, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Instantly! Street Photography in Vienna, Museen der Stadt Wien, Vienna

Atlas of Modernity. Exercises, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
Language for Sale, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
Biennale für Freiburg, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Tourism, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Go), Centre Photographique Marseille
Hearing Aids, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
Hidden in Plain Sight, Steven Lawrence Gallery, London
Crocodile Cradle, curated by Simon Moretti, PEER, London
Peter Morrens: ‘Minstens 1½ Uur, En Terug, Cultuurhuis De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium

Signals and Circuits, VISUAL, Carlow Arts Centre, Ireland
Summer Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Le Cours des Choses, CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
The Medium is the Message, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
The Unseen Masterpiece, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Chapter 3HREE Maarten Spruyt, Het HEM, Zaandam, the Netherlands

Migrating Worlds: the Art of the Moving Image in Britain, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Face it! Im Selbstgespräch mit dem Anderen, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany
The Annotated Reader (a project by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts), The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
As Seen on Screen: Art and Cinema, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London

Double Takes: Historic and Contemporary Film and Video, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Otras Luces, Festival of Moving Images, Pamplona Spain
The Annotated Reader, Cork Street Galleries, London
Hunter of Worlds, Kunstverein SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland
Marcia Farquhar – DIFFIKUΛT, CGP Gallery, London
Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Somewhere in Between, Bozar Arts Centre, Brussels
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Film London Jarman Award: A Journey Through the First Decade, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Kapwani Kiwanga: a wall is just a wall (and nothing more at all), Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada
Casa Tomada, San Pedro de los Pinos, Mexico City, Mexico
Journeys with The Waste Land, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Fifteen, Kate MacGarry, London
Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London
Legacies: JMW Turner and Contemporary Art Practice, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

O Enigma Rísivel do Quotidiano / The Laughable Enigma of the Everyday, Arquipelago Centro de Artes Contemporaneas, Sao Miguel, Açores
Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London
Legacies: JMW Turner and Contemporary Art Practice, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
The Laughable Enigma of the Ordinary, ARQUIPÉLAGO Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Azores
Who Are You? That's You!, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg
Poetic and Political, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
The Still Point of the Turning World: Between Film and Photography, FOMU Museum of Photography, Antwerp
After the Fact: Propaganda in the 21st Century, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Offshore: Artists Explore the Sea, Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull
ArtBAB, International Art Fair, Bahrain
Make Truth Great Again, Jousse Enterprise Gallery, Paris
You Are Here, West, The Hague
Strangelove, International Time Based Arts Festival, Folkestone
Tilting at Windmills, ROBERTA, Frankfurt
Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London
New and Recent Acquisitions from the Grundy Collection, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
Kunstler Messe Dresden, Dresden
The Big Picture Show: Performing for the Camera, Tramway, Glasgow

Historicode: Scarcity and Supply, Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China
The Scientific Method, The Tetley, Leeds
LonDADA Festival of Dadaism, Cinema Museum, London
Double Act: Art and Comedy, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast
Found (curated by Cornelia Parker), The Foundling Museum, London
Shoot Shoot Shoot: The London Film-Makers Co-operative 1966-1976, Tate Britain, London
Why is it Always December?, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
Accidental Encounters, Wimbledon Space, London
Time after Time, Momentum, Berlin

Essex Road II, TINTYPE Gallery, London
Obsolescence – or the post-nostalgic use of journalistic imagery, RCA Dyson Gallery, London
Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Reading TV, Svarta Hålet, Stockholm
The Fall, Rodeo, Istanbul
The Short Form, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal
Akakor, Galeria Baro, São Paulo
Ground: Paul Housley and John Smith, Attic, Nottingham
Idiot Box, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London
Sunday in the Park with Ed, Display Gallery, London
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
Theatres, Perth International Arts Festival, Museum of Western, Perth
The Presence of Absence, Berloni, London

Love Among the Artists: A Project by Laure Prouvost, Walden Affairs, The Hague
Indeterminacy, Large Glass Gallery, London
37 Pieces of Flair, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
The Reluctant Narrator: A Survey of Narrative Practices Across Media, Berardo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Key Frames: Contemporary Artists’ Animations, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
Interior, Modern Art, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Surface of the World, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila
Test Run, Modern Art, Oxford
Oh, My Complex: On Unease at Beholding the City, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Invocable Reality, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
7 Raumthesen, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich
Le Corbeau et le Renard: Revolt of Language with Marcel Broodthaers, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
For as Long as You Like, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
Words as Doors: in Language, Art, Film, Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria
Echte Gefühle: Denken im Film, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Tribute to an Avenue, Sculpture International, Rotterdam

Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
New Humans, Bureau, New York
Sound Versus System, Kunsthall Oslo
Detached Activists – Engaged Observers, Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris
Bonjour tristesse, désir, ennui, appétit, plaisir, La Galerie, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec, France
It's a Beautiful World, Rhubaba, Edinburgh
Estuary, Museum of London Docklands, London
DLA Piper Series: Constellations, Tate Liverpool
Shortcuts and Digressions, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom
Protest, Corn Exchange, Newbury, United Kingdom
None the Wiser, Hessel Museum of Art, New York
Six Memos for the Next …, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria
Großzügige Sachzuwendung, Dorothea Schlueter Gallery, Hamburg
Tape-Salad: Record, Rewind, Play, Stop, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen
The Glass Show, Jonathan Viner, London
How to Tell a Story, DEPO, Istanbul

Desire Lines, Espai, Barcelona
The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art, RCA Galleries, London
Screen / Play, Guyancourt Exhibition Hall, France
PVM2130, Furnished Space, London
Frieze Film, Frieze Art Fair, London
Chekhov's Gun, g39, Cardiff, Wales
Dawn Chorus: New acquisitions for the Arts Council Collection, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom
Steinberg, Saul. The New Yorker. New York, 1945-2000, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, Kent, United Kingdom
People on Sunday, IBID, London
Peculiar Form of Fiction, Site Gallery and S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Oh My Complex: On Unease at Beholding the City, Württembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Locus Solus: Impressions of Raymond Roussel, Serralves Museum, Porto
As Slow as Possible, AV Festival, Sunderland
Marrekech Biennale, Marrakech, Morrocco
Descriptive Acts, SFMoMA, San Franciso
Time Capsules, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France

Two Thousand Eleven, Hong Kong
Lightwriting, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield
Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
According to Foreign Sources, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Periodical Review, Pallas Projects, Dublin
John Smith with John Berger, Black Audio Film Collective, Peter Watkins, Serralves Museum, Porto
Margins: walking between worlds, Art Exchange, Colchester, England
Locus Solus: Impressions of Raymond Roussel, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
Margins: Walking Between Worlds, Art Exchange, Colchester, England
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989, ZkM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dark, CoExist Galleries, Southend, England
Backstage Riders, Tagesspiegelgebäude, Berlin, Germany
Genius Without Talent, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
A Form Is Simply Something Which Allows Something Else To Be Art Transported From One Site To Another, Murray Guy Gallery, New York
Has The Film Already Started?, Tate Britain, London
Feature, Art 42 Basel
Neighbo(u)rhood, Mattres Factory, Pittsburg
The Talent Show, MoMA PS1, New York; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Drawing 2011, The Drawing Room, London
The Pedestrians, South London Gallery, London
Serious Games. War – Media – Art, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Germany
Animal Kingdom - there was an old lady who ...', Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin
Independent, Art Fair, New York
Un Nouveau Festival / Aether, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Elastic Frames, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

Atlas: Truths, Details, Intervals and the Afterlives of the Image, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva
lightwriting, Banner Repeater, Hackney Downs Railway Station, London
Alternatives to Memories, Gallerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France
AS SO CI ATIONS, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
A Million and One Days, Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
lightwriting, Window Gallery, Central St Martins School of Art, London
I Must Say That At First It Was Difficult Work, Kunsthall Oslo
TBA Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon
6th Berlin Biennial, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
Session 8 - Video, Am Nuden Da, London
Mulberry Tree Press, SE8 Gallery, London
Nothing is in the Place, Photo Month, Krakow, Poland
The Talent Show, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
What If, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London
After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Work Force, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England
The Armory Show – Focus: Berlin, New York
A Very, Very Long Cat, Wallspace Gallery, New York
Associations, Arcade Gallery, London
La Otra’, Contemporary Art Fair, Bogota, Columbia
Z33 Art Center, Hasselt, Belgium

Beneath the Surface/Hidden Place, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Scotland
Der Schnitt durch die Oberfläche legt neue Oberflächen frei (The cut
through the surfaces reveals new surfaces) (curated by Max Mayer and Hans-Jürgen Hafner), Temporary Gallery, Cologne
Summer Show (curated by Richard Wilson), Royal Academy, London
Highlights from the Cologne Kunst Film Biennale in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berlin
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England

Smoke, Pump House Gallery, London
Hotel MariaKapel, A Portrait by Katie Jane, Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn, Netherlands
September Show, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Xcentric, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
Travels, The Tate Triennial Prolouge, Tate Britian, London
ICO Essentials: The Secret Masterpieces of Cinema, touring programme launched at Tate Modern, London
Displaced Sounds, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven, Belgium
Smoke, Pump House Gallery, London
Rooftop Cinema, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Real Fiction, Ausstellungshalle Münster, Germany

Persona Non Grata, One in the Other Gallery, London
In the poem about love you don’t write the word love, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pathogeographies (Or Other People's Baggage), Gallery 400, Chicago
Autonomous Series, Campbell Works, London
Histoires d’en Rire., Documentaire sur Grand Ecran, Paris

A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu – Farben, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany
In the poem about love you don’t write the word love, Artists’ Space, New York
Tate Modern, London
Luz Y Tiempo: Cine Experimental Y Videoarte Britanico, La Enana Marron, Madrid
Public Utilities, South London Gallery, London
The Atlas Group (1990-2004). A Project by Walid Raad, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
I Love Art Video, Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, France
Smoke and Mirrors, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom
A Cinema of Physics and Perception, Block Museum of Art, Chicago
Transvision, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A Step in the Right Direction, Gallery Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark