2021 Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism, Glasgow Women’s Library

2019 For Walls with Tongues, The Project Space, University of Greenwich, London

2019 The Lie of the Land, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

2017 The Things that Make You Sick, ICA London.

2015 Aún no: Sobre la reinvención del documental y la crítica de la modernidad, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

2015 DACS auction exhibition, Londonnewwcastle Project, London.  

2012-13 Feminist and… Residency and group exhibition, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh

2012 Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, Swiss National Museum, Zürich

2012 Artery 1971–1984. Group exhibition, Page Street Gallery, London

2011 Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, V&A London

2010 Crunchtime, New Schoolhouse Gallery, York

2009 Transductores, Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada

2009 Working Images, Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles, Montreal

2008 Visible Rights: Photography by and for Youth, Senac University, São Paulo

2008 Art for Change – Loraine Leeson: Works from 1975-2008, one person retrospective, City Library, Dublin

2008 Reversible Actions, ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, Vic, Catalonia

2008 The Not Quite Yet, SPACE Gallery, London

2007 Art for Change – Loraine Leeson: Works from 1975-2007, A Space Gallery, Toronto
 

2006 Art for Change – Loraine Leeson: Works from 1975-2006, SPACE Gallery, London

2005 Art for Change – Loraine Leeson: Works from 1975-2005, one person retrospective, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin

2005 Real Estate (Curated by B+B) ICA London2000 CAB 2000: Patterns of Collaboration, A Space, Toronto

1999 Fractured mirrors, Broken Windows, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston

1994 Women Light up the Night, Tacheles Hof, Berlin

1994 The Lure of the Local, CU Galleries, Boulder Colorado

1994 Where Does Europe End? Ankara, Turkey

1994 Between Family Lines, Small Mansion Art Centre/Tom Allen Centre/Wood Green Central Library, London and Untitled Gallery, Sheffield

1994 Public Domain, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona

1993 Celebrating the Inner City, Museum of the Moving Image London

1991 Docklands Sites, Gill Gallery, Newham, London

1991 Photomontage Now, Manchester City Art Gallery 1991 Digital Highways, Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Kingston Ontario

1990 If You Lived Here (curated by Martha Rosler), Dia Art Foundation, New York

1989 Public Art Works Goldsmiths Gallery London & tour.

1989 The Self Portrait, South Bank London and Frauen Museum,Bonn.

1989 Council House, Bristol 1989 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool.

1989 Urban Renewal in England, Techniche Universität, Berlin and Barbican Centre, London

1988 Critical Montage, Small Mansion Arts Centre, London

1988 City Visions and Revisions, Bronx River Arts Centre & Gallery, New York

1988 Future Dock Warehouse, Amsterdam

1988 Shelter Annual Conference, Nottingham

1988 Heroes, AIR Gallery London

1987 Local, Impressions Gallery, York.

1987 State of the Nation, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry

1987 State of the Art (curated by Sandy Nairne) ICA, London and tour

1986 Printing is Easy, Woodlands Gallery, London and tour

1986 War of Images, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

1985 Docklands Community Poster Project, A-Space, Toronto and tour

1985 Images from London’s Docklands, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia

1985 Kunst Mit Eigen-Sinn (curated by Valie Export), Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna

1984 Camerawork (curated by Shirley Read), Royal Festival Hall, London

1984 Future of Metropolises, Techniche Universität, Berlin

1984 Social Space – a Documentary (curated by Barbara Fischer), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff

1984 Frieden, ein Wort und…Bilder und…,Kunstverein Wolfsburg

1983 Atlantis Gallery, London 1983 Artspace, NSW Australia

1982 Camerawork Gallery, London

1980 Richard Demarco Gallery, Exhibition of work by members of the Free International University, Edinburgh Festival.

1980 Cockpit Gallery, London

1980 Arts Centre, Bristol

1980 ISSUE_Social Strategies by Women Artists_1980 (curated by Lucy Lippard), ICA, London

1979 New Gallery, Totnes, Devon

1978 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London

1978 Art for Society, Whitechapel (curated by Nick Serota) Gallery, London and Ulster Museum, Belfast

1978 Art for Whom? (curated by Richard Cork) Serpentine Gallery, London

1977 Art as Activity in the Context of Reality, Galeria Remont, Warsaw

1977 In Sickness and in Health, CEAC, Toronto

1976 Frankfurter Kunstverein

1975 Festival of Independent British Cinema, Arnolfini, Bristol