Born in Liberty, New York, 1961
| 2009 | Photographs, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna |
| Photographs, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich | |
| 2008 | You See I am here after all, Dia: Beacon, New York |
| Derrotero, Dia at the Hispanic Society of America, New York | |
| Photographs, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid | |
| Zoe Leonard, Galleria Pepe Cobo, Madrid | |
| 2007 | Photographs, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
| Analogue, Villa Arson, Nice | |
| Analogue, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio | |
| 2006 | Zoe Leonard, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne |
| 2003 | New Work, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
| Zoe Leonard, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin | |
| 2002 | Zoe Leonard, The Agency for Contemporary Art, London |
| Fae Richards Archive, Tate Modern, London | |
| 2001 | Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco |
| Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne | |
| Raffaella Cortese, Milano | |
| 2000 | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | Micheline Szwajczer Gallery, Antwerp |
| Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw | |
| Gallery Anadiel, Jerusalem | |
| Recent Photographs, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| 1998 | Centre National de la Photographie, Paris |
| Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne | |
| Strange Fruit, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia | |
| Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City | |
| 1997 | Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris |
| Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| Galerija Dante, Umag, Croatia | |
| Vienna Secession, Vienna | |
| Kunsthalle Basel, Basel | |
| Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus | |
| Strange Fruit, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami | |
| 1995 | Le Casa d'Arte, Milan |
| Photographs and Objects, presented by Paula Cooper Gallery at the artist’s studio, New York | |
| Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris | |
| Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia | |
| 1993 | The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago |
| 1992 | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
| 1991 | Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles |
| University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley | |
| Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco | |
| Richard Foncke Gallery, Ghent | |
| Zoe Leonard. Photographien, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne | |
| 1990 | Zoe Leonard. Photographien, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne |
| 1985 | Greathouse, New York |
| 1983 | Hogarth Gallery, Sydney |
| 1979 | Fourth Street Photo Gallery, New York |
| 2010 | Fale Divide: abstraction and representation in a few photographic works, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York |
| 50 Artists Photograph The Future, Higher Pictures, New York | |
| In Full Bloom, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan | |
| Artworks from the Enea Righi Collection, Museion Bolzano, Bolzano | |
| Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Leo Koenig, New York | |
| Augenschmaus – Vom Essen im Stillleben, Bank Austria Forum, Vienna | |
| Mixed Use: Manhattan, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid | |
| MOCA's first 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | |
| DB Photography Prize, Photographers Gallery, London; traveling to Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt | |
| The Surreal House, Barbican Gallery, London | |
| 2009 | Photography, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
| Pivot Points 3, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami | |
| Locus Solus, Yvonne Lambert, Paris | |
| Fashion Room (Fotografien der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach), Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt | |
| Das Gespinst, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach | |
| The Female Gaze. Women Look At Women, Cheim & Read, New York | |
| Elles @ Centrepompidou. Artists in the Collections of the Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris | |
| Espèces d'espaces, Yvonne Lambert, New York | |
| En todas partes. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela | |
| Galaxy, BAM/ PFA, Berkeley, California | |
| out of the blue, Gallery Bergen, Paramus, New Jersey | |
| Nouvelles Collections III, Sammlung Jocelyne & Fabrice Petignat, Centre PasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre d’art, Biel, Switzerland | |
| 2008 | Kunst im Heim, Capitain Petzel, Berlin |
| Drawing a Tension – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Centre, Lisbon | |
| After Nature, New Museum, New York | |
| listen darling ... the world is yours, Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal | |
| Soziale Diagramme / Planning Reconsidered, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart | |
| Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York | |
| L’Argent, Le Plateau, Paris | |
| Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City, New York Public Library, NY | |
| Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen | |
| Versus inversus, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan | |
| 2007 | Blind Date, Deutsche Bank Kunst und Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul |
| documenta XII, Kassel | |
| dolls, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan | |
| KISS KISS BANG BANG. 45 Years of Art and Feminism, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao | |
| Mouth open, teeth showing: Works from the True Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle | |
| Oh Girl, it´s a Boy!, Kunstverein München, Munich | |
| Normal Love, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin | |
| BODYPOLITCX, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam | |
| 2006 | Around the Corner: Zoe Leonard and Peter Wunderlich, Orchard, New York |
| The heartbeat of fashion, Sammlung F.C. Grundlach, Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg | |
| Das Achte Feld, Museum Ludwig, Cologne | |
| Full House, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| Fliegende Kühe und andere Kometen - nicht nur komische Dinge in der Kunst, Villa Merkel und Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen | |
| Vija Celmins, Liz Deschenes, Zoe Leonard, Tracy Williams. Ltd, New York | |
| Out of the Blue, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania | |
| 2005 | Zoe Leonard, Christopher Williams, Mai 36, Zürich |
| The New City: Sub/urbia in Recent Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| Femme(s), Musee de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 2004 | Infinitely Specific, Montserrat College of Art Galleries, Beverly |
| Open Proposition: Artists for the Bill of Rights, The Proposition Gallery, New York | |
| Cave Birds, Raffaella Cortese, Milan | |
| Marilyn: From Anastasi to Weegee, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York | |
| Possessed: the things we own and the things that own us, Western Bridge, Seattle | |
| Les enfants terribles - The Language of Childhood in Art - 1909-2004, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano/Switzerland, curated by Marco Franciolli, Helmut Friedel, Giovanni Iovane | |
| 2003 | Eric Hattan, Zoe Leonard, Michel Francois, Swiss Institute, New York |
| Recent Acquisitions – Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| Works from the Sammlung Schurmann, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen | |
| Phantom of Desire, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz/Austria, | |
| Yankee Remix, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts | |
| The tale of the thread: Embroidery and sewing in contemporary art, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto | |
| Gelijk het leven is, S.M.A.K., Ghent | |
| Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York | |
| In Nature: 10th International Biennial of Photography, The Italian Foundation of Photography and Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino | |
| A Clear Vision – Photographic works from the F.C. Gundlach collection, International House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg | |
| Lei. Donne nelle collezioni italiane, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, curated by F. Bonami | |
| 2002 | RE: ACTION 2002, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City |
| Recent Accessions: Photography, MFA Houston | |
| American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York | |
| De Gustibus, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Sergio Risaliti | |
| Prophets of Boom – Werke aus der Sammlung Schürman, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, travelling exhibition | |
| Mask & Metamorphosis, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | |
| Sie träumt von Ihrem Lieblingsstar. Er spricht mit einer fremden Sprache. Vier Räume aus der Sammlung Schürmann, K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Dusseldorf | |
| Cadavre Exquis, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris | |
| Le Regard de l’Autre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen | |
| Photographier – to Photograph, Collection Lambert, Musée d’art Contemporain, Avignon | |
| My Marilyn, Liljewachs Konsthall, Stockholm | |
| Galerie Praz-Devallade, Paris | |
| Visions from America Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| The Photographic Impulse, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle | |
| With and Without You. Re-visitations of Art in the Age of AIDS, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney | |
| Keine Kleinigkeit, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel | |
| In Focus: display within the Collection 2002, Tate Modern, London | |
| Group Show, The Agency, London | |
| Disturbance, Raffaela Cortese, Milan | |
| 2001 | Full Frontal, Photographic Portraits, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas |
| From Real to Ideal, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro | |
| Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna | |
| Parkett Collaborations, Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| Outart 2001: Stand Fast Dick and Jane, Project, Ireland | |
| Double Life, Generali Foundation, Vienna | |
| Sex – Vom Wissen und Wünschen, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, curated by Rosemarie Trockel | |
| The Surreal Woman: Femaleness and the Uncanny in Surrealism, Kunsthalle Bielefeld | |
| Magic/Object/Action, Site Gallery, Steffield, England | |
| 2000 | Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Alexander and Bonin, New York |
| Cross Female, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin | |
| Brave New World, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris | |
| Kwangju Bienial, Kwangju, Korea | |
| The Wounded Diva, Kunstverein München, Munich | |
| Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia | |
| Positions to a political discourse, Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria traveled to Nieuw Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp | |
| Lignes d’horizon: Acquisitions récentes du FRAC Haute-Normandie, Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Haute-Normandie, Rouen | |
| Voilà: Le Monde Dans la Tête, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris | |
| Sensitive, Le Printemps de Cahors, France | |
| Body Beautiful, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris | |
| The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, traveled to The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida | |
| Others Worlds, curated by Erika Belle, New York | |
| Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore | |
| 1999 | A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris |
| The Sentiment of the Year 2000, Milano Triennale, Milan | |
| Persona II, Carousel Gallery, Paris | |
| Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, | |
| Annandale-on-Hudson, New York | |
| Larmes Blanches, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Rouen | |
| Sleuth, Fotogallery, Cardiff, Wales; traveled to Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales; Barbican Gallery | |
| A Sangre y Fuego, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Valencia | |
| The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; traveled to The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego | |
| Dramatis Personæ, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston | |
| Skin Deep: Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem | |
| in passing, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York | |
| Les Fleurs du Mal, Galerie Seitz - von Werder, Berlin | |
| Gender Trouble, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen | |
| Exhibition of Visual Art 1998, EVA, Limerick Corporation, Limerick, Ireland | |
| Sans Titre: Works from the Collection of Peggy Scott & David Teplitzky, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado | |
| 1998 | Crossroad, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| Three Generations Patricia Faure Gallery, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| Fast Forward (Body Check), Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg | |
| Some Like it Hot, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York | |
| Jardin d’artistes: De mémoire d’arbre, Musée Zadkine, Paris | |
| L’Hypothèse du tableau vole, la Fondation Mamco et le Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva | |
| Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum | |
| Travel and Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| Sculpture - Figure - Woman, Upper Austrian Regional Gallery, Linz, traveled to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz | |
| The Precious Image: Contemporary Platinum Photography, University Art Gallery, Montclair State University, New Jersey | |
| 1997 | Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent zu Gast im Kunstverein Schwerte |
| Still and Moving: Contemporary Photography and Video, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale | |
| Miami Short Cuts: Links to the Body, Deutsche Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Dortmund | |
| The Veiled Face (Transvestism and Identity in Art): The 80’s and 90’s, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea Exhibition Gallery, Donostia-St. Sebastian, Spain | |
| Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia | |
| The Matrix of Geography, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia | |
| 1997 | Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| The Leisure Sector, Annika Sundvik Gallery, New York | |
| Skin Deep, Jennifer Flay Gallery, Paris | |
| Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York | |
| Gothic, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | |
| Fashion Moda, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland | |
| Veronica’s Revenge: Oeuvres Photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; traveled to Casino Luxembourg and Musée national d’histoire et d’art, Luxembourg; and to Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark | |
| 1996 | Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York |
| The Wild Good; Lesbian Photography and Writings on Love, A Different Light Bookstore, New York | |
| Embedded Metaphor. Independent Curators International, New York; Curated by Nina Felshin | |
| Groninger Museum’s Collection and Proposals for Future Acquisitions, Groninger Museum, Groningen | |
| Nudo and Crudo: Sensitive body, Visible body, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan | |
| Black and Blue: Eight American Photographers, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands | |
| Passage à l'acte, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris | |
| Vija Celmins, Zoe Leonard, Jorge Pardo, Joe Scanlan, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp | |
| Points of View: Photography from the Collection, Gallery 2, University Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley | |
| Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo | |
| L'Evidence, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva | |
| Sosie, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, | |
| Push Pause, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago | |
| 1995 | In a Different Light, University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley |
| Zoe Leonard and Mauri Formigoni, Sangamon State University Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, Illinois | |
| Compulsion to Repeat: Repetition and Difference in Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | |
| L'immagine riflessa: una selezione di fotografia contemporanea dalla collezione LAC, Svizzera, Museo Pecci, Prato | |
| Fashion Moda, Entwistle Gallery, London, curated by Lisa Marie Marks | |
| Feminin/Masculin: Le Sexe de l'Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | |
| Nature Studies II, University Gallery Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | |
| Obliquely, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica | |
| Passion Privées: Collections particulières d’art moderne et contemporain en France, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris | |
| 1994 | The Art of Seduction, The Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami |
| The Use of Pleasure, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco | |
| Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; traveled to: Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Le Capitou, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Frejus, France; Städtische Galerie, Goppingen, Germany; Massimo de Carlo, Milan; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; curated by Robert Nickas | |
| Sum of the Parts, University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii | |
| In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| Sosie, Herve Mikaeloff, Paris | |
| Sea Sights, Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, New York, curated by Nessia Pope | |
| Holiday Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| 1993 | Saints and Survivors in a Time of Plague, Lowinsky Gallery, New York |
| 1993 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; traveled to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| Dissent, Difference & The Body Politic, Otis Gallery, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles | |
| Art & Aids in New York, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich; Stadtbibliothek Hannover, Hannover | |
| 1920: The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention, Exit Art / The First World, New York | |
| Rewriting History: The Salon of 1993, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota | |
| Coming To Power: 25 Years of Sexually Explicit Art by Women, David Zwirner Gallery, New York | |
| The Uncanny, Sonsbeek Exhibition, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, Arnhem | |
| Eau de Cologne: 1983 - 1993, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne | |
| Robert Gober, Zoe Leonard, Fawbush, New York | |
| Nulle Part et Partout, Espace Paul Boye, Sète, France | |
| Imaginaries, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, New York | |
| Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Independent Study Program, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| What happened to the institutional critic? American Fine Arts-Colin de Land, New York | |
| The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York; traveled to: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Foundation for Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico; The Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles, California; The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri | |
| Kunstverein Kippenberger Kassel, Museum Fridericianum Kassel | |
| Gent de Gast in De Beyerd Breda: De Keuze Van Jan Hoet, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium | |
| 1992 | Zoe Leonard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kiki Smith, Robert Gober, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco |
| Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany | |
| 1991 | From Desire: A Queer Diary, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, New York |
| Gulliver's Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne | |
| On Kawara, Zoe Leonard, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| 8th Annual Day of the Dead / Dia de los Muertos, Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, California | |
| Nancy Brooks Brody, Paula Hayes, Zoe Leonard, Jack Pierson, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York | |
| Shooter's Hill, AC Project Room, New York | |
| Act Up Benefit Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| 1990 | Luhring Augustine, New York |
| The Köln Show, Cologne | |
| Wendy Jacob and Zoe Leonard, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York | |
| Ponton Temse, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium | |
| Survey of Gay and Lesbian Artists, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Work on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York | |
| Act Up Auction For Action, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| 1989 | Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York |
| First Amendment Show, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York | |
| War Resisters' League Benefit, New York | |
| The Center Show, Lesbian and Gay Community Center, New York | |
| Erotophobia, Simon Watson Project Space, New York | |
| AIDS Timeline, An Installation by Group Material, University Art Museum/ Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1988 | Selections from the Artists' File, Artist Space, New York |
| 1987 | Consonance, ISD, New York, New York |
| 1986 | The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| Simon Cerigo Gallery, New York | |
| Myth, Greathouse, New York | |
| New Math Gallery, New York | |
| 1985 | Getting Off, Civilian Warfare, New York |
| 1984 | Soon to Be A Major Motion Picture, Greathouse, New York |
| Just Appearances, New Math Gallery, New York | |
| 1983 | Twenty Nine Downtown, Piezo Electric, New York |
| 1982 | Times Square Show, Times Square, New York |
| 1980 | Club 57, New York |