2018
Dredging up the Past, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2017
Dredging up the Past, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2016
Embassy, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns & Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Richard Bell: Imagining Victory (touring exhibition), Casula Powerhouse, Sydney; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery; Wollongong Art Gallery; Murray Art Museum Albury; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; Gosford Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
2015
Embassy, Performa 15, New York City
2014
Embassy, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2013
Imagining Victory, Artspace, Sydney.
A Suppository of All Wisdom, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Lessons On Etiquette And Manners, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
2011 – 13
Uz Vs. Them, touring Tufts University, Boston; University of Kentucky, Kentucky; Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver; Indiana University Art Museum, Indiana.
2011
You’d Believe Me If I Was A White Man, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2009
I Am Not Sorry, Location One, New York, USA
Richard Bell: Provocateur, University Of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
2008
Scratch An Aussie Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Window Shopping, Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne.
2007
Psalm Singing, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2006
Richard Bell: Positivity, Institute Of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2005
Transition, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2004
Colour, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2003
Made Men, Metroarts, Brisbane.
2002
Discomfort, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane.
2001
A Few Good Men, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane.
1995
Text Ya, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney.
1994
Prospectus .38, Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide.
Prospectus .44, Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne.
1993
Prospectus .303, Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Armidale.
Prospectus .25, Moree Regional Gallery, NSW.
Prospectus .22, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane.
1992
Pretty: Serious, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville.
1991
This Black + White Thin, Spring Hill Baths, Brisbane.
Black + White Thing, Moree Regional Gallery, NSW.
2018
Frontier Imaginaries ed. 5: Trade Markings, Vanabbe Museum, Eindhoven.
2017
Australian Collection Permanent Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia, Collectors Room, Berlin
Toxic Assets: Frontier Imaginaries Ed.No3, e-flux and Columbia University, New York.
The National: New Australian Art, Carriageworks, Sydney.
2016
20th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Sonsbeek 2016, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, Netherlands
SMBA, Stedelijk, Museum Amsterdam
Trigger Points, Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University, New York State
2015
When Silence Falls, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Propositions Three, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Performa 15, New York
Neither Back Nor Forward: Acting in the Present, 16th Jakarta Biennale 2015, Jakarta, Indonesia
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
9/11, MOANA Project Space, Perth
Reflex, Figment, Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
All Power to the People: Transcending Borders, Richard Bell & Emory Douglas, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
Blakout, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, New South Wales
See You at the Barricades, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Archibald Prize 2015, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
2014
Action at a Distance: The Life and Legacy of John Stewart Bell, Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Giving Voice: The Art of Dissent, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania.
The Working Life, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Protest Songs: Artful Actions, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, New South Wales.
Conflict: Contemporary responses to war, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home (touring), Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand.
2013
Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan.
The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
Sakahàn, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa.
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Plan B, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Victoria.
2012
Edge of Elsewhere, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. Propositions, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2011 – 12
Ten Years of Contemporary Art: The James C Sourris AM Collection, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2010
4th Auckland Triennial: Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, Auckland, New Zealand.
2009
Terra Nullius, ACC Galerie, Weimar & HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany.
Marelle: The Hidden Mission, Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales.
2008
Scratch An Aussie, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney.
Half Light, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Revolutions: Forms That Turn, 2008 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
New Millennium, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW. Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Carlton Studios, Melbourne.
2007
Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial, NGA Canberra (touring exhibition 2007-9)
Power & Beauty, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
Sunshine State, Smart State, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
The Independence Project, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia.
2006
Parallel Lives: New Painting in Australia, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne.
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2005
Queensland Live, Queensland Art Gallery Touring exhibition (2005 – 08).
2004
Blak Insights, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. 2004, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2002
The White Show Bellas Gallery, Brisbane. Lines II, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane.
2001
Dreamtime: The Dark and The Light, Sammlung Essl, Austria.
The White Desert, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
A Few of My Favourite Things, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane.
1999 – 2000
The new Republics, Touring Adelaide, England, Canada, South Africa.
1997
Heritage Award, Canberra.
1996
Heritage Award, Canberra.
1995
Telstra National Indigenous Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin.
Heritage Award, Canberra.
1994 – 95
True Colours, Touring London, Liverpool, Leicester, Perth, Perth, Sydney.
1993
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Aratjara, Dusseldorf, London, Humelbaek.
Australian Aboriginal Art, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco.
Ian Abdulla, Richard Bell, Harry Wedge, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists’ Cooperative, Sydney.
Plenty Of Campfires, Space Plentitude, Brisbane. Political Works, Space Plentitude, Brisbane.
1992 – 93
9th Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1992
Stories, Kerava Museum, Helsinki.
Aboriginal*Crisis* Live, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
1991
Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Unfamiliar Territory: Adelaide Biennial Of Australian ArT- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
1990
Balance, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
1989
Aboriginal Art: Urban And Tribal, Wiumulli, Brisbane.
2013
Creative Australia Fellowship, the Australian Council for the Arts
2004
Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2003
Winner, National Telstra Indigenous Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory.
1993
Winner, National Aboriginal Art Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre.
TATE, London.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Artbank, Sydney.
Gold Coast City Art Gallery.
Flinders University, Victoria.