Group Exhibitions (selection)

1955
Young Contemporaries, London, United Kingdom

1960
London Group, United Kingdom

1961
Segunda Exposição de Artes Plásticas, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Women's International Art Club Exhibition, R.B.A. Galleries, London, England

1963
London Group 1963, Art Federation Galleries, London, United Kingdom

1964
London Group 1964, Art Federation Galleries, London, United Kingdom

1965
Six Artists, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom

London Group 1965, Art Federation Galleries, London, United Kingdom

1966
Colectiva da Gravura, Galeria Divulgação, Oporto, Portugal

1967
Participated at the IX Tokyo Biennale, Japan

Novas Iconologias, Galeria Bucholz, Lisbon, Portugal

1968
Art Portugais - Peinture et sculpture de Naturalisme à nos jours, travelling exhibition in Europe

1969
Represented Portugal at the X Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

Gravure Portugaise Contemporaine, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centre Culturel Portugais, Paris, France

1970
Novos Sintomas na Pintura Portuguesa, Galeria Judite Dacruz, Lisbon, Portugal

1972
Dez Artistas da Galeria São Mamede, Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon, Portugal

1973
Pintura Portuguesa de Hoje - Abstractos e Neo‑figurativos, organizada pelo S.N.I. e Fund. Gulbenkian travelling exhibition in Portugal and Spain

Artistas Modernos Portugueses, Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon, Portugal

26 Artistas de Hoje, Prémios SOQUIL, AICA, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

1974
Expo AICA, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

1975
Represented Portugal at the XIII Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

Figuração Hoje, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

1976
Arte Portoghese Contemporanea, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

Art Portugais Contemporain, Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, France

Exposição de Arte Moderna Portuguesa, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

Arte Portuguesa Contemporânes, Brasilia, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

1977
Artistas Portugueses en Madrid - Pintura y Escultura Contemporáneas, Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros/ Secretaria de Estado da Cultura/ Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/ Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores/ Fundación Juan March, Palacio de Congresos, Madrid, Portugal

Artistas Portuguesas, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

O Erotismo na Arte Moderna Portuguesa, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, Portugal; Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Oporto, Portugal

1978
Portuguese Art since 1910, Diploma Galleries, Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom

Panorama das Galerias, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal

1981
Artists in Camden, Camden Arts Center, London, United Kingdom

Ante-visão do Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

The Subjective Eye, Midland Group, Nottingham, United Kingdom

1982
Three Women, Edward Totah Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1983
Eight in the Eighties, Moira Kelly Fine Art, New York, United States of America

1984
1984 - An Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom

1985
Represented Portugal at the XIV Biennale de Paris, France

Represented Britain at the XVIII Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

Passion and Power La MaMa and Gracie Mansion, New York, United States of America

1986
Le XXème au Portugal: Peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, tapisserie, Centre Albert Borschette, Brussels, Belgium

Contemporary British and Malaysian Art, The National Visual Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nove - Nine Portuguese Painters, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom

1987
Arte Contemporáneo Portugués, CAM-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/ Ministério de Assuntos Exteriores/ Ministério de Cultura, Museo Espanõl de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain

Current Affairs - British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom, travelling exhibition in Europe

1988
Works on Paper by Contemporary Artists, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

Cries and Whispers, British Council, travelling exhibition in Australia

Picturing People: Figurative Art in Britain 1945-1989, British Council, travelling exhibition in Europe, Asia and Africa

1990
British Art Now: A Subjective View, British Council, travelling exhibition in Japan

The Great British Art Exhibition, McLennan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

1991
From Bacon to Now - The Outsider in British Figuration, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy

The Primacy of Drawing - An Artist's View, Southbank Centre travelling exhibition in the United Kingdom

1994
Unbound - Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom

John Murphy, Avis Newman, Paula Rego, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom

An American Passion - The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom; The Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

1996
David Hockney: Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, United States of America

Spellbound: Art and Film, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1998
The School of London - From Bacon to Bevan, Musée Maillol, Paris, France, travelling exhibition in Europe

1999
Portrait of a City - Seven Figurative Painters from London, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, United States of America

Watercolour C21, Bankside Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Figuration, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Bruchsal, travelling exhibition in Europe

2000
Elogio de lo Visible, International Figuration Exhibition, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain, travelling exhibition in Spain

Pastel Society Centenary Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom

Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre travelling exhibition in the United Kingdom

The School of London and their Friends - The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, United States of America; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, United States of America

2002
Metamorphing, The Science Museum, London, United Kingdom

Heavenly Creatures - Paula Rego and Ron Mueck, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy

2003
The Enduring Image, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, United Kingdom, travelling exhibition in Europe

Escuela de Londres, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain; Centro Cultural Caja de Granada, Spain

2004
Five Painters from Portuguese Modernity (1911-1965), Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Almada Negreiros, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Joaquim Rodrigo & Paula Rego, La Pedrera - Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

BODY. From Munch to Melgaard, Kistefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway

O Surrealismo Abrangente: Colecção Particular de Cruzeiro Seixas, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

2005
Corner 2005, Udstillingsbygningen ved Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Only Make Believe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Colecção Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

2006
Corner 2006, Udstillingsbygningen ved Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Trazos Cercanos. Siete Pintores Portugueses, Centro Cultural Caixanova, Vigo, Spain; Centro Social Caixanova, Ourense, Spain

Colecção Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

2007
Corner 2007, Udstillingsbygningen ved Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 Años de arte y a feminismo, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain

Paula Rego. Mudas. Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Funchal, Portugal

2008
Corner 2008, Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark

Darger-ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York, United States of America

Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

2009
Corner 2009, Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark

Enchanted Worlds: Art of Fairy Stories and Mermaid Tales, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, United Kingdom

The Artist's Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Decadence: A Rake's Progress, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsinborg, Sweden

Seanscéalta/ Myths and Legends, Raheen Hospital Day Care Centre and Library, Scariff, United Kingdom

Les Planches Courbes e Outras Histórias, Galeria dos Prazeres, Funchal, Portugal

O Surrealismo na Colecção Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

2010
Corner 2010, Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark

Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego: At the Foundling, Foundling Museum, London, United Kingdom

Retrato na Colecção Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

Percursos Abrangentes, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

2011
Corner 2011, Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark

Precious: Paula Rego etchings and Siobhan Wall Drawings, New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

O Palácio de Belém e a Residência do Chefe do Estado, Museu da Presidência da República, Lisbon, Portugal

Accrochage, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

Arca de Noé, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal

30 Anos de Prémio AICA/MC: Artes Visuais, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal

2013
Witches and Wicked Bodies, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

News Works at the Walker, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Colecção Manuel de Brito/Aquisições Recentes, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal

Artistas Portugueses. Obras da Colecção Particular de Maria Helena Vieira da Silva e Arpad Szenes, Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, Portugal

A Pulsão do Amor na Coleção Millennium bcp, Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda, Oporto, Portugal

Bridging: Important Female Artists of Our Time, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China

Paula Rego / Honoré Daumier: mexericos e outras histórias, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal

2014
New Works at the Walker, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Pop-Up Whitworth, Whiteworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom

Amores, Fundação Millennium BCP, Lisbon, Portugal

Paula Rego / Honoré Daumier: mexericos e outras histórias, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain

Underexposed: Female Artists and the Medium of Print, Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Rugby Collection, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby, United Kingdom

1961: Ordem e Caos, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal

"This bewitching poison". Alcohol and the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians, London, United Kingdom

Incursions: Portuguese contemporary art - António Piné art collection, Guarda Museum, Guarda, Portugal

Intrusions: Looking after Aickman Artists and the Uncanny: Paula Rego, Ana Maria Pacheco, Dolores de Sade, Oona Grimes, Marcelle Hansellaar, Tassie Russell, Johanna Love, Printroom, London, United Kingdom

Meeting Point. Rembrandt e Paula Rego, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

Multiple Work, Galeria 111, Oporto, Portugal

Arshile Gorky and Collection, Centro de Arte Moderna, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

Histories. Works from the Serralves Collection, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Fundação Serralves, Oporto, Portugal

Beyond the Painting, Centro de Arte Manuel Brito, Algés, Portugal

Abstraction - Shared Art Millennium bcp, Paços-Galeria Municipal de Torres Vedras, Portugal

From David Bomberg to Paula Rego: The London Group in Southampton, Southampton City Art Gallery, United Kingdom

Paula Rego/ Teresa Black: friends for life
Centro de Memória de Vila do Conde, Portugal

Animalia and Nature in the CAM Collection
Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Arshile Gorky and the Collection
Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Last but not least…
Galeria 111, Oporto, Portugal

Parodies. Paula Rego/ Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro
Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal

Reality: Modern & Contemporary British Painting
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom

Paula Rego/Honoré Daumier: scandal, gossip and other stories/, House of Illustration, London, United Kingdom


2015
Figuratively Speaking
Heike Moras Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Rego Retold
Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom

One World AP'Arte
AP'Arte Contemporary Art Gallery, Oporto, Portugal

Modern Masters at Abbot Hall
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, United Kingdom

Reality. Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Walter art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

A Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

Visitas Espetaculares. Pintores e Arquitetos nos Palcos Portugueses, Cidadela Palace, Cascais e Abade Baçal Museum, Bragança, Portugal

She Came to Stay, Rook & Raven Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Narrativa de uma Colecção - Arte Portuguesa na Colecção da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura (1960-1990), National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal

Artistas Internacionais. Obra Múltipla, Galeria 111, Lisbon, Portugal

Uma Colecção na Cidade. Pintores Portugueses da 2ª metade do Século XX, Sala da Cidade, Coimbra, Portugal

O que elas nos dão a ver, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

Bonded, Leyden Gallery, London, United Kingdom

London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Graphics, London, United Kingdom

One day, something Happens: Paintings of People, Towner Art Gallery, United Kingdom

2016
Old Meets New, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal

Diálogos Imaginados, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro e Paula Rego, Museu Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Lisbon, Portugal

Perspectiva: Coleccionador - A Arte Moderna em Portugal na Colecção de Paulo Lopo, Centro Cultural Raiano, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal

A Solidão de um Corpo é a Ausência de uma Forma, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

Não Morro nem que me Matem, Museu Jorge Vieira/ Biblioteca Municipal de Grândola, Grândola, Portugal

One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People, The Atkinson, Southport, United Kingdom

Summer Collection, Marlborough Graphics, London, United Kingdom

Tefaf, Maastricht, Holland

Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France

Paula Rego: Exhibition of Works on Paper. Disturbing and magical imaginary folk tales and stories, Enitharmon, London, United Kingdom

Artes & Letras, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal

London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom

Tales of Real … and the Imagined Lotte Inch, Gallery, York, United Kingdom

47th Art Basel, Switzerland

Summer Exhibition Marlborough, London, United Kingdom

September Selection, Marlborough Graphics, London, United Kingdom

Portugal, Portugueses, Museu Afro-Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil

Gente, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal

Eagle's Daughter, Pendle Witches, The Children's Crusade, Marlborough Graphics, London, United Kingdom

Paula Rego: Paintings & Etchings from 1980's, Frieze Masters, London, United Kingdom

Crossroads Art Show, London, United Kingdom

Paula Rego: Dancing Ostriches, Marlborough, London, United Kingdom

Arte Contemporânea da Fundação Portugal Telecom, Casa Museu Adelino Ângelo, Vieira do Minho

First Ladies: Pioneering Female Artists, The Atkinson Galleries, Southport, United Kingdom

Praxis II, Vantag Galeria, Porto

2017

The Boy who loved the sea and other Stories, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, United Kingdom

London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom

Corpo, Abstracção e Linguagem na Arte Portuguesa, Fundação Serralves/ Museu de Arte Contemporânea Nadir Afonso, Chaves, Portugal

O Olhar do Artista. Obras da Colecção de Serralves, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal

Bacon, Freud e a Escola de Londres, Tate/ Museu Picasso, Málaga, Spain

Art Basel, Hong Kong

Gente de Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso a Pedro A. H. Paixão, Cem Anos de Representação Humana na Colecção Manuel de Brito, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal

Strange Worlds - The Vision of Angels Carter, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, United Kingdom

Portugal em Flagrante, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Portugal, Portugueses, Museu Afro-Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil

A Colecção (Reloaded), Centro de Artes de Águeda, Portugal

Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Pattern Scheme, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA

Women Artist: the Female Gaze, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom

Obras da Colecção de Arte Contemporânea da Fundação Portugal Telecom, Museu Municipal de Alvaiázere, Portugal

Paula Rego, Histórias & Segredos, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal

Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

2019

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom