| Exhibition | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
|
Macau Contemporary Art Center – Navy Yard |
2024–2025 | |
|
USC Pacific Asia Museum |
2024–2025 | |
|
The National Art Center, Tokyo |
2023 | |
|
Kanon |
2022 | |
|
University of Michigan Museum of Art |
2022 | |
| RAM+ and TR Lab | 2022 | |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: Exploding the Self | RAM+ and TR Lab | 2021 |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: Transient Eternity | RAM+ and TR Lab | 2021 |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: Odyssey and Homecoming | Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai | 2021–2022 |
| Illuminate Coral Gables | Downtown Coral Gables | 2021–2022 |
| Unexpected Surfaces | Philadelphia Museum of Art | 2021 |
| Odyssey and Homecoming | The Palace Museum, Beijing | 2020–2021 |
| The Birth of Tragedy | Charente River, Cognac, France | 2020 |
| Water | Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane | 2019–2020 |
| Inopportune: Stage Two | Kröller-Müller Museum | 2019–2020 |
| The Shape of Time | Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum | 2019–2020 |
| The Red Bean Grows in the South | Faurschou New York | 2019–2020 |
| Encounter with the Unknown: Cosmos Project for Mexico | Soria Park, Cholula, Mexico | 2019 |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: Gunpowder Art | Ashmolean Museum | 2019–2020 |
| 70th Anniversary Celebration of the People’s Republic of China | 2019 | |
| The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China | Los Angeles Couty Museum of Art (LACMA) | 2019–2020 |
| Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection | The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 2019–2020 |
| 30th Anniversary Exhibition: The Seven Lamps of The Art Museum | Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art | 2019 |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: Cuyahoga River Lightning | The Cleveland Museum of Art | 2019 |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: The Transient Landscape | National Gallery of Victoria | 2019 |
| In the Volcano: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii | National Archaeological Museum of Naples | 2019 |
| Flora Commedia: Cai Guo-Qiang at the Uffizi | The Uffizi Galleries | 2018–2019 |
| L’Envol | La Maison Rouge | 2018 |
| DMoCA 7: Flower of Happiness – Wang Sishun | DMoCA (Dragon Museum of Contemporary Art), Tsunan Mountain Park | 2018 |
| Fondation Cartier pour l’art comtemporain, A Beautiful Elsewhere | Power Station of Art | 2018 |
|
Landmark: Mapping Contemporary Chinese Art |
Guardian Art Center | 2017–2018 |
|
From Life |
Royal Academy of Arts | 2017–2018 |
|
Tracing the Past and Shaping the Future: Powerlong Museum Inaugural Exhibition |
Powerlong Museum | 2017–2018 |
|
Art Turns. World Turns. Exploring the Collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara |
Museum MACAN | 2017–2018 |
| The Spirit of Painting. Cai Guo-Qiang at the Prado | Museo del Prado | 2017–2018 |
| Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World | The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 2017–2018 |
| University of Chicago | 2017 | |
|
Highlights. La Collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain |
Seoul Museum of Art | 2017 |
|
And What, for Example, Am I Now Seeing? (Autodisporsi) |
Galleria Continua, Les Moulins |
2017 |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies | Benjamin Franklin Parkway, commissioned by The Association for Public Art | 2017 |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: October | The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts | 2017 |
| Nice à l’école de l’histoire | Musée Masséna | 2017 |
| Art Basel Hong Kong | Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre | 2017 |
| The End of the World | Centro Pecci | 2016–2017 |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: My Stories of Painting | Bonnefantenmuseum | 2016–2017 |
|
Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art and Everything |
Queensland Art Gallery |
2016–2017 |
| Le bonheur de deviner peu à peu |
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon |
2016–2017 |
| What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China | Al Riwaq | 2016 |
| The Great Animal Orchestra | Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain | 2016 |
|
Culture City of East Asia 2016, Nara |
Tōdai-ji Temple |
2016 |