(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

The Weight of Souls I, Maureen Paley: Studio M, London, UK

Mobile Relations, The Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK

Descriptions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Meridians, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

Blocking Light, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (C)

Recent Work, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (C)
Avis Newman (Begin the Beguin), Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium

Works, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy (C)

Vicious Circle, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, travelling to: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (C)

Earth of Paradise, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

Lassitude before words, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (C)

Avis Newman, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

This... Dream’s Navel, Galerie Akumabltory 2, Poznan, Poland

Figure who no one is..., Matt’s Gallery at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
The Day’s Residues, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Scenes, Matt’s Gallery, London, UK

A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money, Walker Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Drawn Together: Artist as Selector, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
A Little Patch of Yellow Wall, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London, UK
Iniquitous Symmetries, Mummery + Schnelle Gallery, London, UK

More Light, 5 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

What If It's All True, What Then?, Mummery + Schnelle, London, UK (C)

On Line: Drawing Through The Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (C)
Drawing of the World, World of Drawing, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (C)

Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90’s from IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Collage, London/New York, Fred Gallery, London, UK

Questionmark, Wait, Error, Understood, M.C.K. iulionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

In Good Form, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK

Artists Meeting, Xiamen Gallery, Xiamen, China

La casa, il corps, il cuore, Construction der identiten, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria (C)

Work from the Berardo Collection, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
La casa, il corpo, il cuore, Construction der identity, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
Contemporary Art: The Janet Wolfs de Botton Gift, Tate, London, UK (C)

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy
Material Culture, The Object in British Art of the 1980’s and 90’s, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (C)
Heteronyymous, or an Ambiguous Journey Through The Self, San Michele A Ripa, Rome, Italy (C)

British Art from the 1980’s and 1990’s –work from the WeltKunst Collection, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (C)
Pretext: Heteronyms, The Clink, London, UK (C)

Inside the Visible, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston USA, travelling to: Washington Museum, Washington, DC, USA; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; Gallery of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia (C)
Worlds in a Box, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Norwich, London, UK (C)
Private View: Contemporary Art in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK (C)
Works on Paper from the WelkKunst Collection, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Paula Rego, John Murphy, Avis Newman, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (C)

Moving into View, Ten years of the Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Mixed Exhibition, Galerie Bruges La Morte, Bruges, Belgium

Excavating the Present, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (C)

Blasphemies, Ecstasies and Cries, Serpentine Gallery, London (C), travelling to: Norwich School of Art, Norwich; Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury; Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno
A Propos de Dessin, Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris, France

Vanities, Norwich School of Art Gallery, Norwich, UK (C)
The British Picture, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, California, USA (C)
Signaturen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium (C)
The Impossible Self, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (C)

The Analytical Theatre: New Art From Britain, The Akron Art Museum, Ohio (organised by the Independent Curators Incorporated, New York) (C), travelling to: Alberta College of Art Gallery, Alberta; University Art Museum, California; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

Falls the Shadow, Recent British and European Art, Hayward Gallery, London (organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain) (C)
Summer Group Show, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Origins Originality + Beyond, Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (organised by the British Council) (C)
Aperto86, XL11 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (C)

Recent Acquisitions for the Modern Collection – Works on Paper by British and American Artists, Tate Gallery, London, UK

The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions, 1979-1984, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain) (C), travelling to: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK, Mapping Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton, UK

Stroke, Line and Figure, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK
Hayward Annual 1982: British Drawing, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Whitechapel Open Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

Symposium on Drawing Theory and Practise: With a Single Mark...., sponsored by Wimbledon College of Art, UAL and Tate, Tate Britain, London, UK

The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act, Drawing exhibition selected from the Tate Collection, The Drawing Centre, New York, USA and Tate Britain London, Tate Liverpool, UK, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Artists Meeting–Visit to Beijing and Xiamen to meet and exchange ideas with Chinese artists and co-curate an exhibition with Sigge Gudmundson, Martjanjia Hellman and Inika Gudmundson of works Made by artists from the Rijksakademie and Xiamen University at the Chinese European Art Centre

Open Space - what is possible in the political potentiality…, Divus, Vienna, 2011, pp. 100-109

08 Tim Johnson, The Centre for Drawing Project Space – Notes, The Centre for Drawing Project Space, Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London, UK, 2010

07 Dino Alfier, The Centre for Drawing Project Space – Notes, The Centre for Drawing Project Space, Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London, UK, 2009

06 Carolyn Flood, The Centre for Drawing Project Space – Notes, The Centre for Drawing Project Space, Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London, UK, 2008
05 Helen Scalway, The Centre for Drawing Project Space – Notes, The Centre for Drawing Project Space, Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London, UK, 2008
04 Daniel Baker, The Centre for Drawing Project Space – Notes, The Centre for Drawing Project Space, Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London, UK, 2008

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK, 2007
03 Ansel Krut, The Centre for Drawing Project Space – Notes, The Centre for Drawing Project Space, Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London, UK, 2007
02 Jo Stockam, The Centre for Drawing Project Space – Notes, The Centre for Drawing Project Space, Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London, UK, 2007
01 Paul Ryan, The Centre for Drawing Project Space – Notes, The Centre for Drawing Project Space, Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London, UK, 2007

documents 3 Ivan Grubanov, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 2006

documents 2 Irene Kopelman: Territories, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 2005
documents Marc Bauer: Tautology, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 2005

The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act, Selected from the Tate Collection, The Drawing Centre, New York, USA and Tate Publishing, London, UK, 2003
The Stage of Drawing: Gesture And Act, Selected from Tate Collection, Tate Publishing, London, UK, 2003
Descriptions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 2003
Drawing Paper 36, Conversation between: Catherine de Zegher and Avis Newman, The Drawing Center, London, UK, 2003

Avis Newman, Lisson Gallery, London, UK, 1998

Avis Newman, Camden Arts Centre and Ikon Gallery, UK, 1996

WORKS, Casa Masaccio, Alphalibri, Italy, 1995

Avis Newman, Supplement, Book Works Studio, London, UK, 1993
Vicious Circle, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam and Lisson Gallery, London, UK, 1993

Avis Newman, Lisson Gallery, London & Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA, 1987

Artist | Work | Lisson, Lisson Gallery, London, UK, 2017

5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: BOLSHE SVETA : MORE LIGHT, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Germany, 2013 pp. 248-249, 357-358

an anthology women’s work is never done, AsaMer, Belgium, 2014, pp. 210-239

What If It’s All True? What Then?, Mummery + Schnelle, London, UK, 2011

Online Drawing: Through The Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 2010, pp. 108-109

Tate Women Artists, Tate Publishing, London, UK, 2004, p. 231

The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act - De Zegher, Catherine, selected by Avis Newman, Tate Publishing, London, UK, 2003

La Casa, il corpo, il cuore Konstruktion der Identitäten, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, Austria,1999, pp. 332-335

Contemporary Art: The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift, Tate Publishing, London, UK, 1998 pp. 42-43, 92-95

Breaking the Mould British Art of the 1980s and 1990s, The Weltkunst Collection, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd in association with Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 1997, pp. 100-103
Heteronymous or an ambiguous Journey Through Self, Ministero dei Beni Culturali, Rome, Italy, 1997, p. 42

Private View Contemporary Art in the Bowes Museum, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK,1996, p. 73
INSIDE THE VISIBLE an elliptical traverse of 20th century art in, of, and from the feminine, MIT Press, Boston/Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 1996 pp. 270-279, 302-303, 306-307

Pretext: 21 Artists Heteronyms, Rear Window Publication, London, UK, 1995, p. 28-29

Paula Rego, John Murphy, Avis Newman, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 1994

Worlds in a Box, The Southbank Centre, London, UK, 1994, p. 68

Signaturen, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium,1993

Excavating the Present, Cambridge: Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge, UK, 1991, p. 51-54

Drawing Today, Phaidon Oxford, Oxford, UK, 1990, pp. 122-124

New British Art In The Saatchi Collection, text by: Alistair Hicks, Thames and Hudson, London, UK, 1989, pp. 94-95

Vanitas, Norwich School of Art Gallery, Norwich, UK, 1988
Blasphemies Ecstasies Cries, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, 1988, p. 17
The Impossible Self, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, 1988, pp. 61-64

The Analytical Theatre: New Art From Britain, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, USA, 1987, pp. 29-33

Falls The Shadow, Recent British and European Art. The Hayward Annual 1986, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK, 1986

The British Art Show, Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979-1984, Orbis Publishing Ltd, London for the Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK, 1984

ORIGINS ORIGINALITY + BEYOND The Biennale of Sydney 1986, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 1986, pp. 50-51

Visiting Professor of Fine Art, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK

Editor of ‘Notes’ The Centre for Drawing, CCW – University of the Arts London, drawing research publication

Artist-advisor at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Co-editor of the journal ‘Documents’ published by Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Goldsmiths College of Art University of London, London, UK

Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Netherlands

­­­–––, Avis Newman at Studio M. Maureen Paley, London, en.martincid.com, 28 May 2021
Mitchell, Rory, Avis Newman Brings Drawing to Canvas, ocula.com, 23 June 2021
Key, Joan, Avis Newman’s The Weight of Souls 1, Journal of Contemporary Painting, Intellect Limited Exhibition Review, University of the Creative Arts, UK, 17 September 2021, pp. 235 - 244

Parkin, Simon, 2013 Cultural highlights: Art and Dance,
eveningnews24.co.uk, 9 January 2013

Santacatterina, Stella, Avis Newman: Blocking Light,
Third Text, Volume 10, 1996, pp. 95-98

Scanlan, Joe, Lassitude Before Words, renaissancesociety.org, 10 January
Archer, Michael, Avis Newman, Lisson Gallery, 27 Bell Street, London, artforum.com, March