2017

Kind, Werner Berg Museum, Bleiburg

Ernst Barlach Museum, Hamburg Wedel

Red Harvest, Modernism Gallery San Francisco


2015

Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade

2014

Friedman Benda Gallery, New York

Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

Städtische Galerie im Schloss Isny, Germany

2013

Retrospective, Albertina Museum, Vienna

Black Mirror, Gottfried Helnwein One Man Show, Preiss Fine Art Gallerie, Vienna

2012

Fe, esperanza y caridad  (Faith, Hope and Charity), Museo Nacional De San Carlos, Mexico City

Song of the Aurora, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City

Santos Inocentes, installation and exhibition at the Monumento a la Revolución, Mexico City

2011

Inferno of the Innocents, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

New Works, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

2010

New Works, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York

Ninth November Night, Installation, Tel Aviv, Israel

2009

New Works, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York

Murmur of the Innocents, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

Fotográfica Bogotá 2009, Museo de Arte Colonial, Bogotá, Colombia

Central European House of Photography, Slovakia
Österreichisches Kulturforum in Bratislava

2008


Modern Sleep, Retrospective,
 Galerie Rudolfinum 
Prague, Czech republic



I Walk Alone, 
Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, 
San Jose State University

The Disasters of War II
, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

The Last Child, Installation, Waterford City, Ireland

Ninth November Night, Installation, 
City of Philadelphia

The ADAA art show at the Armory,Solo show at 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
 
2007


The Disasters of War I, 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco



Angels Sleeping
, Waterford, Greyfriars Municipial Art Gallery, 
Ireland

Gottfried Helnwein - Speaker for the Vicki and Kent Logan Lectures
Artists on Art: From Any Angle, Logan Lectures 2007 features lectures by ten contemporary artists,
The Denver Art Museum

2006

Caprichos, 
 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco



Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland


Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin

Face it!
 Lentos of Modern Art Linz, Austria

Mackey Gallery, Houston, Texas

2005


New Paintings, 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

Beautiful Children
, Wilhelm-Busch-Museum , Hannover, Germany

Beautiful Children, 
Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen, Germany

2004


Modern Sleep, 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein, 
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco

Irish and other Landscapes
, The Crawford Municipal Gallery Cork, Irland


Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Landscapes
, South Tipperary Arts Center, Ireland


Epiphany, Schmeidler-Goetz Gallery, Los Angeles

2003


Paradise Burning (American Paintings III), 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

Ninth November Night, Installation, Museum of Tolerance / Simon Wiesenthal Center
Los Angeles

2002


New paintings, 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

2001


New paintings
, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

Epiphany, Butler House, Kilkenny, and large Installation throughout the City of Kilkenny, 
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2001, Ireland

Between Heaven and Earth - New Classical Movements in the Art of Today
, The Ostende Museum of Modern Art 
Installation, St. Josef's Church, Ostende, Belgium

2000


Robert Sandelson Gallery
, London

Gottfried Helnwein - The American Paintings
, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

1999


Apokalypse, Einzelausstellung und Installation, Dominikaner Kirche, Krems
, Austria, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum

New paintings
, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

1998


Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland



New Paintings & Sculpture Installation, 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

1997


Retrospective
, Russisches Museum, St. Petersburg
, Marble Palace and St. Michael's Palace

New Works, 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

1996


Retrospective
, Museum of Fine Art, Otaru, Japan



New Works, 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco


Selektion – Neunter November Nacht, Installation, 
Kulturbrauerei, Berlin

1995


Faces, 
Houston Center for Photography


Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin

New Works, 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

1994


Städtiches Museum Schleswig


Haus Metternich, 
Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Germany

New Works
, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

Faces, 
Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Quebec, Canada

New Works, 
Galerie Klaus Kiefer, Essen, Germany


Museum für Fotografie und Zeitkunst, Bremen, Germany

1993


Faces, 
Joseph Albers Museum
, Quadrat Bottrop, Moderne Galerie Bottrop, Germany

Neunter November Nacht, one man show and Installation, 
Museum St. Ingbert, Albert Weisgerber Stiftung, 
Saarland, Germany

Faces, 
Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany

1992


New Works, 
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco

Selektion - Neunter November Nacht,, Installation
 Heilbronn, Germany

Der Untermensch, one-man show and performance Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

Faces, 
Stadtmuseum München, Germany

Kunstmuseum Thun
, Switzerland

Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany

1991


Kindskopf, Installation 
Minoritten Kirche, Krems
, Museum of Lower Austria

48 Portraits, 
Galerie Koppelmann, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Würthle, Vienna

1990


Galerie Claudio Righetti, Bern
 im Chalet Muri, Bern, Switzerland


Galerie Lilian André, Basel, Switzerland


Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany

Faces
, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

1989


Arbeiten auf Papier
, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany


Galerie Klaus Kiefer, Essen, Germany

1988


Neunter November Nacht , Installation between Ludwig Museum und Cologne Cathedral
Ludwig Museum Cologne, Germany


Kunstverein Siegen, Germany, Villa Waldrich, Germany


Friedman-Guinness Galerie
, Heidelberg, Germany

1987


Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart, Germany


Museum für Fotografie und Zeitkunst, Bremen, Germany

New Works, 
Galerie Würthle, Vienna

Der Untermensch, 
Musée d’Art Moderne, Strasbourg


Galerie der Zeichner, Stuckvilla, Munich, Germany


Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany

Der Untermensch, 
Installation und Performance, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

Gott der Untermenschen, Performance, 
Camp Kopal of the Austrian Army
St. Pölten-Spratzern, Niederösterreich

1986


Freie Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany


Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Germany

1985


Arbeiten auf Papier - Works on Paper
, Albertina Museum, Vienna

1983


Retrospective
, Stadtmuseum München, Germany


Galerie Spectrum, Vienna


Städtische Galerie in der Sterngasse, Nürnberg, Germany

1982


Photo Art, Cologne, Germany, Galerie 70, Berlin


Gallerie Lucien Bilinelli, Brussels
, Belgium


Galerie Spectrum, Vienna

1981


Galerie Spectrum, Vienna


Galerie Brodil, Salzburg, Austria


Baumgartner Galleries, Washington D.C.

1980


Galerie Siau, Amsterdam
, Netherlands


Galerie Bloch, Innsbruck, Austria


Galerie Grüner, Linz, Austria


Galerie Diagonal, Stuttgart, Germany

1979


Zeichnungen
, Albertina Museum, Vienna


Galleria de Naviglio, Milan
(Galleria Bon à Tirer)


Galerie Spectrum, Vienna


Galerie Grüner, Linz, Austria

Das Internationale Jahr des Kindes, Performance, Zürich, Switzerland


Städtische Galerie Forum, Wels, Austria

1978


Galerie Niedlich, Stuttgart, Germany


Galerie Spectrum, Vienna

1977


Galerie Spectrum, Vienna

1976


Galerie Bloch, Innsbruck, Germany

Aktion Alzeit Bereit
, Naschmarkt, Vienna

1975


Zeichnungen, 
Galerie Christian Brandstaetter, Vienna

1974


Galerie Jasa Fine Art, Munich, Germany

Weisse Kinder , Performance, 
Galerie Spectrum, Vienna


1973


Sandra,  Performance, 
Galerie Stubenbastei, Vienna
 
1971


Galerie im Pressehaus, Vienna

One man show and performance
, Galerie in der Dommayergasse, Vienna

One man show and performance, 
Galerie D, Mödling, Vienna

Galerie in der Kaisersrasse, Nürnberg, Germany

1970


Nacht Galerie im Atrium, Vienna