2022
A Color Notation, Pace Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2021
Beta Space, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Trevor Paglen: Vision After Seeing, The Athenaeum, Athens, Georgia
Trevor Paglen: A Thousand Flowers, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2020
Trevor Paglen: Bloom, Pace Gallery, London, UK
Trevor Paglen: Opposing Geometries, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Trevor Paglen: Unseen Stars, Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy
Territory, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Mirror with a Memory: Photography, Surveillance, and Artificial Intelligence, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2019
The Shape of Clouds, PACE Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Kate Crawford | Trevor Paglen: Training Humans, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
From ‘Apple’ to ‘Anomaly,’ The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, UK
Machine Visions, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2018
Sites Unseen, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; MCA San Diego, San Diego, CA
Surveillance States, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada Machine Visions, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Impossible Objects, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA

2017
A Study of Invisible Images, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Behold These Glorious Times!, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel “How Deep is the Ocean, How High is the Sky, Fotograf Gallery, Prague, Czechia Autonomy Cube, Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, Sweden
Autonomy Cube, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Deep State, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland

2016
Orbital Reflector, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Visibility Machines, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambion, OH

2015
Autonomy Cube, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
Trevor Paglen, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
The Octopus, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Trevor Paglen: The Genres, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Trevor Paglen, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA

2014
Code Names of the Surveillance State, Metro Pictures, New York, NY

2013
Code Names, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Trevor Paglen, Galerie Thomas Zander, Koln, Germany
Trevor Paglen, Protocinema, Istanbul, Turkey
Trevor Paglen, Metro Pictures, New York, NY

2012
The Last Pictures, Creative Time, New York, NY
Geographies of Seeing, Brighton Photo Biennial, Lighthouse, Brighton, England

2011
Trevor Paglen, American University Museum at the Katen Arts Center, Washington DC
Unhuman, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Hidden Landscape, Aksioma, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2010
Secession, Vienna, Austria
The Other Night Sky, Kunsthall Oslo, Norway
A Compendium of Secrets, Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany

2009
SECA Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Trevor Paglen, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Trevor Paglen, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
Trevor Paglen, Galerie Thomas Zander, Koln, Germany

2008
The Other Night Sky: Matrix 225, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

2006
Black World, Bellwether, New York, NY

2005
Trevor Paglen, The LAB, San Francisco, CA

2002
Trevor Paglen, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA

2001
Deadtech, Chicago, IL Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

2024
Imaging Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Access Kafka, Jewish Museum, Berlin
Right Where It Belongs, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis, Asia Society, Houston, Texas
All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50!, Oakland Museum of California
Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, New Jersey
Poetics of Encryption: Art and Artificial Intelligence, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Digital Capture: Southern California and the Origins of the Pixel-Based Image World, California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA
Universal / Remote, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
As the sky changes tone, I’ll be absolutely tender, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Summer Group Show, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
The Camera Never Lies: Challenging images through The Incite Project, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom
Survival in the 21st Century, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
The Atlantic Ocean: Myths, Art, Science, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
What an Artificial World, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju, South Korea
Myths, Art, Science, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway
The Atlantic Ocean, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
Floral Abundance, Hunter Dunbar Gallery, New York
Universal / Remote, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Poetics of Encryption, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Online: Uncomputables – On Alien Intelligences and Cybernetics, e-flux Website
Size Matters: Scale in Photography, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany

2023
Behold these Glorious Times!, Matadero Madrid, Spain
The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Codes and algorithms. Wisdom in a calculated world, iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels
14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Universal / Remote, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
A Well-trained Eye, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin
Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photographie, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Deep Deep Down – Collection presentation, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg City
TOP SECRET: Cinema & Spy, CaixaForum Madrid
My Life in the Metaverse, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Unids, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco
What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Picasso: Untitled, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
L’Univers san l’Homme (The Universe without Man), Musée de Valence, France
Images, FRAC Normandie, Caen, France
1.5 Degrees, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
So it appears, Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
A leap into the void. Art beyond matter, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
Land and Sea, Hunter Dunbar Gallery, New York

2022
My Life in the Metaverse, Abu Dhabi Art, United Arab Emirates
Top Secret : cinéma et espionnage, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris
Codes and algorithms. Wisdom in a calculated world, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
Slip.Steam.Slip (Part 2), Model Gallery, School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
On Repeat: Serial Photography, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Songs of the Sky: Photography & the Cloud – Les Rencontres de la Photographie Monoprix, Arles, France
Pervasive Light: Works from MoMA’s Media and Performance Collection
Statecraft (and beyond), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A Thousand Secrets, apexart, New York
Systems, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Remaking The Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Metadata: Rethinking Photography from the 21st Century, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Worlds of Networks, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Llum Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
INFORMATION (Today), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

2021
Songs of the Sky, C/O, Berlin, Germany
Ludwig Wittgenstein. Photography as Analytical Practice, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
Paper Chase: Ten Years of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Cantor, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
Productive Image Interference, Sigmar Polke and Current Artistic Positions, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Towards Common Cause at the Stony Island Arts Bank, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, IL
Information (TODAY), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
A room with a…, Pace Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL
and&festival, STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
Hiding in Plain Sight, Pace New York, New York, NY
Shaping the Invisible World, HeK, Basel, Münchenstein, Switzerland
Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Stories of Resistance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Dear Truth: Documentary Strategies in Contemporary Photography, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
Age of You, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2020
Hidden States, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Citizenship: A practice of society, MCA Denver, Denver, CO
From Luther to Twitter: Media and the public sphere, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
We Never Sleep, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, NY
Art in the Age of Anxiety, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
The Clouds and The Cloud, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
In Real Life, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
The Supermarket of Images, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Photography, Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
Where Art and Tech Collide, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL

2019
Water, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, NS Dokumentationszentrum, Munich, Germany
Eureka! Creativity in California: Artists of the Golden State at the Governor’s Mansion, Sacramento, CA
The Assembled Human, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
A Confrontation of Ideals: 2nd Anren Biennale, Anren, China
Decoys & Depictions: Images of the Digital, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Art Encounters Biennial 2019, Timișoara, Romania
Kate Crawford | Trevor Paglen: Training Humans, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Age of You, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, ON
Vanitas Contemporary, H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Ausburg, Germany
Kronos Quartet & Trevor Paglen: Sight Machine, Barbican Hall, London, UK
Science Fiction, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, PA
And What About Photography, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Here We Are Today, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
UNCANNY VALUES. Artificial Intelligence and you, Vienna Biennale 2019, Austria
Moonlight – 50 Years of Photographing the Moon, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden
Time, Forward!, V–A–C Foundation, Venice, Italy
Entangled Realities – Living with Artificial Intelligence, Haus der elektronischen, Künste Basel, Switzerland
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, Kunsthalle Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Moon – From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway
Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter, The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Photography, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
The New Alphabet – Opening Days, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

2018
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Ansel Adams in Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Unsettled, Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
Artes Mundi 8, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales
Kronos Quartet & Trevor Paglen: Sight Machine, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy
Capitalist Realism: Future Perfect – Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2018, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Denmark
Extra States: Nations in Liquidation, Kunsthalle Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
Im Zweifel für den Zweifel: Die große Weltverschwörung, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Germany
The Value of Freedom, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria
Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
The Moon – From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Imagined Borders – 12th Gwangju Biennale, Korea
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
Nina Beier, Judith Hopf, John Miller & Trevor Paglen, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Planetary Garden – Manifesta 12, Palazzo Ajutamicristo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Kronos Quartet & Trevor Paglen: Sight Machine – Holland Festival, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
[CONTROL] NO CONTROL, Triennial of Photographie Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, Riga International Biennial of
Contemporary Art (RIBOCA), SPORTA 2 quarter, Riga, Latvia
When Facts Don’t Matter, St Carthage Hall, Lismore, UK
Ghost Nets, Galeria OMR, CDMX, Mexico
The Future Starts Here, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground, The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, IL
Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
Nothing Stable Under Heaven, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
I am here to learn: On Machinic Interpretations of the World, Frankfurter, Germany
Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Faithless Pictures, National Museum, Oslo, Norway
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

2017
Please come back. The world as prison?, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain
The Electric Comma, V–A–C Zattere, Venice, Italy
Rivoluzione Galile: L’Arte Incontra la Scienza, Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Padua, Italy
ILLEGAL, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
yet incomputable. Indetermination in the Age of Hypervisibility and Algorithmic Control, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Age of Terror: Art since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
The Photographic I – Other Pictures, Stedelijk Museumm voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Spectacle & Scaffolding: Contemporary Photography Muses Hierarchy, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
Time as Landscape: Inquiries of Art and Science, Rollins Museum of Art, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Stars Cosmic Art from 1900 up to the Present, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Escaping the Digital Unease, Kunsthaus Lagenthal, Switzerland
Unsettled, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
From Counterculture to Cyberculture, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pledges of Allegiance, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York
Sunset Décor, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Whistleblowers & Vigilantes. Figures of Digital Resistance, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Scenographies of Power: from the State of Exception to the Spaces of Exception, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, Barbican Centre, London, UK
The Eye and the Sky: Trevor Paglen in the Cantor Collection, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
The Universe and Art, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Vanishing Points, James Cohan Gallery, New York
No Secrets!, ERES-Stiftung, Munich
Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium, Contour Biennale 8, kunstencentrum nona, Mechelen, Belgium
Nothing to Hide? Art, Surveillance, and Privacy, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
WATCHED! SURVEILLANCE, ART & PHOTOGRAPHY, C/O Berlin, Germany
Please come back. The world as prison?, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy
Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown., Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Kronos Quartet & Trevor Paglen: Sight Machine, Pier70, San Francisco, CA

2016
Will and Be Going To, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Dispatches, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
The Sun Placed in The Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, OH
Home Land Security, Presidio, San Francisco, CA
The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Korea
The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
(Infra) Structure: complex, below and further on, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Paradise Lost, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
Invisible Adversaries, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York
What People Do for Money, Manifesta 11, Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Germany
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, GermanyCalifornia and the West: Photography from the campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Distance of a Day: New in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
Whistleblowers & Vigilantes. Figures of Digital Resistance, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
Safe and Sound: Surveillance and Protection in the 21st Century, Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland
L’image volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Digital Archives, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
From Minimalism into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York
Radical Landscapes, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
To See Without Being Seen: Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Time / Image, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL

2015
Globale: Global Control And Censorship, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Eppur si muove (And yet it turns), Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg City
Art In The Age Of… (series) II. Planetary Computation; III. Asymmetrical Warfare, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Little Sister (is watching you, too), Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
Social Ecologies, Industry City, New York
Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2015 FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
Time / Image, Blaffer Art Museum at The University of Houston, TX
Don’t Follow the Wind, Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Japan,
Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns, San José Museum of Art, CA
Under the Clouds, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
When we share more than ever – 6th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, MKG – Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Gimme Shelter: Forts and Fictions in the Lowlands, Kunstfort Asperen, Beetsterzwaag, the Netherlands
ARSTRONOMY: Incursions into the Cosmos, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
SEVEN, The Boiler, New York
Cosmosis, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Networked Disruption, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Sebald Variations, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
Panopticon: Visibility, Data and the Monitoring Gaze, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Border Cultures: Part Three (security, surveillance), Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada

2014
They Used to Call it the Moon, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Un saber realmente útil, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Gorgeous, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
The Last Pictures, Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland
Smart New World, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
#1: Cartagena Biennial, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
CounterIntellegence, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, University of Toronto, ON

2013
Anamericana, American Academy in Rome and DEPART Foundation, Rome, Italy
Artists-in-Residence: New Works, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
The Automated Image, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, QC
Trace Recordings, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen, Center for Art Design & Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD
Dissident Futures, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Quiet Earth, presented by Ballroom Marfa, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York
Surveying the Terrain, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, NC
Weather Permitting, 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
On Watching and Being Seen, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York

2012
In the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
How Much Fascism?, BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, UK
The Unseen: Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Ministry of Truth, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, SITE Santa Fe, NM
Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York

2011
The Actions of Things, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
After the Crash, Universitá delle Marche, Rome, Italy
After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,                    New York
The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Architecture of Fear, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
design is design is not design, Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Korea
Details, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
The Encuentro de Medellin, 2011, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Graphic Design – Now in Production, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Invisible Fields: Geographies of Radio Waves, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, dit le géographe, Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris, France
Secret Satellites, Belfast Exposed, Ireland
The Spectacle of War, The Empty Quarter, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Unnamed Design, 4th Gwangju Design Biennale, South Korea
Wild Sky, Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany

2010
The Art of War, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Catastrophe? Quelle catastrophe?, Manif d’art 5 / The Québec City Biennial
Disappeared, Goff and Rosenthal, New York
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1970, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Free, The New Museum, New York
I Spy: Security and Surveillance, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID
Portraits and Power: People, Politics, and Structures, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy
(Out of) Control, 7th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liège, Belgium
Rethinking Location. Anytime Anywhere Everything, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Road to Nowhere, FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Houston, TX
Schritte ins Verborgene = Steps into the arcane, Kunstmuseum Thrugau, Warth, Switzerland
Started in Secret: The Art of the Mysterious, Kunstmuseum Kantons Thurgau, Switzerland
Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Museum, University of Washington, Seattle

2009
10th Havana Biennial Art Exhibition, Cuba
Still Revolution, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, 2009.
2008 SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York
Desert Secrets, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
FEEDFORWARD – The Angel of History, Laboral Art Center, Gijon, Spain
Red Thread, TANAS – Space for Contemporary Turkish Art, Berlin, Germany
Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
Still Revolution: Suspended in Time, CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, 2009.
Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
A Universe We Can Believe In, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
What Keeps Mankind Alive?, 11th International Istanbul Biennial, Antrepo No.3, Turkey

2008
Berkeley Big Bang 08, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
Conspire, Transmediale 2008, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 2008. Traveled to: Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2008; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2008.
The New Normal, Artists Space, New York. Traveled to: Huarte Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain and the Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, OH
Off the Grid, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, NY
In the Private Eye, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

2007
6 Billion Perps Held Hostage! Artists Address Global Warming, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Crimes of Omission, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA
Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Landscape of War, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Ominous Atmosphere, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006
The Culture of Fear/Die Kultur der Angst, HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany
Dataesthetics Reloaded, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
Dystopische Landschaft, Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich, Germany
A Historic Occasion, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams
Only the Paranoid Survive, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York

2005
Thought Crimes: The Art of Subversion, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

2004
The Big Nothing: A Void, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Pa
Echo Local, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL

2003
Collaboration with Greg Niemeyer, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Operation How, Now, Wow, 16 Beaver Space, New York, NY
Version 3, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2002
Plug and Play, Artswatch, Louisville, KY
POW!, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
Version 2.0, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2001
Book Show, Temporary Services, Chicago, IL
Resynthesis, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Summer Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

2000
Counter Productive Industries, 1926 Gallery, Chicago, IL

2011
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington DC
Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2008
Aperture West Prize, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
“Utne Visionary,” Utne Reader
Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award (SECA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Art Matters Grant, New York, NY

2007
Artadia Grant New York, NY
Nominee: Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers
Outstanding GSI Teaching Award, University of California Berkeley

2006
Production Commission. Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York Commission Rhizome.org (project with institute for Applied Autonomy)
Research/Travel Grant, New American Media (travel funding to research Torture Taxi book)

2005
Fellowship, Vectors Journal, University of Southern California
Exhibition Grant, LEF Foundation (Support for Recording Carceral Landscapes exhibition)

2004
Writers Grants, Institute for Anarchist Studies (for Recording Carceral Landscapes book/catalog)
Project grant, U.C. Berkeley Graduate Assembly (for Recording Carceral Landscapes exhibition)

2003
Individual Artist Grant, Dlabal Foundation, (for Remnants of California project)
Block Grant, Department of Geography at U.C. Berkeley (research group)

2023
An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky (exhibition catalogue). Normal, Illinois: University Galleries at Illinois State University, 2023: 96–99, illustrated.
Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photographie (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2023: 276–277, illustrated.
Forbes, Duncan, Newell Harbin, and Lydia Caston, eds. Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection (exhibition catalogue). London:      V&A Publishing, 2024: 244, illustrated.
Gillham, Will, ed. Carter Handbook. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2023: 293, illustrated.
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Alison Hearst, Omar Kholeif, Tina Rivers Ryan, and John Suler. Fort Worth, Texas and New York: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2023.
Kholeif, Omar. INTERNET_ART: from the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs. London: Phaidon Press, 2023.
Salto nel vuoto: Arte al di là della materia (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Lorenzo Giusti and Domenico Quaranta. Rome: Officina Libraria, 2023: 286, illustrated.
Trevor Paglen: You’ve Just Been Fucked by PSYOPS (artist’s book). Berlin: Trevor Paglen Studio, 2023.

2022
Jones, Christopher. Metadata: rethinking photography in the 21st century (exhibition catalogue). New York: Scala, 2022.

2021
Prodger, Phillip. Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait. London: Thames & Hudson, 2021: 77, illustrated.

2019
Boucher, Marie-Pier, Stefan Helmreich, Leila W. Kinney, Skylar Tibbits, Rebecca Uchill, and Evan Ziporyn, eds. Being Material. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press: 140–143, illustrated.
Eureka! Creativity in the Golden State California Artists at the Governor’s Mansion (exhibition catalogue). Sacramento, CA: Governor’s Mansion, 2019: 56–57, illustrated.           Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen (exhibition catalogue). Texts by John P. Jacob and Luke Skrebowski. Washington D.C. and London: Smithsonian American Art Museum; GIlles, 2019.

2018
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (exhibition catalogue). Boston, Massachusetts and New Haven, Connecticut: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Yale University Press, 2018.
Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
I Was Raised on the Internet (exhibition catalogue). Chicago and Munich: Museum of Contemporary Art; Prestel, 2018.
The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space (exhibition catalogue). Humlebæk, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2018.
Paglen, Trevor, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Omar Kholeif. Trevor Paglen. London: Phaidon Press, 2018.
Paglen, Trevor, and Manuela Moscoso. Trevor Paglen: Visiones De Maquina  (exhibition catalogue). Mexico City: Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, 2018.
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (exhibition catalogue). Gainesville, Florida: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2018.

2017
Paglen, Trevor. From the Archives of Peter Merlin. New York: Primary Information, 2017.
The Sun Placed in The Abyss (exhibition catalogue). Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art, 2017.

2016
Parikka, Jussi. A Geology of Media. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

2015
Paglen, Trevor, Jacob Appelbaum, and Russ Haus. Autonomy Cube. Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015.
Sebald Variations (exhibition catalogue). Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, 2015.

2012
Paglen, Trevor. The Last Pictures. Texts by Anne Pasternak and Nato Thompson. New York and Berkeley: Creative Time Books; University of California Press, 2012.

2010
Paglen, Trevor, and Rebecca Solnit. Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes. New York: Aperture, 2010.
Trevor Paglen: A Compendium of Secrets (exhibition catalogue). Bielefeld, Germany: Kerber, 2010.
Trevor Paglen: Visiting the Planetarium, Images of the Black World (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Brian Holmes, András Pálffy, and Jeanette Pacher. Vienna and Berlin: Secession, Vienna; Revolver Publishing, 2010.

2009
Paglen, Trevor. Blank Spots on the Map: The Secret Geography of the Pentagon’s Black World. New York: Penguin Random House, 2009.

2008
Paglen, Trevor. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World. Brooklyn, New York: Melville House Publishing, 2008.

2006
Paglen, Trevor, and AC Thompson. Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition  Flights. Hoboken, New Jersey: Melville House Publishing, 2006.