2024 Small Elliptical Glass «First Cause», Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH 
«Licht im Papier. Die Druckgraphik von James Turrell», Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, CH 
James Turrell x Lalique, Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH
2023 «Works 1984 – 2023», Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH
2022 «Aftershock», Copenhagen Contemporary, Kopenhagen, DK
2021 James Turrell: Into the Light, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, US 
2020 «The Circular Glass», Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH
2019 «James Turrell: Passages of Light«, Museo Jumex, Ciudad de México, MX
2018 «The Substance of Light», Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, DE
«The Elliptical Glass», Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH
«Ganzfeld ‘Aural’», Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, DE
2017 «Alien Exam | Aten Reign», Häusler Contemporary München, DE
«James Turrell», MASS MoCA – Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, US
«Immersive Light», The Long Museum, Shanghai, CN
2015 «LightScape: James Turrell at Houghton» Houghton Hall Norfolk, GB
2014 «James Turrell: Light Spaces», The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
«James Turrell: A Retrospective», National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU
2013 «James Turrell», The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
«James Turrell: The Light Inside», MFAH – The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
«James Turrell: Tall Glass», Häusler Contemporary Lustenau, AT
«James Turrell. A Retrospective», LACMA – Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Art Academy Museum, Easton, ML, US
2012 «James Turrell: Agua De Luz», Cenote Santa Maria, Yucatan, MX
«James Turrell: Trace Elements: Light into Space», Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO, US
2010 «The Wolfsburg Project», Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
2009 «The Roden Crater», Häusler Contemporary München, DE
«Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968», Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
«James Turrell: Geometrie des Lichts», Zentrum für internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, DE
2008 «James Turrell», Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2007 «James Turrell - The Tall Glass», Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH
2006 «James Turrell - Alta White», Centre Pompidou - Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, FR
2005 «James Turrell», IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, ES
2004 «James Turrell: First Light Portfolio», Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, US
2003 «James Turrell», Kunsthaus Zug, CH
2001 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, ES
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, US
Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, CH
James Turrell «Eine Lichtinstallation und neue Hologramme», Häusler Contemporary München, DE 

2021 «Light and Space», Copenhagen Contemporary, Kopenhagen, DK
2015 «Color Square: Amish Quilts and James Turrell», De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, NL
2014 «Color Square: Amish Quilts and James Turrell», Neues Museum, Nürenberg, DE
2013 «Aisthesis», Villa Panza, Varese, Italy, IT
«In the Library: Announcements from Vertical Files», National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., US
2011 «See! Colour!», Järna, SE «Illuminazione. Illuminations», 54. Biennale di Venezia, IT
2010 «1. Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst Ruhr 2010», Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, DE
2009 «Hot Spots - Rio de Janeiro | Milano - Torino | Los Angeles», Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
«A mancha humana | the human stein», Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, ES
«Yellow and Green - Positionen aus der Sammlung des MMK», MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2008 «Full House – Kiasma», Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI «Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968», Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
«Das Sehen sehen. Neoimpressionismus und Moderne», Kunsthaus Zug, CH
2007 «Scenes and Sequences - Peter Blum Edition, New York», Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
«100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim», Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, DE
2006 «Belief», 1. Singapore Biennale, Singapur, SG «Review - 25 Jahre Österreichische Ludwig Stiftung», Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, AT
«The Expanded Eye. Sehen - entgrenzt und verflüssigt», Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
2005 «Take Two - Worlds and Views - Contemporary Art from the Collection», MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

Bank of America, San Fransisco, CA, US
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisboa, PT
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, FR
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, US
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY, US
Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, FR
Cheekwood Museum of the Arts, Memphis, TN, US
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL, US
Collection Panza, Varese, IT
Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
Contemporary Arts Centre, Santa Fe, NM, US Corporation Benness, Naoshima, JP
Cultural Contemporary Arts Centre, Ciudad de México, MX
De Pont Stitching Foundation, Tilburg, NL
Espai Poblenou Foundation, Barcelona, ES
Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, FR
Fondation Dia Art, New York, NY, US
Fondacion La Caixa, Madrid, ES
Fondation Lannan, Los Angeles, CA, US
Fondation Skystone, Flagstaff, AZ, US
FRAC - Limousin, Limoges, FR
Humanities Research Center, Austin, TX, US
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, US
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Kilfane Gardens Trust, County Kilkenny, IR
Kunsthaus Bregenz, AT Kunstmuseum Bern, CH
Kunstsammlung für Nordrhein und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
Lenbachhaus, München, DE
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, US
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, SE
Marian Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, US
Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA, US
Menil Foundation, Houston, TX, US
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, US
Ministère de la Culture, le Crestett, FR
Modern Museum, Stockholm, SE
MoMA, New York, US
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, BE
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR
Le Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec, CA
Musée de Dallas, Dallas, TX, US
Museum Fogg Art, at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US
Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Wien, AT
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, DE
Museum Hirshhorn and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, US
Museum of Israel, Jerusalem, IL
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA, US
New York Public Library, New York, NY, US
Northern Arts, Caragill, GB
Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, US
Principal Corporation, Des Moines, IA, US
Prudential Insurance of America, Newark, NJ, US
P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY, US
San Diego Contemporary Art Museum, La Jolla, US
San Francisco Modern Art Museum, San Francisco, US
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, US
Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA, US
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, US
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Stroom, Den Haag, NL Verbundnetz Gas, Leipzig, DE
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, US
Whitney American Art Museum, New York, NY, US
Yorkshire Sculpture Park - YSP, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GB
Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst - Centre for international light art, Unna, DE

1968 National Endowments for the Arts, US
1974 Guggenheim Fellowship, US
1984 Katherine T. and John D. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, US
1992 Freidrich Prize, Frankfurt, Germany, DE
1998 Wolf Foundation, Wolf Prize, Israel, ISR
2006 National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Art, US
2006 Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Letters, FR
2000 Grand Medailles d’Argent, Fondation Academie d’Architecture, Paris, FR
2002 Jefferson Medal in Architecture, University of Virginia, US
2009 Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, GB
2013 National Medal of Arts, US
2021 Praemium Imperiale, JPN