2026, Antonella Pisilli, "After the Fire. Memorie, corpi e conflitti nell'arte africana contemporanea", exhibition text, Black Liquid Art Gallery, Rome
2022, "Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound", exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2018, "L'Africa di Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. Connaissance du Monde", art a part of cult(ure)
2018, "Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: Connaissance du Monde", exhibition text, SACI Gallery, Florence
1958, Théodore Monod, publication of the Bété syllabary, Bulletin de l'IFAN, Dakar
2026
After the Fire. Memorie, corpi e conflitti nell'arte africana contemporanea, curated by Antonella Pisilli, Black Liquid Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
2023
Africam EXPLORO, curated by Antonella Pisilli, Black Liquid Art Gallery, Viterbo, Italy
2022
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2018
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: Connaissance du Monde, curated by Antonella Pisilli, SACI Gallery, Black History Month Florence, Florence, Italy
2013
55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2012
Inventing the World: The Artist as Citizen, Biennale Bénin, Cotonou, Benin
2010-2011
Tate Modern, London, UK
2010
African Stories, Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech, Morocco
2009
Colui che non dimentica, curated by Antonella Pisilli, Kyo Art Gallery, Viterbo, Italy
2007
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
2006
100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2005
Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
2004-2007
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2003
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Musée Champollion, Figeac, France
2002
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
2001-2002
The Short Century, Munich, Berlin, Chicago, New York
1996
Neue Kunst aus Afrika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1995
Galerie des Cinq Continents, Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris, France
Dialogues de Paix, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
1994
Rencontres Africaines, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Cape Town; Museum Africa, Johannesburg; Lisbon
Worlds Envisioned (with Alighiero Boetti), DIA Center for the Arts, New York; American Center, Paris
1993
Trésor de Voyage, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Azur, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
La Grande Vérité: les Astres Africains, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
Grafolies, Biennale d'Abidjan, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
1992
A Visage Découvert, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Oh Cet Echo!, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Out of Africa, Saatchi Collection, London, UK
L'Art dans la Cuisine, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Resistances, Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Africa Hoy / Africa Now, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands; Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
1989
Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou and Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
Waaah! Far African Art, Kortrijk, Belgium
1986
L'Afrique et la Lettre, Centre Culturel Français, Lagos, Nigeria
7. Public Collections
The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Jean Pigozzi, Geneva
L'Appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco
