2021, "George Lilanga", Finestre sull'Arte, n. 10, giugno-agosto, pp. 146-159
2005, Enrico Mascelloni, Sarenco, "George Lilanga", Skira, Milan
2005, Peter-Andreas Kamphausen (ed.), "George Lilanga: Rangi ya Maisha / Colours of Life", Hamburg Mawingu Collection
2004, Sarenco, Enrico Mascelloni (eds.), "George Lilanga. Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1", Edizioni Fabrica
2000, Enrico Mascelloni, Sarenco, "Georges Lilanga e altre storie dell'arte in Tanzania", Safaribooks, Adriano Parise Editore
1996, André Magnin, Jacques Soulillou (eds.), "Contemporary Art of Africa", Harry N. Abrams, pp. 36-39
1995, Kenji Shiraishi, Fumiko Yamamoto (eds.), "Lilanga's Cosmos: Contemporary Art of Africa", exhibition catalogue
1993, André Magnin, "La Grande Vérité, Les Astres Africains", Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, pp. 46-49
2025
Shetani, Spirits and Other Stories: George Lilanga. The Return of a Forgotten Genius, Black Liquid Art Gallery, Viterbo, Italy
2023
Africam EXPLORO, curated by Antonella Pisilli, Black Liquid Art Gallery, Viterbo, Italy
2010
Africa Rising, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
African Stories, Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech, Morocco
L'Africa nei loro occhi, curated by Antonella Pisilli, Ex Convento dei Carmelitani Scalzi, VII Vitarte edition, Viterbo, Italy
Ugo Nespolo incontra George Lilanga, Galleria Cassiopea, Rome, Italy
2009-2010
Africa? Una nuova storia, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
Gli Shetani di George Lilanga a Palazzo Trinci, Museo della Città, Foligno, Italy
2009
Against Exclusion, 3rd Moscow Biennale, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
2007
Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
2006
100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2005
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
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
2000
African Film Festival, poster project, Milan, Italy
1999
Storie Africane, Franco Cancelliere Arte Contemporanea, Messina; Fabbrica Eos, Milan, Italy
1995
Hiroshima Shetani, artist in residence and workshop, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Keith Haring & Lilanga, Pantheon Tama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993
La Grande Vérité, Les Astres Africains, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
1976
National Gallery of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
1976-1977
Goethe-Institut, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Public Collections
The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Jean Pigozzi, Geneva
Hamburg Mawingu Collection, Hamburg, Germany
National Arts Council of Tanzania (BASATA), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Nyumba ya Sanaa friezes)