Werner Gallery, New York, NY 2004 James Lee Byars: Letters from the World's Most Famous Unknown Artist, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA 2004 James Lee Byars: Life, Love and Death, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 2004 James Lee Byars: The Perfect Silence, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2005 Barbican Art Gallery, London, England 2006 The Rest Is Silence: James Lee Byars, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY 2006 The Rest Is Silence: James Lee Byars, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY 2006 The Rest Is Silence: James Lee Byars, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Im [sic] Full of Byars: James Lee Byars - Eine Hommage, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland 2008 Milton Keynes Gallery, London, England 2012 Klein / Byars / Kapoor, Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France 2012 ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark 2013 James Lee Byars: 1/2 an Autobiography, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico 2014 MoMA PS1, New York, NY 2014 FLEX, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY 2014 James Lee Byars, Random Institute, Zűrich, Switzerland Group shows include: 1972 Documenta 5, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany 1977 Documenta 6, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany 1980 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 1981 Westkunst, Rheinhallen der Kölner Messe, Koln, West Germany 1982 Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany 1983 New Art at the Tate Gallery, The Tate Gallery, London, England 1983 Salone Internazionale Mercanti d'Arte, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy 1984 Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert, Basel, Switzerland 1984 Ouverture, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy 1985 Spuren, Skulpturen und Momente ihrer präzizen Reise, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 1986 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 1986 Ooghoogte - Stedelijk van Abbemuseum 1936-1986, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 1986 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 1986 Europa/Amerika - Die Geschichte einer kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, West Germany 1986 Skulptursein, Kunsthalle Dűsseldorf, Dűsseldorf, West Germany 1987 Der Unverbrauchte Blick - Kunst unserer Zeit in Berliner Sicht, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, West Germany 1987 Documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany 1988 Űbrigens sterben immer die Anderen: Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit 1950, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, West Germany 1989 Bilderstreit, Museum Ludwig, Rheinhallen der Kölner Messe, Cologne, West Germany 1989 Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musėe National d'Art Moderne, Grand Halle - La Villette, Paris, France 1990 Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany 1992 Documenta 9, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany 1994 Couplet