"Binns was one of the first artists in Australia to critically engage with feminism and pioneered dialogues between Australian art and international feminism". In 1983, Binns was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for Services to Art and Craft. She was also awarded the Ros Bower Memorial Award for visionary contribution to Community Arts in 1985. In 1990, she was awarded an Australian Arts Creative Fellowship, which financed her three-year research project about the cultural link between Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Her work was selected for invitational prizes the John McCaughey Memorial Prize (2008) and Clemenger Contemporary Art Award (2009) at the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2021, Binns was the recipient of an Australia Council Award for Visual Arts. Exhibitions Binns has been a part of many exhibitions spanning over fifty years of art practice, including: Solo exhibitions 1967 Paintings and Constructions, Watters Gallery, Sydney 1971 Funky Enamel Ashtrays, Watters Gallery, Sydney 1973 Enamel Panels, University of Tasmania, Hobart and Raffins Gallery, Orange, New South Wales 1985 Watters Gallery, Sydney 1990 Drawings of God, Tower of Babel, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane 1992 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 1994 Surfacing in the Pacific, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane 1995 Pacific Strands, Australian Girls' Own Gallery (aGOG), Canberra 1996 Slicing History in the Pacific, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane 1996 In Memory of the Unknown Artist and Others, Watters Gallery, Sydney 1999 PATTERNING: In Memory of Unknown Artists, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 1999 TRANSLATIONS: Remembering Unknown Artists, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane 1999 Rocks and Relics: Cook to Lake Cargelligo, The Cube, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra 2004 Vivienne Binns: Twenty First Century Paintings, curated by Merryn Gates, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney 2005 Some New, Some Old, Some Collaborations, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 2006-8 Vivienne Binns, touring exhibition curated by Merryn Gates, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; The Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra; Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, NSW; and Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst, NSW 2008 Everything New is Old Again, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Vivienne Binns, Art and Life (mini –Survey), curated by Penny Peckham, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2018 It is what it is what it is, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 2022 Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, MUMA, Melbourne, then Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney Group exhibitions 1971 Woom, environmental lightshow with Roger Foley (Ellis D Fogg), Watters Gallery, Sydney 1972 The Jo Bonomo Story - A Show of Strength, a group