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1971 Students of Manchester Polytechnic, Kendal Milne department store, Manchester, United Kingdom
1972 Butlins by the Sea (with Daniel Meadows), Impressions Gallery, York, United Kingdom
1972 Real Britain, 10 from Co-optic, Jordan Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1973 Serpentine 73, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1978 Personal Views 1860-1977, British Council touring show
1978 Albert Street Workshop, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, United Kingdom
1978c Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1979c Three Perspectives on Photography, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1980 Two Ways of Life, Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1981 New Work in Britain, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1981 Streetshooters, Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
1982c Strategies-recent developments in British photography, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom
1983 And the North, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendalm United Kingdom
1985 Quelques Anglais, Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, France
1986c British Contemporary Photography, Houston Foto Festival, USA
1986 New Documents, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
1986 China: Martin Parr and Jane Brown, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, United Kingdom
1986 Connections, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom
1986 Connections. Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
1987 Attitudes to Ireland, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
1987c Mysterious Coincidences, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1987c Inscriptions and Inventions, British Council touring exhibition
1987 Nyvytaiteen: Paul Graham, Martin Parr and Victor Burgin, Tampere Museum, Finland
1988c A British View, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
1989c Through the Looking Glass, British photography 1945-1989, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
1989c The Art of Photography, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
1989 Photo Biennale, Enschede, The Netherlands
1990c The Past and Present of Photography, MOMA, Tokyo, Japan
1991c British Photography from the Thatcher Years, MOMA, New York, USA
1991 Europeens, Centre Jean Savidan, Lannion, France
1991 Voir la Suisse autrement, Fribourg, Switzerland
1992c Imagina, World Fair, Seville, Spain
1992 Premiere Photo, Galerie du Jour, Paris, France
1993 Images from the Coalfields, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1993 Henri Vincenot Prize Five Years Retrospective, Espace Brassens, Dijon, France
1993 Sobre Santiago, Tres de Magnum, Santiago, Spain
1993c Photographs from the Real World, Lilliehammer Art Museum, Norway
1993c Sobre Santiago, Tres de Magnum, Santiago, Spain
1994 European Photography Awards 1985-1994, Kultur Zentrum, Bad Homburg, Germany
1995 WEU Presidency Exhibitions, Western European Union, Brussels, Belgium
1995c Internationale Foto-Triennale, Esslingen, Germany
1996 L’hotel de Sully, Paris, France
1996 C’est arrive pres de chez nous, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, France
1996 Nederlands FotoInstituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1996 Profession Reporter, Photoforum, Zurich, Switzerland
1996 Photo Festival, City Art Gallery, Hereford, United Kingdom
1996 Who’s Looking at the Family?, Barbican, London, United Kingdom
1997 Acquired Images 97, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, United Kingdom
1997c Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
1997 Voyages Mediterraneens, Aubagne en vue, Ile des Marronniers, France
1997 Hope Photographs, The National Art Club, New York, USA
1997 Wait and See, The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
1997 Exposition pour les enfants, Espace la Redoute, Chatellerault, France
1997 Approaching Documentary, Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Salford, United Kingdom
1997c Les Trois Grands Egyptiennes, Musee de la Photographie, a Charlleroi, Belgium
1997 Acquired Images, Photographs from the David Hurn Collection, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
1998 Acquired Images, Photographs from the David Hurn Collection, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, United Kingdom
1998 No Sex Please, We’re British, Shiseido Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Years Ending in Nine, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
1998 Wish You Were Here, Islington Museum, London, United Kingdom
1998 Blind Spot, Soho Traid Fine Arts, New York, USA
1998 Beauty in Diversity, Piece Hall Art Gallery, Halifax, United Kingdom
1998 With and Without Gravity, Soho Triad Fine Arts, New York, USA
1998 Continental Drift, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1999c Our Turning World: Magnum Photographers 1989-1999, Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom and tour
1999 Das Bild vom Menschen: 50 Jahre Stern, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
1999 Des Conflicts Interieurs, Octeville, France
1999 Le plus bel age, Centre photographique, Pontault-Combault, France
1999 Travaux en cours, Galerie du Jour, Paris, France
1999 Love and Desire, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy
1999 Geo a 20 ans, Fnac, St Lazare, Paris, France
1999 Food, Design and Culture, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2000 At Sea, Tate Gallery Liverpool, United Kingdom
2000 We Are So Happy, Brussels, Belgium
2000 Israel Magnum, Fnac, Ghent, Belgium
2000 Images Beyond the Naked Eye, Munich, Germany
2000 The Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Encontros da Imagen, Braga, Portugal
2000 Capitale jeunesse: premiere partie, Marie di 13eme, Paris, France
2000 Dormir/Sleep, Colette, Paris, France
2000 Mois de la photo, Galerie du Jour, Paris, France
2000 Domestic Bliss, Rocket Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2000 Postfuhramt, Berlin, Germany
2000 East of Magnum, Union of Mongolian Artists, Mongolia and tour
2000 Portraits de stars, Espacio de Cultura, Madrid, Spain
2000 Magnum Paysages, Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico and tour
2001 In Bed With Magnum, Great Eastern Hotel. London, United Kingdom
2001 The Albert Street Workshop Revisited, Piece Art Gallery, Halifax, United Kingdom
2002 Time, Memory and Myth, Impressions Gallery, York, United Kingdom
2002c Sand in der Vaseline, Kerfelder, Kunstmuseem, Germany
2002 The Morning After, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2002 The Morning After, Malasch MK Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 Cruel & Tender, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2003 Cruel & Tender, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2003 Magnum Landscape, Sun Art Center, Sun Art Gallery, Korea
2003 Very British, Palais Fur Aktuelle Kunst, Gluckstadt, Germany
2004 Pingyao Photography Festival, China
2004 About Face: Photography and the Death of the Portrait, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2004 Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism, George Eastman House, Rochester, USA
2004 The House in the Middle, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
2004 The FIFA 100, London, United Kingdom and tour
2004 Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2004 Art of the Garden, Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
2004 Art of the Garden, Manchester City Art Gallery, United Kingdom
2004 Italia. Doppie visioni, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy
2004 People pictures – International Photographic Art from the Collection Günter Braus, Heidelberg, Frankfurt Airport, Germany
2004 Mirror Mirror: Portugal as seen by Magnum Photographers, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 When Humour Becomes Painful, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
2005 Exposures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2005c Euro Visions, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
2006 Euro Visions, Triennale, Milan, Italy
2006 Euro Visions, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Czech Republic
2006 Euro Visions, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2006 Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2006 Click Double Click, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Click Double Click, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2006 Histories de Chaussure, 100 photographs pour handicap international, Maison Artcurial, Paris, France
2006 Magnum Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Taken for Looks, Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida, USA
2006 Beach Photography, White Space Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2006 Partners of Modern Life, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2007 Oi Mammme! Our Land! Photographs from Finland, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Turkey by Magnum, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Turkey
2007 How We Are, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2007 Being Beauteous, White Space Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2007 Bringing the Outside In, Dorset County Hospital, United Kingdom
2007 A l’occasion de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby, Musee Geo Charles, Echirolles, France
2007 Between Today and Yesterday, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, United Kingdom
2007 Berlin 1946-2006, Magnum Show, Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
2007 One Shot Each, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
2008 Three From Britain, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2008 Street & Studio, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2008 Street & Studio, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2008 No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1968-1987, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, United Kingdom
2008 Whipped Up, The Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, USA
2008 No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1968-1987, Tullie House, Carlisle, United Kingdom
2008 No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1968-1987, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom
2008 Between Memory & History: From the Epic to the Everyday, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
2008 No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1968-1987, The Exchange, Penznce, United Kingdom
2008 No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1968-1987, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Poland
2008 Presumed Innocence, Photographic Perspectives of Children, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts, USA
2009 Georgian Spring, Uferallen, Berlin, Germany
2009 No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1968-1987, Arbetets Museum, Norrkoping, Sweden
2009 Travelogue, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, USA
2009 Being Young in France, CAIXA Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1968-1987, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
2009 No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1968-1987, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom
2009 Brought to Light, Photography and the Invisible, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
2009 There’ll Always Be An England: Vintage Works, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, USA
2009 Look3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlotesville, USA
2009 The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
2009 Tilt, Musee des beaux arts d’Orleans, Orleans, France
2010 Dreamlands, The Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
2010 Photomonth, Krakow, Poland
2010 Party! New Art Gallery Walsall, United Kingdom
2010 Autumn Masterpieces, Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Center for contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Australia
2010 Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford, United Kingdom
2010 What We’re Collecting Now: Art/Not Art, George Eastman House, Rochester, USA
2010 Past to Present, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
2010 Les Recherches d’un Chien (Investigations of a Dog), Foundation of Arts for a Contemporary Europe, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2010 Les Recherches d’un Chien (Investigations of a Dog), Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA
2010 In the Vernacular, Art Institute Chicago, USA
2010 The Other Britain Revisited: The New Society Collection of Photographs, V&A, London, United Kingdom
2010 Changing Britain, Portcullis House, London, United Kingdom
2011 Mass Photography: Blackpool through the Camera, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, United Kingdom
2011 The Truth is Not in the Mirror, Haggerty Museum of Art, USA
2011 New Yorker Fiction/Real Photography, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Photography Calling! Sprengal Museum, Hannover, Germany
2011 On Taste, the Good, the Bad and the Really Expensive, Staatlice Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
2011 Beauty, Humour and Social Justice, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
2011 Daniele Tamagni & Africolor, Danziger Projects, New York, USA
2012 Picturing the South, High Museum of Art Atlanta, USA
2012 I See China, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2012 Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2012 Voices of the Sea, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, France
2012 The Great British Public, London Festival of Photography, United Kingdom
2012 Glam! The Performance of Style, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
2012 Observers and Photographers of British Scene from 1930 until Today, Sesi, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2012 The Family in British Art, Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield, United Kingdom
2012 A Different View: Everyday World of Martin Parr, Tom Wood and Antanas Sutkus, Monchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany
2012 Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2013 Look Again: Images of Daily Life, 17th – 21st Century, Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, USA
2013 Venice Dreams, The Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute, Bordeaux, France
2013 Glam! The Performance of Style, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
2013 Glam! The Performance of Style, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
2013 Artists for Tichy, Tichy for Artists, GASK, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
2013 Dark Blue: The Water as Protagonist, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
2013 Homelands – A 21st Century Story of Home, Away and All the Places In Between, Ignca, Delhi, India
2013 Homelands – A 21st Century Story of Home, Away and All the Places In Between, The Harrington Street Arts Centre, India
2013 Homelands – A 21st Century Story of Home, Away and All the Places In Between, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
2013 Homelands – A 21st Century Story of Home, Away and All the Places In Between, NGMA, Bengaluru, India
2013 Homelands – A 21st Century Story of Home, Away and All the Places In Between, The Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery at the National College of Arts, Pakistan
2013 Homelands – A 21st Century Story of Home, Away and All the Places In Between, VM Gallery, Pakistan
2013 You are the Company in Which You Keep, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, United Kingdom
2013 Magnum Contact Sheets, Forte di Bard, Italy and tour
2013 Urban Story Tellers, Fondazione Forma, Milano, Italy
2014 Open For Business, National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom
2014 Playgrounds, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2014 Open For Business, National Railway Museum, York, United Kingdom
2014 Open For Business, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, United Kingdom
2014 Open For Business, Science Museum, London, United Kingdom
2014 Postcards from America, Milwaukee Art Museum, USA
2014 The Gothic, British Library, London, United Kingdom
2014 Rich Pickings, Displaying Wealth, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
2014 Open For Business, University of South Wales, Newport, United Kingdom
2015 Open For Business, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, United Kingdom
2015 Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as a Collector, Barbican, London, United Kingdom
2015 Open for Business, M Shed, Bristol, United Kingdom
2015 Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, Oops…Chocolate! Expo, Milan, Italy
2015 Work, Rest and Play, OCT Loft, Shenzhen, China
2015 Open for Business, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2015 A Tale of Two Cities, Kunstbezirk Galerie im Gustav-Siegle-Haus, Stuttgart, Germany
2015 A Brief History of the Future, Louvre, Paris, France
2016 Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2016 En Plein Air, La Boverie, Liege, Belgium
2016 An Ideal for Living, Beetles & Huxley, London, United Kingdom
2016 Eaux Troubles, Eaux Calmes, Foundation Francois Schneider, Wattwiller, France
2016 Work, Rest and Play, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
2017 Britain in Focus: A Photographic History, The National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom.
2017 Autophoto, Foundation Cartier, Paris, France
2017 Offshore: artists explore the sea, Ferens Art Gallery and Hull Maritime Museum, Hull, United Kingdom
2017 (Im)possible to see: North Korea, The Lumiere Brothers Centre for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2017 A Green And Pleasant Land, British Landscape and the Imagination: 1970s to Now, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
2017 Here We Are, Burberry, The Old Sessions House, London, United Kingdom
2017 The Art of Dissonance, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Hull: Portrait of a City, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, United Kingdom
2017 Picture Yourself, Cultural Centre FIESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2017 The Alpine Almanac, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
2017 Only in England (The Non-Conformists) with Tony Ray-Jones, Time and Tide, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom
2018 The Great British Seaside, National Maritime Museum, London, United Kingdom
2018 Remote Scottish Postboxes, Rocket Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2018 Beyond View, Belfast Exposed, Northern Ireland
2018 Magnum Manifesto, Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Rome, Italy
2018 Modern Nature: British Photographs from the Hyman Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield, United Kingdom
2018 New Brighton Revisited, The Sailing School Gallery, New Brighton, United Kingdom
2018 Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2018 About The North: Imagined Dialogues, Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
2018 A Certain Darkness, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Europe and the Sea, German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany
2018 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
2018 Weather, D Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Media Networks, Boiler House, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2018 Human Stories, Another England, NOW Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2018 Golden Hearts – Sibylle Bergemann and Martin Parr, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2018 Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, FOAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2019 Seaside: Photographed, Turner Contemporary, Margate, United Kingdom
2019 Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2019 Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg, Sweden
2019 Commissione Roma, Museo di Roma, Rome, Italy
2019 Home Sweet Home 1970 – 2018: The British House, Political History Rencontres d’Arles, France
2019 Versailles: Visible / Invisible, Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
2019 Distinctly, The Williamson Art Gallery, Wirral, United Kingdom
2020 Seaside: Photographed, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
2020 Seaside: Photographed, Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange in Penzance
2020 Seaside: Photographed, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2020 Martin Parr in Deauville, Deauville Beach, France
2021 El turista accidental, Boca del Calvari Museum, Benidorm, Spain
2021 Grayson’s Art Club, Manchester Art Gallery, United Kingdom
2021 Belonging: Fashion & A Sense of Place, Bankfield Museum, Halifax, United Kingdom
2021 Facing Britain: British documentary photography since the 1960s, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
2021 Picturing the South: 25 Years, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
2021 The Pet Show, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Portugal 1955-2015, Maison De La Photographie, Toulon, France
2022 All by my selfie, Hotel de Gallifet, Aix-en-Provence, France
2022 Telling Stories. Picture Post and its Legacy, James Hyman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022 Magnum Contact Sheets, IPFO House of Photography, Olten, Switzerland
2022 The Pet Show, Fotografiska, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 Facing Britain: British documentary photography since the 1960s, Museum for Photography Krakow, Poland
2022 Open for Business – Magnum Photographers on Commission, FOAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 This Is Britain: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
2023 The Holiday, Museum Hilversum, Netherlands
2023 This is our love and it knows no division, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, United Kingdom
2023 Best in Show, Pets in Contemporary Photography, New York, USA
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