1986
July 30 – September 7
From Two Worlds, Whitechapel Gallery, London,U.K.
Expeditions
1987
March 25 – April 12
At the Edge:Air Gallery, London,U.K.
Expeditions
June 13 – July 19
The Image Employed:The Use of Narrative in Black Art. Cornerhouse, Manchester,UK.
Instead of Dreaming Twilight City
December
The Elusive Sign:British Avant-Garde Film and Video 1977 – 1987,
Tate Gallery, London,U.K.
Handsworth Songs
1988
April – September
The Elusive Sign, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria.
Hochshule fur Gestaltung Linz, Austria.
Image Forum Festival, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
1989
February – March
The Elusive Sign, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam,Holland.
September 11 – 15
The Elusive Sign, European Media Art Festival,Osnabruck,Germany.
November 23
Grierson Seminar and Festival, Salute To The Documentary, Art Gallery of Ontario,Canada.
Handsworth Songs
December – January
The Elusive Sign, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb,Croatia.
1990
January 24 – March 11
The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries,Glasgow, Scotland.
March 30 – May 20, Leeds City Art Gallery, U.K.
June 14 – August 12, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
Twilight City
February 8
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Testament
October
Between Imagination & Reality: First ICA Biennial of Independent Film and Video, London,U.K.
Twilight City
1991
January
Identity and Consciousness: (Re)Presenting the Self, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada.
Handsworth Songs, Twilight City, Testament
November 6 – 17
The Hybrid State Films, Anthology Film Archives/ Exit Art,New York,U.S.A.
Testament
1992
April 9
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Washington,U .S.A.
Who Needs A Heart
Arrows of Desire, The 2nd ICA Biennal of Independent Film & Video, London,U.K.
A Touch of the Tar Brush
1993
April 13 – 19
John Akomfrah,Film-maker in Residence, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.SA.
April 14 – 22
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
Handsworth Songs, A Touch of the Tar Brush, Who Needs A Heart, Testament
August
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
September 23
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Handsworth Songs
1994
September
museum in progress, LOTprojekt, Vienna, Austria.
The Migrants Tale:A Symphony for our Time.
contributing to mobility, @art gallery, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
April 28
Cine City:Film and Perceptions of Urban Space 1895-1995, The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Twilight City
1995
May 12 – July 16
Mirage:Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire
Institute of Contemporary Arts/ International Institute of Visual Arts,London, U.K.
The Black Room
October
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A .
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
September – November
Nature TM
Shedhalle Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
Handsworth Songs, Twilight City
December
San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1996
January
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K.
Pervaiz Khan, Felix de Rooy, Trevor Mathison.
The Garden Of Allah
February 5 – April 10
Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire
Bonnington Gallery at Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design, U.K.
The Black Room