SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

ICON Iowa Contemporary Art, Fairfield, Iowa, 2017

ICON Iowa Contemporary Art, Fairfield, Iowa, 2014

ICON Iowa Contemporary Art, Fairfield, Iowa, 2003

Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1998

OPSIS Foundation, New York, New York, 1989

Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989

Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana, 1988

Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC, 1987

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1986

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1986

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Home Ground, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. 2022 (traveling) (catalogue)

Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2021 (catalogue)

North by Northwest, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana. 2021

Photographing Places: The Photographers of Places Journal, 1987-2009, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015

Beyond Here Lies Nothin’: Fifty Years of the American Landscape, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2013

America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 2012 (catalogue)

Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009 (traveled) (catalogue)

RISD and Photography, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 2008

Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 2008

Flow, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2007 (traveled)

The Body At Risk, International Center of Photography, New York, New York, 2005 (catalogue)

Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 2005 (traveled) (catalogue)

Sacred Wild: Opening to Shakti, Apexart, New York, New York, 2005 (brochure)

Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 2004-5

Photography and Place: Contemporary Work from the Museum's Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 2004

Selections from the Permanent Collection, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, 2002

This Is North America/Is This North America?, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, 2001

Artists from Ucross: An Invitational Exhibition, The University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming, 1999

Threatened/Threatening Landscapes, Moreau Galleries, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1998

Down to Earth: The Enduring Landscape, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1998

Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1998

Landscape/Land Use, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1997 (traveled)

Waterweighs, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, Montana, 1997

Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 1997 (traveled)(catalogue)

Critical Adjustments: David T. Hanson and Leone & Macdonald, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1996 (catalogue)

Epitaphs, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York, 1996

Landscapes in the Permanent Collection, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana, 1995

About Time: Temporality in the Art and Architecture of the Landscape, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1995

Art In Your Own Back Yard: Regional Artwork from the Permanent Collection, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana, 1994

Art as if the world matters, Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota, 1994

Selections from the Permanent Collection of Photography: Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 1994

Renewing Our Earth—The Artistic Vision: Art and the Environment/An Exhibition of American Artists, U. S. Pavillion, Taejon International Expo ’93, Taejon, Korea, 1993 (catalogue)

Industrial Effects: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1993 (brochure)

From Destruction to Reclamation: Art and the Environment in the Nineties, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1993 (catalogue)

David T. Hanson/Patrick Zentz, The Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, 1992

Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, 1992 (traveled)(catalogue)

Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1992

Human/Nature: Changing Land, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio, 1992 (brochure)

Another Side of Progress, The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1991 (traveled)(brochure)

Tainted Prospects: Photographers and the Compromised Environment, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, New York, 1991 (traveled)(catalogue)

Big Sky/Bold Wind, Boulder Art Center, Boulder, Colorado, 1991

What Have We Done?, Film in the Cities Gallery, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1991

Landscapes of Consequence, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1991 (catalogue)

American Abstraction at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1991 (catalogue)

Our Precarious Environment, Image Photos, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1991

Hanson/Cypis/Charlesworth: 3 Photo Artists, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1990

Othello Anderson, Ciel Bergman & David T. Hanson, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1990

Polemical Landscapes, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, California, 1990 (catalogue)

Garbage Out Front: A New Era of Public Design, Urban Center, New York, New York, 1990

Earthscape, Expo ’90 Photo Museum, Osaka, Japan, 1990 (catalogue)

The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 1990; Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, 1990 (catalogue)

Trouble In Paradise, MIT–List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989 (traveled)(catalogue)

Nature and Culture: Conflict and Reconciliation in Recent Photography, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California, 1989

The Landscape At Risk, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, 1989

Fire! Sites: Defense, Deterrence, Bargaining Chips, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1989

The Unconventional Landscape, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1989

A Montana Collection: 1987-1989; Recent Acquisitions by the Yellowstone Art Center, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana, 1989 (catalogue)

Aerial Views of the Landscape, Gund Hall Gallery, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988 (brochure)

David T. Hanson, Richard Misrach & John Pfahl, Gallery MIN, Tokyo, Japan, 1988

The New Color Photography: Ten American Photographers, Wang Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway, 1987 (traveled)

New Photography 2, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1986 (traveled)

Vance Gellert, David T. Hanson and Jack Stuler, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1986

25 Years of Modern Color Photography, Photokina, Cologne, Germany, 1986 (catalogue)

Four Landscape Photographers, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs, Storrs, Connecticut, 1985

American Images: Photography 1945-1980, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England, 1985 (traveled) (catalogue)

Western Spaces, Burden Gallery, New York, New York, 1985 (traveled)

Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1984

David T. Hanson and Don Snyder, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, 1976

Photography USA, traveling exhibition through Europe and the Soviet Union, coordinated by United States Information Agency, 1974