alfred Wallis's solo exhibitions
1931, Wertheim Gallery, London
1950, Retrospective Exhibition of Alfred Wallis, Bournemouth Arts Club
1959, Alfred Wallis, Studio 36, Penwith Society, St Ives
1962, Alfred Wallis, Piccadilly Gallery, London
1965, Alfred Wallis, Waddington Galleries, London
1966, Dartington Adult Education Centre, Devon
1968, Alfred Wallis, The Old Man of the Sea-Piece, Fleischer Anholt Gallery, Los Angeles
1968, Alfred Wallis, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
1968, Alfred Wallis, Tate Gallery, London (also presented at York City Art Gallery, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal)
1969, Alfred Wallis, City Art Gallery, Plymouth
1969, Alfred Wallis, La Boetie Gallery, New York City
1974, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1974, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
1975, Alfred Wallis, Playhouse Gallery, Harlow
1976, Bath Academy of Art
1977, Bede Gallery, Jarrow
1980, Fermoy Art Gallery, Norfolk
1983, Alfred Wallis, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
1985, Alfred Wallis, 1855-1942, Mercury Gallery, Edinburgh
1992, Alfred Wallis, 1855-1942, Mercury Gallery, London
1996, Wallis & The Sea, Bede Gallery, Jarrow
1996, Alfred Wallis, Gallery Kajikawa, Japan
1997, Alfred Wallis, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London
2007, Alfred Wallis: Artist & Mariner, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Japan
2014, In Focus: Alfred Wallis, Hastings Contemporary
2015, Alfred Wallis, Modern Art, London
2018, Alfred Wallis from The Collection of the Late Ray Hughes, Mayor Gallery, London
2020, Alfred Wallis Rediscovered, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2021, Alfred Wallis: Artist & Mariner, The MAC, Belfast
Alfred Wallis's Group Exhibitions
1929, 9th Exhibition of the Seven and Five Society, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
1934–6, Wertheim Gallery, London
1938, Unprofessional Painting, Wertheim Loan Collection (touring)
1941, Modern Primitives: Artists of the People, MoMA, New York City
1945, Modern Primitives, MoMA, New York City
1948, Sunday Painters, Hanover Gallery, London
1949, First Exhibition of the Penwith Society of Arts, Public Hall, Penwith Society, St Ives
1951, Fifteen Artists & Craftsmen from Around St Ives, Mansard Gallery, London
1952, Exhibition of Sunday Painters, Museum Am Ostwall, Germany
1953, Personal Choice, Wakefield City Art Gallery
1954-5, XXVth Anniversary Exhibition Paintings from the Museum Collection, MoMA, New York City
1954, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1963-4, The Englishness of English Painting, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
1966, Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
1968, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
1973, Alfred Wallis and Elizabeth Allen, Crane Arts, London
1974, Art Then: Eight English Artists, 1924-40, The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh
1974, Art and Life: 1920-1931, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
1977, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1980, Ship-Shape 1880-1980, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea
1984, Groups VII, Waddington Galleries, London
1985, St Ives 1939-64: Twenty-Five Years of Painting and Pottery, Tate Gallery, London
1987, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Ben Nicholson, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (touring)
1989, St Ives, Hyogo Museum of Modern Art, Japan
1989, A Century of Art in Cornwall 1889-1989, County Hall, Truro
1990, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan (touring)
1992, Artists from Cornwall, Royal West Academy, Bristol
1992, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1993, The St Ives School, Tate St Ives
1995, Gasworks to Gallery: The Story of St Ives, Tate St Ives
1995, Alfred Wallis and Patrick Hayman, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
1998, Sea Dreams, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath (touring)
1999, Two painters: Alfred Wallis & James Dixon, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (touring)
2000, The Raw and the Cooked, MoMA, New York City
2001, The Naïve Painters, Journey to a Lost Paradise (Die Naive, Aufbruch ins verlorene Paradies), Vienna Kunsthaus (including around 200 works from the collection of the Museum Charlotte Zander, Bönnigheim)
2008, Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing, MoMA, New York City
2009, Upside Down / Inside Out, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2009, Summer Season 2009, Tate St Ives
2010, Sea Fever, Southampton Art Gallery
2011, Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson, Compton Verney, Warwickshire
2012, Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
2013, The Radev Collection: Bloomsbury and Beyond, Falmouth Art Gallery
2013, Songs of Innocence and Experience, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2014, British Folk Art, Tate Britain, London
2014, Art and Life, Dulwich Picture Gallery
2015, British 20th-century Art, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2018, The Englishness of English Painting Part III, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2022, Looking East: St Ives Artists and Buddhism, 3812 Gallery, Hong Kong (touring)
2025, St Ives & Modern British 2025, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall