2024Photography and Language: Collection 1950 - 1970s, MoMA, New York2023PNI @ 10, Project Native Informant, London2022In Focus: Writing for the Camera, Getty Center, Los Angeles
2021Language, Sequence, Structure: Photographic Works by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
2021Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, FOMU, Antwerp
2021Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, LUMA Foundation, Arles
2020Language, Sequence, Structure: Photographic Works by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
2020TITAN, Kurimanzutto, New York
2020Manifesta 13 | Les Parallèles du Sud, Furiosa Studio, Monaco
2020Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Gropius Bau, Berlin
2020Reading Pictures, The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
2020Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2020Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, London2020Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs of Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips and Hal Fischer, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco2019American Art Since 1948, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign
2019Masculinities, Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande and the Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2019CAMP: Notes on Fashion, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York2019Art After Stonewall 1969 - 1989, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York
2019West by Midwest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
201825 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, Fotomuseum Wintherur, Wintherur
2018Putting Out, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York
2017Historias Da Sexualidade, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
2015Richard Wright: Nine Chains To The Moon (Chapter 3), BQ, Berlin
2011Under the Big Black Sun, California Art 1974-1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1984Photography in California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1981Photographs and Words: An Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1980San Francisco Imprint: Photographic Projects, Franklin Furnace, New York
1979Hal Fischer, Donna-Lee Phillips, Meyer Hirsch, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
1979Problematic Photography, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo
1979Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
1979The Photographic Billboard Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1978Contemporary California Photography, Buffalo State University, Buffalo
1978Contemporary California Photography, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
1978Postcard Show, Tyson Gallery, San Francisco
1977Photo-Linguists, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
1977Photoerotica, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
1976Photography and Language, La Mamelle, San Francisco
1976New Photographics, Central Washington State University, Ellensburg
1976Alternative Processes, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco