Selected solo exhibitions
| Year | Title | Location | Traveling to Sort ascending |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Appel’s Appels | Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal | Traveled through Canada. |
| 1979 | The Graphic Art of Karel Appel: Art Gallery of Hamilton Collection | Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario | Traveled through Canada. |
| 1989 | Appel | The National Museum of Art, Osaka | The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Hakone Open Air Museum, Ninotaira |
| 1955 | Karel Appel | Galerie Rive Droite, Paris | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| 1968 | Karel Appel: Reliefs 1966–68 | Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
| 1998 | Sculptures without a Hero | Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands | Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany; Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Germany |
| 1982 | Karel Appel: Werk op papier 1941 – 1981, tekeningen, aquarellen, gouaches | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague | Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Städtische Galerie, Erlangen, Germany; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm; Musée des Augustins, Toulouse; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo |
| 1999 | Karel Appel: Toys from the Attic | Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway | Reykjavík Art Museum; National Gallery of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands |
| 2015 | Karel Appel: Works on paper | Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris | Pinakothek der Moderne - Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Müchen –, Munich |
| 1965 | Appel | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum, Germany; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany; Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| 1974 | Karel Appel Retrospective | Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida | Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma; City; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona |
| 1978 | Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel | Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany | Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, The Netherlands; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany; Kunstpavillonen, Esbjerg Kunstforening, Denmark |
| 1981 | Appel | Museu de Arte do São Paulo | Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro; Fondaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid |
| 1977 | Karel Appel | Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City | Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá, Colombia |
| 1995 | Karel Appel: Ich bin die Erde der alles entspringt | Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, Austria | Moderna Galerija Ljubljana |
| 1994 | Karel Appel Retrospective | The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul | Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan |
| 1990 | Karel Appel: Ik wou dat ik een vogel was | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague | Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz |
| 1969 | Appel: Peinture acrylic | Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich | Gimpel Fils Gallery, London |
| 1960 | Karel Appel | Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo, Italy | Gimpel Fils Gallery, London; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Essen, Germany |
| 1961 | Karel Appel | Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague |
| 1996 | Karel Appel: Gemälde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen 1950–1965 | BAWAG Fondation, Vienna | Galerie Ulysses, Vienna |
| 1963 | Appel Nudes | Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich | Galerie Europe, Paris; Gimpel Fils, London; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York |
| 1960 | Karel Appel: Paintings 1955–1960 and Recent Gouaches, | Martha Jackson Gallery, New York | Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago; Nova Gallery, Boston; Gres Gallery, Washington, DC; Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1998 | Karel Appel: Psychopathological Art 1948–50 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands |
| 1961 | Karel Appel: West Coast Exhibiton | San Francisco Art Museum | Pasadena Art Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; Santa Barbara Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; La Jolla Art Museum, La Jolla, California |
| 1986 | Karel Appel: Paintings 1980–1985 | Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol | Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
| 1963 | Karel Appel: Selezione di dipinti dal 1950 al 1961 | La Medusa, Rome | |
| 1949 | Karel Appel | Het Beerenhuis, Groningen, The Netherlands | |
| 1951 | Karel Appel | Kunstzaal van Lier, Amsterdam | |
| 1953 | Karel Appel | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels | |
| 1954 | Appel | Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris | |
| 1954 | Karel Appel: First American Exhibition | Martha Jackson Gallery, New York | |
| 1956 | Appel | Martha Jackson Gallery, New York | |
| 1956 | Karel Appel: Portraits | Galerie Rive Droite, Paris | |
| 1956 | K. Appel: Dipinti e ceramiche | Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan | |
| 1957 | Paintings: Karel Appel | Institute of Contemporary Art, London | |
| 1957 | Appel | Galerie Stadler, Paris | |
| 1957 | Appel | Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome | |
| 1957 | Appel: New paintings | Martha Jackson Gallery, New York | |
| 1957 | Karel Appel | Galerie Espace, Haarlem, The Netherlands | |
| 1958 | Appel: Gouaches et céramiques | Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris | |
| 1958 | Karel Appel | Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne | |
| 1958 | Appel | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels | |
| 1959 | Appel | Gendai Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 1959 | Dipingere coi tessuti | Il Centro Internazionale della Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, Venice | |
| 1959 | Oil paintings from 1952–1959 by Karel Appel | Gimpel Fils, London | |
| 1959 | Karel Appel | Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich | |
| 1960 | Karel Appel | Galerie Rive Droite, Paris | |
| 1960 | Lithographs by Appel | David Anderson Gallery, New York | |
| 1961 | Appel | Gallery Moos, Toronto |