Group exhibitions include  (Upcoming) Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection, Palmer Museum, University of Pennsylvania, USA (2026); Abenteuer Körper, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany (2025); Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection, Carlos Museum, Emory University in Atlanta, USA (2025); Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, USA (2023); 1-54 NYC, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York City, USA (2023); Uprising, Schloss Görne, Berlin, Germany (2022); 1-54 London, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2021); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York (2021); Devil´s in the detail, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); Enter Art Fair, Berlin & London (2020); Karachi Biennial (2019); 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London (2019); Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway (2019); 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London (2018); Imago Mundi, Trieste, at Salone degli Incanti, Italy (2018); VOLTA13, Markthalle, Basel (2017); Everything Exists Now, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2017); Art Dubai, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Dubai (2017); What about Africa?, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam (2016); Pangaea II: New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London (2015); Concerning The Internal, at Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi (2015); Visibles/Invisibles, Fondation Blachere, Apt (2015); Trade Roots, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2014); the display of the Habesha Art Collection at the National Museum in Addis Ababa (2014), and the touring exhibition Silver Sea Cross-Ship  (2013-14). 

Highlights and Collections 

In 2021 Dawit Abebe was included in publication  African Artists: From 1882 to Now, a book about Modern and Contemporary African artists, published by Phaidon. In 2019 Abebe was picked by Artnet as one of the two most important artists working out of Ethiopia today.  In 2021 Abebe received the First Place Award from the Ethiopian Ministry of Culture and in 2017 he was named “Chevalier of France Order of Arts and Letters”. Dawit Abebe has exhibited widely internationally and some of his major exhitions include Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway (2019); Karachi Biennial (2019); Imago Mundi, Trieste, at Salone degli Incanti, Italy (2018) and Pangaea II: New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London (2015). Abebe’s work is held in international private and public collections, including the Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin (USA), Barjeel Art Foundation (UAE), the Rema Hort Mann Foundation (US), the Saatchi Collection (UK), the Frank Cohen Collection (UK), the Carole Server and Oliver Frankel Collection (US), The Bunker Artspace Museum (US), Ilham Collection (Malaysia), the Blanchard / Nesbitt Collection (UK), the Easton Capital Collection (US) and the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva (Switzerland).