Drawing Lines - Trampoline Gallery, Antwerp

Charif Benhelima: Polaroids, 1998 – 2012, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brasil
Hidden archive - Trampoline Gallery, Antwerp

Imagem em processo: Charif Benhelima: Polaroids 1998 – 2012, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Nitéroi, Brasil
The Allochtone, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium

Artifactual Realities, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, USA
Charif Benhelima: Polaroids 1998-2012, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium

Roots II – In Memoriam, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Semites: A Wall Under Construction, Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium
I was, I Am, Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin, Germany

Welcome to Belgium, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, USA
VOLTANY, Crown Gallery, NY, USA

Roots I, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

Black-out: Vlaams-Nederlands huis deBuren, Brussels, Belgium.
Black-out: De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Harlem on my mind - I Was, I Am, v-editie, Antwerp, Belgium.

Semites, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Gmbh, Berlin, Germany.
Harlem on my mind, Huis Van winckel, Dendermonde, Belgium.
Welcome to Belgium, Forum Fnac, Brussels-Ghent-Liege, Belgium.

I was, I am, Gallery Kusseneers, 1999-2002, Antwerp, Belgium.
Passage-Shirin Neshat./ Welcome to Belgium-Charif Benhelima. Forum ModeNatie (MoMu) Antwerp, Belgium.

Tussen stompzinnigheid en waanzin: foto’s, Museum of Modern Art (PMMK), Oostende, Belgium.

M-collectie (11 June till 5 April 2019), M – Museum Leuven
Ecce Homo, Museum Mayer Van den Bergh / Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp
Musée de La Photo de Bruxelles, Recyclart, Brussels
Whereever the Wind carries - Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp, EMST - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Face It!, Jewish Historical Museum - Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam
Tussen avontuur en kwetsuur. Over adoptie, Museum Dr. Guislain , Gent
The Importance of Being … , MAC -Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo, Brazil
The Green Line, (Visite-project from the collection Muhka), Roeselare
Het verbeelde westen, Embassy of Belgium, Den Haag
Uchronies, BPS22 - Espace de création contemporaine, Charleroi, Belgium

The Importance of Being …, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hidden archive, trampoline, Antwerp, Belgium
Voltooid Verleden Tijd, KADOC - Documentation and Research Center for Religion, Culture and Society, KU Leuven, Belgium
Álbum de Família, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Beaufort 05, triennial of contemporary art along the Belgian coast, Belgium
The Lubumbashi Biennale 2015, The Democratic Republic of Congo
The Importance of Being…, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Voor(Bij) Woorden (Visite-project from the collection Muhka), Pastorie Ressegem Herzele, Belgium
The Importance of Being …, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Havana, Cuba

Where are we now?, Marrakech Biennale 5, Marrakech, Morocco
Capita Selecta, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk, Belgium
The ever changing body - part III, Museumcultuur Strombeek - Smak Gent, Belgium
Nass Belgica - L'immigration marocaine en Belgique, Cité Miroir, Liège, Belgium
Nass Belgica - L'immigration marocaine en Belgique, Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium

The Collection as a Character, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

The FotoFest 2012 Biennial, the Fourteenth International Biennial of Photography, Houston, Texas, USA
Intranquillités, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium

Masterpieces, MAS | Museum Aan de Stroom Antwerp, Belgium
The Orient, Mind the Book, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

Unfixed, The Center for Contemporary Art (CBK), Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Volta 6, Crown Gallery, Basel, Suisse
Rencontre, Musée des Oudayas, Rabat, Morocco
Résonance: artistes contemporains marocains du monde, Musée de Marrakech, Morocco
The FotoFest 2010 Biennial, the Thirteenth International Biennial of Photography, 2010 in Houston, Texas, USA

A Story of the Image, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore.
Tetris, BPS22 Charleroi, Belgium.
The Ornamental Body - Witte Zaal, Gent, Belgium.
Adding Subtractions, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Summer in the City, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
A Story of the Image, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
Fading, Musee d’Ixelles,Brussels, Belgium.
Nós, Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Architecture in the picture, Bozar, Centre for Fine art, Brussels, Belgium.
The Collection XXII FANTASY, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium.
Mimétisme, Extra City / Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium.

The Collection XXI, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium.
Portraits de l’autre, Musee d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Abraço, Espaço Chiado, Lisboa, Portugal.
Portraits de l’autre, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France.
Invisibility, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Sabotage of reality, Batagianni Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Berlin Tendenzen, Palau de la Virreina - La Capella, Barcelona, Spain.

Photo Based - Visual Art and Photography, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium.
Démarcations, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France.
Monopolis, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
In Between, Pferdestall Gmbh, Festival der kulturen, Hamburg, Germany.
Razao e Sensibilidade, Encontro com Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Costanti Diversità – Premio Del Golfo La Spezia 2004, Biennale Europea Arti Visive La Spezia,
Centro Arte Moderna a Contemporanea Della Spezia (CAMeC) La Spezia, Italia.
Walk of Fame, Photokina, Cologne, Germany.
Rencontres Internationales de La Photographie, Arles, France.

A Look at art Belgium in the Nineties, Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA) Antwerp, Belgium.

Open Studio, International Center of Photography (I.C.P.), New York City, U.S.A.

ATTACK! Arti et Amicitiae: Holland festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Ouverte, Museum of photography, Charleroi, Belgium.

Polaroids 1998-2012, (in progress)

The Allochtoon, Bps22, Charlerloi

Semites, The Album, Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent

Harlem on my mind - I Was, I Am, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln, Deutschland
(Texts: James Harithas, Caryl Phillips, Daniella Géo)

Harlem on my mind - I Was, I Am, v-editie, Antwerp, Belgium.
(Text: Caryl Phillips)

Welcome to Belgium, Ludion, Ghent-Amsterdam, Belgium-The Netherlands.
(Text: Luc Tuymans)

Iaspis: Malmö, Sweden

Kamp Kippy 2010 (A.S.A.P), Mount Desert Island, ME, USA

The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.

Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.

International Center of Photography, New York City, U.S.A.

Higher Institute For Fine Arts, Flanders – Antwerp, Belgium.

Higher Institute Sint Lucas, Brussels, Belgium.
Master in the plastic Arts, Training Photography-Film.

Finalist Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Harvard University/Peabody Museum

Lauréat du Prix Fnac Européen de la photographie

Laureate for the Reind M. De Vries Foundation, European Photography Prize

Professor at the Higher Institute Sint Lucas, Ghent, Belgium

Tutor at the Malmo Art Academy, Sweden

Guest Professor at the HISK (2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) - Higher Institute For Fine Arts, Flanders

Teacher Assistant at the International Center of Photography, NYC