2021

American Folk Art Museum
PHOTO/BRUT
New York, NY
January 24, 2021 - June 6, 2021
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2020

Van Every Gallery
True Likeness
Davidson College, NC
October 29, 2020— March 28, 2021
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Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
University of Alabama
Nov, 4, 2021 Jan 18, 2022

Hub-Robeson Gallery
State College, PA
Feb. 4 – March 20, 2022

Les Rencontres d’ Arles, France
PHOTO/BRUT
Arles, France
July 1 - September 22, 2019

2019

The Saint Louis Art Museum
Poetics of the Everyday: Amateur Photography, 1890–1970
St. Louis, Missouri
April 26–August 25, 2019
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2017

Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery
The Artist Collects
St. Louis, Missouri
September 28 – October 20, 2017

Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mitchell Museum
A Search for Authenticity: The John and Teenuh Foster Collection of Self-Taught Art & Objects
Mount Vernon, Illinois
February 19 — April 30, 2017

2016 

Lambert International Airport
Exhibition: Accepted for the 2015-16 Artist Culture Program Exhibition Grant
Accidental Mysteries: Curious Art & Objects curated by John Foster. 
January 1, 2016 – April 18, 2016

2015

James Madison University, Duke Gallery and New Image Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
John Foster, Artist and Object Collector
October 19 - December 4, 2015. 

Selected as the Wampler Distinguished Professor for 2015.

Washburn University, Topeka, KS.  The Mulvane Art Museum
Accidental Mysteries
May - July, 2015

2014

Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Accidental Mysteries
November 4 - December 12, 2014

The Bonsack Gallery at John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO
A Lifetime of Collecting
September 5 - October 15, 2014

2013

Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
“Finding Art” Exhibition by John Foster
November - December, 2013

2012

Gregg Museum of Art + Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Art Without Artists
September 27 - December 16, 2012
Download the free ebook for Art Without Artists  (available only through the itunes bookstore): Art Without Artists is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title curated by John Foster and Roger Manley for the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, September 27–December 16, 2012. A presentation of ARTS NC STATE.

2010

The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
Uncommon Objects/Personal Views. The Collections of John Foster and Rick Ege
October 1, 2010 – January 8, 2011

2009

Art + Design Galleries, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
Accidental Mysteries
January 19, 2009 - February 26, 2009

Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Accidental Mysteries
October 22, 2009 - December 9, 2009

2008

The DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
Accidental Mysteries
October 6 - November 15, 2008

South Shore Arts, Munster, IN
Accidental Mysteries
March 23 – May 4, 2008

2007

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
John Foster/Accidental Mysteries
June  23, 2007 – January 27, 2008

2006

The Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Accidental Mysteries
September 16, 2006 – October 21, 2006

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL
Accidental Mysteries
January 13, 2006 – April 29, 2006

2005

The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
Accidental Mysteries
September 24, 2005 – January 6, 2006