Selected Solo Exhibitions
- "Breaking Boundaries: 50 Years of Images," Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2025
- "Breaking Boundaries: 50 Years of Images," WEAM (World Erotic Art Museum), Miami Beach, FL, 2024-2025
- "Breaking Boundaries: 50 Years of Images," Culture Lab LIC, Queens, NY, 2023
- "Transformations: A Gender Exploration," FMoPA, Tampa, FL, 2022
- "Mariette Pathy Allen," Antidote Curates (with the support of Gucci), Paris, France, 2022
- "House Ball, Harlem, 1984," CLAMP, NYC, 2022
- "Transformations," CLAMP, NYC, 2021
- "Mariette Pathy Allen: Rites of Passage, 1978-2006", Museum of Sex, NYC, 2019
- "TransCuba - Photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen", Stonewall Museum, 2018
- "Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand", curated by Deborah Rabinsky, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, Allentown, PA
- “Transoceanic”, Cenesex, Cuba, 2017
- “Transgender USA”, Power Plant Gallery, Durham, NC 2016
- “TransCuba”, Yeelen Gallery, Miami 2015
- “TransCuba”, Curated by Cenesex Staff, Cenesex, Cuba, December 2014- 2015
- “TransCuba”, with Vince Cianni, Daylight Project Space, Hillsborough, NC, 2014
- "TransCuba", Daylight exhibition space, Hillsborough, NC, 2014
- “Transformations”, Vassar College, 2011
- “Beyond The Gender Frontier”, Bridgewater State College, 2007
- “Transgender”, L’Usine Galerie, Brussels, Belgium, 2007
- “Animate and Inanimate”, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR. 2002
- “The Gender Frontier”, Gallery 1401, U. of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2001
- “The Gender Frontier”, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, 2000
- “Transformations”, Carpenter Center, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA, 1995
- “Transformations”, Provincetown Arts Association, MA. 1991
- “Transformations”, Simon Lowinsky Gallery, NYC, 1990
- “The Beholder’s Eye: Men As Women”, Light Work Gallery, Syracuse U., 1988
- “Men As Women”, Il Diaframma Gallery, Milan, Italy, 1987
Selected Group Exhibitions
- "Studio 54: Night Magic," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2020
- "Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center", James Kloppenburg and T. Barton Thurber, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, 2019
- "Queer Forms", Howard Oransky, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
- "Aperture Photographs", 50 years at Aperture, Aperture Foundation, NYC, 2019
- “Intersectionality”, Richard Haden, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL, 2016
- “HERoine”, Elizabeth Houston, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, NYC ’15-‘16
- “What’s INSIDE HER Never Dies, a Black Woman’s Legacy”, Karla Ferguson, Yeelen Gallery, Miami, FL ‘15-16
- “Dealers Choice Exhibit”, Curated by Dean Kotula, Salty Dog Gallery, ME, 2015
- “TransCuba”, Rayko Photo Center, Curated by Ann Jastrab, San Francisco, 2015
- “What Is A Portrait”, Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Ripe Art Gallery, NY, 2014-2015
- “TransCuba”, Curated by Fabian Goncalves Borrega, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, 2014
- “The Gender Frontier and Beyond”, NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL, 2014
- "Discoveries of the Meeting Place" , Fotofest, 2014, Houston, TX
- "Critical Mass Top 50", traveling exhibition: Corden/Potts, SF, Houston Center for Photography, 2014
- "International Photography Awards", Hossein Farmani, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 2013
- “Science, Poetry and the Photographic Image”, Women’s Caucus, SPE, Atlanta, GA 2011
- “BED”, Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York, NY, 2010
- “13th International Photo Festival”, Lishui, China, 2009
- “Burning Down The House:…”, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2008
- “Does Gender Still Matter?” Curated by Elizabeth Mix, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, 2007
- “Indwelling”, Joyce Tenneson, curator. Cooper Union, NYC, 2007
- The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974--1984, 2006
- “Bearings: The Female Figure”, PS 122, Allen Frame, curator. NYC 2006
- “7. Internationale Fototage”, Tina Schelhorn, curator. Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, 2005
- “Fokus Mensch”, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany, 2004
- “The History of Sex in New York City”, The Museum of Sex, NYC, 2003
- “Koerper IV”, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria 2001
- “Picturing the Modern Amazon”, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, 2000
- “Manly”, Art in General, NYC, 2000
- “Discoveries of the Meeting Place”, Fotofest, Houston, TX, 2000
- “Eight Million Stories...”, NY public Library, NY, 1998-99
- “Group Therapy”, Tatar/Alexander Gallery, Toronto, CA, 1998
- “The Female Gaze: Women Look at Men”, Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY, 1998
- “Gender Affects”, U. of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, 1996
- “Medical Re-visions”, Delta Axis, Memphis, TN, & PS 122, NYC, 1994
- “Dress Code”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1993
Consultant & Still Photographer for Films
- “It's Not the Sex . . . It's the Gender”, Never a Dull Momend Productions, David N. Gottlieb, 2015
- “Just Gender”, Top Dog Productions, 2013
- “Southern Comfort”, Grand Jury Prize Sundance 2001, HBO ‘02 ,DVD ’03
- “The Transgender Revolution”, Q Ball Productions, for A&E, October, 1998
- “The Transexual Menace”, Rosa Von Praunheim, for German & French TV, 1996
- “Down and Out In America”, directed by Lee Grant for HBO, 1985
- “What Sex Am I?”, directed by Lee Grant for HBO, 1984