Solo exhibitions
1972
One-day exhibition. House of the Artist on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1979
Open house at the artist's Moscow studio (in collaboration with Dmitry Prigov)
1980
One-day exhibition. House of the Artist on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1986
"15 Sculptures." Krasnogvardeisky District Exhibition Hall (“Kashirka”), Moscow
1989
Boris Orlov, Dmitry Prigov. Struve Gallery, Chicago
1990
Boris Orlov. Struve Gallery, Chicago
Boris Orlov. Sonsbeek Art Center, Sonsbeek, the Netherlands
1991
"Gotterdammerung." Regina Gallery, Moscow
Military Games. Gorchakova-Ditericks Art Studio, New York
1992
"Ekaterina" (in conjunction with the festival "Animalist Projects"). Regina Gallery, Moscow
1994
"Parade of Astral Bodies." Regina Gallery, Moscow
1995
Farewell Jubilee (in collaboration with Semyon Faibisovich). Regina Gallery, Moscow.
Boris Orlov. Tsaritsino Park and Museum, Moscow
1998
"Architecture with Excesses." Velta Gallery, Moscow
2002
"Victory over the Sun." Regina Gallery, Moscow
2004
"Process. Contours of Time." National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
"Retrospection," XL Gallery, Moscow
2005
"From the Artist's Collection. 1973–2000." Collectors' Club, ArtStrelka Cultural Center, Moscow
2006
"Boris Orlov" (in conjunction with Moscow International Photography Month). Yakut Gallery, Moscow
2008
"The Host of Earth and the Host of Heaven." Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2010
"Circle of Heroes." Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
2011
"Remix." Exhibition of collaborative works with Sergei Shekhovtsov. XL Gallery, Moscow
Group exhibitions
1969
Exhibition of young artists. House of the Artist on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1988
"Geometry in Art." Krasnogvardeisky District Exhibition Hall (“Kashirka”), Moscow
Labyrinth. Palace of Youth, Moscow
"Ich lebe — Ich sehe. Künstler der achtziger Jahre in Moskau." Kunstmuseum, Bern
Olympiad of Art. Olympic Sculpture Park, Seoul
"The Artist and Contemporaneity" (second exhibition of the First Creative Association of the Moscow Artists’ Union). House of the Artist on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
Glasnost. Kunsthalle, Stuttgart
1989
"Expensive Art" (exhibition of the Avant-Gardists' Club). Moscow Palace of Youth
"Mosca–Terza Roma." Sala 1, Rome
"Scientific/Technological Progress and Visual Art." Exhibition hall at Begovaya 7/9, Moscow
"Grisha Bruskin, Andrei Grositsky, Nikolai Kasatkin, Boris Orlov, Dmitry Prigov. Painting. Drawing. Sculpture." Krasnogvardeisky District Exhibition Hall (“Kashirka”), Moscow
1990
"Toward the Object." Krasnogvardeisky District Exhibition Hall (“Kashirka”), Moscow
"Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism. Contemporary Soviet Art." The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (USA)
1990—1991
Exhibition from the contemporary art collection of Tsaritsyno Museum. Dom 100, Moscow
1991
"Back to Square One." Berman — E.N. Gallery, New York
"Contemporary Soviet Art: From the Thaw to Perestroika. From the contemporary art collection of Tsaritsyno Museum." Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
"In de USSR en Erbuiten." Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam/p>
"Ceremonial Portraiture of the Transitional Period." Gallery A3, Moscow
"Art Europe 1991 — Soviet Union." Kunstverrein, Hannover (Germany)
1992
"Sot Art. From the contemporary art collection of the Tsaritsyno Museum." Lenin Museum, Moscow
Exhibition of new acquisition. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art, Moscow
"Humanitarian Aid. Packages for Germany." Central House of Artists, Moscow — Tranenpalast, Berlin
"Sots Art." Die Universitet Basel, Basel — M. Sandmann Art Management CONOC im RHWK, Berlin
1993
"New Territories of Art." Center of Culture and Exhibitions, Krasnoyarsk
Philosophy of the Name. Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Art in Politics. 3 rd Minos Beach Art Symposium. Minos, Greece/p>
1994
"Fluchtpunkt Moskau." Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
II Cetinjski Bienale. Vladin Dom. Rusko Poslanstvo, Cetinje, Montenegro
1995
"Kunst im verbogenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957–1995." Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen — Documenta-Halle, Kassel — Staatlichen Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
"Animation." Krasnogvardeisky District Exhibition Hall (“Kashirka”), Moscow
"New Sincerity." Goethe Institute, Moscow.
"Configura 2. Dialog der Kulturen." Haus zum Goldenen Kroenbacken, Erfuhrt
1997
III Cetinjski Bienale. Cetinje, Montenegro
"History in Faces. An Exhibition of Contemporary Russian Art, 1956–1996." Traveling exhibition. Nizhny Novgorod — Samara — Perm — Novosibirsk — Ekaterinburg
"Nonconformist Art from the USSR." Exhibition from the collections of the Zimmerli Museum and the Tsaritsyno Museum and Park. Kunsthalle Mucsarnak, Budapest
"Patrons of Art." Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art, Moscow
Russian Constructivist Roots. The Art Gallery, University of Maryland
1997—1998
"Das Haupt." Marina Sandmann Galerie, Hamburg — Berlin
1998
"Names." In conjunction with the Art Manezh '98 international art fair. Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow
1998—1999
"It's the Real Thing. Soviet and Post Soviet Sots Art and American Art." Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota (USA)
"Forbidden Art: The Post War Russian Avant-Garde." Art Center, College of Desing, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, California; State Russian Museum Saint Petersburg; State Tretaykov Gallery, Moscow; Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio (USA)
1999
"Museum of Contemporary Art." From the contemporary art collection of the Tsaritsyno Museum. Central House of Artists, Moscow
"The Idea of a Museum of the USSR. First Laboratory Exhibition." Sakharov Museum and Public Center, Moscow
2000
"Die Verwandlung des Roten Sterns. Sots Art." Marina Sandmann CONOC im RHWK, Berlin
"Left, Left. Russian Avant-Garde from 1910 to the 1960s." Novy Ermitazh Gallery, Moscow
"Outside the Project." Regina Gallery, Moscow
2001
"Piggy Bank." Marble Palace at the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
"Erotic — Ironic." Marina Sandmann Galerie, Berlin
2002
"Space of the Object." Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, Moscow
2003
"ArtConstitution." Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2003—2004
Moscow — Berlin. Berlin — Moskau." Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin — State History Museum, Moscow
2004
"Birthday of Kazimir Malevich." National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2005
"Apartment Exhibitions. 1956–1979" (in conjunction with the 1 st Moscow Biennale). Museum Center of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
"Moscow — Warsaw." Ujazdowsky zamiek, Warsaw — State Tretaykov Gallery, Moscow
"RUSSIA!" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York — Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
"Russian Pop Art." State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2006
"Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation" (in conjunction with the Art Moscow international art fair). Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited." Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Planisfero Weltanschauung — Visionale del mondo. Museo d`Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Belmonte Rio, Palermo
2007
"Learning from Moscow: Positionen aktueller Kunst aus Moskau." Städtlichen Galerie, Dresden
"New Angelarium." Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2007—2008
"Sots Art. Political Art in Russia" (special project of the 2 nd Moscow Biennale). State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow — La Maison Rouge, Paris
2009
"That Obscure Object of Art. Russian Art 1974–2006 from the collection of the Stella Art Foundation" (in conjunction with the parallel program of the 53 rd Venice Biennale) Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice.
"New Old Cold War" (in conjunction with the 3 rd Moscow Biennale). Red October, Moscow
"Installation Sketches." Gallery XL, Moscow
2010
"Russian Utopias." Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
"Field of Action. The Moscow Conceptual School and its Context." Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow