| Drawings / Witt | |
| 1973 | Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| Drawings | |
| 1977 | Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| Drawings | |
| 20 Oct. 1977 - 15 Jan. 1978 | Gallery Veith Turske, Cologne, GERMANY |
| Drawings | |
| June 1978 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| Photographs | |
| 8 Oct. 1995 - 5 Nov. 1995 | The Art Market Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA |
| Drawings Over The Years | |
| 8 Jan. 1997 - 8 Feb. 1997 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| Extended Play: Between Rock and an Art Space | |
| 9 May 1997 - 17 Aug. 1997 | Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA |
| A Decade Of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing | |
| 17 Sep. 1997 - 13 Jan. 1998 | Museum Of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA |
| A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980 | |
| 24 Jan. 1998 - 15 Jul. 1998 | The New York Public’s Library’s Center for the Humanities, New York, NY, USA |
| Two Times Intro | |
| 5 May 1998 - 30 May 1998 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| 11 Sep. 1998 - 23 Oct. 1998 | Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA |
| Portraits / Dessins | |
| 3 Jun. 1998 - 4 Jul. 1998 | Gallery Baudoin Lebon, Paris, FRANCE |
| Unknown | |
| Nov. 1998 | Eki Museum, Kyoto, JAPAN |
| Strange Messenger | |
| 28 Sep. 2002 - 5 Jan. 2003 | Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| 28 Mar. 2003 - 5 Jun. 2003 | Contemporary Arts Museum. Houston,TX, USA |
| 28 Jul. 2003 - 18 Aug. 2003 | Parco Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN |
| 4 Sep. 2003 - 7 Dec. 2003 | ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 19 Dec. 2003 - 29 Feb. 2004 | Haus der Kunst, Munich, GERMANY |
| 20 Mar. 2004 - 16 May 2004 | PAC, Palazzo Massari, Ferrara, ITALY |
| 21 Aug. 2004 - 21 Nov. 2004 | Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS |
| Robert and Patti | |
| 11 May 2003 - 30 Jun. 2003 | Charleston Literary Festival, Charleston, Firle, UK |
| Utopia Station | |
| 15 Jun. 2003 - 2 Nov. 2003 | 50th Biennale Venice, ITALY |
| 10 Oct. 2004 - 1 Jan. 2005 | Haus der Kunst, Munich, GERMANY |
| Photographs | |
| 18 Mar. 2004 - 24 Apr. 2004 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| Photographs | |
| 5 May 2004 - 30 May 2004 | JP Market Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA |
| Church And State | |
| 16 Jul. 2004 - 8 Aug. 2004 | JP Art Market, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA |
| Land 250 | |
| 17 Apr. 2005 - 29 May 2005 | Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Rome, ITALY |
| 27 Jun. 2005 - 15 Jul. 2005 | Casa Della Contadinanza, Udine, ITALY |
| 1 Jul. 2005 - 5 Jul. 2005 | CAMeC (Centro d’arte moderna e contemporanea), La Spezia, ITALY |
| 4 Apr. 2006 - 8 Apr. 2006 | "Effeto Glass", Rovereto, Italy |
| Patti Smith’s Meltdown | |
| 11 Jun. 2005 - 26 Jun. 2005 | Royal Festival Hall, London, UK |
| Open Studios | |
| 24 Sep. 2005 - 25 Sep. 2005 | JP Art Market Gallery |
| B&W photo show | |
| Oct. 2005 - Nov. 2005 | JP Art Market Gallery |
| 14 artists, 14 ways of seing | |
| Dec 2005 - 18 Dec. 2005 | JP Art Market Gallery |
| Festival of Contemporary Visual Art | |
| 20 April 2006 - 9 May 2006 | Mitchell Library, Glasgow, UK |
| Moments of being | |
| 20 May 2006 - 25 June 2006 | Charleston Gallery, Charleston, Firle, UK |
| Drawings and Photographs | |
| 20 May 2006 - 9 July 2006 | Model Arts and Niland Gallery, The Mall, Sligo, Ireland |
| Robert Mapplethorpe: Still Moving & Lady | |
| 8 September 2006 - 7 October 2006 | Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK |
| Sur les traces | |
| 26 November 2006 - 7 January 2006 | Trolley Gallery, London, UK |
| Patti Smith: A Pythagorean traveler | |
| 1 December 2006 - 13 January 2007 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| Photographs | |
| 16 May 2007 - 28 June 2007 | The Baltic, Gateshead, UK |
| objects of life | |
| 8 February 2008 - 14 February 2008 | ArtMbassy, Berlin, Germany |
| Photography | |
| 6 March 2008 - 16 March 2008 | Espai Cúbic, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain |
| Land 250 | |
| 28 March 2008 - 22 June 2008 | Fondation Cartier, Paris, France |
| Photographs | |
| 9 October - 25 October 2008 | Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| objects of life | |
| 12 September 2008 - 25 October 2008 | Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia |
| Veil | |
| 19 March - 18 April 2009 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| PLOT/09 | |
| 27 June - End of Summer 2009 | Governors Island, New York, NY, USA |
| objects of life | |
| 6 January - 6 February 2010 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| Thirty Photos by Patti Smith | |
| 13 March - 1 April 2010 | Museum Hermann Hesse, Montagnola, Switzerland |
| Patti Smith & Christoph Schlingensief | |
| 22 June - 18 September 2010 | Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich, Germany |