2009

Past/Present: Andrew Verster 12 November 2008 - 22 March 2009
'It's not easy' and 'Walking Man' 7 October - 22 March 2009
Patriarch Until 15 March 2009
Voices of the Ancestors: African Musical Instruments from Iziko Collections 24 September 2008 - 15 March 2009
William Kentridge: "I am not me, the horse is not mine'  11 December 2008 - 8 March 2009

2008

Stephen Shore: Colouring American Photography 24 September – 23 November 2008
Romantic Childhood Ended 2008
Fabrications: Drapery and dress in works from the Iziko Collection Ended 2008
Children's Photography Exhibition 1 October - 1 November 2008
Albert Adams Retrospective Exhibition 19 July - 26 October 2008
Forty Years of Friendship: The friends of the SA National Gallery: 1968–2008 Until 28 September 2008
Women for children 9 - 31  August 2008
Pancho Guedes: An Alternative Modernist Until 31 August 2008 Ernest Cole: Chronicler in the House of Bondage Ended 13 July 2008
Cecil Skotnes: A Private View 17 April - 18 July 2008
Reality Check Ended 8 June 2008
Dungamanzi / Stirring Waters: Tsonga and Shangaan Art from Southern Africa Ended 8 June 2008
‘Messina/Musina’ Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007: Pieter Hugo Ended 4 May 2008
The Sasol Wax Art Award 2007
Why Collect? New Acquisitions made by the Iziko Art Department, 2005–2006
Work by Willie Bester Ended 13 April 2008
The DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Architecture Ended 30 March 2008
Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations Ended 13 January 2008

2007

Imbacu: Art from the Inside/Outside Until 14 October 2007
Invoice: A Survey Show of the Work of Santu Mofokeng 2007
Art from Rorke’s Drift Until 14 October 2007
The Sneeze 80 x 80: A Featured  Film Until 28 October 2007
Like Father Like Son? Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2006: Churchill Madikida 2007
Singing the Real – An Exhibition of Contemporary Irish art Until November 2007
Works by Andrew Murray (1917-1998) 2007

2006

Visual Trajectories - Art from India 2006
Facing the Past: Seeking the Future - Reflections on a Decade of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 2006
Intsimbi Beadwork from South Africa 2006
Picasso and Africa 2006
Second to None: Celebrating 50 Years of Women's Struggles 2006
Gerard Sekoto - From the Paris Studio 2006
Wim Botha: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2006

2005

Revisions: A Narrative of South African Art. The Campbell-Smith Collection 2005
Voice-overs: Wits writings exploring African artworks
The Standard Bank Collection of African Art, University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries)
New Light on Old Masters
William Kentridge Retrospective
Handspring Puppet Company Episodes

2002

A Broken Landscape Until 14 April 2002 
Walter Oltmann 14 March - 14 April 2002 
Positive Lives:  1 December-31 March 2002 
Birds of a Feather...  Until 24 February 2002 
Fresh: Moshekwa Langa 22 January - 5 February 2002 

2001

Can't forget, can't remember 1 October -18 November 2001 
Surviving the Lens 24 September-18 November 2001 
Narratives, Rituals and Graven Images
Exchange Values 21 April - 26 August 2001
Soul of Africa - Ame d'Afrique 19 May - 12 August 2001
Inferno and Paradiso 21 April - 1 July 2001
Head North 25 February - 1 May 2001
Hoerikwaggo November 2000 - April 2001
ReCollection: 130 years of acquiring art for the Nation 1871 - 2001 

2000 and earlier

The Loom of Life: African Attire from the Iziko Collections
Albert Adams
Beyond the Material: Conceptual Art from the Permanent Collection
SoftServe 5 November 1999
Eye Africa 19 December 1998 - 27 February 1999
Jane Alexander's Butcher Boys
Cecil Skotnes Retrospective
Triumphal Arch and Beyond Natale Labia Museum 19 July - 16 November 1997
PhotoSynthesis Grahamstown 3 - 31 July 1997
Contemporary South African Art 1985 - 1995
Isintu 21 March - 6 June 1999
What is an artist's print? Natale Labia Museum 2 September - 12 November 1995
Objects of defiance 10 May - 9 July 1995
Room one exhibition 1995