| 2006 | Reuben Nakian: Twenty-Year Memorial Exhibition, Cavalier Galleries, Inc., Nantucket, Massachusetts |
| 2005 | Reuben Nakian: Terra cottas, 1955-1983, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2001 | Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Gremillion & Company Fine Art, Houston, Texas |
| Reuben Nakian, Selections from the Centennial Retrospective, Kouros Gallery, New York, New York |
| Reuben Nakian, Selections from the Centennial Retrospective, University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library, Storrs, Connecticut |
| 1999 | Reuben Nakian, University of Connecticut at Stamford, Art Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut |
| Reuben Nakian: Centennial Retrospective, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
| 1998 | Reuben Nakian: Centennial Retrospective, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania |
| Reuben Nakian: The Centennial Year, Kouros Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1997 | Reuben Nakian: Working the Image, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut |
| 1996 | Prelude to the Centennial, Kouros Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1994 | Reuben Nakian: Nymphs, Goats and Gods, Kouros Gallery, New York, New York |
| Gremillion & Company Fine Art, Houston, Texas |
| 1993 | Batuz Foundation, Dresden, Germany |
| 1991 | Reuben Nakian, Kouros Gallery, New York, New York |
| Gremillion & Company Fine Art, Houston, Texas |
| 1990 | Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Reuben Nakian, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Reuben Nakian: Sculpture, Drawings and Graphics, Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| Immortals of Antiquity, Belian Art Center, Troy, Michigan |
| Reuben Nakian, Galerie Basmadjian, Paris, France |
| 1987 | Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium |
| Batuz-Siftung, Schaumburg, West Germany |
| 1986 | Gremillion & Company Fine Art, Houston, Texas |
| Belian Art Center, Troy, Michigan |
| 1985 | Reuben Nakian: A Retrospective, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut |
| Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Works on Paper, DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, New York |
| Reuben Nakian, Flushing Gallery, Flushing, New York |
| Reuben Nakian, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut |
| 1984 | Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut |
| 1983 | Continuity and Change: The Nakian Tradition, Bergen Community Museum, Paramus, New Jersey |
| University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, Iowa |
| Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| 1982 | Reuben Nakian: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York |
| David Settles Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 1981 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. |
| Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1979 | Reuben Nakian: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| Landau/Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| 1978 | Reuben Nakian: New Sculptures, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1977 | Reuben Nakian; Drawings & Sculpture, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut |
| 1975 | Graham Gallery, New York, New York |
| Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut |
| 1966 | Nakian, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York |
| 1965 | Egan Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1964 | Egan Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1963 | Nakian, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. |
| 1962 | Reuben Nakian: Sculpture and Drawings, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California |
| Reuben Nakian, Egan Gallery, New York |
| 1961 | Estados Unidos: Nakian, VI Bienal, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 1960 | Egan Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1959 | Egan Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1958 | Nakian, Stewart-Marean Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1955 | Egan Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1954 | Egan Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1952 | Egan Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1950 | Egan Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1949 | Egan Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1935 | Portrait Heads of the Officials of the Present Administration by Nakian, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and at Downtown Gallery, New York |
| 1934 | Babe Ruth, Downtown Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1933 | Reuben Nakian: Portraits of 10 Artists, Downtown Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1930 | Reuben Nakian, Downtown Gallery, New York, New York |