| 1976 | geboren / born in Livonia, USA |
| | MFA, Columbia University New York, USA |
| | BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, USA |
| | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, USA |
| | Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, GB |
| | lebt und arbeitet / lives and works in New York, USA |
| 2012 | „Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA (10 Nov 12 – 13 Jan 13) |
| | „Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels”, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA (15 Jan – 26 Feb) |
| | “Götterdämmerung, Dana Schutz”, The Arnold and Marie Schartz Gallery Met, The Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY, USA |
| 2011 | „Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels”, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, USA (25 Sep – 18 Dec) |
| | „Dana Schutz: Drawings and Prints”, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA (7 Jan – 20 Mar) |
| 2010 | „The last thing you see”, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (20 Nov - 18 Dec) |
| | “Dana Schutz”, Museo Di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (MART), Rovereto, Italy (23 Oct 10 - 9 Jan 11) |
| | „Tourette’s Paintings” , The Douglas Hyde Gallery,Dublin |
| 2009 | „Missing Pictures”, Zach Feuer, New York, USA |
| 2008 | „If it appears in the desert“, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (15 Mar – 26 Apr) |
| 2007 | „Stand by Earth Man“, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2006 | „Dana Schutz. Paintings 2002-2006”, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA (29 Sep – 30 Dec) |
| | „Dana Schutz. Paintings 2002-2005”, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA (19Jan – 9 April) |
| 2005 | „Teeth Dreams and Other Supposed Truths”, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2 Sep – 3 Oct) |
| 2004 | JCCC / Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, USA (25 May – 20 Jun) |
| | „Panic“, LFL Gallery, New York, USA |
| | „Self eaters & the People who love them”, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, FR |
| | Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, USA |
| 2002 | „Frank From Observation“, LFL Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2011 | “Hareng Saur : Ensor and Contemporary Art”, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, B (31 Oct 10 - 27 Feb 11) |
| | „Alles Kannibalen“, Me Collectors Room, Berlin, DE / “Tous Cannibales?”, La Maison Rouge, Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris , F (29 Mai – 21 Aug) |
| | “Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection”, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, USA (12 Mar – 10 Jul) |
| 2010 | “Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism”, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (12 Sep 10 – 30 Jan 11) |
| | “Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art”, Wichita State University, KS |
| | „The 185th Annual: An Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”, National Academy Museum, New York, NY (17 Feb – 8 Jun) |
| 2009 | „Something About Mary”, Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, New York, USA |
| | “Transitions. Painting at the (other) End of Art”, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, I |
| | “Saints and Sinners”, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham (MA), USA (15 Jan – 5 Apr) |
| 2008 | „5000 Jahre Moderner Kunst – Painting, Smoking, Eating", Villa Merkel, Esslingen |
| | „Eclipse”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SWE (31 May – 24 Aug) |
| | „Live Undead“, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, GB |
| 2007 | „USA today”, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RUS (24 Oct 07 – 13 Jan 08) |
| | „Past, Present, Future Perfect: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection”, H + R Block Artspace, Kansas City, USA |
| | „Fractured Figure”, Deste Foundation, Athen / Athens, GR |
| | „From here to infinity“, Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, USA |
| | „NeoIntegrity”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA |
| | „Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz Collection”, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA (14 Jul – 28 Oct) |
| | „Art in America: 300 Years Of Innovation”, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, CHN (1 May – 30 Jun) |
| | „Hammer Contemporary Collection”, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (21 Apr – 12 Aug) |
| | „Poets on Paintings”, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, USA (22 Apr – 5 Aug) |
| 2006 | „USA Today, Royal Academy of Arts, London, GB (4 Oct – 4 Nov) |
| | „Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse“, Musée les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR (22 Sep – 15 Oct) |
| | „Imagination Becomes Reality“, Sammlung Goetz, München / Munich (23 Oct 06 – 20 Jan 07) |
| | „Once Upon a Time in the West“, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (10 Jun – 29 Jul) |
| | „Full House – Gesichter einer Sammlung“, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (2 Apr – 22 Oct) |
| 2005 | “Take Two. Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection“, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (14 Sep 05 – 3 Jul 06) |
| | “The Oppenheimer Collection”, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, USA |
| | “Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art”, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, USA |
| | “Drawn to Cleveland”, MoCA, Cleveland, USA |
| | “Closer to Home”, 48th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Museum, Washington D.C., USA (19 Mar – 27 Jun) |
| | „The Triumph of Painting. Part II“, The Saatchi Gallery, London, GB |
| | „Greater New York 2005”, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA (13 Mar – 22 Sep) |
| | „POST MODERN“, Green Naftali Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2004 | „Direct Painting“, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
| | „Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker“, Brent Sikkema, New York, USA |
| | „Unforseen: Four Painted Preditions“, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, USA |
| | „Now Is A Good Time“, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA |
| | „Painting 2004“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB |
| | „The Dreamland Artist Club“, Creative Time / Coney Island, New York, USA |
| | „It’s a Wonderful Life: Psychodrama in Contemporary Painting“, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, USA |
| | „When I Think About You I Touch Myself“, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA |
| | „Eye of the Needle“, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2003 | „Group Show“, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA |
| | „Material Eyes“, LFL Gallery, New York, USA |
| | „Clandestine“, Venice Biennale, Venedig / Venice, IT |
| | „Lazarus Effect“, Prague Biennale, Prag / Prague, CZE (26 Jun – 24 Aug) |
| | „Drawings “, Metro Pictures, New York, USA |
| 2002 | „Cut, Pulled Colored & Burnt“, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA |
| | „Young, Free and Single“, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, DK |
| | „Loaded “, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, USA |
| | „Dana Schutz / Holly Coulis“, LFL Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2001 | „Portraits“, PS. 1 / MOMA, New York, USA |
| | „New Angeles“, University Galleries, Bloomington - Normal, USA |
| | „Choose Your Own Adventure“, Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, New York, USA |
| | „Bloodlines“, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2000 | „Atavism“, Inside Gallery, Tremont, USA |
| | „BFA Exhibition“, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, USA |
| | „Cold Exchange“, Akron Icehouse, Akron, USA |
| | „Luddites in Love“, Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts, Cleveland, USA |