- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;
- Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane;
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
- University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane;
- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane;
- Griffith University, Brisbane;
- Artbank, Sydney;
- Gold Coast City Art Gallery;
- Flinders University, Victoria;
- Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville;
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa;
- Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2013 – A Suppository of All Wisdom, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2011-2013 – Uz Vs. Them, touring Tufts University, Boston; University of Kentucky, Kentucky; Victoria H Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver; Indiana University Art Museum, Indiana.
2011 – You’d Believe Me If I Was A White Man, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2009 – I Am Not Sorry, Location One, New York, U.S.A.
2009 – Richard Bell: Provocateur, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
2008 – Scratch An Aussie, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2013 – My Country, I Still Call Australia Home, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2012 – Propositions, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2010 – 4th Auckland Triennal: Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, Auckland, New Zealand.
2009 – Terra Nullius, ACC Galerie, Weimar & HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany.
2007 – Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial, NGA Canberra.
2006 – Parallel Lives: New Painting in Australia, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne.
2013 – Creative Australia Fellowship, the Australia Council for the Arts.
2004 – Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
2003 – Winner, National Telstra Indigenous Art Award, Musum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory.
1993 – Winner, National Aboriginal Art Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre.
Richard Bell, Bell’s Theorem: Aboriginal Art – It’s a White Thing!, Published online at http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/great/art/bell.html, 2002.
Richard Bell, Richard Bell: Uz vs them, American Federation of Arts, New York, 2011.
Brenda L. Croft, “Aboriginal art: It’s a white thing isn’t it?”, Artonview 36 (2003-2004): 40-41.
Fiona Foley, “The art of politics/the politics of art”, Photofile 77 (2006): 80.
Bruce McLean, “Richard Bell: matter of fact”, Artlink 30, no. 1 (2010): 40-43.
William Pym, “Mockery gives way to magic”, Art AsiaPacific 69 (2010): 82-87.
Adam Geczy, “The air-conditioned desert: Curating aboriginal art”, Art Monthly Australia 250 (2012): 44-46.
-This interview was recorded for the ABC Radio program Weekend Arts, on July 13, 2013.
-This Youtube interview was filmed at the opening of Bell’s show ‘Lessons on Etiquette and Manners’, at Monash University Museum of Art. The video was published on March 18, 2013.
-This interview was recorded by the State Library of Queensland, as an educational tool for school students. It was uploaded on September 21, 2011.
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