Stable Gallery, New York, Rauschenberg: Paintings and Sculpture, September 15–October 3, 1953. 

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Den inre och den yttre rymden: En utställning rörande en universell konst (The Inner and Outer Space: An Exhibition Devoted to Universal Art), December 26, 1965–February 13, 1966. no. 268

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, White Paintings 1951, October 12–26, 1968. 

Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Texas, Robert Rauschenberg: Selections, January 5–February 2, 1969. (not in cat.)

Ace Gallery, Venice, Calif., Rauschenberg White Paintings (1951), April 10–30, 1973. Traveled to Ace Gallery, Vancouver, June 1–16, 1973. 

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Black and White: Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, June 7–September 20, 1975. 

Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Rauschenberg, February 8–March 24, 1985. Traveled to Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, March 28–May 19, 1985. no. 1

Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York, Rauschenberg: The White and Black Paintings 1949–1952, April 18–May 31, 1986. 

Central House of Artists, Moscow, ROCI: Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, February 2–March 5, 1989. (not in brochure)

Neue Berliner Galerie im Alten Museum, Berlin, ROCI: Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, March 10–April 1, 1990. (not in brochure)

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, June 15–August 11, 1991. Organized by Menil Collection, Houston. Traveled to Menil Collection, Houston, September 27, 1991–January 5, 1992; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 8–April 19, 1992; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 14–August 16, 1992; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, October 24, 1992–January 24, 1993. 

45th Venice Biennale, Punti cardinale dell’arte (Cardinal Points of Art), June 13–October 10, 1993. (not in cat.)

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, The 2nd Hiroshima Art Prize: Robert Rauschenberg, November 3, 1993–January 16, 1994. no. 5

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, February 9–May 12, 1996. 

24th Bienal de São Paulo, October 3–December 13, 1998. (not in cat.)

Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, Oskuldens århundrade: Den vita monokromens historia (Century of Innocence: The History of the White Monochrome), September 16–December 17, 2000. Traveled to Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, January 27–March 25, 2001. 

Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, Sons et lumières: Une histoire du son dans l’art du XXe siècle, September 22, 2004–January 3, 2005. 

Gagosian Gallery, New York, Robert Rauschenberg, October 29, 2010–January 15, 2011. 

Menil Collection, Houston, Silence, July 27–October 21, 2012. Traveled to University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, January 30–April 28, 2013. 

Gagosian Gallery, London, The Show Is Over, October 15–November 30, 2013. 

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Postwar: Kunst zwischen Pazifik und Atlantik, 1945–1965 (Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965), October 14, 2016–March 26, 2017. 

Tate Modern, London, Robert Rauschenberg, December 1, 2016–April 2, 2017. Organized with Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York (as Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends), May 21–September 17, 2017; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (as Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules), November 18, 2017–March 25, 2018. (shown in New York only)

Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Fünf Freunde: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly (Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly), April 10–August 17, 2025. Traveled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne, October 3, 2025–January 11, 2026. 

Crehan, Hubert. “The See Change: Raw Duck.” Art Digest 27, no. 20 (September 15, 1953). p. 25

Den inre och den yttre rymden: En utställning rörande en universell konst. Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1965. Exhibition catalogue. no. 268, n.p.

Glueck, Grace. “Ben Shahn Shines On.” New York Times, October 13, 1968. sec. D, p. 39

Pincus-Witten, Robert. “New York: Robert Rauschenberg, Castelli Gallery.” Artforum 7, no. 4 (December 1968). p. 55

Olson, Roberta J. M. “A Retrospective: Castelli on Rauschenberg.” SoHo Weekly News (New York), March 24, 1977. p. 26

Rauschenberg. Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 1985. Exhibition catalogue. no. 1, n.p. (ill.)

Rauschenberg: The White and Black Paintings 1949–1952. New York: Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1986. Exhibition catalogue. n.p.

Feinstein, Roni. “The Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg: The White Paintings, the Black Paintings, and the Elemental Sculptures.” Arts Magazine (New York) 61, no. 1 (September 1986). pp. 28, 29 (ill. [install])

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). p. 87, n.p. (fig. 18)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 80, 82 (pl. 32), 158, 165, 189 (ill. [install])

Robert Rauschenberg: The 2nd Hiroshima Art Prize. Hiroshima: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993. Exhibition catalogue. no. 5, p. 54 (pl. 5)

Rosenthal, Mark. Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1996. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 150, 151 (fig. 153), 282 (ill.)

Nacking, Åsa, and Bo Nilsson, eds. Oskuldens århundrade: Den vita monokromens historia/Century of Innocence: The History of the White Monochrome. Malmö, Sweden: Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art; Stockholm: Liljevalchs Konsthall, 2000. Exhibition catalogue. p. 145 (ill.)

Sons et lumières: Une histoire du son dans l’art du XXe siècle. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2004. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 267 (ill.), 370

Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2010. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 51–52 (ill.)

Kamps, Toby, and Steve Seid. Silence. Houston: Menil Collection; Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2012. Exhibition catalogue. p. 46 (ill.)

The Show Is Over. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2013. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 104 (ill.), 105 (ill. [install])

Craft, Catherine. Robert Rauschenberg. London: Phaidon, 2013. p. 22 (ill. [install])

Roberts, Sarah. “White Painting [three panel].” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. 

Enwezor, Okwui, Katy Siegel, and Ulrich Wilmes, eds. Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965. Munich: Haus der Kunst; Prestel, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 196–97 (pl. 35), 822

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. p. 48 (pl. 10)

Dziewior, Yilmaz, and Achim Hochdörfer, with Arthur Fink, eds. Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly. Munich: Museum Brandhorst; Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 2025. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 19 (ill.), 39, 321