2013
Press & Release: An Exhibition of Artist's Books, Phoenix Brighton Gallery, Brighton, England.
2012
Random Art Exhibition, Ursa Major Gallery, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.
2002-2008
The Artist's Flat Files @ Pierogi 2000: Typing Paper Drawings
2001
Texas National 2001, SFA Gallery, Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, juried by Donald Sultan.
1999
The 36th Juried Exhibition, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, juried by Halley Harrisburg, Carey Lovelace & E. Thomas Williams Jr.
ANA 28, The Holter Art Museum, Helena Montana, Peter Plagens, curator.
Wild Things, New York University Law School Gallery, Wendy Gardner, curator.
Paradise 8, Exit Art, New York City, curated by Ingrid Schaffner & Kenny Schachter.
International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, curated by Lisa Dennison, Guggenheim Museum, NYC.
1998 New Directions ‘98, Barret House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY, curated by Eugenie Tsai, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Small Figurative Works, The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Momenta Art Benefit @ Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY & @ Greene Naftali, NYC.
PS 122 Benefit @ PS 122 Gallery, NYC.
1997
International Arts Festival, Momenta Gallery, Gramercy Park Hotel, NY City.
1994
A Piece of String, Mail Art Installation, The Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, England.
1990
Summer Group Show, The World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Mercury's Childhood, Installation at The Eve Drewelowe Gallery, The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, Iowa City, Iowa.
Hand Made Books, Johnson County Art Center, Iowa City, Iowa.
1989
New West, Gayle Weyher Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
Paintings by Jeff Loxterkamp and Harold Graves, White's Old Town Gallery, Pasadena, California.
Loxterkamp & Graves, Paintings, Johnson Art Center, Iowa City, Iowa.
Artists in Iowa, The Des Moines Art Center, curated by Linda Shearer, Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
1988
Artists in Iowa, The Des Moines Art Center, curated by Cornelia Butler, Artists Space, NYC.
1987
Recent Paintings, White's Old Town Gallery, Pasadena, California.
1986
Patrick Ellis & Harold Graves, Paintings, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, Arizona.
1985
Matthews Center Centennial Exhibition, Tempe, Arizona. Juried by Jules Heller, Dean, Fine Arts College, Arizona State University.
MFA in Painting and Printmaking, University of Iowa, 1990
BFA in Painting, Arizona State University, 1986
School of Visual Arts, 2008
Aegean Studio Art School, Samos, Greece, 1988
Yale Summer School of Music & Art, 1985
Art Center College of Design, 1982-83
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist’s Books Award, 1998.
Pilzer-Lynch Painting Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1989-90.
Nicholson-Nielsen Trust Award for Painting, National Society of Arts & Letters, 1986.
Dorothy & Bruce Strong Award for Painting, National Society of Arts Letters,1986.
Ellen Battel-Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Music & Art, 1985.
Drawings have appeared in Pierogi Press Number 9, The Village Voice, The New York Press, The Progressive, The Stranger,
New Observations #82, and in Entertainment Weekly.
The White Bicycle Gallery, (formerly known as 214 Gallery) published the following artist's books by Harold Graves:
Buildings and People (2009); Hamlet's Digest (1995); Yes, Father, the Lunar Module (1994); Chump (1993); Dream Asylum (1991)
Founding Director of The White Bicycle Gallery, 1991-Present.
Visiting Artist, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1993.
World of Birds Special Exhibits Fabricator, Bronx Zoo Exhibits Shop, New York City, 1991-92.