Polaroids 1998 - 2012, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Nitéroi, Brasil
The Allochtone, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium

Artifactual Realities, The FotoFest 2010 Biennial, 2012 in Houston, Texas, USA
Intranquillités, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium
Charif Benhelima: Polaroids 1998-2012, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium

Roots II – In Memoriam, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Semites, Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium
I was, I Am, Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin, Germany

Welcome to Belgium, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, USA
VOLTANY, Crown Gallery, NY, USA

Roots I, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

Black-out: Vlaams-Nederlands huis deBuren, Brussels, Belgium.
Black-out: De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Harlem on my mind - I Was, I Am, v-editie, Antwerp, Belgium.

Semites, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Gmbh, Berlin, Germany.
Harlem on my mind, Huis Van winckel, Dendermonde, Belgium.
Welcome to Belgium, Forum Fnac, Brussels-Ghent-Liege, Belgium.

I was, I am, Gallery Kusseneers, 1999-2002, Antwerp, Belgium.
Passage-Shirin Neshat./ Welcome to Belgium-Charif Benhelima. Forum ModeNatie (MoMu) Antwerp, Belgium.

Tussen stompzinnigheid en waanzin: foto’s, Museum of Modern Art (PMMK), Oostende, Belgium.

Artifactual Realities, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, USA

Masterpieces, MAS | Museum Aan de Stroom Antwerp, Belgium
The Orient, Mind the Book, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

Unfixed, The Center for Contemporary Art (CBK), Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Volta 6, Crown Gallery, Basel, Suisse
Rencontre, Musée des Oudayas, Rabat, Morocco
Résonance: artistes contemporains marocains du monde, Musée de Marrakech, Morocco
The FotoFest 2010 Biennial, the Thirteenth International Biennial of Photography, 2010 in Houston, Texas, USA

A Story of the Image, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore.
Tetris, BPS22 Charleroi, Belgium.
The Ornamental Body - Witte Zaal, Gent, Belgium.
Adding Subtractions, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Summer in the City, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
A Story of the Image, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
Fading, Musee d’Ixelles,Brussels, Belgium.
Nós, Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Architecture in the picture, Bozar, Centre for Fine art, Brussels, Belgium.
The Collection XXII FANTASY, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium.
Mimétisme, Extra City / Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium.

The Collection XXI, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium.
Portraits de l’autre, Musee d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Abraço, Espaço Chiado, Lisboa, Portugal.
Portraits de l’autre, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France.
Invisibility, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Sabotage of reality, Batagianni Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Berlin Tendenzen, Palau de la Virreina - La Capella, Barcelona, Spain.

Photo Based - Visual Art and Photography, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium.
Démarcations, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France.
Monopolis, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
In Between, Pferdestall Gmbh, Festival der kulturen, Hamburg, Germany.
Razao e Sensibilidade, Encontro com Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Costanti Diversità – Premio Del Golfo La Spezia 2004, Biennale Europea Arti Visive La Spezia,
Centro Arte Moderna a Contemporanea Della Spezia (CAMeC) La Spezia, Italia.
Walk of Fame, Photokina, Cologne, Germany.
Rencontres Internationales de La Photographie, Arles, France.

A Look at art Belgium in the Nineties, Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA) Antwerp, Belgium.

Open Studio, International Center of Photography (I.C.P.), New York City, U.S.A.

ATTACK! Arti et Amicitiae: Holland festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Ouverte, Museum of photography, Charleroi, Belgium.

Flemish Parliament, Harlem on my mind, Brussels.
Panorama Belgica, Crown Gallery, Santander, Spain.
Two in One, benefit auction of 100 contemporary artworks from the Appel /Witte the With, Christie's Amsterdam

Art integration UZ Brussels, permanent installation Look-Out + exhibition, Brussels.
Yearbook Architecture Flanders, VAI, Belgium.
Curator of ‘Untitled’ (zonder Titel), MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium.

HISK laureate at Lineart Playground, Lineart 2005, Flanders Expo, Gent, Belgium.
10 years Art Forum Berlin, Germany.

Today’s Heroes - Charif Benhelima, Flanders House, London, U.K.

The Allochtoon, Bps22, Charlerloi

Semites, The Album, Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent

Harlem on my mind - I Was, I Am, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln, Deutschland
(Texts: James Harithas, Caryl Phillips, Daniella Géo)

Harlem on my mind - I Was, I Am, v-editie, Antwerp, Belgium.
(Text: Caryl Phillips)

Welcome to Belgium, Ludion, Ghent-Amsterdam, Belgium-The Netherlands.
(Text: Luc Tuymans)

Iaspis: Swedish Visual Arts Fund's international programme, Malmö, Sweden

Kamp Kippy 2010 (A.S.A.P), Mount Desert Island, ME, USA

The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.

Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.

International Center of Photography, New York City, U.S.A.

Higher Institute For Fine Arts, Flanders – Antwerp, Belgium.

Higher Institute Sint Lucas, Brussels, Belgium.
Master in the plastic Arts, Training Photography-Film.