Peter Friedl's work has been exhibited internationally, including at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Hamburger Kunsthalle. He has participated in documenta X, 12, and 14 (1997, 2007, 2017); the 48th and 56th Venice Biennale (1999, 2015); the 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2004); Manifesta 7, Trento (2008); the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008); the 28th Bienal de São Paulo (2008); La Triennale, Paris (2012); the Taipei Biennial (2012, 2016); the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014); the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale (2015); the 1st Anren Biennale (2017); and Sharjah Biennial 14 (2019).
Selected solo exhibitions include OUT OF THE SHADOWS, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2004); Work 1964–2006, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2006), Miami Art Central (2007), Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille (2007); Blow Job, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (2008); Working, Kunsthalle Basel (2008); Peter Friedl, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2010); The Dramatist, Artspace, Auckland, (2014); The Diaries, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2016); Teatro Popular, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon (2017); Teatro, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2019) and Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes (2019-20); No pray, no pay, Guido Costa Projects, Turin (2021); Report 1964-2022, KW Institut for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022).