2011
Remarks on Colour, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
Julião Sarmento: Remarks on Colour.2, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Julião Sarmento: Remarks on Colour.3, Galeria Forste Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Julião Sarmento: Close Distance / Distancias Cortas, Curated by Adrian Searle, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Julião Sarmento, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
Julião Sarmento, Commissaire : Raphaela Platow, CAC, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
Julião Sarmento What Makes a Writer Great, Curated by João Pinharanda, Cinzeiro 8, Fundação EDP – Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
Julião Sarmento : 75 Fotografias, 35 Mulheres, 42 Anos, Curated by Sérgio Mah, Centro de Arte Contemporãnea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal
Julião Sarmento 2000 – 2010, Es Baluard d’Art Modern I Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Julião Sarmento Artists and Writers / House and Home, Curated by Terrie Sultan Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
Julião Sarmento Papel, Ivorypress Art + Books Space II, Madrid, Spain

2010
The Real Thing, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Monograph Room – Solo Display of Works in the Tate Modern Collection, Tate Modern, London, Royaume Uni
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, Royaume Uni

2009
Works on paper: Women and Houses and Plants… , Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
“Lacan’s Assumption” e “Toile”, Espaço BES Arte & Finança, Lisbon, Portugal
New Silhouettes Noires 2002-2003, Galerie de France, Paris, France
House of Games, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Grace Under Pressure, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil

2008
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

2007
Julião Sarmento one-man show, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Picture Show, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

2006
WITHHOLDING Works 1994 – 2006, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
Film Noir, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, ETATS-UNIS ; Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Ediciones numeradas 1972/2006, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
The Players, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

2005
Some Limits of Reason, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

2004
Echo, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2003
Parasite, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Galerie Jirí Svestka, Prague, République Tchèque
Julião Sarmento, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

2002
Works from the ’70s, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Domestic Isolation, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

2001
Obra Recent, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California, USA
Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Fortaleza de S. Tiago, Funchal, Madère, Portugal
What Makes A Writer Great, Porta 33, Funchal, Madère, Portugal

2000
Colecção Berardo 1917 – 1999, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Lisson Gallery at Covent Garden, Millenium Lofts, London, UK
On Language, Sean Kelly Gallery New York City, USA
Um Oceano Inteiro para Nadar/ Spanning An Entire Ocean, Lisbon, Portugal
Uma galeria é uma galeria é uma galeria, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Helena Almeida, Georg Baselitz, Francesco Clemente, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Long, Gerhard Richter, Julião Sarmento, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Rachel Whiteread, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
00 Drawings 2000, Brabara Gladstone Gallery, New York City, USA
Arte Portuguesa Contemporânea – Colecção MEIAC, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal
Die Intelligenz der Hand Europäische Zeichnungen von Picasso bis Beuys, Salzburg, Austria, Rupertinum
Snapshot An Exhibition of 1,000 Artists, Contemporary Museum  of Baltimore, Maryland
The Mnemosyne Project Encontros de Fotografia de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Colecção Banco Privado para Serralves, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“anos 60, 70, 80” Pintura Portuguesa, Antiks Design, Lisbon, Portugal
Het oorkussen van de Melancholie, The pilow of the Melancholy, Museum voor Schone Kunste, Gand, Belgium

1999
A Film Installation, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Julião Sarmento, Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles, Belgium
Directions –Julião Sarmento – Fundamental Accuracy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

1998
Veneno, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Julião Sarmento, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Suffering, Despair and Ascent, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

1997
Julião Sarmento – Pintura e Desenho, Galeria J.M. Gomes Alves, Guimarães, Portugal
XLVII Biennale di Venezia, Portuguese Pavillion, Palazzo Vendramini ai Carmini, Venice, Italy
Kitakyushu – Project Gallery, Urban Corpo, Kitakyushu, Japan
Werke 1981 – 1996, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
Suffering, Despair and Ascent, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

1996
Desenhos – Ilustrations for “Justine et Juliette” du Marquis de Sade, Lisbon, Portugal
Selfish, Proud, Cunning and Regardless of Others, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Two Rooms, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
The House with the Upstairs in it, London Projects, London, UK
Galeria da Universidade do Minho, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal

1995
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Laura and Alice, Galerie Béla Jarzik, Köln, Germany
Quatre Mouvements de la Peur, Edifício das Caldeiras, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal
Only a moment or two of brutal madness, Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles, Belgium

1994
The White Paintings, Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montréal, Québec, Canada
IVAM, Centre del Carme, Valence, Spain
Laura and Alice, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Münich, Germany
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
Pintura e Desenho, Galeria J. M. Gomes Alves, Guimarães, Portugal

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2022

Histórias de uma Coleção: Arte Moderna e Contemporânea da Fundação Gulbenkian, curated by Patrícia Rosas, Rita Fabiana, Leonor Nazaré and Ana Vasconcelos, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Belonging, The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland

2021
Matéria Luminal, curated by Sérgio Mah, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal

O Pequeno Mundo, A partir da coleção da CGD, curated by Sérgio Mah, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

Modus Operandi, Obras da Coleção de Serralves, curated by Philippe Vergne, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Afinidades Eletivas, Palácio de São Bento, curated by Delfim Sardo, Lisbon, Portugal

Entre as Palavras e os Silêncios, Obras de Coleção Norlinda e José Lima, curated by Luísa Soares de Oliveira and Andreia Guimarães, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal

A Collection without Boundaries – International Art since 1990, Galleria Civica d’Arte Morderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Sobressalto, Coleçao Norlinda e José Lima, Centro Artes Agueda, Agueda, Portugal

2020
Estudos de Luz Indícios, Reflexos e Sombras na Coleção de Serralves, Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Pulse, Carpintaria (Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Exposição Invisível, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Spectrum Colecção Centro de Artes Visuais / Encontros de Fotografia, CAV Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal

2019
Julião Sarmento / Luís Paulo Costa, Museu José Malhoa,Caldas da Raínha, Portugal
Expanded First Stone, Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy
Constellations une chorégraphie de gestes minimaux, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Hommage aux estampes de la vallée du fleuve Côa, Musée Côa, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal

2018
Arte Portuguesa. Razões e Emoções, MNAC Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal

2016
Dépense, Lab-Labanque Béthune, Béthune, France

2013
M&EX PLICIT, commissaire Luc Derycke, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Gand, Belgium
Planos de Expansão, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
VI Biennale de Jafre, Jafre, Spain
Fuso 2013 – Anual de Vídeo Arte Internacional de Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Capitale(s), Galerie Gourvennec Ogor, Marseille, France

2012
Galicia, Mon Amour. Folly, Fantasy and Phantasm, Commissaire : Danna Heller, BWA SOKOL Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nowy Sacz, Poland
Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
1960-2010 Arte Portuguesa no Seculo XX, Commissaire : Maria Emilia Tavares, MNAC Museo do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Juegos de Lenguage, Commissaire : Jose Jimenez, Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain
Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, Etats-Unis ; Museum de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Remote Viewing, Commissaire : Paul Young and Estelle af Malmborg,Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
O Castelo em 3 Actos : Assalto, Destruição e Reconstrução, Commissaire :Paulo Cunha e Silva, Paço dos Duques, Guimarães, Portugal
Supertemporal. A Selection of videos from LOOP/Screen from Barcelon, Commissaire : Paul Young and Estelle af Malmborg, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
6th Bienal Internacional de Gravura de Douro, Museu do Côa, Portugal

2010
Filmes e Vídeos da colecção do CAM, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Linguagem e Experiência. Obras da Colecção da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Centro Cultural Palácio do Egipto, Oeiras, Portugal
Exposição Colectiva de Pintura, Cordeiros Galeria, Porto, Portugal
La pieza que falta, Factoría Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Sous la Dictée de l’Image, Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon, Portugal

2007
Iniciativa X 07, AC – Arte Contempo, Lisbon, Portugal
Antena 3 – Deificar o homem, Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, Barbican, London, UK
Existencias, MEtats-Unisc – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Art Protects, Yvon Lambert – Paris, France
Le cinque anime della scultura, Cesac – Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy
On Memory, Johan Deumens, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Secuencias – 1976-2006. Arte contemporáneo en las colecciones públicas de Extremadura, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City,  USA
O debuxo por diante, CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, Spain

2006
VAC, IVAM – Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
THE 1980s – A TOPOLOGY, Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
CABINET D’AMATEUR II, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal
The invisible Show, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo di Fassa, Italy
Vigo Group Show, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
Contemporary Portugal, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lituania
Entre la palabra y la imagen, Fundación Luis Seoane, Coruna, Spain
Sin limites. Fotografias de la coleccion fundacao Serralves, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Kunst und Photographie, Photographie und Kunst, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Group Show, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israël
XX-Visões no Feminino, CAV – centro de artes visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
Territorio Oeste, MACUF Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa, Corogne, Spain
Anagramme, MAC’s Grand Hornu – Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium
Hollywood Boulevard, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Selected Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

2005
INICIATIVA X – 05, AC – Arte Contempo, Lisbon, Portugal
Group Exhibition, Galeria Antonio Henriques, Viseu, Portugal
Selected Drawings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
O contrato social, Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, Lisbon, Portugal
Romance, recommended institution Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Major Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Feminae, Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Obras entorno a la ciudad, CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain

2004
L’escalade du désir, Galerie Friedrich, Basel, Suisse
Sonderaktion Graphiken und Bücher, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Half a century of Portuguese Art 1944 – 2004, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Bloomsday 16. Juni 1904 – 16. Juni 2004, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany

2003
Colecção de arte contemporãnea da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
Group Show, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Graphische Suiten der Edition Bernd Klüser, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Long Term Loan Isabel Vaz Lopes, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
upon reflection…., Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Desire, Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna – GAM, Bologna, Italy
Nonlinear Editing, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
Learning From Africa, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Atom Egoyan / Julião Sarmento – Something is missing, Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Rotativa – Fase 2, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

2001
Group Exhibition, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Domestic Acts, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Desire, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Re-Location – on moving, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

2000
On Language, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

1999
Tage der Dunkelheit und des Lichts – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Portugal, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Linhas de Sombra, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão , Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

1998
Corpus Virtu, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany

Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon, Portugal

Casa do Infante, Câmara Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal

CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

CCA Kytakyushu, Kytakyushu, Japan
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal

Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal
Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Lisbonne, Portugal
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
Coleção BESarte, Lisbonne, Portugal
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA

Ellipse Foundation, Lisbonne, Portugal

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Fondazione Amelio, Naples, Italy

Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Turin, Italy
Fondo Artistico dello Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee della Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal

Fundação das Descobertas, Lisbon, Portugal

Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporãnea, Porto, Portugal

Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal

Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação Luso-Americana Para o Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal

Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal

Fundación “La Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
Galerija Grada, Zagreb, Croatia, Croatia

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Leichtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

MAC’s Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium

Madeira Corporate Services Collection (CMCS), Funchal, Portugal

Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden

McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ministerio das Financas, Lisbon, Portugal
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Uttica, New York, USA

Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France

Musée national d’Art moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal

Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain

Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal

Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Anvers, Belgium

Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA

Novagalicia Banco, A Coruña, Spain

New York Public Library, New York, USA

Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA

Regia di Caserta (Terrae Motus), Caserta, Italy

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, Lisbon, Portugal

SMAK, Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA

Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Stadt Museet, Lund, Sweden

Städtische Galerie, Erlangen, Germany

Städtische Galerie, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Städtische Galerie, Markt, Schwabisch Hall, Germany

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

The Israel Phoenix Assurance Co. Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York City, USA
The Saison Foundation, Takanawa, Japan

The Tate Collection, London, United Kingdom

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Washington State University Collection, Pullman, Washington, USA

BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)

2018
Julião Sarmento: Reel Time, Katy Noble, Cristina Guerra Contempoary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Timeline: Julião Sarmento, Delfim Sardo, Documenta / Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

2017
VOID * Julião Sarmento, Pedro Faro, Alexandre Melo and Sara Antónia Matos, Atelier Júlio Pomar Museum / Documenta, Lisbon, Portugal

2016
Julião Sarmento – The artist as he is, conversations with Sara Antónia Matos and Pedro Faro, Documenta – Cadernos do Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento: As Good As It Gets, João Silvério, Martina Munivara, and Branko Franceschi, Ustanova za kulturu, Galerija Kula, Split, Croatia
At the Edge of  Breathing, Miguel von Hafe Pérez, Fernando Rocha, and Guilherme Pinto, Blue Book / Matosinhos City Hall, Matosinhos, Portugal
Julião Sarmento: la chose, même – the real thing, Ami Barak, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France Two Twins. Matosinhos, Miguel von Hafe Pérez, Fernando Rocha, and Guilherme Pinto, Blue Book /Matosinhos City Hall, Portugal
Un Peso de Un Gesto: Colecciones “la Caixa”, MACBA y Gulbenkian, “la Caixa” Foundation, Barcelona
[V] or Simone de Beauvoir. Marguerite Duras., the artist, Estoril, Portugal

2015
Afinidades Electivas | Julião Sarmento Coleccionador, Fundacão EDP, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento shadow pieces on Body frames, João Silvério, Circulo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

2014
Julião Sarmento, Jacinto Lageira, MAMAC Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Julião Sarmento : Guest or Host?, David Barro, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
Show Time : The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, Jens Hoffman, DAP, New York, Etats-Unis
Julião Sarmento, The Selective Glance, Sergio Mah, Riccardo Passoni and Sanilo Eccher, Silvana Editorale, Milan, Italy

2013
JULIÃO SARMENTO : UNA FORMA EXTREMA DE PRIVACIDAD, Chrissie Iles, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexique
Julião Sarmento : Fado (Com Carminho), Projecto Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Cooperativa Arvore, Casino da Povoa, Parousia, Portugal
Regard Oblique, Essais sur la perception: La Lettre vole, Jacinto Lageria
Julião Sarmento, Prémio de Artes Casino Da Póvoa 2013, Olhar Animal, Portugal
One Hundred and Seventy One Entertainment Celebrities, MER Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent, Belgium
Julião Sarmento :  Fado (Com Carminho), Projecto Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon, Portugal
Sarmento, Julião. One Hundred Seventy One Entertainment Celebrities, MER Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent, Belgium

2012
Julião Sarmento: White Nights, Hatje Cantz, Germany
Julião Sarmento: Women, Houses, Plants (2008-2011), Edicoes Almedina, S.A., Portugal
Julião Sarmento : White Nights, Hatje Cantz, Germany

2011
Julião Sarmento 2000 – 2010, Cac Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Julião Sarmento : Artists and Writers / House and Home, Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, New York, USA
75 fotografias, 35 mulheres, 42 anos / Juliao Sarmento, Sergio Mah, Athena, Lisbon, Portugal
75 fotografias, 35 mulheres, 42 anos: Juliao Sarmento, Lisbon, Portugal

2010
Julião Sarmento – The Laura and Alice Series 1994/1997, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain
Julião Sarmento: Grace Under Pressure, Delfin Sardo, Estacao Pinoteca
The Real Thing Juliao Sarmento, Athena, Lisbon, Portugal

2009
Julião Sarmento 1992-1994, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain

2008
Literal: Juliao Sarmento, Centro Jose Guerrero, Grenada, Spain

2007
Julião Sarmento, Série “Silhuetas Negras” / The “Black Silhouette” Series, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento : Catalogue Raisonné, Galeria Arte Modern E Contemporanea, Lisbon, Portugal

2006
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
The Players – Julião Sarmento, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal
VAC: coleccion Valencia arte contemporaneo, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

2004
Juliao Sarmento, Paulo Herkenhoff, Eve Meyer-Hermann and Antonio Damaso, Echo, Spain

2003
Drift: A Work by John Baldessari, Juliao Sarmento, Lawrence Weiner, Grafica Maiadouro, Portugal
O Sonho de um Curioso, Anabela Mota Ribeiro, Dom Quixote, Lisbon, Portugal

2002
As imagens e as coisas, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Campo das Letras, Porto, Portugal

2001
Julião Sarmento Obra Recent, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Catálogo de la Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación “la Caixa,” Barcelona, Spain

2000
Julião Sarmento, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Julião Sarmento Slow Motion, ESTGAD, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
L’intelligenza della mano: da Picasso a Beuys, publié par Regione Autonoma Friuili–Venezia Giulia et Comune di Gorizia – Assessorato alla Cultura, Gorizia, Italy
Portugal Contemporâneo, João Pinharanda and António Costa Pinto, Madrid, Spain
Duplo constrangimento, Almeida Sequitur, Pinto de Bernardo, Porto, Portugal

1999
Julião Sarmento: Flashback, Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Julião Sarmento, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Panorama Arte Portuguesa no Século XX, Pernando Pernes and Alexandre Melo, BPI/ Fundacao Serralves/ Campo das Letras, Porto, Portugal
Matérias sensíveis, Maria Filomena Molder, Relógio d’Agua, Lisbon, Portugal
2000 Anos de Arte em Portugal, Paulo Pereira, Temas e Debates, Lisbon, Portugal

1998
Julião Sarmento, Galerie d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
John Murphy – Julião Sarmento: A Conversation Piece, publié par the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
Cinemacchine del desiderio, Teresa Macrì, Genova-Milano, Italy
Artes plásticas em Portugal dos anos 70 aos nossos dias, Alexandre Melo, Lisbon, Portugal
Alguns corpos: imagens da arte portuguesa entre 1960 e 1990, João Lima Pinharanda, Lisbon, Portugual

1997
Julião Sarmento: Casanova, Biennale de Venice (Pavillon Portugais), Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis
Suffering, Despair and Ascent, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis

1996
Le Petit dictionnaire des artistes contemporains, Pascale Thorel-Daviot, Paris, France
The 20th Century Art Book, London, UK

1995
Extremo Occidente, Arte portugués contemporáneo en la Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Rekalde, Bilbao, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Electa, Italy
Julião Sarmento: Werke 1981–1996, Haus der Kunst Munchen, Munich, Germany
Abstract and tartarugas, João Miguel Fernandes Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
História da arte portuguesa, Paulo Pereira, Lisbon, Portugal

1991
Depois de Amanha, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
Sarmento, IVAM, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain
Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Julião Sarmento – “The White Paintings.” Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Canada
Contemporary Art From Portugal: Western Lines, Hara Museum ARAC, Shinagawa, Japan
Julião Sarmento, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

1990
10 Contemporaneos, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Der Gefrorene Leopard/The Frozen Leopard, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Julião Sarmento, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Terrae Motus alla Reggia Di Caserta, Electa Napoli & Guida Editori, Caserta, Italy
Tripitico, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Pintura Portuguesa No seculo XX, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Porto, Portugal

1988
De Verzameling 11, Bert De Beul, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium
“Dias De Escuro E De Luz,” Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Julião Sarmento – Gemalde und Arbeiten auf Papier, Stadtische Galerie am Markt, Schwabisch Hall, Germany
Ultima Frontier – 7 Artistes Portuguesos, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Vom Haben Und Vom Wollen, Perspektiven Fur Eine Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Eine Ausstellung, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Haus der Kuns, Munich, Germany
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Atlantica, Porto, Portugal
Farbe Bekennen – Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Basler Privatbesitz, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel and Wiese Verlag AG, Basel, Suisse
Julião Sarmento-Obras Sobre Papel, 1981-86, publié par la Fundacion Luis Cernuda, Sevilla, Spain

1985
Julião Sarmento, Museo de Bellas artes de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Lusitanies – aspect de l’art Contemporain Portugais, Centre Culturel de l’Albigeois, Albi, France
Prospect 86, Franfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort, Germany
Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Julião Sarmento-As Velocidades Da Pele, Galeria Comicos Editores, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento-Bilder Und Zeichnungen 1986-1988, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Dicionario De Pintores E Escultores Portugueses, Fernando de Pamplona, Porto, Portugal
Historia da Arte Em Portugal, (Volume 13 – “De 1945 a actualidade”), Rui Mario Goncalves, Publicaoes Alfa, Lisbon, Portugal

1983
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Terrae Motus 1, Villa Campoliento, Ercolano, Italy
La Imagen Del Animal – Arte Prehistorico Arte Contemporaneo, Casa del Monte, Madrid, Spain
Kunst Mit Photographie, Frolich & Kaufman, Berlin, Germany
Depois Do Modernismo, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal
Arte Contemporanea Portuguesa/Portuguese Contemporary Art, Alexandre Melo et Joao Pinharanda, Lisbon, Portugal
Breve Introducao A Historia Da Pintura Portuguesa No Seculo XX, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Porto, Portugal

1982
Pinturas 1981/82, Casa de Bocage, Setubal, Portugal

1981
Erotik in Der Kinst Heute, JWOW Basto, Cerveira Pinto, Julião Sarmento, Leonel Moura, Cooperativa
Arvore, Porto, Portugal

1980
11^eBiennale de Paris, Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Quelques cineastes venus des autres arts, Ana Hatherly, in CinémAction, Paris, France

1979
Foto–Geschichten, Kunstforum International, Berlin, Germany
Julião Sarmento, Representation a la Biennale de Paris 1980, Secretaria de Estado da Cultura and Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Fotografie Als Kunst, Kunst Als Fotografie, Floris M. Neususs, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, Germany