2023 Where the World is Melting, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2022 Where the World is Melting, Kunstfoyer Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, Munich
2020 Where the World is Melting, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavík
2018 Glacier, House of Sweeden, Washington D.C., USA.
2018 Glacier, Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík
2017 Gallerie Tre Ocy, Venice
2015 Vienna
2015 Isehrlon, Germany
2014 Faces of the North, Stadmuseum Schleswig, Germany
2014 Faces of the North, Katuaq, Nuuk, Greenland.
2014 Mirror of Life, The Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Reykjavík
2013 Faces of the North, Deutsches Zeitungsmuseum, Wadgassen, Germany
2013 Arion Bank, Reykjavík
2013 Impressions of Greenland, Campus des Cordeliers, Paris
2012 Last Days of the Arctic, Proud Gallery, London; Fotopub Festival, Novo Mesto, Slovenia; Gothenburg Book Fair, Gothenburg
2011 Immense and Fragile: A Tale of the North, Centro Culturale di Milano, Milan
2011 Last Days of the Arctic, Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund; Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø; Nordic Film, Lübeck; BIFF, Chagall Bar, Bergen
2010 Icelandic Pavilion, World Expo, Shanghai
2010 Faces of the Ages, Embassy of Iceland, Beijing; Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, Lanzhou
2010 Last Days of the Arctic, Gerðarsafn Art Museum, Kópavogur; Shackleton Museum, Athy, Ireland
2010 Faces of the Ages, Gerðarsafn Art Museum, Kópavogur
2010 Faces of the North, NICE Festival, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
2009 Projection of work at LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, Virginia
2007 Ragnar Axelsson, La Cohue, Musée des Beaux-arts, Vannes
2007 Iceland: Nature’s Mystery, FNAC, Milan
2006 transForm, Felleshus, Nordic Embassies, Berlin
2006 Iceland Today, Forum für Fotografie, Cologne
2005 Faces of the North, Austurvöllur, Reykjavík
2005 Paris Photo, Louvre, Paris
2005 Ragnar Axelsson: Photographs, FNAC, Marbella; FNAC Valencia
2004 Icelandic Encounters, Argus Fotokunst, Berlin
2004 Iceland, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg.
2004 Ragnar Axelsson, FNAC Italie 2, Paris
2003 Photo Festival of Val d’Orcia, Tuscany
2003 Festival Photo de Mer, Vannes
2002 Faces and Figures: Contemporary Scandinavian Photography, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee
2002 Un Mondo ai Confini del Mondo, Clic Art, Milan
2002 Icelandic Photography, House of Photography, Moscow
2001 The Leica Oskar Barack Prize, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles
2001 Faces and Figures: Contemporary Scandinavian Photography, Scandinavia House, The Nordic Center in America, New York
2000 Exhibition and screening of the North Atlantic Project, Visa Pour L’Image, International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan
1992 Tender is the North: Visual Arts from Scandinavia, Barbican Centre, London
1990 Round up for a Day, Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík