Solo Exhibitions
1960 Image Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Lou Draper Photographs, The First Time Gallery, The Photo Workshop Center for Photography, Neptune, NJ
1989 Louis Draper: Black and White Photographs, St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center, Lawrenceville, NJ
Enter the City: Photograph by Louis Draper, Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ; traveled to Johnson & Johnson Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ
1995 Louis Draper: Photographs, Mariboe Gallery, The Peddie School Hightstown, NJ
1997 Kirby Art Center, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
1998 Louis Draper, May Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
2016 Louis Draper, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY
2020 True Grace, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
1959 Photography at Mid-Century, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1961 Four Photographers, Image Gallery, New York, NY
1964 Danbury Academy of Art, Danbury, CT
1965 The Negro Woman, Kamoinge Workshop, New York, NY
Market Place Gallery, New York, NY
Theme Black, Kamoinge Gallery, New York, NY
1966 Perspective: An Exhibition of Photographs by the Kamoinge Workshop, Countee Cullen Branch, The New York Public Library, NY
1969 Amherst College, Amherst, MA
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
1972 Kamoinge Workshop, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1973 Kamoinge Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1974 Kamoinge Workshop, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1975 Kamoinge, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1980 CAPS Grant Recipients, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
1983 Contemporary Afro-American Photography, Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
15th Annual Visual Arts Faculty Exhibitions, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
1984 Earth, Wind and Fire: Tiso, Draper, Colavita, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Alternative Visions, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
1989 19 Black Artists of the Capital County, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Daughters of Rachel, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
1990 Southern Visions III, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Photographs: Louis Draper & Aubrey J. Kauffman, Ridler University, Lawrenceville, NJ
From a Certain Perspective: Photographs by Five Americans, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
TAWA in the USSR, Soviet Artists Gallery, Moscow
1991 Reframing the Family, Artists Space, New York, NY
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
1993 Recent Perspectives in Landscape, Ellarslie, The Trenton City Museum, NJ
Diverse Representations II, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
1994 Kamoinge 1994, Countee Cullen Branch, The New York Public Library
Artists in Celebration of Racial Harmony, Pavillion Galleries, Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, Mount Holly, NJ
Exhibition and Auction, Sunshine Foundation, Hamilton, NJ
1995 Mel Leipzig & Louis Draper: Faculty Exhibition, The Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Trenton Takes – 24 Hours in the Life of a City (May 3, 1995), Trenton Artists’ Workshop Association (TAWA) Project, Ellarslie, The Trenton City Museum
When Trenton Baseball Roared Like Thunder, Ellarslie, The Trenton City Museum
1995-96 As Seen by Four: Mel Lepizig, Lou Draper, Marge Chavooshian, Tom Malloy, ArtWorks, Trenton, NJ
1999 Jazz Plus: An Exhibition of Photography, UFA Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Crossing Over: Computer-Inspired Art, The Gallery, Mercer County Community College
2001 Earthline Landscape, The Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ
2002 Ties That Blind: Images of Celebration, Adversity and Identity, Robert B. Merschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
2002-03 AS ONE: Kamoinge Acts Together, Institute of African-American Affairs, New York University, NY
2005 The Human Face, The Gallery, Mercer County Community College
2018 Soul of a Nation, Tate Modern, London, UK, Crystal Bridges, AR, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Public Collections
Afro-American Museum of Art and Culture, Chicago, IL
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Harlem Art Collection, the Harlem State Office Building, New York, NY
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library, NY
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
University of Ghana
University of Mexico, Mexico City
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY