Hangar 107 in Rouen included Thomas Canto in La Collective, a group exhibition held in 2020 with Aryz, Tania Mouraud, Rero and Tilt, among others. He had first exhibited at the art centre in 2018, in Objet Impossible, his duo show with Rero.
Thomas Canto took part in Materia, a group exhibition at Bermel von Luxburg Gallery in Berlin in 2020, alongside Fred Eerdekens, Lev Khesin and Robert Pan. The title echoed Materia in Abstraction, the gallery’s presentation of his work at Cologne Art Fair in 2018.
Absolute Abstraction, presented by VV Art Salon with Matthew Liu Fine Arts in Shanghai in 2025, explored abstraction beyond representation, as a way of engaging perception and thought. Thomas Canto exhibited alongside Candida Höfer, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Renato Nicolodi, Alberto Peral, Shi Zhiying and Shen Chen, among others. The exhibition ran into January 2026.
Fabien Castanier Gallery included Thomas Canto in its 2013 Winter Group Show in Los Angeles, alongside JonOne, Speedy Graphito, Rero and Risk. The same year, the gallery also presented Parallels, his duo show with L’Atlas.
Thomas Canto took part in the 2015 Summer Show at Matthew Liu Fine Arts in Shanghai, alongside Javier Martin and Alberto Peral. A year later, the gallery gave him his solo show Gravitational Transparencies.
A Posture of Space, curated by Fritz Huang at the J7 Art Museum in Shanghai in 2024, brought together seven artists working across video, mechanical installation, painting and sculpture. Thomas Canto exhibited alongside Gao Ruyun, Huang Zhe, Lou Ye, Lu Sisi, Tess Dumon and Nathan Zhou, with the support of Matthew Liu Fine Arts. The exhibition ran from July to October.
Thomas Canto took part in the group exhibition that opened Art Club at Epoxy in Rouen in October 2021, alongside Shepard Fairey, Tania Mouraud, Henry Chalfant, Rero, Tilt and Olivier Kosta-Théfaine, among others. Rouen had already hosted his duo show with Rero at Hangar 107 in 2018.
American Psycho, a group exhibition organised by Volery Gallery in Dubai in 2021, was curated by Rom Levy and Massine Benoukaci. It took its cue from the film adapted from Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel, and from its portrait of a corrupt, superficial business world.
Thomas Canto exhibited with Roby Dwi Antono, Ana Barriga, Aryoh Toh Djojo and Richard Wathen, in a show that moved between materialism, consumerism and anger. A year later, Volery presented Etherealities, the solo project that led him to settle in Dubai.
Prism Fantasy, held at Paradise Art Space in Incheon in 2019, examined light as an artistic medium, at the meeting point of art and science. The exhibition was organised around four properties of light: reflection, infinity, spectrum and illusion. Thomas Canto exhibited alongside Olafur Eliasson, Daniel Buren, Lee Bul, Jeppe Hein, Gabriel Dawe and Ivan Navarro, among others.
Canto presented Levitating Structured Inertia (2019), a suspended star-like structure in aluminium and PMMA, 350 × 400 × 300 cm, hovering in a tunnel of shifting coloured light. He also showed Exponential Urban Symphony, an immersive installation of mirrors, painted panels and projected video. Paradise Art Space is the art venue of the Paradise City resort near Incheon International Airport.
Matthew Liu Fine Arts’ winter group show in 2018 brought together Thomas Canto, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo and Vik Muniz in Shanghai. Canto showed the diptych Inertia Radiances (2016), in which two semi-symmetrical stars burst outward in radiating lines, squares and circles.
The gallery’s text placed his work between graffiti, which he began practising in 1995, and the legacy of early Constructivism, the Optical Art of the 1960s and the Conceptual art of the 1970s. Arranz-Bravo showed Boxer’s Corner (2015), and Muniz works from his Metachrome series.