As well as solo exhibitions, Kate Shaw’s work has been featured in numerous prestigious museum and international exhibitions. Notable museum shows include Good as Gold (2025) and Forever Now (2022) at Rockhampton Museum of Art, On Earth (2021) and New Psychedelia (2021) at UQ Art Museum, Aboreal (2011) Mirror Mirror (2020) at Macquarie University Gallery, and New Horizons (2020) Gippsland Gallery. Her work also toured nationally with Black Mist Burnt Country (2016–18), exhibited at major institutions including SH Ervin Gallery, Art Gallery of Ballarat, and Flinders University Museum of Art.

Internationally, Shaw has participated in exhibitions such as Surreal Sublime, (2019) Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Under the Subway at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York (2019), Paradise Lost at The Portico Library, Manchester (2017). Her work has been shown across Asia in exhibitions including Art from Australia at the Gail Art Museum, Seoul (2015), and Vertigo, a touring show across with Asialink (2014) at Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei and POSCO Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea . She has also participated in art fairs and residencies in San Francisco, Reykjavik, Hong Kong, London, and New York.