 Cumming's major solo exhibitions, beginning with photography and sound installations, include "Reality and Motive in Documentary Photography" (New York and Paris, 1986), "The Mirror, the Hammer and the Stage" (Chicago, 1990), "Diverting the Image" (Windsor, 1993), "Pretty Ribbons" (Arles, 1994), "Harry’s Diary" (New York, 1994), "Les Pleureurs" (Paris, 1995), "La Répétition" (Lausanne, 1996), "Barber’s Music" (Ottawa, 1999), "Moving Stills" (Montreal, 1999 and Rotterdam, 2000), and "Gimlet Eye" (Cardiff, 2001).In 2005, "Moving Pictures", curated by Peggy Gale at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), presented a survey of Cumming's work in a variety of media, including video, photography, and mixed-media and featuring the large-scale encaustic collage "Prologue and Epilogue", which went on to be featured in "Donigan Cumming