2018 – Hanging Islands, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2017 – Charles Ross: Prisms, Solar Burns, and Explosion Drawings, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 – Charles Ross + James Case-Leal, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2013 – Charles Ross, Substance of Light, Salon 94, New York, NY
2012 – Charles Ross, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007 – Solar Burns and Dynamite Drawings, Braunstein-Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004-05 – Solar Burns, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico
1996 – Relaciones, Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
1995 – Projects with Light, Time, and Planetary Motion, Richard Humphrey Gallery, New York, NY
1992 – Star Axis, Johnson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1991 – Particle Light, Sena Galleries, Sante Fe, NM
1985 – Plaza of the Americas Gallery, Dallas, TX
1982 – Prisms and the Exploded Spectrum, Heydt-Bair Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1981 – Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1979 – The Colors of Light, The Colors in Shadow, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1977 – The Substance of Light, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Point Source/Star Space, John Weber Gallery and Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY
Charles Ross: Light Placed, M.I.T., Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1976 – The Substance of Light, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of PA, Philadelphia, PA
1975 – Point Source/Star Space, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
1974 – The Clocktower, New York, NY
1972 – Sunlight Convergence/Solar Burn, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1971 – Sunlight Dispersion, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
1969 – Charles Ross: Prisms, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
1968 – Prisms: Charles Ross, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
1968 – Charles Ross: Prisms, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968 – Daytons Gallery 12, Minneapolis, MN
1966 – Spirals, Columns, Lenses and Prisms, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1965 – An Environment by Charles Ross, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1965 – University of Kentucky. Lexington
1964 – White Art Museum Cornel University, IIthica, NY
1962 – Richmond Art Center Richmond, CA
1961 – Charles Ross, Norman Kanter, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA