2024
- Earth Photo-Photoworks Award - awardee, UK.
- La Ima - Les Arches Citoyennes 3 Place de I'Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France (7th - 11th June)
- UNESCO Water Museums Network | Brazilian Waters Museum - artist talk, Online (11th March)
- Becoming Visible - Autograph, London, UK (online)
- A Selva que nos Habita, Lisbon (21st March - 30 April)
- Fronteras / Fronteiras - Infinito Blanco ediciones & Lovely House casa de livros, Latin America
- Pierre Verger Photography Prize Exhibition - Bahia Art Museum, Salvador, Brazil (1st January - 17 March)
- Earth Photo 2024 Exhibition - The Royal Geographical Society, London, UK (18th June - 21st August)
- Open Fire - solo show, West Downs gallery, Winchester, UK (2rd October - 16th November)
2023
- POY Latam Carolina Hidalgo Vivar Prize - awardee, Latin America.
- Pierre Verger Photography Prize - shortlisted, Brazil.
- Photoville - Griffin Museum of Photography & Photoville, various outdoor spaces throughout Boston and Winchester cities, USA (June - September 2023)
- Festival On/Off Arles - Brasil Imprevisto, Court of the archdiocese, Arles, France (4th - 7th July)
- Leviathan, From the Forest to the Sea: More-Than-Human Collaborations. Roundtable. Touchstones gallery. Rochdale, UK (21st June)
2022
- LOOK Photo Biennial - Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK (15th July - 04th September)
- Geografías de Ser - various sites, Trujillo, Chiclayo y Piura, Peru (October-November)
- Fotógrafas Analógicas - artist talk, Studio Fótico, online, Brazil (8th March)
- Photography-based Research and the Environmental and Political Agendas - artist talk, Intersections between Culture, Arts and Nature, University of Winchester, Winchester, UK (20th April)
- Mulher no Plural: Múltiplas Perspectivas - collective show, Gustavo Capanema Political-Cultural Space | online, Brazil (3rd January - 8th March)
- Regime de Fogo - collective show, UnB, Brasília, Brazil (17th September - 21st October)
2021
- Dead Water - solo show, PHotoEspaña, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain (10th September - 9th October)
- National Arts Foundation Marc Ferrez Photography Prize 2021 - awardee, Brazil.
- EI Photobook Award - collective show, Encontros da Imagem International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Largo do Paço gallery, Braga, Portugal (17th September - 31st October)
- Rituels photographiques, rituels de résistance - collective show, Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles, Galerie Huit Arles, Arles, France (8th July 2021)
- Open Fire - artist talk, 3rd Colloquium of Intermedia Art, Espaço F, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (27th October)
- Voices of Latin America - The Rights of Nature and Indigenous Peoples, talk, online (8th May)
- Fotofalando - artist talk, Resumo Fotográfico magazine, online (15th May)
2020
- PHotoEspaña Discoveries Prize 2020 - awardee, Spain.
- Amazônias - panel discussion, live streaming, Tiradentes Photography Festival from Brazil (23rd November 2020)
- Extracting Us - collective show, ONCA Gallery, Brighton, UK (3rd August - 25th September 2020)
- Reframing Brazil - collective show, North Gallery, New Haven, USA (November 2020)
- Fotodemic - featured work: Nine Spaces, online gallery, USA (July 2020)
- Photography and Socio-environmental Issues - artist talk, Paranapiacaba Photography Festival, live streaming from Brazil (6th April 2020)
- Rights in Focus Network: Rights and Arts Engagement - artist talk, Autograph, London/UK (15th February 2020)
- Amazon's Rising Violence and Disturbing Trends - artist talk, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oxford/UK (2nd February 2020)
- Costs - film screening followed by roundtable, Institute of the Americas, London, UK (05th February 2020)
- Costs - film screening followed by roundtable, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (04th February 2020)
2019
- Mostra SESC de Cinema - selected work: Costs, various cities/Brazil (1st November - 15th December 2019)
- Mostra do Filme Marginal - selected work: Costs, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (14th - 22nd September 2019)
- The Agrocultural Frontiers of the Amazon: Contested Histories, Emerging Cultures, National Territorialities - artist talk, Instituto Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho/Brazil (23rd August 2019)
- Dead Water - article by Sophie Wright on Dead Water, Lens Culture (July 2019)
- Mostra Cineclube em Ação / DAFB - selected work: Costs, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (August 2019)
- Cine.Ema - Festival de Cinema Ambiental - selected work: Costs, Cachoeiro de Itapemirim/Brazil (August 2019)
- Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2019 (Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles) - shortlisted
- Photo Lab - Dead Water, artist talk, Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths College, London/UK (14th June 2019)
- Dead Water - solo show, Conservatório da UFMG, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (26th June - 30th August 2019)
- Dead Water - Rivers, People, and Socio-Environmental Impacts in a Transdisciplinary Approach - exhibition and panel discussion, Conservatório, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (26th June 2019)
- 5a. Mostra de Cinema Feminista - selected work: Costs, Sesc Palladium, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (17th - 26th May 2019)
- Dead Water - solo show, Casa de Cultura Sobrado Quatro Cantos, Tiradentes/Brazil (13th May 2019)
- Tiradentes Photography Festival - Dead Water, artist talk, Sesiminas Yves Alves Cultural Centre, Tiradentes/Brazil (28th March 2019)
- Tiradentes Photography Festival - Dead Water, solo show, Casa de Cultura Sobrado Quatro Cantos, Tiradentes/Brazil (27th - 31st March 2019)
- Sob o Impacto das Águas - article by Jéssica Malta on Dead Water, Hoje Em Dia newspaper (25th February 2019)
- Voices of Latin America - book launch, RichMix, London/UK (18th January 2019)
2018
- Circuito Penedo de Cinema / 5a. Mostra Velho Chico de Cinema Ambiental - selected work: Costs, Penedo/Brazil (26th November - 2nd December 2018)
- Biennial Grant / Biennial for Fine Art & Documentary Photography - shortlisted
- Dead Water, artist talk, UnB, Brasília/Brazil (20th November 2018)
- Farnham Eco-Cinema - video screening and artist talk: Costs, Farnham Pottery, Farnham/UK (31st July 2018)
- Panel discussion, video screening, and solo show: Dead Water, Amnesty International, London/UK (5th - 29th July 2018)
- Alternative World Water Forum 2018 - exhibition: Dead Water, Brasília/Brazil (17th - 22nd March 2018)
2017
- Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award 2017 - shortlisted
- Fast Forward2: International Network Researching Women in Photography - artist talk, Memorial Minas Vale, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (25th July 2017)
- Somatic Shifts - collective show, Zandra Rhodes gallery, Rochester/UK (13th March - 5th April 2017)
2016
- New Wave - essay by Anna Fox and Felix Fox featuring the process behind Dead Water, Photoworks (March 2016)
- World Social Forum/Forum Social Mundial - presentation: Dead Water, Porto Alegre/Brazil (22nd January 2016)
2015
- Displaced Memories - article by Elizabeth Mistry on Dead Water, The Royal Photographic Society Journal (Issue 155, n. 11, November 2015)
- Encontro Fotográfico - artist talk, Instituto Revelare, Petrolina/Brasil (28th May 2015)
- LOOK: Liverpool International Photography Festival - collective show: Rewind, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool/UK (15th May 2015)
- Lishui International Photography Festival - collective show, Zhejiiang University of Media and Communication, Lishui/China (6th - 10th November 2015).
- Potomonth East London Photography Festival - collective show, Rich Mix, London/UK (6th - 29th November 2015)
- 31st CGP London Annual Open exhibition - collective show, CGP London, London/UK (8th - 23th August 2015)
- Paraty em Foco International Photography Festival 2015 - selected works: Luana (Multimedia) and On the Human Inability of Resurrecting Things (Portfolio), Brazil
2014
- The Royal Photographic Society 2014 Awards - awardee / RPS Postgraduate Bursary, UK
- Sertão Photography Festival, CUCA Square, Feira de Santana, BA/Brazil (21th - 24th August 2014)
- Photofusion Annual Salon - selected work: On the Human Inability of Resurrecting Things, Photofusion Gallery, London/UK (13th December 2013 - 24th January 2014)
2013
- Tiradentes Photography Festival – collective show: Missão: Gandarela, Museu Padre Toledo, Tiradentes, Minas Gerais/Brasil (7th - 9th March 2013)
2012
- Community as Transit and Stammering: On Dora García and Marilene Ribeiro’s collaborative blogs - lecture by Helena González Fernández - “Communautés impossibles/Impossible Communities”, Université Paris 8, Paris/France (6th - 7th December 2012)
- Presentation: Luana (ou como chamar Luciana), Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona/Espain (4th October 2012)
- International Art Residence Programme LabMIS 2012 (MIS-Museu da Imagem e do Som - SP) - awardee / photographic research: Luana, at Can Xalant, Mataró/Spain (September - October 2012)
- 2nd. Belo Horizonte Photography Week - A hora da chuva seca (as part of the collective show Missão: Gandarela), Espaço 104, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (14th August - 9th September 2012)
- Biomas Brasileiros - retratos de um país plural - published photograph, Conservation International – Brazil, Casa da Palavra ed., 326 pages, 2012
2011
- Collective Body - Natural Landscapes, object-book by Marilene Ribeiro and Dominic Clark – collective show , Concourse Gallery - Broadcasting Place, Leeds/UK (28th January - 25th February 2011) and UFMG Cultural Centre Gallery, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (9th September - 8th October 2011)
- Fórum Mineiro de Fotografia Autoral - Meio series, Espaço 104, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (17th - 28th August 2011)
2010
- ESSO Journalism Prize 2010 – concept and text: Thiago Herdy / photography: Marilene Ribeiro - Nos passos de Jean, Estado de Minas (July 2010 newspaper)
- New York Times 2010 - Lens blog: A Moment in Time / most recommended photographs: Newborn Plain Tiger
2009
- Leica-Fotografe 2009 / SP Photo Fest 2009 Prize – honorable mention: João Victor
- Leica-Fotografe 2009 / SP Photo Fest 2009 Prize – shortlisted: Legado Tropical
- Manuelzão Project (commissioned artwork): Arrudas visto de perto - urban intervention, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (13th May 2009)
2008
- Revelados - Arts and Workmanship Museum, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (19th September - 12th October 2008)
- Vasto mundo - text: Izabela Barata and Ana Carolina Neves / photographs: Marilene Ribeiro, Sagarana magazine (nº 31, August 2008)
2007
- Ar de Luz – by Henrique Teixeira and Marilene Ribeiro, Guignard/UEMG Art Gallery, Belo Horizonte/Brazil (2nd. February - 30th March 2007)
- FOTORIO 2007 - collective show, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (5th August - 8th September 2007)
2006
- Gente Vertente, Sertão - essay and photographs by Marilene Ribeiro, Caros Amigos (October 2006)
- Estado de Minas, O Globo, O Tempo, Hoje em Dia (newspapers); RPS, Fotografe Melhor, and Manuelzão (magazines) - published photographs