| 2023 | | Guy Fino Tapestry Museum of Portalegre. “Helena Lapas. Fibre Art 1967-2023”. |
| 2019 | | National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon – “Poetics of the Surface and the Legacy of Time – Part II”. |
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| 2019 | | Galeria Ratton, Lisbon – “Poetics of the Surface and the Legacy of Time – Part I”. |
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| 2017 | | Galeria Ratton, Lisbon – “The Substance of Time”. |
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| 2012 | | Casa das Artes de Tavira – “Recent works”. |
| 2011 | | Municipal Gallery, Abrantes – “Recent works”. |
| 2010 | | Galeria Ratton, Lisbon – “Recent works”. |
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| 2007 | | Portuguese Cultural Centre, Sant’Antonio dei Portoghesi, Rome – “Arazzi e collage”. |
| 2003 | | Portuguese Cultural Centre, Luxemburg - “Tapeçarias e colagens / Tapisseries et collages”. |
| 2002 | | Galeria Trem, Faro. |
| 2001 | | Galeria Municipal de Loures. |
| 2001 | | Portuguese Cultural Centre, Brussels. |
| 2000 | | Municipal Gallery, Abrantes – “Collages and tapestries”. |
| 1999 | | Galeria Reverso, Lisbon. |
| 1997 | | Portuguese Cultural Centre, Cidade da Praia, Cape Verde – “Tapestries”. |
| 1996 | | The National Costume Museum, Lisbon - “Tapeçarias e Colagens de Helena Lapas”. |
| 1995 | | Portuguese Cultural Centre, Cidade da Praia, Cape Verde. |
| 1994 | | The British Council, Lisbon. |
| 1993 | | Portuguese Cultural Centres, Mindelo and Cidade da Praia, Cape Verde – “Tapestries”. |
| 1986 | | Galerie am Chamissoplatz, Berlin – “Austellung Helena Lapas”. |
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Fotos by Jürgen Henschel, FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum collection.
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| 1971 | | Galeria Judite Dacruz, Lisbon – “Helena Lapas”. |
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| 1968 | | Galeria Diário de Notícias, Lisbon - "Maria H. Lapas". |
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| 2025 | | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon - “The Power with which We Leap Together. Women Artists in Spain and Portugal between Dictatorship and Democracy”. |
| 2024 | | Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia - “The Power with which We Leap Together. Women Artists in Spain and Portugal between Dictatorship and Democracy”. |
| 2024 | | Contemporary Art Museum, Serralves Foundation. Porto - “Before and After. Visual Declensions of the 25th April”. |
| 2022 | | Portalegre Tapestry Museum- Guy Fino - “Art in the Feminine. Conceiving and Weaving”. |
| 2021 | | Galeria São Roque, Lisbon - “Sculpture, objects and ceramics by women artists.” |
| 2021 | | Galeria São Roque, Lisbon - “A Tribute to Women. Artists in the São Roque Collection”. |
| 2021 | | Gare Marítima de Alcântara, Lisbon - “100 Years 100 Artists” on the occasion of the Centenary of the PCP. |
| 2013 | | Galeria Reverso, Lisbon - “A Árvore.” (A Tribute to Ana Isabel Rodrigues.) 15th Anniversary Exhibition. |
| 2012 | | Fine Arts Society, Lisbon - “Fernando de Azevedo. A Text, a Work of Art”. |
| 2009 | | Armazém das Artes, Alcobaça - “Painting with Affection”. |
| 2009 | | Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - “The Seventies - Crossing Frontiers”. |
| 2007 | | 12th International Tapestry Triennial, Lodz, Poland, representing Portugal. |
| 2007 | | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon - “50 Years of Portuguese Art”. |
| 2003 | | Galeria Reverso, Lisbon - “5th Anniversary Show”. |
| 2002 | | Fine Arts Society, Lisbon - “A Hundred Years, A Hundred Artists”. |
| 2000 | | Cultural Centre, Ericeira - “A View of Paradise”. |
| 2000 | | I Portuguese Contemporary Tapestry Meeting, Loures (First Prize). |
| 1999 | | Casa da Cerca, Almada – “Tapestries by Contemporary Artists”. |
| 1998 | | Tyrone Guthrie Foundation, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland - International Fibre Art Symposium. |
| 1998 | | IV Contemporary Tapestry Symposium, Loures. |
| 1998 | | Portuguese Contemporary Tapestry, Cultural Institute of Macao, Macao. |
| 1994 | | Chapitô, Lisbon - “Neighbouring Paths” with paintings by Fátima Vaz. |
| 1994 | | Galeria Artespaço, Cascais. |
| 1993 | | II Contemporary Tapestry Symposium, Loures. |
| 1988 | | Matosinhos Tapestry Biennial. |
| 1985 | | Dialogue UNESCO, “Feminie 85”, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon (with Ilda David, Fátima Vaz, Maria José Aguiar, Maria Gabriel, Teresa Magalhães, Graça Morais, Graça Costa Cabral, Isabel Laginhas, Ana Vidigal). |
| 1983 | | The National Museum of Costume, Lisbon – “Tapestries by Contemporary Artists”. |
| 1983 | | Galeria Altamira, Lisbon (with Fátima Vaz). |
| 1980-83 | | Travelling Exhibition of Contemporary Tapestry in 13 cities around Portugal organised by the 3.4.5 Group, as an invited artist. |
| 1975-77 | | Exhibitions in Regional Museums and factories organised by the fibre-arts cooperative ARA of which she was a founding member. Including Porto, Figueira da Foz, Covilhã and Tortosendo. |
| 1975 | | Fine Arts Society, Lisbon - “Abstraction Today”. |
| 1973 | | Galeria Judite Dacruz, Lisbon – “Tapestries using the Kröner technique” (with Menez, Fátima Vaz, Manuel Baptista, Artur Rosa, Eduardo Nery, Rogério Ribeiro and Nuno de Siqueira). |
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| 1973 | | I Biennial of Young Artists, Vila Nova de Famalicão. |
| 1973 | | City of Luanda Art Show, Luanda, Angola. |
| 1972 | | Galeria Ogiva, Óbidos - “Colectiva 32”. |
| 1971 | | Galeria Judite Dacruz, Lisbon - “ 17 New Artists” (with Helena Almeida, Manuel Baptista, Manuel Cargaleiro, Mário Cesariny, António Charrua, Noronha da Costa, João Abel Manta, Menez, Sá Nogueira, Paula Rego, Cruzeiro Seixas, António Sena, Nuno de Siqueira, Rocha de Sousa, Maria Velez and João Vieira). |
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| 1971 | | City of Luanda Art Show, Luanda, Angola. |
| 1970 | | Galeria Judite Dacruz, Lisbon - “New Signs in Portuguese Painting”. |
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| 1969 | | Galeria Quadrante, Lisbon. |
| 1969 | | Modern Art Gallery, Fine Arts Society, Lisbon. |
| 1969 | | Galeria Alvarez, Oporto. |
| 1967 | | II National Art Exhibition, Lisbon. |
| 1967 | | “Young Artists” Lisbon Geographical Society. |
