Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Christian Albrechts Universitat; Amsterdam, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Marlene Dumas: Waiting (for meaning), August 10–November 19, 1988, p. 30 (illustrated, p. 31)
Frankfurter Kunstverein; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Prospect 89: Eine internationale Ausstellung aktueller Kunst, March 21–May 21, 1989, p. 217 (illustrated, p. 61)
Kunsthalle Bern, Marlene Dumas: The Question of Human Pink, July 7–August 20, 1989, p. 51 (illustrated, p. 40)
Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum; Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Marlene Dumas: Miss Interpreted, March 15, 1992–January 16, 1994, pp. 15, 80, 115 (Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 1988, installation view illustrated, p. 53)
The Arts Club of Chicago; Toronto, Art Gallery of York University, Marlene Dumas, February 1–May 15, 1994, n.p.
Malmö Konsthall; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Marlene Dumas – Francis Bacon: The Particularity of Being Human, March 18–October 1, 1995, p. 178 (illustrated, pp. 114-115)
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, La realitat i el desig, September 22–November 7, 1999, no. 7, p. 30 (illustrated, p. 35)
Enkhuizen, Zuiderzeemuseum, Mijn Kunst: verzamelaars delen hun passie, June 5–November 2, 2008
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, 2012-2022 (on extended loan)
Maastricht, Bonnefanten Hedge House, Far from the Maddening Crowd, April 25–July 14, 2013 (illustrated in the exhibition pamphlet, p. 3)
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, Beating around the bush: Episode #4, November 7, 2014–February 8, 2015
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, Collectieopstelling hedendaagse kunst, July 1–September 4, 2016
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, Illusion and Revelation, December 24, 2016–November 24, 2017
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, Skin, April 13, 2021–January 23, 2022
IJsbrand van Veelen, "Tussen beeld en taal," Het Parool, November 4, 1988, p. 15
Paul Groot, "Marlene Dumas," Artforum, vol. 27, no. 7, March 1989, p. 149
Ulrich Bischoff, "Marlene Dumas: The question of human pink," Das Kunstwerk, vol. 42, December 1989, p. 63 (titled as Schneewittchen in the wrong story)
Ella Reitsma, "'Als je geen keuzes maakt, faal je ook nooit. Je kunt altijd zeggen dat het ding niet af is.' Beeld en betekenis in de kunst van Marlene Dumas," Vrij Nederland (Color Supplement), February 24, 1990, p. 22 (Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 1988, installation view illustrated, p. 21)
Christa Murken-Altrogge, "Die Freiheit, sich malend sichtbar zu machen," Kunst und Antiquitäten, no. 11, November 1990, pp. 54-55 (illustrated)
Vitus B. Dröscher, "Das grosse Gähnen," DU, no. 12, December 1990, pp. 66-67 (illustrated)
Axel Hinrich Murken and Christa Murken-Altrogge, Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne: Die Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1991, fig. 252, p. 332 (illustrated, pp. 330-331)
Ingrid Schaffner, "Snow White in the Wrong Story: Paintings and Drawings by Marlene Dumas," Arts Magazine, vol. 65, no. 7, March 1991, pp. 3, 59-60
Paul Kempers, "Marlene Dumas: Miss Interpreted," Jonas, vol. 33, no. 16, April 1992, p. 9
Bianca Stigter, "Ik teken mezelf als een waggelend dik blondje: Marlene Dumas over alle mogelijke betekenissen van het beeld," NRC Handelsblad (Cultureel Supplement), March 20, 1992, p. 3
Ed Wingen, "Dumas zet Sneeuwwitje in het verkeerde sprookje: Na het Van Abbemuseum naar de Documenta," De Telegraaf, April 3, 1992, p. 19
Max Borka, "Marlene Dumas in het Van Abbemuseum: Een kwestie van opruimen," De Morgen, April 10, 1992, p. 9
Walter Barten, "Het slechte huwelijk van kunst en leven: 'Miss Interpreted' met werk van Marlene Dumas" Het Financieele Dagblad, April 25, 1992, n.p.
Bert Bauwelinck, "Wolfijzers voor psycho-analisten: Marlene Dumas in het Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven," Gazet van Antwerpen, April 30, 1992, n.p.
Marlene Dumas, exh. cat., Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, 1993, p. 114 (Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 1988, installation view illustrated, p. 41)
Marina Warner and Anna Tilroe, Parkett: The Parkett Series with Contemporary Artists, no. 38, December 1993, pp. 92, 98 (Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 1988, installation view illustrated, pp. 80-81)
Clifford Terry, "People, Places and Things," The Chicago Tribune, January 30, 1994, Section 13, p. 6
Mandy Morrison, "Missing Persons," The Chicago Reader, vol. 23, no. 20, February 24, 1994, online
Marlene Dumas: Models, exh. cat., Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, 1995, pp. 63, 74
Elly Stegeman, "Aan de nachtzijde: Een project van Marlene Dumas voor Het Hooghuys," Metropolis M, no. 2, April 1995, p. 27
Ulrich Bischoff, "Auf der Suche nach Schönheit," Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, vol. 33, no. 1, 1996, p. 7
Jonathan Turner, "Mistaken Identity," Tableau, vol. 20, no. 2, November 1997, p. 120
Wounds, exh. cat., Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1998, p. 126
Catherine Flohic, "Marlene Dumas," Ninety Magazine, no. 32, 1999, p. 19 (illustrated)
Dominic van den Boogerd, Barbara Bloom and Mariucia Casadio, Marlene Dumas, New York, 1999, pp. 55, 125 (Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 1988, installation view illustrated, p. 54)
Brenda Atkinson and Candice Breitz, eds., Grey Areas: Representation, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary South African Art, Johannesburg, 1999, n.p.
Jostein Gripsrud, ed., Aesthetic Theory, Art and Popular Culture, no. 8, Kristiansand, 1999, fig. 4, pp. 37, 53, 56 (illustrated, p. 60)
Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom, eds., Contemporary Women Artists, Detroit, 1999, p. 179
Inge Korneck, Georgia Illetschko and Lutz Musner, eds. The Contemporary Study of Culture, Vienna, 1999, fig. 4, p. 174 (illustrated, p. 175)
Christina Lammer, Schneewittchen: über den Mythos kalter Schönheit, ein Eiskristallbuch, Tübingen, 1999, pp. 131, 161 (illustrated, p. 127)
Adéle Nel, "Die kleur van vers en verf: Antjie Krog in gesprek met Marlene Dumas," Literator, vol. 22, no. 3, November 2001, p. 25
Rosemarie Buikema and Maaike Meijer, eds., Kunsten in beweging, 1980-2000. Cultuur en migratie in Nederland, Amsterdam, 2004, p. 72
Ernst van Alphen, Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought, Chicago, 2005, fig. 59, pp. 157, 207 (illustrated, p. 156)
Ilaria Bonacossa, Marlene Dumas, Milan, 2006, p. 31 (illustrated, p. 30)
Freda Dröes, "Art at the Edge: The Painter Marlene Dumas," Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology, vol. 14, no. 3, May 1, 2006, p. 392
Marlene Dumas: Broken White, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2007, p. 138 (illustrated, p. 48)
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008, pp. 63, 153
Wido Smeets, "Wat je al niet ziet op een heldere dag," Zout Magazine, October 10, 2012, p. 11 (illustrated)
Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, 2014, p. 186 (illustrated, p. 51; Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 1988, installation view illustrated, p. 50)
Marlene Dumas, Sweet Nothings: Notes and Text, New York, 2015, p. 67
Marlene Dumas, Andrea Büttner and Jennifer Higgie, "To show or not to show," Tate Etc., no. 33, April 2, 2015, online
Laurent Wolf, "Méfions-nous des contes de fees," Le Temps, August 12, 2015, online
Rosemary Erpf, Painting in the 1980s: Reimagining the Medium, Chicago, 2022, p. 242