| The British Museum, London | |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
| Brooklyn Museum, New York | |
| Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Library of Congress, Washington, DC | |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | |
| Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX | |
| The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, TX | |
| National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | |
| Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT | |
| Art Museum of S. Texas, Corpus Christi, TX | |
| Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX | |
| Arizona State University Art Museum | |
| University Museum at Texas State University, Houston | |
| Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY | |
| New York Public Library Collection, New York | |
| Chapman University Permanent Art Collection, Orange, CA | |
| Central High School, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Mishkan Museum, Israel | |
| Fresno Art Museum, CA | |
| Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ | |
| Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY |
| 2025 | Craiova Museum of Art, Romania |
| 2024 | VFA Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2022 | Galerie Zadra, Basel, Switzerland & Australia |
| 2021 | Gallery Zadra, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2018 | Galerie Zadra, Luxembourg & Australia |
| 2015 | Georges Bergès Gallery, SOHO, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2012 | Chapman University's Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, Orange, CA |
| 2009/10 | Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, CO |
| 2009 | Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY |
| 2004/5 | Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT |
| 2003 | Susan Aberbach Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Cobble Hill Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1999 | Aberbach Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 1998 | Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 1996 | Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Waalwijk, Holland |
| 1996 | Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 1995 | Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Waalwijk, Holland |
| 1992 | Mary Ryan Gallery, New York |
| 1991 | Aberbach Fine Art, New York |
| 1991 | David Aberbach Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 1990 | Aberbach Fine Art, Art Cologne, Germany |
| 1988 | PS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1987 | Dilaurenti Gallery, New York |
| 1987 | Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| 1987 | Mary Ryan Gallery, New York |
| 1987 | Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California |
| 1986 | Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Waalwijk, Holland |
| 1986 | Rosa Esman Gallery, New York |
| 1986 | Yares Gallery, Scottsdale Arizona |
| 1984 | Rosa Esman Gallery, New York |
| 1984 | Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Waalwijk, Holland |
| 1984 | Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1984 | H.F. Manes Gallery, New York |
| 1983 | Art Galaxy, New York |
| 1982 | Gotham Book Mart Gallery, New York |
| 2025 | CHIJIN Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2024 | Vibe Fine Arts, SOHO, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Georges Bergès Gallery, SOHO, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Arizona State University Art Museum, AZ |
| 2006-7 | Musee des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2005 | Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX |
| 2000 | Baron Boisante Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | Baron Boisante Gallery, New York |
| 1998 | Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 1991 | Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1991 | Wooster Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1989 | Artstart, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1987 | "Art for Your Collection", Marion Koogler McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX |
| 1987 | "The Artist and the Myth", Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA |
| 1987 | Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| 1987 | Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1986-1988 | "Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists II", the Jewish Museum, New York; also Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1986-1988 | "Portrait of a Collector: Stephane Janssen", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humleback, Denmark; also University Art Museum, California State University, Palm Beach, CA, Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ |
| 1986-1987 | "Public and Private American Prints Today", The Brooklyn Museum, New York; also Flint Institute of the Arts, Michigan, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Walker art Center, Minneapolis |
| 1986 | "Naked/Nude", Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 1985 | "Surplus" Exit art, New York |
| 1984 | "Invitational", Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1984 | "Selected Drawings by Eleven Artists", Willard Gallery, New York |
| 1983 | "Art of Found Objects", Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York |
| 1982 | "The Crime Show", ABC No Rio, New York |
| 1982 | "Summer Invitational", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York |
| 1982 | "Artist Protest", Pratt Graphics Center, New York |
| 1982 | "The New Menace", Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York |
| 1982 | "Dirty Pictures", White Columns, New York |
| 1981 | "Invitational", Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York |
| 1980 | Gruembaum Gallery, New York |
| 1977 | Museum of the Cathedral of Saint John, New York |
| 1976 | Rabinowitch and Guerra Gallery, New York |
| 2017 | Annual brochure of Staatsoper Hannover Opera House |
| Since 2013 | Huffington Post blogger |
| 2007 | "Conscious/Unconscious", fiction with drawings by Michael Hafftka, published by Six Gallery Press, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2004 | "Michael Hafftka, A Retrospective: Large Oils 1985-2003", published by Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT |
| 1987 | "Michael Hafftka, New Paintings" with text by Sam Hunter, published by Dilaurenti Gallery, New York |
| 1984 | "Michael Hafftka" with text by Elaine King and John Caldwell, published by Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1982 | "Michael Hafftka, Selected Drawings 1975-81", text by Michael Brodsky. Published by Guignol Books, New York. Also available, a deluxe edition of fifty with an etching. |
| 1982 | Zwart en Wit 82.3, reproduction of 12 drawings, Oosterbeek, Holland |
| 1981 | "Art of Experience, Experience of Art" published by Guignol Books, New York |
| 2015 | "Toy Chest", The Yale Review, author William Gass, art by Michael Hafftka, included in Eyes, novellas and stories, published by Knopf |
| 2014 | "KM4", Blackbird Journal of Literature and the Arts, poems by Tom Sleigh & art by Michael Hafftka |
| 2013 | "To Die Next to You", Six Gallery Press, poetry by Rodger Kamenetz, drawings by Hafftka |
| 2008 | "Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors", Six Gallery Press, poetry by Peter Klapert, art by Hafftka |
| 2008 | "West Virginia", Six Gallery Press, fiction by Che Elias, art by Hafftka |
| 2008 | "A Heaven Of Others", Starcherone Books, fiction by Joshua Cohen, art by Hafftka |
| 2007 | "The Terror of Loch Ness", Six Gallery Press, fiction by Che Elias, art by Hafftka |
| 2007 | "Aleph-Bet, An Alphabet For The Perplexed", Six Gallery Press, text by Joshua Cohen, art by Hafftka |
| 1986 | "Public and Private: American Prints Today", The Brooklyn Museum, New York |
| 1986 | "Portrait of a Collector", Louisiana Museum of Modern art, Humlebeek, Denmark |
| 1986 | "Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists II", the Jewish Museum, New York |
| 1985 | "Surplus", Exit Art, New York |
| 1986 | "The Other Half", folio of five monoprints with drypoint. Published by Mark Baron, New York |
| 1986 | "Neighbors", folio of 6 monoprints, published by Mary Ryan Gallery, New York |
| 1985 | "Second Hand", folio of five etchings, published by Mark Baron, New York |
| 1985 | "Undertones", "Overtones", companion suites, each with 4 monoprints with etching. Published by Mark Baron, New York |
| 1981 | "Incisions", folio of 10 etchings with etched title and colophon page, published by Mark Baron, New York |
| 2022 | NFT market places: Opensea, Gamma editions, Gamma 1/1s |
| 2015 | Review of solo show at SFAQ/NYAQ/AQ, October Issue |
| 2015 | Review of solo show at Whitewall Magazine, September Issue |
| 2015 | Interview in Artnet, September Issue |
| 2000 | Tikkun Magazine cover, October/September Issue |
| 1987 | Inclusion in "A Calendar of Art and Antiques", Channel 13. |
| 1982 | "Pointless Gesture", a film by John Rosen depicting a street action by Hafftka. 11 min., 16 mm, color and sound. |
| 8/2009 | New York Times, notable alumnus of DeWitt Clinton High School |
| 1983 | C.A.P.S. grant for painting |