Hans Coper’s first exhibitions were held at the Berkeley Galleries in London during the 1950’s, often with Lucie Rie. In 1951 he and Lucie Rie exhibited together in the Homes and Gardens Pavilion at the Festival of Britain in a room set designed by Robin Day. The 1950’s and 60’s also saw exhibitions in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, New York, Washington DC and Tokyo. In 1969 he shared a major joint exhibition with the weaver Peter Collingwood at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Exhibitions at Kettles Yard, Cambridge and the Robert Welch Gallery, in Chipping Camden in the late 1970’s were followed by a 60th Birthday exhibition at the Hetjens Museum in Dusseldorf in 1980.

After Coper’s death in 1981 a number of major retrospective exhibitions have been mounted including Hans Coper 1920 – 1981 at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (and touring) in 1983-4, Lucie Rie/ Hans Coper: Masterworks by Two British Potters at the Metropolitan Museum, New York in 1994, Lucie Rie / Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel at the Barbican Art Gallery, London in 1997 and most recently a major touring exhibition in Japan entitled Hans Coper Retrospective: Innovation in 20th Century Ceramics.

Galerie Besson first exhibited Hans Coper in its opening year in 1988 and has continued to hold regular exhibits of his work. In 2009 an exhibition of Hans Coper and Peter Collingwood was mounted to mark the fortieth anniversary of the shared 1969 V&A exhibition.