He was nominated for the Turner Prize[6] in 2010 following his mid- career retrospective at Tate St Ives, Cornwall.

Dalwood has shown work in international and UK exhibitions including "Die Young Stay Pretty" at ICA London (1998), "New Neurotic Realism" at Saatchi Gallery, London (1999), "Remix" at Tate Liverpool (2002), 2002 Sydney Biennial, Dublin Contemporary 2011, "The Space Between" at Karsten Schubert, London (2012), "Paying No Attention I Notice Everything: Robert Walser and the Visual Arts" at Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (2013), "The Venice Syndrome: Grandeur and Fall in the Art of Venice" at glHoltegaard, Holte, Denmark (2013), "Fighting History" at Tate Britain (2015), "Painters' Painters" at Saatchi Gallery, London (2016), "Age of Terror" at Imperial War Museum, London (2016), "True Faith" at Manchester Art Gallery (2016), "The Painting Show" (British Council) at CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania; Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center, Korea; and Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland (2016/17), "Michael Jackson: On the Wall" at National Portrait Gallery, London (2018) and "Hello World.

Solo exhibitions of new work include Gagosian Gallery shows in London (2000; 2007), Beverly Hills (2002; 2009) and New York (2004).

Plus David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen (2009; 2012), Nolan Judin, Berlin (2011), Kunsthaus Centre d'art Pasquart, Switzerland (2013), Simon Lee Gallery – London (2014; 2019) and Hong Kong (2016) – and Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (2017).

A mid-career survey exhibition at Tate St Ives (2010) – touring to FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (2010) and CAC Malaga (2010) – was followed by a Turner Prize nomination.