In 1981, as a starting point, he exhibited at Bernard Lamarche-Vadel's, then in Nice in the middle of the year; it was during the exhibition of that summer in the south of France that Ben coined the term "Figuration libre" to define the pictorial movement represented by François Boisrond, Rémi Blanchard, Robert Combas, Catherine Viollet or Jean-Charles Blais.

In 2000, he founded with Bernard Belluc the Musée international des arts modestes in Sète.

In 2012, he exhibited his large formats at the ENCAN space in La Rochelle10. In 2014, he installed the "Modest Tropics" at the musée du quai Branly11. Hervé Di Rosa has been represented by the gallery Louis Carré [archive] & Cie since 1993.

In April 2019, a petition by Julien Suaudeau and Mame-Fatou Niang demanded the removal of one of his works installed at the National Assembly in 1991 on the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in 1794, with the artist defending himself of any racism (the photo of the painting in question has since been removed from the website of the assembly).

• The Great Bazaar of the Multiverse, Hervé Di Rosa, AD Galerie, Montpellier, June 26 to July 30, 2015
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• Never again alone. Hervé Di Rosa and the modest arts, La Maison Rouge, Paris, 22.10.2016 - 22.01.2017
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Shadow theater, Hervé DI Rosa, Espace Jacques Villeglé in Saint Gratien, 27 April 2017 - 24 June 2017

• Hervé Di Rosa : l'œuvre au monde, La Piscine - musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent de Roubaix La Piscine (musée), 20 October 2018 - 20 January 2019
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• Hervé Di Rosa. Ses sources, ses démons, 22 March 2022 - 28 August 2022, Musée de Valence15

2019

• Paris, Museum of the History of Immigration, "Music Migrations Paris-London 1962-1989"
• Les Sables d'Olonne, Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte Croix, "Aux sources des années 80. Eighties and Echoes".
• Bordeaux, CAPC, "Art History seeks characters..."

2018

• Paris, La Maison rouge, "L'Envol"
• Sète, MIAM, "Escapes-Art without Freedom"
• Liege, Belgium, Museum of Walloon Life, "The Garden of Paradox - Regards sur le Cirque Divers à Liege"
• Paris, ICI Gallery, "Im what I'm
• Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, "For a museum in Palestine, the collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Palestine"
• Paris, BNF, "L'Atelier Franck Bordas
• Albi, Le Lait Art Center, "Stories from the city
• Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, "Jazz & Love
• Sète, Paul Valéry Museum, "Painting and Poetry
• Marseille, Tchikebe, "The science of disorder"

2017

• Annecy, Déambule-Festival des paysages, "Hervé Di Rosa - Théâtre d'Ombres"
• Cajarc, MAGCP, "Espèce d'objet!"
• Madrid, French Institute, "Don Quijote. Miradas francesas contemporáneas"
• Sète, MIAM, "Escapes - Art without freedom"
• Granada, Centro Federico García Lorca, "DonQuijote!"
• Landerneau, Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc, "Libres Figurations- Années 80"

2016

• Aachen, Ludwig Forum für internationale kunst, Around the world in 86 days
• Toulouse, les Abattoirs -Frac Midi Pyrénées, "Centrifuge
• Paris, La Halle Saint Pierre, "L'esprit singulier
• Marseille, La Friche Belle de Mai, "Underbrut
• Boulogne, Colas Foundation, "New acquisitions
• "Enlightened mind, free mind", Espace Bagouet, Montpellier

2015

• Châtellerault, Centre d'art contemporain, "Identity
• Issoudun, Musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roch, "Dehors-Dedans".
• Sète, Paul Valéry Museum, " Figuration libre, historique d'une aventure ".
• Toulon, Toulon Museum of Art, "Artists' Delights".

2014

• Paris, La Maison Rouge, "The Wall The Antoine de Galbert collection".
• L'isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Fondation Villa Datris, " Sculpture du Sud...d'une rive à l'autre de la Méditerranée ".
• Dinard, Palais des Arts et du Festival, "Le Festin de l'art".
• Paris, Odile Ouizeman Gallery, "Draw Eros!
• Céret, Museum of Modern Art of Céret, "The painter and the Arena. Art and bullfighting, from Goya to Barceló".
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