Roy Arden’s work can be found in many public collections in North America and Europe, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. He has exhibited in dozens of international exhibitions from New York to Sharjah and Berlin to Sydney. In 2007 the Vancouver Art Gallery mounted a survey show of his work covering the period 1981–2007. In 2013, Arden exhibited in Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC.