1932年にカーアンは革命作家芸術家協会に加盟し、そこでアンドレ・ブルトンとルネ・クルヴェルの知己を得る。引き続いて彼女は、シュルレアリストのグループとの付き合いを開始し、のちにはいくつものシュルレアリストの展覧会に出品した。例えば1936年に開催された2つの展覧会、ロンドン国際超現実主義展覧会(英語版) (New Burlington Gallery) と、超現実主義オブジェ展(Exposition surréaliste d'Objets (Charles Ratton Gallery, Paris))である。1934年には論説 Les Paris sont Ouverts を発表し議論を喚起した。1935年にはブルトンとジョルジュ・バタイユに追随して、左翼グループ「反撃」(Contre Attaque)の創設に携わった。
Héroïnes: 'Eve la trop crédule', 'Dalila, femme entre les femmes', 'La Sadique Judith', 'Hélène la rebelle', 'Sapho l'incomprise', 'Marguerite, sœur incestueuse', 'Salomé la sceptique', Mercure de France, No. 639, 1 February 1925
Frontière Humaine, self-portrait, Bifur, No. 5, April 1930
Protestez (AEAR), Feuille rouge, No. 2, March 1933
Contre le fascisme Mays aussi contre l'impérialisme francais (AEAR), Feuille rouge, No. 4, May 1933
Les Paris sont ouvert, Paris: José Corti, May 1934
Union de lutte des intellectuels révolutionnaires, Contre-Attaque, 7 October 1935
Prenez garde aux objets domestique, Cahier d'Art I-II, 1936
Sous le feu des canons francais ... et alliés, Contre-Attaque, March 1936
Dissolution de Contre-Attaque, L'Œuvre, 24 March 1936
Exposition surréaliste d'objets, Exhibition at the Charles Ratton Gallery, Paris, 22–29 May 1936. Items listed by Claude Cahun are Un air de famille and Souris valseuses
Il n'y a pas de liberté pour les ennemis de la liberté, 20 July 1936
Deharme, Lise: Le Cœur de Pic, 32 illustrated with 20 photos by Claude Cahun, Paris: José Cortis, 1937
Adhésion à la Fédération Internationale de l'Art Révolutionnaire Indépendant, Clé, No. 1, January 1939
À bas les lettres de cachets! À bas la terreur grise! (FIARI), June 1939
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International Surrealist Exhibition, London – June–July 1936
Surrealist Sisters Jersey Museum 1993
Mise en Scene – Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London – 13 October to 27 November 1994
Claude Cahun : photographe : Claude Cahun 1894–1954 – Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris – 23 June to 17 September 1995
Neue Museum, Graz, Austria – 4 October to 3 December 1997
Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany – 18 January – 8 March 1998
Don't Kiss Me – Disruptions of the Self in the Work of Claude Cahun – Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada – 7 November to 20 December 1998
Don't Kiss Me – Disruptions of the Self in the Work of Claude Cahun – Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada – 8 May to 18 July 1999
Inverted Odysseys – Grey Art Gallery, New York City – 16 November 1999 to 29 January 2000
Surrealism: Desire Unbound – Tate Modern, London – 20 September 2001 to 1 January 2002
Claude Cahun – Retrospective – IVAM, Valencia, Spain – 8 November 2001 to 20 January 2002
I am in training – don't kiss me – New York City – May 2004
Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore – The Judah L. Magnes Museum – 4 April – July 2005
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA – September to October 2005
Jersey Museum – November 2005 to January 2006
Cahun Exhibition – Jeu de Paume, Place de la Concorde, Paris – 24 May to 25 September 2011.
Cahun Exhibition – Will also tour to Art Institute of Chicago and La Virreina Centre de la image, Barcelona in 2011/2012.
March 2012 in Cahun's home town of Nantes, as part of two seasons on 'Le film et l'acte de création: Entre documentaire et oeuvre d'art' ('Film and the creative act: Between documentary and the work of art').
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