His work is included in various collections, including Arts Council Collection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Manchester Art Gallery, Harewood House and Locus Plus Archive.
He has also shown at Art Now at Tate Britain in April 2007, the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland in September 2006 and his work was shown at Tate Britain's "Classified" and the Arts Council Collection's How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art at the Hayward Gallery, London.
Bachelor of Arts | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Second Vatican Council | Master of Arts | World Boxing Council | United States National Research Council | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | National Research Council | Electronic Arts | Privy Council of the United Kingdom | British Council | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Council of Trent | Council of Europe | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | National Security Council | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | Legislative Council | California Institute of the Arts | Privy Council of England | Greater London Council | Council on Foreign Relations | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | Lord President of the Council | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna |
Despite being one of the few representational graduates from Goldsmiths, he was included in a number of largely conceptual exhibitions such as « A Spiritual Dimension » in 1989, a major touring exhibition organised by Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery along with Goldsmiths tutors Brian Falconbridge, Michael Kenny and Carl Plackman and including Craigie Aitcheson, Tess Jaray and Bob Law and supported by works from the Arts Council Collection as well as that of the Royal Academy.
Finer participated in "British Art from the Arts Council Collection 1940-80" at the Hayward Gallery, 'Collazione Inglese ll' at the Venice Biennale and was in the touring exhibition, 'Men on Women', 'The Portrait Now' at the National Portrait Gallery and 'Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000' held to celebrate the millennium also at the National Portrait Gallery, where his portrait of David Bowie is in the permanent collection.