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1959 Born Sydney, Lives and works Sydney
1981 – 83 BA Visual Arts, Sculpture/Sound, Sydney College of the Arts
1985 – 86 Middlesex Polytechnic, London
1993 MFA, College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005
Only One and a Bit Days to Go, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Superstitious Scaffolding, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2004
Some more recent old work, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Flowers, Flies and Someone Else, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

2003
Se’ance for Lost Space, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2002
Art Lifting Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2001
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2000
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Indefinitely Maybe, I care Because You Do, The Loozer Planet, Sweetpotatosexpet Antenna, Hanging Eyes, I.O.U. (a tile), Muy Home is Your Home, Floating Old Man, Selfshelf, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales
Iffytown, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1999
uniform, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

1998
I.O.U., C.B.D. Gallery, Sydney
Addons (Clothing Plan) (Closing Plan), Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Untitled, someone else’s studio, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

1996
Recent Old Work, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
New Work, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Tubeweight, C.B.D. Gallery, Sydney
Mikala Dwyer, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Art 27 ’96, Basel, Switzerland

1995
Hollow-ware & a few solids, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney; Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Sad Songs, Artspace, Sydney
Voodoo Lambchop, Teststrip, Auckland, New Zealand
Vincent (Aries), Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

1994
Woops, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Jeans OK, Room 32, Regents Court Hotel, Sydney
CBD, Sydney (collaboration with Gail Hastings)

1993
Henle’s Loop, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1992
Untitled Installation, BLACK, Sydney

1991
Untitled Installation, First Draft West, Sydney
Untitled Installation, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

1990
Untitled Installation, First Draft West, Sydney
Wall to Wall: ceiling to floor, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

1989
Ringing, First Draft, Sydney
Untitled Installation, Window Gallery, Sydney

1988
Untitled Installation, 338 Gallery, Sydney

1987
Untitled Installation, 1 x 12 one-day exhibitions, First Draft, Sydney

1986
Becalmed, City Artists Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1985
Poor Bare Forked Animal (with Mary Rose Sinn), Chelsea School of Art, London, United Kingdom; Avago , Sydney

1983
Drumheart, performance, ANZART, Old Mail Exchange, Hobart
Noughts and Crosses, ANZART, Hobart

1982
In the Manger, Chapel of Love, Sydney

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004
Pegging Out, Hazlehurst Gallery, Sydney

2003
Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
This was the future…Australian sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Still Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Face up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
The Shangri-La Collective, Artspace, Sydney
Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Sarah Cottier Gallery Art34’03 Basel, Switzerland
Armory Fair, Sarah Cottier Gallery, New York, United States

2002
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 – 2002, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Paperwork2, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2002 The Year in Art, National Trust, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2002 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Melbourne
Objection, Cottier Gallery, Sydney, curators Tim Silver and Russell Storer

2001
Artful Park, Centennial Park, Sydney
Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery touring exhibition
Necessary Invention, Artspace, Sydney, curator Brian Thompson

2000
Monochromes, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
the form guide, RMIT Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne, curator Vera Möller
Sarah Cottier Gallery, ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Art 31’00, Basel, Switzerland
plastika, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
Bonheurs des Antipodes, Musee de Picardie, Amiens, France, curaor Matthieu Pinette

1999
Contempora5, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
avant-gardism for children, University of Queensland, Brisbane; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Brainland – The Believers: Mikala Dwyer, Maria Cruz, Anne Ooms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Art 30’99, Basel, Switzerland
The Organic and the Artificial: Reinventing Modernist Design, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart touring exhibition, curator Jenny Spinks
9 Lives, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Nostalgia for the Future, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

1998
Opening Exhibition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Body Suits, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, curator Jane Trengove
The infinite Space: Women, Minimalism and the Sculptural Object, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, curator Rachel Kent
Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne; Canberra School of Art, Canberra; Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, curators Christina Barton, Zara Stanhope, Clare Williamson
Verve: an exhibition of visual poetry and poetic visuals, curated for the Sydney Writer’s Festival, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Beauty 2000, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, curator David Broker
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Art 29’98, Basel, Switzerland

1997
The Believers: Mikala Dwyer, Maria Cruz, Anne Ooms, CBD Gallery, Sydney
The Believers, Mikala Dwyer, Maria Cruz, Anne Ooms, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, curator Robert Leonard
Objects and Ideas – revisiting minimalism, Museum of contemporary Art, Sydney, curators Linda Michael and Ben Curnow
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Art 28’97, Basel, Switzerland

1996
Nostalgia, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, curator Zara Stanhope
Aerphost: an exhibition of contemporary Australian Art, The Debtor’s Prison, Dublin, curators Mark McCaffrey and Anne Mulroney
Raindrops on Roses, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
The Chartwell Collection: A selection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, curator William McAloon

1995
OrientATION, 4th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey, curator Rene Block
A Night at the Show, Field, Zurich, Switzerland, curator Harm Lux
De Huid van der Witte Dame (the White Lady’s Skin), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Monash University Art Prize, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Sarah Cottier Gallery, San Francisco Art Fair 95, United States
please nota bene the other rules on the following page, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
Octette, Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney, curator Felicity Fenner
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Art 26’95, Basel, Switzerland

1994
Paperwork, Sara Cottier Gallery, Sydney
True Stories, artspace, Sydney
The Aberrant Object: Women, Dada and Surrealism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, curator Juliana Engberg
Aussemblage, Auckland City Gallery, Auckland , New Zealand
White, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Familiarity, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart

1993
Family Portrait (with Stephanie Dwyer), Software Project Series, Selenium, Sydney, curators Janet Shanks and Vincent Butron
Australian Perspecta 1993, Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, curator Victoria Lynn
Purl, the Fifth Melbourne Sculpture Triennial, West Melbourne Primary School, Melbourne
Décor, Peppers Bistro, Canberra, curator Kevin Henderson
Residence #3, home of Vincent Butron and Janet Shanks, Sydney
Rad Scunge, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, curator Dale Frank
Residence #1, home of Vincent Butron and Janet Shanks, Sydney
Naked, BLACK Gallery, Sydney, curator Jo Holder
Monster Field, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, curator Hany Armanious

1992
Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, curator Linda Michael
Wish Hard, 9th Biennale of Sydney, Wollongong City Gallery, curator Jo Holder

1991
Collaborative Installation (with Maria Cruz), First Draft, Sydney
Dissonance: Frames of Reference, Pier 4/5, Sydney, curator Sally Coucaud
Discrete Entity, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, curators Julie Ewington and David Watt
Microcosm, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Group Show, First Draft, Sydney

1990
Temporal Works, Tin Sheds, Sydney, curator Fiona Gunn

1989
Exploring Drawing, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, curator Louise Pether
Victory over the Sun, First Draft, Sydney, curators John Young and Clinton Garafano
Fresh Art, S.H. Ervn Gallery, Sydney, curators Felicity Fenner and Anne Loxley

1988
Eevy, Ivy, Over (with Belinda Holland), First Draft, Sydney

1987
In the Shadow of Amnesia, 338 Gallery, Sydney

1986
Certain Visions, City Artist Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1983
ANZART (performance in Hardened Arteries), Old Mail Exchange, Hobart, director Leigh Hobba

1982
APMIRA Land Rights Exhibition, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Back, H. ‘Everybody’s in the House of Love’, Henle’s Loop, Institute of Modern Art, 1993

Best, S. ‘Purl & Plane Geometry’, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial (exh.cat.), Vol. 2, 1993, pp. 57-60

Brennan, S. ‘interview with Mikala Dwyer’, Nostalgia for the Future (exh.cat.), Artspace, Auckland, 1999, pp.14-15

Broker, D. beauty 2000 (exh.cat.), Institute of Modern Art, 1999

Butler, R. ‘White’, Art and Australia, Vol. 32, No.1, Spring, 1994, pp. 152-54

Butler, R. ‘This is not a cigar: on the feminizing of Mikala Dwyer’ Holloware and a few solids (exh.cat.), BARBERism & Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, 1996

Butler, R. ‘Radical Revisionism’, Eyeline, No.33, Autumn/Winter, 1997, pp.16-21

Chapman, C. ‘Discrete Entity: The Accomplice and Installation’, Eyeline, Summer 1991, pp. 30-
31

Chapman, C. ‘Art round up: Sydney’, Art Monthly, August 2002, Number 152, p.25

Clark-Coolee, B. ‘Holy Hell!’, Brainland, (exh.brochure), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1999

Colless, E. ‘White’, Art+Text, No. 48, 1994, pp. 67-68

Colless, E. Sad songs (exh.cat.), Artspace (reprinted in Midwest, No.8, p.53), 1995

Colless, E. ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, Holloware and a few solids (exh.cat.), BARBERism & Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, 1996

Colless, E. ‘Undon’, Mikala Dwyer (exh.cat.), Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000, pp.12-13

Couderc, S. ‘Recent contemporary art in Australia: from the interpretation of origins to the bias of the diverse’, Bonheurs des Antipodes, (exh.cat.), Musee de Picardie, Amiens, France, 2000

Crawford, A. ‘’Unique view of a fly on the wall’, The Age, 17 June 204, A3 p9

Cross, D. ‘Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial’, Art+Text, No. 47, January 1994, pp. 77-78

Duncan, M. ‘Mikala Dwyer at Sarah Cottier’, Art in America, December, 2002, pp.120-121

Dwyer, M. ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, interview with Mikala Dwyer, Midwest, No.8, 1995, pp.49-53
Eagle, M. ‘Discrete Entity’, Art+Text, No. 41, 1992, pp.97-98

Fenner, F. ‘Coming Up: The Lowdown Art of Mikala Dwyer, Art and Australia, Vol.31, No.2, Summer 1993, pp. 227-231

Fenner, F. ‘Lowly grunge meets high Pop’, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 May 1993, p.50

Fenner, F. ‘A funky, fashionable & feelgood exhibition’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October 1993, p.14
Fenner, F. ‘Wish Hard’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 January 1993, p.40

Fenner, F. ‘On a provocative paper-chase’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October 1994, p.18

Fenner, F. ‘Double entente and a debut in white’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 1994

Fenner, F. ‘Trappings of Desire’, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 June 1994, p.19

Forsyth, G. ‘Monster Field’, Art+Text, No.46, 1993, p.74

Gawronski, A. ‘Mikala Dwyer’ Like, No. 9, Winter, 1999, pp. 58-59

Gawronski, A. ‘Dividing Lines’, Broadsheet, March-May, 2001, p.25

Genocchio, B. ‘Mikala Dwyer: woops’, Eyeline, No.25, Spring, 1994, p.41

Genocchio, B. ‘Alchemy with a Mischievous Touch’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 December 2000

Gibson, J. ‘Avant-Grunge’, Art+Text, No.45, 1993, pp. 23-25

Gibson, J. ‘The Good, the Bad and the Abstract’, Art+Text, No.44, 1993, pp. 42-48

Glass, A. ‘Artful Park’, Monument 46, Feb-Mar 2002

Grishin, S. ‘Taking a swipe at conformity’, The Canberra Times, 16 October 1991

Hastings, G. Wall to wall: ceiling to floor (exh.brochure), 200 Gertrude Street, 1991

Hutak, M. ‘Body of décor in overdrive’, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 June 1994, p.20

Johnson, A, ‘Art Beat’, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 November 1995, p.14

James, B. ‘Galleries’, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 May 1997, p.18

James, B. ‘Much Ado about…What?’, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 20 November 1999, p.14

James, B. ‘Sights’, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 8 May 1999, p.2

Johnson, A. ‘young at art’, Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, 26 April 1997, pp. 34-43

Kelly, P. ‘Untitled: Mikala Dwyer’, monica, summer 1997, p.62

Kent, R. ‘Minimalism Past and Present’, The Infinite Space (exh.cat.), Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1998

King, N. ‘Mikala Dwyer’, Art+Text, No. 49, 1994, pp. 73-74

Lim, A. ‘Urban art shows its true grit’, The Australian, 24 September 1993, p.15

Lonie, B. ‘Dunedin: Mikala Dwyer’, Art New Zealand, 1994, pp.44-45

Low, L. A. ‘Deep Space 10 to 13’, Sydney Morning Herald, Metropolitan, 1-2 June 2002, p.17

Loxley, A. ‘A stroll in the park to exercise mind and body’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 December 2001

Lynn, E. ‘Sighs and lows of the reviewer’s trade’, The Australian, 12-13 February 1994, p.13

Lynn, E. ‘Women at Watters, Octette’, The Australian, The Australian, 10 March 1995, p.30

McAloon, W. ‘From playful invention to shonk horror’, Sunday Star Times, 9 September 2001

McDonald, A. ‘Discrete Entity’, Agenda, No.s 20-21, 1991, p.45

McKenzie, R. ‘Disorder of domesticity falls a little flat’, The Age, 29 May 1996, p.16

Michael, L. Primavera: The Belinda Jackson exhibition of young artists (exh.cat.), Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992

Michael, L. No Not Ever: The Nail Polish series, BARBERism, 1994

Michael, L. ‘Inside Out’, Holloware and a few solids (exh.cat.), BARBERism & Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, 1996

Michael, L. ‘The Little Temples of Love for the Dead Things’, Mikala Dwyer (exh.cat.), Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000, pp.7-11

Moore, C. ‘Museum Hygiene’, Photofile, No. 41, March 1994, pp. 8-14

Nelson, R. ‘Show and tell…’, The Age, 9 April 2000

Nicholson, H. avant-gardism for children, (exh.cat.), University Art Museum, University of Queensland, 1999

Paton, J. Good Work: The Jim and Mary Barr Collection (exh.cat.), Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2001
p.32

Petelin, G. ‘Art in Brisbane’, The Australian, 16 July 1993, p.9

Rankin-Reid, J. ‘Shirthead’, Art+Text, No. 46, 1993, p.74

Rooney, R. ‘Show them the money’, The Australian, Review, 25-26 September 1999, p.22

Ross, T. ‘The trouble with spectator-centred criticism: encountering Mikala Dwyer’s art with Eva Hesse and Minimalism, Eyeline, No. 35, Summer, 1997/1998, pp. 27-33

Ross, T. ‘Mikala Dwyer’, Contemporara5 (exh.cat.), National Gallery of Victoria, 1999, p.12

Rothnie, S. ‘Mikala Dwyer in conversation with Susan Rothnie’, Eyeline, No.55, 2004, pp. 30- 33

Schubert, R. ‘Restaging Abstraction’, Art+Text, No.49, 1994, pp.35-37

Scott, H. Plastika, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Summer, 2000-2001, pp.6-7

Sierra-Hughes, M. ‘Wall to wall: ceiling to floor: Mikala Dwyer’, Agenda, No.17, 1991, p.9

Smee, S. ‘Pipe Dreams’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January 2001

Spinks, J. The organic and the artificial (exh.cat.), University of Tasmania, 1999

Stanhope, Z. Nostalgic (exh.cat.), Monash University Gallery, 1996

Sullivan, E. Australian Perspecta 1993 (exh.cat.), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1993

Sullivan, E. “The Artist as Curator’, Art Monthly, August 1993, pp. 32-34

Sullivan, E. ‘Wish Hard’, Art Monthly, No.57, March 1993, pp. 27-28

Timms, P. ‘Art in an Age of Anxiety’, Samstag 2005 (exh.cat.), University of South Australia

Watson, B. ‘Galleries’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 November 1992, p.12

Williams, L. ‘The Aberrant Object’, Art+Text, No.48, 1994, p. 74

Williams, L.. ‘Little Theatres of Excess’, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial (exh.cat.), Vol.2, 1993, pp. 37-38

Wood, Andrew Paul ‘Unnatural history’, New Zealand Listener, 16-22 October 2004, pp.42-3

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ARTIST PUBLICATIONS

Limited edition artist page, inversions, mawa: mentoring artists for women’s art, Winnipeg, Fall 2000
Artist’s page (collaboration with Simone Parsons), LOG Illustrated, No.10, 2000, p.19
Artist’s page, MATERIAL, No.49, 1998, editor John Nixon
Artist’s page, ‘Fill’, Broadsheet, Vol.22, Summer 1993, p.7
Artist statement, Frames of Reference; Aspects of feminism and art (exh.cat.), 1991

COMMISSIONS

Docklands Commission, 2004

AWARDS

The Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, 2004

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Auckland City Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
Monash University Collection, Melbourne

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