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1966 —
Born Alice Springs, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
The In Residence, Darren Knight Gallery at silvershot, Melbourne, Australia
Diena Georgetti - The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus, Melbourne and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
2007
BLOK PLASTIK, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006
The Humanity of Construction Painting, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004
So far I remember who you are but wonder who you’ll be, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2003
Lost to the thing of it, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2002
The Humanity of Abstract Painting, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2001
I hardly know her, and my life is nearly over, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1999
Makers, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Minx Design Studio, Melbourne, Australia
1998
You’re Living All Over Me, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1997
I have wept so much here, that I am touched by my own beauty, Sarah Cottier
Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1996
Martyrs do not underestimate the body, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1994
The time of your miracle will soon be over, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Civilization of the Abstract, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Australia
The Dimension that comes from the centre of our skulls, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1993
The Whitening of the Recent Darkness, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Dare la Precedenza, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
1992
NATURPHILOSOPHie, Store 5, Melbourne, Australia
wie so primitive, wie so sensible, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Self-titled, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1990
4 Diamonds (Serpent Frottage), Store 5, Melbourne, Australia
1989
Promotion Space Installation, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane, Australia
Empirical, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Rest de Kreatur, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Restoration of an Alienated Being, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane, Australia
1988
Inneres, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane, Australia
Will for Amalgamation, David Jones, Brisbane, Australia
Will for Amalgamation, Mini MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
Focal Panorama, Brisbane, Rome, Dusseldorf, London, UK
Landkarte, Interface Office, Brisbane, Australia
Recording Data, All Saints Hall, Brisbane, Australia
1987
Umrib Envoy, THAT Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane, Australia
1986
Plateau-Plateau, THAT Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Painthing (as one), Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before and After Science, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2009
RBS Emerging Artist Award 2009, Sydney, Australia
Victory over the sun, Curated by Melissa Loughnan & Helen Hughes, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, Australia
Temperature 2: New Queensland Art Museum of Brisbane, Australia
Cubism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2008
Lost & Found: An Archaeology of the Present TarraWarra Biennial, Victoria, Australia
2007
The world in painting, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, and touring Asia
Mary Teague, Dan Arps, Diena Georgetti, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
Artist makes video – art rage survey 1994-1998, DELL Gallery @ Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia
2006
21st Century Modern – 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
16, Brisbane comes to Sydney, Sydney Non Objective, Sydney, Australia
2005
Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects, Store 5, 1st Floor, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria
Predictive txt, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Makeover, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Store 5 is…., Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004
Post Contemporary Painting, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Fantasy Island, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
Frieze Art Fair, Hamish McKay stand, London, UK
2003
I’m only sleeping, curated by Ronnie van Hout, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
10, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
3 Way Abstraction, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Home & Away: Place and Identity in Recent Australian Art, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Swan Hill Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Liste, Basel, Switzerland
2002
Final Exhibition, First Floor, Melbourne, Australia
ARCO Madrid, Spain
Hamish McKay Gallery in Basel, Switzerland
Art 33’02, Basel, Switzerland
2001
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Sarah Cottier in Melbourne, Windspan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Painting: an Arcane Technology, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2000
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Art 31’00, Basel, Switzerland
GOLD, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1999
Art 30’99, Basel, Switzerland
Patent, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne (with Anne-Marie May) , Australia
Exhumed II, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia
The Trouble with Harry, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne (curated by Peter Westwood) , Australia
Group Exhibition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998
Opening Exhibition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Special Issue, First Floor, Melbourne, Australia
Exhumed, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne (curated by David Noonan) , Australia
1997
Record, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Aeropost, Dublin, Ireland
1996
Women Hold up Half the Sky: The Orientation of Art in the Post War Pacific, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Raindrops on Roses, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Heirloom, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Practice as Technology, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
SWIM2, Support Women Image Makers, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
1995
Monash Univerity Art Prize, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1993
5th Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, Australia
1992
9th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Caboose, Ars Multiplicata, Sydney, Australia
1991
Vache, aglassofwater, Brisbane, Australia
WT Rawleigh Building
The Grotto, (Store 5 travelling exhibition), Paris, France
Signals, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1990
Were Art Ends and Nature Begins, Store 5, Melbourne (curated by Stephen Bram), Australia
Instant, First Draft West, Sydney, Australia
10 x 10, Milburn and Arte, Brisbane, Australia
Architecture of Light, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Mist from the Chest, aglassofwater, Brisbane, Australia
Real Art, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
RESPECT, Milburn and Arte, Brisbane, Australia
In Full Sunlight, First Draft West, Sydney, Australia
1989
In Full Sunlight, 10,000 Feet, Melbourne and aglassofwater, Brisbane, Australia
Inexact Sciences, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane, Australia
Uncommon Knowledge, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Visual Poetics, Museum of Contemporary Art Brisbane, Australia
The Truth, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane, Australia
Salle de Reconnaissance, Istitute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Austalia
Topographical, Bureau Artspace, Brisbane, Australia
1988
Interface Artists, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Axis: Does New York Exist?, New York , Brisbane, Australia
(I)magical Poetics, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Bureau, Bureau, Artspace, Brisbane, Australia
1987
A Monochrome Self, THAT Contemporary Artspace, Brisbane
Scapegrace, THAT Contemporary Artspace, Brisbane
ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
1999
Patent, exhibition catalogue, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
1989
Karen Turnbull: Promotion, Eyeline 10
Inexact Sciences, exhibition catalogue essays, Arch Lane Public Art,
Brisbane
Traces of Information, Bureau Artspace, Brisbane
1988
Almost Purely Fundamental, exhibition handbill, THAT Contemporary
Artspace, Brisbane
1987
A Monochrome Set, exhibition catalogue, THAT Contemporary
Artspace, Brisbane
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Monash University Collection, Melbourne
Artbank, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Private collections
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