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1937
Born, Melbourne, Australia
1954-57
Swinburne Techincal College, Melbourne, Australia
1972-73
Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
1980-July 1982
Art critic, The Age, Melbourne, Australia
October 1982–99
Melbourne Art Critic, The Australian
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2010
Endless Present: Robert Rooney and Conceptual Art, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, Australia
French Laughter – Le Rire: Homage to Picq, Vire and GOD, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2008
Le Rire, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007
Le Rire: Homage to Picq and Friends Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2006
Balletomania, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005
Balletomania, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne Australia
2003
Robert Rooney, The Modern Child Paintings and Prints, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Robert Rooney, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Robert Rooney, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2002
A Midnight Gallop, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Now and Then: Prints 1954-2001, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2001
Art in Focus, ROBERT ROONEY’S What Price Victory?, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
The Kovalevsky Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1999
A Paris Pair: New Paintings, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1995
That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1993
In Storyland and Other Infant Abstractions, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1991
Collage Collectibles, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1990
From the Homefront: Robert Rooney: Works 1953-1988, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1988
Silly Symphonies, or at Last the 1968 Show, Part One: New Paintings, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1985
One Complete Abstraction Included in Every Picture, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1984
As You Were, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1983
As You Were (New Paintings), Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1981
Eltham Factory Landscape, A Fete Worse than Death, Portraits: Complete Photographic Works 1979-81, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1979
Portraits 1979-79, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1978
Survey 3: Robert Rooney, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1975
Project 8: Robert Rooney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Selected Works 1970-75, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1973
Dale Hickey/Simon Klose/Robert Rooney, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1972
Information: Robert Rooney, Brighton Polytechnic, Brighton, England
Robert Rooney/Simon Klose (Collaboration), Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1970
Superknits and Snaps, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1969
Canine Capers and Cereal Bird Beaks, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1968
New Paintings: Kind-Hearted Kitchen Gardens and Slippery Seals, Strines Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1966
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1964
Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney, Australia
1963
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1960
I Rise in Flame, Richman Galleries, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Afterglow: performance art and photography, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2009
Cubism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2008
Silver lined – Contemporary artists and the Performing Arts Collection The Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2006
21st Century Modern – 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2003
Collaged World, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne
3 Way Abstraction, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2002
People, Places and Ideas: Celebrating four decades of the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV, Melbourne, Australia
APW Celebrating 21 Years of Printmaking, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Now and Then, Prints 1954-2001, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
2001
The 16th Asian International Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2000
On the Brink: Abstraction of the 90’s, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Monochromes, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
1999-2000
Avant-gardism for Children, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and Monash University Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
1999
The Persistence of Pop – works from the Monash University Gallery, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Jon Campbell, Noel McKenna, Jennifer Mills, James Morrison, Robert Rooney, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998
Wall to Wall, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
List Structure, Sherman Galleries, Goodhope, Sydney, Australia
Art and Furniture of the 1960’s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1997
The Real Thing, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
This Pop Life, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Geometrical Art in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
I had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960’s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1996
Archival Permanence: Time and Timelessness in 100 Years of Australian Photography, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria and Waverley Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Art of Collecting No.2, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A Blast from the Past: Works from the 60’s, Geelong Art Gallery, Australia
TECCA 2: Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1995
Downtown: Rushca, Rooney, Arkley, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
1995
Double Vision: Artists’ Portraits of Artists, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
The MCA Collection: The Loti Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1968, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
1994
The Beach, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
Salon, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
Love and Ruin: Art and St.Kilda in the 20th Century, St.Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia
Photosynthesis, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80’s, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
1993
Art of Collecting, Linden Gallery, Melbourne and Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia
The Changing Face of Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1992
Collecting Art: Critics Choice, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia
1960 to the Present: Australian Painting, 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1991
Off the Wall/ In the Air: A Seventies Selection, Monash University Gallery and Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Freedom of Choice, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Works from the University of Melbourne, Deakin University Gallery, Geelong, Australia
Australian Art: 1960 to the Present, 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1990
Acquisitions 1984-1990, The University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Crouch Prize Winners, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Defective Models: Australian Portraiture, 19th and 20th Centuries, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Complex Picture: Australian Painting in the 1980’s, The College Art Gallery, South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide, Australia
The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art, The Eighth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Bond Stores, Sydney, Australia
1989
Inhibodress 1970-1972, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Acquisitions 1984-1990, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Australia
Sets and Series: Recent Australian Prints from the Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Annotations, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
Freestyle: Australian Art: 60’s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1988
The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788-1988, Australian Bicentennial Authority and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Form within Form, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Suburbanism, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Group Exhibition, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
Australian Art Post – 1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Australian Art of the Last 20 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Contemporary Works from the University Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
1968-1988, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1987
Salon, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
Love and Ruin: Art and St.Kilda in the 20th Century, St.Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia
Australian Painting: 1960 to the Present, 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Monash University Collection: Selected Paintings and Sculptures, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Contemporary Art in Australia: A Review, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
What is this Thing Called Science? Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Contemporary Australian Painting, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Innocence and Danger: An Artist’s View of Childhood, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
In Print Vol.1: Artist’s Books, Power Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
Australian Art 1960-1986: Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1986
MIMA (Modern Image Makers Association) September Exhibition, Glasshouse Theatre, RMIT Union House, Melbourne, Australia
Fears and Scruples, Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Paintings 1955-1985, 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Origins, Originality and Beyond, The Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Source, Centre for the Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
33 Men Painters (The Male Sensibility), Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1985
Selected Works from the Last Two Decades, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
Thirty Years On: A Survey of Works on Paper, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
Visual Tension, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Photostats, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Meaning and Excellence, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1984
Meaning and Excellence, ANZART, Australian and New Zealand Artists in Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1983
Recent Australian Painting: A Survey 1970-1983, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
1982
Hawthorn Artists, Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Preston to Phillip: A Survey, 10 Years of Art Education, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A Photographer’s Choice, School of Arts, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Toowoomba, Queensland
Australian Art of the Last Ten Years: The Philip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
POPISM, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1981
Some Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Pinacotheca Artists at Watters, Watters Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1980
Self-Portrait/Self-Image, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1978
Artist’s Books: Book Works, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Roadshow Exhibition 1: Works on Paper, Regional Development Program, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, Sydney
1977
Acquisitions 1976 and 1977, Ballarat City Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
1976
The Road Show: Attitudes to the Car, Shepparton Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia
1st Pan Pacific Biennale: Colour Photography and its Derivatives, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
1975
The Crouch Prize, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Selected Paintings from the Monash University Collection, Exhibition Gallery, Department of Visual Arts, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Artist’s Artists, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1973
Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1971
Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Situation Now: Object and Post-Object Art?, Contemporary Art Society Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Four Pinacotheca Artists Using Photography (with Klose, Hickey and Cutforth), Inhibodress, Sydney, Australia
1970
Group Show, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1968
The Transfield Art Prize, Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Georges Art Prize Exhibition, Georges Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1967
The Perth Prize for Drawing, Western Australia Art Gallery, Perth, Australia
1966
Contemporary Australian Drawing, Newcastle City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
1965
New Generation 1965, Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne, Australia
1964
Survey 64, Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne, Australia
1963
Survey 63, Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne, Australia
1961
Young Painters Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Eastside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Argus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1960
Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
1959
Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
1958
Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
1957
Poem, Contemporary Art Society, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
1956
Inaugural Gift Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
1955
Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Preston Motors Showrooms, Melbourne, Australia
1954
Contemporary Art Society Drawing Exhibition, Mirka’s Studio, Melbourne, Australia
Contemporary Art Society Commemorative Exhibition, Tye’s Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
ARTIST’S BOOKS BY ROBERT ROONEY
Australian Skipping Rhymes, Moonflower Press, Melbourne 1956
War Savings Streets, folded offset sheet (photo-map) in booklet cover, Pinacotheca 1970
Words and Phrases in Inverted Commas from the Collected Works of IBMR, revised version, Xerox book, January 1972
COLLECTIONS
Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia
City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Australia
City of Port Philip, Victoria, Australia
Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Freemantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
High Court Collection, Canberra, Australia
Kings Park Secondary School, Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
Monash University Collection, Victoria, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
Naracoorte Art Gallery, South Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, Townsville, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Coca Cola South Pacific
Deutscher Bank Collection
National Australia Bank Collection
Western Mining Collection
Wesfarmers Collection
AWARDS
1975 - Co-winner, The Crouch Prize, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (with Imants Tillers, Aleks Danko and Peter Booth)
2000 - Australia Council, Major Project Grant.
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