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1970
Born Brisbane, Australia
Lives Brisbane, Australia
EDUCATION
1990
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
1989-93
Arts Faculty (Part Time), University of Queensland
1994-96
Master of Arts (Distinction), Slade School of Fine Art,
University College, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Release the Bats, Queensland Art Gallery – Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2008
Recent Paintings , Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005
Song Cycle, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002
High Anxiety, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, Brisbane
(with Michael Harrison), Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
The Go-Betweens Paintings, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001
The Go-Betweens Paintings, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane, Australia
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000
Private Rooms, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
A story that can’t be told, University of South Australia
Art Museum: City West Campus, Adelaide, Australia
1999
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1995
Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1993
Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Nobody Knows: Simon Mee, Rob McHaffie, Anne Wallace, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, Australia
The Wallpaper Project, a touring exhibition curated by Simon Mee and William Wilding
2009
In every Dreamhome a Heartbreak, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany.
Darren Knight Gallery at Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, New Zealand
2008
Home, Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2007
Darren Knight Gallery at Ryan Renshaw, Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane Australia
2006
Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today – TarraWarra Biennial 2006 TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville,
Victoria, Australia.
21st Century Modern – 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2005
Repositioning Photography, Number 2: Idiosyncrasy: Painting andPhotography, Queensland
Centre for Photography, Australia
2005: The year in art National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
The Influence of Anxiety, Blindside Artist Run Space Inc., Melbourne, Australia
The Sound of Painting, The Arts Centre, George Adams Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2004-2005
Kindle and Swag. The Samstag Effect, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide and
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
2004
Blur, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia
The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
2003-2004
Art Australia, touring Germany: Kunst Raum Sylt-Quelle, Gallerie Seippel, Köln, Stätische
Gallerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
Hothouse, the Flower in Contemporary Art, State Library of Victoria; Geelong Art Gallery; Ballarat
Fine Art Gallery; McClelland Art Gallery; Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
One Square Mile: Brisbane Boundaries, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2003
The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2003, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2002
2002 The Year in Art, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
World Art: Art by QUT Alumni, Art Museum, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,
Australia
It’s a beautiful day. New painting in Australia 2, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of
Melbourne, Melbourne and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Tales of the Unexpected: aspects of contemporary Australian art, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra, Australia
Femme Fatale: Anne Zahalka, Anne Wallace and Annette Bezor, Institute of Modern Art,
Brisbane, Australia
2001
Painting - An Arcane Technology, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia
A Studio in Paris, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000
Fortitude – New Art from Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Sebastian, touring exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia, Hervey Bay
Regional Gallery, Pialba, Queensland, Australia
1999-2000
Moral Hallucination: Channelling Hitchcock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
1998
Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Things Visible and Invisible, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
In Absentia, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Collaborations (with Eugene Carchesio), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Ladies and Gentlemen, Cameron House, Brisbane, Australia
1996
Slade Postgraduate Degree Show, Slade School of Art, London, England
1995
Lovers, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
Salon 3 x 6, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Have a Look, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
1994
Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships, University of South Australia Art
Museum, Adelaide, Australia
An Exotic Otherness: Crossing Brisbane Lines, touring exhibition, Contemporary Art Services
Tasmania (CAST)
1992
Inaugural exhibition, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Potential Space, Warwick Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
1991
Nine Brisbane Artists, Butterfactory Contemporary Artspace, Brisbane , Australia
GRANTS & AWARDS
1999
Six month residency at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, awarded by the Power Institute of Fine
Arts, University of Sydney and the Australia Council
1999
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1995
Melville Nettleship Award, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
1993
Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships
1990
Hobday and Hingston Bursary, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Oxlades Prize, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Brisbane City Art Gallery, Australia
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney, Australia
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