Born in San Remo, VIC, Australia, 1974 |
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| 1993–1997 |
BA Fine Art, Drawing Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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| 2022 |
Modern Art, London |
| 2020 |
BORROWED SCULPTURES David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2018 |
Shoulders David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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4 Modern Art, London |
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| 2017 |
New Work Maccarone, New York, NY, USA |
| 2015 |
David Kordansky Gallery Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2013 |
Modern Art London |
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Darren Knight Gallery Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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| 2012 |
Ricky Swallow and Lesley Vance The Huntington, San Marino, CA, USA |
| 2011 |
Marc Foxx Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Modern Art London |
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| 2009 |
Ian Potter Centre National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Queensland University Art Gallery, Brisbane, travelling to Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand |
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Watercolors - Bearded men - after Picasso Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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| 2008 |
Marc Foxx Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Ballad of a Thin Man The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, USA |
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Recent Work Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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| 2007 |
Ricky Swallow Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
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Kunsthalle Vienna project space, Vienna, Austria |
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| 2006 |
Long Island City, NY, USA |
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Long time gone Modern Art, London |
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Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia |
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| 2005 |
This Time Another Year Australian Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| 2004 |
Killing Time Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Killing Time Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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| 2003 |
Field Recordings Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 |
Tomorrow in Common Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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Wooden Problem Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Sculpture Now First Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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| 2001 |
MATRIX 191: For those who came in late University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA |
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Above Ground Sculpture Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand |
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Swallow/Swenson, (with Erick Swenson) Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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| 2000 |
Plastruct Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Unplugged Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Ricky Swallow: Above Ground Sculpture Project Room, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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Individual Ape Hot Road Tea Room, Oslo, Norway |
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The Multistylus Programme Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia |
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Repo Man Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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| 1997 |
The Lighter Side of the Dark Side Grey Area Art Space, Inc., Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Small World Teststrip, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
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| 2023 |
South Willard, curated by Matt Connors and Matt Paweski Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY, USA |
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Modern Art Paris, France |
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20 David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Wishing Well Dunes Gallery, Portland, ME, USA |
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Diseases Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia |
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SMOKE, curated by Ed Davis Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 2022 |
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, VIC, Australia |
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Friends in a Field. Conversations with Raoul De Keyser, curated by Hanneke Skerath and Doug Fogle Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium |
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The Gertrude Editions Geelong Gallery, Geelong VIC, Australia |
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| 2021 |
Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR, USA |
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Group show Modern Art, London |
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| 2019 |
In Quest of Beauty: Assemblage in the Ahmanson Collection The Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, CA, USA |
| 2018 |
Bodies of Art: Human Form from the National Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia |
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Obsession: Devil in the detail Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC, Australia |
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Wiggle Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium |
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2018 Invitational Home@735, Redfern, Australia |
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Bronze Age c. 3500 BC – AD 2018, organised by Hauser & Wirth Firstsite, Essex |
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Buxton Contemporary, Southbank, VIC, Australia |
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| 2017 |
Working/Not Working CANADA, New York, NY, USA |
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Australian art and the Russian avant-garde Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA |
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Beyond Belief: The Sublime in Contemporary Art Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia |
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| 2016 |
Tricking the eye—contemporary trompe l'oeil Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Australia |
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Tempest, curated by Juliana Engberg Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania |
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Theories of Modern Art Modern Art, London |
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| 2015 |
Blind Architecture, curated by Douglas Fogle Thomas Dane Gallery, London |
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Technologism, curated by Charlotte Day Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia |
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Hiding in Plain Sight: A Selection of works from the Michael Buxton Collection Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC, Australia |
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| 2014 |
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, Australia |
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Selected by, selected by Michael Marriot and Jesse Wine Limoncello Gallery, London |
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The Machine Project Field Guide to The Gamble House Pasadena, CA, USA |
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Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Quiz Poirel Gallery, Nancy, France |
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Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
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| 2013 |
A Personal Choice, by Bruna Aickelin Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy |
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Everyday Murray White Room, Melbourne, Australia |
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Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, Australia |
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syndey, Australia |
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Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; travelling to Tate St Ives, St Ives |
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
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TEN YEARS Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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Mind is Outer Space Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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Coconut Water White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, MO, USA |
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Notes on Neo-Camp, curated by Chris Sharp Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium; travelling to Studio Voltaire, London |
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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
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Against the Grain, Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA |
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| 2012 |
To Hope, To Tremble, To Live: Modern and Contemporary Works from the David Roberts Collection The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield |
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Pale Ontology Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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The Mystery Trend Wallspace, New York, NY, USA |
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Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia |
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Construct Mary Mary, Glasgow |
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| 2011 |
I Do This, I Do That-Joe Bradley & Ricky Swallow, curated by Matt Connors The Taut and The Tame, Berlin, Germany |
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National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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The British Museum, London |
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| 2010 |
Almanac, the Gift of Ann Lewis AO Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Reframing Darwin, evolution and art in Australia Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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| 2009 |
Mythologies Haunch of Venison, London |
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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia |
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Real Art Road Show The Viaduct Basin, Auckland, New Zealand (touring) |
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| 2008 |
Lost & Found: An Archaeology of the Present TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra, VIC, Australia |
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Imaginary Thing Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA |
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Tell Tchaikovsky the News, curated by Torbjørn Rødland Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway |
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| 2007 |
Goth: Reality of the Departed World Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan |
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Existence – life according to art Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand |
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Sculptors Drawing Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA |
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Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection Miami, FL, USA |
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Modelers and Makers: Works in Ceramic Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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Effigies Modern Art, London |
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Sculpture Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC, Australia |
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Across the board Wallspace Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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DE OVERKANT/DOWN UNDER – DEN HAAG SCULPTUUR 07 The Hague, Netherlands |
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| 2006 |
Memento Mori Mireille Mosler Ltd, New York, NY, USA |
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Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples Modern Art, London |
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Nigel Cooke, Barnaby Furnas, Barry McGee, Matt Greene, Steven Shearer, Ricky Swallow Modern Art, London |
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swell – the art in contemporary beach culture Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW, Australia |
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Middelheim Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium |
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Reboot – the Jim and Mary Barr Collection Dunedin Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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| 2005 |
Kiss of the Beast Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
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Lapped Campbelltown Art Centre, Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Getting Emotional The Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA, Boston, MA, USA |
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Before Night – After Nature Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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| 2004 |
Strange Weather Modern Art, London |
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Sticks & Stones Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, TAS, Australia |
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The Ten Commandments Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany |
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| 2003 |
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (touring exhibition) |
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A Modelled World McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria, Australia |
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Fair Game. Art + Sport NGV Response Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
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Arcadia: the other life of video games Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; and The Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, New Zealand |
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Still Life: The Inaugural Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Variations on the Theme of Illusion Emily Tsingou Gallery, London |
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See here now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990’s The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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The future in every direction: Joan Clemenger Endowment for Contemporary Australian Art Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Art + Film Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Some Things We Like Asprey Jacques, London |
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Extended Play: Art Remixing Music Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
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Roll Out, with Rachel Feinstein, Steven Gontarski, Erick Swenson and Francis Upritchard, curated by Ricky Swallow Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Guided by Heroes, curated by Raf Simons Z33, Hasselt, Belgium |
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The fourth sex - the extreme territory of adolescence, curated by Raf Simons Pitti Uomo, Stazioni Leopalda, Florence, Italy |
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| 2002 |
Gulliver’s Travels College of Fine Arts, Sydney, NSW, travelling to: Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT; Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, WA, Australia |
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1st Floor Final Exhibition 1st Floor, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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People, Places + Ideas, Celebrating Four Decades of the Monash University Collection Monash University Museum of Art, VIC, Australia |
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Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, USA |
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Big Bang Theory: Recent Chartwell Acquisitions Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Tate Liverpool, Liverpool |
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| 2001 |
None More Blacker 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, VIC; touring to: Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC; Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, VIC; Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW; Global Arts Link, Ipswich, QLD, Australia |
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Casino 2001, 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art Gent, Belgium |
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Multistylus Programme: Recent Chartwell Acquisitions Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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So you want to be a rock star: Portraits and rock music in Australia National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia |
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Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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A person looks at a work of art…, The Michael Buxton Contemporary Art Collection Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Good work: the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand |
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UTOPIA Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Kiel Museum of Art, Kiel, Germany; Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Low-down: Recent Acquisitions Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Rubik Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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| 2000 |
Keith Edmier, Ricky Swallow, Erick Swenson Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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The Retrieved Object Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Are You Experienced? The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand |
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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia |
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Spin Me Round Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
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Drawn From Life Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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Terra Mirabilis: Wonderland Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff, Wales |
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Brand New Master Copy UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway |
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Rent Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark and ACCA, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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| 1999 |
Contempora 5 The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The Melbourne University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Spellbound Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Make it yourself 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial 1999 Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Group drawing exhibition Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand |
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Walkmen, Ricky Swallow, David Jolly, David Noonan Synaethesia Music, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Multiples Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Fifty Bucks - a benefit show Gallery 19, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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No Jokes Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1998 |
Misty V's City Lights 2000 City Lights, Hosier Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Rubik 3, Video versus Watercolour 36 Wellington Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Institutional Transit Lobby 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Injection/Acquisition Performance Space, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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Video Soup Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Hobby Core, (curated by Ricky Swallow) Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Taken, (curated by Jon Cattapan) RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Beaux Arts Art in The World '98 Passage de Retz, Paris, France |
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All This And Heaven Too, Adelaide Biennale Exhibition Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
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Metamorphosis Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC, Australia |
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Wild Kingdom Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
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| 1997 |
Diorama, curated by Charlotte Day 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Going Nowhere, curated by Julia Gorman Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Ear to the Ocean, with Michael Graeve Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Gathering Platform 2, Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
| Selected Collections | |
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Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Australia |
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Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide, Australia |
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Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth, Australia |
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Auckland Art Gallery Auckland, New Zealand |
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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA |
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British Museum London |
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Burger Collection Hong Kong, China |
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City of Melbourne Australia |
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Dunedin Public Art Gallery Dunedin, New Zealand |
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Hiscox Art Collection London |
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Monash University Museum of Art Melbourne, Australia |
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Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia |
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The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY, USA |
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National Gallery of Australia Canberra, Australia |
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National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Australia |
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The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s Melbourne, Australia |
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Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY, USA |
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Yokohama Museum of Art Yokohama, Japan |
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Zabludowicz Collection London |
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Georgia Museum of Art Athens, GA, USA |