| |
|
1955 |
Born Monto, Queensland |
|
1995 |
Australian Network for Art and Technology Summer School, Brisbane
|
|
1986-88 |
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
|
|
2001 |
Lives and works in Brisbane
|
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
|
|
1989-2000 |
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
|
|
1993-2000 |
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
|
|
1999-2001 |
Sherman Galleries, Sydney
|
|
1999-2000 |
History and Memory in the Art of Gordon Bennett, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
|
|
2000 |
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Visible Art Foundation Public Billboard Project, Republic Tower, Melbourne; John Citizen: Coloured People, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
|
|
1999 |
Gordon Bennett, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; Notes to Basquiat: One Tense Moment, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Notes to Basquiat: One Tense Moment (episode two), Sherman Galleries, Sydney
|
|
1998 |
Home Decor (Calculus), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; Gordon Bennett, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Notes to Basquiat, Grammercy International Art Fair, New York
|
|
1997 |
Home Decor (Algebra), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; John Citizen: Flatland, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Preston + De Stijl = Citizen (Cold Comfortt), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; John Citizen: Sacred Cows, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
|
|
1996 |
Mirror Mirror: The Narcissism of Coloniality, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra; John Citizen: Sacred Cows, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Home Decor (after Margaret Preston), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
|
|
1995 |
John Citizen: Works on paper, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; BLACK: Fear of Shadows, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
|
|
1994 |
Mirror Mirror (The Inland Sea), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; Surface Veil, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Dismember/Remember, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; How to Cross the Void - works on paper, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; Present Wall, Installation, Institute Building, Adelaide
|
|
1993 |
A Black History, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; Painting History, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide; Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra; Mirrorama, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; How to Cross the Void, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
|
|
1992 |
The Colour Black and Other Histories, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Relative/Absolute, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
|
|
1991 |
Gordon Bennett, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Dialogues with Self, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
|
|
1990 |
Psycho(d)rama, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Gordon Bennett, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
|
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
|
|
2000 |
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Biennale of Sydney 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Kwangju Biennale, Korea; On the Brink - Abstraction of the '90's, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
|
|
1999 |
Australian Perspecta 99: Living Here and Now - Art and Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; New Worlds, Contemporary Art from Australia, Canada & South Africa, Canada House Gallery, London; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950's - 1980's, Queens Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Art-Worlds in Dialogue - from Gauguin to the Global Present, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, German
|
|
1998 |
Remanence, Old Magistrates' Court, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne; Telling Tales, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria; The Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra (touring exhibition)
|
|
1997 |
Video Positive '97: Escaping Gravity, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK; In Place (Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
|
|
1996 |
Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia, OXY Gallery, Osaka, Japan; Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan; Dong-Ah Gallery, Seoul; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Perception and Perspective, Next Wave Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post Colonialism and Global Migration, Kunstlerhaus Burgring, Graz, Austria; Colonial Post Colonial, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne; Fourth Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
|
|
1995 |
Interfaces: Art and Technology, Regional Touring Exhibition hosted by Griffith University, Brisbane; TransCulture, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice Biennale, Italy; Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima Island, Japan
|
|
1994/95 |
Antipodean Currents, Guggenheim Museum, SoHo, New York; John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, DC; Virtual Reality, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
|
|
1994 |
Localities of Desire: Contemporary Art in an International World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Fifth Havana Biennial, Cuba; Identities: Art from Australia, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong; Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast; Adelaide Installations: Incorporating the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide
|
|
1993 |
Inner-Land: Australian Contemporary Art, Soko Gallery, Tokyo; Confess and Conceal: 11 Insights from Contemporary South East Asia and Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, touring South East Asia; Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne; Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; 9th Biennale of Sydney: The Boundary Rider, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
|
|
1992 |
Strangers in Paradise: Contemporary Australian Art to Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Australian Artists In Paris, Parvi: Pour l'Art Visuel, Paris; Tyerabarrbowaryaou: I Shall Never Become A White Man, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Southern Crossings: Contemporary Australian Photography, Camerawork Gallery, London, touring Britain to 1994
|
|
1990 |
Paraculture, Artists Space, New York; Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
|
|
1989 |
Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
|
PERFORMANCE VIDEOS
|
|
1994 |
Performance with Object for the Expiation of Guilt, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; D.U.H! (Down Under Homi), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
|
|
1995 |
Performance with Object for the Expiation of Guilt: Apple Premiere Mix, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa
|
|
1996 |
Performance with Object for the Expiation of Guilt: Violence and Grief Remix, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
|
AWARDS
|
|
1991 |
Moët & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship
|
|
1993 |
MacGeorge Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
|
|
1995 |
Pine Rivers Art Prize, Logan City Painting Prize
|
|
1996 |
Anniversary Creative Arts Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra
|
|
1997 |
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
|
|
1998 |
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton
|
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
|
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
University Art Museum, Queensland University, Brisbane
Vizard Collection, Melbourne
Wesfarmers ltd, Perth
Private Collections
|
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
|
Bennett, Gordon 'Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist's Approach', Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrein-Westfalen, DŸsseldorf, 1993, pp. 85-91
McLean, Ian & Bennett, Gordon, The Art of Gordon Bennett, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996
Friis-Hansen, Dana & Nanjo, Fumio 'Gordon Bennett', Transculture: La Biennale di Venezia 1995, exh. cat.,Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, pp. 18-19, 87-92
Hoorn, Jeanette 'Positioning the Post-Colonial Subject: History and Memory in the Art of Gordon Bennett', Art and Australia, vol. 31, no. 2, Summer 1993, pp. 216-226
Lingard, Bob 'Painting History' Gordon Bennett, exh. cat., Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 1993
Rizvi, Fazal '(Re)membering, (Dis)membering: 'Aborignality' and the Art of Gordon Bennett', Third Text, no. 26, Spring 1994, pp. 75-89
McLean, Ian 'Psycho(dr)ama Mirror Line: Reading Gordon Bennett's Installation Mirrorama', Third Text no. 25, Winter 1993-94, London, pp. 77-80
White Aborigines. Identity Politics in Australian Art, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1998
Gordon Bennett's Home Décor: the joker in the pack', Law/Text/Culture: In the wake of Terra Nullius, School of Law, Macquarie University, Australia, vol. 4, 1998
Thomas, Nicholas Possessions: Indigenous Art/ Colonial Culture', 1999, Thames & Hudson, UK, pp. 181, 199-223
A full CV and Bibliography is available upon request to Sherman Galleries
|
BACK TO TOP
|
|
