SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
1970 Light Pieces & Painted Constructions, Reid Gallery, Brisbane 1972-3 Trans-Art 1: Idea Demonstrations (with Peter Kennedy), Inhibodress Gallery, Sydney; Veste Sagrada and Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1973 Performance, Actions, Videosystems, Galerie Impact, Lausanne; Galerie Media, Neuchâtel, Switzerland 1978 Screening of Rules and Displacement Activities Parts I and II, lectures, Bela Balaczs Studio for Experimental Film, Budapest, Hungary 1983 Black Box: The Theatre of Self Correction, Part 2, The Performance Space, Sydney
Cloacal Corridor (O Vio Prote/O Vio Proto/O Vio Loto/O Thethe) Self Portrait as a Pair or Self Portrait as a Pun, drawing installation; Identification Number 1 (Rib Markings in the Carnarvon Ranges, North-West Queensland), January 1975, photoseries
Screenings of Rules and Displacement Activities Parts I, II and III; Performance presentation from George Brecht's WaterYam, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Curator: Barbara Campbell
Drawings, Art Projects, Melbourne1984 Towards the Other Side (Self Quotations), three drawing series, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne. Curator: John Smithies 1985 Portage, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; Fine Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart 1986 The Parting of the Red Sea, Siegal Contemporary Art Inc., New York 1989 Mike Parr, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, June; City Gallery, Melbourne, July; Milburn + Arté Gallery, Brisbane 1990 I think of Drypoint in terms of Braille and Excavation, survey of prints from 1988-1990, The Drill Hall Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1991 Mike Parr, Artist in Residence 1990-1991, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne
3 Installations, City Gallery, Melbourne; Mike Parr, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Survey of Recent Work, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth1992 Alphabet/Haemorrhage, 17 performances, Arthouse, Perth, 3 April; 4 performances, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 6 May; 4 performances, City Gallery, Melbourne, 13 June; 9 performances, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 4 August 1993 Mike Parr, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, September
Black Mirror/Pale Fire, Various Routes, Whistle/White, 3 performances, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney1994 Mike Parr, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Echolalia (the road): Prints from the Self Portrait Project: Mike Parr 1987-1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
100 Breaths/100 Songs from (ALPHABET/ HAEMORRHAGE) Black Box of 100 Self Portrait Etchings 5, 1993-1994, performance, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Fathers 11 (The Law of the Image), installation, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
The Bridge, performance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney1995 The Illusion of the End, Sherman Galleries Goodhope and Hargrave, Sydney
Day Break, performance, Scene Shop at the Cultural Centre of Manila, Manila1996 The Infinity Machine, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Head on a Plate, New York Studio School, New York
The White Hybrid (Fading), performance, Artspace, Cowper Wharf/Artspace, Sydney
Unword, performance, University of Western Australia1997 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 1998 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane
Female Factory, 7 hour performance, 25.4 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Blood Box, 24 hour performance, 6.9/7.9, Artspace, Sydney
Boubialla Couta, (performance), College of Fine Arts, Sydney
The Rest of Time, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Mike Parr, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
Photo-Realism, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne1999 Deep Sleep [The Analytical Disabling of Mind and Matter], Nixon/Parr, 72 hour performance, 17.6-20.6, National Portrait Gallery & Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra
Wrong Face, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Three Collaborations, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney2000 ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair, Parque Serial Juan Carosl, Madrid
Shallow Grave, 3 day performance, 7.7-9.7 12th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1971 The Situation Now, Contemporary Art Society, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
John Kaldor Art Project 2: Szeemann: I want to leave a nice welldone child here (20 Australian Artists), Bonython Gallery, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne1973 Artists' Books, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney1977 10th biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1979 3rd Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1980 XXXIX Biennale di Venezia, Giardini, Venice 1981 Australian Perspecta 1981: A biennial survey of contemporary Australian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1982 Eureka! Artists from Australia, Institute of Contemporary Art and Serpentine Gallery, London 1983 Presence & Absence: Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, No. 1, installation, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Tall Poppies, an exhibition of five pictures, University Art Gallery, University of Melbourne
D'un autre continent 'L'Australie, Le réve et le réel', ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris1984-5 An Australian Accent, Three Artists, Mike Parr, Imants Tillers, Ken Unsworth, P.S.1 (Project Studios One), The Institute of Art and Urban Resources, Inc., New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York1985 5/5, Fünf Vom Fünften, daadgalerie, Berlin
Australian Perspecta 85,Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney1986 Prospect '86, An International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Origins, Originality & Beyond, The Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, Sydney1987-9 The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Steirnernes Haus, Frankfurt; Württemburgischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1988 1988 Australian Biennale. From the Southern Cross: A View of World Art c.1940-1988, The Seventh Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Edge to Edge: Australian Contemporary Art to Japan, National Museum of Art, Osaka; Old and New Hara Museums, Tokyo; Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya; Hokkaido Museum, Sapporo1994 Adelaide Installations, the 1994 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide 1995 Antipodean Currents: 10 Contemporary Artists from Australia, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York 1996 Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia, OXY Gallery, Osaka; Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo; Dong-Ah Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Spirit & Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney1997 Dead Sun, Art Gallery of New South Wales. Curator: Mike Parr; Dead Sun, performance, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Body, Art Gallery of New South Wales
In Place (Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth1998 Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Southern Reflections: An Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art to Northern Europe, Kulturhaus, Stockholm, Sweden; Konathallen Götsberg, Gothenberg, Sweden; Arhus Konstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark; Museum Tamminiementle (City Art Museum), Helsinki; Neues Museum, Bremen, Germany; Staatliche Sammlung für Kunst, Chemnitz, East Germany
Telling Tales, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney1999 Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, touring Northern Europe Other Stories: Five Australian Artists, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Five Continents and One City. Curator: Gao Minglu, Mexico City Gallery, Mexico The Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, Queens Museum, The Walker Art Centre, Miami Art Centre and other American Museums, 1999/002000 The 12th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Biennale 2000, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Museum of Contemporary Art; Artspace and other venues A selected bibliography is available at the gallery
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