UNTITLED 1999 bamboo, drawing book and mirrors 26 x 38 x 300 cm

Biographical Notes 1949 Born Tehran, Iran 1970 Graduated, School of Fine Art, Tehran 1973 Emigrated to Australia 1974 Travelled to Central Australia as Art Adviser with Aboriginal children 1977 Graduated, South Australian School of Art Lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 1972 Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran 1977 Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 1980 Festival Centre Gallery, Adelaide 1981 Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Praxis Gallery, Perth Execution Installation, Roundspace Gallery, Adelaide 1983 Bonython Gallery, Adelaide 1984 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1985 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1986 Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne Walter Reid Art Centre, Rockhampton 1987 Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide 1988 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1990 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1990 Hossein Valamanesh, 1980-1990, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne 1991 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1992 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne 1993 The Lover Circles His Own Heart, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 1994 The Lover Circles His Own Heart, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 1995 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide Viewers and Audiences, Wollongong City Art Gallery 1996 Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 1997 Temple of Earth Memories, Australian Perspecta Between Art and Nature, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney Tracing the Shadow, Hillside and Art Front Galleries, Tokyo 1999 Day Dream, Art Museum, University of South Australia, Adealide GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1978 Adelaide University Gallery 1979 April/May Show, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Four Young Artists, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide 1979 Installation, Roundspace Gallery, Adelaide 1981 First Australian Sculpture Triennial, LaTrobe University, Melbourne Centenary Exhibition, Art Gallery of SA Relics and Rituals, National Gallery of Victoria Art Gallery of WA 1982 Roundspace Members, Festival Exhibition 1983 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Survey of Recent South Australian Sculpture, Art Gallery of SA Anzart - In - Hobart, Tasmania Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW 1984 Twenty Six Characters, Adelaide Festival of Arts Small Wonders, Roundspace Members, Adelaide Festival of Arts Australian Sculpture, Art Gallery of WA On-Site, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart 1985 Singular and Plural, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide Common Earth, Alive and Unfired, University of Tasmania, Hobart Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW 1986 Praxis in Practice, Praxis, Perth Culture Drift, Adelaide Festival of Arts Sculpture, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW 1987 Painters & Sculptors, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne Australian Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Siatama, Japan Some Provincial Myths, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide 1988 Monuments, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide Festival of Arts 1989 The Quarries, an Archaeology, Mount Gambier, South Australia Metro-Mania, Australia and Regions Art Exchange, Perth 1990 Heart of Gold, State Bank Building, Adelaide Festival of Arts 1991 Gallery Gordon Pym & Fils, Paris 1993 Various Small Fires, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Symbols and Metaphors, Union Gallery, Adelaide Images of a First Language, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide Fifth Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne Inner Land, Gallery Soko, Tokyo Identities: Art From Australia, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan 1994 Aussemblage!, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand 1995 Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 1996 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery 1997 Between Art and Nature, Australian Perspecta, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 1998 Other Stories: Five Australian Artists, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan (Asialink exhibition) Something, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney Rosalie Gascoigne. Hossein Valamanesh, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne AWARDS 1978 Lidums Art Gallery Prize for Students Protégé Prize, Masters Choice, Adelaide Festival of Arts 1979 Visual Arts Board Grant, Australia Council 1981 Artist-in-Residence, Praxis, Perth 1982 Visual Arts Board Grant, Australia Council 1983 Artist-in-Residence, Mount Gambier, SA 1986 Artist-in-Residence, Rockhampton, Queensland 1988 Town-Artist, City of Noarlunga, SA 1991 Visual Arts/Crafts Board Fellowship Residency, Kunstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin 1998 Grand Prize at the Dacca Biennale, Bangladesh COMMISSIONS 1980 Dwelling, Roundspace project, Adelaide Festival of Arts 1982-83 Water-lines, Environmental sculpture, South Australian College of Arts and Education 1985-88 Magic Carpet, Sculpture for atrium of Commonwealth Centre, Adelaide 1986 Target Practice, University of Adelaide Lithograph, Adelaide City Council 1988 Sculptural environment, Festival Centre Plaza, Adelaide Recent Arrival, lithograph, Bicentennial Folio, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1989 Knocking from the Inside, sculptural environment, ASER Complex, Adelaide 1990 Growing Up, sculptural commission, 81 Flinders Street, Adelaide 1991-93 Journey, sculptural environment, Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney 1992-93 Garden of Memories, in collaboration with Angela Valamanesh, housing development, Pennington South Australia 1994 You just sit here..., Tachikawa Project, Tokyo, Japan 1996 Fault Line, Riverside Quay, Southbank, Melbourne 1998 Hyde Park Barracks' Great Irish Famine Commemoration Sculpture, Sydney COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide University of South Australia, Adelaide University of Western Australia, Perth University of Queensland, Brisbane Artbank Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Alice Springs Art Centre, Alice Springs National Gallery of New Zealand Gryphon Gallery, University of Melbourne TOP OF PAGE