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BIOGRAPHY |
| 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
Currently lives and works in Adelaide |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2002 | Tracing the Shadow: Hossein Valamanesh:
Recent Works, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney |
| 2001 | Hossein Valamenesh: A Survey, Art Gallery of
South Australia, Adelaide |
| 2000 | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide |
| 1999 | Internal Travel, National College of Arts,
Lahore, Pakistan
Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney |
| 1998 | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide |
| 1997 | Tracing the Shadow, Art Front and Hillside
Galleries, Tokyo |
| 1996 | Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney |
| 1995 | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide |
| 1993 | The Lover Circles His Own Heart, Centre for
Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
| 1992 | Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2002 | Shape of Air, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart
Deeper Places, Casula Powerhouse Arts
Centre, NSW |
| 2001 | Hermanns Art Award, Sherman Galleries
Hargrave (travelling exhibition) |
| 2000 | Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Chemistry - Art in South Australia 1990-2000,
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 1999-2000 | The Rose Crossing, Sherman Galleries
exhibition, touring to international and
regional galleries |
| 1997-98 | Other Stories: Five Australian Artists,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal
(Asialink exhibition) |
| 1997 | Between Art and Nature, Australian Perspecta,
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney |
| 1994 | Aussemblage!, Auckland City Art Gallery,
Auckland |
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| 1993 | Inner Land, Gallery Soko, Tokyo
Identities: Art From Australia, Taipei Fine Arts
Museum, Taiwan |
| 1989 | The Quarries, an Archaeology, Mount
Gambier, SA |
| 1987 | Painters & Sculptors, Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane
Australian Contemporary Art, Museum of
Modern Art, Saitama, Japan |
| 1986 | Sculpture, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW |
| 1985 | Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney |
| 1984 | On-Site, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart |
| 1983 | Survey of Recent South Australian Sculpture,
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 1981 | First Australian Sculpture Triennial, La Trobe
University, Melbourne
Relics and Rituals, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne |
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SELECTED AWARDS |
| 2001 | Artist-in-residence, City of Stein am Rhein,
Switzerland |
| 2000 | Artist-in-residence, School of Art, University of
Canterbury, Christchurch |
| 1999 | Asialink Residency, National College of Arts,
Lahore, Pakistan |
| 1998 | Grand Prize at the Dacca Biennale, Bangladesh
Australia Council Fellowship |
| 1991 | Visual Arts/Crafts Board Fellowship Residency,
Kunstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin |
| 1981 | Artist-in-residence, Praxis, Perth |
| 1979 | Visual Arts Board Grant, Australia Council |
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SELECTED COMMISSIONS |
| 1999 | Hyde Park Barracks' Great Irish Famine
Commemoration Sculpture, in collaboration
with Angela Valamanesh, Sydney |
| 1996 | Fault Line, Riverside Quay, Southbank,
Melbourne |
| 1994 | You just sit here..., Tachikawa Project, Tokyo |
| 1993 | Journey, sculptural environment, Rookwood
Necropolis, Sydney |
| 1989 | Knocking from the Inside, sculptural
environment, ASER Complex, Adelaide |
| 1988 | Recent Arrival, lithograph, Bicentennial Folio,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
| 1980 | Dwelling, Roundspace project, Adelaide
Festival of Arts, SA |
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
| National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
| Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth |
| National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
| Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongawera, Wellington |
| Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW |
| Major universities and private collections, internationally and throughout Australia |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Carter, Paul, Hossein Valamanesh, Art & Australia monograph, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996 |
| Hart, Deborah, 'Ways of Remembering', |
| Art & Australia, vol. 38, no. 2, 2000 |
| McDonald, John, Hossein Valamanesh, 1980-1990, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide,1990 |
| Thomas, Sarah, North, Ian and Carter, Paul, Hossein Valamanesh: A Survey, catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2001 |
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