FIONA HALL

Lotus

AKA: Fiona Hall

Born: 1953 Sydney

• Conceptual
• Contemporary
• Installation
• Mixed Media
• Photographer
• Print Maker
• Sculptor
• Known
• Established

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Born in Sydney in 1953.

Tender 2005

1953
Born Sydney, New.South.Wales, Australia.

1972-5
Painting Diploma, National Art School, Sydney, Australia

1977-8
Photographic Assistant to Fay Godwin, London, United Kingdom

1979-82
Master of Fine Arts (Photography), Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, United States

1981
Artist in Residence: Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

1983-1997
Lecturer in Photostudies, South Australian School of Art,
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

1990
Artist in Residence: Philip Institute of Technology, Preston, Victoria, Australia

1997
Creative Arts Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Artist in Residence, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, Australia

1999-2005
Asialink Lunugunga Residency, Sri Lanka







SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2005
Fiona Hall, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney


Fiona Hall, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

2002
Cell Culture and Leaf Litter, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

2001
Unpacking Europe, Haus der Kultern der Welt, Berlin Boijmans Van Beun Ingen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1999
Fieldwork, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
A Transit through Paradise, Gallery 706, Colombo, Sri Lanka

1998
Global Liquidity (with Nalini Malani), Gallery Chemould, Bombay, India and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Cash Crop, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

1997
Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia

1996
Call of Nature, Lana H. Foil, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1995
The Price is Right, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1994
Garden of Earthly Delights, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane

1990
Fiona Hall, Words, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide

1989
Illustration to Dante's “ Divine Comedy “, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

1987
Selections from 14 Years Fiona Hall, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

1986
III III II: A Survey of Twelve Year Work, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1983
Fiona Hall, Recent Work, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Fiona Hall, Recent Photographs, The Developed Image, Adelaide; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Visibility Gallery, Melbourne

1982
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1981
Recent Works, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
The Antipodean Suit, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart




SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005
Strangely Familiar, with Fiona MacDonald, curator Ricky Subritzky, University of Technology Sydney Gallery

Uncanny (the unnaturally strange), curator Rhana Devenport, ARTSPACE, Sydney

After Van Gogh: Australian artists in homage to Vincent, curator Rodney James, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery

Unstrung: the bead in contemporary art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Curated by Louise Tegart, Victoria

MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Lapped, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown. Sepetmber- October, 2005.



2004

After Van Gogh: Australian Artists in Homage to Vincent, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria, Australia

Material Girls and Boys, curated by Barbara Flynn, Deloitte, March-June 2005

Living Together is Easy, curated by Eriko Osaka and Jason Smith, Contemporary Art Centre, Art Tower Mito, Mito Arts Foundation, Mito-shi, Japan; The National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne, Victoria

More Easily Imagined: Crossings of the Blue Mountains, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia

2003
Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Museum for the Present, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Tree Time, Museum De Zonnehof, The Netherlands

Nature and Nation: Vaster than Empires, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings Borough, UK

Flagship: Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, 1790 - 2000, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2002
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne

Lure of the Southern Seas: the Voyages of Dumont D'Urville 1826 - 1840, Museum of Sydney, Sydney

2nd Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002

Sculpture by the Sea, exh. cat., Bondi 2002

The Dirty Dozen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The First Twenty Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Converge: where art + science meet, 2002 Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia

2001
Unpacking Europe, Haus de Kulturen de Welt,Berlin, Germany
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Desire, RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
The Art of Transformation, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

2000-1
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

2000
Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales (Gene Pool, Government House, Sydney)
Terra Mirabilis/Wonderful Land, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff, Wales
Chemistry: Art in South Australia 1990-2000, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Mirror with a Memory: A History of the Photographic Portrait in Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
All Stars 2000, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Sydney Sculpture Walk, Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Sydney

1999
New Republics: Contemporary Art from Australia, Canada and South Africa, Canada House Gallery, London; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Canberra School of Art; University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Signature Works, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Clemenger Art Award, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne
Tensions, Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, Queensland
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

1998
Every Other Day, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1997
Contempora5, National Gallery of Victoria (Winner inaugural Contempora 5 Art Award)
The Enigmatic Object, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Group Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Archives and the Everyday, ANU Canberra School of Art Gallery

1996
The Power To Move; Aspects of Australian Photography, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, February
96 Containers, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, March
Death, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, April
How Say You, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, March
Colonial/Post Colonial, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, May
Container 96 - Art Across Oceans, Copenhagen, May
Asia Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Sept `96 - Jan `97
Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! Museum of Contemporary Art
Art Cologne Internationaler Kunstmarkt, Koln Messe, Germany, November
Art Rage 96, compilation for ABC TV video (collaboration with Destiny Deacon), January

1995
The Object of Existence, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

1994
Biodata, Adelaide Installations, Adelaide Festival
Fania, University of South Australia Art Museum
Localities of Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Sydney Photographed, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney

1993
Dante in Australia, Dante Centre, Ravenna, Italy

1992
Adelaide Festival Artists' Projects, Festival Centre, Adelaide
The Temple of Flora, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne

1991
Photodeath, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
The Corporeal Body, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Stranger than Fiction, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Second Nature, P3 Art and Environment, Tokyo, Japan

1990
Harbour Hymns, City Songs, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Contemporain Australien, Noumea, New Caledonia
Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Fragmentation and Fabrication: Recent Australian Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Terminal Garden, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art from Australia. Eight Contemporary Views, Bangkok, Jakarta, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, VACB & Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra

1989
From the Sublime to the Sordid, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

1988
South Australia Rephotographed, College Gallery, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide
Recent South Australian Art; New Acquisitions Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Australian Photography 1928-1988, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Australian Photography: the 1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Australian States Itinerary

1987
Constructed Images: Photographs of Parliament House, The Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
What is The Thing Called Science? Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne
Pure Invention, Parco Space 5, Tokyo Japan; Contemporary Art
Centre of South Australia, Adelaide; 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Victoria
Some Provincial Myths, Recent Art from Adelaide, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide; Australian States Itinerary

1986-7
The Gothic, Perversity and its Pleasure, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Melbourne

1986




1985
Gods, Demi-Gods and Demi-demi Gods, The Developed Image, Adelaide
The Renegotiated Image: Excerpts from Perspecta, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Four Photographers, Photographers Gallery, Melbourne
In Full View. An Exhibition of 20 x 24 Polaroid Photographs, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Australian States Itinerary

South Australian Photographers, Artists Space, Melbourne
National Photographic Exhibition, Albury Regional Art Centre, Victoria
Laughter in the Dark: Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Common Ground/ Personal I, Adelaide Arts Centre, Adelaide

1984
Time Present and Time Past, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Interface: A Survey of Art and Technology, Centre Gallery, Adelaide

1983
CSR Photography Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
A Decade of Australian Photography, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

1982
Vision in Disbelief Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Contemporary Colour Photography, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
New American Photographs, California State College, San Bernardo, California, United States

1981
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Fifteen Australian Photographers, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Project 38: Re-constructed Vision, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
By Arrangement, DBR Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

1980
Fiona Hall, David Blount, Brian Thompson, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1978
Eternal Present, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Travelling Exhibition
Church Street Photographic Centre, Melbourne

1977
Creative Camera Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1976
Galeria Photographica Nadar, Pisa Italy

1975
Six Australian Woman Photographers, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1974
Thoughts and Images: An Exploratory Exhibition of Australian Student Photography, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne




COLLECTIONS


Newcastle region Art Gallery, New South Wales

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
La Trobe Regional Art Gallery, Victoria

Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania

Olympic Fine Art Collection, SOCOG, Sydney




COMMISSIONS

2000
Folly for Mrs Macquarie, Sydney Sculpture Walk, Botanic Gardens

1999
Bloodline, SOCOG Olympic Limited Edition Print and Poster Commission

1998
Fern Garden, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

1995
Occupied Territory, Commission for the opening of the Museum of Sydney

1989
Polaroid 20 x 24 Commission, New York Residency at VACB Green Street Studio, New York, United States

1987-8
South Australia Rephotographed
Polaroid 20 x 24 Commission, New York, United States

1986
In Full View, Polaroid 20 x 24 Camera Project

1984-6
Parliament House Construction Project

1983
CSE Photographic Project