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The Art Gallery of New South Wales is the leading museum of art in New South Wales and Sydney, and one of Australia’s foremost cultural institutions. It holds significant collections of Australian, European and Asian art, and presents nearly forty exhibitions annually.

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Open every day*: 10am - 5pm Late closing every Wednesday: 9pm (Art After Hours) (* except Good Friday and Christmas Day)
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ADMISSION FREE Charges apply to some exhibitions.
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A Focus on Contemporary
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Selected from the collection, this display focuses on art that explores history, memory and the associations that art objects can accumulate though time.
January 2009
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Tom Arthur
The Fertilization of Drako Vülen's cheese pizza
Sculpted wireframe of plane with blue neon lights.
First exhibited at the Gallery in 1975, this extraordinary installation was the first of a major trilogy of works produced by the Sydney-based sculptor in the 1970s which explored states of flux and emergence and the way knowledge is perceived. The work, which extends ideas surrounding evolution …
November 2008
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The Lost Buddhas
Chinese Buddhist sculpture from Qingzhou
Close up of old buddhist sculpture
The lost Buddhas: Chinese Buddhist sculpture from Qingzhou displays 35 of the best preserved and most exquisite sculptures from the Qingzhou discoveries centering on those from the sixth century.
November 2008
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DOBELL PRIZE FOR DRAWING 2008
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Sketchy line drawing of woman
The most prestigious drawing prize in Australia since its establishment in 1993 has attracted the very best in contemporary drawing. This year’s exhibition includes 49 works including the winning drawing by Virginia Grayson No conculsions drawn – self portrait.
November 2008
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War: The Prints of Otto Dix
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Expressive drawing of solider screaming in pain
This exhibition showcases Otto Dix’s war portfolio Der krieg 1924, a collection of 51 etchings with aquatint which is regarded as one of the great masterpieces of 20th-century printmaking. Consciously modelled on Goya’s equally famous and equally devastating Los desastres de la guerra (The disast…
October 2008
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Kate Beynon
Auspicious Charms for Transcultural Living
strongly coloured painting of tattooed lady with dragons
Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon presents a new series of paintings in which she explores ideas of transcultural identity and the ‘global citizen’. Beynon’s works are informed by a diverse range of art forms including calligraphy, comic book graphics, animation and textiles, and are embellished…
October 2008
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Francis J Mortimer
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Dramatic black and white photo of sea waves hitting rocks
In the first decades of the 20th century, English artist FJ Mortimer was an acclaimed pictorialist photographer. A pioneer of the bromoil process, famed for his dramatic seascapes, he strove as both an artist and editor for photography’s recognition as an art form. This exhibition displays for th…
October 2008
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Australian Bookbinders Exhibition
Research Library and Archive
Spine of book in asian style, looks like asian doll.
In the world of digital publishing, the artisan bookbinder could well be an endangered species. Annual exhibitions of the bookbinders’ art have been held since 1997, providing a focus for practitioners’ skill and creativity.
October 2008
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16th Biennale of Sydney
Revolutions - Forms That Turn
Intense close of up man's face with reflective eye iris'.
The 2008 Biennale of Sydney, under the artistic direction of internationally renowned curator, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, will bring together significant historical works with the art of today and investigate revolving, rotating, mirroring, repeating, reversing, turning upside down or inside out…
September 2008
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Judy Cassab
Landscapes from the collection
Dark blue circle in light square behind white vertical lines
Emigrating to Sydney from Europe in 1951, Judy Cassab quickly established a reputation as a portrait painter, however it was her experience of Central Australia in the late 1950s that made her first feel fully at home in this country.
August 2008
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Harold Cazneux
Artist in Photography
Sydney harbour bridge backdrops ferry on bay.
Harold Cazneaux was a luminary in Australian photographic circles; a pioneering photographer whose aesthetic style and impressive output had an indelible impact on the development of photographic history in this country.
August 2008
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Taishô chic
Japanese modernity, nostalgia and deco
Color illustration sultry Japanese woman drinking cocktail.
This exhibition explores the impact of the simultaneous clash and embrace of modernity and tradition on arts and design in Japan of the Greater Taisho period (1900–1930).
August 2008
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Adam Cullen
Let's get lost
Loose line painting of two men boxing, face punch
Adam Cullen is a unique figure in contemporary Australian art, a larger than life artist whose abrasive yet expressive paintings are a confronting and incisive view of contemporary life. His often satirical works are a form of social allegory, a cutting portrait of our national psyche caught in a…
July 2008
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Bill Viola
The Fall into Paradise
silhouette of body entering water pictured from below
Bill Viola is internationally recognised as one of the most important artists working in video today. Fall into Paradise is part of a series inspired by Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde.
July 2008
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Ghosts in the machine
Anonymous photographs
BW photo of two nude ladies smiling hidden in garden bush.
The most prolific and the most eclectic artists of the 20th century are unknown photographers. In the last 15 years a number of collectors have acquired remarkable collections of amateur photographs.
July 2008
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Living Black
Yiribana Aboriginal & Torres Strait Art gallery
Karngin Ngarranggarni 2006
Inspired by the title of the late Kevin Gilbert’s award winning book, Living Black, this exhibition from the Gallery’s permanent collection reveals contemporary experiences of living black in 21st century Australia. A range of public programs celebrating the literary contribution of Indigenous wr…
June 2008
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Searching for Asphodels
Artists in the Mediterranean
An exhibition of artists’ books, prints, watercolours, sketchbooks and journals made in response to time spent in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Spain over the past ten years. In the Gallery’s Research Library.
May 2008
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Jan Senbergs
From screenprinter to painter
collage style monogamous muted tones waves and transport
Jan Senbergs, born in Latvia in 1939, is one of Australia’s best known contemporary artists. This exhibition comprises a generous selection of Jan Senbergs’ screenprints, which reflect the artist’s fascination with technology, paintings related closely to them, and a number of his most powerful p…
May 2008
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Charles Bayliss
Landscape Photographer
old photograph of rowers on flooded river.
Renowned for his pioneering work in panoramic and landscape photography, Charles Bayliss is considered a leading figure in Australia’s photographic heritage.
May 2008
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Archibald Wynne & Sulman Prizes 08
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Painted portrait of woman and two children decorative style.
The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious art awards. J.F. Archibald’s primary aims were to foster portraiture, support artists and perpetuate the memory of great Australians.
May 2008
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Intimate Encounters
Indian paintings from Australian collections
two indian gods in lotus flower clothing sitting in nature
Drawing from collections throughout Australia, both public and private, this exhibition of approximately 70 objects will survey the major schools of Indian painting, highlighting the rich interactions that inspired each tradition.
May 2008
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Michael Riley
sights unseen
Michael Riley: sights unseen reveals the prolific talents of a quiet observer whose photomedia including black-and-white portraiture, video, digital media and film continues to have a profound effect on Australia’s contemporary representation and comprehension of Indigenous Australia.
April 2008
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The Poetic Eye
Poetry, musing and living on the edge.
Brett Whiteley was inspired by a number of artists, poets, musicians and writers throughout his life. The exhibition Poetic Eye includes some 50 poetically and musically activated Whiteley works together with the artist’s magnum opus, Alchemy, 18 panels of combined mural and self portrait painted in 1972-73.
April 2008
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ARTEXPRESS 08
Project gallery, Ground Level
Thomas Barkel, St Edwards Christian Brothers College, Imogen
A dynamic and popular exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts, 2007. It includes a broad range of approaches, and expressive forms, including ceramics, collection of works, drawing, painting, phot…
March 2008
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Scott Redford
Blood Disco
Resin over acrylic on foamcore.
For his first exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland artist Scott Redford drags art history into popular culture, using the materials that create surfboards he produces monochromatic paintings, some embellished with images. As he writes: “these surf paintings are about style…
March 2008
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Yasumasa Morimura: Seasons of Passion
/ A Requiem: Mishima
Seasons of Passion / A Requiem: Mishima
In his 2006 series Morimura recreates memorable postwar incidents as reported through press photography, harking back to his earlier 1991 work Slaughter cabinet II. In this DVD Morimura/Mishima delivers an impassioned speech, one based on the writer’s pre-suicide diatribe from 1970. The interconn…
March 2008
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Mountains and Streams
Chinese Paintings from the NGV Collection
purchased through the NGV Foundation with the assistance of
This exhibition draws upon material from the National Gallery of Victoria’s important collection of Asian art. It includes objects from the 14th to the 21st century such as landscapes or ‘mountains and streams’ depicted in paintings on scrolls and on porcelains, Daoist mountains carved in jade, c…
February 2008
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