Mikala Dwyer


1959    born in Sydney, Australia

1981-1983    Sydney College of the Arts, Australia

1985-1986    Middlesex Polytechnic, U.K

2000    Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

lives in Sydney and Berlin


Solo Exhibitions (selection)

 

2008        `Swamp Geometry´, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
                `Mono Clinic´, Hamish McKay Gallery, Melbourne
                `Costumes and Empty Sculptures´, IMA, Brisbane
                `Moon Garden Aratoi Museum´, Masterton, New Zealand  


2007        `The Shape of the Thought's Own Making´, Peleton Gallery, Sydney, AUS
                `The Additions and Subtractions and the Hanging Garden´,
                 Kunstraum Potsdam, D
                `Black Sun Blue Moon´, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, D

2005        `I Maybe We´, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ
                `Only One and a Bit Days to Go´, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, AUS
                `Superstitious Scaffolding´, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ

2004        `Some more recent old work´, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, AUS
                `Flowers, Flies and Someone Else´, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, AUS

2002        Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
                `Art lifts´, National Gallery of Australia, CanberraSarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, AUS
                Wellington City Gallery, NZ
                Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ


2001         Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, AUS
                 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ

2000        `Mikala Dwyer´, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUS
                `Selfshelf´, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
                `iffytown´, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ


Group Exhibitions (selection)

2009          West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, Victoria

2008        `Group Show-Lucky Town´, Roslyn Oxley gallery, Sydney.
                `TarraWarra Biennale 2008: Lost and Found, An Archaeology of the Present´, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
                `Common Space, Private Space´. Curator Rebecca Coates, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
                `Come-In: Interior Design as a Contemporary Art Medium in Germany´, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
                `Bal Tashchit: Thou Shalt Not Destroy´, Jewish Museum, Melbourne
                `Axis Bold as Love ,Video Salon´. Curated by Evergreen Terrace and A Constructed World, CAPC Bordeaux.
                `The Poster Market International´, curator Noah Brehmer. Chicago/New York.
                `The Ecologies Project´, Museum of Monash University, Melbourne.
                `To Make a Work Of Timeless Art´, Prima Vera Collection, MCA Sydney.
                `Ceramica´, I.C.A.N gallery, Sydney
                24/25, ‘Set for Handstand' with Ben Terakes and Filipa Raposo, Artspace, Sydney.
                `Artspace turns 21´, Artspace, Auckland ,New Zealand.
                `Hanging Eyes, Contemporary Art from the Collection´, National Gallery of Victoria.Melbourne.

2007          P25 Echelon, Chippendale, NSW
                `Mystic Truths´, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ
                 Den Haag Sculptuur 2007 De Overkant / Down Under, The Netherlands
                 Nada Art Fair, Miami
                 Von Riots Zu Angels, NYRT, Berlin, D

2006        `High Tide´, Zacheta Gallery of Art Warsaw, POL
                `High Tide´, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, LT
                `I Care Because You do, NewYorkRioTokyo´, Berlin, D
                `Beckon´, PICA, Perth, AUS
                `Out of Context´, The Fields Sculpture Park, OMI Arts Center, Gent New York, USA
                `Someone Shows Something To Someone´, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, AUS
                `Andreas Reta Raabe´, Group show Gallery, Gemunden, A

2005        `21st Century Modern´, Adelaide Bienale, curator Linda Michael, Adelaide, AUS
                `Mixed Up Childhood´, Auckland City Gallery, curator Robert Leonhard, NZ               
                `An end of year exhibition, new work by Sam Basu, Shane Cotton, Mikala Dwyer, Gavin Hipkins´, Hamish McKay Gallery, Sydney, Wellington, NZ
                `The Wallflower´, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, curator Eve Sullivan, Canberra, AUS
                `National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AUS
                `Unscripted Language in Contemporary Art´, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, curator Wayne Tunnicliffe, AUS
                Canberra, AUS
                `Salvage´, Clubs Projects Inc., Fitzroy


2004        `Unpacked II´, Bendigo Art Gallery, AUS
                `Three-way Abstraction: Works from the Monash University
                Collection´, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, AUS

2003        `Face Up´, Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, D
                `Unpacked II, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney´, AUS
                ´This was the Future... Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s +
                Today´, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, AUS
                The Shangri-La Collective, Artspace, Sydney, AUS
                Armory Show 2003, Sarah Cottier Gallery, New York, USA
                `Still Life´, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS
                `Afterlife´, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, AUS

2002        `Fieldwork´, Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne
                Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Melbourne, AUS

2001        Artful Park, Centennial park, Sydney, AUS
                `Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection´, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; City Gallery, Wellington, NZ
                `Necessary Invention´, Artspace, Sydney, AUS
                `Objection´, The Physics Room, Christchurch, AUS

2000        `Verso Sud´, Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Valmonte, I
                `plastika´, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, AUS
                `Bonheurs des Antipodes´, Musée de Picardie, Amiens, F



Public Collections

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUS
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, AUS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AUS
Auckland City Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Museum of Contemporary of Art, Sydney, AUS
Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Art Gallery of Newcastle, Newcastle ,AUS

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