ROBERT OWEN
Born in 1937, Robert Owen graduated from the National Art School, Sydney, in 1962. He lived in Greece (1963Ð66), and in London (until 1975), thereafter returning to Sydney. He was Associate Professor and Head of Sculpture at RMIT (1988Ð2001). He currently lives and works in Melbourne.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Aura, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
207 Inside and Out, Sherman Gallery, Sydney
2006 Music for the Eyes, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Long Before Morning, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2004 Different Lights Cast Different Shadows, The 2nd Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Flickering Light, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne; the text of light, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Yarra Glen, VIC
2003 Sculpture 2003: Installations, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2000 Quietness, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Leaving the Memory Behind (Cubes & Hypercubes), Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Ghost Tantras and Coloured Spaces, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Sunrise, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1993 Sunrise, City Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Sunrise, Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991 Re-Vision, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Re-Vision (Three Works), Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart
1989 Trace of a Silent Bell, City Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Trace of a Silent Bell, Palais du Rhin, Strasbourg France; The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Retrospective Installation, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW; AÐWarring Peace; A Sweet Wound; A Mild Evil, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Phase Zone Three; Into the Light, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Easy Science, United Artist Gallery, Melbourne
1985 Resurrections, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; PersephoneÕs Towers, Air and Space Studio, London
1984 Turn of the Moon, Folds in the Lake of Light and From the Centre (installation), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1983 From the Centre, Art Projects, Melbourne
1982 Hammer on Rock (sound installation), Coventry Gallery, Sydney; Burano, Colour Works, Axiom Gallery, Melbourne
1981Ð82 Burano, Colour Works, The Developed Image, Adelaide and New Zealand tour
1980 Plain Images (installation with Mike Parr), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Apposition, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1979 Burano Colour Works, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Solander Gallery, Canberra; Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW
1978 Cross-Reference, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1977 Memory & Logic Units, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
Some Past/Some Future Work Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Constructions & Drawings, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Seven Days (Drawings 1966Ð1974), Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
1971Ð72 Relief Constructions, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 KIAF, Seoul, Korea
2008-09 50X50 Summer Show, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2008 Optimism, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Brisbane
2005 New Aqusitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Architecture, Melbourne Masters, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healsville, Victoria
Wall Power, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
London, Looking East Australian artists in Australian Council Studios, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania
2004 McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2003, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, VIC
2003 Sculpture 2003: Installations, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney; see here now, Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2002 A History of Happiness, Melbourne Festival, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne; Towards a Free Tibet, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2001 Buddha: Radiant Awakening, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, VIC; low-down: recent acquisitions, Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne; Sculpture at Seawinds, ArthurÕs Seat: Old Landscape, New Gardens, Parks Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2000 Art & Kabbalah: Contemporary Responses to an Ancient Tradition, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne
1999 Silver, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
1998 Construction in Process VI: The Bridge, Melbourne
1997 Wall as Medium, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane; Geometric Abstraction in Australia 1941Ð1997, Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane
1996-97 MuseumÐ97 Spirit + Place: Art in Australia 1861Ð1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Australian Contemporary Painting, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1994 aussemblage! Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ; Reinventing the Grid, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts; Circle, Line, Square: Aspects of Geometry, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery and Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW; Colour, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne; Contemporary Australian Art, Government House, Perth; Going Public, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1993 Inner Space, 5th Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Lightworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992 The Angelic Space, A Celebration of Piero Della Francesca, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Three Installations, Echo (A Warring Peace; A Sweet Wound; A Mild Evil),
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Artists Make Books, Linden Gallery, Melbourne and touring; Off the Wall Ð In the Air, A Seventies Selection, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne; Sculpture Show, Annandale Galleries, Sydney; Models, Ara Multiplicata, Sydney
1990 Inland, Corresponding Places, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne; Out of Asia, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne; Artists for Green Peace, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne; Deux Ex Machina, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Australian Photography, The Waverley Centre, Melbourne; Artists against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne; New Acquisitions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Deux Ex Machima, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne; Europe and Back, ArtistsÕ Installations, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne; FranceÐAustralie Exchange DÕartistes Chapelle de la Salpetriere, Paris
1988 Olympiad of Art, Seoul Olympic Park, Korea; Plus-Moins-Zero, Institut Superieur Pour lÕEtude Du Langage Plastique, Bruxelle; Prints by Twenty-Five Australian Artists, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1987 Ormond College Welcomes New Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne; What is this Thing Called Science, University Gallery, 3rd Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne; In Print Vol.1: Artists Books, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Geometric Abstraction, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
6th Biennale of Sydney: Origin, Originality & Beyond, Art Gallery of New South Wales and other venues, Sydney
1985 Biennale Des Friedens, Kunsthaus Hamburg, West Germany; Australian Perspecta: Instruments of Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Ten Years, Air Gallery, London
1983 Drawings (Schematic, Expressionist & Psychological), Art Projects, Melbourne; DÕun autre Continent: LÕAustraliale reveet le reel, ARC/MusZe dÕArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Continuum 83, Australian Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan; Presence and Absence, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1982 Ambiente, installations, Rimini, Italy; The Seventies into Eighties, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, Australian National University, Canberra
1981 Re-Constructed Vision, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Anzart: Art Encounter, Art Gallery of Christchurch, NZ; Eight x Two x Three, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney; First Australian Sculpture Triennial, La Trobe University, Melbourne
1980 Frame of Reference, Ewing & George Paton Gallery, Melbourne and Australian tour
1979 3rd Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales and other venues, Sydney
1978 Documentation, Maki & Tamuta Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; 7th Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura, NSW; 38th Venice Biennale: From Nature to Art, From Art to Nature, Venice, Italy
Four Australian Artists (with Boyd, Hessing and Nolan), Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Constructions, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, US; Three to Infinity, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
1969 John MooreÕs Liverpool Exhibition 7, Liverpool City Gallery, England; Constructions, Marlborough Fine Art, London; Icon Gallery, Birmingham; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2004 Rotary Landing, Queensbridge Square, Melbourne for Melbourne City Council
2003 Craigieburn Bypass: MelbourneÕs northern gateway, collaboration with Architects Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer for VIC Roads Hume Freeway Development
2002 Webb Bridge, a reconciliation project in collaboration with Architects Denton Corker Marshall for The Docklands Authority, Melbourne
2001 Memory Pond, Grattan Gardens Plaza, Prahran, Melbourne
1999 Discobolus, Hellenic Tribute, Sydney 2000 Olympics, Olympic Park, Homebush Bay
1997-8 New1998 Axiom, Atrium Sculpture, New Commonwealth Law Courts, Melbourne
1989 Vessel, Public sculpture, Nippon Exhibition Centre, Chiba, Japan
1987 Night Companion, Sculpture Tower, World Expo 88, Brisbane
1980 Interiors, Design production (costume, stage and lighting), Sydney Dance Company
AWARDS
2002 Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Board Emeritus Award for service to the arts
1988 Artist in residence, CEAAC Centre European DÕActions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France
Artist in residence, Gertrude Street Artists Studio, Melbourne
Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Board Grant
1987 Artist in residence, Victorian College of the Arts
1985 Artist in residence, Air & Space Studio, London
1983 Visual Arts Board Project Grant to participate in DÕun autre continent, ARC/MusZe dÕArt Moderne, Paris, France
1978 Visual Arts Board Project Grant to participate in 38th Venice Biennale, Italy
1969 John MooreÕs Liverpool Exhibition 7, UK
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum and Art Gallery of Tasmania, Hobart
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Armidale City Art Gallery, NSW
City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC
Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Mildura City Art Gallery, NSW
Naracoorte Art Gallery, SA
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW
New Parliament House, Canberra
Perc Tucker Art Gallery, Townsville, QLD
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW
Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
The University of Melbourne Collection
Vizard Foundation Art Collection, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
Archivio Arti Contemporanee, Venice, Italy
Central Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Museo de Arts de S‹o Paulo, Brazil
Narodna Gallerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City
National Museum and Art Gallery, Port Morseby, Papua New Guinea
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Soeul, Korea
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Puskin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Staatliche Museum, West Berlin
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Banque National De Paris, France
Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome, Italy
Polaroid Collection, Amsterdam
Private collections worldwide
Comprehensive CV and Bibliography available on request |
