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Artist Profile - Brook Andrew

Brook Andrew

Name

Brook Andrew

Born

1970, Sydney, Australia

Represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Tolarno Galleries
www.tolarnogalleries.com

Brook Andrew's Website
www.brookandrew.com


Qualifications
1998-99 Master of Fine Arts, Research. COFA, University of NSW, Sydney
1990-93 Bachelor of Visual Arts. University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Sydney
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 Paradise. Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2010 The Cell. Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney. Traveling on to the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and MONA & FOMA Festival of Music and Art, Hobart, Australia
2009

Danger Of Authority. Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

8 Months At War. DETACHED, Hobart & University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane. Australia

Brook Andrew: The Island. UQ Art Museum, Brisbane

2008

BROOK ANDREW : THEME-PARK. AAMU. The Netherlands

The Island. Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK

2007

Come into the Light. Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye. A survey exhibition curated by Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, touring Australian and south/south-east Asia

2006 YOU'VEALWAYSWANTEDTOBEBLACK. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Peace, The Man & Hope. Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2004 Kalar Midday series and Emu. Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2001

the good side, the bad side, the other side. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia

Buunji nginduugir AMERICA. Artspace, Sydney. Australia

The unseen. Sanskriti Kendra. Delhi, India

1999 contention series. Contemporary Art Centre of S.A. Inc. Adelaide, Australia
1996 Dispersed Treasures. Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011

From Blank Pages. Art Space Pool, Seoul, South Korea

Burn What You Cannot Steal. Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia

10 ways to look at the past. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

TELL ME TELL ME: AUSTRALIAN AND KOREAN ART 1976–2011. MCA, Sydney, Australia, and MOCA, Seoul, South Korea

Looking at Looking. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2010

21st Century: Art in the First Decade. Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Australia

17th Biennale of Sydney. Curated by David Elliot, Sydney, Australia

No Name Station. Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia, and Iberia Centre of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Carnival. Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW, Australia

GRAND NORD GRAND SUD Artistes inuit et aborigines. Musée de L'Abbaye de Daoulas in co-production with Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France

Curious Colony, a twenty first century Wunderkammer. Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia

100 Years: Highlights from The University of Queensland Art Collection, Brisbane, Australia

Stick it! Collage in Australian art. National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, Australia

2009 The Exotic Human. Other cultures as amusement. Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Holland, and Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
2008

typical! Clichés of Jews and Others. The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Jewish Museum, Vienna, and Spertus Institute, Chicago

Half Light – Portraits of Black Australia. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Lost & Found: an Archeology of the Present. TarraWarra Biennial. TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria

2007

DE OVERKANT/DOWN-UNDER: Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur. Den Haag. The Netherlands

The story of Australian printmaking 1801–2005. National Gallery of Australia. Canberra

Alfred Metraux : From fieldwork to Human Rights. Smithsonian Institute. National Museum of Natural History. Washington D.C. United States of America. October 2006-March 2007

PRISM: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ART. Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation. Tokyo, Japan

TRANS VERSA. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile

2006

Light Sensitive. Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund. National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

Points of View: Australian Photography 1985-95. Art Gallery of NSW. Sydney

HIGH TIDE: currents in contemporary Australasian art. National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, Poland, and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

SATELLITE06. Yangshupu Rd. Pavilion. Shanghai, China: A Shanghai Biennale satellite event

The Adelaide Biennial of Australia 2006: 21st Century Modern. Art Gallery of South Australia

2005

Black on White. Centre for Contemporary Photography. Melbourne

The Butterfly Effect. Australian Museum. The Sydney Festival. Sydney

2004

Colour Power. National Gallery of Victoria

2004 Australian Culture Now. Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the National Gallery of Victoria

Our Place: Indigenous Australian now. Cultural Olympiad Program, Athens, Greece

Images: Photo's by Aboriginal Artists. Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Aboriginal Art: Spirit & Vision. Sammlung-Essl, Vienna

2003

Australian Photographic Portrait Prize. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

New View: Indigenous Photographic Perspectives. Monash Gallery of Art. National touring exhibition. Melbourne, Australia

2002 Border Panic. Performance Space, Sydney
2000

Blondies and Brownies. Torch gallery. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

4th Nouméa Biennale d'Art Contemporian. Nouméa -Pacifique. Tjibaou Cultural Centre. New Caledonia

Orbital. Experimenta Media Arts at The Lux Centre for Film, London, UK, & Centre for Contemporary Photography., Melbourne, Australia

1999

MENTHEN...queue here! djamu Gallery, the Australian Museum at Customs House

Claiming Title. United States touring show:Carleton & St. Olaf College, MN,Lawrence Uni.,WI, Samuel Dorsky Uni., SUNY

Perspecta 99. S.H. Ervin Gallery. Observatory Hill, Sydney

Beyond Myth-Oltre Il Mito. Palazzo Papadopoli, 48th Venice Biennale, Italy

Moet and Chandon Australian Art Fellowship 1999. Australia. Art Gallery of NSW. Sydney

1998

Constructed in the Field of the Other. Artspace, Sydney

Re-take: Contemporary ATSI Photography. National Gallery of Australia. Canberra. National touring exhibition

1997 Quay Works. Sydney Festival, Sydney
1996

Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Art Gallery of South Australia

Souvenir Greetings from Sydney. Craft Council of NSW, Sydney

1995 Perspecta. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1994-95

Blakness: Blak City Culture.. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. National touring exhibition

True Colours-ATSI Artists Raise the Flag. Boomalli. British and Australian national touring exhibition

1994 Fresh Art. S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1993 Mary Alice Evatt Award. Artspace, Sydney
1992 Wring. The Performance Space, Sydney