GREENAWAY ART GALLERY  

 

ADAM CULLEN   work cv essay  

 

BIOGRAPHY

 
1965
Born Australia
1986
Bachelor of Fine Arts, City Art Institute
1987 Graduate Diploma of Professional Art Studies, City Art Institute
1999 Master of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
2000 Winner, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2007 Australia Council Studio, Barcelona
2008 Winner, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, NSW
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
2009 A Death Like No Other, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2008 Let's Get Lost, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
International Manure / Evil / DNA / Blood / Arse, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2007 Stupid Heaven, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
I Am The Cheese, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2006 Between the Lines: Works on Paper 1995-2005, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne; Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney; Lewers Bequest, Sydney
2005

Let Me Tell You About My Day, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Product of Compulsion, Michael Reid Art Dealer, Redfern, NSW
Maintaining the Rage, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2004 Pure Sanctimony, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
On my Knees Looking Up, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
2003 Future Dirt, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Far and Away, Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Our Place in the Pacific, touring exhibition to regional galleries in Newcastle, Cairns, Gold Coast and Toowoomba
2002 UnAustralian, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
2001 Night and Day, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
The Placebo Effect, Artspace, Sydney
2000 Value, ACCA, Melbourne
Miss Gin Gin Showgirl (with Dale Frank), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
Interpersonal, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
1999 Blind Side, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Hotel/Motel, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Genuine Imitation, First Floor, Melbourne
1998 Amateur Exorcist, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
Self-Loving, Fiat Lux, Auckland, NZ
Touch and Go, Level 2 Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
World Fantasy, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
1997 Special, Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney
I Only think about you when I’m drunk, Test Strip, Auckland
Life Fitness, Artspace, Sydney
1996 The Australian Labor Party, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Live Rock, CBD Gallery, Sydney
1995 Class, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Peace is Cool, CBD Gallery, Sydney
1994 Soft Material Facts, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Special Galore Type, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Homoerotic, CBD Gallery, Sydney
1993 Software, Selenium Gallery, Sydney
August, CBD Gallery, Sydney
Lucifer (with Matthys Gerber), Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Heterocampstick, Black Gallery, Sydney
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
2008 Thoughts On Paper, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
True Crime: murder and misdemeanour in Australian Art, Geelong Gallery, Geelong
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, redleaf Council Chambers, Sydney
Blake Prize, NAS Gallery, Sydney
Bon Scott Project, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
2007 Who let the dogs out, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Salon Des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2006 The Kilgour Prize, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
Fantastic Voyage, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2005 A Special Exhibition, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW
Unscripted, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Special Affects, MOP Projects, Redfern, NSW
The Sound of Painting, George Adams Gallery, the Arts Centre, Melbourne
Campbelltown Bling, Campbelltown City Gallery, NSW
Extinction Denied, Art House Hotel, Sydney
Icons Framed, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, Sydney
Salon Des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, Sydney
Art On The Rocks, Sydney Visitor's Centre, The Rocks, Sydney
Identity and Desire, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The Grey Voice, Tin Sheds, University of Sydney, NSW
Interesting Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rocks, Sydney
Wild Beasts, Grey Matter, Glebe, NSW
2004 Extinction Denied, Arthouse, Sydney
Art and About, various outdoor locations, Sydney
The Visibility of Practice, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
2003 The Meaning of Everything, Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney
The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Six Degrees of Separation, Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Foxed, Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Anita and Beyond, Penrith Regional Gallery
2002 The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Hooky the Cripple, published with Mark Read, Pluto Press, Sydney
Bitter Sweet, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
ARCO 2002, Madrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Kedumba Drawing Prize, Kedumba Gallery, New South Wales
Group Exhibition, Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney
2001 Portraits 2001 – An Australian Odessey, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, and various regional galleries
None More Blacker, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne and various regional galleries in VIC and NSW
Painting: an arcane technology, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Group Exhibition, Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney
2000 Art in the World 2000, Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France
Video-Salon, Week of Art and New Media, Brussels, Belgium
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of New South Wales and regional tour
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, New South Wales
Not Quite Right, Grey Matter Gallery, Sydney
The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The 2000 Sporting Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Blind, Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney
 
COLLECTIONS  

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
Griffith University, QLD
Geelong Art Gallery, VIC
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Artbank, Sydney
AMP Australia
Collection of Sir Elton John
Collection of the Honourable Duncan Kerr