All Exhibitions
(solo exhibitions in bold)
2023
– ‘Richard Dunn: The Four Afters: Albert Namatjira, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philipp Otto Runge, Richard Buckminster Fuller’, Mais Wright Gallery, Sydney, Nov-Dec 2023
– ‘Richard Dunn: Thinking Pictures’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
– ‘Richard Dunn After Namatjira and Blasted Geometries’, Sofitel Melbourne on Collins and Global Art Project, Melbourne
– ‘Round’, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW. Curator, Lisa Jones, Tom Loveday
2022
– ‘SNO@FIVEWALLS’, Five Walls, Melbourne, curated by Andrew Leslie
2021
– ‘Square 2’, Five Walls, Melbourne, curated by Lisa Jones
2020
– ‘Lightworks’, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra, curated by Charles Nodrum
2019
– ‘Square’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, curated by Lisa Jones
– ‘The Studio’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Sadie Chandler and Richard Dunn
– ‘IN-Formalism’, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, curated by Andrew Leslie and Ruark Lewis for SNO|Sydney Non-Objective
2018
– ‘Richard Dunn: Haus Wittgenstein/Kundmanngasse 19, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
– ‘Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c.1968’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
– ‘Redlands|Konica Minolta Art Prize’, NAS Gallery, Sydney
2017
– ‘Nach 2000. Gemälde’ Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany. Richard Dunn, Günther Förg, Françoise Gilot, Eberhard Göschel, K. O. Götz, Hans Hendrik Grimmling, David Jones, Cesare Lucchini, Markus Lüpertz, Osmar Osten, Markus Prachensky, Norbert Tadeusz
– ‘Imagine’, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
– ‘Works on Paper 2018’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2016
– ‘Richard Dunn: Some Works’, William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney (solo)
– ‘Black White & Restive: Cross-cultural Initiatives in Australian Contemporary Art’, Newcastle Art Gallery, curated by Una Rey
– ‘Modern Australian Painting’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
– ‘Into Abstraction’, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2015
– ‘Haus Wittgenstein, Kundmanngasse 9’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
– ‘Painting 1 – Edge, Angle, Grid’, William Wright Projects, Sydney
– ‘Feral’, Articulate, Sydney
2014
– ‘Richard Dunn: New Works’, Concept Space, Shibukawa, Japan (solo)
– ‘Richard Dunn: 3 tatami piece – 10 paintings’, Star Projects at Yamashita Bldg, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
– ‘Pop to Popism’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe
– ‘Namatjira and Beyond’, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria, curated by Dianne Mangan
2013
– ‘MIX TAPE 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
– ‘Vista’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
– ‘Colour Masters’, Albert Namatjira Gallery, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
– ‘Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO’, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
2012
– ‘Four paintings after Albert Namatjira’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
– ‘by leaves we live’, sleeper, Edinburgh
– ‘Roads Cross’, Charles Darwin University Art Gallery
– ‘Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Tweed River Art Gallery
– ‘Roads Cross’, Flinders University Art Museum, curated by Fiona Salmon
– ‘SNO@BHO’, Balhaus Ost, Berlin, curated by Mani Hammer, Gunna Schmidt, Nicola Stäglich, Anke Völk
2011
– ‘Polychrome’, gbk | Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
– ‘Polychrome’, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney’
– ‘Some Decades’, Factory 49, Sydney
– ‘Richard Dunn: Four Paintings After Albert Namatjira’, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria and Moree Plains Gallery, NSW
– ‘Abstraction 11’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne’Lines of Thinking’, Global Centre for Drawing @ Langford120, Melbourne
– ‘Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO’, Wollongong City Gallery, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, New England Regional Art Gallery
2010
– ‘The Labyrinth’, Mati Ghar, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi
– ‘Constellations’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne‘
2009
– ‘Opening of the Universe (Brahmasphutasiddhanta)’, gbk | Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
– ‘A plaid found at Culloden’, sleeper, Edinburgh
– ‘Richard Dunn: The Fibonacci Trees’, Sofitel Melbourne on Collins and Global Art Project, Melbourne, curated by Donald Williams
– ’Richard Dunn’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
– ‘Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
– ‘Faith & Lust’, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney. Curated by Alex Lawler
– ‘N.O.’, SNO | Sydney Non-Objective Contemporary Art Project. Curated by Richard Dunn
– ‘Gallery A Sydney 1964-1983’, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown NSW and Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle NSW
– ‘Primary Views: Artists curate the Monash University Collection’, Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Clayton Vic. Curators: Stephen Bram; Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley; Juan Davila
– ‘Abstraction 8, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
– ‘Vivid Sydney Festival Smart Light Sydney: Art Light”, University of Technology, Sydney, curated by Mike Day
2008
– ‘Artspace 24/25’, Artspace, Sydney
– ‘Australia – Contemporary Non-Objective Art’, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany. Curated by Christoph Dahlhausen
– ‘Aus Australien’, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand
– ‘Australien – Konkrete Kunst aus dem 5. Kontinent’, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany. Curated by Christoph Dahlhausen
2007
– ‘Richard Dunn’, Peloton, Sydney
– ‘CITY’, gbk|Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
– ‘Australia – Contemporary Non-Objective Art’, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e.V. and raum2810, Bonn, Curated by Christoph Dahlhausen
– ‘Living Elvis’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. Curated by Peter Barnes
– ‘Alluring Dystopias’, George Petelin Gallery, Southport QLD.
2006
– ‘Six Abstract Paintings (for J. McL.)’, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
– ‘Richard Dunn: mannig•faltig’, Förderverein Kunst der DRK Kliniken Westend, Berlin
– ‘Westworld’, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
– ‘Mani-fold, Paintings + Photography’, gbk|Gallery Barry Keldoulis
– ‘Weltanshauung – Vision of the World’, Art Gallery of the United Nations, New York. Curated by Dr. Paul Eubel
– ‘Weltanshauung – Visione del Mondo’, Museo D’Arte Moderna E Contemporanea Palazzo Belmonte Riso, Palermo. Curated by Dr. Paul Eubel
– ‘Models for Chinese-German sculpture and architecture-garden-places, 2006-2010’, Tianjin Art Gallery, Tianjin, PR China. Curated by Marcel Hardung-Uecker
– ‘Abstraction 5’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
– gbk|Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2005
– ‘Shadowzone’, Artspace, Sydney.
– ‘Richard Dunn – Mannig•faltig: Malerei u. fotos/Mani•fold: Paintings & photos’, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany.
– ‘The Labyrinth & Food+Poison’, gbk|Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
– ‘S.N.O 6’, S.N.O., Sydney
– ‘Bleak Epiphanies’, Virginia Wilson ART, Sydney. Curated by William Wright
– ‘Pitch Your Own Ten: Art Projects/Store 5/Ist Floor’, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2004
– ‘Blickdicht: Damenstrümpfe in Chemnitz’, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
– ‘Penetralia: Art and Psychoanalysis in Melbourne 1940-2004’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2003
– ‘First Beijing International Art Biennale’, Beijing, China
2002
– ‘Wittgenstein`s Colour’, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney.
2000
– ‘In Chemnitz’, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney.
– ‘Nomad’, voxxx.galerie and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz Germany.
– ‘Monochromes’, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane. Curator: David Pestorius.
– ‘Celebrating the Exquisite Corpse’, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC. Touring Swan Hill & Ararat. Curator: Anonda Bell.
– ‘Aus Australien Porfolio’. Bendigo Art Gallery, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria. Portfolio selected by René Block.
1999
– ‘Richard Dunn’, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney.
– ‘Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists’, Göteborgs Konsthallen, (Contemporary Art Gallery, Gothenberg), Sweden, Galleria Otso (Contemporary Art Gallery), Helsinki (Espoo) Curator: Elizabeth Cross.
– ‘Visiboard Art Prize’, Barossa Vintage Festival, Richmond Grove Winery, Tanunda, South Australia.
1998
– ‘Nomad’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
– ‘Southern Reflections’, Kulturhuset, (Cultural Centre) Stockholm, Sweden; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo. Curator: Elizabeth Cross.
– ‘Symbiosis’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, and Utopia Art Sydney (Curator: Stephen Hesketh).
1997
– ‘PARALLELS: Space, Time & Architecture’, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney.
– Sydney Spring: Festival of New Music, ABC Centre, Sydney.
– ‘Geometric Painting in Australia 1941 – 1997’, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane Curator: David Pestorius.
– ‘Innenseite’, Kassel, Germany. Curator: Professor Hamdi el Attar, Universität Ghk Kassel.
– ‘Objects and Ideas: Revisiting Minimalism’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Curator: Linda Michaels.
– ‘Minimalism’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
– Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney.
1996
– ‘Flagging the Republic’, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney; New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Curator: Bill Wright.
1995
– ‘Hidden Structures 1969, Oblique 1995’, CBD Gallery, Sydney.
– Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
– ‘ ” ” (quotation)’, Artspace, Sydney.
– ‘Smorgan Collection’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
1994
– Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
– ‘Richard Dunn: Selected Work 1964 – 1994’, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
– ‘Looking Seeing Reading’, Institute of Contemporary Art, Brisbane & Monash University Gallery, Melbourne. Curator: Ian Burn.
– ‘The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80`s’, Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Melbourne.
1993
– ‘Surveillance and Punishment’, Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne.
– Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
– ‘Languages of Abstraction’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
– ‘Looking Seeing Reading’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. Curator: Ian Burn.
– ‘Construction in Process IV: My Home is Your Home’, International Artists Museum, Lødz, Poland.
1992
– ‘The Dialectic Image – Selected Work 1964 – 1992’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
– ‘Push & Pull’, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney.
– ‘Synthesis: Art and Architecture’, (with Graham Jahn, architect), Bond Store, Sydney. Curator: Davina Jackson.
– ‘Future City’, (with Graham Jahn, architect), Bond Store, Sydney. Curator: Davina Jackson.
1991
– Momentary Modern, Amsterdam. Curators: Irene Scocos and Corinne Groot.
1990
– Yuill/Crowley, Sydney.
– Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
– ‘Art from Australia: Eight Contemporary Views’, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore; Gedung Seni Rupa (National Gallery of Indonesia) Jakarta, Indonesia; National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Phillipines. Curator: Alison Carroll.
– ‘Eighth Biennale of Sydney: The Readymade Boomerang’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Bond Store, Walsh Bay, Curator: René Block.
1989
– ‘The Australia Exhibition’, Württembergischen Kunstverein, Stuttgart.
– ‘Prospect 89’, An International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein & Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. Curator: Peter Weiermair.
1988
– Yuill/Crowley, Sydney.
– Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
– ‘Australian Biennale. From the Southern Cross: A View of World Art c. 1940- 1988’ – The Seventh Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales & Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Curator: Nick Waterlow).
– ‘Edge to Edge: Australian Contemporary Art to Japan’, The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan.
– ‘The Australian Exhibition’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Steirnernes Haus, Frankfurt a M. Curators: Tony Bond and Peter Weiermair.
1987
– ‘From Field to Figuration’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
– ‘Fünf vom Fünften in Australien’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
– ‘Sighting References’, National Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Art Gallery of New South Wales and Artspace, Sydney; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne. Curator: Gary Sangster.
– ‘Australian Bicentennial Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Curator: Tony Bond.
1986
– Sixth Biennale of Sydney: Origins, Originality and Beyond, Art Gallery of New South Wales & Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay, Sydney. Curator: Nick Waterlow.
– Mass, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York Curated by Group Material
– The Hand and the Photograph, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Curator: Martyn Jolly.
1985
– ‘Works from New York 1984 – 1985’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
– ‘Richard Dunn’, PS1, New York
– ‘Drawing From the Barricades’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
– ‘Six Positions’, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
– The Clocktower, New York.
– ‘Australian Art in Our Time’, Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis.
– ‘Selections 30’, The Drawing Center, New York.
– ‘The Politics of Picturing II’, IMA Brisbane.
– ‘5/5, Fünf vom Fünften’, daadgalerie, Berlin. Curator: René Block.
– ‘Mass’, touring exhibition, USA. Curated by Group Material
– ‘Close Remarks’, Artspace, Sydney. Curator: Gary Sangster.
– ‘The Pleasure of the Gaze’, Art Gallery of Western Australian, Perth. Curator: Bruce Adams.
– ‘Australian Perspecta `85’ Art Gallery of New South South Wales, Sydney. Curators: Gary Sangster & Bernice Murphy.
1984
– ‘The Australians: Three Generations of Australian Drawing’, CDS Gallery, New York. Curator: Memory Holloway.
– ‘Recent Australian Painting’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Curator: Ron Radford.
– ‘The Politics of Picturing’, University of Tasmania. Curator: Suzanne Davies.
1983
– ‘A-K: The Normal and Domestic’, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney.
– ‘Die Brücke/The Bridge’, QED, Sydney.
– ‘D`un Autre Continent: L`Australie, Le Rêve et le Réel’, ARC/Musee d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Curator: Suzanne Pagé.
– ‘Australian Art in Amsterdam’, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery with Gallerie Wetering and Gallerie Jurka.
1982
– ‘Barricades No.3 (The Sheet, The Monochrome, The Banner) 1848’, Art Projects, Melbourne.
– ‘Popism’, National Gallery of Victoria. Curator: Paul Taylor.
– ‘Australian Art of the Last Ten Years’, National Gallery, Canberra.
– ‘The Seventies’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
1981
– ‘(a dialogue of objects)’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
– ‘The Second Construction: Barricades’, QED, One Central Street, Sydney.
– ‘Australian Perspecta `81’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Curator: Berenice Murphy.
– ‘The Beacon’, n- space, Sydney. Curator: Imants Tillers.
1980
– ‘Tools of Coincidence’, Art Projects, Melbourne.
– ‘Monastery’, modernArt, One Central Street, Sydney.
– ‘Frame of Reference’, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne. Curator: Judy Annear.
1979
– Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
– ‘Third Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue’, AGNSW. Curator: Nick Waterlow.
– ‘The Work and its Context 2’, Australian Embassy, Paris. Curator: Grazia Gunn
1978
– ‘The Work and its Context: Six Attitudes in Australian Art’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Curator: Grazia Gunn.
– ‘The Sixties into the Seventies: Selections from the Chandler Coventry Collection’, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne. Curator: Grazia Gunn.
– ‘Roadshow: Works on Paper’, Touring exhibition. Curator: Katrina Rumley.
1977
– Nine Works, Gallery A, Sydney.
– ‘Georges Invitation Art Prize’, Georges Gallery, Melbourne.
1976
– ‘Six Positions’, modernArt, Sydney.
– Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne.
– ‘The Coventry Collection’, University of New England, Armidale, NSW.
1975
– Gallery A, Sydney.
1972
– Gallery A, Sydney.
1969
– ‘London `69’, Arnhem Galleries, Croydon, England.
1967
– ‘RA and RCA’, Diploma Galleries, Royal Academy, London.
1966
– ‘NSW Travelling Art Scholarship’, AGNSW, Sydney.
1963
– ‘Young Contemporaries’, CAS, Blaxland Galleries, Sydney.
– ’25 Young Painters’, Argus Gallery, Melbourne.
– ‘Young Contemporaries’, Archer Street Gallery, Adelaide.