Jan Senbergs b. 1939

Also known as John Senbergs, Jan Feliks Senbergs, Jānis Šēnbergs
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Jan Senbergs is one of that remarkable generation of European refugee immigrants whose sensibility so influenced Australian culture. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including a major survey exhibition Imagined Sites - Imagined Realities at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne in 1994 and a survey of his career at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016.
Tags: Refugees, Industrial Landscapes, humanism
exhibited at
Jan Senbergs: Observation - Imagination
Date
16 March 2016 - 12 June 2016
Place
Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

A comprehensive retrospective of the artist, examining his long career in detail – his humanist vision, finely-homed sense of humour and rigorous studio practice.

Tags
Humanism, Printmaking, cities
Website
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/jan-senbergs/
exhibited at
Jan Senbergs: from screen printer to painter
Date
5 April 2008 - 25 May 2008
Place
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
Description

A survey of the development of the work of Senbergs, from his early screenprints, paintings related to them and a number of his paintings from the late 1970s onwards

exhibited at
Jan Senbergs: Armidale 42: memory and imagination
Date
1999
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter University of Melbourne exhibition archive; National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Madigan, CF, Armidale ’42: a survivor’s account: memory and imagination / [a collaboration between col Madigan, Jan Senbergs, Don Watson]. South Yarra, Vic: MacMillan, c1999.
ISBN 0958574367

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Drawing
exhibited at
Sweet Damper and Gossip
Date
1994
Place
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Curated by Paul Fox.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Jan Senbergs: imagined sites, imagined realities
Date
1994
Place
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Heide exhibition archive; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Jan Senbergs: imagined sites, imagined realities. Bulleen, Vic: Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1994
ISBN 0947104267

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting
exhibited at
Survey exhibition: Ball, Baldessin, Senbergs, Leach-Jones
Date
1991
Place
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description

A group survey exhibition.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Painting, Printmaking, Drawing
exhibited at
Visions of Australia. Gryphon Gallery. 1990
Date
20 March 1990 - 6 April 1990
Description

Visions of Australia. 1990
Gryphon Gallery. Melb State College/Uni of Melb.
Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, Juan Davila,
John Firth-Smith, Frank Hodgkinson, Alun Leach-Jones, Deborah Klein, Anita Laurence, Jeff Makin,
Clifton Pugh, Noel Counihan.

Rick Amor, Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd,
Michael Leunig, Jiri Tibor Novak, Stieg Persson,
Clifton Pugh, David Rankin, Jan Senbergs,
Andrew Southhall.

Tags
Latvia
exhibited at
Jan Senbergs: mining landscapes, Mt Lyell
Date
1984
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Description

Research funded by the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. The first of a series of surveys of contemporary Australian art organised by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. This exhibition was devoted to Senbergs’ work in response to being at Queenstown.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
TMAG annual report; UTAS catalogue; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Kolenberg, Hendrik and Backhouse, Sue, Jan Senbergs: mining landscapes, Mt Lyell. Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1984
ISBN 0724611681

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting
exhibited at
Jan Senbergs survey
Date
1984
Place
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Description

Landscape paintings and drawings of Tasmania’s west coast mining region by Jan Senbergs.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery annual report 1983-84; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Kolenberg, Hendrik and Backhouse, Sue, Jan Senbergs: mining landscapes, Mt Lyell. Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1984
ISBN 0724611681

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Drawing
exhibited at
Jan Senbergs: selected works
Date
1984
Place
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Organised by RMIT. A survey of works selected by the artist.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Exhibition catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Jan Senbergs : selected works : an exhibition of paintings, drawings and silkscreen prints, RMIT Gallery, April 4-May 4, 1984. Melbourne: RMIT Gallery, 1984
ISBN 0864440634

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Printmaking, Drawing
exhibited at
Minnie Crouch exhibition 1975
Date
July 1975 - September 1975
Place
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic.
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Jan Senbergs and John Armstrong
Date
1974
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

An exhibition of works which represented Australia at the 1973 Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil, brought to Adelaide with assistance from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Armstrong won the Biennale prize for his sculptural work; Senbergs showed 18 paintings.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGSA annual report; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Australia, Bienal de Sao Paulo 1973: Jan Senbergs and John Armstrong. [Australia: sn, 1973]
[10] p, [1] folded p : chiefly ill ; 21 × 29cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Sao Paolo, Painting, Sculpture
exhibited at
Herald outdoor art show 1959
Date
6 March 1959 - 14 March 1959
Place
Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
Type
Exhibition