Michael Goldberg b. 1952

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Michael Goldberg is a Sydney based artist, curator and academic whose practice includes installation, performance, digital media and sculpture. From his early site-specific installations to later interactions with the global financial market, the artist seeks to create discursive and interactive artworks.
participated in
catchingafallingknife: Greed, Fear and Irrational Exuberance
Description

- A Game of Financial and Cultural Speculation …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3461
Note
Spoke at
exhibited at
Many Voices/Merging Visions
Date
2006
Place
Glebe, Sydney, NSW
Description

CURATOR: Public art project commissioned by the City of Sydney for the annual Art and About Festival. The project included works by social documentary photographer Roslyn Sharpe and images taken by residents of Glebe.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Glebe Point Road: Public Art Project
Date
2006
Place
Glebe, Sydney, NSW
Description

CURATOR: Sculpture competition featuring emerging and established Sydney artists such as Allan Giddy, Nigel Heyler and Nuha Saad.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Disobedience
Date
8 September 2005 - 15 October 2005
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, NSW
Description

GROUP: curated by David McNeill and Zanny Begg

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/galleries/idg/exhibitions/Disobedience/index.html
exhibited at
The Butterfly Effect
Date
1 January 2005 - 1 February 2005
Place
Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW
Description

CURATOR/GROUP: Goldberg participated as both curator and artist within group project of thirteen artists responding to displays within the Australian Museum, the event was part of the 2005 Sydney Festival

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
NCM open/high/low/close
Date
2001
Place
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
Description

GROUP: Entitled 'Auriferous’ the project was curated by Amanda Lawson and Craig Judd for the sesquicentenary of the discovery of gold in Australia.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Swelter
Date
1999 - 2000
Place
Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, NSW
Description

CURATOR: Group Artist project featuring artists such as Jackie Dunn, Nigel Helyer, Debra Phillips. Artists were invited to present site-specific responses to the history of Australia’s first botanic garden.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The well-built Australian
Date
1998
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

A labyrinth of rooms and corridors referring to the site of the AGNSW building.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report & archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
The well-built Australian / Michael Goldberg. [Sydney] : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1999
1 folded sheet (5p) : ill (some col) ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Artists in the House!
Date
1997
Place
Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, NSW
Description

GROUP: Interpretation of the historical context of Elizabeth Bay House, project funded by the Australia Council.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.hht.net.au/whats_on/past_exhibitions/ebh/artists_in_the_house
exhibited at
Lull
Date
1995
Place
Gorman House, Canberra, ACT
Description

GROUP: Canberra National Sculpture Forum a site-specific installation with Jackie Dunn.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Images of Metal-Aspects of the history of post war sculpture in South Africa
Date
1994 - 1995
Description

GROUP: Curated by Elizabeth Rankin, toured South Africa and the United Kingdom

Type
Exhibition