Mike Parr b. 1945

  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Screen Artist)
Working across a range of media that includes performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, drypoint etching and photography, Mike Parr is regarded as one of the most successful Australian artists of his generation. Parr has realised over 1000 works within the context of his self-imposed 'Self-Portrait' series.
Tags: Performance art, Conceptual art, Body, Printmaking, Printmaker
exhibited at
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002
Date
2002
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mike Parr: close the concentration camps
Date
2002
Place
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

In a performance at Monash University Museum of Art entitled 'Close the Concentration Camps’, Mike Parr declares his support for asylum seekers in Australian detention centres.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
MUMA archive printout; http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/events/previous.html (10/07/03)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Performance
exhibited at
Malevich [A Political Arm]: Mike Parr
Date
2002
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

Funded by the Australia Council and the NSW Ministry for the Arts. Supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Artspace exhibition archive: http://www.artspace.org.au/index.html

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Performance
curator of
Mike Parr: close the concentration camps
Date
2002
Place
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

In a performance at Monash University Museum of Art entitled 'Close the Concentration Camps’, Mike Parr declares his support for asylum seekers in Australian detention centres.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
MUMA archive printout; http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/events/previous.html (10/07/03)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Performance
exhibited at
Lightness of Being: Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia
Date
2001
Place
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Aluminium from the Mouth
Date
2001
Place
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Anxiety: the figure drawn
Date
2001
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mike Parr
Date
2000
Place
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Biennale of Sydney
Date
2000
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
... de Kooning, de Kooning...
Date
2000
Place
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Spitting and Biting
Date
2000
Place
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Other Stories: Five Australian Artists
Date
1999
Place
Hoddaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
3 Collaborations
Date
1999
Place
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Shadows of a Monument 1
Date
1999
Place
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Bulleen, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Wrong Face
Date
1999
Place
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Home and Away
Date
1999
Place
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Trace: Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary Art
Date
1999
Place
The Tate, Liverpool, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Five Continents and One City: Second International Salon of Painting
Date
1999
Place
Museum of Mexico City, Mexico
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Possibilities of Portraiture
Date
1999
Place
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mike Parr, Akio Makigawa: 1998 Lowenstein Sharp Arts 21 Fellowship
Date
1999
Place
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

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

Exhibition Catalogue:
Mike Parr. Bulleen, Vic : Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1999
ISBN 0947104542

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Printmaking, Mixed media, Installation, Sculpture
exhibited at
Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art
Date
1998
Place
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Southern Reflections - An Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art to Northern Europe
Date
1998
Place
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Description

ALSO TOURED: Konstallen, Goteborg, Sweden; Arhus Konstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark; City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Neues Museum, Wesborg, Bremen, Germany; Staatliche Sammlung fur Kunst, Chemnitz, Germany

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Photo Realism
Date
1998
Place
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Rest of Time
Date
1998
Place
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Blood Box
Date
1998
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO. Performance

Type
Exhibition