Clinton Nain b. 1971

  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
An indigenous dancer, performer and storyteller, Nain is also a painter and installation artist whose work explores the impact of European settlement on the indigenous nations of Australia. Challenging the white male dominant view of history, Nain's work takes the particular perspective of the black and the feminine.
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  • Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986 - 2006

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  • Hurdy Gurdy (Wrong Way Round) (exhibited at)
  • Celebrating Aboriginal Rights? (exhibited at)
  • A E I O U (exhibited at)
  • The Dirty Deal Ain't Clean (exhibited at)
  • Clinton Nain (exhibited at)
  • Paper Chase (exhibited at)
  • Embark on this journey, Dancelines: Contemporary Indigenous Art Inspired by Bangarra Dance Theatre (exhibited at)
  • Where's Jemima, L'art urbain du Pacifique (exhibited at)
  • Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now (exhibited at)
  • Masters of COFA (exhibited at)
  • You Never Said Thank You! (exhibited at)
  • Clinton Nain (exhibited at)
  • An Indigenous COFA Presence (exhibited at)
  • Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn (exhibited at)
  • Traditional Owners Ceremony (exhibited at)
  • Living Under the Bridge (exhibited at)
  • Post Mullet: New Australian Style (exhibited at)
  • What's Love Got To Do With It? (exhibited at)
  • Artful Park (exhibited at)
  • Whitens, Removes Stains, Kills Germs (exhibited at)
  • Bennett Nain Parr Tillers (exhibited at)
  • Heritage Colours (exhibited at)
  • The Bleack is Blak (exhibited at)
  • White King Blak Queen (exhibited at)
  • Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival (exhibited at)
  • Bunjil: Creation Story (exhibited at)
  • Fiction Factory (exhibited at)
  • It Reigns White King, Midsumma (exhibited at)
  • Seven Days Seven Nights of Blak Magic (exhibited at)
  • Mapping Our Countries (exhibited at)
  • The Art of Place (exhibited at)
  • Ilan Pasin (This is Our Way): Torres Strait Art (exhibited at)
  • White King Blak Queen (exhibited at)
  • Adornment (exhibited at)
  • Respect for Our Elders (exhibited at)
  • Over My Blak Body (exhibited at)
  • Urban Dreaming Different Meaning (exhibited at)
  • Black Roots (exhibited at)
  • Mommy Dearest (exhibited at)
  • Brilliant Blackness (exhibited at)
  • Primavera (exhibited at)
  • Pitched Blak (exhibited at)
  • 1967 - 1997: 30 Years On (exhibited at)
  • I Can't Sleep at Night (exhibited at)
  • We Iri-We Homeborn (exhibited at)
  • Nambundah Festival Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • New Faces New Directions (exhibited at)
  • Blak City Culture (exhibited at)
  • St Kilda Pacific Arts Festival (exhibited at)
  • Duality: A World Within (exhibited at)
  • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Kitch'en Koori (exhibited at)
  • Koori Art Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Melbourne Fringe Festival (exhibited at)
  • Landmarks (None)
  • Gatherings (None)
  • Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art (None)
  • I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s (None)
  • Power of the Land (None)
  • Hurdy Gurdy (Wrong Way Round) (exhibited at)
  • Celebrating Aboriginal Rights? (exhibited at)
  • A E I O U (exhibited at)
  • The Dirty Deal Ain't Clean (exhibited at)
  • Clinton Nain (exhibited at)
  • Paper Chase (exhibited at)
  • Embark on this journey, Dancelines: Contemporary Indigenous Art Inspired by Bangarra Dance Theatre (exhibited at)
  • Where's Jemima, L'art urbain du Pacifique (exhibited at)
  • Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now (exhibited at)
  • Masters of COFA (exhibited at)
  • You Never Said Thank You! (exhibited at)
  • Clinton Nain (exhibited at)
  • An Indigenous COFA Presence (exhibited at)
  • Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn (exhibited at)
  • Traditional Owners Ceremony (exhibited at)
  • Living Under the Bridge (exhibited at)
  • Post Mullet: New Australian Style (exhibited at)
  • What's Love Got To Do With It? (exhibited at)
  • Artful Park (exhibited at)
  • Whitens, Removes Stains, Kills Germs (exhibited at)
  • Bennett Nain Parr Tillers (exhibited at)
  • Heritage Colours (exhibited at)
  • The Bleack is Blak (exhibited at)
  • White King Blak Queen (exhibited at)
  • Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival (exhibited at)
  • Bunjil: Creation Story (exhibited at)
  • Fiction Factory (exhibited at)
  • It Reigns White King, Midsumma (exhibited at)
  • Seven Days Seven Nights of Blak Magic (exhibited at)
  • Mapping Our Countries (exhibited at)
  • The Art of Place (exhibited at)
  • Ilan Pasin (This is Our Way): Torres Strait Art (exhibited at)
  • White King Blak Queen (exhibited at)
  • Adornment (exhibited at)
  • Respect for Our Elders (exhibited at)
  • Over My Blak Body (exhibited at)
  • Urban Dreaming Different Meaning (exhibited at)
  • Black Roots (exhibited at)
  • Mommy Dearest (exhibited at)
  • Brilliant Blackness (exhibited at)
  • Primavera (exhibited at)
  • Pitched Blak (exhibited at)
  • 1967 - 1997: 30 Years On (exhibited at)
  • I Can't Sleep at Night (exhibited at)
  • We Iri-We Homeborn (exhibited at)
  • Nambundah Festival Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • New Faces New Directions (exhibited at)
  • Blak City Culture (exhibited at)
  • St Kilda Pacific Arts Festival (exhibited at)
  • Duality: A World Within (exhibited at)
  • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Kitch'en Koori (exhibited at)
  • Koori Art Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Melbourne Fringe Festival (exhibited at)
  • Landmarks (None)
  • Gatherings (None)
  • Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art (None)
  • I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s (None)