Destiny Deacon b. 1957

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Video Artist)
Destiny Deacon is a Melbourne based photographer, mixed media, printer, installation artist, broadcaster, writer and performer. She has shown her work in over 120 exhibitions in Australia and internationally.
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exhibited at
Gazette
Date
2009
Place
Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/2/Destiny_Deacon/1148/
exhibited at
Whacked
Date
2007
Place
Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/news/releases/2007/10/25/137/
exhibited at
Walk and don't look blak
Date
2004
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description

Touring exhibition: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ; Cultural Centre Tjibaou, Noumea; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC.
Walk & don’t look blak is comprised of approximately fifty artworks made after 1990 by Destiny Deacon, one of Australia’s most renowned artists. The exhibition includes major video, performance, and installation pieces, as well as two key photographic series Forced into images (2001) and Postcards from Mummy (1998) which both featured at Documenta 11 in 2002.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/fromyear/2001/toyear/2012/exhib-date/2006-08-17/exhib/destiny-deacon-walk-and-don-t-look-blak
exhibited at
Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art
Date
2000
Place
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Description
Type
Exhibition
Ceremony, Identity and Community
Date
1998
Place
Flinders Art Museum, City Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Raise the Flag
Date
1994
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tyerabarbowaryaou 2
Date
1994
Description
Type
Exhibition
Australian Perspecta
Date
1993
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition

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