Gordon Bennett b. 9 October 1955

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Acclaimed contemporary Indigenous artist, Gordon Bennett's work explores the role of language and systems of thought in forging identity. Much of his work is concerned with mapping alternative histories and ideas in post-colonial Australia.
Tags: That Contemporary Art Space, Little Masters
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Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions - Forms that Turn
Date
2008
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.bos2008.com/app/biennale
exhibited at
Gordon Bennett Survey Exhibition
Date
2007
Place
Ian Potter Centre for Australian Art, NGV Australia, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO. Also touring to Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia (2008/2009)

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/gordonbennett/
exhibited at
Prism: Contemporary Australian Art
Date
2006
Place
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
2005 International Biennale of Contemporary Art
Date
2005
Place
Prague, Czech Republic
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Three Colours, Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson
Date
2004 - 2005
Place
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Three colours: Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson
Date
2004
Place
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

A Heide Museum of Modern Art Travelling Exhibition. A selection of works spanning from early in the artists’ careers, overviews exhibited side by side.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/touring/three_colours/index.html (25/10/04)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Three colours: Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson, Bulleen, Victoria: Heide Museum of Modern Art, [2004]
ISBN 0947104 763

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Painting, Sculpture, Installation
exhibited at
Figure/Ground (Zero)
Date
July 2003
Place
Sherman Galleries, Paddington, Sydney, NSW
Website
http://shermangalleries.sherman-scaf.org.au/artists/inartists/artist.asp%3Fartist=2&exhibition=33.html
exhibited at
Shanghai Biennale
Date
2000
Place
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
12th Biennale of Sydney
Date
2000
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
History and Memory in the Art of Gordon Bennett
Date
1999 - 2000
Place
Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description

SOLO. Toured to: Ikon Gallery, UK; Arnolfini, UK; Henie Onstad, Kunstsenter, Norway.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Date
1999
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta 99: Living Here and Now: Art and Politics
Date
1999
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Art-Worlds in Dialogue
Date
1999
Place
Ludwig Museum, Germany
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
History and memory in the art of Gordon Bennett
Date
1999
Place
Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BCAG exhibition archive; UTAS catalogue; http://www.shermangalleries.com.au/artists_exhib/artists/bennett2/bio.html (20/01/04); AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
History and memory in the art of Gordon Bennett. Birmingham, [England]: Ikon Gallery; Oslo, Norway: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 1999
ISBN 0907594638

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting
exhibited at
Notes to Basquiat
Date
1998
Place
Grammercy International Contemporary Art Fair, New York, USA
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
in Place(Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia
Date
1997
Place
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mirror Mirror: The Narcissism of Coloniality
Date
1996
Place
Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Gordon Bennett: Australiana
Date
1996
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

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

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting
exhibited at
Mirror mirror: Gordon Bennett
Date
1996
Place
School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Description

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

Exhibition Catalogue:
Mirror mirror: the narcissism of coloniality / Gordon Bennett; curated by Ian McLean. [Canberra]: Canberra School of Art Gallery, 1996
ISBN 0731524802

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
TransCulture
Date
1995
Place
Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Aratjara: Art of the First Australians
Date
1993
Place
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany
Description

ALSO toured to the Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mirrorama: an exhibition by Gordon Bennett
Date
1993
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;

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Installation
exhibited at
Painting history
Date
1993
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Paintings are presented as historical ethnographies of colonial domination, a deconstruction of the so-called 'historical’ representation of Aborigines. through a recontextualisation of a known Australian images from art and historical texts.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting
exhibited at
9th Biennale of Sydney
Date
1992
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Gordon Bennett: dialogues with self
Date
1991
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Since graduating from art school in 1987, Gordon Bennett has established a national reputation as a dynamic new artist. he was awarded the 1991 Moet & chandon Art Fellowship. In exploring his own aboriginality and sense of self, Bennett has created a dynamic dialogue that blends fundamental considerations of race, identity and history. Paintings in this exhibition covered the period 1987 to 1991, and included several new works acquired by the AGWA.

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

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting
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