Ken Unsworth b. 1931

Also known as Kenneth Lowell Unsworth
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
Sculptor, installation and performance artist,Unsworth was born in 1931 in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. Despite growing up as a self-described typical Melbourne kid who loved football, trams and a beer, Unsworth has become one of Australia's most significant contemporary artists.
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Name
Ken Unsworth
Also known as Kenneth Lowell Unsworth
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Installation Artist)
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Art teacher (ANZSIC code: 8022)
Birth date
1931
Birth place
Richmond, Melbourne, Vic.
Active Period
  • 1948-
Residence
  • 1980 Berlin, Germany (Three month residency )
  • 1979 Paris, France (Six month residency )
  • 1972 - 2008 Sydney, NSW
  • 1971 - 1972 New York, USA
  • 1968 - 1971 Tasmania
  • 1966 - 1968 Bathurst, NSW
  • 1962 - 1966 Sydney, NSW
  • 1956 - 1962 Geelong, Vic.
  • 1931 - 1956 Melbourne, Vic.
Training
  • National Art School, Sydney, NSW
  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Vic.
  • Melbourne Teachers' College, Melbourne, Vic.
Languages
  • English
Copyright
  • Unsworth, Ken

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  • Distracted (exhibited at)
  • Sculpture by the Sea (exhibited at)
  • National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Chronos und Kairos (exhibited at)
  • Survey - Ken Unsworth (exhibited at)
  • Body Art (exhibited at)
  • So you shall reap (exhibited at)
  • Contempora 5 (exhibited at)
  • Spirit + Place (None)
  • 4th Biennale of Instanbul (exhibited at)
  • Fly by Night (exhibited at)
  • Through a Glass Darkly (exhibited at)
  • Off and On, On and Off - 25 Years of Performance Art (exhibited at)
  • Inner Space, 5th Australian Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Stranger in Paradise, Contemporary Australian Art to Korea (exhibited at)
  • Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle (exhibited at)
  • Construction in Progress (exhibited at)
  • Self and Environment (exhibited at)
  • Magiciens de la Terre (None)
  • Song for Henning (exhibited at)
  • Australian Bicentennial Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Edge to Edge, Contemporary Australian Art to Japan (exhibited at)
  • 13th Biennale of Paris (exhibited at)
  • Recent Painting & Sculpture (exhibited at)
  • An Australian Accent (exhibited at)
  • Sculpture Australia: Ken Unsworth (exhibited at)
  • Australia, Another Continent, The Dream & The Real (exhibited at)
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  • Australian Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Drawings (exhibited at)
  • Project 28: Ken Unsworth (exhibited at)
  • Venice Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Face to Face (exhibited at)
  • Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at)
  • Five Secular Settings for Sculpture as Ritual and Burial Piece (exhibited at)
  • Project 28: Ken Unsworth (exhibited at)
  • Ken Unsworth (exhibited at)
  • John Kaldor art project 7: an Australian accent (exhibited at)
  • Ken Unsworth: a survey of projects 1975-1998 (exhibited at)
  • Ken Unsworth / Karl String (exhibited at)
  • Ken Unsworth: Nike (exhibited at)
  • Ken Unsworth: the mirror and other fables (exhibited at)
  • Venice Biennale 1978: from nature to art, from art to nature: Australia: John Davis, Robert Owen, Ken Unsworth (exhibited at)
  • So you shall reap: Ken Unsworth (exhibited at)