Kevin Gilbert b. 10 July 1933

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Painter, printmaker, cartoonist, photographer, poet, writer, historian and activist. Produced the first known fine art prints by an Aboriginal artist, made while he was in prison.
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exhibited at
Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now
Date
2004
Place
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Description

Part of the Cultural Olympiad program to coincide with the 2004 Olympic Games

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Another Country
Date
1999 - 2000
Place
Yiribana Gallery, Art Galleryof New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Re-Take: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Photography
Date
1999
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian prints from the Gallery's Collection (1998-1999)
Date
1998 - 1999
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Festival of the Dreaming
Date
1997
Place
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, New South Wales
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Breath of Life: Moments in transit towards Aboriginal Sovereignty
Date
1996
Place
Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
1968
Date
29 July 1995 - 29 October 1995
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

The 1968 exhibition was curated in 1995 by Michael Desmond and Christine Dixon and was drawn entirely from the National Gallery of Australia’s collection.
It celebrates the time of change, in the two years on either side of 1968 – a time of political and social unrest, when art and life combined to stretch barriers.
The exhibition integrated both popular and avant garde works from Australian artists, designers and news photographers with those from the USA and UK. The resulting exhibition showed the energy and strength of the young Australian artists of this generation.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Pop art, Vietnam, Photojournalism, Minimal art, Art and fashion, Comix, Oz Magazine, Street art
Website
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/130555780
exhibited at
Who's Afraid of Black, Red, Yella
Date
1994
Place
Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Urban Focus: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia
Date
1994
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tyerabarrbowarya II - I shall never become a white man
Date
1994
Place
5th Havana Biennial, Cuba
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
New Tracks Old Land
Date
1992
Place
Massachusetts College of Art Huntington Gallery, Boston, USA
Description

Exhibition travelled to galleries in Australia 1993-1994

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Inside Black Australa: Aboriginal Photographers Exhibition
Date
1988
Place
Boomalli, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australia Council solo exhibition
Date
1970
Description
Type
Exhibition

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