Lin Onus b. 4 December 1948

Also known as Burrinja
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
The award-winning artist Lin Onus (b.1948 d.1996) was self taught. He was the Victorian representative of the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council in 1986 and co-founder of the Aboriginal Arts Management Association in 1990.
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exhibited at
Urban Dingo: the art and life of Lin Onus 1948 - 1996
Date
2000
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description

toured to Queensland Art Gallery, QLD and Melbourne Museum, Vic.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=12&content_id=6
exhibited at
Urban dingo: the life and art of Lin Onus 1948-1996
Date
2000
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Organised by the QAG and shown at QAG; MCA, Sydney; The Melbourne Museum. Organised by the QAG and shown at QAG; MCA, Sydney; The Melbourne Museum. This retrospective, the first for an urban-based Indigenous artist, emerged from discussions in 1995 between Margot Neale (former QAG Curator of Indigenous Australian Art) and Lin Onus. Tragically, the artist died in 1996 but the exhibition continued with the support of his family.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
UTAS catalogue; Urban dingo: the art and life of Lin Onus 1948-1996. Craftsman House in Association with the Queensland Art Gallery, 2000

Exhibition Catalogue:
Urban dingo: the art and life of Lin Onus 1948-1996. NSW: Craftsman House in Association with the Queensland Art Gallery, 2000
ISBN 1876509848 (pbk)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting
exhibited at
Eternal
Date
1999
Place
Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Animal Instincts: An Exhibition of Animals in Art
Date
1997
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Second Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Date
27 September 1996 - 19 January 1997
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/apt/apt_2_(1996)
exhibited at
Acquisitions 1995
Date
1996
Place
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Seven Deadly Australians
Date
1995
Place
Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Urban Aboriginal
Date
1995
Place
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Yiribana. An Introduction to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection
Date
1994
Place
Yiribana Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Raise the Flag
Date
1994
Place
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Description

toured to South London Gallery, London UK and City Gallery, Leicester, UK. Exhibition organised by Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative

Type
Exhibition
Power of the Land
Date
1994
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.ngv.gov.vic.au
exhibited at
Aratjara: Art of the First Australians
Date
1993
Description

toured to Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Confess and Conceal: 11 insights into Contemporary South East Asia and Australia
Date
1993
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

toured to Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Aboriginal Art from Australia
Date
1992
Place
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Description

also shown at Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Type
Exhibition
Australian Perspecta
Date
1991
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Koori Art Victoria
Date
1991
Place
Arthouse, Launceston, TAS
Description

An initiative of Arthouse, expressing the solidarity of the seven Koori artists, (Peter Clarke, Karen Casey, Treahna Hamm, Ellen Jose, Donna Lesley, Gayle Madigan, Lin Onus), living and working in Victoria. Source: Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive.

Tags
Group exhibition
Balance
Date
1990
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au
exhibited at
Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition
Date
1989
Place
Australian National Gallery, Parkes, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Nothing to Celebrate? Australian Aboriginal Political Art and the Biecentennial
Date
1989
Place
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Political
exhibited at
Bulawirri/Bugaja - A Special Place
Date
1988
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Urban Aboriginal Art: A Selective View
Date
1988
Place
Contemporary Arts Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Maningrida Experience: Recent Paintings by Lin Onus
Date
1988
Place
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
Art and Aboriginality
Date
1987
Place
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, England, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition
Date
1984
Place
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
Description
Type
Exhibition
Koori Art '84
Date
1984
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.artspace.org.au/
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