Michael Riley b. 1960

  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer)
Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi photographer, video artist and documentary film-maker who was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative. His works focused upon Indigenous people's struggles in the wake of colonisation and explored themes related to religion, land and forms of social injustice.
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exhibited at
Michael Riley: yarns from the Talbragar Reserve
Date
1999
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Organised by Dubbo Regional Gallery and AGNSW. A photographic exhibition shown as part of NAIDOC week.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Yarns from the Talbragar Reserve / photographs by Michael Riley. Dubbo, NSW: Dubbo Regional Gallery, 1999
ISBN 0959280030

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Photography
exhibited at
Flesh and Blood: A Sydney Story 1788-1998
Date
1998
Place
Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Art of Place: Fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award
Date
1998
Place
Australian Heritage Commission, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Flyblown
Date
1998
Place
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
Description

solo exhibition

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Blak on Trak
Date
1997
Place
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Abstracts - New Aboriginalities
Date
1996
Place
Royal Albert Memorial Hall, Exeter, UK
Description

Also shown at 198 Gallery, London, UK

Type
Exhibition
Spirit + Place
Date
1996 - 1997
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
They call me niigarr
Date
1995
Place
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

solo exhibition

Type
Exhibition
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
Aratjara: Art of the First Australians
Date
1993 - 1994
Place
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Description

Also toured to art museums in Germany and Denmark.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Sacrifice
Date
1992
Place
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

solo exhibition

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
A Common Place: Portraits of Moree Murries
Date
1991
Place
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
Description

solo exhibition, Also shown at Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
After 200 Years: Photographs of Aboriginal and Islander Australia Today
Date
1990
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Portraits by a Window
Date
1990
Place
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

solo exhibition

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Boomalli Breaking Boundaries
Date
1989
Place
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
A Koori Perspective
Date
1989
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Boomalli Au-go-go
Date
1987
Place
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, Sydney, NSW
Description

Inaugural Boomalli exhibition

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
NADOC '86 Exhibition of Aboriginal and Islander Photographers
Date
1986
Place
Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Sydney, NSW
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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