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2010s Exhibitions

  • Exhibition

    Emerging Elders
    Honouring senior Indigenous artists

    Yellow, red and white Indigenous painting

    3 Oct 2009—14 May 2010

  • Exhibition

    Masterpieces from Paris
    Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond

    An impressionistic painting of a night sky over water, with bright yellow stars

    4 Dec 2009—18 Apr 2010

  • Exhibition

    Hans Heysen

    Two cats and lots of birds in a tree that is blossoming with white flowers

    14 May 2010—11 Jul 2010

  • Exhibition

    Robert Dowling
    Tasmanian Son of Empire

    Two horses, one dark brown and one light brown. The horses' reigns are held by a woman and a man. Two dogs sit near the dark brown horse

    24 Jul 2010—4 Oct 2010

  • Exhibition

    Life, Death & Magic
    2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art

    Gold ceremonial ear pendant, two warrior figures wielding spears and shields lie on either side of a diamond shaped central shape.

    13 Aug 2010—31 Oct 2010

  • Exhibition

    Connections

    Watercolour painting of a man on a horse fighting a tiger with a spear

    16 Oct 2010—18 Sep 2011

  • Exhibition

    In the Spotlight
    Anton Bruehl photographs 1920s-1950s

    Picture of a young redheaded offering a bouquet of red roses to an unknown figure whose elderly hands are shown in the frame.

    23 Oct 2010—6 Feb 2011

  • Exhibition

    Space Invaders

    A surrealist print of a man in a business suit smoking a pipe in centre, a watch in his hand with a knife going through it. Images of an octopus, woman's head, UFO and eye surround the man. The text at the top of the print  reads 'Slacktower'. Image also reads 'a cure for life on earth' and 'Morbid Laffs'

    30 Oct 2010—27 Feb 2011

  • Exhibition

    Ballets Russes
    The Art of Costume

    Photograph of two ballet dancers, a man and a woman, in a dramatic embrace. Both dancers are in elaborate costume.

    10 Dec 2010—1 May 2011

  • Exhibition

    Australian Portraits
    1880-1960

    Portrait of a woman in a purple plaid dress and cream hat with green feathers

    29 Jan 2011—21 Oct 2012

  • Exhibition

    Varilaku
    Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands

    Bust of a young man with stretched earlobes and light curly hair. There are decorative markings on the face and earlobes

    24 Feb 2011—29 May 2011

  • Exhibition

    In the Japanese manner
    Australian prints 1900 –1940

    Multicoloured print of a large Bird soaring through a series of flowers

    20 May 2011—14 Aug 2011

  • Exhibition

    Out of the West
    Art of Western Australia from the National collection

    Landscape of native bushland in Western Australia

    8 Jul 2011—1 Apr 2012

  • Exhibition

    Fred Williams
    Infinite Horizons

    An abstract work of four segments of peach, pink and yellow tones separated horizontally by thick white dividing lines

    12 Aug 2011—6 Nov 2011

  • Exhibition

    Upstairs downstairs
    Photographs of Britain 1874-1990

    Black and white photograph of a man and a woman with linked arms in front of a carousel. In the background two women look on, one with a shocked expression

    3 Sep 2011—18 Dec 2011

  • Exhibition

    Renaissance

    Painting of the Saint Sebastian wearing a red robe and holding an arrow with a halo surrounding his head

    9 Dec 2011—9 Apr 2012

  • Exhibition

    Penguins and Ice
    Photographs of Antarctica 1910–2010

    Black and white photograph of many penguins on a beach next to cliff faces

    23 Dec 2011—25 Mar 2012

  • Exhibition

    Eugene von Guérard
    Nature revealed

    A painting of the view from Mount Townsend looking towards Mount Jagungal

    27 Apr 2012—15 Jul 2012

  • Exhibition

    2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial: unDISCLOSED

    white and blue painting of a European graveyard with multicoloured native animals and a group of indigenous peoples around a campfire

    11 May—22 Jul 2012

  • Exhibition

    Word pictures

    Print of indigenous words in red, yellow, and black upon a black and white herringbone background

    7 Jul 2012—10 Feb 2013

  • Exhibition

    Abstract Expressionism

    An Abstracted work of yellow, blue, pink, and grey tones

    14 Jul 2012—20 Jan 2013

  • Exhibition

    Sydney Long
    The spirit of the land

    Eight pink flamingoes stand in a body of water, some dipping their beaks into the water

    17 Aug 2012—11 Nov 2012

  • Australian Art

    Carol Jerrems
    Photographic artist

    Black an white photograph of young woman with short blonde hair in front of bushland

    25 Aug 2012—28 Jan 2013

  • Exhibition

    Divine Worlds

    A central blue figure, Krishna, plays the flute as he is surrounded by people in multicoloured clothing

    1 Sep 2012—11 Nov 2012

  • Exhibition

    Toulouse-Lautrec
    Paris and the Moulin Rouge

    Print of four women dancing the can-can on stage infant of a yellow background. red text in lower left corner reads Mademoiselle Eglantine’s troupe

    14 Dec 2012—2 Apr 2013

  • Exhibition

    American Street
    Seventy years of a photographic tradition

    Black and white photograph of eight people on a bench, all of which coupled in conversation with varied expressions including shock, amusement and tiredness

    21 Dec 2012—23 Jun 2013

  • Exhibition

    Kastom
    Art of Vanuatu

    Traditional Vanuatuan sculpture depicting a central face accompanied by five other faces above and below. Painted in white, black and ochre

    8 Feb 2013—16 Jun 2013

  • Australian Art

    Stars in the River
    The prints of Jesse Traill

    Black print of river and surrounding bushland on dark cream paper

    16 Feb 2013—23 Jun 2013

  • Exhibition

    Creating Worlds

    Circular Indigenous work depicting the ancestral Lightening Snake rising up at the start of the wet season in eastern Arnhem Land. Painted via a repeating pattern of circular shapes within one another

    23 Feb 2013—4 Aug 2013

  • Exhibition

    Turner from the Tate
    The making of a master

    A ship burns in a harbour, surrounded by other ships

    1 Jun 2013—15 Sep 2013

  • Exhibition

    Present history
    New Zealand photographs 1960s to the present

    Photograph of Individual with long brown hair with traditional Maori face tattoos

    28 Jun 2013—15 Dec 2013

  • Exhibition

    ToyShop

    Wooden Toy Train

    17 Aug 2013—6 Apr 2014

  • Exhibition

    Australia

    Painting of the back of a man with helmet's silhouette riding a horse across flat earth with a blue sky above

    21 Sep 2013—8 Dec 2013

  • Exhibition

    William Kentridge
    Drawn from Africa

    Black and white print of eight figures walking in procession carrying shovels and other equipment in what appears to be a tunnel

    5 Oct 2013—3 Nov 2013

  • Exhibition

    Gold and the Incas
    Lost Worlds of Peru

    Gold metalwork plaque with traditional patterning. Off the central form dangles circle and dagger shapes

    6 Dec 2013—21 Apr 2014

  • Exhibition

    Garden of the East
    Photography in Indonesia 1850s–1940s

    A young Balinese dancer sits while holding a pose, surrounded by a decorative frame

    21 Feb 2014—22 Jun 2014

  • Australian Art

    Light Moves
    Contemporary Australian Video Art

    Text reads Light Moves: Contemporary Australian Video Art

    18 Apr 2014—20 Jul 2014

  • Exhibition

    Atua
    Sacred gods from Polynesia

    Wooden banner intricately carved with Maori design

    23 May 2014—3 Aug 2014

  • Exhibition

    Bali
    Islands of the gods

    Traditional image of seven mythical creatures from the Ramayana

    13 Jun 2014—3 Aug 2014

  • Exhibition

    Robert Motherwell
    At five in the afternoon

    Black and white abstract print with small areas of pale blue

    12 Jul 2014—6 Oct 2014

  • Exhibition

    Roy Lichtenstein
    Pop Remix

    A woman with red beret shooting a gun. Above her black text reads 'Crak!', below her in a speech bubble black text reads, 'Now, Mes Petits... Pour la France!'

    12 Jul 2014—6 Oct 2014

  • Exhibition

    Stars of the Tokyo stage
    Natori Shunsen’s kabuki actor prints

    portrait of man in traditional Japanese theatrical costume and face makeup

    19 Jul 2014—12 Oct 2014

  • Exhibition

    Alive and Spirited

    Landscape painting of hills and bodies of water. Out of the water flies a large black serpent. Below, five European hunter take aim at the serpent

    2 Aug 2014—1 Apr 2015

  • Exhibition

    Gifted artists
    Donations by Patrick Corrigan AM

    Photograph of nude woman reclined surrounded by mice

    15 Aug 2014—12 Jan 2015

  • Exhibition

    Arthur Boyd
    Agony and Ecstasy

    Abstracted work of man laying flat on his back with a white cloud emerging from his torso

    5 Sep 2014—9 Nov 2014

  • Australian Art

    Capital and Country
    The Federation Years 1900–1914

    Alley perspective of houses covered in snow with greenery

    13 Dec 2014—21 Feb 2016

  • Exhibition

    James Turrell
    A retrospective

    A figure is silhouetted against a bright red box outlined in green that appears to continue endlessly into the wall

    13 Dec 2014—8 Jun 2015

  • Exhibition

    Myth and memory in recent American landscape photography

    Black and white gelatin silver photograph of a cactus in the desert

    12 Jan 2015—13 Jul 2015

  • Exhibition

    Colour my world
    Handcoloured Australian photography

    Photograph of a man and woman hand coloured with red, blue, green and purple pigments

    3 Apr 2015—20 Sep 2015

  • Australian Art

    Bodywork
    Australian Jewellery 1970 –2012

    Gold Armband with ray like decoration on the outside

    10 Apr 2015—24 Oct 2015

  • Exhibition

    Streetwise
    Contemporary print culture

    Print of rainbow abstract work with element of melting silver

    1 May 2015—6 Sep 2015

  • Exhibition

    The story of Rama
    Indian miniatures from the National Museum, New Delhi

    a painted battle scene between gods and men

    22 May 2015—23 Aug 2015

  • Exhibition

    Myth and Magic
    Art of the Sepik river, Papua New Guinea

    Stool backing with traditional figure with oversized head, facial decoration and paint, two smaller figures lie at base

    7 Aug 2015—1 Nov 2015

  • International Art

    Impressions of Paris
    Lautrec, Degas, Daumier

    Woman singing in a cafe

    7 Nov 2015—9 Mar 2015

  • Exhibition

    Behind the Scenes
    Tyler Graphics at work

    Abstract work of multicoloured shapes and forms

    4 Dec 2015—22 May 2016

  • Exhibition

    Black

    Black and cream abstract painting

    4 Dec 2015—26 Jun 2016

  • Exhibition

    The world is beautiful
    Photographs from the collection

    Photograph of moon over a small town, mountains and clouds

    4 Dec 2015—5 Jun 2016

  • Exhibition

    Tom Roberts

    Landscape with rolling hills and creek with a man looking out over the water

    4 Dec 2015—28 Mar 2016

  • Exhibition

    The last temptation
    The art of Julia and Ken Yonetani

    12 Dec 2015—25 Apr 2016

  • Exhibition

    William Kentridge
    Drawn from Africa

    A drawing of a billboard with the words "healing to all in global" in red text

    17 Jan 2016—26 Jun 2016

  • Australian Art

    Abstraction
    Celebrating Australian Women Abstract Artists

    Blue painting

    25 Feb 2016—26 Aug 2017

  • Australian Art

    Max & Olive
    The Photographic Life of Olive Cotton & Max Dupain

    Photo of man lying with his head on his crossed arms

    18 Mar 2016—10 Jul 2017

  • Exhibition

    Fiona Hall
    Wrong Way Time

    a row of small metal sculptures of plants emerging from cans

    22 Apr 2016—10 Jul 2016

  • International Art

    Diane Arbus
    American Portraits

    A black and white photo of harried Christmas shoppers looking down at the photographer

    3 Jun 2016—30 Oct 2016

  • Exhibition

    Mud Men
    Ramesh Nithiyendran

    A ceramic sculpture of a vaguely humanoid figure atop a cement platform

    3 Jun 2016—26 Feb 2017

  • Exhibition

    Mike Parr
    Foreign Looking

    Close-up photography of a man with sections of his face painted in bright colours

    12 Aug 2016—6 Nov 2016

  • Exhibition

    Heather B. Swann
    Nervous

    A woman looking up at the camera while working at a table

    18 Aug 2016—20 Nov 2016

  • Exhibition

    Artists of the Great War

    Painting of two dead soldiers lying on the ground as if asleep

    29 Oct 2016—12 Jun 2017

  • Exhibition

    Contemporary China

    Close-up photograph of a man with his face, neck, ears and scalp covered in Asian characters in black ink

    1 Nov 2016—1 Feb 2017

  • Exhibition

    Frank Stella
    The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection

    a bright screenprint with geometric patterns and shapes collaged together

    19 Nov 2016—22 Oct 2017

  • Exhibition

    Versailles
    Treasures from the Palace

    full-length portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette wearing silver and gold iridescent dress with voluminous skirt

    9 Dec 2016—17 Apr 2017

  • Australian Art

    Silver and Gold
    Unique Australian Objects

    Gold jewellery inlaid with pearls

    4 Feb 2017—26 Aug 2018

  • Exhibition

    Pipilotti Rist
    Worry Will Vanish Revelation

    An installation photo of the exhibition. People sit on bean bags in front of two video screens showing an orange plant.

    11 Mar 2017—20 Aug 2017

  • Exhibition

    Rodel Tapaya
    New art from the Philippines

    A triptych painting

    18 Mar 2017—20 Aug 2018

  • Exhibition

    Mexican Modernism

    Photo of a figure in a hat sitting on a step holding a hat

    14 Apr 2017—26 Nov 2017

  • Exhibition

    NGA Play: Reko Rennie

    14 May 2017—3 Dec 2017

  • Exhibition

    3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial: Defying Empire

    A painting of many spears

    26 May—10 Sep 2017

  • Exhibition

    Australian Impressionism

    Painting of paddock with sheep and shepherd

    4 Jun 2017—1 Oct 2019

  • Exhibition

    Albert Namatjira
    Painting Country

    Watercolour landscape featuring a white gum in the foreground and mountain range in background

    15 Jul 2017—2 Apr 2018

  • Exhibition

    Russian Avant-Garde

    A painting of four peasants dancing

    11 Aug 2017—4 Mar 2018

  • Exhibition

    Angelica Mesiti

    A women with long brown hair is mid-motion swinging it over her shoulder

    9 Sep 2017—2 Apr 2018

  • Australian Art

    Resolution
    Indigenous Photography

    16 Sep 2017—25 Mar 2018

  • Exhibition

    Hyper Real

    A sculpture of a ridiculously undersized man sitting on a transparent toilet in blue flannel pyjamas holding a glass of whiskey and a microphone

    20 Oct 2017—18 Feb 2018

  • International Art

    David Hockney
    Prints

    A figure dives into a pool with a splash!

    11 Nov 2017—27 May 2018

  • Australian Art

    Indigenous Australia
    Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia

    A painting of a figure

    17 Nov 2017—26 Aug 2018

  • Exhibition

    Otto Dix and August Sander
    War, People, Landscape

    A drawing of a shipwreck

    24 Nov 2017—17 Jun 2018

  • Exhibition

    Arthur Streeton
    The Art of War

    Impressionist landscape looking out over a river with men bathing on the far bank

    15 Dec 2017—29 Apr 2018

  • Exhibition

    NGA Play: Indieguerillas

    Four cartoon puppet characters

    16 Dec 2017—28 May 2018

  • Exhibition

    Art Deco

    A triptych image. On the left a man, a woman, and a boy. In the middle a man stretches out his arms. On the right faces look to the middle panel.

    16 Feb 2018—1 Mar 2020

  • Exhibition

    Infinite Conversations
    Asian-Australian Artistic Exchange

    A photograph of three figures in gold

    15 Mar 2018—16 Sep 2018

  • Exhibition

    Cartier
    The Exhibition

    A bejewelled neckpiece formed by one yellow and one green crocodile interconnecting

    30 Mar 2018—22 Jul 2018

  • Exhibition

    Club Ate
    Ex Nilalang

    A winged figure silhouetted in front of a dark blue sky

    5 May 2018—26 Aug 2018

  • Touring Exhibition

    Jess Johnson & Simon Ward: Terminus

    On Tour
    Coloured-pencil and pen drawing of alien architecture, symbols and figures

    Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney NSW 25 June – 28 August 2022

  • Exhibition

    Rachel Maclean
    Over the Rainbow

    Close up of a woman's face with blue facepaint and rainbows on her cheeks with a bright pink wig

    5 May 2018—26 Aug 2018

  • Exhibition

    Sarah Contos: Nikola Tesla sends Theda Bara to Mars

    Brightly coloured objects hang from the ceiling of a largo foyer

    5 May 2018—24 Sep 2018

  • Exhibition

    The National Picture
    The Art of Tasmania's Black War

    A painting of a white man greeting a group of Indigenous Australian men.

    12 May 2018—29 Jul 2018

  • Exhibition

    Art Nouveau

    Print of repeating plant motifs.

    9 Jun 2018—1 Mar 2020

  • International Art

    Picasso
    The Vollard Suite

    A photograph of a shirtless Picasso in a bowler hat smoking a cigarette.

    9 Jun 2018—24 Sep 2018

  • Exhibition

    NGA Play: Kellie O'Dempsey
    The Never-Ending Line

    In a room with drawing marks and scribbles all over the white floor and walls child is drawing on the floor using an oversize crayon

    16 Jun 2018—28 Oct 2018

  • Exhibition

    Andrew Rogers
    Maquettes and Sculptures 1996 – 2016

    A tall textured stainless steel sculpture that appears to be folded and creased

    1 Jul 2018—12 Sep 2018

  • Exhibition

    Watercolours by HRH The Prince of Wales

    landscape scene of a river with green banks, green trees and blue sky

    10 Aug 2018—18 Nov 2018

  • Exhibition

    Power and Imagination
    Conceptual Art

    A painting with the text of artwork insurance in black and white with some letters rendered in colour.

    11 Aug 2018—19 May 2019

  • Touring Exhibition

    Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series

    Painting of the back view of a man on a horse wearing a square tin helmet and holding a rifle

    Aug 2018 – Feb 2022

  • Exhibition

    American Masters

    A print in comic book style with a woman shooting a gun.

    24 Aug 2018—11 Nov 2018

  • Exhibition

    Performing Drawing

    Six black and white photographs of abstract white lines against black background.

    1 Sep 2018—3 Mar 2019

  • Exhibition

    California Cool
    Art in Los Angeles 1960s–70s

    Three orange balls are mid-air with a bright blue sky and the tops of two palm trees in the background

    6 Oct 2018—24 Feb 2019

  • Exhibition

    Earth/Sky

    A man stands in front of a pink background wearing a crown of native Australian blossoms covering his eyes

    6 Oct 2018—7 Apr 2019

  • Exhibition

    Bodies of Art
    Human Form from the National Collection

    A painting of a nude man and woman disagreeing while another nude woman brings in a tray of tea

    1 Dec 2018—27 Jan 2020

  • Exhibition

    Love and Desire
    Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate

    a young woman in a bejewelled dress floats face up in a stream surrounded by greenery and flowers

    14 Dec 2018—28 Apr 2019

  • Exhibition

    NGA Play
    Sally Smart

    21 Jan 2019—21 Jul 2019

  • Exhibition

    Urs Fischer
    Francesco

    a tall wax sculpture of a man standing upon a fridge is half-melted, with pink and grey wax dripping  down onto the fridge and floor

    16 Mar 2019—23 Oct 2020

  • Exhibition

    Māori Markings
    Tā Moko

    A black and white photo of a man with Moari facial tattoos with a young woman standing behind him, looking over his shoulder

    23 Mar 2019—25 Aug 2019

  • Australian Art

    Body Language

    A group of eight black and white mimi spirits or Mokuy.

    11 May 2019—9 Feb 2020

  • Australian Art

    Art Deco from the National Collection
    The World Turns Modern

    A sculpture of a woman holding on to two horses.

    31 May 2019—8 Nov 2020

  • Exhibition

    Monet
    Impression Sunrise

    A painting of a pond of water lillies.

    7 Jun 2019—1 Sep 2019

  • Exhibition

    Contemporary Worlds
    Indonesia

    A woman dressed in a white room draws a bow

    21 Jun 2019—27 Oct 2019

  • Exhibition

    Lichtenstein to Warhol
    The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    A print of Richard Nixon in blue, red, and yellow with the words "vote MCGOVERN" below

    7 Sep 2019—9 Mar 2020

  • Exhibition

    Hugh Ramsay

    Portrait of a small child in a white frilly dress seated on a chair cushion

    30 Nov 2019—29 Mar 2020

  • Exhibition

    Belonging
    Stories of Australian Art

    A black background with white text stating "we grew here"

    6 Dec 2019—1 Aug 2021

  • Exhibition

    Matisse & Picasso

    An abstract painting of a guitar

    13 Dec 2019—13 Apr 2020

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