Sally Smart
Born 1960, Quorn, South Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

   
1991 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (Master of Fine Arts)
1987–88 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Post-graduate Diploma (Painting)
1978–81 South Australian School of Art, Adelaide
   
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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 The Exquisite Pirate (Oceania), Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide
The Exquisite Pirate (China Sea), Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
2007 The Exquisite Pirate (North Sea), Ter Caemer-Meert, Contemporary, Kortrijk, Belgium
The Exquisite Pirate(LArge Craft), Kaliman Gallery Sydney
The Exquisite Pirate (Yawk, Yawk), 24HR Art, Northern Territory, Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
2006 The Exquisite Pirate, Postmasters Gallery, New York
2005 Painting in the Dark, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2004 A Week of Kindness, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Prototypes and Multiples, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2002 Shadow Farm, Bond University Gallery, Gold Coast
Daughter Architect, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Shadow Farm, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Design Therapy, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2001 Shadow Farm, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Family Tree House, Galeria Barro Senna Sao Paulo, Brazil
Femmage, Shadows and Symptoms, G2 Gallery Auckland New Zealand
Parameters Head: Design Therapy, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Shadow Farm, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong; and Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Parameters Head, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Femmage (Shadows and Symptoms), Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Arco 2000 Project Room, Greenaway Art Gallery, Arco 2000, Madrid, Spain
1999 Femmage Frieze, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Femmage (Shadows and Symptoms), Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1998 Femmage (Shadows and Symptoms), Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1997 The Unhomely Body, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Dora Drawer, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
The Unhomely Body, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
1995 Imaginary Anatomy, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne.
Itchy, Itchy, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne.
1994 Delicate Cutting, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Where I come from the birds sing a pretty song, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
1993 Where I come from the birds sing a pretty song, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
1992 Dress, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
Cut-Outs, Monash University, Gippsland School of Visual Art, Churchill
1991 The Large Darn, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1990 The Printed Curtain, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1989 X-Ray Vanitas, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
Mad Woman in the Attic, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1986 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
   
 
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Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 Treescape, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2007 New History, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
Float, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2006 El Pirata Esquisito, Jacob Karpia Galeria Art Basel/ Miami Beach, Miami
Segunda Primer Mundo, Jacob Karpia Galeria San,Jose Costa Rica
The Exquisite Pirate, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca,NY
Fantastic Voyages, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Circa Puerto Rico '06, Greenaway Art Gallery, Puerto Rico
Art Taipei 2006, Greenaway Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, Australia
2005 The Exquisite Pirate, Jogja Biennale, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Surface Charge, VCU arts Anderson Gallery, Richmond Virginia, USA
Where the wild things are, UTS Gallery, Sydney
Architypes, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
Painting in the Dark, Arco 2005, Greenaway Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2004 Architypes, (six international artists) Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada;
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Place made, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Femmage, Arco 2004, International Art Fair /Greenaway Art Gallery Madrid, Spain
2003 see here now, The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990’s, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968–2002, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
2002 Crime Scenes, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne,
Arid Arcadia: Art of the Flinders Ranges, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Tales of the unexpected: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2001 Figure-It, University of Tasmania Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2000 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Celebrating the Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
1999 Exploratory Behavior, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Re-emplace, (Sally Smart and Suzann Victor) Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore;
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth
1998 Unhomely, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju and Seoul, Korea
Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan, Korea
1996 Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australian tour
1995 The Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1995, Australian tour.
Recent Acquisitions: Deakin University Art Collection, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Australian Art,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1994 The Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1994, Australian tour
Skin, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
1992 Victorian College of the Arts 1991 Post Graduate Exhibition, Ian Potter Gallery,
The University of Melbourne
Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1992, Australian tour
Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1991 The Upside Down River, The Australia Gallery, New York City, USA
Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1991, Australian tour
Selected Works from The University of Melbourne Art Collection,
Deakin University Gallery, Geelong
1990 Selected Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Melbourne
1989 Imaging Aids, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art/Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Sixteen Artists, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne
Scotchman’s Hill Vineyard Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
1988 St Kilda Acquisition Prize, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1987 Artbank Big Paintings, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1986 Six Melbourne Artists, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
Expatriates or Exiles?, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
   
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Awards

2006-07 Overseas Studio Residency (New York), Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, Sydney
2004 New Work Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council, Sydney
Export and Touring Grant, Arts Victoria, Melbourne
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney
2001 Development Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council, Sydney
2000 Export and Touring Grant, Arts Victoria, Melbourne
National Works on Paper Acquisitive Prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
1999 Overseas Studio Residency (London), Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council, Sydney
Arts 21 International Cultural Exchange Program Grant
1998 Women Artists Grant, Arts Victoria, Melbourne
Victoria Cultural Development Grant, Arts Victoria, Melbourne
City of Melbourne International Travel Grant, Arts Victoria, Melbourne
1995–97 Monash Graduate Scholarship, Monash University, Melbourne
1991 Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council, Sydney
1989 ANZ Travelling Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1988 Fred Williams Family Prize, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
St Kilda Prize Acquisition, City of St Kilda
Victorian College of the Arts Foundation Award, Melbourne
1981 H.P. Gill Memorial Medal, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide
   
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Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide;
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
University of Tasmania Collection;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong;
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell;
The University of Melbourne Art Collection, Melbourne;
Deakin University Art Collection, Geelong;
Artbank, Sydney;
Victorian College of the Arts Foundation Collection, Melbourne;
City of St Kilda St Kilda;
John Sands Collection, Melbourne;
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga;
Shell Australia Collection, Melbourne;
Sam and Minnie Smorgon Collection, Melbourne;
The Vizard Foundation Melbourne;
BP Australia;
The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute,Melbourne;
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane;
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo; Mornington Peninsula;
Regional Gallery, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla;
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong;
Tarra Warra Museum of Art, Victoria.

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Selected Bibliography

Tracy Adler New History, Exh.,Cat., The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery Hunter College, New York, 2007
Melissa Miles The Exquisite Pirate Exh.Cat.,Kaliman Gallery Sydney 2007
John Nadador Segunda Primer Mundo Exh., Cat.,Jacob Karpia Galeria San,Jose Costa Rica, 2006
Andrew Maekle One to Watch Artkrush Issue #35, 2006 New York, USA
Andrea Inselmann Dangerous Waters, Exh.,cat., Herbert F. Johnson Muiseum, Ithaca, NY,2006
Eleanor Heartney The Exquisite Pirate, Postmasters, exhibition review, Art in America, June /July 2006, New York
AnneMarie Kiely The Exquisite Pirate Belle Magazine December/January 2006
Melissa Miles The Exquisite Pirate, Eyeline, Melbourne July 2006
Lou Chamberlin Art in Sight 2nd Ed., McGrawHill, Melbourne 2006
Ted Colless Essays on Anachronism, The Australian, Sydney 2006
Robert Nelson New Paths on the Old Map, The Age, Melbourne , Mar 11 2006
Jerry Saltz Shipping The Village Voice New York, New York 2006
Wendy Walker Sea Change for Rebels, The Australian, Sydney, May 11 2006
Jason Smith 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, ex.,cat., NGV, Melbourne 2006
Dinah Ryan Surface Charge Exh.Review Sculpture,, Vol.5 June 2006 Washington USA
Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk, Surface Charge ex., cat VCU arts Anderson Gallery, Richmond Virginia, USA 2005.
Pete Hume, ‘The Arts on the wall’ Richmond Times – Despatch September 23, Virginia 2005.
Murata Yuko Architypes, Real Tokyo, Japan, 2005.
Sebastian Smee, The Shapes of Private Memories, The Australian, March 17, Sydney 2005.
Sally Smart Family Tree House art.es magazine, Madrid Spain 2004.
Deborah Hart Daughter Architect, Art and Australia, Vol. 42, Summer 2004.
Felicity Fenner A Week of Kindness ex., cat Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2004.
Felicity Fenner Architypes ex.,cat, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2004.
Georgina Safe A passion to represent The Australian /Feature/Feb 7 2004.
Penny Webb Darkness and Day, The Age, September 24, 2003, Melbourne.
Chris McAuliffe see here now The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990’s, Ian Potter Gallery,
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 2003.
Cynthia Wild Conversation Piece Meanjin June Melbourne 2003.
Anna Gray (Editor) Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia , Canberra 2002.
Deborah Hart Tales of the Unexpected;aspects of contemporary Australian art ex., cat
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2002.
Sasha Grishin Flights of fantasy into an alternative reality Canberra Times, Canberra July 2002.
Deborah Hart Art on view National Gallery of Australia Canberra 2002.
Alisa Bunbury Arid Arcadia: Art of the Flinders Ranges, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 2002.
Erin O’Dwyer Tragic Edge to Farm Images The Courier Mail Brisbane 5 July 2002.
John Neylon Disruptive The Adelaide Review, Adelaide May 2002.
Wendy Walker Skirting around with designs The Advertiser, Adelaide May 13 2002.
Christopher Marshall Interpreting Art Macmillian Melbourne 2001.
Megan Backhouse Pointedly poignant pin-ups The Age, Melbourne, Mar 5 2001.
Karen Ward You must go beyond the obvious Bendigo Advertiser Oct 13 2001.
Maria Kunda Shadow Farm (exhibition catalogue) Bendigo Art Gallery 2000.
Camila Molina Brasil e Australia na Baro Senna O Estado De S. Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 28 Jul 2001.
Rodrigo Moura Sally Smart retira imagens da sombra Folha Sao Paulo Brazil Jul 26 2001.
AnneMarie Kiely Smart Art Belle Magazine March 2001.
Peter Timms Parameters Head:Design Therapy, The Age, Melbourne Mar 14 2001.
Maria Kunda Riddles ex., cat Tasmanian School of Art 2001.
Helen McDonald Erotic Ambiguities Routledge London 2001Helen McDonald, Erotic Ambiguity, Routledge, London, 2000.
Stephanie Radok, “Parameters Head: A la Ronde Artlink Vol20 #4 December 2000.
John Neylon, “Haunting of the EAF” The Adelaide Review October 2000.
Christopher Chapman, “Four Scenes” Parameters Head:A La Ronde ex., cat Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, 2000.
Marcus Baumgart, Parameters Head:A La Ronde (exhibition catalogue) 2000.
Wendy Walker, “Layers of Modernism” , The Advertiser, Adelaide, April 2000.
Rachel Kent, “Family Tree House” (exhibition catalogue) Arco 2000, Project Room, 2000.
Sasha Grishin, “Australian Painting Now “ Edited by Laura Murray Cree and Nevill Drury, Craftsman House,Sydney 2000.
Lara Travis, “Re-emplace” (exhibition catalogue), Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore, 1999.
Binghui Huangfu, “Re-emplace” (exhibition catalogue), Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore, 1999.
Rachel Kent, “Disturbing Narratives: Sally Smart’s Femmage (Shadows and Symptoms)” Sally Smart catalogue, Melbourne 1999.
Jenny Zimmer, “Anatomy of a young artist: Sally Smart”, State of the Arts, Victoria 1998-99.
Robert Rooney, “Smart’s Art Foxes Clever’, The Australian, 9 October 1998.
Anna Clabburn, “Installation Success”, The Age, 30 September 1998.
Kim Mi - hui, “Conceptions of Home Altered in Unhomely” Korean Times 7/8/1998.
Jason Smith, Unhomely, Exhibition Catalogue, Artsonje Museum Kyongju and Seoul, Korea, 1998.
Anna Clabburn, ‘Sally Smart’s Mind Games’ Australian Art Collector No. 3, 1998, p46–49.
Kirsty Grant, “Commission 200 Insects” National Gallery Victoria Magazine June/July 1998.
Adrian Montana, Geelong Art Gallery, Education Kit, 1997.
Donald Williams & Colin Simpson “Art Now Contemporary Art Post – 1970 “McGrawHill, 1996.
Sally Smart, ‘Dora Drawer’ exhibition catalogue, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 1996.
Charles Green, Exhibition Review, ‘Itchy Itchy’, Art Forum, New York, USA May 1996.
Helen McDonald, ‘Feminising the Surreal’ Art and Australia Vol 34, 1996.
Robyn McKenzie, ‘In reality, there’s no place like home’, The Age, Melbourne, 24 September 1997.
Jenny Zimmer, ‘Sally Smart: Prosthetic Parts’, Imprint, Melbourne, Autumn 1996, vol 31, no 1, p.7–8.
Stephanie Radok, ‘Furniture and the body’, The Adelaide Review, Adelaide, May 1996. (p. 28).
Helen McDonald, The Unhomely Body, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 1996.
Helen McDonald, ‘Feminism and the Republic’, Vox Reipublicae (eds J Hoorn and DGoodman) 1996.
Anna Clabburn, ‘Sally Smart:Itchy Itchy’ Asian Art News, Hong Kong, Nov/Dec 1995, p.71
Robert Lindsay, The Shell Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, Melbourne 1995.
Jenny Zimmer, Cut-Outs, Craft Victoria, Winter 1995.
Jenny Zimmer, ‘Metaphor in Body Parts’, The Age, Melbourne, 17 May 1995.
Peter Timms, The Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition, (exhibition catalogue), Melbourne, 1995.
Janine Burke, ‘Anima: Feminist art since the seventies’, Art and Australia, vol. 23/ no. 3, Autumn 1995, Fine Arts Press, Sydney, 1995.
Sasha Grishin, Searching for Clues for Interpretation, The Canberra Times, 1994.
Amanda King, ‘A secret garden: the work of Sally Smart’, Australian Art Monthly, November, No. 75, Canberra, 1994, (plus cover illustration).
Amanda King, Delicate Cutting, (exhibition catalogue), Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 1994.
Peter Timms, The Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1994, (exhibition catalogue), Melbourne1994.
Helen McDonald, ‘Where I come from the birds sing a pretty song’, (exhibition catalogue), Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, 1992.
Amanda King, ‘Sally Smart: Dress’, Agenda, Melbourne, January-February, 1993.
Rebecca Lancashire, ‘Intent on unravelling our patchworked past’, exhibition review, The Age, Melbourne, June 1992.
Christopher Heathcote, exhibition review, The Age, Melbourne, June, 1992.
Helen McDonald, Dress, (exhibition catalogue), Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, 1992.
Alison Carroll, The Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1992, (exhibition catalogue), Melbourne, 1992.
Ray Edgar, ‘Dress’, exhibition review, The Melbourne Times, Melbourne, June 1992.
Jude Adams, ‘Skin’, exhibition review, Artlink, Vol 12, Adelaide, 1992.
Jyanni Steffensen, Skin, (exhibition catalogue), Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide,1992.
Women’s Resource Centre, Nonagon, Nine Australian Women Artists, slide kit, Melbourne 1991.
Alison Carroll, The Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1991, (exhibition catalogue), Melbourne 1991.
Helen Topliss, ‘Contemporary Issues: the ?fth Moët & Chandon’, Art and Australia, Fine Arts Press, Sydney, Spring 1990.
Graeme Sturgeon, ‘Art: Six names to watch’, Australian Collectors Monthly, Sydney, November-December 1990.
Peter Hennessey and Patricia Piccinini, Sally Smart: The Printed Curtain, (exhibition catalogue),Luba.
Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, April-May 1990.
Judith Womersley, ‘Great Expectations’, The Sunday Age, Melbourne, 7 January 1990.
Christopher Heathcote, ‘The myth of uni?ed mainstream’, Australian Art Monthly, 1989.
Fiona Scott-Norman, ‘House of puzzles’, The Sunday Herald, Melbourne, 19 November 1989.
Katherine Wilson, ‘Next stop New York’, Stages, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, November 1989.
Scott Brown, ‘Sally Smart: X-Ray Vanitas’, exhibition review, Art Beat, Melbourne, April 1989.
Christopher Coventry, X-Ray Vanitas, (exhibition catalogue), Luba Bila Gallery, Melbourne, April 1989.