Born 1982, Cairns, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Treasure Island, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 AND THE HORIZON SWALLOWED THE TORTOISE, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2019 Sandpiper Dance, STATION, Melbourne, Australia VIDEO WORKS, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia Recalcitrant Radiance, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
2018 Rainbow Serpent, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia LIGHT WORK - TRIBTUE SYSTEM, STATION, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Daniel Boyd: Bitter Sweet, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, Australia Floating Forest, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Daniel Boyd: Hello Darkness, Dark Mofo 2017, Hobart, Australia
2016 Far North, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Daniel Boyd, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia I build my language with rocks, STATION, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Pineapples in the Pacific, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Treasure Island, STATION, Melbourne, Australia
2013 New Hebrides, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Daniel Boyd: History is Made at Night, Artspace, Sydney, Australia Daniel Boyd: A Darker Shade of Dark, Glasshouse Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, Australia
2012 Daniel Boyd, KALIMAN/RAWLINS, Melbourne, Australia The Transit of Venus - An exhibition with Daniel Boyd, Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia A Darker Shade of Dark, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Up In Smoke Tour, Natural History Museum, London, UK
2010 Revised Filters, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Freetown, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008 Let's stay together, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia I'm Still in Love With You, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 Fatal Impact-Invasion of the South Pacific, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006 THE RIGHTEOUS WILL REIGN…, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 Polly don't want no Cracker neither, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia Untitled, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 This language that is every stone, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (forthcoming)
2022 Dingo Project, curated by Djon Mundine OAM, Ngununggula, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Bowral, Australia
2021
Daniel Boyd + Zac Langdon-Pole, STATION Gallery, Melbourne UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Markings from Country, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Victoria, Australia Close Contact, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia This searing light, filtered for shadows, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2020 Eight Days in Kamay, State Library of NSW, Sydney, Australia Under the stars, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2019 AUSTRALIA. ANTIPODEAN STORY, Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Giant Leap, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Casula, Australia Caught Stealing, National Art School, Sydney, Australia Where The Oceans Meet, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza, Gabriela Rangel, and Rina Carvajal, Museum of Art and Design, Miami Dade College, Miami, US Art Cologne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Cologne, Germany Art Basel Hong Kong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Hong Kong
2018 Boundary Lines, Griffith University Art Museum, South Brisbane, Australia Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Adelaide Biennial: Divided Worlds, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia A beast, a god, and a line, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh A beast, a god, and a line, Para Site, Hong Kong The Shape of Things to Come, curated by Melissa Keys, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo; Mildura Art Gallery, Victoria, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania and Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia
2017 Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu, 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia Countercurrents, Adelaide Festival, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia National Indigenous Art Triennial III: Defying Empire, curated by Tina Baum, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Mondialite, curated by Hans Ulrich, Asad Raza, Boghossian Foundation- Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium Resolution: New Indigenous Photomedia, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria, Australia
2016 Colonial Artlives, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania, Australia Salt Water Country, Regional Tour 2015-2017: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia & Western Australia, Australia Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia ALL SUMMER IN A DAY, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Unclebrother, New York, US Sixth Sense, National Arts School, Sydney, Australia The Shadow Never Lies, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Black, White and Restive, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia Panorama, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia 20th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here- it's just not evenly distributed, Sydney, Australia
2015 All the World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Venice, Italy
2014-15 Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Whorled Explorations, curated by Jitish Kallat, Kochi, India Saltwater Country, Touring exhibition: Queensland, Washington D.C., The Netherlands
2014 Moscow International Biennale for Young Arts: A Time for Dreams, curated by David Elliot, Moscow, Russia 2014 Tarrawarra Biennale, curated by Natalie King and Djon Mundine, Tarrawarra, Australia Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
2013 Bungaree: The First Australian, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, Australia Debil, curated by Marcia Langton, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia Under the sun: the Kate Challis RAKA Award, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia Future Primitive, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
2012 The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 7), Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of
Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, Australia Bungaree: The First Australian curated by Djon Mundine, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia Crossing Cultures:Â The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, US
2011 One Caption Hides Another, betonsalon, Paris, France National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2011: Life is risk / Art is risk, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia Places We Know, People We Know, Goulburn Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2010 True Story, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia We Call Them Pirates Out Here, curated by David Elliott, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Nyah-bunyar (Temple), the Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia Wilderness: Balnaves contemporary painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2009 Octopus 9: I Forget to Forget, curated by Stephen Gilchrist, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington D.C., US Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2008 Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Great Collections, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, Australia Western Australia Indigenous Art Award, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Man- Depicting Contemporary Masculinity, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, Australia Lines in the Sand- Botany Bay Stories From 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, Australia
2007 Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia If you see something say something, Gallery 4a, Sydney, Australia
2006 Someone Shows Something to Someone, Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra, Australia Right Here Right Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia From the Edge, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga & Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
2005 What the World Needs Now, Artspace, Sydney, Australia Superspective, Manuka space - Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia No War Fundraiser, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia CHECKPOINT, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Selected Awards
2019
Circular Quay precinct (collaboration between Daniel Boyd and Sir David Adjaye), Lendlease, Sydney, Australia (to be completed in 2022)
2018 For Our Country, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia
2016
International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency, New York, US
2015
Young Artist Award, Awards for the Visual Arts, Melbourne Art Foundation, Melbourne, Australia
2014
Bulgari Art Award (Winner)
Macquarie Bank, Martin Place, Sydney, Australia
Foyer Wall Commission, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2012 Darker Shade of Dark, QT Hotel, Sydney, Australia
2010 Seven Versions of the Sun, Kangaroo Point Park, Brisbane, Australia
Selected Public and Private Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Artbank Collection, Sydney, Australia
BHP Billiton, Melbourne, Australia
Buxton Contemporary Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, Australia
Credit Suisse, Sydney, Australia
Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
Kadist Collection, Paris, France
Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland, New Zealand
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Natural History Museum, London, UK
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
University of Queensland Collection, Brisbane, Australia
University of Sydney Art Collection, Sydney, Australia