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Photo: Chunho An
Photo: Chunho An

Daniel Boyd

Australian, 1982

Biography

Daniel Boyd

  • 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

Works

Media

Publications

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Selected Press

2021-06-22 The Korea Times
2021-05-00 Harper's Bazaar ART
2020-12-12 Saturday Paper
2020-04-00 Arena Homme
2020-01-08 The Korea Times
2020-01-06 매일신문
풀로 찍어 만든 무수한 점의 의미는? 7만5000년 토착민의 시공간과 맞닿다   pdf 경향신문
Discovering Australia through the lens of Daniel Boyd   pdf Korea JoongAng Daily
ART LOG: 다니엘 보이드 보물섬   pdf Public Art
Artist challenges Euro-centric narratives   pdf The Korea Times
[문화현장] 원주민의 정체성을 예술로…다니엘 보이드 개인전   pdf SBS 뉴스
Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd delves into one’s true self   pdf The Korea Herald
화면의 무수한 점들 ∙∙∙ 세상을 보는 ‘렌즈’죠   pdf 매일경제
호주 원주민의 뿌리, 무수한 ‘볼록렌즈’에 담다   pdf 동아일보
Painting the Truth   pdf Harper's Bazaar ART
Daniel Boyd    pdf Saturday Paper
회화의 시대   pdf Arena Homme
Review > 03: 너는 무엇을 말하고 있는가 – 다니엘 보이드가 건네는 회화법(會話法)   pdf PUBLICART
호주 작가 다니엘 보이드의 드러나지 않는 것   pdf GQ Korea
Artist reveals history of subjugated   pdf The Korea Times
다니엘 보이드 첫 국내전   pdf 매일신문
다니엘 보이드라는 프리즘   pdf ORDINARY
Daniel Boyd’s works are more than meets the eye: Aboriginal artist pushes against history written in the British colonial era   pdf Korea Joongang Daily
다니엘 보이드 개인전 '항명하는 광휘'전   pdf 부산KBS
Art brings attention to history of oppression, disconnected cultural inheritance   pdf The Korea Herald
연말 볼만한 '세계적 거장' 전시회 잇따라   pdf KNN
호주 원주민, 그림으로 항명하다   pdf 부산일보
흰 점으로 호주 원주민 그려낸 작가 보이드 “다르기에 아름답다”   pdf 한국일보
다니엘 보이드, 국내 첫 개인전 ‘항명하는 광휘’ 개최   pdf 일간리더스경제
국제갤러리 부산, 다니엘 보이드 '항명하는 광휘' 개최   pdf 노컷뉴스