Bill Henson is a widely acclaimed Australian contemporary photographer. Henson has exhibited extensively, both in his native Australia since his first solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in 1975 at the age of 19, and internationally.
Henson’s photographs explore themes of the Romantic movement such as the Sublime in contrast with intimacy found in the everyday moment. His use of chiaroscuro and a reduced palette coupled with a tendency to underexpose creates images that recall Flemish still-lifes and the works of Caravaggio. Henson, who describes his subject matter through shadow as much as through light, manages to evoke a sense of uncertainty and beauty, not only in his figure studies but also his photographs of seemingly banal landscapes such as those in his Suburban Series.
Bill Henson represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and has been involved in a number of major exhibitions including Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video at the International Center of Photography in New York (2003). A comprehensive survey of the artist’s work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, in 2005 attracted record visitor numbers for a contemporary art exhibition in Australia.
Henson’s work can be found internationally in public collections at the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Victoria and Albert museum in London.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Liquid Night, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
2023
The Liquid Night, Starkwhite, Auckland, NZ
Bill Henson: The Liquid Night 1989, The Australian Club, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
2022
Bill Henson: Selected Works, Starkwhite, Auckland, NZ
2021
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
The light fades but the gods remain, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, AU
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
BIll Henson: 1985 -2021, Starkwhite, Auckland, NZ
2019
The light fades but the gods remain, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
2018
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
2017
Bill Henson, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
2016
Landscapes, Castlemaine Regional Gallery, Castlemaine, AU
Oneiroi, Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, AU
2013
Cloud Landscapes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Untitled 1985/86, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson: Across Time, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, AU
2012
Diane Arbus, Bill Henson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson: Early work from the MGA collection, (touring), AU
2011
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
2010
Bill Henson: early work from the Monash Gallery of Art collection, travelling exhibition, AU
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
2008
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
2007
Bill Henson, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
2006
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, US
Bill Henson, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
2005
Bill Henson: 2003-2004 Newcastle Region Art Gallery Acquisitions, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, AU
Bill Henson: Three Decades of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
2004
Presence 3: Bill Henson, The Speed Art Museum, Kentucky, US
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, US
Bill Henson, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
2003
Bill Henson, Lux et Nox, book launch, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson, Lux et Nox, book launch, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson, Centro de Fotografia, University of Salamanca, ES
2002
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
2001
Bill Henson, November-December, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia, AU
Bill Henson, September – November, Scalo, Zurich, CH
2000
Bill Henson,
March, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney AU
Bill Henson, August, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, AU
1999
Bill Henson, March, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, US
1998
Bill Henson, May – June, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson, January – February, ACP Galerie Peter Schuengel, Salzburg, AT
1997
Bill Henson, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, AU
Melbourne International Festival of Arts, October – November, Melbourne, AU
1996
Bill Henson, February, Banning and Associates, New York, US
Bill Henson, February – March, Works from the 46th Venice Biennale, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth, AU
Bill Henson: Photographs form the Monash City Council Collection, March, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson, Recent Works from 1995/96, April – May, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson, Works from The 46th Venice Biennale, April – May, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, AU
Bill Henson, Works from The 46th Venice Biennale, May – June, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson, Works from The 46th Venice Biennale, July – September, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson, Works from The 46th Venice Biennale, October – November, Plimsoll Gallery University of Hobart, AU
1995
Bill Henson, 46th Venice Biennale, June – September, Australian Pavilion, Venice, IT
Bill Henson, August – September, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, FR
Bill Henson, Photographs, November, Peter McCleavey Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1993
Bill Henson, February – March, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Bill Henson, April – May, University of Tasmania, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, AU
Bill Henson, Works from Untitled 1992 -1993, May – June, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson Work from Two Decades 1970s – 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson Selected Works, Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Geelong, AU
1992
Works From The Paris Opera Project, March -April, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson, June – July, Perspektief Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
1991
Bill Henson Photographies, March, Les Ateliers Nadar, Marseille, FR
Works from the Paris Opera Project, May – June, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson, June, Peter McCleavey Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1990
Bill Henson Installation 1985/86, November 1989 – January 1990, Urbi et Orbi, Paris, FR
Bill Henson Photography, December 1989 – May 199, Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
Bill Henson Photography, March – April, Marta Cevera Gallery, New York, US
Bill Henson, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, US
Bill Henson, July, Glendash Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Bill Henson Photographs, September – November, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, FR
Bill Henson Untitled 1977/87, Milburn+Arte, Brisbane, AU
Bill Henson, Images from ‘Untitled 1987/88’, March – April, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson Photographs 1974 – 84, March -April, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, AU
1989
Bill Henson Fotografien, February – March, Museum Moderner Kunst, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, AT
Bill Henson Photographs 1974 – 1984, June, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson, Untitled 1987/88, November, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, AU
1988
Bill Henson, Untitled 1985/86, February – March, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson, November, La Chartreuse de Villeneuve les Avignon, FR
1987
Bill Henson, Untitled 1983/84, 6 December 1986 – 5 April 1987, Australian National Gallery at the Australian National University, Drill Hall, Canberra, AU
Bill Henson, Untitled 1983/84, 25 April – 17 May, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AU
Bill Henson Photographs, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
Bill Henson Photographs, November, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, AU
1986
Bill Henson Photographs, July, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, AU
1985
Bill Henson, Untitled 1983/84, July, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, AU
Bill Henson Photographs, September – October, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson Photographs, October – November, The Developed Image Gallery, Adelaide, AU
1984
Bill Henson Photographs, May, Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston, AU
1982
Bill Henson Untitled Series 1977, February – March, The Developed Image Gallery, Adelaide, AU
Bill Henson Photographs, July, North Hobart Photographic Gallery, Hobart, AU
1981
Bill Henson Photographs, November, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
1980
Bill Henson Photographs, February, Church Street Photographic Centre, Melbourne, AU
1979
Bill Henson Photographs, October, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AU
1978
Bill Henson Photographs, August, Church Street Photographic Centre, Melbourne, AU
1975
Bill Henson, July – August, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, Paris, France
Chartwell Collection, New Zealand
Darwin Community College, Darwin
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
DG Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Griffith University, Brisbane
High Court of Australia, Canberra
Horsham Art Gallery, Horsham
Houston Museum of Fine Art
Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, Ipswich
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
USA Monash City Council Collection
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain
Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Stifting Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
NRMA Collection, Sydney
Parson’s School of Art & Design, New York, USA
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, Australia
Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Polaroid Corporation, New York, USA
Progressive Corporation Collection, Ohio, USA
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Refco Collection, Chicago, USA
Sammlung Volpinum, Vienna, Austria
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, Hobart
Tate Collection, London
The Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, Melbourne The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Philip Morris Collection, Canberra
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art Wollongong City Art Gallery
MONOGRAPHS
2023
The Liquid Night, Stanley Barker, London
2022
Paris Opera, Stanley Barker, London
2020
Sic Transit, Stanley Barker, London
The Light Fades But The Gods Remain, Thames and Hudson, London
2019
Principio Erat, Editions Bessard, Paris
2017
Kindertotenlieder, Stanley Barker, London
Bill Henson, Michael Heyward, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2016
Bill Henson Oneiroi, Peter Craven, Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
Bill Henson, Editions Bessard, Paris
2015
Particle Mist, Stanley Barker, London
2014
Bill Henson 1985, Stanley Barker, London
2008
The Henson Case, David Marr, Text Publishing, Melbourne
2005
Mnemosyne, various authors, Scalo/AGNSW, Zurich
2003
Bill Henson, (exhibition catalogue), Dennis Cooper, Ediciones Universidad, Salamanca
2002
Lux et Nox, Scalo, Zurich Berlin New York
1995
Bill Henson 46th Venice Biennale, (exhibition catalogue), Michael Heyward, AETA, Sydney
1989
Bill Henson Photographs 1974-1984, (exhibition catalogue), Peter Schjeldahl/David Malouf, Deutscher, Melbourne
Bill Henson Fotografien, (exhibition catalogue), Bodo Hell, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
1988
Bill Henson Photographs, David Malouf/Michael Heyward, Pan-Picador, Sydney
1987
Bill Henson Untitled 1985/86, Terence Maloon, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The First 40 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
2023
The Skin We Live In, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
The Winter Bride, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
The Light Fades But the Gods Remain, A Monash Gallery of Art travelling exhibition, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, AU
2019
Art Cologne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Cologne, DE
Art Basel Hong Kong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, HK
Provenence II, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Idle Worship, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, AU
2018
Group Exhibition, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Gothic Beauty: Victorian notions of love, loss and spirituality, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, AU
Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
2017
The Unflinching Gaze: photo media & the male figure, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, AU
Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Wall Power: Contemporary Australian Photography, Michael Reid and Department of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, DE; Paris, FR; London, UK
Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, AU
Contemporary Masters – from a Private Collection, Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney, AU
Versus Rodin, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AU
2016
Paris Photo, Tolarno Galleries, Paris, FR
Art Basel Hong Kong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, HK
2015
Hung Out to Dry: Space, memory and domestic laundry practice, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, AU
2014
Five Centuries of Melancholia, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, AU
2013
Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Beautiful Creatures, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
New 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, AU
Under My Skin: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, AU
The Youth Code!, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, CH Curators: Natalie Herschderfer, Chrisoph Guy
2012
Elsewhere, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
2011
Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, TV Moore, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Naked, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, AU
2010
Zurich Film Festival Exhibition, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, CH
2008
Teen City, Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, CH, Curator: Nathalie Herschdorfer
People and Places: Selections from the Allen Thomas Jr. Photography Collection, SECCA (Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art), North Carolina, US
Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, Institute of Modern Art touring show, Logan Art Gallery, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Brisbane, AU
2007
DeOverkant/Downunder, Den Haag Sculpture 2007, The Hague, NL
Intimacy, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, AU
Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, Institute of Modern Art touring show – 24Hr Art, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, AU
Strange Cargo: Contemporary art as a state of encounter, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and Tweed River Regional Gallery, AU
2006
Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Black & Blue, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, AU
2005
Perception, The Daryl Hewson Photographic Collection, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, AU
The Subjective Figure, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
C’town Bling, Campbelltown Arts Centre, AU Curator: Anne Loxley
10/21 – VCA at the Venice Biennale, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, AU
The Children’s Hour, Museum of New Art, Detroit, US
Almost, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
2004
Auto Fetish: The Mechanics of Desire, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, AU
Penumbra: Images of Light and Darkness, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, AU
Night Vision, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AU
Written with Darkness, UTS Gallery, Sydney, AU
The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art, A Heide Museum of Modern Art Travelling Art Exhibition, Melbourne, AU
Satellite cities and tabloid life, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, AU
Presence, through to March 2005, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, US
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Contemporary Photo-media, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AU
2003
Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, US
MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU
Stellar, Centre of Contemporary Photography Fundraising Auction, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, AU
Through their lens, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, AU
Child in Time, Gemeente Museum Helmond, Helmond, NL
Portraiture, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Flagship: Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, 1790 – 2000, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
SEX, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2002
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 – 2002, November 2002 to February 2003, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne, AU
Points of View,
University of Technology Sydney Art Collection, UTS, Sydney, AU
Sublime: 25 Years of the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
2nd Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Dirty Dozen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
The First Twenty Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Nocturne: Images of Night & Darkness from Colonial to Contemporary, 23 April – 16 June, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Images of Australian Men: Photographs from the Monash Gallery of Art Collection, 24 May 2002 – 21 Sept. 2003, A Monash Gallery of Art Travelling Exhibition; Adelaide Festival Centre, Gippsland Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, AU
Other Views: an exhibition from the Griffith University Art Collection, Griffith University, Brisbane, AU
2001
Phiction: lies, illusion and the phantasm in photography, December, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, AU
a person looks at a work of art…, 24 November 2001 – 3 December 2002, The Michael Buxton Contemporary Art Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, AU
Lightness of Being, Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (September – October); Museum Scholb Hardenberg, Velbert, (November – January); Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (January – February); Kulturzentrum der Stadt Stuttgart (March – April), DE
2000
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU
Millennium Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum, US
Presumed Innocent, CAPC Musee d’Art contemporain de Bordeaux, FR
All Stars 2000, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Darkness & light: looking at the landscape, McClelland Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, AU; Auckland Art Gallery, NZ
1999
The Promise of Photography: Selections from the DG Bank Collection, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US
Moral Hallucinations: Channelling Hitchcock, 1999 – 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU
Ghost in the Shell – Photography and the Human Soul 1850 – 2000, 1999 – 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US
Blind Spot 13 Summer Show, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, US
1998
Liberamente, Comune di Cescna, Italy, IT
1997
Body, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
Bill Henson, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Sarah Jones, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, DE
1996
System’s End: Contemporary Art In Australia, Oxy Gallery, Osaka, JP
From The Street: Photographs From The Collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales, April 27 – 14 July 1996, Sydney, AU
Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AU
Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!, July-November, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU
Australian Art – Colonial to Contemporary 1780 – 1990, Deutscher Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Face Value, September, Waverley City Gallery, Sydney, AU
1995
30th Artists Today Exhibition, March, Yokohama Citizen’s Art Gallery, Yokohama, JP
Sights of the Imagination: Contemporary Photographers View Melbourne and Its People, September, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Group Show, December, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
1991 Through a Glass Darkly, Guinness Contemporary
Art Project, 19 May – 16 July, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Passions Privee, December – January 1996, ARC Musee D’Art Modern D’La Ville De Paris, Paris, FR
1994
Bill Henson & Ranier Usselmann, Cambridge Darkroom, UK
Pride-of-Place, May 1994, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AU
The Full Spectrum: Colour Photography in Australia 1860s to 1990s, June 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Printemps de Cahors France, June 1994, Cartier Foundation, Paris, FR
1993
Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Australian Contemporary Art, Feb – May, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Presences, November 1993 – January 1995, London Photographers Gallery, UK
1992
A Constructed Reality, January – February, National Gallery of Victoria, Melnourne, AU
Strangers in Paradise, Contemporary Australian Art, November – December, National Museum of Contemporary Art, KR
Sights of the Imagination: Contemporary Photographers View Melbourne and Its People, September, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Group Show, December, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU
1991
Des De El Fin Del Imperio, March, Circulo De Bellas Artes, Madrid, ES
The Corporeal Body, April – May, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, AU
Corriger Les Lieux, April – May, Apres La Photographie De Voyage, Maison de la Culture, Montreal, CA
Photodeath, April – June, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, AU
Egypt From the Nineteenth Century Until Now, May – June, Montpellier Museum, FR
Sphinx: Bathazar Burckhard, Bill Henson, Thomas Ruff, & Susan Wides, May – June, Galerie Pierre Bernard, Nice, FR
Peuples En Image: Weegee, Bill Henson, Roy Arden, Raymonde April and Anne Favrat, November – December, Le Lieu Galerie de Photographies, Lorient, FR
Elegia de la Mirada, Raymonde April, Bill Henson, Patrick Tosani, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall, November – December, Sala de Arte la Recova, Santa Crus de Tenerife, ES
1990
Edge 90, May – June, Newcastle upon Tyne, Glasgow, London, UK
Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers ‘From the Hallmark Cards Australian Collection’, National Gallery of Victoria; touring Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, regional galleries, AU
Passages De L’Image, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, FR; Wexner Art
Centre, Colombus (July – October); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (December 1991 – February), US; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions (February – March), Barcelona, ES
1989
I.C.I. Contemporary Art Collection, May – June, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat (touring), AU
Photo Kunst, Stuttgart Staats Gallerie (including Jeff Wall, Cragie Horstfelt, Sigmar Polke), Stuttgart, DE
International Fototriennale Esslingen, September – November, Stuttgart, DE
Artists Under Saturn, November – December (touring 1990), Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, AU
1988
The Bicentennial Australian Perspecta 1987/ 88, Art Gallery of New South Wales (15 October – 29 November 1987), Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia (5 March – 17 April 1988), Perth, AU
Shades of Light, March, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, AU
Australian Photography in the 1980s, MarchAustralian National Gallery, Canberra, AU
1978 – 1988 Ten Years of Australian Photography, April, Australian National Gallery at the Australian National University, Drill Hall, Canberra, AU
Elsewhere – Photobased Work from Australia, April – May, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Behold the Man, May – August, Photographers’ Gallery, London, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Edge to Edge: Australian Contemporary Art to Japan 1988/ 89, April, National Museum of Art, Osaka; Hara Museum, Tokyo; Nagoya City Museum, Sapporo, JP
The Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art: Selected Works, February – March, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU
The Thousand Mile Stare, March – April, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (touring), AU
Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988, T.C.C.A. and the Australian Bicentennial Authority by the Art Gallery of South Australia (touring), Adelaide, AU
Aperto XLIII Biennale Di Venezia, June – September, Venice, IT
Contemporary Australian Art to China, November, Beijing (touring), CN
Mnemosyne of the Theme of Recording – An Exhibition with and in the Castle Herrnsheim, September – October, Castle Herrnsheim, Frankfurt, DE
The Bicentennial Australian Perspecta 1987/88, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (touring 1989), DE
Australian Art Post – 1960, October, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne, AU
Australian Art in Paris, December – January, Salpetiere, C.I.R.C.A., Paris, FR
1987
Living In the Seventies – Australian Photographs, June – September, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, AU
Aberdare Prize for Landscape, August – September, Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, Ipswich, AU
1986
Ten Years On, February – March, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Big Pictures, March – May, Australian National Gallery at the Australian National University, Drill Hall, Canberra, AU
Sixth Biennale of Sydney, May – July, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Prospect 86, September – November, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
The Repeated Image, September – October, Griffith University, Brisbane, AU
1985
C.S.R. Photography Project, November – January, Queensland Art Gallery (touring), Brisbane, AU
Australian Art Now, November – January, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AU,
La Photographie Creative, November – January, Pavilion Des Arts, Paris, FR
Australian Visions, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (10 January – 10 February); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (8 March – 7 April); Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (20 April – 20 May), AU
Isolaustralia, May – June, Galleria Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
Australiana, October, Galerija Studentskog Kulturnog Centra, Belgrade, RS; September, Zagreb, HR
Recent Australian Photography From the Kodak Fund, October – February, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, AU
1984
C.S.R. Photography Project Selected Works, March – April, Opera House Exhibition Hall, Sydney, AU
Australian Visions: 1984, Exxon International Exhibition, September – November Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
1983
D’un Autre Continent: l’Australie, Le Reve et le Reel, A.R.C.2: Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, October – December, Paris, FR
Australian Artists in Amsterdam, October, Gallerie Jurka in association with Gallerie Wetering and Gallerie Biederberg-Muller, Amsterdam, NL
C.S.R. Photography Project, October, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
A Decade of Australian Photography 1972 – 1982, October – January, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, AU
1982
Biennale of Sydney: Vision in Disbelief, April – May, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Male, July, James Harvey Gallery, Sydney, AU
Sexual Imagery in Art, September, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AU
1981
Australian Perspecta 1981: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, May – June, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Scene, Sequence, Series, October – November, Nantes Regional Gallery, (co-ordinated by Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and Musee des Beau-Arts de Nantes), FR
1980
Aspects of the Philip Morris Collection: Four Australian Photographers, September, Australian Embassy, Paris (touring), FR
Photography – The Last Ten Years, October, Australian National Gallery at the Australian National University, Drill Hall, AU
1978
The Nude, September, Glanville Gallery, Perth; Susan Gillespie Gallery, Canberra; Church Street Photographers Centre, Melbourne, AU New Australian Work,
September, The Photographers Gallery, Melbourne, AU 1974
Graduating Photography, July, Ewing Gallery and George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne, AU
COLLABORATIONS
2019
Luminous, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, National Tour, AU
Chiaroscuro, The Sydney Art Quartet, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, AU
2009
Luminous, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, National Tour, AU
2002
Luminous, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, National Tour, AU
1990-91
Paris Opera Project, Opera de Paris, FR