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Exhibition Dates: 21 May – 20 June 2009
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Destiny Deacon is an artist, performer and political activist. Since 1990, she has exhibited her photographs, videos and installations in numerous solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. In 2005 the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney held a major retrospective of Deacon’s work titled ‘Walk & don’t look blak’, which toured to the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, the Tjibao Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia and Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand. In 2002 Deacon was the only Australian artist to be chosen for ‘Documenta II’ in Kassel, Germany and she has been included in many other important survey exhibitions such as the Havana Bienal in 2009 and 1994, the Biennale of Sydney in 2008 and 2000, the inaugural ‘National Indigenous Art Triennial 2007: Culture Warriors’ at the National Gallery of Australia, the Yokohama Triennale in 2001, the Adelaide Biennial in 2000, the Australian Perspecta in 1999 and 1993,and the 1st Johannesburg Biennale in 1995. Other group exhibitions include ‘Rising Tide: Film and Video Works from the MCA Collection’, Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 2009, ‘Half Light: Portraits from Black Australia’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2008, ‘Yours, Mine & Ours: 50 years of ABC TV’, Penrith Regional Gallery 2007; ‘Why Pictures Now’, Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Vienna in 2006; ‘Image & Imagination’, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada in 2006; ‘High Tide: Currents in Contemporary Australian Art’, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw in 2006 and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. Deacon’s work is held in most major public collections in Australia as well as Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Stifting Ludwig Vienna, Austria and Museum Sammlung Essl, Austria.
Deacon has been selected for the prestigious Clemenger Prize and the National Gallery of Victoria in September 2009. Gazette is Destiny Deacon’s seventh solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Destiny Deacon
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024
Ten Thousand Suns
24th Biennale of Sydney, 2024
Group Show, The First 40 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024
Group Show, The Winter Bride
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2023
Thinking Historically in the Present
Sharjah Biennial 15, 2023
Destiny Deacon DESTINY
The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2020-21
Group Show, Workshop
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2019
Destiny Deacon Not Just Fun and Games
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017
Destiny Deacon RACE
Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, VIC, 2016
Group Show, Melbourne Noir
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2014-15
Destiny Deacon Snap out of it
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2014
Destiny Deacon Going Strait
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2012
Destiny Deacon pose-a-rama
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011
Group Show, Head On Photography Festival
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2009-10
Destiny Deacon Clemenger Prize
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009
Destiny Deacon Gazette
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2009
Destiny Deacon Home Security
10th Havana Biennial, 2009
Destiny Deacon Whacked
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007
Group Show, STOLEN RITUAL
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006-07
Destiny Deacon Totemistical
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006
Destiny Deacon Colour Blinded
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Destiny Deacon Walk & don't look blak
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2004-05
Destiny Deacon d-tour
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2003
Destiny Deacon Postcards from Mummy
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2003
Group Show, Dirty Dozen
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002
Group Show, The First 20 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002
Destiny Deacon Forced Into Images
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2001