Daniel Boyd

Born 1982, Cairns, Australia

Lives and works in Sydney, NSW, Australia

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Dreamland, Marian Goodman, New York

RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION), Gropius Bau, Berlin

Rainbow Serpent (Version), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

Tacit Testudo, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Treasure Island, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

AND THE HORIZON SWALLOWED THE TORTOISE, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Contemporary Art Projects #1, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Sandpiper Dance, STATION, Melbourne, Australia

Sandpiper Dance, STATION, Melbourne, Australia

VIDEO WORKS, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia

Recalcitrant Radiance, Kukje Gallery, Busan, South Korea

Rainbow Serpent, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

LIGHT WORK - TRIBUTE SYSTEM, STATION, Melbourne, Australia

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

Far North, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney, Australia

Daniel Boyd, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

I build my language with rocks, STATION, Melbourne, Australia

Pineapples in the Pacific, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Treasure Island, STATION, Melbourne, Australia

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

Daniel Boyd, KALIMAN/RAWLINS, Melbourne, Australia

The Transit of Venus – An exhibition with Daniel Boyd, Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney

A Darker Shade of Dark, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Up In Smoke Tour, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Revised Filters, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Freetown, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Let's stay together, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

I'm Still in Love With You, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Fatal Impact-Invasion of the South Pacific, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

THE RIGHTEOUS WILL REIGN…, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Polly don't want no Cracker neither, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Untitled, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

I think future, I think past, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Australia

The National 4: Australian Art Now, curated by Jane Devery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Bonna, Dhaka Art Summit, National Art Gallery, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Curated by Cosmin Costinas

Art in Conflict, touring exhibition with the Australian War Memorial, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Sydney Road Blaks, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

Zombie Eaters, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, NSW

What a Shadow Feels Like, STATION Gallery, Melbourne

Do We Dream Under The Same Sky, Okayama Art Summit, Kita-ku Okayama, Japan

This language that is every stone, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Dingo Project, curated by Djon Mundine OAM, Ngununggula, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Bowral

Kathmandu Triennale 2077, Kathmandu, NP

Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore

This language that is every stone, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Asad Raza, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Dingo Project, curated by Djon Mundine OAM, Ngunungulla, Bowral

The History of Forgetting, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, US

경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

Daniel Boyd + Zac Langdon-Pole, STATION Gallery, Melbourne

Experimenta Life Form: International Triennial of Media Art, touring The Lock-Up, Newcastle; Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo; The Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier; Albury LibraryMuseum, Albury; New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale; Plimsoll Gallery UTAS, Hobart, Australia

Superblue Miami, Superblue, Miami, Florida, USA

In Between, Australian Pavilion, 17th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

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

Solid Gold, Home Of The Arts, Gold Coast

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, USA

AUSTRALIA. ANTIPODEAN STORY, Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea, Milan

Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Caught Stealing, National Art School, Sydney, Australia

Giant Leap, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney, Australia

Where The Oceans Meet, Museum of Art and Design, Miami Dade College, Miami, United States (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza, Gabriela Rangel, and Rina Carvajal)

Art Cologne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Cologne, Germany

Art Basel Hong Kong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Hong Kong

Boundary Lines, Griffith University Art Musuem, 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, Bangladesh

A beast, a god, and a line, Para Site, Hong Kong

The Shape of Things to Come, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia (curated by Melissa Keys)

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

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

Resolution: New Indigenous Photomedia, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Australia

Colonial Artlives, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania

Salt Water Country, Regional Tour 2015-2017: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia & Western Australia

Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia

ALL SUMMER IN A DAY, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Unclebrother, NY, USA

Sixth Sense, National Arts School, Sydney

The Shadow Never Lies, Shanghai 21^st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Black, White and Restive, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle

Panorama, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria

20^th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here- it's just not evenly distributed, Sydney

All the World's Futures, 56^th Venice Biennale (curated by Okwui Enwezor), Venice

Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Whorled Explorations, (curated by Jitish Kallat), Kochi, India

Saltwater Country, Touring exhibition: Queensland, Washington DC, The Netherlands

Moscow International Biennale for Young Arts: A Time for Dreams (curated by David Elliot), Moscow

2014 Tarrawarra Biennale, Tarrawarra (curated by Natalie King and Djon Mundine)

Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Museu Picasso, Barcelona

Bungaree: The First Australian, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie.

Debil, curated by Marcia Langton, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney

Under the sun: the Kate Challis RAKA Award, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

Future Primitive, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

The 7^th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 7), Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane

Bungaree: The First Australian curated by Djon Mundine, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, New Hampshire

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, Queensland

Places We Know, People We Know, Goulburn Regional Gallery, New South Wales

True Story, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

We Call Them Pirates Out Here, curated by David Elliott, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Nyah-bunyar (Temple), the Arts Centre, Melbourne

Wilderness: Balnaves contemporary painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Octopus 9: I Forget to Forget, curated by Stephen Gilchrist, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington D.C

Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland

Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland

Great Collections, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown

Western Australia Indigenous Art Award, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Man- Depicting Contemporary Masculinity, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith

Lines in the Sand- Botany Bay Stories From 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea

Culture warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Brenda L. Croft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

If you see something say something, Gallery 4a, Sydney

Someone Shows Something to Someone, Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra

Right Here Right Now, National Gallery of Australia

From the Edge, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga & Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney

What the World Needs Now, Artspace, Sydney

Superspective, Manuka space - Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

No War Fundraiser, Mori Gallery, Sydney

CHECKPOINT, Mori Gallery, Sydney

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Artbank Collection, Sydney

BHP Billiton, Australia

Buxton Contemporary Collection, Melbourne

Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland

Credit Suisse, Sydney

Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland

Guggenheim Museum Collection, Abu Dhabi, Bilbao, New York

Kadist Collection, Paris, France

Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Natural History Museum, London

Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland

Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

University of Queensland Collection, Brisbane

University of Sydney Art Collection, Sydney

COMMISSIONS/ AWARDS

Archibald Art Prize, Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

Circular Quay precinct (collaboration between Daniel Boyd and Sir David Adjaye), Lendlease, Sydney (to be completed in 2022)

For Our Country, Australian War Memorial, Canberra

International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency, New York City

Young Artist Award, Awards for the Visual Arts, Melbourne Art Foundation, Melbourne

Bulgari Art Award (Winner)

Macquarie Bank, Martin Place, Sydney

Foyer Wall Commission, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Darker Shade of Dark, QT Hotel, Sydney

Seven Versions of the Sun, Kangaroo Point Park, Brisbane

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Neha Kale, Daniel Boyd’s studio are where fictions are cracked open and remade’, Art Guide, 19 August 2022, https://artguide.com.au/daniel-boyds-studio-are-where-fictions-are-cracked-open-and-remade/

Steve Dow, ‘A pirate Captain Cook and his own head in a jar: the subversive satire of Daniel Boyd’, The Guardian, 2 June 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/02/a-pirate-captaincook-and-his-own-head-in-a-jar-the-subversive-satire-of-daniel-boyd

Melissa Bianca Amore, ‘RELEARNING AUSTRALIA’, The Saturday Paper, 5 February 2022.

Briony Downes, 'Daniel Boyd presents a lens in which we see ourselves', Art Guide, Issue 138, 22 July 2020, https://artguide.com.au/daniel-boyd-presents-a-lens-through-which-we-see-ourselves/

Maddee Clark, ‘In Progress: Daniel Boyd’, The Saturday Paper, 12–18 December 2020

Kwon Mee-yoo, ‘Boyd reveals history of subjugated’, The Korea Times, 7 January 2020

Leilah Stone, 'Adjaye Associates unveils a tightly-balanced public plaza for Sydney', The Architect's Newspaper, 4 December 2019

Christele Harrouk, 'Adjaye Associates+ Daniel Boyd Team Up to Design the New Sydney Plaza', arch daily, 4 December 2019

Michael Bleby, 'New public square for Circular Quay precinct', Australian Financial Review, 2 Dec 2019

'Museum Of Art And Design At MDC Presents WHERE THE OCEANS MEET', Broadway World Miami, 29 April 2019

Karen Hardy, 'Australian War Memorial sculpture reflects on Indigenous service', The Canberra Times, March 29, 2019

Claire Hunter, For our Country, Australian War Memorial, 27 March 2019

Blouin Artinfo, Daniel Boyd’s ‘Rainbow Serpent’ at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney', October 24, 2018

Sharne Wolff, 'Daniel Boyd - Rainbow Serpent', Art Guide, 2 November 2018

'NATSIAA FINALISTS ANNOUNCED', Aboriginal Art Directory, 2 May 2018

Kristy Sier, 'Collector Profile - Lisa Paulsen,' Vault, issue 22

E Jane Dickon, 'The Labours of Love,' Christie's, May 2018, pp. 66-74

Frieze Magazine, How important art form protest, April Issue 2017
https://frieze.com/article/how-important-art-form-protest#Daniel Boyd

Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Editors

Daniel Boyd: Parts of the Lost Body (after Aime Cesaire & Pablo Picasso), Perimeter Editions: Melbourne 2016
Artist Insight: Daniel Boyd, Ocula Review, (online), 14 May, 2016

Ian McLean, Daniel Boyd A Darker Shade of Dark 1-4, SAMSTAG, South Australia

Daniel Boyd - The Law of Closure, Perimeter Books: Melbourne, 2015

Annabel Ross, 'Daniel Boyd wins the Melbourne Art Foundation's inaugural Young Artist Award', Sydney Morning Herald, 20 August 2015

Alyce Neal, 'Review: This is not a survey', Eyeline, Number 83, p. 91

S. Priyadershini, `Sharing stories through art,' The Hindu, 1 January 2015

Tess Maunder, 'A report on Australian representation at the 56th Venice Biennale,' Ocula, 19 May 2005

Annie Murney, `Daniel Boyd: Pineapples in the Pacific', Concrete Playground, January 2014

Freya Herring, `Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd's new exhibition traces memories lost and found', Vogue Living, 24 January, 2014

Bethany Small, `Daniel Boyd; Pineapples in the Pacific', Two Thousand, 21 January 2014

Michael FitzGerald, Post-Picasso Contemporary Reactions Exhibiton Catalogue, Museu Picasso, Barcelona

“Daniel Boyd Wins 2014 Bulgari Art Award”, Art Guide Australia, 16 April 2014

Lean Mclennan, “Daniel Boyd wins Bulgari art prize”, The Australian, 15 April 2014

Alexandra Brown, 'Daniel Boyd is the 2014 Bulgari Art Award winner', Vogue Australia, 15 April 2014

Nicholas Forrest, Daniel Boyd Wins 80K Bulgari Art Award, Blouin Art Info, April 15 2014

Andrew Taylor, 'Ancestral home inspires artist moved by spirit of Pentecost', Sydney Morning Herald, April 16, 2014, pp 2-3

Bronwyn Fullerton, `Daniel Boyd Wins Bvlgari Award', Sydney Arts Guide, April 19 2014

Dan Rule, 'Daniel Boyd Paradise Lost', Vault Magazine, Issue 6. April 2014, pp32-37

Cleo Braithwaite, “20 Rising Stars: Daniel Boyd”, Oyster Magazine, Issue 105 September 2014

Nicholas Forrest, `Daniel Boyd's Interactive Artwork Repurposes Aboriginal Dots', Blouin ArtInfo, March 5 2013

Dan Rule, “A modern take on primitive”, The Age, Dec 7 2013

Elizabeth Fortescue, 'Boyd's painful journey into his people's past', The Herald Sun, April 22 2013

Jo Higgins, '21st Century Portraits', (London; National Portrait Gallery, 2013)

Coline Milliard, Daniel Boyd's Hamlet Moment, ARTINFO UK, 13 Feb, 2012

Nicole Kluk, `New Acquisitions', MUSE, Issue 3, 2012

`Tracing the Past', Natural History Museum, http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/art-nature-imaging/collections/first-fleet/tracing-the-past/index.html, 2012

`Artist Daniel Boyd looks beyong images', Natural History Museum website, http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/art-nature-imaging/collections/first-fleet/modern-response/index.html, 2012

Maria Nugent, Captain Cook was here, Cambridge University Press: Melbourne, 2009, p. 131

Stephen Gilchrist, 'Shifting Identities', Art & Australia Vol 46, Winter pp. 616-629

Ace Bourke, Lines in the Sand: Stories from 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, 2008.

Katrina Strickland, “Boyd by honour of cover opportunity”, The Australian Financial Review, 2 January 2008

Rosalie Higson, “Reality check is in the male”, The Australian, April 21, 2008, p. 16

Luke Parker and Anne Loxley, Man: Depicting Contemporary Masculinity, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, 2008

Djon Mundine, “Daniel Boyd”, Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2008, p. 14

Treasures from Great Collections, Sydney: Campbelltown Arts Centre, p. 123

Katrina Schlunke, “Captain Cook's Eye-patch”, Art Monthly Australia, Issue #212

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Axel Moline, “Two Artists Talking: A Transcript of Dan Boyd & Tim Johnson”, Get This, Sydney, 2007

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Ron Cerabona, “Warriors' ancient take on modern art”, The Canberra Times, October 12, 2007, p. 8

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Sunanda Creagh, `The righteous will reign', Sydney Morning Herald, 1-2 July 2006, p. 16

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Clara Laccarino, `Artistic teenager thriving after emerging from early blue period', Sydney Morning Herald, 10 November 2006, p. 7.

Nassim Khadem, “Fresh talent goes beyond the dots”, The Age, 1 June 2006