Destiny Deacon

DESTINY DEACON

b. 1957, G’ua G’ua & Erub/Mer peoples

Maryborough, Queensland

Lives and works Melbourne, Victoria. KuKu (Cape York) and Erub/Mer (Torres Strait) people

EDUCATION

BA [politics], University of Melbourne

Dip. Ed., La Trobe University

Media: photography, video, installation, performance

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Destiny Deacon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Destiny - The art of Destiny Deacon, Australian Embassy, Paris, France

Destiny Deacon: Forced into Images, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury

DESTINY, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Not Just Fun and Games, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Snap out of it, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Going Strait, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Pose-a-rama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,Sydney

Doing Time.., Spare Room Gallery, R.M.I.T. University Gallery, Melbourne

It's Playblak Time, ArtSpace Pro Art, Hallein, Salzburg Festival, Austria

Gazette, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,Sydney

Clandestine, Destiny Deacon, Tandanya - National Aboriginal Cultural Insitute, Adelaide

Whacked, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Destiny Deacon: Walk and don't look blak, Ian Potter Museum of Art at Melbourne University, Melbourne

Totemistical, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Destiny Deacon: Walk and don't look blak, Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo, Japan

Destiny Deacon: Walk and don't look blak, ADAM Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

A date with Destiny, (cabaret performance), MCA, Sydney, Australia

Walk and don't look blak, Tjibao Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia

Walk and don't look blak, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Walk and don’t look blak, MCA, Sydney, Australia

d-coy: Destiny Deacon, curators Gary Lee and Maurice O’Riordan, 24HR Art, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia

Destiny Deacon, Künstlerhaus, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

d-tour, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Destiny Deacon, Gallerie Raphaella Cortese, Milan, Italy

Postcards from Mummy, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Forced into Images, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

The Thin Line, Platform Space, Spencer Street Station on Subway, (collaboration with Virginia Fraser) Crossing the Line, Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne

Postcards from Mummy, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and toured nationally in Australia

It Won't Rub Off, Baby, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia

Inya Dreams (Festival of the Dreaming, Olympic Arts Festival) project with children from Redfern Public School, Performance Space, Sydney

No Fixed Dress (Melbourne International Fashion Festival), Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

We Iri - We Homeborn, NAIDOC exhibition (concurrent with shows by Lisa Bellear and Ellen Jose), Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Abstracts, New Aboriginalities (concurrent with show by Brenda Croft), Watershed Media Centre, Bristol; Cambridge Darkroom; and MAC, Birmingham (all UK)
Beauty's Back on Duty, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

Welcome to Never-Never, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Destiny Deacon, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK

My Boomerang Won't Come Back, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide; Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand; CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Smiling Dangerously, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney

Caste Offs (concurrent with show by Brenda Croft), Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Octopus 24: Ricochet, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

The Land is Us: Stories, Place & Connection, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria

The First 40 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Winter Bride, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Single Channel, touring exhibition with National Gallery of Australia, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Australia

Australiana: Designing a Nation, Bendigo Art Gallery in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Mirror: New views on photography, State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Home, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, Australia

Thinking Historically in the Present, conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates (forthcoming)

I didn't vote for this, 99% Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Australiana: Designing a Nation, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia

Sydney Road Blaks, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

Destination Sydney: the natural world, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

FACELESS: Transforming Identity, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns

Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection, NGV International, Melbourne, Australia

Queer, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2021, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Cairns

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

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

Caught Stealing, National Art School, Sydney

Workshop, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

Dark Rooms: Women Directing the Lens 1978 - 98, Griffith University Art Museuem

Wall Power: Contemporary Australian Photography, Michael Reid and Department of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Paris, London

Red Green Blue: A History of Australian Video Art, Griffith University Gallery, Queensland

Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Under the Sun. Reimagining Max Dupain's Sunbaker, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Who's Afraid of Colour?, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The documentary take, curated by Naomi Cass, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Over the fence: Contemporary Indigenous photography fom the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane.

Sixth Sense, National Art School Gallery, Sydney

RACE, Wynham Art Gallery, Victoria

The Waiting Room,curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Artbank Gallery, Sydney

My Country, I Still Call Australia Home, GOMA, Brisbane and travelling

Over the Fence, UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Australian Exotica, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

Brutal Truths, Griffith University Art Gallery, South Bank, Brisbane

Donggang International Photo Festival, Donggang Museum of Photography, South Korea

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

Remain In Light: Photogrpahy from the MCA Collections,Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, touring exhibition

Direct Democracy, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Every day I am a day older: Portraiture from the Griffith University Art Collection, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane.

Dark Nights, Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood, Victoria.

My Country: I Still Call Australia Home, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Shadowlife, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo

Under My Skin: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton

Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collectionn of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth.

Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

THE PHANTASM, Foxy Production, New York

Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, TV Moore, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Change Has Come, UTS Gallery, Sydney

Art + Soul, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Change, Monash University Museum of Modern Art, Caulfield, Victoria

Bite, Flinders University Gallery, Adelaide

Suburbia, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Queensland

Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Ian Potter Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Half Light: Portraits From Black Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Integracion Y Resistencia En La Era Global, The Tenth Habana Bienal, Havana, Cuba

Terra Nullius, ACC Gallery Weimer, Germany

Rising Tide: Film and Video Works from the MCA Collection, Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art

San Diego, U.S.A.

Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Latitudes, Tjibao Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia

Culture Warriors: The National Indigenous Art Triennial ’07, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,

And touring: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Gallery of Modern Art at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

`Where is Mummy?’ Destiny Deacon, Masterpieces from the Essl Collection and Bank Austria Collection, Galerie Theodor von Hörmann, Austria

Artist Makes Video, Art Rage Survey 1994-1998, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane

Dolls, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, (City Of Melbourne, Cultural Exchange) Milan, Italy

Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Yours, Mine & Ours: 50 years of ABC TV, Penrith Regional Gallery, Emu Plains

Why Pictures Now, Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Stifting Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria

Image & Imagination, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada

Talking Territory and Trauma, Golden Thread Gallery, Ulster, Ireland

High Tide: Currents in Contemporary Australian Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Brescia International Photography Biennale, Museo di Santa Giuliam, Brescia, Italy

Latitudes 2005, Hotel de Ville, Paris

MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

I thought I knew but I was wrong, curated by Alexie Glass and Sarah Tutton, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea

Blackspot: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Monash University Collection, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art & Design, Monash University, Gippsland, Australia

New 05, curated by Max Delaney, ACCA, Southbank, Victoria

Prepossession, curated by Jill Bennett, Felicity Fenner and Liam Kelly, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of New South Wales, College of Arts, Sydney, Australia

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade MoCAB, Belgrade

Minority report,  Århus Festival for Samtidskunst, Århus unstbygning, Århus, Denmark

SENI Singapore 2004: Art & the Contemporary, Singapore

Cromosoma X, Joyce & Co, Galleria Artistico, Letteraria, Genova, Galleria d’arte Sabrina Raffaghello, Ovada, Italy

Tradition Today: Indigenous Art in Australia, curated by Hetti Perkins, Ken Watson and Jonathan Jones, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

In a New Light: Australian Photography 1930s-2000, National Library of Australia, Canberra

Faces in the Crowd, curated by Iwona Blazwick and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Whitechapel, London and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Blackspot: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria

Spirit and Vision, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Austria

I thought I knew but I was wrong: New video art from Australia, an Asialink and Australian Centre for the Moving Image touring exhibition, Melbourne

New View: Indigenous Photographic Perspectives, from the Monash Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Sydney Indigenous Arts Festival, Parramatta City Council, New South Wales

neighbours (the remix), part of 2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Contemporary Photo-media, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

One Square Mile: Brisbane Boundaries, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane

The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Art Australia: Zeitigenössishe Kunst, Galerie Seippel Köln and touring Kunst:Raum Sylt-Quelle, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg 2003 – 2004, Germany

Meeting Point NBK, Neuer Berliner Kustverein, Berlin

Home & Away: Place and identity in recent Australian art, Monash University Museum of Art touring exhibition; Customs House Art Gallery, University of Queensland, Brisbane; Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, Monash University, Victoria

Traffic: Crossing Currents in Indigenous Photomedia, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Play, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania

This is not America, Bei Horst Schuler, Dusseldorf, Germany

New View: Indigenous Photographic Perspectives, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, touring Mildura, Gippsland, Bendigo, Adelaide and Horsham through to 2005

It’s hard to be human, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 2003

2^nd Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002

High Tide: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, Linden - St. Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Disturbance/Perturbamento, Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy

Dirty Dozen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Documenta 11, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Kassel, Germany
Exposed! (part of the Message Sticks programme), Sydney Opera House, 13 May - 2 June, Sydney
The First Twenty Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Yokohama Triennale: MEGA WAVE - Towards a New Synthesis, curated by Akira Tatehata, PacificoYokohama Exhibition Hall, Japan
Lightness of Being, Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia, curated by Bernice Murphy Monash University Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne

L'art dans le monde, Paris Musees, Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France
Zeitgenossische Fotokunst Aus Australie, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, and touring throughout Germany
Das Lied von der Erde, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Biennale of Sydney 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Beyond the Pale - Contemporary lndigenous Art, 2000 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
State of my country, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Some Time at the VCA, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Talking Together, University Gallery, Launceston

Some Time In Hong Kong (ARX 5), The Exposition Centre, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology


Life Right Now – Perspecta 1999 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (collaboration with Michael Riley)

Some Time in Perth (ARX5), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth

Signs of Life, Mebourne International Biennial, Melbourne

Beyond Myth, Private Garden Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice

Oldies but Goodies, Port Phillip Arts Festival, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

Global Arts Link, Ipswich Regional Arts Gallery, Ipswich

Utopias and Dystopias: Photographic and Fibre Works, FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong

Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

Re-Take: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Photography, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and touring nationally

RAKA Award, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

Close Quarters: Art from Australia and New Zealand, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne and touring Australia and New Zealand

Some Time in Singapore/ARX5 Processes, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore


Everyday, Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne

City Provoked, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

Verve (Sydney Writer's Festival), SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Ceremony, Identity and Community (Adelaide Arts Festival), Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide

Facing It, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Blackroots (Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival), Boomalli, Sydney

Lawyers, Guns and Money, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

A Face in the Crowd, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Monash University Art Prize, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Re-collection - the Griffith University Art Collection - 25 Years, Brisbane City Gallery

Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Mistaken Identities: Africus - the 1^st Johannesburg Biennale, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
In the Picture - Creative Australians from the National Library's Portrait Collection, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
National Women's Art Exhibition, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Octette: The Critic's Choice, Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney

Tyerabarrbowaryaou 2, The 5^th Havana Bienial, Havana, Cuba; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Bad Toys, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Life Works: Aboriginal Women Photographed in Action and At Work by Aboriginal Women Photographers, Tandanya, Adelaide
An Eccentric Orbit: Electronic Media Art From Australia, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Urban Focus: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Blakness - Blak City Culture!, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and touring nationally
Knowing the Sensorium, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Descriptions (Next Wave Festival), 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Raise the Flag, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; South London Gallery, London; City Gallery, Leicester (all UK) and touring Australia 1995
Lookin' Good: Koori Gay and Lesbian Artists (Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival), Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Sydney

Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Flowers, Human Sweat and Animal Breath, Long Gallery, Wollongong
Can't See for Looking: Koori Women Artists Educating, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Yanada: New Moon, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

Kitch'en Koori (Melbourne Fringe Festival), Fringe Festival Gallery, Melbourne

Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, and touring nationally
Kudjeris (with Lisa Bellear & Brenda Croft), Boomalli Gallery, Sydney

Pitcha Mi Koori (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Friends of the Earth Gallery, Melbourne

RESIDENCIES AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

Where I am, Laneway Commissions, City of Melbourne, Melbourne

Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (residency)

ARX, Hong Kong, Perth and Singapore (three-part residency)

City Provoked, Melbourne (public art project for Melbourne International Arts Festival)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Miriam Cosic, 'Destiny Calls', Weekend Australian, 6 February 2021

Emma-Kate Wilson, 'Looking Through the Viewpoint- Australian Contemporary Photography', Mutual Art, 3 Feb 2021

Andrew Stephens, 'Blak like me- how Destiny Deacon used art to shout back at racists', The Age, 15 January 2021

Talia Smith, 'Destiny Deacon A Laugh and a Tear', VAULT, Issue 30, May 2020

Sophie Knezic, 'Destiny Deacon Exhumes Australia’s Histories of Racism and Genocide', Frieze, Issue 214, 24 August 2020

Rose Vickers, 'On Collaboration', Art Collector, 24 July 2020

Myles Russell-Cook, 'Exploring the work of Destiny Deacon, one of Australia’s leading contemporary Indigenous artists', Vogue, 2 June 2020

Claire Coleman, 'Destiny Deacon - Showing colour', Art Monthly, 21 July 2020

ArtReview, '‘Blak’- Destiny Deacon Uncovers the Histories of Indigenous Trauma', Art Review, 20 October 2020

Andrew Stephens, 'The Uncanny Humour of Destiny Deacon', Art Guide, 26 March 2020

Andrew Stephens, 'Destiny Deacon turns racism on its head in first retrospective at NGV', Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 2020

'Southbank contemporary,' Art Monthly Australia, March 2015, Number 277, p. 10

Dan Rule, 'Destiny Deacon', Artist Profile, Issue 22, 2013, pp 65-72

Matthew Drummond, “Ghost Story”, Australian Financial Review, 13 April 2013

Djon Mundine and Natalie King, `Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser', Shadowlife Exhibition Catalogue, 2012-2013, pp24

Stephen Gilchrist, Crossing Cultures (Exhibition Catalogue), Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, (Hanover and London; University Press of New England, 2012) pp. 59-60

Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Holland Cotter, THE PHANTASM, New York Times, 7 July 2011

Margaret Smith, “More outrageous stuff from Destiny Deacon”, Koori Mail, June 29, 2011, p.53

Destiny Deacon, `Neighbourhood Wathcing', Artlink, Issue 31 No. 3, pp. 49

Bronwyn Watson, Publics Works - Destiny Deacon, The Weekend Australian, June 26

Ashley Crawford, “Destiny Deacon - 50 of Australia's Most Collectable Artists”, Australian Art Collector, issue 51

Khadija La, `Culture Warriors', Artlink, Vol. 30 No. 1, http://www.artlink.com.au/articles/3379/culture-warriors/

Blair French and Daniel Palmer, Twelve Australian Photo Artists, Piper Press, Sydney

John McDonald, “Where glitz meets grunge”, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 February 2009, p. 16

Natalie King, `The Collective Hallucination', Australian Aboriginal Art, Issue 1, March/April/May 20+09, pp56-65

Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art & Australia (eds.), Sydney

Hetti Perkins & Jonathon Jones, eds. Half Light - Portraits from Black Australia, exh. cat.

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Djon Mundine, Deacon-structing Destiny, catalogue essay for Transitions exhibition at Tandanya

Brenda Croft et. al., Culture Warriors - The National Indigenous Art Triennial '07, exh. cat. National Gallery of Australia, pp. 88-93

Sebastian Smee, 'Beyond the Frame' The Weekend Australian, November 3-4, pp18-19

Hannah Fink, Queensland Art Gallery Collection Catalogue

Jo Higgins, “Destiny Deacon - “50 of Australia's Most Collectable Artists”, Australian Art Collector, issue 39

Geraldine Barlow, ‘Destiny Deacon: Reading Across Spaces', Eyeline, no. 62, Summer 2006/2007, pp. 52-5

Robert Nelson, ‘Deacon's photos and videos are a mixture of the morbid and the hilarious', The Age, September 20, 2006

Megan Backhouse, ‘Destiny wants her baby blak', The Age, August 22, 2006

High Tide: new currents in art from Australia and New Zealand, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius and Poland, Warsaw’

Hildegund Amanshauser, ‘Destiny Deacon', photo feature in ‘Quer' Photos for Free Press, 2006, Berlin, Germany pp. 76 – 83

Destiny Deacon: Walk & don't look blak (exhibition catalogue), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japan

Renee Martha Langford, ed, Image and Imagination, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Djon Mundine, ‘Destiny Deacon, Walk & don't look blak' in ‘ART iT PICKS, Tokyo', ART iT, 11

Spring/Summer . 4 No. 2 pp. 6-7

Diana Simmonds, ‘Two artists showcase latest work', Inside Entertainment, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH,

June 18, 2006 p. 3

Sunanda Creagh, Review of Totemistical and Intelligent Design, ‘Open Gallery', The Sydney Morning Herald, June 10-11 2006 p. 16

Latitudes 2005, Hotel de Ville, Paris catalogue pp. 18 - 21

MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, exhibition catalogue, Sydney, 2005 p. 8, 43

Von Hildegund Amanshauser, 'Destiny Deacon', Camera Austria, 90/2005. pg 25 - 36.

The Art Newspaper, 'Today's suggestions: nothing more than €5,000', pg 6, weekend edition, 18,19,20 June 2005.

Sally Brand, Exhibit: Destiny Deacon, Colour Blind, www.theprogram.net.au/reviewsPrint.asp?id=2385

Jill Bennett, Felicity Fenner and Liam Kelly, Prepossession cat. 2005

Adam Geczy, 'Destiny Deacon, Walk and don't look blak', Art AsiaPacific, Spring 2005, pg. 76

Samela Harris, Addicted to art', Australian Art Collector, Issue 32, April `05, pg. 118

Natalie King, 'Profile: Destiny Deacon', Experimenta:Mesh17, March 2005

Gary Carsley, 'Destiny Deacon: Walk & Don't Look Blak', review, photofile, 74-Winter 2005, pg. 65

Jennifer Isaacs, Previews “Destiny Deacon: Walk and Don't Look Blak,” Australian Art Collector, Issue 31, January-March 2005, pg. 173

Julie Roberts, “D-Coy, Nice Coloured Dolls”, Contemporary Visual Arts + Culture broadsheet, December 2004 - February 2005, p. 51

Tracey Clement, “Critic's Picks: Destiny Deacon,” Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 31, 2004 - Jan 6, 2005, p. 19 (Metro)

Carey Lovelace. 'A Gallery of Dreaming', Ms Magazine, Spring 2005

'A date with Destiny', VIBE Australia, issue 95, January 2005 http://www.vibe.com.au/vibe/corporate/celebrity_vibe/showceleb.asp?id=39

Gerlich, 'Destiny Deacon: Walk and don't look blak', Salient, Issue 07, 2005, NZ HYPERLINK, "http://www.salient.org.nz/index.php?a=1104&c=29"

The Art Newspaper, `Destiny Deacon: Walk and don't look blak', What's on, No.152, pg. 16

Christine Nicholls, “'Aboriginalism' in Europe: on the way out?,” Artlink, `hybrid world', Volume 24, No.4, pg 70.

Destiny Deacon “Tradition Today: Indigenous Art in Australia” cat., AGNSW, pg. 44

Terry Ingram, “Production Values, Negative reaction hits prices,” The Australian Financial Review, 24^th October 2004

Destiny Deacon: Walk and don't look blak, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Cultural Centre Tjibaou, Noumea, New Caledonia

Robert McFarlane, “Uncomfortable routes to a black world,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Tuesday, December 14, p. 13

Rosalie Higson, “'Blak' dolls play with stereotypes,” The Australian, Thursday, November 25, 2004, p. 14

Hellen Ennis, Intersections: Photography, History and the National Library of Australia, National Library of Australia, Canberra, p. 10

Emma Muhlberger, “One Square Mile: Brisbane Boundaries, Museum of Brisbane,” Eyeline #54, Winter, p. 52, 53

Michele Helmrich, “This is not America: Austellung Bei, Dusseldorf, Germany and Dell Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane,” Eyeline #54, Winter, p. 48

“Interview: Destiny Deacon in conversation with David Broker,” Photofile, issue #72, Spring 2004, p. 18 - 21

Margo Neale and Timothy Morell, “Who's Laughing: Humour in Indigenous Australian Photography,” Photofile, issue #72, Spring 2004, p. 54 - 57

Hannah Fink, “Destiny Deacon,” Spirit and Vision exh. cat., Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Austria (exceprt from 2004 `Cracking Up,' in Australian Humanities Review), pp. 150-153

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Belinda Grace Gardiner, “Berlin: Australien im Blickpunkt,” Kunsteitung, No. 86, October 2003

Anke Brankamp, “Destiny Deacon,” Art Australia: Zeitigenössishe Kunst, exhibition catalogue, Seippel Verlag, Autoren und Künstler, Germany, 2003, p. 18 - 21

Elisa Fulco, “Destiny Deacon,” Flash Art, August – September, p. 116

Milovan Farronato, “Destiny Deacon: Galleria Raffaella Cortese,” Tema Celeste #99, September – October, p. 87

“Destiny Deacon: Galleria Raffaella Cortese,” Milano #21, 18 June 2003

Luigi Camporelli, “Destiny Deacon, aborigeno che fugge dall’arte tribale,” La Stampa, 17 June 2003

Bertrand Delux, “Destiny Deacon,” Zero2, June 2003

Hannah Fink, “Destiny Deacon,” See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, editors Chris MacAuliffe and Sue Harvey, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Victoria, p. 52 - 55

Emma Matthews, “New View: Indigenous Photographic Perspectives,” Artlink, vol. 23 no. 3, p. 20-22

Anne Loxley, “Awakening to death in the weighty intrigue of sleep,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Tuesday, August 24 2003, p. 14

Katrina Strickland, “Black lives viewed from the inside,” The Australian (Arts), Thursday May 29, p. 14

Anne Loxley, “Gems behind the verbiage,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Wednesday, April 9, p. 14

Daniel Palmer, ’Destiny Deacon: 50 Most Collectable Artists,’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 23, January – March

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Catriona Moore, “Photo-Documentary's Fluctuating Fortunes,” Value Added Goods: Essays on Contemporary Photography, ed. Stuart Koop, Contemporary Centre for Photography, Melbourne, 2002, p. 27 - 33

Documenta 11, exh. cat., “Destiny Deacon,” Hatje Cantz, Germany, pp. 240 - 244

Documenta 11 Short Guide, “Destiny Deacon,” Hatje Cantz, Germany, p. 60, 61

Manray Hsu, “In the wake of empire,” Tema Celeste, no. 92, July - August, pp. 32 - 35 Brenda Croft, “No need looking,” Photofile, no. 66, September, pp. 24 - 29
Other Views: an exhibition from the Griffith University Art Collection, exh. cat., Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland

Helen McDonald, Erotic Ambiguities, The Female Nude in Art, Routledge, London, England
Brook Andrew: “Remembering Jesus”, Artlink, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp.23

Destiny Deacon: Indigenous Law Bulletin, November-December, 2000, volume 5, issue 4 (cover and pictures)
“Not quite right, but interestingly queer: Virginia Fraser talks with Destiny Deacon,” Photofile, #61, December
“Destiny Deacon: Portfolio,” Photofile, #61, December
Lola Greeno, “Talking Together”, Talking Together (catalogue), University of Tasmania

Marcia Langton, “Destiny Deacon,” Sydney Biennale 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, p.46, 47

Linda Michael, “Destiny Deacon,” Das Lied Von Der Erde, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, p. 76,77

Vicki West and Lola Greeno, “Destiny Deacon”, Talking Together (catalogue), University of Tasmania
Nikos Papastergiadis “Destiny Deacon” Beyond the Pale, 2000 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (catalogue)

Destiny Deacon, “3 Boiled Buns”, Artlink, Dec (Vol 19, rio 4)
Virginia Fraser, “Force-fed: Food in the Art of Destiny Deacon”, Artlink, Dec , Vol 19, no 4
Suzanne Spurner, “The 1999 Indigenous Arts Festival”, Real-Time, Oct/Nov
Clare Williamson, “Mirrors and Windows”, Art Monthly Australia, October
Destiny Deacon, picture, Real-Time, Aug/Sept.

Hannah Fink, “Cracking Up,” Australian Humanities Review, July issue, 1999
Destiny Deacon, ARX 5 - Perth catalogue, July
Hannah Fink, “Beyond Myth—Oltre II Mito,” (catalogue essay), Venice, June
Destiny Deacon, Exploring Culture and Community for the 21st Century, (picture), Global Artslink, Ipswich
Juliana Engberg, “Destiny Deacon”, Signs of Life , Melbourne International Biennial 1999 (catalogue),City of Melbourne
Virginia Fraser, “Destiny's Dollys”, Photo Files: An Australian Photography Reader, (Blair French, editor) Power Publications, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Howard Morphy, Aboriginal Art, Phaidon Press Ltd., London.
Christina Barton, Zara Stanhope, and Clare Williamson, “Speaking of Strange Bedfellows”, Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand (catalogue), Monash University Gallery/ Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Destiny Deacon, Processes ARX5 (catalogue) (Singapore Art Museum)
Robert Rooney, “Pursuing a minimal existence”, The Australian 23 October (review)
Paula Abood, “Landscapes of Loss and Memory”, Periphery, No 36, Spring
Kelly Gellatly, “Photography and family”. Art Monthly, September
Destiny Deacon, A Sea Change—Australian Writing and Photography, Adam Shoemaker, editor, (photograph), Sydney 2000, Olympic Arts Festival
Destiny Deacon, artist's statement, Postcards from Mummy (catalogue)
Diana Quillaen, “Verve and After the Masters”, Art Monthly, June
Destiny Deacon, artist's statement, City Provoked (catalogue)
Benjamin Genocchio, “Dreaming in Urban Areas: Activism and Audience in Urban Aboriginal Art”, Eyeline, no35
Dina Ross, “Disappearance and death, with humour”, The Age 18 March (feature story)
Doreen Mellor, Ceremony, Identity and Community (catalogue essay), Flinders Art Museum, SA
Destiny Deacon, “Soapbox: Cool and Naughty”, Lip March

John Harding, Inya Dreams by Destiny Deacon, (catalogue) September 1997, Peformance Space, Sydney
Hetti Perkins, “Dreams of the city”, The Australian's Review of Books, September
Marcia Langton, “The Valley of the Dolls: Black humour and the art of Destiny Deacon”, Art and Australia, Vol 35, no 1
Phip Murray, Milk magazine, July(August, [profile].
Destiny Deacon, Art Monthly, July, lback-cover].
Antonia Carver, “It's about time: Brenda L Croft and Destiny Deacon”, Make, the magazine of women's art, no 70, June-July
Stephanie Holt, “Images of Luna Park and St. Kilda”, Art and Australia, vol 34, no. 4, 1997
Jane Greville, “Brenda L Croft and Destiny Deacon”, Creative Camera, no 345, Apr-May
Rebecca Lancashire, The Age, 18 February, (Feature story]
Freida Freiberg, The Age, 18 February, review
Destiny Deacon, artist statement and colour plates, and Virginia Fraser, “Fashioned”, No fixed dress (catalogue), Melbourne

Clare Williamson, “Destiny Deacon”, The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (catalogue), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Joan Kerr, “Colonial Quotations”, Art and Australia, vol 33 no 3, Autumn
Andrew Dewdney, “Deliberate acts of cultural translation: Strange Fruit; Welcome to Never Never”, Third Text. no 35, Summer
Hetti Perkins, Abstracts: New Aboriginalities, (catalogue) SWAPP, England
Beth Jackson, re-collection; The Griffith University Art Collection - 25 Years, Griffith University, Brisbane
Destiny Deacon, artist's statement, colour plates, Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! (catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Destiny Deacon, plates and captions, Artlink, vol 15 no 2-3 Winter-Spring
Kate Jones, “In her eyes”, Artlink vol 15 no 1, Autumn
Destiny Deacon, plates, Art and Australia vol 32 no 3 Autumn
Destiny Deacon, cover, Art Almanac, May
Roger Benjamin, “Blakness Blak City Culture”, Art + Text, no 50
Jo Holder, “Destiny Deacon”, Artlink, vol 15 no 4, Summer
Destiny Deacon, plate and article, Black Ei- White Magazine, February.
Djon Mundine, “La quinta bienial de Ia Habana” Art Asia Pacific vol 2 no 1 January
Natalie King, bad toys (catalogue), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, December
Cecelia Cmielewski, “My boomerang won't come back”, Photo file #42 June
Juliet Peers, “Nourishment for Hard Times: Bring a Plate Feminist Cultural Studies Conference”, Artlink, Vol 4, no 1, Autumn
Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, My boomerang won't come back (catalogue), Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, April
Catriona Moore, “Museum Hygiene”, Photo file, #41 March
True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists raise the flag (catalogue), Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Sydney

Virginia Fraser “Destiny's Dollys”, Photo file #40 November
Ann Stephen, Hetti Perkins, Et Avenel Mitchell, “Repatriation, Race, Representation”, Photo file #40 November
Brenda Croft, “Blak lik mi”, Art and Australia, vol 31 no 1, Spring
Catherine De Lorenzo, “Delayed Exposure: Contemporary Aboriginal Photography”, Art and Australia, vol 31 no 1, Spring
Destiny Deacon, artist's statement, Flowers, Herbs, Human Sweat &~ Animal Breath (catalogue), School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW
Marcia Langton, Well I heard it on the radio, and I saw it on the television . Australian Film Commission, Sydney
Victoria Lynn and Hetti Perkins, Perspecta 1993 (catalogue essay), Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Hetti Perkins, Perspecta 1993 (catalogue essay), Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Joanna Mendelssohn, “New art unmasked”, The Bulletin, October 19
Yanada - New Moon (catalogue essay), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney

Hetti Perkins, Kudjeris (catalogue essay), Boomalli Aboriginal Artists' Co-operative, Sydney
Hetti Perkins, “Introduction”, Aboriginal Women's Exhibition (catalogue), Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

RESIDENCIES AND PUBLIC ART PROJECT

RMIT UNIVERSITY - Artist in residency

Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne - Artist in residency

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Cultural exchange

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts - Homeless people and Balidu Primary School

Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts - Cultural exchange

Performance Space, Sydney - Redfern Children's School

City Provoked, Melbourne (public art project for Melbourne International Arts Festival)

AWARDS

Photography Award of musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac

Centenary Medal, Royal Photographic Society Awards

The Red Ochre Award (Lifetime Achievement), First Nations Arts Awards

Yalingwa Fellowship, Yalingwa visual arts initiative

The Deadlys -15^th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Awards 2009 - Visual Artist of the Year

COLLECTIONS

Art & Heritage Collections, City of Melbourne, Victoria

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Austcorp Management

Australian Museum

Banyule Art Collection

BHP Billiton

City of Port Phillip

Deloitte Services

Flinders University

Griffith University

La Trobe University Art Museum

Minter-Ellison

Monash University Museum of Art

Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Stifting Ludwig Wien, Vienna

Museum Sammlung Essl, Austria

Museum Victoria

Museum of Contemporary Art

National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Victoria

National Library of Australia

Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart, University of Tasmania

Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art

State Library of Victoria

Sydney International Airport

University of Canberra

University of Wollongong

UQ Art Museum, The University of Queensland

Vizard Foundation/Ian Potter Museum of Art

Wyndham Art Gallery