Lindy Lee

LINDY LEE

Born Brisbane, 1954

EDUCATION

Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education, Brisbane
Diploma of Education (Art, Secondary School)

The Chelsea School of Art, London, U.K.

Sydney College of the Arts
B.A. (Visual Arts); Post Graduate Diploma (Painting)

PhD (Art Theory), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

Residency with Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

Residency with China Art Projects, Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Fire Stones, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Dark of Absolute Freedom, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

Universal Record of the Flame, 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong.

One Billion Worlds, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Mystical Realism: A Record of Things Experienced, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

The Secret World of the Shadow, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Flowers Fall, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

Flames from the Dragon's Pearl, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Tales of Moonlight and Fire, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

Cycles through a Chinese Landscape, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dark Star, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Trueworld and the Pilgrim, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

True World, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

Lindy Lee - Birth and Death, The Studio Foyer, Sydney Opera House, Sydney

The Secret of the Golden Flower, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Birth & Death, Artspace, Sydney

Narrow Road to the Interior, Atrium Space, MITA, Australian High Commission, Singapore

Ten Worlds, Ten Directions, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Pointing East, Pointing West, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

Cycles through a Chinese Landscape, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Dark of Absolute Freedom, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Fire Below / Water Above, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

3000 Miracles, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

Ulterior Function, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Utmost Causation, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Black Stone at the Heart of the Universe, Robert Lindsay Gallery

No Up, No Down, I am the Ten Thousand Things, Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Because the Universe is..., Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The 10,000 Things, Room 32, Regents Court Hotel, Sydney
Now!, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Zip, Zero, Zilch, 600,000 Hours, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

Michael Wardell 13 Verity Street, Melbourne
Gallery XY, University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Cloud of Unknowing, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Event without Moment, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
13 Verity Street, Melbourne

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Silence of Painters, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Black is not as Black as all that, Union Street Gallery, Sydney
Various Artists One Day Shows, 343 Sussex Street, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

PULSE: Reflections on the body, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra

Made in China, KickArts, Cairns

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014: Whorled Explorations, Kochi, Kerala, India (curated by Jitish Kallat)

Vibrant Matter, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria.

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

New 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Chinese Australia, Australia China Art Foundation, Melbourne

Marking Time, MCA, Sydney
Return to Sender, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
Made in Australia, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
Another, Deloitte Foundation, Sydney

PostEden, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Songzhuan International Art Festival, Sunshine Art Museum, Songzhuan, China

Pulp, New Works on Paper, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

Beleura National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula regional Gallery

Within Emptiness,10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

Comings and Goings - Lai-lai Wang-wang, Chinalink Gallery, Sydney

Coming Home, Linda Gallery, 798 District, Beijing

Yin-Yang: China in Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Art and About, City of Sydney, Sydney

Opening performance at Mikala Dwyer's `Swamp Geometry Exhibition', Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Process/journey, Australian Embassy, Redgate Gallery, Beijing

Open 07, Venice parallel event for Venice film festival, Venice

Smart state, Campbelltown art centre, Sydney

Smile of the Buddha, drill hall, Australian national university, Canberra

Science as Art, Garvan institute fundraising auction, the art gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

“2”, OneFourteen, Darlinghurst, Sydney

We are Australian too: women against racism, curated by Nicholas Tsoutas, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula

Le mois de la photo à Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

You are here, Valentine Wille Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Arthur guy memorial painting prize 2005, Bendigo art gallery, Victoria

Sightseeing from Sydney, curated by Sioux Garside, SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

Revealing Secret Treasures: Women Artists from the Reg & Sally Richardson Collection, Mosman Art gallery, Sydney

2004 Annual Fundraising Exhibition, Asia Australia arts centre, Sydney

Art & About, City of Sydney, Sydney

Sight Seeing, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Downtown Gallery, Beijing, China

Jia (family, house, home), Asia-Australia Arts Centre touring exhibition, Fringe Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong

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

Jia (Family, House, Home), Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney

MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Gallery 4A Fundraising Exhibition, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney

Buddha: Radiant Awakening, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Deeper Places, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The First 20 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Interiors: Objects + Ideas, Object- Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney
Central Queensland Art Purchase, Rockhampton Art Gallery Trust, 7 December 2001 - 20 January 2002

Three Views of Emptiness; Buddhism and the art of Tim Johnson, Lindy and Peter Tyndall, guest curator: Linda Michael, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Victoria

Real World Art: Art by QUT Alumni, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane

Gang of Four, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Bright and Shining, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
Sebastian: Contemporary Realist Painting, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
All Stars 2000, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Gang of Four, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Gallery 4A, Chinatown, Sydney

Asia Print Adventure, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
SCECGS Redlands Art Prize (Winner), Sydney

Spirit + Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Gallery 4A, Chinatown, Sydney
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Photography is Dead, Long Live Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, July - November
Above and Beyond: Austral / Asian Interactions, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, July - August
Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries, Sydney and touring

Transcultural Painting, Tamsui Arts Centre, Taiwan; Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan; Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre in the Park Hong Kong; Guangzhou, China; Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne.
Romantisystem, Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra
True Stories, Artspace, Sydney
Faciality,Monash University Gallery and touring

Prospect 93, Frankfurt, Germany
The Black Show, Geelong Art Gallery (touring)
Art Cologne 93, Cologne, Germany

After Dark, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Art Cologne 92, Cologne, Germany

Dis/appearance, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne; Chameleon Gallery, Hobart; Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra; Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; Artspace, Sydney; Perth Contemporary Artspace, Perth
Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art, Pier 4/5 Walsh Bay, Artspace, Sydney
Art Cologne 91, Cologne, Germany

Group Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Paraculture, Artist's Space New York, USA
On Kawara Today and Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
The Greenpeace Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
100 Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne

Recent Acquisitions, Australian National Gallery, Drill Hall, Canberra
ICI Contemporary Art Collection, Geelong Regional Gallery
Scotchmans Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Geelong
China Crisis Exhibition, Pailou Centre, Sydney

Australian Contemporary Art to China, State Museums of Beijing, Wuhan Shanghai,& Guangzhou organised & managed by The Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education

History, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (curated by Sue Cramer)
Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford, England
Edge to Edge, Contemporary Australian Art to Japan
The Cocktail Party, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, The Drill Hall, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Chaos, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Shadow of Reason, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Inaugural Exhibition, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne
The I.D. Show, Centre for the Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Light of Day, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (with Mike Parr)
The Golden Shibboleth, 200 Gertrude Street Melbourne
Young Australians, Budget Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Falls the Shadow, Reconaissance Gallery, Melbourne
Origins, Originality + Beyond, The 6th Biennale of Sydney, A.G.N.S.W.
Future Unperfect #2, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
The First Look, Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchases 1983-86, University Drill Hall, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Queensland Works, University of Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Pleasure of the Gaze, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Close Remarks Artspace, Sydney
Design for Living, Artspace, Sydney
Australian Perspecta '85: "On Location", Art Gallery of N.S.W.

The Rites of Delay, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (with Janet Burchill)
Future Unperfect, Artspace, Sydney

The 1984 Show, Images Gallery, Sydney

From the Inside Out - Aspects of Women's Art, Funded by the Women and Arts Festival, Crafts Council of Australia Gallery, Sydney
This Dangerous Game of Mirrors, Sydney College of the Arts

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Mitchell Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Benalla

University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Griffith University, Brisbane
Budget Collection
ICI Collection Melbourne
BP Collection, Melbourne
Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection
BHP Billiton, Melbourne

The Phillip Morris Collection

ANZ Art Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Julie Ewington, 'In Praise, Anne Ferran, Judith Wright, Lindy Lee,' Eyeline, Number 84

John Saxby, 'Lindy Lee, The art that made me', Look Magazine, AGNSW, 0815, pp. 12-13

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

Asha Mathew, `Finding Identity Via Art', The New Indian Express, 18 December 2014

Sasha Grishin, `Pulse: Reflections on the body review', Canberra Times, December 12, 2014

Sharne Wolff, `INTERVIEW: Lindy Lee', Raven Contemporary, 5 November 2014

Gina Fairley, `Exhibition Reviews- Lindy Lee at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery', Asian Art News, March April 2013, pp 81

Damian Smith, `Lindy Lee - Marking Time', (Exh. Cat), Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, pp.99-111

Andrew Frost, '50 Things Collectors Need to Know 2012-Lindy Lee', Australian Art Collector, Issue 59, Jan-March 2012, pp112

Author unknown, `Lindy Lee- In Search of Selfness and Cultural Lunhui', Lifestyle Asia, 8-9 January 2011, pp. 20

Damian Smith, 'Painting with Fire' [cover], Art & Australia, Issue 49 No. 2, 2011

Andrew Taylor, `Zen and Sensibility', The Sun Herald-Extra, November 21, 2010

Peter Kohn, `Lindy Lee and Robert Scott-Mitchell,' Wide Format On-Line

science as art, project catalogue, Garvan Institute, Sydney

Shannon Teoh, `Once upon a time in Malaysia', New Straits Times, Friday, October 20, 2006, p. 58

Laura Fan, `Finding a Calm Centre', Options, October 9, 2006, pp. 16 - 17

Sunanda Creagh, “Dark Star,” Sydney Morming Herald, (Open Gallery), April 8-9, 2005, p. 16 (Arts)

Naomi Evans, Lindy Lee: Dark Star, exhibition brochure, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

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

Alison Kubler, “Brisvegas: Little city, big history - One Square Mile: Brisbane Boundaries at the Museum of Brisbane,” Art Monthly Australia #169, May 2004, p. 31 - 33

Naomi Evans, Lindy Lee: Trueworld and the Pilgrim, exhibition brochure, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Claire Armstrong, “Collector Profile: Dick Quan,” Art & Australia, Vol. 41 No. 4, Winter 2004, p. 615 - 617

“Lindy Lee - The Secret of the Golden Flower,”The (Sydney) Magazine, Sydney, p. 118

Edward Colless, “The Many Faces of Lindy Lee,” Australian Art Collector, Issue 26, October - December, pp. 54 - 57

Naomi Evans, Lindy Lee: Secret of the Golden Flower, exhibition brochure, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Hannah Fink, “Lindy Lee,” 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. 80, 81

Ewen McDonald, “The ever-expanding field,” Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. Jenepher Duncan and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, p. 32 - 36

Joel Gibson, “The Portrait Race that stops a nation,” State of the Arts, Australia and New Zealand, April - June 2003, pp. 14 - 18

Iola Lenzi, “Lindy Lee: Narrow Road to the Interior,” Eyeline # 51, Autumn - Winter, 2003, p. 57

Tamara Winikoff, “Artists Respond,” (extracts from May 2003 interviews with Mikala Dwyer, Lindy Lee and Lyndal Jones), NAVA Newsletter, National Association for the Visual Arts, June - August 2003, p. 7 - 9

Edward Colless, “The Dust of Quintessence,” Blaze: Visual Art Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 1990 - 2002, CACSA, Adelaide, p. 92, 93

“Lindy Lee,” Blaze: Visual Art Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 1990 - 2002, CACSA, Adelaide, p. 22

Karee Dahl, “Artnotes Asia: Celebrate Australia, 2003, Singapore,” Art Monthly Australia no. 157, March 2003, p. 34

Elizabeth Sarks, 'Lindy Lee: 50 Most Collectable Artists,' Australian Art Collector, Issue 23, January - March, p. 63

Benjamin Genocchio and Melissa Chiu, “Lindy Lee,” hard back book, 2001

Guy Allenby, “Making Room,“ The Sydney Morning Herald, July 14-15
“The 10, 000 Things,” Object, Craft + Design + Culture, The Interiors Issue, Issue No. 2,
Ben Gennochio & Melissa Chiu, Lindy Lee, Art & Australia Monograph No.8, Fine Arts Press & Craftsman House, Sydney

Bruce James, “One Colour Suits All,” The Sydney Morning Herald, Aug. 14
Sebastian Smee, “What's it all about?,” The Sydney Morning Herald, Aug.17

Dick Quan, “Collector's Choice,” TAASA Review, Vol. 7 No. 3 September

Marguerite Edwards, “Zen-ophobia,” Oyster 11

Benjamin Genocchio, “Between Mirrors: An interview with Lindy Lee,” Eyeline, Spring

Nicholas Baume - “Black is not as Black as all that,” profile, Art + Text #47 January
Ann Elias, “Through a Glass Darkly” (interview), Art and Asia Pacific, April

Alison Carroll, 'Australian Art in Korea, Art Monthly Australia, #62, August

France, C, 'Display with Designs on the Viewer', The Weekend Review, July 18-19

Elwyn Lynn, “Fleshing Out the Odd Naked Truth...”, The Weekend Australian, September 7-8
Richard Grayson, 'Terrible/Sublime or Perverse?, Artlink, Vol 11, #4

K. Broadfoot & Rex Butler, The Fearful Sphere of Australia, Paraculture catalogue, Artspace, Sydney
P. Hutchings, "Once More with Feeling: Art & Disappearance", Art & Text, #36, May
Ashley Crawford, "A Chronicle of Australian Art 1980-1989",Tension 19, Jan.
Ashley Crawford, "Lindy Lee - Redefining History", Imprint, Vol 25 No 2
B. Smith & T. Smith West Vol 2 No 1
J. Gregory, “Lindy Lee, black + black + black,” Agenda, December

Frazer Ward, "Fugitive negotiations, tangents, problems with innocence", Sydney Review, August
A. Howell, "From space bitches to spiritual pictures",Tension 18, October
Catharine Lumby, Contemporary Art to China, catalogue essay.

George Alexander, "Boomerang - Art Australien", + - 0, #46, Fevrier & A. Allen, Brussells
Rex Butler, "Lindy Lee", + - 0, #46, Fevrier, 1987, Brussells
Rex Butler, "Light of Day", Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Edward Colless, "Breaking Light" (catalogue essay, reprinted Tension Magazine #12 Dec `87) The I.D. Show, University of Tasmania
N. Amadio, "Lindy Lee", Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition

Judy Annear, "In the Shadow of Reason" On the Beach #10 Winter
Rex Butler, "In the Shadow of Lindy Lee." On the Beach #10 Winter
Edward Colless, "Origins, Originality and Beyond" Photofile-vol.4 #2 Spring
Richard Dunn, "Argument with Design", On the Beach #10 Winter
T. Lawson & S. Morgan "The Sixth Biennale of Sydney",Real Life Magazine, #6, New York
Catherine Lumby, "Lindy Lee", Origins, Originality + Beyond, SixthBiennale of Sydney (catalogue essay)
G. Sangster, "Nothing is Certain" (catalogue essay) Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
P. Simmons, "The Italian Connection: Another Sunrise? The Place of the Renaissance in Current Australian Art." Art Network #19/20
R. Thirwell, "The Big Show", Artlink vol.6, #1, March-April

John McDonald, Galleries Section, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 Sept, p.14.
John McDonald, Galleries Section, p.16,Sydney Morning Herald,11 October
Mark Titmarsh, "I See a Red Door and I want to Paint it Black", Australian Perspecta`85, Art Gallery of NSW
Bruce Adams, "Introduction", Pleasure of the Gaze, (cat. essay) Art Gallery of Western Australia
Ingrid Periz, "...As the Spirit Gave them Utterance", Design for Living, Artspace

P. Harris, "Kerb Your Dog and Misch Masch", On the Beach #5 Winter
Mark Titmarsh, "Observations on the Abyssmal" On the Beach,#6 Spring

Writings By the Artist

"Postface" Editorial, co-written with Mark Titmarsh, On the Beach 9 Spring

"Cover Me", Editorial, co-written with Mark Titmarsh, On the Beach 7/8 Summer/Autumn

"Empty Gesture", Editorial, On the Beach6, Summer
"Situations - an interview with Jochern Gerz", On the Beach 6, Summer '84,
(Reprinted in Trespasser W nr.2, Kwartaal 1, The Hague, Netherlands)