Mikala Dwyer

MIKALA DWYER

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Sydney College of Art - Lecturer

University of Western Sydney - Lecturer

Sydney College of Art - Lecturer

Canberra School of Art - Lecturer

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Skyring, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Mikala Dwyer: Penelope and the Seahorse, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, Sydney

Spirit Zoologic, Braunschweig University of Art, Braunschweig, Germany

A Sun, A Flower, A Bee, 1301SW, Melbourne

Mikala Dwyer: Chromakinda, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury

Mikala Dwyer: The silverings, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

Bird, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Ode to the ʻōʻō, Gertrude Glasshouse, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

Soft Relics, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Mikala Dwyer: a shape of thought, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

In the head of humans, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland

Square Cloud Compound, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Mikala Dwyer: MCA Collection curated by Natasha Bullock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia

The Letterbox Marys, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Garden of Half-Life, University of Sydney Art Gallery, Sydney

Hollowwork, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Goldene Bend'er, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 

schwarz//weiss, Hamish Morrison Gallery, Berlin.

Divinations for the real things, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Mikala Dwyer: Panto Collapsar, Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Mikala Dwyer: Drawing Down the Moon, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

The Silvering, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Square Cloud Compound, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany.

Outfield, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Swamp Geometry, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Mono Clinic, Hamish McKay Gallery, Melbourne

Costumes and Empty Sculptures, IMA, Brisbane

Aratoi Museum, Masterton, New Zealand

The Addition and Subtractions and the Hanging Garden, Kunstraum, Potsdam.

Black Sun Blue Moon, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin

The Shape of Thoughts Own Making, Peloton, Sydney

Only One and a Bit Days to Go, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

Superstitious Scaffolding, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Some more recent old work, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

Flowers, Flies and Someone Else, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Gap Filler Pet, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

Art lifts, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Mikala Dwyer: an Australian artist's project, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Mikala Dwyer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Indefinitly Maybe, I Care Because You Do, The Loozer Planet, Sweetpotatosexpet Antenna, Hanging Eyes, I.O.U. (a tile), My Home is Your Home, Floating Old man, Selfshelf, ChapterArts Centre, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.

iffytown, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Artspace Benefit Auction, Artspace, Sydney

LA SALLE DES TAUREAUX, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne

Bethlehem, One Star Gallery, Melbourne

Lime and limpid green, a second scene (Part One), 1301SW, Melbourne 

Decades Charted: A window into the Chartwell Collection, Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga  o Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

The First 40 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

nightshifts, curated by Hannah Presley and Annika Aitken, Buxton Contemporary Art Museum, Melbourne, Australia

Pink Heat, Haydens, Melbourne, Australia

Making Worlds, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Still Life, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne. Curated by Jacqueline Doughty

AMPLIFY/ Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney

Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices, UNSW Galleries, Sydney

An eeriness on the Plain, 1301SW, Melbourne

Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne

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

In the Air as part of Connecting the World through Sculpture, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

The Great Invocation, Garage Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Collide: Maverick Minds, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast

Gertrude Studios 2021: If Not At Arm’s Length, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

Immaculate Conception, Dungeon and Meadow, Melbourne

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

2020 Adelaide Biennial of Art: Monster Theatres, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Ichihara Art x Mix 2020, Ichihara, Japan

Gertrude Studio, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

Workshop, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

Idol Worship, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore

Never the same river, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Soft Core, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville

Bauhaus Now!, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne

Today Tomorrow Yesterday: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney

Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

Soft Core, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria

Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tuscon, Arizona

The shape of things to come, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne

Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Unpainting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Moving Histories // Future Projections, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Queensland

Triple Point Of Matter,Foundation Fiminco,Paris

Occulture: The Dark Arts, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

Quicksilver, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide

Wonder, curated by Carrie Kibbler, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney

GRLZ, 55 Sydenham Rd, Sydney

Riddle of the Burial Grounds, curated by Tessa Giblan, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium

Fabrik, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary, Australia

Erewhon, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Dämmerschlaf, Artspace, Sydney

Soft Core, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

Dead Ringer, Perth Centre for Contemporary Arts, Perth

Magnetism, Hazelwood House, Sligo, Ireland

Hall of Half Life, Graz Museum, Austria

Encounters, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong (curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor)

Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School, Sydney

19^th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire (curated by Juliana Engberg), Cockatoo Island, Sydney

De Rerum Natura, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy 

Primavera, (curated by Mikala Dwyer), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Loaded, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Te Aro, New Zealand

The End of the 20th Century. The Best is Yet to Come. A Dialogue with the Marx Collection, Hamburger Banhof, Berlin, Germany.

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

Future Primitive, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

Cronies, curated by Mikala Dwyer and Fleur Wiber, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Less is More: Minimal and Post-Minimal Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria

Plus ou moins sorcières 2/3: épreuves ritualisées, La Maison Populaire, Paris

In Abstraction, the Body, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Reunion, Hamish Mckay Gallery, New Zealand

Ten Years of Things, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane.

Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

SUNDOWN, The Paper Mill Gallery, Sydney

Colour Bazaar, Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne

Networks and Cells, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne

Alterbeast, Penrith Regional Museum, Sydney

YK3 Melbourne Biennale, Melbourne

Collection Show, AGNSW, Sydney

MONA, Hobart, Tasmania

Treffpunkt, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin

17^th Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty of Distance, songs of survival in a precarious age, curated by David Elliot, Sydney.

Adelaide Biennale, Before and After Science, curated by Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Alterbeast, Penrith Regional Museum, NSW

Alterbeast, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. VIC

Cockatoo Residency Exhibition (with Justene Williams)

(to) give time to time, Experimental Art Foundation (with Sam Hughes and Natural Selection Theory) Adelaide, SA

Milk and the Town that was Mad, Laneways Project, Sydney.

Group Show, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney

Art Forum Berlin, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Germany

Artspace, Sydney

Ich Wicht, Kunstraum, Potsdam, Germany

Zeigen. Audio Tour through Berlin, Karin Sander. Temporare Kunsthalle Berlin

Group Show, Roslyn Oxley gallery, Sydney

Group Show, Hamish McKay gallery NZ

Benjamin Buchanan, Carla Cescon, Mikala Dwyer and Barnard McIntyre, Hamish Mckay gallery New Zealand

Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO, MCA Sydney.

Mirror Mirror, then and now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; University Art Gallery, Verge Gallery and Verge Gallery and Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney; Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide.

TarraWarra Biennale 2008: Lost and Found, An Archaeology of the Present, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria

The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, curated by Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane

CERAMICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennial, curated by Charlotte Day, Healesville, Victoria

Common Space, Private Space. Curator Rebecca Coates, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne

Come-In: Interior Design as a Contemporary Art Medium in Germany, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

Bal Tashchit: Thou Shalt Not Destroy, Jewish Museum, Melbourne

Axis Bold as Love, Video Salon. Curated by Evergreen Terrace and A Constructed World, CAPC Bordeaux.

The Poster Market International, curator Noah Brehmer. New York.

To Make a Work Of Timeless Art, Prima Vera Collection, MCA Sydney.

Ceramica, I.C.A.N gallery, Sydney

P25 Echelon, Chippendale, NSW

Mystic Truths, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Den Haag Sculptuur 2007 De Overkant / Down Under, The Netherlands

Love Chief, curator Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery New Zealand

High Tide, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw

High Tide, CAC Vilnius, Lithuania.

Nada Art Fair, Miami

Von Riots Zu Angels, NYRT, Berlin

An end of year exhibition, new work by Sam Basu Shane Cotton Mikala Dwyer Gavin Hipkins, Hamish McKay Gallery, Sydney, Wellington, New Zealand

The Wallflower, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, curator: Eve Sullivan

National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Unscripted: Language in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, curator: Wayne Tunnicliffe

Salvage, Clubs Projects Inc., Melbourne

Unpacked II, Bendigo Art Gallery, toured by Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Three-way Abstraction: Works from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin, Germany, curator: Dr. Britta Schmitz

Unpacked II, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

This was the Future… Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s + Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

Still Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Afterlife, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

Armoury Show 2003, Sarah Cottier Gallery, New York

Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

4mal, Prettydog Gallery, Sydney

The Shangri-La Collective, Artspace, Sydney

Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne

Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Melbourne

Objections, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Artspace, Sydney, curators: Tim Silver and Russell Storer

Artful Park, Centennial Park, Sydney

Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery; City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Unnecessary Invention, Artspace, Sydney, curator: Brian Thompson

Objection, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand, curators: Tim Silver and Russell Storer

Monochromes, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Sarah Cottier Gallery, ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain

Sarah Cottier Gallery, Art 31, `00, Basel, Switzerland

plastika, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand

Bonheurs des Antipodes, Musee de Picardie, Amiens, France, curator: Matthieu Pinette

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edward Colless, The Sandman is coming, Art Collector, Issue 97, July – September, pg. 186-192

Erin McFayden, 'Mikala Dwyer - Ghosts of the Future', Artist Profile, Issue 55, pg 80

Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday, MCA: Collection Handbook, pp. 120-123, 2016

Rachel Fuller, Sydney Summer Report, Ocula, 12 Jan 2016

Emma O'Neil, Mikala Dwyer: MCA Collection, Art Asia Pacific, May/June 2016, p.118

Rachel Fuller, 'Sydney Summer Report', Ocula, 12 Jan 2016

Nicholas Forrest, 'Mikala Dwyer and Coen Young Win 2015 Redlands Art Prize,' Blouin ArtInfo, March 25 2015

Alexandra Brown, 'Mikala Dwyer and Coen Young named 2015 Redlands Konika Minolta Art Prize winners', Vogue Living, March 25 2015

Luke Parker, 'Mikala Dwyer The Garden of Half Life', Muse Magazine, Issue 09, Nov 2014

Joel Meares, 'Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize 2015 taken out by Mikala Dwyer and Coen Young', Sydney Morning Herald, March 25, 2015

Carrie Miller, “Curator's Radar; Mikala Dwyer”, Art Collector, Issue 67, Jan - March 2014, pp 118-121

Nicholas Forrest, Interview; Mikala Dwyer on Primavera 2014 at MCA, Sydney, Blouin Art Info, Nov 10 2014

Sally Butler, ”Mikala Dwyer's Occult Constructivism”, Eyeline 77, 2013, pp.46-51

Isabel Dunstan, “Mikala Dwyer: Goldene Bend'er”, Time Out Melbourne, 22 April 2013

Van Badham, 'Who's afraid of the art boogie monster', The Guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 June, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/13/chris-berg-art-theatre-australia

Mikala Dwyer, as told to Anthony Byrt, 500 words, Artforum, https://www.artforum.com/interviews/mikala-dwyer-discusses-her-current-show-30502

Rebecca O'Dwyer, This Must be the Place: Mikala Dwyer's ` Panto Collapsar', http://rebeccaodwyer.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/this-must-be-the-place-mikala-dwyers-panto-collapsar/

Dreamers: Mikala Dwyer, Map Magazine, March 1, 2012

Linda Michael, 'The Little Temples of Love for the Dead Things', MCA Collection Volume One, (Sydney MCA, 2012) pp238-246

Anthony Byrt, Frontier Spirits: Myth, Ghosts and Borders in the Work of Mikala Dwyer, Frieze, Issue 139 May 2011, pp.104-107

Geraldine Barlow, Networks, Cells and Silos (catalogue), MUMA, Melbourne

Sue Cramer, Colour Bazaar: 9 Contemporary Works (catalogue), Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

'The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a precarious age', 17th Sydney Biennale exhibition catalogue

Susan Best, 'Old and New Romantics-The 17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age', Eyeline, 72, 2010, pp 64-79

Alamanac, The gift of Ann Lewis OA Collection MCA

'Mikala Dwyer', To make a work of timeless art-MCA Primavera Acquisitions, 08-09

Before and After Science, Adelaide Biennale Catalogue

Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art and Australia (eds.), Sydney, p108

Charlotte Day, Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, exh.cat., TarraWarra Museum of Art Anne Loxley, `Mikala Dwyer: coalescence and dissolution', Art World 3, June-July

Bal Tashchit: Thou Shalt Not Destroy, exh.cat., Jewish Museum, Melbourne

Sculpture Today, Judith Collins. Phaidon

Mystic Truths, exh.cat., Auckland Art Gallery, NZ

High Tide, exh.cat., Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw

Victoria Barker, Black Sun Blue Moon, exh.cat., Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin

Andrew Paul Wood, Littered Under Mercury. White Fungus Magazine

Gabriela Switek, 'And who so happy?' Broadsheet, June - August, pp 90-93

Eve Sullivan, The Wallflower, exh.cat., Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

Susan Ronhnie, 'Mikala Dwyer in conversation with Susan Rothnie', Eyeline, No.55, pp.30-33

Steven Tonkin, 'Art Lifts!', Artonview, National Gallery of Australia, Issue No.39, Spring

Ashley Crawford, 'Unique view of a fly on the wall', The Age, 17 June

Megan Backhouse, 'Around the galleries', The Age, 19 June

Britta Schmitz, (ed.), Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Alex Gawronski, 'Dividing Lines', Broadsheet, March, April + May

Alexie Glass, 'Artful Park', Monument, 46, February / March

Lenny Ann Low, 'Deep space 10 to 13', Sydney Morning Herald ,1-2 June, Metropolitan

Jason Smith & Charles Green, Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne

Anne Loxley, 'A stroll in the park to exercise mind and body', The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 December

William McAloon, 'From playful invention to shonk horror', Sunday Star Times, 9 Semptember

Justin Paton, Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Hannah Scott, 'Plastika', Publicartion by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Summer

Sebastian Smee, 'Pipe Dreams', Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January

Edward Colless, Mikala Dwyer, catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Limited edition artist page, inversions, mawa: mentoring artists for women's art, Winnipeg, Fall

Artist's page (collaboration with Simone Parsons), LOG, Illustrated, # 10

Stephan Caddick, 'Mikala Dwyer', AN Magazine, March

Sylvie Couderc, 'Recent contemporary art in Australia: from the interpretation of origins to the bias of the diverse', Bonheurs des Antipodes, Musee de Picardie, Amiens, France

Benjamin Genocchio, 'Alchemy with a Mischievous Touch', Sydney Morning Herald, 29 December

Linda Michael, 'The Little Temples of Love for the Dead Things', Mikala Dwyer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Robert Nelson, 'Show and tell...', The Age, 9 April

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Home of the Arts, Gold Coast

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Artbank, Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, University of Western Australia, Perth,

Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane

Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

Michael Buxton Collection, Australia Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Murray Art Museum Albury

Museum of Contemporary of Art Australia, Sydney

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

Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

RMIT University Art Collection, Melbourne

The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand

COMMISSIONS

Shelter of Hollows, 1 Elizabeth, Sydney Metro Martin Place Station, Sydney

Continuum, Sydney Metro Martin Place Station, Sydney

Apparition, University Square, Carlton, Melbourne (Commissioned by City of Melbourne)

Phantom, Ian Potter Sculpture Court, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne

Earth Craft, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, New Zealand

Egg Swing, Royal Hospital for Women Park, Paddington (Commissioned by Woollahra Council)

Windwatcher, Central Park, Sydney.

Mary's Place Lamp, Surry Hill, Sydney

SELECTED GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES

NAVA Visual Arts Fellowship 2016

Deaking Small Sculpture Award (Winner)

Fellowship Australia Council grant

Samstag scholarship. UDK Berlin (Class of Stan Douglas, LotharBaumgarten and David Lamelas)

National Sculpture Prize Exhibition

Woollahra Sculpture Prize

Helen Lempriere Sculpture Prize (commended)

Australia Council Grant

Australia Council Grant

Contempora 5 Exhibition