Tacit Testudo

BANK TO BANK – SPLENDĒRE VITRO

Etiolated authorship sprouting dusty day censorship

Daylight frank hank remanent

Why is Achilles doing this

Jack

Floating world enchantment still oozes

The bigger the breeze

The harder it chooses

At a pinch a finch blows

The higher it blows

The stronger it flows

Foundation fatigue shaves mountains and slows

Advancing haptic static

So when you shoot the arrow at the fish aim below the tail

for LSP

–Daniel Boyd, 2022

Daniel Boyd’s curatorially and critically acclaimed survey show Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island opened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in June 2022, featuring more than 80 works from across his nearly two-decade career. In 2023, Boyd will present his first comprehensive solo exhibition in Europe at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.

Boyd presented a major solo exhibition Daniel Boyd: Bitter Sweet at Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland in 2017. In 2016, he was awarded an International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency in New York. In 2014, he became the first indigenous Australian to win the prestigious Bulgari Art Award. Boyd was also recipient of four major commissions for Macquarie Bank (2014); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2014); the Australian War Memorial, Canberra (2018); and Lendlease for the Circular Quay precinct, a collaboration between Boyd and Sir David Adjaye, to be completed in late-2022.

Boyd has been exhibiting in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and overseas since 2005. Recent notable exhibitions include DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY?, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan (2022); This language that is every stone, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2022); Dingo Project, curated by Djon Mundine, Ngununggula Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Bowral (2022); UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2021); Superblue Miami, Florida (2021); In Between, Australian Pavilion, 17th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2021); Close Contact, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2021); Divided Worlds, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2018); A BEAST, A GOD, AND A LINE, curated by Cosmin Costinas, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2018); Mondialité, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels (2017); The future is already here - its just not evenly distributed, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (2016); and All the Worlds Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015).

Boyd’s paintings are held in numerous major public collections in Australia including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns; TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, as well as notable international collections such as the Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Kadist Collection, Paris.

Daniel Boyd has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2009.