Past Exhibitions
2011
Dinosaur Designs
15 October 2011 – 9 April 2012 | GOMA | Free admission
Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever
18 November 2011 – 11 March 2012 | GOMA | Free admission
we miss you magic land!
26 November 2011 – 4 March 2012 | GoMA
Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed
17 December 2011 – 4 March 2012 | QAG
Matisse: Drawing Life
3 December 2011 – 4 March 2012 | GoMA
Ten Years of Contemporary Art: The James C Sourris AM Collection
12 November 2011 – 19 February 2012 | GoMA
Daphne Mayo: Let There Be Sculpture
4 November 2011 − 15 January 2012 | QAG
The Hand, The Eye & The Heart
1 October 2011 – 12 February 2012 | GoMA
Threads: Contemporary Textiles & the Social Fabric
1 October 2011 – 5 February 2012 | GoMA
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World
27 August - 27 November 2011 | QAG
Artist’s Choice: Marian Drew | Buoyancy
1 July – 16 October 2011 | Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists’ Gallery (Gallery 14), QAG
Figure, Form and Allegory: Sculpture from the Collection
QAG
The Fragmented Body
7 May - 9 October 2011 | GoMA
The Old and the New: Pintupi masterworks from the Collection 1980s–2000s
19 March – 28 August 2011 | QAG
Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands
1 July - 9 October 2011 | GoMA
Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams
11 June - 2 October 2011 | GoMA
Physical Video
14 May – 4 September 2011 | GoMA
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design
28 May – 21 August 2011 | GoMA
Desert Painting Now: New Works for the Collection
14 May – 14 August 2011 | GoMA
Pale and Perfect: Ceramics from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
QAG
Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox
16 April – 7 August 2011 | QAG
Lloyd Rees: Life and Light
12 March – 13 June 2011 | QAG
2010
21st Century: Art in the First Decade
18 December 2010 – 26 April 2011
Scott Redford: Introducing Reinhardt Dammn
19 November 2010 – 13 March 2011
Vida Lahey: Colour and Modernism
16 October 2010 – 11 January 2011
Xstrata Coal Talking Queensland Art Lecture Tour
15 October - 12 November 2010
Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award 2010
28 August – 7 November 2010 | GoMA
Douglas Kirkland: A Life in Pictures
11 September – 24 October 2010 | GoMA
Hans Heysen
31 July – 24 October 2010 | QAG
Callum Morton 'Ghost World'
26 Jun – 17 Oct 2010 | GOMA
Simryn Gill: Gathering
28 August – 17 October 2010 | GoMA
Multiple Choice
5 June – 17 October 2010 | GoMA
Joe Rootsey: Queensland Aboriginal Painter 1918-63
17 July – 3 October 2010 | QAG
'Move: The Exhibition'
24 April – 8 August 2010, GoMA
Ron Mueck
8 May – 1 August 2010 | GoMA
Unnerved: The New Zealand Project
1 May - 4 July 2010 GoMA
Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones
27 March – 27 June 2010 QAG
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design
24 April – 13 June 2010 GoMA
James Fardoulys : A Queensland Naive Artist
27 March – 20 June 2010 QAG
Spirited: Works from the Gallery’s Indigenous Australian Collection
28 May – 8 August 2010
Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future
7 August – 14 November 2010
Santiago Sierra
20–28 November 2010
2009
Artists Choice: Lawrence Daws
24 October 2009 – 8 March 2010
Paperskin: Barkcloth across the Pacific
31 October 2009 – 14 February 2010 Gallery 4, QAG
The view from elsewhere
25 July – 15 November 2009 Media Gallery & Australian Cinémathèque, GoMA
Easton Pearson
22 August – 8 November 2009 Gallery 1.3 and Foyer Cabinet, GoMA
Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946–2002
8 August – 25 October 2009 Gallery 3.6, GoMA
Peopled: Contemporary Art from the Collection
13 June – 25 October 2009 Galleries 3.3 & 3.4, GoMA
Floating Life: Contemporary Aboriginal Fibre Art
1 August – 18 October 2009 The Fairfax Gallery (Gallery 1.1), GoMA
Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas
20 June – 11 October 2009 Galleries 3.1 & 3.2, GoMA
150 Years: Photography in Queensland from the Gallery Collection
27 June – 4 October 2009 Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists’ Gallery, QAG
American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met
30 May - 20 September 2009
Thru the Lens: Palm Island youth photography project
4 July – 9 August 2009 Foyer, GoMA
Spencer Finch: As if the sea should part and show a further sea
28 February – 5 July 2009 Gibson entry, QAG & Media Gallery, GoMA
LJ Harvey and His Times
21 February – 14 June 2009 Gallery 14, QAG
The China Project
28 March – 28 June 2009 GoMA
Anish Kapoor Untitled 2006-07
Until 24 May 2009 Gallery 3.2, GoMA
Creative Generation: Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design 2009
13 March – 17 May 2009 Gallery 3.1, GoMA
Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial
14 February – 10 May 2009 Galleries 3.3 & 3.4, GoMA
Mountain and Streams: Chinese Paintings from the NGV Asian Collection
19 March - 9 June 2008 QAG
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design (2008)
20 March – 15 June 2008 GoMA
Pierre Bismuth
20 March – 22 June 2008 GoMA
Lee Mingwei Gernika in sand
3 May - 6 July 2008 GoMA
Gordon Bennett
10 May – 3 August 2008 GoMA
queensland design on show 2008
31 May - 27 June 2008 GoMA
Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective
6 June - 28 September 2008 QAG
Picasso & his collection
9 June - 14 September 2008
Light and Space: Colonial Art and Queensland
28 June - 19 October 2008
Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award (2008)
11 July - 12 October 2008
Modern Ruin
12 July - 12 October 2008
Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects
2 August - 23 November 2008
Recent acquisitions — Australian, International and Asian and Pacific Collections
6 September 2008 — 15 February 2009
Eastside/Westside: Paintings from Central Australia
20 September – 19 October 2008
Namatjira to Now
23 October 2008 – 15 February 2009
Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour
24 October 2008 – 7 March 2010
Someone’s Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio
25 October 2008 - 1 February 2009
Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award
1 November 2008 – 8 February 2009
War: The Prints of Otto Dix
7 November 2008 – 1 February 2009
Contemporary Australia: Optimism
15 November 2008 – 22 February 2009
Making it Modern: The Watercolours of Kenneth Macqueen
5 December 2008 – 29 March 2009
Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Indigenous Australian art from the Collection
13 December 2008 – 25 October 2009 Galleries 3.5 & 3.6 GoMA
Myth to Modern: Bronzes from Queensland Art Gallery Collection
24 May 2007 – 5 July 2009
Queensland Design Awards: The First Five Years
4 June – 23 June 2007 GoMA
Education Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Art
23 June – 23 Sept 2007 GoMA
British Prints: Pop to the '90s
30 June 2007 – 9 December 2007 QAG
Howard Arkley
6 July – 16 Sept 2007 GoMA
Katharina Grosse
15 July– 28 October 2007 GoMA
Three Ways: Contemporary Sculpture from the Collection
28 July – 30 September 2007 QAG
Protest: Australian Political Posters 1972-92
28 July 2007 – 24 February 2008 QAG
Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award
4 August – 11 November 2007 GoMA
Olafur Eliasson’s The cubic structural evolution project 2004
7 September 2007 – 30 May 2009
Making it Modern: The Watercolours of Kenneth Macqueen
10 November 2007 – 5 May 2008 QAG
Andy Warhol
8 December 2007 – 13 April 2008 GoMA
Grace Cossington Smith: A Retrospective Exhibition
18 February — 1 May 2006 QAG
Margaret Preston: Art and Life
18 February — 1 May 2006 QAG
Queensland Live
Travelling exhibition
22 February 2006 – 7 October 2007
Education Minister's Awards for Excellence in Art
16 March — 28 May 2006 QAG
Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award
8 April — 21 May 2006 QAG
Design Excellence in Queensland
3 June — 18 June 2006 QAG
Streeton: Works from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Travelling exhibition
16 July 2005 - 4 July 2006
Fairweather Room
December 2006 - January 2009, QAG
The 5th Asia–Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5)
2 December 2006 – 27 May 2007 GoMA & QAG
