Destiny Deacon - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

	DESTINY DEACON b. 1957, G'ua G'ua & Erub/Mer peoples, Torres Strait
	Raised/lives in Melbourne BA [politics] 1979, University of Melbourne. Dip. Ed.1981, La Trobe University
	Media: photography, video, installation, performance
	SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012	Going Strait, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2011	Pose-a-rama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,Sydney
2010	Doing Time.., Spare Room Gallery, R.M.I.T. University Gallery, Melbourne It's Playblak Time, ArtSpace Pro Art, Hallein, Salzburg Festival, Austria
2009	Gazette, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,Sydney
2008	Clandestine, Destiny Deacon, Tandanya - National Aboriginal Cultural Insitute, Adelaide
2007	Whacked, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006	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
2005	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
2004	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
2003	d-tour, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Destiny Deacon, Gallerie Raphaella Cortese, Milan, Italy Postcards from Mummy, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001	Forced into Images, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1999	The Thin Line, Platform Space, Spencer Street Station on Subway, (collaboration with Virginia Fraser) Crossing the Line, Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
1998	In My Father's House, Destiny Deacon and Brenda Croft, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and toured nationally in Australia It Won't Rub Off, Baby, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
1997	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
1996	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
1995	Welcome to Never-Never, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Destiny Deacon, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
1994	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
1993	Caste Offs (concurrent with show by Brenda Croft), Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
	SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012	Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collectionn of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth.
2011	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
2010	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
2009	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.
2008	Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Latitudes, Tjibao Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia
2007	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
2006	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
2004	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
2003	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
2002	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
2001	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
2000	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
1999	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
1998	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
1997	Lawyers, Guns and Money, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide A Face in the Crowd, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
1996	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
1995	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
1994	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
1993	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
1992	Kitch'en Koori (Melbourne Fringe Festival), Fringe Festival Gallery, Melbourne
1991	Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, and touring nationally Kudjeris (with Lisa Bellear & Brenda Croft), Boomalli Gallery, Sydney
1990	Pitcha Mi Koori (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Friends of the Earth Gallery, Melbourne
	RESIDENCIES AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2000	Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (residency)
1998-99	ARX, Hong Kong, Perth and Singapore (three-part residency)
1997	City Provoked, Melbourne (public art project for Melbourne International Arts Festival)
	SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012	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
2011	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
2010	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/
2009	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
2008	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
2007	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
2006	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
2005	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, www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh17/deacon.htm 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"
2004	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 Michael Fitzgerald, “Not Dying, Changing,” TIME, March 22, 2004, p. 62, 63 Hannah Fink, “Cracking Up,” Australian Humanities Review http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-July-1999/fink.html
2003	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
2002	2^nd Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002, p. 109 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
2001	Helen McDonald, Erotic Ambiguities, The Female Nude in Art, Routledge, London, England Brook Andrew: “Remembering Jesus”, Artlink, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp.23
2000	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)
1999	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
1998	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
1997	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
1996	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
1995	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
1993	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
1991	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
2010	RMIT UNIVERSITY - Artist in residency
2000	Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne - Artist in residency
1999	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Cultural exchange Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts - Homeless people and Balidu Primary School
1998	Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts - Cultural exchange
1997	Performance Space, Sydney - Redfern Children's School City Provoked, Melbourne (public art project for Melbourne International Arts Festival)
	AWARDS
	The Deadlys -15^th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Awards 2009 - Visual Artist of the Year
	COLLECTIONS
	Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Stifting Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria Museum Sammlung Essl, Austria Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National Library of Australia, Canberra La Trobe University Art Museum UQ Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane Australian Museum, Sydney University of Canberra, Canberra, Canberra Banyule Art Collection, Victoria Art & Heritage Collections, City of Melbourne, Victoria Flinders University, Adelaide Griffith University, Brisbane Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Museum Victoria, Melbourne Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart, University of Tasmania State Library of Victoria, Melbourne University of Wollongong, Wollongong Vizard Foundation/Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne City of Port Phillip Sydney International Airport BHP Billiton Deloitte Services, Sydney Austcorp Management, Sydney Minter-Ellison, Sydney Private collections