Lindy Lee - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Lindy Lee

Artist profile

Flames from the Dragon’s Pearl, 2009

Lindy Lee - Beijing 2008

Birth and Death, Campbelltown Art Centre, 2007

Dark Star, 2006

Trueworld and the Pilgrim, 2004

The Secret of the Golden Flower, 2003

Birth & Death, Artspace, Sydney, 2003

Ten Worlds, Ten Directions, 2002

Cycles Through a Chinese Landscape, 2001

miscellaneous works

	LINDY LEE
	Born Brisbane, 1954
	STUDIED
1973-75	Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education, Brisbane Diploma of Education (Art, Secondary School)
1979-80	The Chelsea School of Art, London, U.K.
1981-84	Sydney College of the Arts B.A. (Visual Arts); Post Graduate Diploma (Painting)
1997-2001	PhD (Art Theory), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
2005	Residency with Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
	SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009	Flames from the Dragon's Pearl, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2008	Tales of Moonlight and Fire, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2006	Cycles through a Chinese Landscape, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Dark Star, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2004	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
2003	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
2002	Ten Worlds, Ten Directions, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Pointing East, Pointing West, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2001	Cycles through a Chinese Landscape, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1999	The Dark of Absolute Freedom, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Fire Below / Water Above, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1998	3000 Miracles, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1997	Ulterior Function, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne Utmost Causation, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1996	The Black Stone at the Heart of the Universe, Robert Lindsay Gallery
1995	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
1994	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
1993	Michael Wardell 13 Verity Street, Melbourne Gallery XY, University of Western Sydney, Nepean Cloud of Unknowing, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1992	Event without Moment, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1991	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
1990	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Bellas Gallery, Brisbane 13 Verity Street, Melbourne
1989	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1988	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney The Silence of Painters, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne
1987	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1986	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1985	Black is not as Black as all that, Union Street Gallery, Sydney Various Artists One Day Shows, 343 Sussex Street, Sydney
	GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008	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
2007	Process/Journey, Australian Embassy, Redgate Gallery, Beijing Open 07, Venice parallel event for Venice Film Festival, Venice Smart State, Campbelltown Art Centre, Campbelltown 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
2006	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
2005	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
2004	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
2003	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
2002	Buddha: Radiant Awakening, [Author ID1: at Wed Feb 7 17:09:00 2007 ]Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney[Author ID1: at Wed Feb 7 17:09:00 2007 ] Deeper Places, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney The First 20 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2001	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
2000	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
1999	Gang of Four, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Gallery 4A, Chinatown, Sydney
1998	Asia Print Adventure, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan SCECGS Redlands Art Prize (Winner), Sydney
1997	Spirit + Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Gallery 4A, Chinatown, Sydney Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1996	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
1994	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
1993	Prospect 93, Frankfurt, Germany The Black Show, Geelong Art Gallery (touring) Art Cologne 93, Cologne, Germany
1992	After Dark, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Art Cologne 92, Cologne, Germany
1991	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
1990	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
1989	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
1988-89	Australian Contemporary Art to China, State Museums of Beijing, Wuhan Shanghai,& Guangzhou organised & managed by The Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education
1988	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
1987	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
1986	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
1985	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.
1984	The Rites of Delay, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (with Janet Burchill) Future Unperfect, Artspace, Sydney
1983	The 1984 Show, Images Gallery, Sydney
1982	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 BHP Billiton, Melbourne Mitchell Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong The Phillip Morris Collection Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Benalla Budget Collection ICI Collection Melbourne BP Collection, Melbourne Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection University of Melbourne, Melbourne Griffith University, Brisbane
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
	Writings on the Artist:
2007	Peter Kohn, `Lindy Lee and Robert Scott-Mitchell,' Wide Format On-Line, http://www.wideformatonline.com/content/view/153/58/ [accessed 16 March 2007] science as art, project catalogue, Garvan Institute, Sydney
2006	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
2004	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
2003	“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
2002	Elizabeth Sarks, 'Lindy Lee: 50 Most Collectable Artists,' Australian Art Collector, Issue 23, January - March, p. 63
2001	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
1999	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
1998	Dick Quan, “Collector's Choice,” TAASA Review, Vol. 7 No. 3 September
1997	Marguerite Edwards, “Zen-ophobia,” Oyster 11
1996	Benjamin Genocchio, “Between Mirrors: An interview with Lindy Lee,” Eyeline, Spring
1994	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
1993	Alison Carroll, 'Australian Art in Korea, Art Monthly Australia, #62, August
1992	France, C, 'Display with Designs on the Viewer', The Weekend Review, July 18-19
1991	Elwyn Lynn, “Fleshing Out the Odd Naked Truth...”, The Weekend Australian, September 7-8 Richard Grayson, 'Terrible/Sublime or Perverse?, Artlink, Vol 11, #4
1990	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
1989	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.
1987	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
1986	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
1985	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
1984	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
1986	"Postface" Editorial, co-written with Mark Titmarsh, On the Beach 9 Spring
1985	"Cover Me", Editorial, co-written with Mark Titmarsh, On the Beach 7/8 Summer/Autumn
1984	"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)