in a part of your mind, i am you brings together new and existing works by Polo shaped around a five-act narrative, punctuated with works by Ugo Rondinone, Tracey Emin and Urs Fischer, on loan from the Art Gallery of NSW.
Exhibition Dates: 28 June – 24 August 2025
Tom Polo‘s practice encompasses painting and installation and explores the notions of conversation, gesture, and emotional exchange as embodied acts of portraiture. in a part of your mind, i am you will conceptualise the gallery as a stage, structured in five acts, wherein works blur boundaries between the self and others to mask and unveil the complexities of our inner worlds.
The exhibition will feature new works, including a series developed during the artist’s recent residency in New York. Additionally, a survey of existing works will be restaged to create a thematic narrative punctuated by artworks by renowned international artists Tracey Emin, Ugo Rondinone, and Urs Fischer.
Tom Polo in a part of your mind, i am you
Ngununggula, Bowral, New South Wales, 2025
Group Show, Under the Big Blue Sky
Casula Powerhouse, 2025
Group Show, Works on Paper
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024-25
Group Show, The First 40 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024
Tom Polo somewhere on the edge of you
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2023
Free/State
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2022
Tom Polo linger
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2021
Group Show, A Painting Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2020-21
Group Show, Contact Us
Coment Fondu, Sydney, 2020
Tom Polo I still thought you were looking
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2019
Tom Polo The National 2019: New Australian Art
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2019
Group Show, Looking at me through you
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2017
Tom Polo With precious actions these vibrant outcomes
Roche Head Office Commission, Sydney, 2017
Tom Polo What Goes on Here
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2016
Tom Polo But how are you otherwise
Artspace, Sydney, 2015
Tom Polo GESTURES AND MISTAKES
Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2012