NEWELL HARRY

Born Sydney, Australian: South African/Mauritian ancestry

EDUCATION / ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Diploma of Fine Arts, The National Art School, East Sydney Technical College

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons.1), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Sessional Lecturer, COFA UNSW, Sydney

Candidate DCA, UOW, Wollongong

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Known / Unknowns, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Blue Pango: Musings and Other Anecdotes, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Solo presentation: '(Untitled)' 12^th Istanbul Biennial, curated Jens Hoffman & Adriano Pedrosa, Istanbul

Lloyd Triestino, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle

Alms & Psalms: The Unspoken Requiems of Henry Waller, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

Fish or Cut Bait?, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Views from the Couch, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

I Would Have a Lot to do But I Don't do Much, MOP Projects, Sydney

Nomadic Interventions (MFA exhibition), College of Fine Arts, Sydney

Recent Portraits of the Artist at Work, New South Wales Ministry for the Arts Studio, Artspace, Sydney

Mr Intervene: (Musings) from the Project Nomadic Interventions, Demeter Helios Bakery, Glebe (site specific projects)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

The Like Button, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Language is the Only Homeland, curated Manon Braat, Nest Gallery, Den Haag

Immortality, curated Michael Moran, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury NSW

Tidalectics, curated Stefanie Hessler, Le Fresnoy, France

Oceans, curated Stefanie Hessler, Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik and 1483 Monastery Lopud, Croatia

The Oceanic, NTU Centre For Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore

Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu, 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney

Tidalectics, curated Stefanie Hessler, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Autgarten, Vienna

Let's Dance, Artbank Gallery, Sydney
Sonnant et trebuchant, Les Abattoirs, Musee FRAC Occitane Toulouse

Grounded, curated by Judith Blackhall, National Art School Gallery, Sydney

Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art and Everything Else, curated Geraldine Barlow, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.

Potentially Yours: The Coming Community, curated: John Mutambu, Artspace, Auckland.

Kula: A Gifting Economy, curated: Ute Meta Bauer, Space Caribbean with TBA 21 Academy, Kingston, Jamaica.

Tarrawarra Biennial of Australian Art, curated: Helen Hughes & Victoria Lynn, Tarrawarra Museum of Art. Victoria.

Der Kula Ring: Aesthetic Considerations of Exchange, curated: Alfons Hug, Goethe Institute Cultural Symposium, Weimar.

3rd Montevideo Biennial, curated Alfons Hug, Montevideo, Uruguay.

All the World's Futures, 56^th Venice Biennale (curated by Okwui Enwezor), Venice

More Love Hours, curated: Suzette Wearne, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.

South, curated: David Corbett, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney.

Future Primitive, curated Linda Michael, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne

Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton.

Ten out of 10, MOP, Sydney.

Suspended Histories, Museum Van Loon, Netherlands.

Seven Points, curated Bree Pickiering, Australian Embassy, Washington DC, USA

Re-Orient: With or Without You, curated Aaron Seeto,, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA, Perth

Australia: Contemporary Voices, The Fine Art Society, London.

Rendez Vous 2012, National Gallery of South Africa, Capetown (Curated by Thierry Raspail, Isabelle Bertolotti and Nathalie Ergino)

Artist's Proof, Monash University Art Gallery, Caulfield, Melbourne

The Other's Other, Artspace, Sydney

Westpac Redlands Art Award 2012, National Art School, East Sydney

What do you mean, we?, Te Tuhi Arts Centre, Auckland

No-Name Station 2012, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

Untitled: 12^th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Jens Hoffmann and Adriano Pedrosa

Rendez Vous 11, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne / Rhône Alpes, France

Tell me, Tell me; Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

Tell me Tell me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Sydney

Citizen Collectors, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle NSW

Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW

17^th Biennale of Sydney, Beauty of Distance, songs of survival in a precarious age, directed by David Elliot

True Story, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia

We Call Them Pirates Out Here, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney

Adelaide Biennial: Before and After Science, curated by Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

6^th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

No-Name Station 2010, Iberia Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing

Are You Looking at Me? Laneway Art, Temperance Lane, Sydney CBD

Synapse, Deloitte, Sydney

6^th Asia Pacific Triennial (collaboration)“The Mataso Printers”, Queensland Art Gallery, GOMA, Brisbane

MCA New Acquisitions 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney

Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection, Bathurst Art Gallery

Quirky: from the collection, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle NSW

Victory Over the Sun, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne

Westpac Redlands Artprize, Mosman Art Gallery NSW

Our Lucky Country (Difference), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney

News From Islands, Campbelltown Arts Centre

Summer '07 '08', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Year in Art: 2007. National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Other News / Other Places, Starkwhite Auckland

Art and About (Open Gallery), Sydney CBD

ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award, ABN Amro Building, Sydney

Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Eldorado, Downtown Gallery, Adelaide, curated by Adams & Adams

Rectangular Ghost, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Our Lucky Country, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery NSW

Punch-up at MOP, MOP Projects, Sydney

Alien Invasion, MOP Projects, Sydney

New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (finalists exhibition), Artspace, Sydney

Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks, Sydney

New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (finalists exhibition), Artspace, Sydney

One Last Show, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney

Five of the Best, Rocketart, Newcastle

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AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & SCHOLARSHIPS

Pernod Ricard Fellow, Atelier Villa Vasillieff, Paris

Artistic fellow, “The Current”: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Academy; expeditions under Ute Meta Bauer (Milne Bay Province PNG, 2015) and Stefanie Hessler (Marquesas Islands, 2017)

Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board: Project Grant, 56th Venice Biennale presentation

Arts NSW, Sydney: Artist's Project Grant: 56th Venice Biennale presentation

CCA NTU, Artist in Residence, Centre for Contemporary Art, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Artspace Studio, Artist in Residence, Artspace, The Gunnery, Sydney

Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant (established)

Australia Council for the Arts, Tokyo Studio, Takadanobaba, Shinjiku-ku, Tokyo

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund, American Australia Foundation

Duo Arts: One World Residency, Chengdu, China

Human Rights Commission Award, awarded Te Tuhi Art Centre, Auckland for What do you mean, we?

Artspace Studio, Artspace, Sydney

Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board, New Work Grant (Established)

QANTAS Foundation Art Award (NSW winner), nomination Dr Blair French, Artspace, Sydney

No Name Station Residency, Warmun Indigenous Community, East Kimberley, WA with GCAS, Melbourne

Fremantle Arts Centre, Moores Building Residence, Fremantle WA

Cité Internationale des Arts, Moya Drying Studio, Paris, issued Art Gallery of NSW Trust

Self-directed study in South Africa with an Australia Council New Work Grant

Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board, New Work Grant (Emerging)

Greatmore Studios Artist in Residence, Cape Town, South Africa (assisted Visual Arts Board, Australia Council)

Finalist (Highly Commended), New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney

The NSW Ministry for the Arts Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney

Australian Postgraduate Award, DETYA and University of New South Wales

Finalist (Highly Commended), New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney

The Robert le Gay Brereton Award for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales Trust, Sydney

Dr Gene Sherman and William Wright Sculpture Prize

Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales Trust, Sydney

Finalist, New South Wales Traveling Art Scholarship, College of Fine Arts, Sydney

Merit of Commendation, The National Art School, East Sydney Technical College, Sydney

COLLECTIONS

Les Abbatoirs, Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia

Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

Artbank, Sydney, Australia

Deloitte Collection, Sydney, Australia

Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

Monash University Art Collection, Australia

University of Wollongong Collection, NSW, Australia

Musee Abattoirs, d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France

Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art (TBA21), Vienna