# Temporary exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

This is a list of unique temporary exhibitions held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, organised chronologically and grouped by decade.
Not listed here are the temporary exhibitions that the Gallery hosts regularly, such as the long running ArtExpress, Archibald Prize, the Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize and Dobell art prizes.
Touring exhibitions are marked with an asterisk (*).

## 1900s

| Year | Exhibition Dates | Exhibition Title | Exhibition Summary | Exhibition Curator | Exhibition Catalogue | Press/Reviews/Notes |
| 1906 | 1906–03 to 1906-04 (exhibited for 25 days) | The Light of the World A painting by William Holman Hunt | Exhibition of a life size replica painted in 1900 of an original (in Keble College, Oxford) painted by the artist in 1852, "in accordance with a practice he has already adopted" | | | The artist was inspired by a passage from the book of Revelation (3:20): "Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come and sup with him, and he with me." Overall, 302,183 people viewed the painting. By 31 March, 158,000 persons had seen it and by 5 April daily attendance had exceeded 11,000. The average daily attendance set records which remain unbroken. |

## 1970s

| Year | Exhibition Dates | Exhibition Title | Exhibition Summary | Exhibition Curator | Exhibition Catalogue | Press/Reviews/Notes |
| 1975 | 1975–04 to 1975-05 | Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse | Exhibition of 110 paintings organised under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, chronicling nearly a century of European art. | William S. Lieberman | ISBN 978-0-87070-444-4 | The Sydney Morning Herald described it as "quite simply, the most important exhibition ever to visit Australia...Profound thanks", and it was seen by more than 400,000 visitors in Sydney and Melbourne before going to New York. |

## 1980s

| Year | Exhibition Dates | Exhibition Title | Exhibition Summary | Exhibition Curator | Exhibition Catalogue | Press/Reviews/Notes |
| 1987 | 1987-04-12 to 1987-04-19 | Australian Sculpture 1890-1919 | The Gallery's early Australian sculpture collection | | | |
| | 1987-? to 1987-08-03 | Harry Callahan photographs | 110 original prints by Harry Callahan | Sandra Byron | | |
| | 1987-? to 1987-02-23 | Surface for Reflexion 2 | 23 Painters whose careers began in 1960s | | | |
| | 1987-? to 1987-04-20 | America: Art and the West | The changing idea of the frontier – a perspective into American art and cultural history over a period of 150 years | Gallery Education (Terence Maloon?) | | |
| | 1987-03-06 to 1987-04-12 | Australia: Art and the West | Parallels in Australian art to themes in America: Art and the West | Gallery Education (Terence Maloon?) | | |
| | 1987-03-14 to 1987-04-18 | Skinner Prout in Australia | Works of the Australian colonial artist John Skinner Prout (1805–1876) | Wendy Symonds | | |
| | 1987-05-01 to 1987-05-31 | Acquisitions from the Komon, Salkauskas and Horton Funds | Works acquired by the Henry Salkauskas Contemporary Art Purchase Fund, the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund and the Mervyn Horton Bequest Fund | | | |
| | 1987-05-20 to 1987-07-05 | Yves Saint Laurent – retrospective | Homage to the achievements in fashion of Yves St Laurent | Originally curated by Diana Vreeland from Vogue for the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1983. | | |
| | 1987-06-05 to 1987-07-19 | William Delafield Cook: mid-career survey | A selected 28 works of the artist's British and Australian career | | | |
| | 1987-? to 1987-09-20 | Surveying the work of the great Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) | Measured drawings, scale models and photographs to demonstrate physical manifestations of the political and social values of 15th century Florence | | | |
| | 1987-? | Lines of Fire (Linea di Fuoco) | Installation as part of Carnivale '87 exploring the themes of State terrorism. Photographs, texts, sculptures, slides and sound | Dennis Del Fvero and FILEF (a federation of Sydney-based Italian migrant workers and their families) | | |
| | 1987-07-24 to 1987-09-15 | Colin Lanceley 1961–1987 retrospective | | a published book contains an essay by Robert Hughes | | The Art Gallery Society arranged a viewing of Lanceley's studio to its members on 27 November 2010. |
| | 1987-08-12 to 1987-09-27 | Sir Sidney Nolan: Landscape and Legends – a retrospective exhibition 1937-1987 | 200 works from public and private collections in Australia and England | | | See interview with AGNSW's William Wright |
| | 1987-11 to 1988-01-03 | Sighting References: Ciphers, Systems and Codes | Participatory exhibition of art works and critical writing | Gary Sangster | ISBN 0-9589154-3-1 | |
| | 1987-10-16 to 1987-11-29 | Mayakovsky: 20 years of work | First substantial body of work from major period of 20th century Russian art shown to Australian public | Originally held in Moscow 1930, curated by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Russian poet of the Revolutionary Era | | |
| 1988 | 1988-01-01 to 1988-01-31 | ANZ Bicentennial Art Commissions | Works commissioned by State Galleries and funded by ANZ etc. | | | |
| | to 1988-02-14 | Munakata | 80 works by Japanese printmaker Munakato Shiko (1903–1975) | | | |
| | 1988-02-24 to 1988-05-15 | CSR Collection | Corporate commission of six photographers to represent CSR Ltd Refinery at Pyrmont (about 350 photographs) | Wendy Symonds | | |
| | 1988-02-10 to 1988-03-13 | Moët & Chandon * | Second annual Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition to encourage and promote contemporary Australian art. | | | |
| | 1988-03-10 to 1988-05-01 | Masterpieces from the Hermitage | Western European paintings from Botticelli to Picasso | | Prunster | |
| | 1988-03-04 to 1988-05-01 | The Artist and the Patron | A survey of colonial art and patronage | Patricia R. McDonald | ISBN 0-7305-4745-0 | |
| | 1988-05-17 to 1988-06-26 | Art Knits | Knitwear by Australian designers | Wendy Symonds(?) | | |
| | 1988-05-18 to 1988-07-03 | The Australian Biennale 1988 | A survey of 20th century art – paintings, sculptures, performances, installations, from 1940 to 1988 | | | |
| | 1988-06-01 to 1988 07-16 | A Study of Genius: Master Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen | Fifty drawings and watercolours representing the collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle | | | |
| | 1988-07-05 to 1988-09-15 | NZ XI | Survey of 11 contemporary NZ artists – painting, sculpture, installation, photography | | | |
| | 1988-07-27 to 1988-10-02 | Terra Australis: The Furthest Shore | European view of Australia from the notions of the 15th century to discovery | William Eisler | ISBN 0-642-13464-2 | |
| | 1988-07-26 to 1988-11-09 | Japanese Art from the Collection | Japanese screens, hanging scrolls, ceramics and lacquer from the Gallery's collection | | | |
| | 1988-09-17 to 1988-10-30 | Contemporary Chinese Painting | Selection from Gallery's holdings of modern, traditional style paintings | Jackie Menzies | | |
| | 1988-09-30 to 1988-11-13 | Made in Havana | Contemporary Cuban art – Paintings, installations, objects and photographs by nine contemporary Cuban artists | Charles Merewether | | |
| | 1988-08-24 to 1988-09-18 | Australian Video Festival | Video installation in association with the Australian Video Festival | | | |
| | 1988-10-21 to 1988-11-27 | The Great Australian Art Exhibition | For the occasion of the Bicentenary – Comprehensive review of Australian art over 200 years | Barry Pierce | | |
| | 1988-10-15 to 1988-12-11 | Venice: The Renaissance | Italian paintings on loan to the Gallery to coincide with the visit of the President of Italy | | | |
| | 1988-11-09 to 1988-12-11 | David Moore – Fifty Years of Photographs | Retrospective | Sandra Byron | | |
| | 1988-12-20 to 1989-01-26 | Masterpieces from Tokyo's Idemitsu Collection | 105 Japanese ceramics from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts | Jackie Menzies | | |

## 1990s

| Year | Exhibition Dates | Exhibition Title | Exhibition Summary | Exhibition Curator | Exhibition Catalogue | Press/Reviews/Notes |
| 1991 | 1991- ? to 1991-02-17 | Contemporary Japanese ceramics | New works by Japan's leading traditional and avant-garde potters, selected from the annual Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition | | | |
| | 1991-02-02 to 1991-04-07 | Roger Kemp etchings | First major exhibition of Kemp's etchings | | | |
| | 1991 – ? to 1991-02-23 | Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes à Court Collection | Cross-section of contemporary Aboriginal art spanning the continent | | | |
| | 1991-? to 1991-02-03 | Bette Mifsud | Installation of large phototransparencies | | | |
| | 1991-? to 1991-02-17 | Treasures from the Shanghai Museum | Works of Ancient Chinese art from the collections of the Shanghai Museum, including ceramics and tomb figures from the Han and Tang dynasties | | | |
| | 1991-? to 1991-03-10 | Swiss Artists in Australia 1777-1991 | In celebration of the 700th anniversary of Switzerland, exhibition focuses on seven important Swiss-Australian artists – John Webber (1751-1793), Wilbraham Liardet (1799-1878), Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1901), Louis Buvelot (1814-1888), Sali Herman (1898-1993), Paul Haefliger (1914-1982) and Joe Felber (1915-?) | Barry Pierce | | |
| | 1991-? to 1991-03-31 | Machina: Persona | Arthur Wicks installation – Four working machines as installation and performance: Helicopter, Boat, Car and two Figures | Wendy Symonds | | |
| | 1991-02-16 to 1991-06-16 | The Magic of the Paris Opera: 300 years of French style | 220 historical pieces – costumes, jewels, drawings and stage models from the collection of the 300-year history of the Paris Opera. Coincides with France's Year of the Art of Living. | | | |
| | 1991-02-26 to 1991-04-21 | Elwyn Lynn | Retrospective – key examples of Lynn's painting and collage | Peter Pinson | | |
| | 1991-03-20 to 1991-05-26 | Albert Tucker retrospective | 160 works by Australian expressionist Albert Tucker. Exhibition from the National Gallery of Victoria. | | Catalogue NGV 1990 | |
| | 1991-? to 1991-04-14 | International photographs from the permanent collection | Photographs from renowned masters of 19th and 20th centuries including Lewis Hine, Muybridge, Brassai, Brandt, and Cartier-Bresson. Selected images from 1840s to 1980s. Includes striking examples of the British and European pictorialist movements as well as formally abstracted images such as by Edward Weston (1886-1958), André Kertész (1894-1895) and Man Ray (1890-1976). | Sandra Byron | | |
| | 1991-04-27 to 1991-06-10 | Three Installations: Lucas, Mellick and Owen | Noelene Lucas, Ross Mellick and Robert Owen | | | |
| | 1991-04-19 to 1991-06-30 | Max Pam | Mid-career survey of the work of contemporary Australian photographer Max Pam | Sandra Byron | | |
| | 1991-04-13 to 1991-07-07 | Nineteenth century Australian watercolours from the collection | From colonial masters to the Heidelberg School, includes works by John Glover, Louis Buvelot, Arthur Streeton, Julian Ashton and John Peter Russell. A sequel to the show 20th century Australian watercolours exhibition of 1989. As part of the exhibition, Paper Conservators Rosemary Peel and Mark Stryker have prepared a special display concerned with the materials used by 19th century watercolour painters. | Hendrik Kolenberg | | "Two of the works included vied for first prize in John Sands’ Art Competition for 1881. Watercolours by Charles E. Hern and W.C. Piguenit were eventually awarded first and second prize respectively and purchased for the gallery [AGNSW]. In the cautious words of the judges E.L.Montefiore, E. du Faur and J. Garbett, reported in the ‘Sydney Daily Telegraph’ 19 November 1881: "the first prize to ‘Govett's Leap’ as being an excellent representation of a well known and very characteristic scene, familiar to all tourists in New South Wales, although in purely artistic qualities they do not consider it equal to ‘Mt Isa, Lake St Clair’ – a Tasmanian scene which is less suitable for reproduction, to which they have given the second premium." |
| | 1991-06-21 to 1991-07-14 | Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition * | Fifth exhibition – works by 18 young Australians | | | |
| | 1991-07-06 to 1991-09-15 | Australian photographs from the collection | | | | |
| | 1991-? to 1991-08-18 | Wim Delvoye Installation | A sculptural installation by the young Belgian artist, Wim Delvoye | | | This artist subsequently captured visitors' attention with his work Cloaca 2010 exhibited in the newly opened MONA in Hobart, Tasmania |
| | 1991-08-07 to 1991-09-15 | Australian Perspecta 1991 | Australian photographs from the permanent collection – sixth in a series of exhibitions dedicated to the exploration of Australian contemporary art, included three dimensional works by 40 artists included Lin Onus's Hills Hoist. Includes an outdoor component in the Penrith Region curated by Campbell Gray. | Victoria Lynn? | Catalogue | |
| | 1991-07-13 to 1991-09-29 | Piety and Paganism: | Christian and Classical themes in European art Focusing on 16th and 17th century | Nicholas Draffin | | |
| | 1991-? to 1991-10-06 | Danny Matthys installation | Installation by Belgian artist working with conceptual art forms since 1970s | | | |
| | 1991-06-06 to 1991-08-25 | Bohemians in the Bush: the artists' camps of Mosman | Brings together for the first time the artists involved with the camps, including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, Julian Ashton, Livingston Hopkins, Henry Fullwood, Alfred Daplyn, Girolami Nerli, Benjamin Minns, Sydney Long and Lister Lister. | Linda Slutzkin | ISBN 0-7305-8665-0 | |
| | 1991-09-04 to 1991-11-17 | In Our Time: the world as seen by Magnum Photographers | 300 images by 60 photographers – celebrating the achievements of Magnum Photos Inc., world's oldest and most renowned co-operative of photo-journalists, including works by founding members Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and George Roger. | | | |
| | 1991-09-10 to 1991-11-10 | Contemporary Aboriginal Women's Art | Painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, weaving, carving, body ornament, photography, film, video and performance, traditional and urban, from all areas of Australia | Vivonne Thwaites | ISBN 0-9595800-6-9 | |
| | 1991-11-02 to 1991-12-15 | Geoff Weary video installation | for the Electronic Media Arts festival. In three parts, focusing on Japan: a shrine to Kamikaze pilots; a gathering to mourn a dead emperor; and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. | | | |
| | 1991-? to 1991-11-05 | Tony Twigg and Euan Upston | Artist Twigg and dramatist Upston collaborating to present performance and sculptural installation using large-scale puppets | | | |
| | 1991-09-22 to 1992-01-12 | Masterpieces from the Guggenheim: Cézanne to Pollock* | Major exhibition of modern masterpieces from the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice. 111 works. Shown in Venice, Madrid, Tokyo and Sydney | Krens, Thomas | | |
| | 1991-10-19 to 1992-01-05 | Divine and Courtly Life | Indian miniature painting | Dr Jim Masselos – Reader in History at Sydney University (honorary consultant to the exhibition) | | |
| | 1991-12-07 to 1992-01-19 | The Life and Work of Wolfgang Sievers | Retrospective of one of Australia's most distinguished photographers | | | |
| | ? to 1992-01-27 | Chinese paintings from the Collection | | | | |
| | 1991-11-19 to 1992-02-16 | The Australian Decorative Arts Collection | 200 works of Sydney craftspeople, specifically members of the Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW (founded in 1906 under the influence of the English Arts and Crafts movement) including Elizabeth Soderberg, Ada Newman, Ethel Atkinson and Rhoda Wager | | | |
| | 1991-12-20 to 1992-01-27 | Chinese snuff bottles | More than 200 Chinese snuff bottles from several Hong Kong Collections | Jackie Menzies | | |
| 1992 | 1992-01-11 to 1992-02-17 | Large drawings? | | | | |
| | 1992-01-25 to 1992-03-08 | Through their own eyes: the personal portfolios of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston | Personal selections of the work of their own works by American photographers Ansel Adams (1902-1984) and Edward Weston (1886-1958) | | | |
| | 1992-03-05 to 1992-? | Rupert Bunny | Retrospective | | | |
| | 1992-04-? to 1992-? | Francis Lymburner | Artist of 1940s and 1950s | | | |
| | 1992-05-? to | Henry Moore | Monumental sculptures, drawings and prints | | | |
| | 1992-05-08 to 1992-? | John Olsen retrospective | Highlights from the foremost artist of the Australian landscape | Wendy Symonds | | |
| | 1992-? to 1992-? | André Kertész – Form and Feeling | Works from the influential body of avant-garde work created in Paris from 1925 | | | |
| | 1992-05-? to 1992-08-? | Dora Ohlfsen – Focus on the Collection | Australian Neoclassical sculptor | | | |
| | 1992-06-15 to 1992-? | Seven Master Printmakers: Innovations in the 80s | Works by the American Pop generation grown up from the Museum of Modern Art in New York | | | |
| | 1992-? to ? | Sydney and its Artists | Celebrating Australia's Sesquicentenary | | | |
| | 1992-? to ? | Animals in Art | | | | |
| | 1992-07-08 to 1992-08-16 | ?? | Aboriginal art exhibition showing relationship between Aborigines and the land | | | |
| | 1992-8-? to 1992-? | Frederick McCubbin | Works of co-founder of the Heidelberg School | | | |
| | 1992-09-04 to 1992-11-22 | Immortal China | Paintings, bronzes and decorative arts around the theme of immortality | | | |
| | 1992-12-? to 1992-? | Biennale of international contemporary art | | Tony Bond, Asian component selected by Jackie Menzies | | |
| 1996 | Multiple Pleasures | Richard Tipping | Foyer exhibition of sculpture multiples | Anthony Bond | Multiple Pleasures postcard pack, 22 cards, edition 600 | An associated event of the Biennale of Sydney 1996 |
| 1997 | 1997-12-06 to 1998-02-22 | Orientalism: David to Klee | Aesthetic responses to travel | Roger Benjamin | ISBN 0-7313-1344-5 | |

## 2000s

| Year | Exhibition Dates | Exhibition Title | Exhibition Summary | Exhibition Curator | Exhibition Catalogue | Press/Reviews/Notes |
| 2008 | 2008-10-11 to 2009-01-26 | Monet and the Impressionists | Impressionist paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | George T. M. Shackelford | ISBN 978-1-74174-030-1 | More than 225,000 people attended the exhibition. Terence Maloon |
| | 2008-12-12 to 2009-02-13 | Genji - The World of the Shining Prince | Tribute to The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (c1008) | Khanh Trinh | ISBN 978-1-74174-034-9 | |
| 2009 | 2009-03-05 to 2009-06-08 | Korean Dreams | Selection of paintings dating to the Joseon dynasty (1302–1902) | Jackie Menzies | ISBN 978-1-74174-035-6 | |
| | 2009-06-05 to 2009-08-23 | Intensely Dutch | Post-war Dutch artists, including Bram Bogart and Theo Kuijpers who was present at the opening | Henrik Kolenberg | ISBN 978-1-74174-041-7 | Kuijpers' visit to Australia during this exhibition inspired further "Australian works" of "unrestrained physicality and masculinity" and "vibrant optimism". |
| | 2009-07-02 to 2009-10-11 | Silk Ikats from Central Asia | Central Asian Islamic tie-dyed textiles | Lucien de Guise | | |
| | 2009-08-08 to 2009-10-25 | Printmaking in the Age of Romanticism | Prints on a variety of subjects executed in a range of printmaking media from the Gallery's permanent collection | Peter Raissis | ISBN 978-1-74174-048-6 | |
| | 2009-08-? to 2009-12-18 | The Dreamers | Works of eight distinguished Aboriginal artists from the Gallery's collection | Cara Pinchbeck | | |
| | 2009-10-02 to 2009-02-14 | 40 Years: Kaldor Public Art Projects | Archival material, photographs, television footage and correspondence over four decades of Kaldor's bringing avant-garde art to Australia | Anthony Bond | | |
| | 2009-10-29 to 2010- 01-26 | Garden & Cosmos | Recently discovered Indian paintings created between 17th and 19th centuries under the patronage of the Marwar court at Jodhpur in Rajasthan | Jackie Menzies | ISBN 978-0-500-51443-6, ISBN 0-500-51443-7 | |
| | 2009-11-21 to 2010-02-21 | Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris | The works of Rupert Bunny including those from public and private collections in Australia and overseas | Deborah Edwards | ISBN 978-1-74174-047-9 | Andrew Stephens |
| | 2009-12-05 to 2010-02-21 | 6 Photographers | Photographs of Australia in 1940s and 1950s by Gordon Andrews, Kerry Dundas, Max Dupain, Hal Missingham, Axel Poignant, David Potts. | Elizabeth Maloney | | John Huxley |

## 2010s

| Year | Exhibition Dates | Exhibition Title | Exhibition Summary | Exhibition Curator | Exhibition catalogue | Press/Reviews/Notes |
| 2010 | 2010-02-13 to 2010-05-02 | Hymn to Beauty – The Art of Utamaro | First survey of the art of Utamaro in Australia | Khánh Trinh | ISBN 978-1-74174-053-0 | "...there is a breathtaking fluency in Utamaro's line ... it was only in the late 19th century, when the impressionists and post-impressionists became obsessed with these pieces, that a vogue was established in the west." Review by John McDonald |
| | 2010-03-05 to 2010-05-23 | Wilderness | Balnaves painting series of contemporary Australian art | Wayne Tunnicliffe | ISBN 978-1-74174-054-7 | |
| | 2010-05-20 to 2010-08-29 | Victorian Visions – 19th Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection | 19th century art from the John Schaeffer collection | Richard Beresford | ISBN 978-1-74174-058-5 | |
| | 2010-06-26 to 2010-09-19 | Paths to Abstraction | Tracing the links to abstract art | Terence Maloon | ISBN 978-1-74174-056-1 | John McDonald |
| | 2010-08-19 to 2010-11-07 | The Indian Empire: Multiple Realities | Photographs from India under the British Raj | Jackie Menzies | | Joyce Morgan |
| | 2010-08-28 to 2011-02-13 | Art + Soul | Indigenous Australian art from the AGNSW collection | Hetti Perkins | ISBN 978-0-522-85763-4 | An exhibition that explores the diversity of Indigenous culture through three themes: ‘home and away’, ‘dreams and nightmares’ and ‘bitter and sweet’. Review by Jill Rowbotham |
| | 2010-09-22 to 2010-12-05 | David to Cézanne: master drawings from the Prat Collection, Paris | One hundred drawings exploring the development of French art over during 19th century | Peter Raissis | ISBN 978-1-74174-060-8 | An exhibition from the Paris collection of Louis-Antoine Prat, who said in an interview that "Drawings are the first drafts of genius, the first emotions. That appeals to me." Review |
| | 2010-12-02 to 2011-03-13 | The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors | A panoramic view of the Qin dynasty from 13 museums in the Shaanxi province | Liu Yang | ISBN 978-1-74174-062-2 | "The presentation, by the architect Richard Johnson, sets a new standard for exhibition design in this country, with the warriors displayed behind a low wall that allows us to get up close and see the statues with exceptional clarity." John McDonald Adam Fulton Janet Hawley |
| | 2010-12-18 to 2011-02-27 | Justin O'Brien:The Sacred Music of Colour | The first major retrospective of the artist's work since 1987 and the first since his death. | Barry Pearce and Natalie Wilson | ISBN 978-1-74174-061-5 | The exhibition prompts the viewer to ask: "To what extent was the artist driven by a spiritual, as opposed to an aesthetic imperative? Which one is the servant of the other?" |
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| | 2011-03-16 to 2011-05-29 | Photography & Place: Australian landscape photography | An exhibition that investigates the process of 'landscaping' between the 1970s and 2011 | Vigen Galstyan | ISBN 978-1-74174-066-0 | |
| | 2011-06-18 to 2011-09-04 | The poetry of drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours | Comprehensive and wide-ranging survey of Pre-Raphaelite drawings and watercolours, with works from the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery supplemented by loans from public and private collections in Britain and Sydney. | Peter Raissis | ISBN 978-0-500-23881-3 | |
| | 2011-08-06 to 2011-11-06 | The Mad Square – Modernity in German Art 1910-37 | Over 200 diverse works exploring the ways in which German artists explored the modern world between the wars | Jacqueline Strecker | ISBN 978-1-74174-068-4 | "Strecker has tried to present a broader picture of the Weimar years, showcasing its incredible artistic diversity." "It's about seeing. Really – frankly, fearlessly – seeing." |
| | 2011-11-12 to 2012-03-25 | Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris | 150 important paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings | Anne Baldassari | ISBN 1-74174-074-6 | "Numerous works in this exhibition that provide extraordinary insights in to Picasso's mind and personality." McDonald |
| | 2011-09-24 to 2012-02-05 | What's in a face? aspects of portrait photography | Works by Australian photographers, such as Paul Foelsche, Olive Cotton, Max Dupain, Carol Jerrems, Destiny Deacon, Darren Sylvester, Petrina Hicks and others, are placed in an international context, represented by Man Ray, Edward Weston, Iwao Yamawaki, Nan Goldin, Ben Cauchi and Loretta Lux. | Judy Annear | | |
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| | 2012-05-11 to 2012-07-29 | Australian Symbolism: The Art of Dreams | Works by Australian artists created in the last decades of the 19th century, including 70 paintings and sculptures by Charles Conder, Rupert Bunny, Sydney Long, Bertram Mackennal, George Lambert | Denise Mimmocchi | ISBN 978-1-741-74076-9 | "Artists at home created their own work with a particularly Australian outlook" "A comprehensive review of a phenomenon that has often been ignored or misunderstood" |