Artist's arttributes:
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Painting, Works on Paper |
Most exhibitions in:
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| Australia | 98 |
| New Zealand | 18 |
| Germany | 16 |
| Switzerland | 13 |
| Netherlands | 5 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Sarah Cottier Gallery, Australia |
20 |
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Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Australia |
11 |
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Galerie Mark Müller, Switzerland |
9 |
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MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Australia |
8 |
Biography: 
1949 Born in Sydney (AU)
Awards 2002 fellowship awards 2002
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 178  from 8.6.
until 20.10.
until 31.7.
Solo shows 48
2012
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| John Nixon - Epw: Applied Paintings Project For A Kindergarten I & Ii 2006 & 2011 - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts - PICA, Perth, WA |
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| Silver Monochrome - Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington |
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| John Nixon - Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Black White & Grey. Photographic Studies - CCP - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC |
2011
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| John Nixon EPW: SILVER - Anna Schwartz Gallery - Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC |
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| John Nixon - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| John Nixon - Epw: 1995 - PS - Project Space, Amsterdam |
2010
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| John Nixon - EPW: Polychrome - Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington |
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| EPW: Polychrome - Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland |
2009
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| John Nixon - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| John Nixon - Peloton, Sydney, NSW |
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| John Nixon - Anna Schwartz Gallery - Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC |
2007
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| John Nixon - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| John Nixon - Anna Schwartz Gallery - Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC |
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| John Nixon, EPW: POLYCHROME - TarraWarra Museum of Art, Box Hill, VIC |
2006
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| John Nixon - Anna Schwartz Gallery - Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC |
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| John Nixon - Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia - CACSA, Adelaide, SA |
2005
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| John Nixon - Epw - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
2004
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| John Nixon - EPW 2004 - ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC |
2003
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| John Nixon - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| John Nixon - Experimental Painting Workshop - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
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| John Nixon - Anna Schwartz Gallery - Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC |
2002
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| John Nixon - EPW:Orange 2002 - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2001
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| John Nixon - Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus |
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| John Nixon - EPW:O - PS - Project Space, Amsterdam |
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| John Nixon - Experimental Painting Workshop: Orange - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
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| John Nixon - Anna Schwartz Gallery - Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC |
1999
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| Main Spaces I & II: John Nixon - CCNOA - Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels |
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| John Nixon - Experimental Painting Workshop: Orange - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
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| John Nixon - EPW:ORANGE - PS - Project Space, Amsterdam |
1998
1997
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| John Nixon - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| John Nixon: E.P. & O.W. - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington |
1996
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| John Nixon - Epw 1985-1996 - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
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| John Nixon - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| John Nixon: EPW Mini-Paintings - The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA |
1995
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| John Nixon - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| John Nixon et Le Group Otto - Fri Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg |
1993
1992
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| John Nixon - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1991
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| John Nixon - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1990
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| John Nixon - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1988
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| John Nixon - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1987
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| John Nixon - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1985
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| John Nixon - Galerie Düsseldorf, Mosman Park, WA |
1982
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| John Nixon - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
1979
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| Two Works - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
Group shows 127
2013
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| Regimes of Value - VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery - The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC |
2012
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| Villa Rafaela Esquisses de la future Collection : Selection I - Art & Public, Geneva |
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| AC4CA Australian Center for Concrete Art - Perth - FABRIKculture, Hégenheim |
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| Geometric Abstraction - Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland |
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| Polaroids: Post-punk Photography In Brisbane, 1979–1982 - David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Masculin Feminin (part1) - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2011
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| Group Exhibition - Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland |
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| V.A. - Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, VIC |
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| O - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| AC4CA - Konkrete2 - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
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| Sno 67 - SNO - Sydney Non Objective Group, Sydney, NSW |
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| Projection - Hebel 121, Basel |
2010
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| The Artist as Collector: Olivier Mosset - Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson - MOCA, Tucson, AZ |
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| John Nixon and David Tremlett - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
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| B&W - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Sno 60 - SNO - Sydney Non Objective Group, Sydney, NSW |
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| composition - Conical Inc, Melbourne, VIC |
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| duetto - Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA |
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| duetto - AEAF - Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA |
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| Portrait de l’artiste en motocycliste - Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel |
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| Melbourne-Brisbane: punk, art and after - The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC |
2009
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| Summer - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
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| Portrait de l’artiste en motocycliste - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
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| Collage - Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland |
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| COLORS - Galerie Jean Greset, Besançon |
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| Concrete Now! Introducing PS - Highland Institute of Contemporary Art, Dalcrombie, Inverness-shire (Scotland) |
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| Weltanschauung Visione Del Mondo - Art Forum Würth Capena, Capena |
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| Das Quadrat in der Sammlung - Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst - Reutlingen, Reutlingen |
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| WHAM - painting & beyond - Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
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| John Nixon / Julian Dashper - - Laure Genillard, London (England) (closed, 2010) |
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| SNO 45 - SNO - Sydney Non Objective Group, Sydney, NSW |
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| PS 1999 - 2009 - Kunstruimte 09, Groningen |
2008
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| is it tomorrow yet? - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
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| YO, MO’ MODERNISM 1 - CCNOA - Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels |
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| The - The Suburban, Oak Park, IL |
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| Aus Australien - Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch |
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| Daniel Göttin, John Nixon, Helen Smith and Jurek Wybraniec - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
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| MAXImin - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
2007
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| Australia - Contemporary Non-Objective Art - Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn |
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| Recent Acquisitions: Monash University Collection - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| La vida privada - Coleccion Josep Civit - CDAN - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza - Fundación Beulas, Huesca |
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| Materiality - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| SNO 31 - SNO - Sydney Non Objective Group, Sydney, NSW |
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| Abstraction / Architecture / Space - RMIT Project Space / Spare Room, Carlton, VIC |
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| Milan Mrkusich / John Nixon - Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland |
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| Der zweite Blick, Werke der Sammlung - Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst - Reutlingen, Reutlingen |
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| Then Ao. The Narrows Of Peloton - Peloton, Sydney, NSW |
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| Backward Glance: Important works from the 1980s - John Buckley Gallery, Richmond, VIC |
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| A Dozen Roses and Polychrome Paintings and Selected Works - Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington |
2006
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| Lucio Fontana and John Nixon: A Dialogue - NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
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| SNO 23 - SNO - Sydney Non Objective Group, Sydney, NSW |
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| we're open - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| abstract art now - strictly geometrical? - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen |
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| Works - Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland |
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| 2 Steps - Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo |
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| 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art - Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide, SA |
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| Conversation with Art, on Art. bauhaus to Contemporary Art - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo |
2005
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| 15 Years of Conny Dietzschold Gallery - Anniversary Exhibition - Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| RE/Thinking - Bus Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
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| The RMIT Project - RMIT Project Space / Spare Room, Carlton, VIC |
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| Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects / Store 5 / 1st Floor - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| minimal approach...concrete tendencies - Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2004
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| Before Night - After Nature - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| an exhibition of multiples - Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington |
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| The DaimlerChrysler Collection - South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town |
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| To Look Within: Self Portraits in Australia - National Portrait Gallery , Canberra, ACT |
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| Everyday Minimal - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| DaimlerChrysler Collection for South Africa - Museum Africa, Johannesburg |
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| The Daimler Art Collection - Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria |
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| Stephen Bram, A.D.S. Donaldson, John Nixon, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Kyle Jenkins - Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington |
2003
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| Handgepäck - Galerie Royal, Munich |
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| John Nixon / Stephen Roach / David Thomas - Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Conceptualism in Brisbane - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| The Lamp in My Studio - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| Three-way abstraction: Works from the Monash University Collection - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection - The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
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| Exhibition Group - Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| The Lamp in My Studio - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| Untitled - Abstraction from the Contemporary Australian Collection - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
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| The DaimlerChrysler Collection - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
2002
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| Paperworks 2 - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Group exhibition - Mestna Galerija / City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana |
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| 2step - CCNOA - Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels |
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| A Painting and A Sculpture - The Physics Room, Christchurch |
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| Energy Fields - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
2001
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| Sarah Cottier in Melbourne - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Manzoni + Nixon - Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst - Reutlingen, Reutlingen |
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| Lightness of Being: Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| Marco Fusinato, Kyle Jenkins, John Nixon - PS - Project Space, Amsterdam |
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| Home and away - recent acquisitions from the Chartwell collection - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington |
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| Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Australien - Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz |
2000
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| John Nixon and Mike Parr - Galerie Conny Dietzschold, Cologne |
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| GdeF Group show - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
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| Spitting and Biting: Ten contemporary artists and the print - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| John Nixon / Piero Manzoni - HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning |
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| Zeitgenössicher Fotokunst aus Australien - NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin |
1999
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| Group Show - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Australian / New Zealand Connection - Galerie Conny Dietzschold, Cologne |
1997
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| Group Show - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Reduction - Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, WA |
1996
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| Raindrops on Roses - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1995
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| John Armleder, A.D.S. Donaldson, Olivier Mosset, John Nixon - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1994
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| Paperwork - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Groom Nixon Wulffen - Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst - Reutlingen, Reutlingen |
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| White - Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1992
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| Group Show - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1990
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| 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990 - The Readymade Boomerang - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Group Show - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1988
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| History - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
1987
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| Ten By Ten: 1975-1985 - Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne, VIC |
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| The Shadow of Reason - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
1986
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| Q Space + Q Space Annex 1980–81 - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Tableaux abstraits - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Slouching Towards Bethlehem: an Exhibition of Preparatory and Informal Drawings - Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne, VIC |
1985
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| Recession Art and Other Strategies - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
1983
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| Minimalism x Six - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
1982
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| documenta 7 - Documenta, Kassel |
Dealer Directory 7 |
Australia
| | Anna Schwartz Gallery - Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
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| | Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, NSW
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Denmark
| | Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus
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New Zealand
| | Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
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| | Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
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Switzerland
| | Galerie Evelyne Canus, Basel
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Collections 6

Australia
| | Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
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| | MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC
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| | The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
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Belgium
| | CCNOA - Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels
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Germany
| | Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst - Reutlingen, Reutlingen
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Catalogs
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