Susan Norrie
SUSAN NORRIE
Born in Sydney, Australia, 1953
EDUCATION
1974-76 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1972 National Art School, Sydney
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 “Havoc,” la biennale di Venezia, Italy
2004 “Undertow,” Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2003 “eddy,” The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia
“susan norrie: notes from underground,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
“Undertow,” AGNSW Contemporary Art Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2001 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
“Termostaatti,” Nykytaiteen Museo, Valtion Taidemuseo, Helsinki
2000 “Grey Goods,” Jonathan Stuart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
“Issue 141,” Mori Gallery, Sydney
1998-99 “Grey Goods,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1998 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
“Susan Norrie,” Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1997 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
“Loophole,” Mori Gallery, Sydney
“Shudder,” Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1996 “Inquisitions,” Mori Gallery, Sydney
1995 “Susan Norrie Projects 1990-1995,” Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
“Shudder,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1994 “error of closure,” Artspace, Sydney
“Susan Norrie,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
“trace,” Mori Gallery, Sydney; Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1993 “room for error,” City Gallery, Wellington and traveling
1991 “vis-à-vis,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1990 “R.S.V.P.,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1989 “Exclusively,” Street Level, Sydney
“Peripherique,” Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
1988 “Objet d’Art,” Mori Gallery, Sydney
1987 “Susan Norrie Paintings 1986-87, (les romans de cape et d’epee),” Centre d’Art Contemporain Passages, Troyes, France; Hotel Pozzo Di Borgo, Paris
1986 “Susan Norrie/Paintings 1983-86,” University Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
“Tall Tales & True,” Mori Gallery, Sydney
1983 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Mori Gallery, Sydney
1980 Mori Gallery, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 “REAL(ist),” Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
2007 “Images and Words,” Project Space, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
2005-2006 “2005 Collector’s Show,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
2004 “Enola,” Cinema Capacete IV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Living together is easy,” Art Tower, Mito Museum, Japan; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
“On Reason and Emotion,” Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
“Plug-in,” Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
“Summertime,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
2003 “Black & White,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Bloom: Mutation, Toxicity and the Sublime,” Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
“Concepts,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Face Up,” Nationalgalerie in Hamburger Bahnof, Berlin
2002 “Celebrating 30 Years,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Fieldwork,” National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
“Summer,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Melbourne Festival Visual Arts Program 2002, “Susan Norrie Undertow,” Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2001 “I Love New York,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Monochromes,” University Art Museum, the University of Queensland, Brisbane
Morphologhes; (dis) Location Project, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Lightness of Being: Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia, Monash University, Melbourne
“Objects of Desire II,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
2002-2004 “Future Cinema,” ZKM, Karisruhe, Germany; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, CC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
2000 “The Creative Surround: The Framed Image,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Moving Image Project,” Sydney International Airport, Sydney
“Plugged In: Art with an Electrical Connection,” Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
“Rags to Riches,” Fondation de la Tapisserie des Arts du Tissu, Belgium
“Zeitgenossische fotokunst aus Australien,” Neur Berliner Kunstverein. Touring in Germany.
1999-2000 ”Gateways,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1999 “Objects of Desire,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Signs of Life,” Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne
“Trace,” Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1998 “From Diptychs to Polyptychs,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“The Infinite Space: Women, Minimalism & the Sculptural Object,” Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
“On the Ashes of the Stars/Stephane Mallarme: a Celebration,” Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
“small scale LARGE SCALE,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“25 Years,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1997-98 “Collector’s Show,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1997 “Archives and the Everyday,” Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australia
“Off the Wall,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1996 “Small Scale,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Summer Pleasures, Summer Treasures,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery,
New York
1995 “Review/Preview,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Through a Fglass Darkly,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1994 “A Bouquet for Juan,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Romantisystem,” Canberra Contemporary Artspace
“Series and Editions,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Virtual Reality,” National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1993-94 “The Purloined Image,” Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan. Traveling to: Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin; Columbus Museum
of Art, Ohio; Louisiana State University School of Art Gallery, Baton Rouge; Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma; Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
“Thought Painting,” Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane and traveling
1993 “Looking at Seeing and Reading,” Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and traveling
“Mal was Anders, The Selection of the Selected,” Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1993 “20 Years,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1992 “The Purloined Image,” Flint Institute of Art, Michigan
“Strangers in Paradise: Contemporary Australian Art to Korea,” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
1991 “The Association City,” 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
“Black and White,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art,” Artspace/Pier 4, Sydney
1990-91 “Winter Gold,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1990 “Art with Text,” Monash University Art Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
“The Complex Picture—Australian Painting in the 1980’s,” College Gallery, Adelaide
“Out of Asia,” Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne and traveling
“Pure,” Mori Gallery, Sydney, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
“Red,” Mori Gallery, Sydney
“Temporal Frames,” Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1988 “Advance Australia Painting,” Auckland City Gallery, Auckland
“Dissonances: Australie-France,” Espace Vendome, Paris
The University of Melbourne, Artist-in-Residence 1975-1988, University Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
“The New Generation, (1983-88),” Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1987 “The Age of Collage, Australian Perspecta ‘87,” Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney
“Emerging Artists 1978-86,” Selections from the Exxon Series, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Innocence and Danger,” Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
“Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition,” Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (traveling exhibition)
“A New Romance,” Australian National Gallery, Canberra
“Voyage of Discovery, Australian Painting and Sculpture 1987,” The Crescent Gallery, Dallas
1986 “The Gothic: Perversity and its Pleasure,” Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (traveling exhibition)
“How Much Beauty Can I Stand?,” Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
“1980s,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
“On Site 2,” Centre for the Arts Gallery, Hobart
“Origins+Originality+Beyond,” The Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
“Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art,” Australian National Gallery, Canberra
“Series of Theories,” Mori Gallery, Sydney
1985 “Australian Perspecta ‘85,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
“Heartland,” Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong and traveling
“New Painting,” Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
“Still Life Studio,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1984 “Australian Visions: 1984 Exxon International Exhibition,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Form+Image+Sign,” Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1983 “Australian Perspecta,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize & The Sydney Morning Herald Art Scholarship for a City Heritage Painting 1983, Sydney
1982 “Six New Sydney Artists,” Axiom Gallery, Melbourne
1981 “12 NSW Young Contemporaries,” Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong and traveling
1980 “Project 33/ArtClothes,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1979 Group Exhibition, Students Gallery, Sydney
FELLOWSHIPS
2001 Artist in Residence, “(dis)Location project,” ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 Artist in Residence, Art and Industry, Christchurch, New Zealand
1999-2000 Australia Council Fellowship
1992 Visiting Scholar, University of Indiana, Bloomington
1990 Artist-in-Residence, Greene Street Studio, New York
1989 Artist-in-Residence, The University of Western Sydney, Sydney
1987 Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellow, France
1984 Artist-in-Residence, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
AWARDS/COMMISSIONS
2004 APA Scholarship for PhD studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney
1997 Seppelt Prize, Contemporary Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1986 IBM (Australia Ltd) Commission, Tapestry, Untitled (woven by Victorian Tapestry Workshop), Melbourne, 1987)
1983 Henry Salkauskas Purchase Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sydney Heritage Award, The Sydney Morning Herald Prize
LECTURE
2004 “Undertow,” Guy Fisher Gallery Public Programme Events, University of Auckland, New Zealand
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
The Baillieu Myer Collection, Melbourne
Sir James and Lady Cruthers Collection, Perth
Dannheisser Collection, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Collection Moet & Chandon, Epernay, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Principal Financial Group, Los Angeles
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong