D Harding
b. 1982 Moranbah, Queensland. Lives and works in Brisbane, Queensland.
Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, Central Queensland
Education and Academic Work
2020-ongoing
Postdoctoral Fellow, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane
2019
Doctorate of Visual Arts, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane
2009-2012
Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane
2013
Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Through a lens of visitation, Monash University Musuem of Art, Melbourne (touring to Chau Chak Wing Musuem, The University of Sydney, in 2022)
There is no before, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth
2019
Iterative Work, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Dale Harding: Current Iterations, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
The Golden Mile, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2018
The Drive Home, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2017
To cast a bright shadow, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2016
I refuse you my death, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2015
White Collared, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2012
Colour by Number, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Group Exhibitions
2021
A Year in Art: Australia 1992, Tate Modern, London
On Fire: Climate and Crisis, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Cry of the Land, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
On Earth, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
Out of Place, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University
Indigenous Art Program 2021: HYPERLOCAL, Brisbane, curated by BlakLash Creative
Ritual: the past in the present, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns
2020
Things Entangling, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, in partnership with KADIST, Tokyo
20:20, Murray Art Musuem Albury, Albury
First, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe
Notes on Perception, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2019
Tradelines, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Bundaberg
Australia. Antipodean Stories, Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea Milano, Milan
Surface Tension, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
I, Object, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscapes, UNSW Galleries, Sydney.
15th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, Fagor Factory, Lyon
Vis-ability, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
2018
Soon enough: art in action, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
Beautiful world, where are you? 2018 Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
Continental Drift: From Blak to Black, CIAF, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns
From Will to Form, 2018 TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC
2017
National Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Australian Collection (permanent exhibition), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
dOCUMENTA (14), Athens and Kassel
The Dust Never Settles, University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia, Australia
The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Close Enough: Young Queensland Artists, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Sunshine Coast, Australia
2016
Re-visioning Histories, Bundoora Homestead, Darebin, Victoria
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
15 Artists, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Redcliffe, QLD
For Collective Unconscious, Artspace, Auckland, NZ
With Secrecy and Despatch, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Ua numi le fau, Gertrude Contemporary, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2015
GOMA Q, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Shimmer, South Australian Museum, Jam Factory, Adelaide
2014
Seoul – Sydney: Contemporary Korean and Australian Prints, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul, South Korea; UNSW Art and Design Campus, Sydney
Outlaws, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda
Solid!, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
SafARI 2014, Cross Arts Projects, Sydney
2013
Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize 2013, finalist
The GAS: Graduate Art Show, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
On Men, FELTspace, Adelaide
string theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Down the Rabbit Hole, Project Gallery, Webb Gallery and POP, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University; USQ Art Gallery University of Southern Queensland
interconnectivity, The Backdoor Gallery, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, (QAGOMA), Brisbane
Projecting our future 2013 by Tony Albert, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2012
Apertivo, Project Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane
Sovereignty, Webb Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane Addition3, Addition Gallery, West End, Brisbane
The GAS: Graduate Art Show, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
Pay Attention project by Tony Albert, unDisclosed National Indigenous Art Triennial, NGA, Canberra
2011
Second year sculpture, Project Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane
2010
Pay Attention project by Tony Albert, Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington
Public Art Commissions
2020
Blue Breaths; Site Survey (Metro Arts), Metro Arts, Brisbane
2018
Spine 1 (universe); Spine 2; Spine 3 (radiance), University of Sydney, Sydney
Awards
2019
Tate/MCA Acquisition, supported by Qantas
2016
15 Artists Acquisitive Prize, Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection
2013
University Medal, Griffith University, Brisbane
2009-13
Griffith Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
2012
GAS 2012, Graduate Art Show Award, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
Selected Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Artspace Mackay, Mackay
Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane
Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Tate Modern, London, UK
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
University of Sydney, Sydney
Publications
2021
Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation. Edited by Hannah Mathews and Dale Harding. Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art; Sydney: Powered by Power, 2021.
2017
Dale Harding: Body of Objects. Edited by Angela Goddard, with an Interview by Hendrik Folkerts. Brisbane: Griffith University; Kassel: documenta 14, 2017.
Selected Bibliography
2021
“Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation,” by Hilary Thurlow, MeMO, May 8, 2020, https://memoreview.net/blog/dale-harding-through-a-lens-of-visitation-at-monash-university-museum-of-art-by-hilary-thurlow.
“Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation,” by Sheridan Hart, Art Guide Australia, April 30, 2020, https://artguide.com.au/dale-harding-through-a-lens-of-visitation/.
Out of Place. Edited by Oscar Capezio. Canberra: Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, 2021.
2020
Things Entangling. Edited by Kyongfa Che and Elodie Royer. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in partnership with KADIST, https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en/exhibitions/ThingsEntangling_WEB.pdf.
2019
“Dale Harding’s Narratives of Displacement,” Hendrik Folkerts, Frieze 22, September 2019, https://frieze.com/article/dale-hardings-narratives-displacement.
"Bridging the divide," Ann Stephen, Muse: Art, Culture, Antiquities, Natural History 22, 2019, pp. 15-17. https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/chau-chak-wing/our-research/muse/muse-issue22-mar-2019.pdf
2018
“Dale Harding: Always Painting, Always Sculpting,” Tim Walsh, ArtAsaiaPacific 111, Nov/Dec 2018: 68-69.
“'This is our time,’” Conversation with Tim Walsh, Art + Australia Online, Nov 2018: http://www.artandaustralia.com/online/discussions/our-time.
“How TarraWarra Museum of Art is Part of the Art,” Theo Chapman, Australian Financial Review, 17 August 2018.
"Dale Harding in Conversation with Hilary Thurlow," Conversation with Hilary Thurlow, eyeline 90, 2018.
2017
“The Present Continuum: A Conversation on Carnarvon Goge, Ambivalent Artifacts, and Reproduction as Artistic Method in the Work,” Conversation with Hendrik Folkerts, Mousse Magazine 57 (2017): 244-49.
“Dale Harding, Daniel Boyd: The Australian Collection Commissions,” Bruce Johnson McLean, Artlines, no. 4 (2017): 25-31.
“Telling the Story of Australian Art,” Kyla McFarlane, Artlines, no. 3 (2017): 22-31.
“Stand Up: Remembering the 1816 Appin Massacre,” Jessica Neath, Eyeline, no. 86 (2017): 66-69.
“The art of Station Time: the Aboriginal experience of pastoralism in Australia,” Darren Jorgensen, World Art 7, no. 1 (2017): 107-122.
“Dale Harding,” Tina Baum, Defying Empire exhibition catalogue, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2017, 69-70.
“We Start with the First Australians,” Kyla McFarlane, QAGOMA Blog, September 2017, https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/dale-harding/.
“Dale Harding discusses his incredible year,” Interview with Louise Martin-Chew, Art Guide Australia, September 2017, https://artguide.com.au/dale-harding-discusses-his-incredible-year.
2015
GOMAQ exhibition catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2015.
‘GOMA turns its attention close to home in new exhibition,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, July 10 2015.
“The Minimalism, Hessian and Steel,” Darren Jorgensen, Das Superpaper, no. 3 (2014): 50-53.
2014
Outlaws exhibition catalogue, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, VIC, 2014.
Dale Harding, artist. The Weekend Edition, Brisbane, 13 March 2014.
2013
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia exhibition cat- alogue, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, QAGOMA, 2013.
Artlink, vol. 33, no. 3, 2013, p. 92
‘String theory’, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, August 31, 2013.
string theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art catalogue, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2013.
2012
Edition 3, Addition3 exhibition catalogue, Addition Gallery, Brisbane
‘Colour By Number’, aired on AWAYE!, Radio National, Saturday 29 September 2012.
“Colour by Number,” Angelita Howell, Artlink, 32, no. 4, (2012): 92.
Hetti Perkins, “Colour by Number: Dale Harding” (catalogue essay), Metro Arts, Brisbane, 2012.
unDisclosed, 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial catalogue, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2012.