D Harding

Dale Harding: "The Environment is Part of Who You Are" | TateShots

D Harding was born in 1982 in Moranbah, Australia and is currently based in Brisbane, Australia. Harding works in a wide variety of media to explore the visual and social languages of their communities as cultural continuum. A descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, they draw upon and maintain the spiritual and philosophical sensibilities of their cultural inheritance within the framework of contemporary art internationally.

Harding’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2021); Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2021); Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2019); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2019, 2015); and Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). Their work has also been included in group exhibitions throughout Australia and overseas, including at Tate Modern, London (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2020); PAC Milano, Milan (2019); Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France (2019); Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (2019); Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2018); Liverpool Biennial (2018); TarraWarra Biennial (2018); Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2017); Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2017). 

Their work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Tate Modern, London; Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane; Queensland Art Gallery ǀ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

In July 2019 Harding was awarded a Doctorate of Visual Arts from Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University. They are currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at QCA.