Natalya Hughes
Education
2009
PhD Art Theory/ Art History and Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney.
2001
Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts, Honours (1st Class), QUT, Brisbane.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
Maybe I was painting the woman in me, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2016
All of Your Women and Some of Mine, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Woody, The Garage ARI, Canberra
2015
girls girls girls, Firstdraft, Sydney
2014
Looking Thrice, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2013
Looking Full, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne
2012
Significant Men, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2011
Party Pooper, DB Projects, Sydney, Australia.
2010
There Is Something Missing From Your Magic Realism, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne.
Totem Totem, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Floppy, Substation Gallery, Singapore
2008
Back and Forth, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2006
Little Birds, Neon Parc, Melbourne.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
New Woman, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
Trace Biennial and Auction, West End, Brisbane
The Abyss: Strategies in Contemporary Art, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane
2018
Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2015
Patternation, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sutherland, NSW
Quarternary, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
An Imprecise Science, Artspace, Sydney
2014
Office Work, Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
I Miss You More When it Rains, Dog Park Project Space, Christchurch, New Zealand
2013
December Letters, Orgy Park, Bushwick, NY, USA
Speak to Me, Sullivan + Strumf, Sydney
2012
ANIMAL/HUMAN, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane.
Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2011
The James Souris Collection, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
New Psychadelia, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane.
2010
Painting Group, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne.
Zen to Kawaii: The Japanese Effect, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
2009
The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne.
Creative Australia and the Ballet Russes, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne.
2008
New, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane.
Neo Goth, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane.
2007
Too Near Too Far, Care/ Of Contemporary Art Space, Milan, Italy.
2006
Parallel Lives: TarraWarra Painting Biennale, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria.
2005
Prime: New Art from Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Object/Subject, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane.
2004
A Cut Across, Plimsoll Gallery, University of TAS, Hobart, Australia.
The Australian Drawing Biennale, ANU Drill Hall, Canberra, Australia.
2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2003
Costume and Memory: Natalya Hughes & Elizabeth Lamont, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
Awards & Prizes
2019
Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
2018
Finalist, Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2010
Arts Victoria International Program: Export and Touring Grant.
2009
Art Incubator and GCAS Art Residency, Singapore
Finalist, ABN Amro Art Award.
2007
Finalist, ABN Amro Art Award.
2006
Gertrude Contemporary Art Space Studio Residency
2004 - 07
Australian Postgraduate Award
2004
Shortlisted, John McCaughey Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2002
Melville Haysom Scholarship and Residency, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
MetroArts Residency, MetroArts, Brisbane.
Studios & Residencies
2019
Open Studio, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Bibliography
Ash, Romy, ‘Drawn Together’, Frankie Magazine, No.27, Jan-Feb 2009.
Badiou, Alain, Concept of the Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics, cover image, Re.Press, 2007.
The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, cover image, Re.Press, 2011.
Brand, S. & Cuyler, Amanda, Summer, Brand and Cuyler, 2004.
Crawford, Ashley,’Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today’, Art & Australia, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2006.
Gobe, Claire, ‘Other Paintings: Natalya Hughes’, Eyeline Magazine, No. 52, 2003.
Gellatly, Kelly, ‘Fast-Forward Painting’, 2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria and The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2004.
Goddard, Angela, Natalya Hughes, catalogue essay, Metroarts, 2002.
‘Artist Profile: Natalya Hughes’, Artichoke, No. 25, 2008.
Harrington, Zoe & Hughes, Natalya, ‘Interview’, Sculpture and the Enemies, Big Owl Publishing, No. 2, 2012.
Helmrich, Michelle, ‘Natalya Hughes: Rewriting Seduction’, 2004 Australian Drawing Biennale Catalogue, Drill Hall Gallery, 2004.
Hibberd, Lily, The Punctiform Arabesque, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, 2007.
Hickey, Gary, ‘Natalya Hughes: A Pernicious Beauty’, New, UQ Art Museum, 2008.
Moody, Sebastian, ‘Psychedelia Now’, Art & Australia, Vol. 49, No. 4, Winter 2012.
Morrel, Timothy, ;Smart Art: Natalya Hughes’, Australia Art Collector, No. 26, 2003.
Richards, Bree, ‘Emerging Artists: The Current Crop’, Ten Years of Contemporary Art: The James Souris Collection, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, 2011.
‘Natalya Hughes’, Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, 2012.
Rainbird, Stephen, ‘Natalya Hughes’, A Generosity of Spirit: Recent Australian Women’s Art
from the QUT Art Collection, QUT Art Museum, 2010.
Souris, James C, The James C. Souris Collection: Selected Works, The Brisbane Club’s Collector’s Series, 2010.
Stein, Amelia, ‘Women of Substance’, Vogue Magazine Australia, May 2012.
TarraWarra Museum of Art. Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, 2006.
The Lifted Brow, cover image, No. 10, 2010 - 11.
Tonkin, Steven, ‘In the Wings’, Creative Australia and the Ballet Russes, Arts Centre Trust. 2009.
Neo Goth: Back in Black, UQ Art Museum, 2008.
Collections
Queensland Art Gallery
UQ Art Museum
QUT Art Museum
Art Bank AustraliaCorporate and private collections.
Other
2001 - 05
Co-founder and contributor to Local Art, a print and online publication.