Richard Bell
Born 1953, Charleville, Queensland. Lives and works Brisbane.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Old Aboriginal Sayings, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Dredging up the Past, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2017
Dredging up the Past, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2016
Embassy, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns & Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Richard Bell: Imagining Victory (touring exhibition), Casula Powerhouse, Sydney; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery; Wollongong Art Gallery; Murray Art Museum Albury; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; Gosford Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
2015
Embassy, Performa 15, New York City
2014
Embassy, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2013
Imagining Victory, Artspace, Sydney.
A Suppository of All Wisdom, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Lessons On Etiquette And Manners, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
2011 - 13
Uz Vs. Them, touring Tufts University, Boston; University of Kentucky, Kentucky; Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver; Indiana University Art Museum, Indiana.
2011
You'd Believe Me If I Was A White Man, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2009
I Am Not Sorry, Location One, New York, USA
Richard Bell: Provocateur, University Of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
2008
Scratch An Aussie Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Window Shopping, Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne.
2007
Psalm Singing, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2006
Richard Bell: Positivity, Institute Of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2005
Transition, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2004
Colour, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2003
Made Men, Metroarts, Brisbane.
2002
Discomfort, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane.
2001
A Few Good Men, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane.
1995
Text Ya, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney.
1994
Prospectus .38, Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide.
Prospectus .44, Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne.
1993
Prospectus .303, Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Armidale.
Prospectus .25, Moree Regional Gallery, NSW.
Prospectus .22, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane.
1992
Pretty: Serious, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville.
1991
This Black + White Thin, Spring Hill Baths, Brisbane.
Black + White Thing, Moree Regional Gallery, NSW.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Violent Salt (touring), Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australian Capital Territory
2019
Violent Salt (touring), Artspace Mackay, Mackay, New South Wales
Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Queensland
Australia. Antipodean Stories, Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea Milano, Milan
National Anthem, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
Personal Structures - Identities, presented by the European Cultural Centre, Giardino della Marianessa, Venice
OK Democracy, We Need to Talk, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
All that shimmers, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, QLD
TRACE Biennial and Auction, West End, QLD
2018
Frontier Imaginaries ed. 5: Trade Markings, Vanabbe Museum, Eindhoven.
Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2017
Australian Collecton Permanent Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia, Collectors Room, Berlin
Toxic Assets: Fronteir Imaginaries Ed. No.3, e-flux and Columbia University, New York
The National: New Australian Art, Carriageworks, Sydney
2016
Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Beyond the tower: 40 years and counting, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
20th Biennale of Sydney, Musuem of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Sonsbeek 2016, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, Netherlands
BELL invites..., SMBA Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Trigger Points, Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University, New York State
Embassy: Richard Bell + Emory Douglas, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2015
When Silence Falls, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Propositions Three, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Performa 15, New York City, United States of America
Neither Back Nor Forward: Acting in the Present, 16th Jakarta Biennale 2015, Jakarta, Indonesia
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
9/11, MOANA Project Space, Perth
Reflex, Figment, Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
All Power to the People: Transcending Borders, Richard Bell & Emory Douglas, Milani Gallery, Brisbnae, Queensland
Blakout, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, New South Wales
See You at the Barricades, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Archibald Prize 2015, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
2014
Action at a Distance: The Life and Legacy of John Stewart Bell, Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Giving Voice: The Art of Dissent, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania.
The Working Life, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Protest Songs: Artful Actions, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, New South Wales.
Conflict: Contemporary responses to war, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home (touring), Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand.
2013
Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan.
The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
Sakahàn, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa.
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Plan B, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Victoria.
2012
Edge of Elsewhere, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney.
Propositions, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2011 - 12
Ten Years of Contemporary Art: The James C Sourris AM Collection, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2010
4th Auckland Triennal: Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, Auckland, New Zealand.
2009
Terra Nullius, ACC Galerie, Weimar & HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany.
Marelle: The Hidden Mission, Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales.
2008
Scratch An Aussie, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney.
Half Light, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Revolutions: Forms That Turn, 2008 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
New Millenium, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW.
Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Carlton Studios, Melbourne.
2007
Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial, NGA Canberra (touring exhibition 2007-9)
Power & Beauty, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
Sunshine State, Smart State, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
The Independence Project, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia.
2006
Parallel Lives: New Painting in Australia, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne.
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2005
Queensland Live, Queensland Art Gallery Touring exhibition (2005 - 08).
2004
Blak Insights, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
2004, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2002
The White Show Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
Lines II, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane.
2001
Dreamtime: The Dark and The Light, Sammlung Essl, Austria.
The White Desert, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
A Few of My Favourite Things, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane.
1999 - 2000
The new Republics, Touring Adelaide, England, Canada, South Africa.
1997
Heritage Award, Canberra.
1996
Heritage Award, Canberra.
1995
Telstra National Indigenous Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin.
Heritage Award, Canberra.
1994 - 95
True Colours, Touring London, Liverpool, Leicester, Perth, Perth, Sydney.
1993
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Aratjara, Dusseldorf, London, Humelbaek.
Australian Aboriginal Art, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco.
Ian Abdulla, Richard Bell, Harry Wedge, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists' Cooperative, Sydney.
Plenty Of Campfires, Space Plentitude, Brisbane.
Political Works, Space Plentitude, Brisbane.
1992 - 93
9th Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1992
Stories, Kerava Museum, Helsinki.
Aboriginal*Crisis* Live, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
1991
Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Unfamiliar Territory: Adelaide Biennial Of Australian ArT- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
1990
Balance, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
1989
Aboriginal Art: Urban And Tribal, Wiumulli, Brisbane.
Awards & Prizes
2018
Winner, The Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton
2013
Creative Australia Fellowship, the Australian Council for the Arts
2004
Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2003
Winner, National Telstra Indigenous Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory.
1993
Winner, National Aboriginal Art Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre.
Selected Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Artbank, Sydney.
Gold Coast City Art Gallery.
Flinders University, Victoria.
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Bibliography
101 Contemporary Australian Artists. Edited by Kelly Gellatly, The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2012, pp. 7, 30-31.
20th Biennial of Sydney: The Future is Already Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed. Biennial of Sydney Ltd., 2016, pp.132-133.
5th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art: Bolshe Sveta, More Light. Edited by Catherine De Zegher, Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2013.
Bell, Richard, et al. Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners. Monash University Museum of Art, 2013.
Bell, Richard, et al. Richard Bell: Positivity. Institute of Modern Art, 2007.
Bell, Richard, et al. “Contemporary Art and its audiences: A Queensland View, Roundtable Discussion.” GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art. Edited by Rebecca Mutch, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, 2015, pp. 14-25.
Conland, Natasha. Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon: The 4th Auckland Triennial. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2010, pp. 62-63, 122.
Fisher, Laura. “The Art/Ethnography Binary: Post-Colonial Tensions within the Field of Australian Aboriginal Art.” Cultural Sociology, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, pp. 251-270.
Foley, Gary. “Richard Bell: Cultural Warrior and Cosmic Avenger.” Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2014, pp. 35-36.
Geczy, Adam, et al. “Insurgence at the Museum of Democracy: An Interview.” Art Monthly Australia, Summer 2013, pp. 13-15.
Gordon, Craig, and Ryan Presley. Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection. University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2016, pp. 76-77.
Maju Kena, Mundur Kena: Bertindak Sekarang. Jakarta Biennial, 2015, pp. 126-127.
McLean, Ian. Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art. Reaktion Books Ltd, 2016, pp. 223, 237-8, 248-9.
Murray, Genevieve. “Contested Space: Art and the Right to the City (In Conversation with Keg De Souza and Richard Bell).” Assemble Papers, issue #6 2016, pp. 8-17.
Putsch: proppaNOW. Tandanya - National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, 2010, pp.18-19.
Reilly, Maura. Richard Bell: Uz vs. Them. American Federation of Arts, 2011.
Robb, Leigh. Richard Bell: Embassy. Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2014.
Sakahan: International Indigenous Art. National Gallery of Canada, 2013, pp.160-161.
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, 2015, pp. 242.
The Brisbane Club. The James C. Sourris Collection: Selected Works. James C. Souriss, 2010, pp. 6, 14-17.