Robert Hunter
ROBERT HUNTER
1947 - 2014 - Born in Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Paintings, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Robert Hunter, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2011 New Paintings / 1971 Installation, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2007 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Anna Schwartz Gallery at The Depot Gallery, Sydney
2003 Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Gallerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
2000 Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1999 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Wendy Rogers, Perth
1996 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1995 Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1992 Annandale Galleries, Sydney
ARCO, Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
1991 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1989 Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
1988 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1987 Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1986 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1984 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1983 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1982 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1981 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1979 Gallery 321, New York
1976 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1975 Lisson Gallery, London
1974 Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
1973 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1971 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1970 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1968 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2018 The Field Revisited, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2015 The Distillation of Light, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
2014 Taking it All Away: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
2013 Vibrant Matter, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
2012 Less is More, Heidei Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Vibrant Matter, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
2011 Change, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Slowness, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Ten Years of Contemporary Australian Art: The James C. Sourris AM Collection, QAGOMA, Brisbane
2009 Gallerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
2005 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2005, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2003 Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne
2002 Meridian, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Good Vibrations: the legacy of Op art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, , Melbourne
2001 Phenomena New Painting in Australia: 1, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
2000 Monochromes, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
low-down: Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton
1999 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Visy Board Art Prize, The Orangery, South Australia
1998 Objects and Ideas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Minimal Art and Its Aftermath - selected from the Kerry Stokes Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia in conjunction with the Festival of Perth
Everyday: Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1997 Six Leading Artists, United Overseas Bank, Singapore, (with Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne)
I had a dream: Australian Art in the 1960s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Australian Art in the 1980s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996 Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia, Oxy Gallery, Osaka; The Hakone Open-Air Museum Ninotaira,
Hokone-machi, Japan; Dong-Ah Gallery, Seoul (with Sherman Galleries, Sydney)
1995 Australia Felix, Benalla Easter Arts Festival, The Grandstand
Contemporary Australian Painting, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1994 Lisson Gallery, London
1991 Banal Art, Artspace, Sydney
1988 Ten x Ten, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Advance Australian Painting, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
The 1988 Australian Biennale: From the Southern Cross (A World View of Art c.1940- 1988) , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988, Australian Bicentennial Authority, Art Gallery of South Australia
1987 What is This Thing Called Science? , University Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Painters and Sculptors: Diversity in Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1986 Surface for Reflection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Fears and Scruples, University Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Geometric Abstraction, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1986 Pharmakon, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1985 The Subject of Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1984 The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1980 XI Biennale de Paris, Paris
1978 Carl Andre and Robert Hunter, Pinacotheca, Melbourne; Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle
1976 Minimal Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1974 Eight Contemporary Artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Painting Exhibition, Scottish Art Council Gallery, Edinburgh
1973 Minimal, Ewing Gallery, Melbourne
1971 Second Indian Triennale, Lalit Kala Academy, New Deli
The Situation Now: Object or Post-Object Art? , Contemporary Art Society, Sydney; Ewing Gallery, Melbourne
1968 The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1967 Australian Young Contemporaries, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
Collections
Musuem of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Tate Britain, London, UK
A.I.M. Collection, Melbourne
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Art Gallery
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Geelong Art Gallery
Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Selected Bibliography
2006 'Robert Hunter' in Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection, 2006, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006, pp. 38-39.
2003 See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990's, Thames & Hudson in association with the Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Vizard Foundation, Melbourne.
2002 Jason Smith and Charles Green (eds.), Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne
2001 Michael Wardell, Phenomena New Painting in Australia: 1, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1998 John Stringer, Minimal Art and Its Aftermath - selected from the Kerry Stokes Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia in conjunction with the Festival of Perth
1996 Tom Nicholson, "Robert Hunter", in William Wright and Takeshi Kanazawa (eds.) Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia, Oxy Gallery, Osaka, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, p. 34
1995 Gary Catalano, "Something Out of Nothing: An Interview with Robert Hunter", Art & Australia, Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer pp. 200-205
Charles Green, Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970 - 1994, A World Art Book, Craftsman House, Melbourne
1989 Alan Dodge, "Robert Hunter and Minimal Art", Robert Hunter Paintings 1966-1988, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Charles Green, "Persistent Subjectivity: Revaluing Robert Hunter", Robert Hunter, Artist-in-Residence 1988, Melbourne University Museum of Art, Melbourne
1988 Jenepher Duncan, "Robert Hunter", Advance Australian Painting, Auckland, City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Linda Hicks-Williams & Frances Lindsay, The 1988 Australian Biennale: From the Southern Cross (A World View of Art c.1940 - 1988), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Daniel Thomas, "Twentieth Century Art: The Individual", Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988, Australian Bicentennial Authority, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1987 Lesley Dumbrell, Ten by Ten, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Jennifer Licht, Eight Contemporary Artists, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Robert Lindsay & Patrick McCaughey, Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bruce Pollard, Minimal Art in Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1986 Anthony Bond, Surface for Reflexion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1985 Paul McGillick, The Subject of Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1984 Ian Burn, et al, "Purity, Style, Amnesia", The Field Now, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Gary Catalano, "Lyricism Visible Beneath An Alien, Neutral Veneer", The Age, Melbourne, 27 June
Memory Holloway & Terry Smith, "Anything Goes", Art & Text, Melbourne
Robert Rooney, "The Great White Hunter" The Australian
1983 Frances Lindsay, "A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art", Art & Text, Sydney, Vol. 11, Spring
Terence Maloon, "Some Aspects of Art in Sydney", Australian Art Review 2, Warner Associates/Oxford University Press, Sydney
Ron Radford, Recent Australian Paintings, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Daniel Thomas & Mary Eagle, A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Peter Ward, "Curator Grasps the Nettle", The Australian, Sydney, 24 December
1982 Dr Gertude Langer, "Subtle and Gentle Vibrations”, The Brisbane Courier Mail, 6 September
1981 Leon Paroissien, "XI Biennale de Paris", Art & Australia, Vol. 18, No. 3, Sydney, March
Robert Rooney, "Hunter's a Quiet Contrast", The Age, Melbourne, 9 September
1979 Gary Catalano, "Robert Hunter", Art & Australia, Vol. 17, No. 1, Sydney, September
Joanna Mendelssohn, "Andre/Hunter Joint Exhibition", Art & Australia, Vol. 16, No. 3, Sydney, March
1975 Bruce Adams, "Robert Hunter", Studio International, Vol. 189, No. 974, London, March/April
Mervyn Horton, (ed.) Australian Painters of the 70's, Ure Smith, Sydney
Caroline Tisdall, "Robert Hunter", The Guardian, London, January
Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word, New York
1974 Thomas B. Hess, "The Rules of the Game", New York, New York, November
Robert Hughes, "Eight cool contemporaries", Time, New York, 11 November
Max Kozloff, "Transversing the Field", Eight Contemporary Artists at MOMA, Artforum, New York, Vol. 13, No. 4
Jennifer Phipps, Minimal Art, catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1973 Maureen Gilchrist, "Here's Paintings Stripped to the Bare Essentials", The Age, Melbourne, 18 April
Daniel Thomas & Frances McCarthy, Recent Australian Art, catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1971 Robert Hunter, "Artist's Statement", Second Indian Triennale, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
Kesshav Malik, "Triennale Art (1)", The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 3 February
Bernard Smith, Australian Painting 1798 - 1970, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, Sydney
Terry Smith, "Ghostly Glowing Presence", The Sunday Australian, Sydney, 10 October
1970 Ross Lansell, “Paintings for a Fortnight”, Nation, Melbourne
Elwin Lynn, "In a Womb-Room", The Bulletin, Sydney, 15 August
Alan McCulloch, "Letter from Australia", Art International, Lugano, October
Terry Smith, Other Voices, Vol. 1, No. 2, Sydney, August/September
1969 Hazel de Berg, Conversation with Robert Hunter, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 23 November
1968 Ross Lansell, "Small Mercies", Nation, Melbourne
Patrick McCaughey, "The Significance of the Field", Art & Australia, Vol. 6, No. 2, Sydney, December
Andrew McKay, "In Black and White", The Herald, Melbourne, 24 August