Louise Hearman
Born 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. Lives and works in Melbourne.
Education
1991-92
Tutor, Painting Department, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1992
Teacher, Drawing, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne
1982-84
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
Louise Hearman, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
2016
Louise Hearman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2011
Louise Hearman, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2008
Hello Darkness: The Art of Louise Hearman, Glen Eira City Council Gallery
2007
Louise Hearman, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2005
Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
2003
Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
2001
Louise Hearman, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1998
Louise Hearman, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1997
Louise Hearman, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Louise Hearman, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1991
Drawings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1989
Recent Paintings, City Gallery, Melbourne
1987
The Elephant Room, the dome project, The Mission Seamen Building, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
The Abyss: Strategies in Contemporary Art, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane
2018
2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2016
Archibald Prize, winner, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Shut Up and Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2015
Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2014
Moran Portrait Prize, winner, Juniper Hall, Sydney
Best in Show, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales Solitaire, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
2012
Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Volume One: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize, finalist, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2010
Lake, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Moran Portrait Prize, State Library New South Wales
Wilderness, The inaugural Balnaves exhibition of contemporary painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2009
Clemeneger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Horror come Darkness, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2008
Look! New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Neo Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2006
Before Night – After Nature: Selected works from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Instinct, Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Victoria
2003
Depth of Field, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2001
1901-2001: A Century of Collecting, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney
2000
Uncommon Word — Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1999
Contempora 5, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
1997
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996
Black Attack, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1995
Through a Glass Darkly, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1994
Tell Me A Story, Plimsol Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1993
Australian Perspecta 1993, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Frankfurt Contemporary Art Fair, Frankfurt Germany
Selected Awards and Prizes
2016
Winner of the Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014
Winner of the Moran Art Prize, State Library New South Wales, Sydney
1992
The Ninth R M Ansett Award, Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria
1990
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Show Purchase Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
1983
Special Projects Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
Selected Collections
Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Box Hill, Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Artbank
Vizard Foundation Art Collection, Melbourne
Austcorp
UBS Sydney