Peter Burgess
Born 1952, Sydney
Education and qualifications
1985 - 94
Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, New York University, New York
1979 - 81
M.F.A.(Photography), Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1977
Post-Graduate Study in Lithography, Pratt Graphics Center, New York
1973 - 76
Diploma Art (Education), Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Sydney
1971 - 72
Studied Architecture, New South Wales Institute of Technology, Sydney
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
3 texts, Ficciones Typografika, Minneapolis, Minnesota
made in england, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2014
oak/oak, automata, Sydney
2013
and …some text works, MCLEMOI Gallery, Sydney
Bryant and May … and, ACME Project Space, London
2012
via cruel lens, Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown (ICAN), Sydney
2010
modern equivalence, Peloton, Sydney
3 latent objects, plus, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2009
3 latent objects, Connie Dietzschold Gallery (Multiple Box), Sydney
(718) object relations, Mays Lane Project, Sydney
2008
Cover versions, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2007
object and idea, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2006
works from the fourth estate, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2005
ex tt, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2004
evidenceincamera, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
urbanotations, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2003
binaries, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2002
Art & Letters, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2001
Surveying the Field, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2000
within. . .without, Bellas Gallery
1998
three interiors, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
civil arrangements, Bellas Gallery
1997
apart of domestic appearance; Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
objects of domestic import; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1996
In Actu; Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Selected Wall Works 1994-6; Photospace, Canberra School of Art, Canberra
1995
The Scale of Things; Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1994
Scenes From the Domestic; Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1992
object relations; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
object relations pt.II; Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1991
objects of/from the familia’; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1989
The Faces of Men; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Excecation; Camerawork, London
Scenarios; Kent Institute of Fine Art & Design, Canterbury, U.K.
Scenarios Pt.II; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
All the News That's Fit to Print; Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1988
pax in bello; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Notes on a Conventional Conflict; Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1987
Vestiges; Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Vestiges Pt.II; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Blind/blind; Camera Lucida, Sydney
Scenarios; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1986
inter alia; Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1985
Selected Works 1983-85; George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
The Theatre of our Cruelty; Printed Matter, New York
Pictoria; Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
Concatenare; Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1984
Public/Private Places - Photographic Works 1977-83; Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1983
The Dated Spectator; Artspace, Sydney (curated by Q.E.D.)
1982
Hebdomus and Other Works 1979-82; Art/Empire/Industry, Sydney
Hebdomus; Avago, Sydney
1981
INFORMATION IN.FORMATION; Pratt Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York
1978
CLEARINGHOUSE -some art reference; Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Visions, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2016
Grayscale, Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2015
Works in the permanent collection: Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie
Grayscale, Reyner Hoff Studio, National Art School, Sydney
Geelong Print Award, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Boundless Plains, Project Space, National Art School
MCBA International Artist’s Book Award, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minnesota
Multiple Choices: 40 years of the FAC Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
Streetwise – contemporary print culture, ANG Contemporary, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Art/Language/Location—Supertext, Angila Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize, Bank Street Center, Sheffield, UK
Off the S(h)elf—the ecelectic in the artist’s book, I’klectik Art-Lab, London
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie
2014
Girt by Sea, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
SNO 110, Gallery 9, Sydney
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
Crossing Borders, The Study Centre fro Drawing, National Art School
2013
The Art of Curating, MCLEMOI Project, Perth
SNO turns 100, SNO, Sydney
2011
Far point …, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
2010
THE WALL OF SOUND (with apologies to Phil Spector), SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
IN TEMPERANCE – popup gallery, Temperance Lane, Sydney
2009
Crux: Contemporary Artists and Images of the Cross, McGlade Gallery, Australian Catholic University, Sydney
Language Frold-Cold Language/Tongue, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
1998
One day…we see, arc art projects, Sydney
From the Block, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland
Up and Down the Wall, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Co-existence, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
The Origin of Ideas, South, Sydney
What we do, College of Fine Art Gallery, University of NSW
1997
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1995
Temporarily Possessed; New Museum, New York
Its About Time; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Snapshot; Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, Ohio & touring
Minimundis; White Columns, New York
Artists’ Editions; Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1994
Critique; Construction In Process, First Draft, Sydney
Obsession; Campbelltown Art Gallery & touring
Turning Silver into Gold; Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, Ohio
1993
Pages; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Nuclear (R)Age:The Bomb in Australian Art; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Contacts/Proofs; Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
The Return of Cadavre Exquis; Drawing Centre New York & touring internationally
1992
Tony Coleing and Friends; Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1991
Big Ideas, Little Pictures; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Works on Paper; Christoper Leonard Gallery, New York
1990
5 X 3 X 5; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
The Decade Show; The New Museum, New York
Sequences; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1989
Collaborations; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Mondo Faxo; Artspace, Sydney
Visual Poetics; Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Prints and Australia - Presettlement to the Present; Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988
New Artists/ New Drawings; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut
The Drawing Show; Massachusetts College of Art Gallery, Boston,
1987
Ten Years On; The Works, City Art Institute, Sydney
Here & There; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
In Print, Vol.1; Power Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney
The Castle; installation by Group Material, Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany
1986
Battlefield; Artspace, Sydney
1985
The Politics of Picturing Pt.II; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
MASS; organised by Goup Material, Hallwalls,Buffalo; Spaces,Cleveland; Arts Consortium, Cinn; Aljira Arts, New Jersey; New Museum, New York; Artspace, Sydney
1984
Correspondences; Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Selections; The Drawing Centre, New York
The Politics of Picturing; Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania
1983
A.U.S.T.R.A.L.I.A; Zona, Florence, Italy
Drawings '83; U.K. Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough Art Gallery, tour of U.K.
Australian Perspecta; Art Gallery of New South Wales
Artists' Books; Artspace, Sydney
Taste, Place and Transition; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, City Art Institute, Sydney
1982
Small Works; New York University East Gallery, New York
Fifth Miami International Print Bienniale; Metropolitan Museum and Art Centre, Miami
Australian and International Artists for the Fourth Biennale of Sydney; Coventry Gallery, Sydney
3 Offset Attitudes; Sydney City Library, Sydney
APMIRA - Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights; Paddington Town Hall, Sydney
1981
Artists' Books; Zone Centre for the Arts, Springfield, Mass.
1980
Artists' Publications; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1979
British International Print Biennale; Bradford Art Gallery, U.K.; tour of U.K.; Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1978
Pratt Printmakers; Pratt Graphics Gallery, New York; touring museums in Israel
Third Miami International Print Biennale; Metropolitan Museum and Art Centre, Miami
1977
Works on Paper; The Katonah Gallery, New York
Young Painters; Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1976
Exhibition '76; Bonython Gallery, Sydney
Collaborative Projects
1998
Stage II submission, (with Maureen Burns), Sydney Sculpture Walk, Sydney Council
1996
Roles and Rules, (with Sue Williams), Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
1992
Roles and Rules, (with Sue Williams), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1989
Per/Versions; (with Merilyn Fairskye), Artspace, Sydney
1985
Subject: Racism; (with Tony Coleing and Robert Cooney), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Curatorial Projects
1995
Paintings from Yuendumu, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
1994
Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels and Uni Nampijinpa Martin, Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York
1992
Sue Williams, Drawings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1986
Agnes Martin, Prints, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1985
MASS, a Group Material Installation, Artspace, Sydney
1983
Taste, Place and Transition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Art, University of NSW
1982
3 Offset Attitudes, Sydney City Library, Sydney
Selected Awards & Prizes
1996
Visiting Fellow, Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra.
Project Development Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council.
1985
Travel Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council.
1983
Special Projects Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council.
1982
Travel Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council.
Visiting Lecturer's Fellowship, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney.
1980 - 81
Pratt Fellowship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
1979 - 80
Graduate Assistantship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
1977
Artist in Residence, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council Greene Street Studio, New York.
Ingram Merril Scholarship, post-graduate study in Lithography, Pratt Graphics Center, NewYork.
Selected Bibliography
Blackall, Judith, 'Italy - A.U.S.T.R.A.L.I.A. at Zona', Art-Network, vol.11, 1983
Brown, Phil, 'The Raw meets the cooked', The Brisbane Review, 27 August 1992
Burgess, Peter, The Faces of Men; ex.cat, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1989
All the News That’s Fit to Print; ex.cat, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1989
Scenarios; ex.cat, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1987
Selected Works 1983-85; ex.cat, University of Melbourne, 1985
Davies, Suzanne, 'Grappling with Diversity, Australian Perspecta, 1983', Art-Network, Vol.10, pp.11-15, &Dunn, Richard 15, 1983
Davies, Suzanne, 'The Politics of Picturing', catalogue essay, University of Tas. 1985
Dupain, Max, 'Photography', Sydney Morning Herald, March 3, 1984
Galloway, Paul, 'PETER BURGESS, Objects of/from the Familia, Eyeline, Autumn 1992
Green, Charles, 'Violent Art: Sue Williams & Peter Burgess, Art Monthly Australia, May 1993, Number 59
Hyatt-Johnston, Helen, ‘The Changing Critical Role of Artist Run Initiatives Over the Last Decade’, pub. First Draft
James, Rod, Nuclear (R)Age - The Bomb in Australian Art, Exhibition catalogue, Monash University, Melbourne, 1993
Kirker, Anne, Sequences, pub. Queensland Art Gallery, 1990
Looby, Keith, 'A Kaleidoscope of Artists, Australian Perspecta, 1983', Art and Australia, vol.21,no.2,1983
MacDonald, John, 'Real-life drama as fiction', Sydney Morning Herald, June 20,1987
McNeill, David, 'Peter Burgess, Selected Works 1983-85', George Paton Gallery", Art-Network vol.19/20, 1986, p69.
'New Drawing in America', pub.The Drawing Centre, New York.1986
Maloon, Terence, 'Art', Sydney Morning Herald, Feb.18, 1984
'When Fake Masterpieces Maybe Something Else', Sydney Morning Herald, May 14, 1983
'Art', Sydney Morning Herald, Oct. 30, 1982
'The Visual Arts in Sydney', Australian Art Review,2nd edition, ed. Leon Paroissien 1983
Merkus, Elaine, 'Here and There', ex.cat., Monash University Gallery, 1987
Michael, Linda, Pages, ex.cat, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1993
Morano, Kathy, ‘20 Years On: Greene Street Studio, NY’, Object, 3.96
Murphy, Bernice, 'Australian Perspecta 1983' ex.cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1983
Peckham, Virginia, 'New Artists/New Drawings', ex.cat., Lyman Allen Art Museum, 1988
Petlin, George, 'Connections Made in a State of Flux', The Australian, 11 February, 1994
Pollard, Gayle, 'Correspondences', ex.cat, University of Tasmania, 1985
Rainbird, Stephen, Art Acquisitions 1900-1992, ex.cat, Queensland University of Technology, 1992
Smith, Terry, 'A time that we forgot', Times on Sunday, June 21, 1987
Stringer, John, 'Taste, Place and Transition - Expatriates New York’, ex.cat., City Art Institute, 1983
Van Den Bosch, A, 'Hobart - The Politics of Picturing", Art-Network, vol.13, 1985
Zurbrugg, Nicholas'Visual Poetics', ex.cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, 1989
Collections
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Alice Springs Art Foundation, N.T.
Freemantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Griffith University, Queensland
MacGregor College Art Gallery, Queensland
Monash University, Melbourne
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
New England Regional Art Gallery, N.S.W
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Sydney University Students Union, N.S.W
Tweed Museum of Art, Minnesota
Visual Arts Board of Australia Council, N.S.W
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Warnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Zona Archives, Florence, Italy
Zone Centre for the Arts, Mass.