| Year | Achievement |
|---|---|
| 1994 | Master Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney |
| 1989 | Post Graduate Diploma, Sydney College of the Arts |
| 1979 | Bachelor of (Visual) Arts, Sydney College of the Arts |
| 1976 | Art Certificate, Stages 1 & 2, East Sydney Technical College (now National Art School, Sydney) |
Solo Exhibitions
| YEAR | EXHIBITIONS |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Snapped! Street Photography in the Illawarra, Wollongong Art Gallery 11 December - 20 February 2022 |
| 2020 | Lost Landscapes, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 5 Dec 2020 - 31 Oct 2021 The Fate of Things, Béhal Fejér Institute, Prague 1-7 October |
| 2019 | Wild Life, Australia, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne Street Photography, Sydney Living Museums, Museum of Sydney The Fate of Things: Memory objects and art, with Sylvia Griffin, Sydney Jewish Museum Wild Life in the Age of the Anthropocene, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, 26 July – 18 August |
| 2018 | Threshold, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin 15 September – 2 December |
| 2017 | The Landscape Revisited, MAMA Murray Art Museum Albury, 26 May – 5 November |
| 2015 | Wild Life, Turner Gallery, Perth, Western Australia, 3 March – 1 April Threshold, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, 16 June – 18 July |
| 2014 | Anne Zahalka: Playground of the Pacific, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Manly 4 September – 25 October |
| 2013 | Parliament House at work, 25th Anniversary commission, Parliament House, Canberra, 5 June – 10 August Anne Zahalka and her Amazing Artists, Concordia Gallery, Stanmore, 23 September – 3 November Anne Zahalka: a case study, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, 10 May – 28 July Anne Zahalka, Launch of WSPA campaign image against live animal export, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 6 June |
| 2012 | Bondi Twitch: A Field Guide to the Noses of the Waverly District, with Sue Saxon and Jane Becker, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Bondi |
| 2011 | Return to Homeground, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Kensington Winter Magic, Art Trail located on outdoor council poster stands around Bondi Bondi the Beautiful, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, 12th – 24th July |
| 2010 | Homeground!, Union Hotel, Zanzibar and Town Hall Hotel, Newtown, Sydney, Head On Photo Festival The Way things Appear and The Appearance of Things, ARC ONE Gallery Melbourne |
| 2009 | Playing the Game!, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney A Bar to Call Home - The Changing Face of the RSL, NG Art Gallery & Mission Restaurant, Sydney Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987 - 2007, Perc TuckerRegional Art Gallery, Townsville, QLD |
| 2008 | Hotel Suite, Sofitel, in conjunction with Melbourne Art Fair, 1 July - 2 September Wild Life, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 10 April – 3 May, 2008 Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987 – 2007, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales |
| 2007 | Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987 – 2007, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 23 March – 12 May Anne Zahalka, Focus Room, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 14 March – 2 May 2007 Wild Life, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 1 February – 24 February 2007 Leisureland, Australian Embassy, Washington DC. |
| 2006 | Fotofreo, Fremantle Festival of Photography, Western Australia Anne Zahalka: Wonderland, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2004 | Natural Wonders, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Anne Zahalka: Portraits Past, Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| 2003 | Leisureland Regional, University of Technology Sydney, 24 June – 18 July, a Grafton Regional Gallery touring exhibition Welcome to Sydney, Museum of Sydney, Sydney Anne Zahalka, Maritime Museum, Sydney |
| 2002 | Leisureland, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria, Australia Fortresses and Frontiers, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Anne Zahalka, Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School, Sydney Leisureland, New England Regional Art Gallery; Albury Regional Gallery, Albury, New South Wales; Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia |
| 2001 | Leisureland, Tamworth City Art Gallery, Tamworth; Bathurst Art Gallery; Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Australia; Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Gymea, New South Wales |
| 2000 | Leisureland, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Leisureland, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney Fortresses and Frontiers, Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 1999 | Leisureland, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Woven Threads #2, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Woven Threads, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney |
| 1997 | Open House, Fotogalerie in der Alten Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany. Woven Threads, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne and Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania. |
| 1996 | Collectors, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1995 | Open House, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1994 | Gesture, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1993 | Gesture, City Gallery (now Anna Schwartz Gallery), Melbourne Fortresses and Frontiers, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1992 | Details, City Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1991 | Details and Resemblances I, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Artists, South Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Adelaide, South Australia |
| 1990 | Artists, City Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1989 | Resemblance I and II, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania Bondi: Playground of the Pacific, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney; Campbelltown Bi-centennial Regional Gallery, Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW |
| 1988 | Resemblance I, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Camerawork Gallery, London, UK Resemblance I and II, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Resemblance I, Kunstlerhaus Betheanien, Berlin; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney |
| 1986 | The Wanderer upon an Castle came..., Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany The Tourist as Theorist: (theory takes a holiday), Kino Eiszeit, International Super 8 Festival |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| Year | Exhibition |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Exhume the grave - McCubbin and contemporary art, 14 August - 28 November 2021, Geelong Gallery Collection Focus: Modern Australia, 6 June – 19 July 2015, Home Of The Arts, Gold Coast Air Water Love, China Cultural Centre exhibition, 5 March – 29 April 2021 |
| 2020 | Know My Name, National Gallery of Art, Canberra, 13 November 2020 – 9 May 2021 From all points of the Southern Sky: Photography from Australia and Oceania, Southeast Museum of Photography - Daytona, Florida, USA September 22 - December 13, 2020 You Are Here, Hawthorn Arts Centre, 21 March - 10 May 2020 Sublime Sea: Rapture and Reality, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 14 December 2019 – 23 February 2020 |
| 2019 | Civilization: The way we live now, National Gallery, 13 September - 2 February 2020 How Did I Get Here, Art Gallery of Western Australia collection regional tour, various venues, 13 April 2019 - 12 September 2020 |
| 2018 | Civilization: The way we live now, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 18 October 2018-28 February 2019 Incommensurable – photomedia in the era of globalization, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, 23 February – 8 April Cultural Landscapes, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 10 February – 18 March |
| 2017 | Realising Mother, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, 1-18 November 2017 An Unorthodox Flow of Images, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 30 September – 12 November Self/Selfie, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Backspace Art Gallery, 19 August – 17 September Under the Sun. Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker, State Library of NSW, 17 February – 17 April The witching hour: 2017 Fundraiser exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 19 – 28 May |
| 2016 | Tricking the eye- contemporary trompe l’oeil, Geelong Gallery, Victoria, 26 Nov – 12 February Refugees, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 29 July – 11 September Australian Exotica, works from the collection, Monash Gallery of Art, 16 April – 29 May Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dubai Design District 3, 16 – 19 March Hot Rods, Goulbourn Regional Gallery, 2 February - 2 April 2016 |
| 2015 | On the Beach, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria 11 December 2015 – 28 February 2016 The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Loud!, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Constructed Worlds, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Abbotsleigh. The Significant Other, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne. Australian Vernacular Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales. A Time and A Place: Landscape from the Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane. |
| 2014 | A World Apart, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne. Australian Vernacular Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales Private Assembly: a contemporary collection, Tweed Regional Gallery, 24 January – 30 March Private Assembly: a contemporary collection, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW New Passports, New Photography, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 15 November 2014 - 8 February 2015 |
| 2013 | Holiday and Memory, Penrith Regional Gallery, 16 November 2013 – 23 February 2014 Under my skin, Contemporary Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection 5 October Waves and Water, Australian Maritime Museum, Whitehouse Arts Space, Victoria and national tour Collective Identities, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, 13 Septmeber – 17 November Lines of Force...Space + Displacement, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney. Onside, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula. Every day I am a day older: Portraiture from the Griffith University Art Collection, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane. Mix Tape 1980?s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 2012 | Things – Photographing the constructed world, curated by Helen Ennis, National Library of Australia The Great Divide: Picturing the Blue Mountains, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba Dissonant Visions, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus, Sydney Controversy: The Power of Art, curated by Vivien Gaston, Mornigton Peninsula Regional Fish in Australian Art, Australian National Maritime Museum (re)vision, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery Kitsch and Cliché, curated by Sandy Edwards, NG Art Gallery |
| 2011 | Group Show: Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, TV Moore, Julie Rrap, and Anne Zahalka, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney. Birth Art, ACU Gallery, Melbourne. Sculpture by the Sea, Open House collaborative work with Aaron Anderson, Bondi south headland Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, TV Moore, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Birth Art, curated by Jasmine Proust and Tilly Morris, ACU Gallery, Fitzroy Interpreting Portraiture: Macquarie 1810 – 2010, catalogue Hawkesbury Regional Gallery |
| 2010 | Time travel: reimagining the past, Tweed River Art gallery, NSW Screen, Head On Photo Festival, Curated by Isabelle Rouvillous, National Art School Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. (Touring Exhibition). Outside In, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria. The Stranger’s Eye, Curated by Donna West Brett, Peloton Gallery, Sydney. Homeground! In association with Head On Photo Festival, Newtown Hotels, Sydney. |
| 2009 | Red Exhibition, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney A Natural World, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Victoria |
| 2008 | 50X50 Summer Show, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria Step Right Up, The Circus in Australian Art, Albury City touring exhibition OIKOS, Habitacles/Habitable Places, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne FX in Contemporary Art, McClelland Gallery, Victoria Winner, Macarthur Cook Art Prize, Gallery 45, Melbourne Silver-lined, the Arts Centre, Contemporary Artists and the Performing Arts Collection, Melbourne Premonitions, Monash University Collection 1961–2007, McClelland Gallery, Victoria Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, IMA touring show – Logan Art Gallery, Redcliffe Art Gallery |
| 2007 | Wonderful World, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide Harbourlife: Sydney Harbour from the 1940’2 to recent times, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, New South Wales, 30 November , 2007 – 13 January, 2008 Forty Eight Hours of Visual Arts, (FEHVA), Byron Bay Festival, NSW Glimpse: Inside Gold Coast City Art Gallery’s Collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, IMA touring show - 24Hr Art, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Pinnacles Gallery Three Australian Photographers: Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, and Anne Zahalka , GEM/Fotomuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 26 May – 28 October Winner, National Photographic Prize, Albury Regional Art Gallery Cuisine & Country: a gastronomic venture in Australian art, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 13 April – 20 May 2007 |
| 2006 | Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria. Monsters, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury, New South Wales. Circus Polaroids, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury, New South Wales. The Armory Show, New York, United States of America. Acting the Part, Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Ontario Tunnel Vision, Greed & Stupidity: Reviewing Concrete Politics in Sydney, The Cross Art Projects, Kings Cross, Sydney Swell: the art in contemporary beach culture, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery Points of View: Australian photography 1985-95, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney |
| 2005 | Perception, The Daryl Hewson Photographic Collection, Queensland Centre for Photography, Bulimba, QLD, Australia Death, Burial and Beyond, Jewish Museum of Australia, Victoria. Winner, 2005 Leopold Godowsky Jr. Colour Photography Awards, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston University, Boston A Matter of Time, Tamworth Fibre Biennial, Tamworth Regional Art Gallery Take a Good Look, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales 16th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Tamworth Regional Gallery My City of Sydney, Museum of Sydney, Sydney 2005 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia |
| 2004 | Supernatural Artificial: Contemporary photo-based art from Australia, curator Natalie King, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, Chulanlangkorn Art Centre, Bangkok UR IN EU: An exhibition which celebrates the ten new member nations of the European Union, Sir Hermann Black Gallery & Sculpture Terrace, University of Sydney Isle of Refuge, (“Displaced Persons” collaboration with Sue Saxon), Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide (Ivan Dougherty Gallery touring exhibition) All that glitters: Contemporary visions of the Gold Coast, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Australia 6ft +clean: surf and art, ArtMuseum, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide. Gambling: thrills, spills & social ills, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Strike a Pose, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales |
| 2003 | Fair Game: Art + Sport, NGV Response Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 6ft + clean: surf + art, Manly Art Gallery, a Gold Coast City Art Gallery touring exhibition, Manly, NSW Stellar, Centre of Contemporary Photography Fundraising Auction, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Photographica Australis, Asia Link touring exhibition, National Gallery of Thailand and Singapore Art Museum Isle of Refuge, (“Displaced Persons” collaboration with Sue Saxon), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Gallery 4A Fundraising Exhibition, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney On the Beach with Whiteley, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney Freestyle: the Bondi Beach Cole Classic, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Skylounge, National Museum of Australia, Canberra The Big River Show, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. Fieldwork, Natioanl Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. New Australiana, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth; Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury, Australia |
| 2002 | 6ft + clean: surf + art, Gold Coast City Art Gallery touring exhibition, Surfers Paradise, Australia (to 2003) Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 – 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003) Photographica Australis, ARCO 2002, Sala del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain Love at First Sight: Self-made Women, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2nd Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002 Embrace Contemporary Photomedia, Trinity Delmar Gallery, Sydney The Big River Show: Murrumbidgee Riverine, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW The First Twenty Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Anne Zahalka, Anne Wallace, Maryanne Lynch, Annette Bezor, Institute of Modern Art, January 31 – March 9, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Documenting Australians, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria Watermarks, Maritime Museum, Sydney |
| 2001 | Federation! But who makes the nation? Regional Galleries tour Hermanns Art Award, Sherman Gallery, Sydney and regional tour What John Berger Saw, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane New Australiana, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney |
| 2000 | Sporting Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Sydney Metropolis + Suburb + Harbour, Museum of Sydney Striking, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW; Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria; Mildura Art Centre, Victoria; Geelong Art Centre, Victoria Journeys in the Dream Land, Dennis Del Favero, Jon Rhodes, Anne Zahalka, Fotogallery, Cardiff, Wales All Stars 2000, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1999 | Signature Works, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney What John Berger Saw, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, NSW |
| 1998 | The Body in Question, Wessel + O’Connor, New York, USA ICONS: Pictures of the City, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria Unhomely, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea Haimish, (homely), curated by Naomi Cass and Natalie King, The Jewish Museum, Melbourne After the Masters, Master of Fine Arts 1993 – 1997 Selected Work, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Universiy of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1997 | Distanz und Domizil, Fotographie der Gegenwart, Künsthaus Dresden, Germany Artists in the House, Elizabeth Bay House, NSW |
| 1994 | About Face, Aspects of Australian Portraiture, c1770 - 1993, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Sydney Photographed, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
| 1993 | Locations, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Artspace, Sydney and Asian tour Luminaries, Monash University Gallery, Victoria 8 x 10, Fundraising Exhibition, contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide It’s all in the Memory, Computer Generated Prints, Art Images, Adelaide Recent Acquisitions, Waverly City Gallery, Victoria The Art Factor: International Exhibition of Electronic Art, FISEA, Minneapolis, USA Parcel Post Show, Linden, Saint Kilda Art Centre, Victoria Mal was underes, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (studio show). |
| 1992 | The Manipulated Image, City of Waverley Gallery, Victoria Constructed Reality: Aspects of Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Southern Land/Empty Crossing, Camerawork Gallery, London, UK |
| 1991 | Contemporary Colour, Art Gallery of New South Wales Fertile Ground, Griffith University College, Queensland, Australia |
| 1990 | As idle objects lie, (collaborations with Felicia Kan), First Draft (west), Sydney The Readymade Boomerang, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 8 x 10 Fundraising Exhibition, South Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Adelaide Defective Models: Australian Portraiture 19th and 20th Centuries, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne Twenty Contemporary Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales & nationally Australian Photography, City of Waverley Gallery, Victoria 100 Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Gallery, Brunswick Street, Melbourne |
| 1989 | Re-model, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne Collaborations, (with David O'Halloran & Brenda Ludemann), Artspace, Sydney re:Creation/Re-creation, Monash University, Melbourne |
| 1988 | The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788-1988, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Tasmanian Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia Australian Photography: The 1980s, curated by Helen Ennis, with assistance from Kate Davidson, Australian National Gallery |
| 1987 | Pure Invention, Parco Gallery, Tokyo (touring Japan & Australia) Window to Window, Deakin University, Victoria From the Newsagency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Fortune, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide |
| 1986 | Suspending Belief, The Observatory, Brisbane The Landscape Re-represented, Union Street Gallery, two person show with Geoff Kleem, Sydney Elsewhere, Biennale of Sydney satellite exhibition Union Street, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne Union Street, Kelvin Grove College, Brisbane In Full View, 20 x 24 Polaroids, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery The Repeated Image, Griffith Collection, Brisbane |
| 1985 | Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography Photodramas, Artspace, Sydney Rushes, Union Street Gallery, Sydney ...outside the poem...inside the dream...a story unfolds..., (two person show with Suzi Coyle) Union Street Gallery, Curator's Choice, Developed Image Gallery, Adelaide Photodramas, Chameleon Gallery, Tasmania |
| 1984 | Manipulated Work, Images Gallery, Sydney Future Unperfect, Artist Space, Sydney |
| 1983 | 1984 show, Images Gallery, Sydney N.S.W. Travelling Art Scholarship, Blaxland Gallery New Light, Australian Centre for Photography |
| 1982 | 50th Anniversary of the Building of the Harbour Bridge, Art Gallery of New South Wales Harbour Bridge Exhibition, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney Graduating Photography, Australian Centre for Photography |
| 1981 | Four Photographers, Bondi Pavilion |
| 1980 | Aspects of Sydney, Polaroid Exhibition, students S.C.A. |
Commissions
| Year | Commission |
|---|---|
| 2020 | My Name National Art Event, National Gallery of Australia |
| 2018 | Street Photography, Reframing the Past, 10 portraits, Museum of Sydney, Sydney |
| 2016 | Newtown ArtSeat, Newtown, 2 February - 31 March 2016. |
| 2014 | Department of Parliamentary Services, Celebrating 25 years of Parliament House, Canberra |
| 2011 – 2012 | Monash University, Melbourne, Portrait of Professor John Redmond |
| 2009 | National Portait Gallery, Canberra, Portrait of Marilyn Darling OA University of Western Sydney, Portrait of Professor Janice Reid, Vice Chancellor |
| 2008 | Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Limited Edition print |
| 2002 – 2003 | Sydney Airport Corporation Limitied, Welcome to Sydney, 2002, Art at Work program |
Collections
| Albury Regional Gallery (now MAMA) | |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Art Gallery of South Australia | |
| Art Gallery of Queensland | |
| Art Gallery of Western Australia | |
| Artbank Australia | |
| Australian Bicentennial Collection | |
| Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | |
| BHP Billiton | |
| City of Waverley Collection | |
| Curtin University | |
| Deutsche Bank Collection | |
| Geelong Gallery | |
| Gold Coast Art Gallery | |
| Grafton Art Gallery | |
| Griffith University Collection | |
| International Polaroid Collection, USA | |
| Jewish Museum of Australia | |
| McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park | |
| Monash Gallery of Art | |
| Monash University Collection | |
| Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery | |
| Murdoch University Art Collection | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney | |
| National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand | |
| National Australian Maritime Museum | |
| National Gallery of Australia | |
| National Gallery of Victoria | |
| National Library of Australia | |
| National Portrait Gallery, Canberra | |
| Sir Elton John Collection | |
| Tweed Rivers Regional Gallery | |
| University of Melbourne | |
| University of Tasmania | |
| Visart, New York | |
| Wagga Wagga Art Gallery | |
| Waverley Art Gallery |
Residencies
| Year | Residency Details |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Béhal Fejér Institute, Prague, 16 September - 16 October |
| 2017 | Turner Gallery Perth, Western Australia, 27 Feb – 18 March |
| 2013 | HMAS Penguin residency commemorating the centenary of the Royal Australian Navy Newignton College, Concordia through the Newignton Women’s Fund |
| 2011 | Bondi the Beautiful residency, Bondi Pavilion Gallery |
| 2008 | Sofitel, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 2008 | Bundanon, Arthur Boyd Estate, New South Wales |
| 1988 | Gertrude St, 3 month residency, Melbourne |
| 1989 | Bondi Pavilion Community Centre, 6 month residency, Sydney |
| 1986 | Visual Arts and Crafts Board residency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin |
Grants
| Year | Grant Details |
|---|---|
| 2006 | Development Grant, Australia Council |
| 2000 | Fellowship, Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Board |
| 1996 | Project Grant, Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board |
| 1993 | Development Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council |
| 1991 | Project Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council |
| 1990 | Development Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Sydney |
Prizes and Awards
| Year | Prizes and Awards |
|---|---|
| 2021 | |
| 2020 | Bowness Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria, 31 October 2020 – Sunday 7 February 2021 |
| 2019 | Olive Cotton Award (finalist), Tweed Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 12 July – 22 September 2019 |
| 2017 | Olive Cotton Portrait Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery, New South Wales (Director’s Choice), 21 July – 8 October Tidal, City of National Devonport Art Award, finalist, Devonport Regional Art Gallery, 25 Nov – 29 January Lisa Sullivan, Tricking the eye- contemporary trompe l’oeil catalogue |
| 2016 | Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, finalist Gold Coast City Gallery, 25 June – 21 Augus |
| 2013 | Olive Cotton Portrait Prize, Tweed Rivers Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales |
| 2008 | Winner, Macarthur Cook Art Award, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne Selected finalist Basil Sellers Award, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne |
| 2007 | Winner of National Photographic Prize, Albury Regional Art Gallery |
| 2006 | William Bowness Photographic Prize finalist, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria Art & About, selected finalist, Hyde Park, Sydney |
| 2005 | Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, finalist Gold Coast City Gallery Winner of Leopold Godowsky Jnr award, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston Art & About, selected finalist, Hyde Park, Sydney |
Selected Bibliography
| YEAR | Bibliography |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Art + Climate = Change II (exhibition catalogue), Melbourne University Press |
| 2021 | Nick Miller, Exhume the Grave ARTS, The Age review, August 13 2021 |
| 2020 | Neta Alexander and Bradley H. Kerr, Real Life Magazine, Animals Strike Curious Poses, May 07 Michael Schwarz, A prescient photographer, Guided by Art blog, 18 May |
| 2019 | Sophie Deutsch, The Legacy They Leave, Australian Jewish News, January 18, p20 David Tatnall, Exhibition - Wild Life, Australia, View Camera Australia, 27 May Charles Purcell, Lost and Found, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum December 8-9, p16,17 Gina Fairley, The revival of the Street Photography fad, Arts Hub Jacqui Taffel, Two artists honour the memories of their parents and the family they never met, Wentworth Courier, 5 December 2019 Vanessa Low, Sublime Sea: Rapture and Reality, 5 December 2019 |
| 2018 | Steve Meacham, Fabulous 50 named and framed, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 August National Art Part One National Art School catalogue Incommensurable: photomedia in the era of globalisation ANU Drill Hall catalogue Toni Ross on Anne Zahalka, Reviews, Art Forum International,Volume 57, NO 2, October |
| 2017 | Dr Jacqui Durrant, The Landscape Revisited essay Rita Lazauskas, The Landscape Revisited curatorial essay |
| 2016 | The Photograph and Australia, AGNSW catalogue, pg 21, 287 Alasdair Forster, Dubai Photo Exhibition, catalogue, pg 118,141 - 144 |
| 2015 | On the Beach, catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria Anne Zahalka: Playground of the Pacific, catalogue no. 181, Josef Lebovic Gallery Naomi Cass, Threshold catalogue Arc One Gallery |
| 2014 | Helen Musa, Photos breathe life into the hallowed halls of Parliament House, City News.com.au 20 June ‘Parliament House at Work’ exhibition shows the people behind the politicians, Her Canberra, online Phillip Thompson, Behind the political scenes in Canberra’, Sydney Morning Herald, June 19 |
| 2013 | Andrew Taylor, Artist gets on board campaign against live animal export, Sydney Mornng Herald, June 7 |
| 2012 | Gavin Wilson, “The Great Divide, Picturing the Blue Mountains”, catalogue Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, pp 69 Helen Ennis, “Things – Photographing the constructed world”, catalogue National Library of Australia “Bondi Twitch: A Field Guide to the Noses of the Waverly District”, catalogue Bondi Pavilion Gallery 100 Stories from the Maritime Museum, UNSW Press, 2012, Pp 75 -77 Dr Vivien Gaston, “Controversy: The power of art”, 2012 catalogue Morninton Peninsula Regional Gallery |
| 2011 | Bronwyn Watson, Public Works, The Australian, Arts May 14 Josef Liebovic, “Return to Homeground”, catalogue Collector’s list No. 150, 2011 |
| 2010 | Louise Tegert, Slow Burn: A Century of Australian women artists from a private collection, Eva Breuer Art Dealer and National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, pp 200 -201 Kathleen von Witt, “Interpreting Portraiture: Macquarie 1810 – 2010”, catalogue Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, pp 30 – 35 Dr Anne Marsh, LOOK: Contemporary Photography since 1980, (Melbourne: Macmillan Press, 2010) |
| 2009 | Edward Colless, “Anne Zahalka”, Australian Art Collector, Issue 49, July - September 2009, pp. 152-157 |
| 2008 | Alice McCormick and Sarah Rhodes ‘ The Artist’s Lunch’ Murdoch Books2008, pp 148 - 157 Sera Waters, ‘Wonderful World’, Eyeline, No. 65, 2008, pp. 52-54 Sylvain Campeau, ‘OIKOS Habitacles/ Habitable Places’, catalogue SBC Galerie D’Art contemporain, Quebec, March 2008, pp 68 – 71 Hotel Issue, Hotel Suite, Artichoke Magazine 24, pp 83 - 86 Stephen Haley, ‘Double Exposure: Post-photographic practice’, Photofile 84, pp38 Melbourne Art Fair July 2008, Melbourne Art Fair Foundation, pp 178 - 179 |
| 2007 | Essay by Daniel Palmer and Interview by Karra Rees ‘Anne Zahalka: Hall of Mirrors’, exh. cat. Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Karra Rees, ‘Anne Zahalka: Wild Life’, Photofile 79 Summer 2007 pp 48 - 51 Naomi Evans, ‘Anne Zahalka: Wild Life’, HEAT, no. 14, 2007, pp. 97 – 112 Helen Ennis, Photography and Australia, Reaktion Books Jacqui Taffel, ‘Click and myth approach’, The Hot Seat, Sydney Morning Herald, April 17, 2007 Lynne Minion, ‘A clue to the setting’, in Panorama, The Canberra Times, December 22, 2007, pp. 4-5 David Ellison, ‘Anne Zahalka’, wonderful world, exhibition catalogue, celebrating the University of South Australia’s new Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, S.A., pp. 48-9 Olivia Poloni, “Hall of mirrors: Anne Zahalka portraits 1987 – 2007”, Art Monthly Australia, July 2007 Number 201, pp. 3 – 6. Art Almanac (Cover), April 2007 Suzie Attiwill “Serendipity – Inside Anne Zahalka’s Hall of Mirrors”, Artichoke, 19, 2007, p. 74 Jacqui Taffel, “Click and myth approach”, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 – 15 April 2007, pp. 4 – 5 (Spectrum). Clara Iaccarino, ‘Wildlife’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10-11 February 2007, p. 16 (Arts & Entertainment). Stewart Hawkins, ‘In with the old, in with the new”, The Australian Financial Review, February 17 – 18, 2007, p. 34. Karra Rees, ‘Anne Zahalka: Wild Life’, Photofile, #79, Summer 2007, pp. 48 - 51 |
| 2006 | Lori Pauli, Editor ‘ Acting the Part’ National Gallery of Canada, Merrell Publishers Ltd Fig. 45 pp 52 Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Robert Nelson, Anne Zahalka, review of Wonderland, The Age, 8 February2006 The First Post, The Online Daily Magazine, September 23, 2006 ‘Anne Zahalka’, EXIT, #23, Madrid, Spain, pp. 88 - 93 Juliette Peers, ‘Catatonic Curating’, Artlink, Vol. 26, #1, pp. 28 - 33 |
| 2005 | Leslie K Brown Jennifer Uhrhane “Leopold Godowosky, Jr. Color photography awards”, In the Loupe July/August 2005 vol 29 Number 4. Margaret Marsh, Michele Watts and Craig Malyon A.R.T. 2 practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2005 p. 45 |
| 2005 | ‘Supernatural Artificial: Contemporary photo-based art from Australia’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space and Asialink Centre, Victoria, Australia Tracey Clement, “Critic’s Picks: My City of Sydney,” Sydney Morning Herald,Dec 31, 2004 – Jan 6, 005, p. 19 (Metro) |
| 2004 | The Spirit of Celebrity, Griffith Review 5, pp 97 - 110 Gael Newton, ‘Photographic Australis’, Taipei Fine Art Museum Ken Bolton, “Australian Women Artists: Sailing to Tahiti,” Jamini: International Arts Quarterly, November, p. 68 - 79 Robert McFarlane, “Photography: Elusive rhythms of the night,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Tuesday, October 5, p. 15 Dominique Angeloro, “Critic’s Picks: Anne Zahalka,” Sydney Morning Herald, Oct. 1-7, p. 27 (Metro) Natalie King, “Anne Zahalka: Natural Worlds,” Australian Art Collector, issue 29, July – September 2004, p. 198, 199 Claire Armstrong, “Collector Profile: Dick Quan,” Art & Australia, Vol. 41 No. 4, Winter 2004, p. 615 – 617 Michael Hedger, “Timeless recreations,” The Star, Weekender, February 25, 2004 Jill Stowell, “Portrait of the artist,” The Star, Weekender, February 14 2004 Anne O’Hehir, “Anne Zahalka: How did we get to be here?,” Art & Australia, vol. 41, no. 3, Autumn 2004, p. 410 - 417 |
| 2003 | Martin Jolly, ‘Writing Archives’, Art Monthly Australia, Dec 03 – Feb 04, No.166, pg 5 Peter Conrad, ‘At Home in Australia’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Lara Travis, “Anne Zahalka,” See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, editors Chris MacAuliffe and Sue Harvey, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Victoria, p. 150, 151 Daniel Palmer, “Anne Zahalka,” Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. Jenepher Duncan and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, p. 68 Stuart Koop, “Same As It Ever Was: photography in the Collection,” Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. Jenepher Duncan and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, p. 40 - 44 Alasdair Foster, “Interview: Anne Zahalka,” Photofile # 69, August 2003, pp. 19 - 21 Margaret Plant, “The Journey from Field to Fieldwork 1968 – 2003,” Eyeline # 51, Autumn – Winter, 2003, p. 44 - 46 Zara Stanhope, “Take a Good Look at My Face, Love at First Sight: artists and their relationship with the camera,” Eyeline # 51, Autumn – Winter, 2003, p. 26 – 29 Dominique Angeloro, “Critics Picks: Leisureland Regional,” Sydney Morning Herald, (Metro), July 11 – 17, p. 27 Rosalie Higson, “Location is not everything,” The Australian, Friday May 30, p. 14 Peter Hill, “Focus on the Big Picture,” Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), May 24-25, p. 12, 13 “Anne Zahalka,” Blaze: Visual Art Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 1990 - 2002, CACSA, Adelaide, p. 19 Stuart Koop, “Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 – 2002, Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 1, March, April, May, p. 8 - 11 Julian Raxworthy, “Love at First Sight,” Photofile #68, April, p. 69, 70 |
| 2002 | Charles Green, “Into the 1990s: the decay of postmodernism,” Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 – 2002, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003), p. 100 – 111 6ft + clean: surf + art, exh. cat., Gold Coast City Art Gallery touring exhibition to 2003, Surfers Paradise, Australia, Russell Storer and Daniel Palmer, “Anne Zahalka,” Big (Australia) Magazine John McDonald, “Old Man River: The Murrumbidgee as inspiration,” The Australian Financial Review, Thursday 14 November 2002, p. 72 (Arts) Gavin Wilson, ‘The Big River Show: Murrumbidgee Riverine’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 2nd Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 91, 96 Chris Reid, “Fortresses and Frontiers: Anne Zahalka; High Anxiety: Anne Wallace, Pyjama Girl: Maryanne Lynch, Blush: Annette Bezor - Institute of Modern Art, January 31 – March 9, Brisbane” Eyeline #48, Autumn/Winter 2002, p. 48, 49 |
| 2001 | Pavel Buchler, Anne Zahalka, Theory Takes a Holiday, Portfolio, UK #31, June Peter Anderson, Look and Learn, Eyeline Robert McFarlane, Sydney Morning Herald, Metropolitan, 2nd Feb Ben Genocchio, Review of Leisureland, The Australian, August 18 |
| 2000 | Christopher Coppock, ‘Journeys in the Dreamland’ (exh. cat), Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales ‘Portfolio’, Portfolio Gallery, London, UK, No. 31, June 2000 “Anne Zahalka,” VCE Art, Sporting Life, catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Sydney Airport, The Art Trail: a guide to experiencing Sydney Airports’ Art at Work Ben Genocchio, Review Leisureland, The Australian, early August Programme, Sydney Airports Corporation Limited, Sydney |
| 1999 | Leisureland, Photofile, No 57, October Courtney Kidd, Spectrum review, Sydney Morning Herald, 26th August Anna Clabuburn, Striking, catalogue, Monash Gallery of Art collection Peter Emmett, Sydney Metropolis + Suburb + Harbour, Museum of Sydney Robert McFarlane, Review, Sydney Morning Herald, May 10 Sebastian Smee, Exhibitions, Sydney Morning Herald Metro, May Robert Nelson, Focus on Photographers who click as artists, The Age, October 27 Freda Freiberg, Haimish (review), Like, No. 7, Summer |
| 1998 | Bruce James, Galleries, Sydney Morning Herald, March 10 |
| 1997 | Haimish, (homely), exhibition catalogue, The Jewish Museum, Melbourne Freda Freiberg, Anne Zahalka: Woven Threads, Photofile no. 51, August Anne Zahalka, Collecting Insects, cat., Artists in the House Heike Marx, Von Menschen und Dingen, Rheinpfalz, May 12 Ulrike Soltendiek, Einblicke in den Alltag, Manneheimer Morgen, March 12 Ute Aichele, Open House, Kunst, May Christopher Allen, Art in Australia - From Colonization to Postmodernism, Thames and Hudson, London Sarrah Preuhs, Anne Zahalka-Open House, Distanz und Domizil (cat. article), Dresden, Germany Anne Zahalka, Woven Threads, Community Aid Abroad |
| 1996 | Martyn Jolly, Anne Zahalka - Spurs of the Moment ,Art + Text, Vol. 54 1996, pp. 62 - 65. Peter Weiermair, Prospect-Aspects of Contemporary Photography, Edition Stemmle, Kilchberg/Zurich Daidalos, Art Architecture Culture, Urban Habitation, #60, June |
| 1994 | Anne Zahalka, Gesture cat, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Catriona Moore, Manipulated Image, critique, Art Network #17 |
| 1993 | Maudie Palmer, Fantasy bathed in Irony, The Australian, December 30 |
| 1992 | ‘Location’ (exh. cat), ACCA and Asialink, Victoria, Australia Richard Neville, Faces of Australia, State Library of New South Wales Press |
| 1991 | Margot Osborne, 'Breaking down the artistic cliche', The Advertiser, South Australia, 13 July |
| 1990 | Isobel Crombie and Sandra Byron, ‘Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers’ (exh. cat), National Gallery of Victoria Charles Green, ‘Anne Zahalka, Artforum International, December Michelle Helmrich, Portrait of an Artist, Artists, catalogue John Peter Nilsson, Biennale of Sydney, Astonbladt, April 21, Sweden |
| 1989 | Merryn Gates, re:Creation/Re-creation, exhibition catalogue, Monash University Peter Weiermair, ‘Portraits’, Edition Stemmle, Zurich/Dusseldorf |
| 1988 | Pat Simons, ‘Resemblance and Displacement’, Photofile Rainer Borgermeister, ‘Resemblance’, Art + Text, #29 Michele Helmrich, ‘Anne Zahalka, Eyeline #5, June Susan Butler, ‘Anne Zahalka at Camerawork’, Creative Camera Australian Bicentennial Authority and David Hansen, The Face of Australia, The Land- The Present, Fine Art Press, Sydney Sarah Kent, Time Out, previews, May 18-25, London Australian Photography: The 1980s, Australian National Gallery, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne Oxford University Press |
| 1987 | Resemblance, catalogue, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Beatrice von Bismark, ‘Resemblance’, Dokument und Analyse, Frankfurt, June Terry Smith, No simple way to find the Australian in Australian art, Times on Sunday, 8 November Here and There, exhibition cat., Monash University Gary Catalano, Mapping the Art of Australia, The Age, 13 November |
| 1985 | Martyn Jolly, Clash of Geneologies at the Future Unperfect show, On the Beach, #6 Spring Judith Fox, Duo reworks themes to make the invisible visible, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 May |
| 1983 | Max Dupain, Let’s have a bit of pictorial blood-letting, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 December |
| 1981 | Photo-discourse, critical thought and practice in photography, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney Max Dupain, High Court under fire at Bondi, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 October |