Fiona Foley
Sea of Love #2 (2007)
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition 15
 133 x 100 cm

1964 Born Maryborough, Queensland

Qualifications/Appointment
2003–09 Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Brisbane
1982–83 East Sydney Technical College, Certificate of Arts
1984–86 Sydney College of the Arts, Bachelor of Visual Arts
1987 Sydney Institute of Education: Sydney University, Diploma of Education

Solo Exhibitions
2010 Circumspect Circumstances, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Fiona Foley: Forbidden, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Fiona Foley, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, New South Wales
2009 Fiona Foley: Forbidden, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Nulla 4 Eva, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2008 Sea of Love, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2007 No Shades of White, The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
2006 Strange Fruit, October Gallery, London
Black Friday, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Red Ochre Me, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
No Shades of White, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2005 No Shades of White, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
No Shades of White, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2004 Bring It On a.k.a. HHH, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, USA
Beyond the Sea, Presentation Convent, Carlow, Ireland
Wandering, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Fiona Foley, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin
2003 Samsara, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Red Ochre Me, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
2002 Fiona Foley: Wild Times Call, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Fiona Foley: Them There Bones, New Land Gallery, Adelaide
2001 Fiona Foley: Pir’ri- Mangrove, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Falling Tide—Kung Dhu’marami, Redback Art Gallery, Brisbane
Fiona Foley, Niagara Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
River of Corn, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
2000–02 Invisible Voices, Bundaberg Arts Centre, Bundaberg (touring); Yarrabah Museum; The Tanks, Cairns
1998 Living With The Wind, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1997 Dulingbara—People of the Nautilus Shell, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
Dulingbara—People of the Nautilus Shell, Savode Gallery, Brisbane
1996 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile
Banco BHN, La Paz, Bolivia
Wun’Duman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1995 Exotica Under the Microscope, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Land Deal—Velvet Waters, Savode Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Fiona Foley, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1993 Lick My Black Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
1992 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1991 By Land and Sea I Leave Ephemeral Spirit, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1989 A Three Legged Dog Day, Maningrida Arts & Craft, N.T.
A Three Legged Dog Day, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1988 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
My Fishing Line Is Still In The Ocean, Griffith University, Queensland

Joint Exhibitions
1994 Fiona Foley and Olu Oguibe, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions
2010 17th Biennale of Sydney—The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney
2009 Continuity and Change, The British Museum, London, England
Floating Life: Contemporary Aboriginal Fibre Art, Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane
Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane
Speakeasy, Gallery 4A, Sydney
Character, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2009–10 Twelve Degrees of Latitude: Regional gallery and university art collections in Queensland, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Queensland; Artspace Mackay, Queensland; , Queensland; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland; Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Queensland; University of the Sunshine Coast Gallery, Queensland; Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland; Warwick Art Gallery, Queensland
2008 [Re]inventing the Wheel, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Western Australian Premier’s Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Kate Challis RAKA Award, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Victoria
New: Selected recent acquisitions 2007–2008, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Open Air: Portraits in the Landscape, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Skin Deep, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
Repeat that again!: The serial impulse in art since the ‘sixties, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Home, Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Depth of field: Contemporary photography from The University of Queensland Art Collection, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Cruel and unusual punishment: Art and violence, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
2008–10 Habitus–Habitat, Noosa Regional Gallery; Queensland; Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales; Gladstone Regional Gallery and Museum, Queensland; Centre for Scenic Rim Arts & Culture, Brisbane, Queensland; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland; Gympie Regional Gallery, Queensland; Artspace Mackay, Queensland; Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Queensland; Bundaberg Arts Centre, Queensland; Tamworth Regional Gallery, New South Wales; Yugambeh Language and Heritage Research Centre, Beenleigh, Queensland; Logan Art Gallery, Logan City, Queensland
2007 Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
No Laughing Matter, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Fifteen Years of Urban Art Projects, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
The Betty Quelhurst Gift, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Sunshine State: Smart State, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
The Unusual Suspects III, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2006 Habitus–Habitat, The Lobby, 111 George Street, Brisbane
Bangu Yilbara: Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Doubletake, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Colonial to Contemporary, Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
2005 Out There, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
Black Ink: Indigenous Prints from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Spirit & Vision: Aboriginal Art, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria
Cultural Copy, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, USA
Out of Country, Gallery 1601, The Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA
Blak Insights: Contemporary indigenous art from the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
If You Only Knew, City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
Passage, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW
2003 The American Effect, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
Fields, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Indians+Cowboys, Gallery 4a Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney
Wide Angle: Lateral perspectives from coastal Queensland, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland
Shield + Show, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2002 The Queensland/Berlin Indigenous Art Exhibition, Ludwig Erhard Haus, Berlin, Germany
Meridian: Focus on contemporary Australian art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Your Place or Mine, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Wild Nature in Contemporary Australian Art and Craft, a travelling exhibition Funded by Visions Australia and the Gordon Darling Foundation: Jam Factory, Adelaide
Postmark Post Mabo, Post Master Gallery, Melbourne
Wide Angle, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Queensland
Conspectus, Artworkers Space, Brisbane
Far From Home, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2001 Central Queensland Art Purchase, The Rockhampton Art Gallery Trust
Lightness of Being, Monash University Gallery, Victoria
MCA Unpacked, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Who What Where: Recent Sculpture Commissions at the Australian National University, CSA Gallery, Canberra
What’s Love Got To Do With It, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
2000 Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Bonheurs des Antipodes, Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
All Stars, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1999 Claiming Title, Carleton & St Olaf Colleges, Northfield, Minnesota; Laurence University, Wisconsin; Samuel Dorswky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, New York, USA
Love Magic: Erotics and Politics in Indigenous Art, Perspecta 99: Living Here Now, Art+Politics, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Possession, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney
Isintu: Ceremony, Identity and Community, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Enjoin, Cairns Regional Gallery
Cinderella’s Gems, University of Technology, Sydney and touring
Island, Artspace, Sydney
Spinifex Runner, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Fine lines: Works of Ornamentation and Design by Maningrida Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1998 Ceremony, Identity and Community, Flinders Art Museum City Gallery
Land and Sea: The Cultural Connection, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
Enjoin, Manila, The Philippines
1997–98 Dreaming the Republic, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
1997 Eye of the Storm, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Wind and Water, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
NAIDOC Week Exhibition, Bundaberg Arts Centre
In Place (Out of Time), The Museum of Moden Art, Oxford, U.K.
Drift, Penrith Regional Gallery, The Lewers Bequest, Wollongong City Gallery, City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
Sense, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Whanki Museum, Korea
Painting the Land Story, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1996 Containers ‘96, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, Copenhagen, Denmark
Colonial/Post Colonial, Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Melbourne
Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Islands, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Eye of the Storm, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
Art Head Land, Festival of Darwin, Supreme Court, Dawin, NT
Spirit + Place, Museum of Contemporary Art
1995 Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Island to Island, Cheju Pre-Biennale, Korea
Asia & Oceania Influence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Rereading Eliza Fraser, Museum of South Australia, Adelaide
Sight Seeing, Australia Post Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Moving Sands, Tandanya, Adelaide Installations, Adelaide Festival
True Stories, Artspace, Sydney
Identities: Art from Australia, Taiwan, Wollongong City Gallery
Localities of Desire: Contemporary Art in an International World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Palindrome, Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Photosynthesis, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1993 New Tracks, Old Land, Northern Territory Museum of Arts & Sciences, Darwin & Australian tour
Death, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Wiyana/Perisferia (Periphery), satellite event of the 9th Biennale of Sydney, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative at the Performance Space, Sydney & New South Wales tour
Raka, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
Yanada (New Moon), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Dream Time, Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Aratjara, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,Düsseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Louisiana Art Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Urban Aboriginal Art, Jan Weiss Gallery, New York
1992 Flash Pictures, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Tyerabarrbowaryaou, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Crossroads—Towards a New Reality, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto & National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
New Traks, Old Land, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston & USA tour
1991 The Concept of Country, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Who’s Sorry Now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1988 From Pukumani Poles to Sand Paintings, Craft Centre Gallery, Sydney
1987 Aboriginal Australian Views in Print & Poster, Australian Print Council, Melbourne
Boomalli Au-Go-Go, Chippendale, Sydney
1986 Urban Koories, Willoughby Workshop Arts Centre
Art Bites, Piers 2 & 3 Walsh Bay, Sydney
1985 Aboriginal Artist Gallery, Melbourne
Aboriginal Artist Gallery, Sydney
1984 Koorie Art 84, Artspace, Sydney; Butchers Exhibit Gallery

Awards
2003 Gallery Australian Art Competition
1995 Lloyd Rees Award for Outstanding Urban Design

Residencies
2006 University of Wollongong, NSW
Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University, Sydney
2002 Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
1996 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 2 months
1994 Commonwealth Artists Exchange, Open Space, Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada, 2 months
1990 Cleveland Street Intensive Language Centre, Sydney
1988 Griffith Artworks, Nathan campus, Griffith University, 3 months
Maningrida Arts and Crafts, Maningrida, Arnhem Land, N.T. 2 months
Co-ordinator, silk screen printing workshop Ramingining, NT
1983 Visiting Student to St Martins School of Art, London

Travel
2007 New York, NY, USA
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dublin, Ireland
2006 London, England
Auckland, New Zealand
2005 United Kingdom
2004 New York, NY, USA
Carlow, Ireland
2003 USA
2002 Spain
2001 Tampa, Florida, USA; New York, NY, USA
2000 Russia, UK, USA, Japan
1999 South Africa, India, Japan
1997 Seoul, Korea
1996 Santiago De Chile, Chile; La Paz, Bolivia; New Delhi, India
1995 Berlin, Germany; Cheju, Korea
1994 Havana, Cuba; Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1993 Ramingining, Arnhem Land, N.T.; London, United Kingdom; Budapest, Hungary
1992 Kyoto, Japan
1991–92 Maningrida, Arnhem Land, N.T.
1990 New York, U.S.A.
1989 Ramingining, Arnhem Land, N.T.
1988–89 Maningrida, Arnhem Land, N.T.
1985 Bathurst Island, N.T.
1985–87 Ramingining, Arnhem Land, N.T.

Commissions
2006 pir-ri, Queensland College of Art, South Bank, Brisbane (sculpture)
Black Opium, Millennium Arts Project, State Library Queensland, Brisbane (sculpture)
2004 Witnessing to Silence, Brisbane Magistrates’ Court, Brisbane (sculpture)
Untitled, Tallebudgera, Queensland (sculpture)
2001 Winged Harvest, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Canberra, (Commisioned by the Australian National University)
Tribute to A’vang, Parliament House, Canberra, (Commissioned by the Joint House Department)
Falling Tide–Kung Dhu’marami, New Farm River Walk, Merthyr Park, New Farm (Commissioned by the Brisbane City Council)
2000 Brenden Hanson Building, Hervey Bay
Olympic Arts Festival, Tubowgule, set design, Director Stephen Page, Sydney Opera House forecourt, Sydney Botanic Gardens, La Perouse Beach
Queensland Arts Council, poster design, Regional Performing Tour Queensland
Adelaide Arts Festival, Ochre and Dust, set design, Director Aku Kadogo
1999 Pavement Design, Brisbane City Council, Queen Street Mall (Commissioned by the Brisbane City Council)
1997 The Lie of the Land, Melbourne Town Hall (Commissioned by City of Melbourne)
1996 The Australian Ballet, Alchemy, set design, Sydney Opera House, Victorian Arts Centre
1994 Edge of the Trees, Museum of Sydney (Commissioned by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales)
1994 Adelaide Festival of the Arts Poster Design
1993 Australia Post Stamp Issue: International Year of Indigenous People (45 cent denomination)

Curatorial
1993–94 Guest Curator, Tyerabarrbowaryaou II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Havana Biennial 1994
1991–92 Guest curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tyerbarrbowaryaou
1991 Curator at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative: Ian Abdulla & Harry Wedge, Kudjeri's, Boomalli End of Year Exhibition

Lectures
2007 College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2004 B.CAIA Convener, Semester Two 2004, Queensland College of Art , Griffith University, Brisbane
New York University, NYC, USA
Arizona University, USA
Columbia University, NYC, USA
2003 Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
Fine Arts Department, Sydney University, Sydney
Art and Human Rights, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
International Human Rights Day Symposium, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, Brisbane
Native Title Business, National Museum of Canberra
2002 On the Bunya Trail Symposium, Griffith University, Nathan Campus
Presenting Indigenous Arts, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra
Home, Queensland University of Technology
Many Rivers to Cross, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
Yarrabah High School, Queensland
The Tanks, Cairns
Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2001 University of South Florida, College of Art, Tampa, Florida
Columbia University, New York, USA
Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Griffith University,College of Art, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Hervey Bay
1998 Adelaide Arts Festival Artists Week
Cultural Tourism, University of Southern Queensland (Wide Bay)
Griffith University, Stradbroke Island Project
University of Southern Queensland, Hervey Bay Cultural Tourism Seminar—Yagubi Festival
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Faculty of the Arts
1996 Australian Ambassador’s Residence, Santiago de Chile
University of Chile, Escuela de Arte, Santiago de Chile
Towards the New Millennium, Museums Australia Inc. 1996, Conference Power and Empowerment, Sydney
University of Tasmania, Department of Fine Arts, Launceston, Tasmania
A Blast from the Past, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston,Tasmania
Northern Territory University, School of Fine Arts, Darwin, NT
Arts Symposium, Imaginary Places, Indian International Centre, New Delhi
1995 University of Western Sydney, Nepean Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts, Sydney
Post Colonialism Eliza Fraser Workshop, Berlin, Germany
Cultural Policy—State of The Art, NIAAA representative
Post-Colonial Fictions Symposium, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Adelaide
1994 Museums Associations of Australia, Traditional Boundaries, New Boundaries, Sydney
Regional Galleries Association of New South Wales, Traditional Boundaries, New Perspective, Newcastle
Minded Cultures—Contemporary Artists and Post-Colonialism in the Commonwealth, Canada
Artist Talk, Localities of Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Sydney College of the Arts, Sculpture Department, Sydney
1993 Co-Judge, National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin
Aboriginal Printmaking Symposium, Aboriginal Issues in Print, Darwin

Selected Board Memberships
2002–06 Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Executive Member
1999 Regional Arts Development Fund, Hervey Bay
East Timor Support Group
1997–98 Yag’ubi Multicultural Festival
1996 Exhibition Panel, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
1995– Wondunna Aboriginal Corporation
1994–95 Board member at Artspace, Sydney
1993–97 Executive member of National Indigenous Arts Advocacy Association
1993–94 Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre
1992–95 Executive member of Thoorgine Educational and Culture Centre
1990–1993 Aboriginal Arts Committee of the Australia Council
Visual Arts Panel of the Australia Council
1987 Founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative

International Artist Exchanges—Hosted at Hervey Bay
1998 Kelvin Yazzie, USA (2 months)
1996 Rose Spahan, Canada (2 months)

Publication
2006 Foley, Fiona (editor), The Art of Politics/The Politics of Art: The Place Of Indigenous Contemporary Art, Keeaira Press, Southport, Queensland ISBN: 0 9752460 4 6

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Collections
The British Museum, London, England
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane
Artbank, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Bundall, Queensland
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Hervey Bay City Council, Queensland
Australian National University, Canberra
Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Brisbane
Curtin University of Technology, Perth
Flinders University, Adelaide
Griffith University, Brisbane
Latrobe University, Melbourne
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
The University of Queensland, Brisbane
The University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland
Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Brisbane
Environmental Protection Agency, Maryborough, Queensland
Mater Mothers’ Hospital, Brisbane
Grant Samuel Collection of Contemporary Art, New Zealand/Australia
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Perth