Hello! If you're looking for an easy to digest rundown of the exhibitions to see this month, you've come to the right place. Below, find a non-exhaustive guide to Australian art in February 2023.
NSW
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Chalk Horse
Colours of the Pilbara
Yinjaa Barni
Until February 18, 2023.
China Heights
Blossoms that open (Show You the Flowing Years)
Regine Bartsch
10 February – 5 March 2023
Reflections of You
Ellen Virgona, Henrietta Harris, Lucy O'Doherty and Nathan Hale
10 February – 5 March 2023
STATION Gallery
Sacred architecture and the celestial body
Shireen Taweel
21 January – 11 February 2023
The Lock-Up
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
Alex Seton
Until February 5, 2023.
Bundanon Art Museum
Siteworks 2022: From a deep valley
Until March 12, 2023.
Carriageworks
Stockwoman
Thea Anamara Perkins
Until February 12, 2023.
WORD MADE FLESH
Paul Yore
Until February 26, 2023.
Bloodlines
The Huxleys
Until March 5, 2023.
N.Smith Gallery
Summer '23.
Until February 11, 2023.
Ngununggula
Video Commission
Tony Albert, Serwah Attafuah, Matthew Griffin, Heath Franco, Tom Polo, James Vaughan, Kate Blackmore and Diana Baker Smith
Until March 12, 2023.
Totem Road
Meg Gallagher
Opens February 23, 2023.
Powerhouse Museum
Drawing on the archives of music promoter, record company founder and entrepreneur Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic, the exhibit will take audiences behind-the-scenes of the alternative music scene in the 1990s.
Until June 3, 2023.
Zampatti Powerhouse
Until June 11, 2023.
Yavuz Gallery
Unbodied
Jedda-Daisy Culley
11 February – 11 March 2023
Michael Reid
Ngayuku Ngura (My Country)
Betty Chimney
2 – 25 February 2023
National Art School
Braving Time: Queer Contemporary for Sydney WorldPride
3 February – 18 March 2023
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Affinities and Resonances
Sol LeWitt
Until February 12, 2023.
Art Express
2 February – 7 May 2023
Arthouse Gallery
Rubik's
James Ettelson
2 – 23 February 2023
Sydney Modern
Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter
Until late 2023
The End of Imagination
Adrián Villar Rojas
Until mid 2023
Museum of Contemporary Art
Do Ho Suh
Until February 26, 2023.
Cement Fondu
Linger, Dash, Talk
18 February – 23 April 2023
Rainbow Studios
Being
Kate Florence and Clare Dubina
23 February – 9 March 2023
VIC
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At The Above
UNDER THE COVER OF A CLOUD
Rhys John Jaye
Until February 19, 2023.
Buxton Contemporary
Peter Tyndall: Retrospective
Until April 16, 2023.
Brunswick Street Gallery
Here On In
Featuring Allison Taplin, Andria Beighton, Ash Leslie, Aylsa McHugh, Clae Studio, Bronson Wright, Brooke Holiday, Caitlin Reilly, Darren Frisina, Ella Thrupp, Emmanuelle McGlade, James Riches, Jane Ericksen, Mickey Mason, Nunzio Miano, Peter Tankey, Phillip Nielsen, Sally O'Callaghan, Sarah Low, Sarah Ritchie, Sonia Martignon, Thaleia Demeter, Wade Taylor, Zoe Sernack and Zoe Woebken.
Until February 11, 2023.
Koorie Heritage Trust
Layers of Blak
Featuring artists such as Thelma Austin (Gunditjmara), Mandi Barton (Yorta Yorta, Barapa Barapa, Wemba Wemba), Lorraine Brigdale (Yorta Yorta), Nikki Browne (Bidjara), Deanne Gilson (Wadawurrung), Tammy Gilson (Wadawurrung), Elijah Money (Wiradjuri), Yasmin Silveira (Palawa), Sammy Trist (Taungurung), Dominic White (Palawa) and Tracy Wise (Barkindji Ngiyampaa Maligundidj).
Until February 19, 2023.
STATION Gallery
To be Clever – To be Posh
Dean Cross
24 January – 25 February 2023
Nudie and Blobs
Polly Borland
24 January – 25 February 2023
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Inside Out
Callum Morton
11 February – 15 April 2023
CRAFT
Interior Landscape
2 February – 4 March 2023
MARS Gallery
Paths that don’t go where people want them to go
Abbey Rich
4 February – 25 February 2023
National Gallery of Victoria
Freedom of Movement: Contemporary Art and Design from the NGV Collection
Featuring KAWS, Patricia Piccinini, Francis Upritchard, Nick Cave, Dan Halter, Fred Wilson, and more.
Until April 10, 2023.
Sullivan + Strumpf
Hope in the Wilderness
Sam Jinks
16 February – 11 March 2023
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium
Animal Instincts
Moya McKenna and Albert Tucker
Until March 19, 2023.
Bendigo Art Gallery
Mother Tongue
Angelica Mesiti
Until February 12, 2022.
WA
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Art Gallery of Western Australia
dis/possession: identity and sense of place
Drawn from works in the State Art Collection, this exhibition centres on the juxtaposition of two significant works by two Australian artists: Hans Heysen’s Droving into the light and Mervyn Street’s Bull ride.
Until March 26, 2023.
Yeahnahnesia
Yok & Sheryo
Until March 26, 2023.
I have not loved (enough or worked)
Hai-Hsin Huang, Daisuke Kosugi, Pixy Liao, Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223), Rinko Kawauchi, Sejin Kim, Lieko Shiga, and Tao Hui.
Until April 23, 2023.
Star Machine
Al Qasimi
4 February – 30 July 2023
Yoshitomo Nara: Reach Out to The Moon
26 February – 25 June 2023
Goolugatup Heathcote
Benev(i)olent Dreaming
Ilona McGuire
11 February – 26 March 2023
Kolbusz Space
Glory Box
Robyn Bernadt
Opens 10 February 2023
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Held Within A Word
Robert Andrew
10 February – 23 April 2023
Fremantle Arts Centre
Djinda Waangkiny - The Stars Speak
4 February 2023 – 23 April 2023
Other Horizons
3 February – 23 April 2023
Atong Atem, Hayley Millar Baker and Jasmine Togo-Brisby
ACT
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Canberra Museum & Gallery
Jingo Was Born in the Slum
Matthew Thorne
Until March 4, 2022.
National Gallery of Australia
Cressida Campbell
Until February 19, 2023.
Project 2: Kara Walker
Until February 5, 2023.
National Film and Sound Archive
Australians & Hollywood: A Tale of Craft, Talent, and Ambition
Ongoing
QLD
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Home of the Arts
Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York
18 February –4 June 2023
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art
Air
Max Dupain, Albert Namatjira, Jonathan Jones with Uncle Stan Grant Snr, Tacita Dean, Carlos Amorales, Dora Budor, and more.
Until April 23, 2023.
Redland Art Gallery
A Time and Place: Celebrating 20 Years of the Rag
Until March 7, 2023.
Museum of Brisbane
Artist in Residence: Gordon Hookey
Until March 9, 2023.
SA
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Felt Space
All the Years/Lost and Found (As If Snow Is Melting)
Sonja Porcaro
1 – 25 February 2023
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
A river that flows both ways: Selected works from the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus
4 February – 18 March 2023
Art Gallery of South Australia
THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS
Yayoi Kusama
Until April 2, 2023.
NT
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Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Gumurr’manydji Manapanmirr Djäma
Open now
Araluen Arts Centre
Clay on Country
Open now
Laundry Gallery
Bawaliba Homeland
Lucy Yarawanga
Opens February 11, 2023.
TAS
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Museum of Old and New Art
Oceans of Air
Tomás Saraceno
Until July 24, 2023.
Contemporary Art Tasmania
Constellations: Dream Work
2 – 4 February 2023
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