We've breached a New Year, and while many galleries are using the quiet January brings to close up shop and take a break, others are putting on their boldest shows in anticipation of the holidays. So what's on this month in Australian art? From Emily Kame Kngwarreye at the National Gallery of Australia and the legacy of Imants Tiller at Mosman Gallery, here's your Australian art guide for January 2024.
For the best in Australian art in January 2024, keep scrolling.
NSW
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STATION Gallery
How does it feel?
Angela Brennan, Jahnne Pasco-White, and Julia Trybala
Until January 27, 2024.
China Heights
Phonies
Curated by Sam Stephenson featuring Nash Ferguson and Mitchell Tolman
Until February 2024.
Group Exhibition
Gabriella Lo Presti, Montana Miller, Max Berry, Otis Hope Carey and Shaun Daniel Allen.
Until February 2024.
Olsen Gallery
30 Year Celebration
Until January 30, 2024.
COMA Gallery
2 Summers
Mikey Yates
Until January 27, 2024.
Ngununggula
New Dog Old Tricks
Billy Bain, David Griggs, Guido Maestri, Jason Phu, Julia Gutman, Madeleine Pfull, Marc Etherington, Nadia Hernández, Noel Mckenna, and Todd Fuller.
Until February 4, 2024.
Arthouse Gallery
Arthouse Group Show
9 – 27 January 2024
Bundanon Art Museum
Miwatj Yolŋu - Sunrise People
Until February 11, 2024.
N.Smith Gallery
Summer 24'
Holly Anderson, Tom Blake, Casey Chen, Joshua Charadia, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Neva Hosking, Kyra Mancktelow, Danie Mellor, Dylan Mooney, Thea Anamara Perkins, Joan Ross, Sally Scales, Vipoo Srivilasa, James Tylor, Natasha Walsh, and Louise Zhang.
17 January – 3 February 2024
Murray Art Museum Albury
Monumental as Anything
Until February 11, 2024.
Bank Manager Hour
Courtney Young
21 January 2024
ACMI
The Dark Current
Angela Tiatia
Until February 4, 2024.
Artspace
untitled (transcriptions of country)
Jonathan Jones
Until February 11, 2024.
Mosman Art Gallery
Imants Tillers: The Mosman Years
Until February 4, 2024.
Granville Centre Art Gallery
The Good
Anna Louise Richardson
Until February 18, 2024.
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Hill End Impressions
Lino Alvarez Carrasco
Until February 11, 2024.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line
Until January 21, 2024.
Kandinsky
Until March 10, 2024.
Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?
Louise Bourgeois
Until April 28, 2024.
Art Leven
It Flows
Joanne Currie Nalingu
Until January 14, 2024.
Museum of Contemporary Art
Primavera 2023
Until February 4, 2024.
Waters' Witness
Tarek Atoui
Until February 4, 2024.
Tacita Dean
Until March 3, 2024.
VIC
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West Space
Unconstitutional Love
Kyra Mancktelow
13 January – 24 February 2024
TarraWarra Museum of Art
Surrender & Catch
Brent Harris
Until March 11, 2024.
Linden New Art
Real Fake
Betty Sargeant
11 January – 11 February 2024
Buxton Contemporary
Around
Nadine Christensen
Until April 7, 2024.
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Whereabouts: Printmakers Respond
Until February 4, 2024.
Between Worlds
Tamara Bekier
Until January 28, 2024.
Significant Others
Until February 11, 2024.
Hamilton Gallery
Emerging from Darkness
Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana, Sofonisba Anguissola, exhibited alongside paintings from Peter Paul Rubens, Valentin de Boulogne, Guercino, and Bartolomeo Manfredi.
Until April 14, 2024.
Swan Hill Regional Gallery
Here We Are!
Until January 228, 2024.
CRAFT
Everybody's heard of a dragon
Until January 27, 2024.
National Gallery of Victoria
Planetary Redesign
Liam Young
Until February 11, 2023.
Photography: Real & Imagined
Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Max Dupain, Olive Cotton, Mervyn Bishop, Polly Borland, and Darren Sylvester.
Until February 24, 2024.
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Surrealist Lee Miller
Until February 25, 2024.
Bendigo Art Gallery
The kingdom, the power
Marikit Santiago
Until February 4, 2024.
WA
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Art Gallery of Western Australia
Death Metal Summer
Deanna Templeton and Ed Templeton
Until April 21, 2024.
Goolugatup Heathcote
The beautiful is useful
Lisa Liebetrau and Shannon Lyons
Until January 14, 2024.
Fremantle Arts Centre
Special Treat
Dionne Hooyberg
Until January 28, 2024.
ACT
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National Portrait Gallery
Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize
Until January 28, 2024.
National Gallery of Australia
Nan Goldin
Until January 28, 2024.
Emily Kam Kngwarray
Until April 28, 2024.
Belconnen Arts Centre
Scenes from the mall
Spiros Coutroubas
Until February 11, 2024.
Hesitation
Eliza Adam
Until February 11, 2024.
QLD
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Institute of Modern Art
Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death
Arthur Jafa
20 January – 7 April 2024
Home of the Arts
Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street
Until January 24, 2024.
Edwina Corlette Gallery
The Summer Show
Sally Anderson, James Drinkwater, Bridie Gillman, Aaron Kinnane, Dan Kyle, Paul Ryan, Belem Lett, Candy Nelson Nakamarra, and Peta Minnici.
Until January 30, 2024/
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art
Gone Fishing
Until January 21, 2024.
The Castle of Tarragindi
Natalya Hughes
Until July 14, 2024.
A Feeling for Light
Isaac Walter Jenner
Until January 28, 2024.
Museum of Brisbane
Rearranged: Art of the Flower
Until August 11, 2024.
SA
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Art Gallery of South Australia
Tarnanthi
Until January 21, 2024.
Australia in Colour
Vincent Namatjira
Until January 21, 2024.
Adelaide Festival Centre
By Barry Humphries: From the David Dridan Family Collection
Until April 13, 2023.
NT
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Gumurr’manydji Manapanmirr Djäma (Making successful business together)
Open now
2023 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Open now
Laundry Gallery
Gatjpu!
Open now
Araluen Arts Centre
My Country
Until March 4, 2024.
Alice Prize 1970-2020
Until March 3, 2024.
TAS
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Museum of Old and New Art
Jean-Luc Moulène and Teams
Until April 1, 2024.
Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World
Until April 1, 2024.
Salamanca Arts Centre
Continuum
Emma Bingham
Until January 28, 2024.
Despard Gallery
Despard Gallery 37th Annual Summer Show
Until February 3, 2024.
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Images:
Emily Kam Kngwarray, Anmatyerr people, Wild yam V, 1995, Hassall Collection, Gadigal Nura / Sydney © Emily Kam Kngwarray/Copyright Agency, 2023 @nationalgalleryaus
Julia Trybala @stationgalleryaustralia
