From ghostly reveries in Sydney to ancient echoes in Bundanon, our June art exhibitions stretch across Australia like a living map of memory, identity, and materiality. In NSW alone, haunting portraits, tender brushstrokes, and digital dreamscapes lead us through liminal spaces of connection and culture. Travel further and you'll find Cj Hendry’s immersive playground at Chadstone, the enduring elegance of the kimono at NGV, and a golden milestone for Donald Judd in Adelaide. Whether drawn to macro histories or micro ecologies, this month’s offerings invite you to pause, witness, and feel – here's your art guide for June 2025.
NSW
Olsen Gallery
Chameleons – until 21 June 2025
Sydney-based artist Holly Greenwood is presenting a new exhibition of paintings centred on ghostly figures within communal spaces in states of connection and disconnection. The exhibition features six new large-scale works steeped in a distinctly Australian sense of place.
Ames Yavuz
Each Apparition, Searches for an Eye – 1 June – 12 July 2025
A series of 100 photo-portraits of soldiers from Stanislava Pinchuk’s deployment to witness combat training for the Armed Forces of Ukraine as the Official War Artist of Australia. Instructed to obscure all identifying features to elude enemy facial-recognition software, the artist manually manipulated the film negatives to blur the faces of her subjects.
Artspace
Amongst the clouds (digital materialities in the 21st century) – from 8 May to 20 July 2025
Profiling Australian and international artists (like Liu Chuang, China, Nina Davies, Canada/UK, Archana Hande, India, and more...) who explore the ways in which digital realms are determinedly tied to the physical world. As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, how we think about art, society and technology is radically shifting and evolving.
Ngununggula
Tender – until 15 June 2025
A major new all-women exhibition featuring seven leading Australian painters, Sally Anderson, Sarah Drinan, Laura Jones, India Mark, Dionisia Salas, Julia Trybala and Amber Wallis. It delves into the concept of ‘tenderness’, a term often associated with notions of care and femininity, to explore its significance and many meanings beyond a gendered lens.
Rainbow Studios
Double Bounce – from 22 May 2025
The debut solo exhibition by Sydney-based artist and designer Cat Yenn offers a playful meditation on emotional tension, nostalgia, and the physics of feeling. Hand-painted and entirely analogue, her works transform weighty emotion into moments of levity—like the fleeting thrill of a trampoline’s second bounce.
CASSANDRA BIRD
Unfolding Earth – until 7 June 2025
A solo exhibition by artist Juz Kitson, whose sculptures blossom from the ground like ancient relics newly encountered— as if alive. These sculpted lifeforms – shaped from porcelain, fur, bone, wax, and glass – echo cycles of rebirth, where objects charged with memory, body, and nature entwine to become the environments we inhabit.
Bundanon
maḻatja-maḻatja (those who come after) – 28 June until 5 October 2025
This exhibition from renowned Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands artist Betty Kuntiwa Pumani will encompass a major new three-part painting, created especially for Bundanon. Presented alongside major loans from public and private collections, Pumani’s paintings reveal a shimmering landscape of red earth, bright blue waterholes and stippled white tobacco flowers.
VIC
Potter Museum of Art (University of Melbourne)
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art – from 30 May 2025
An exhibition celebrating the brilliance and beauty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art while confronting the dark heart of Australia’s colonial history, including rarely seen works of art and cultural objects from the University of Melbourne’s collections alongside 193 important loans from 77 public and private lenders. Includes work by: William Barak, Lin Onus, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Albert Namatjira, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Emily Kam Kngwarray, and more.
NGV International
Kimono – 5 June until 5 October 2025
Featuring rare and hand-crafted kimono from the Edo period to today, this is a brand-new, NGV-curated exhibition that explores the timeless elegance and enduring appeal of this iconic Japanese garment. Celebrated throughout the world for its meticulous craftsmanship and sophisticated sense of style, the kimono has had an indelible influence on global art, design and fashion culture since Japan opened its borders to the world in the mid-nineteenth century.
Chadstone
Lost & Found – from 19 June 2025
Cj Hendry is returning home for the first time in 4 years, and with her arrival, comes a collection of new original artworks and a large-scale exhibition across three sites that will see Chadstone transform into an immersive playground of art and creativity. Touching down under the gridshell roof, Hendry’s upcoming exhibition promises to be a mind-bending journey that draws from Hendry’s signature blend of hyperrealism, playful design, and large-scale physical environments.
QLD
Queensland Art Gallery
marru | the unseen visible – until 3 Aug 2025
Danie Mellor’s multidisciplinary art practice explores Australia’s shared history through the lens of his Ngadjon-jii, Mamu and Anglo-Celtic ancestry and ongoing connection to Country in the Atherton Tablelands and rainforests of far north Queensland. This exhibition brings together works examining memory and remembrance; the relationship between First Nations people, culture and Country; and the environmental and social impact of colonial history.
NT
MAGNT Darwin
Tiny Territory – ongoing
Invertebrates in the Top End are the most numerous and important ecosystem engineers, service providers and waste managers. They are rarely noticed or revered – Tiny Territory makes large and wondrous the small, colourful and alien-like invertebrates of the Northern Territory.
SA
Art Gallery South Australia (AGSA)
50 years of Donald Judd's Untitled, 1974–75 – until 17 Aug 2025
The influential artist, designer, architect and art critic, Donald Judd (1928–1994) was one of America’s leading postwar artists when he designed the large site-specific concrete sculpture Untitled for the rear of the Gallery in 1974. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of its unveiling. Revered by some, subjected to protests by others, it has been a significant presence on the back lawn of the Gallery over five decades.
WA
Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA)
The West Australian Pulse 2025 – until 31 August 2025
Celebrating 33 years and features 61 works by 2024 Year 12 Visual Arts graduates from 37 schools across WA, these selected works provide a window into young people’s private, social and artistic concerns. It is an inspiring, rewarding and insightful look at the world through the minds of our most talented young artists.
