As autumn settles in, March 2025 brings a wave of unmissable art exhibitions across Australia, showcasing everything from cutting-edge contemporary works to deep cultural explorations.

From major institutional surveys to intimate gallery shows, this month’s lineup highlights the breadth of artistic talent and storytelling shaping the national landscape. Expect bold new commissions, historic retrospectives, and immersive installations that challenge perceptions and spark conversation. Whether it’s the intricate glasswork of Gathering Light in Adelaide, Michael McWilliams’ first public survey in Tasmania, or explorations of Indigenous songlines and trade routes, March’s exhibitions invite us to see, reflect, and engage anew.

For the shows not to miss, read on.

NSW

COMA

Misbehaviour in the Age of Geometry – 7 March until 5 April 2025

A new solo exhibition by Nick Modrzewski exploring frenetic figures in states of movement, metamorphosis, and social interaction. Fragmented faces and limbs interweave with painterly gestures, splintering and combusting in the process.

N.Smith Gallery

Tapa-arra Through the Landscape – until 22 March 2025

James Tylor explores Indigenous roads, songlines, and trade routes across Australia, focusing on the Kaurna people of South Australia. Through layered photographic interventions and negative space, he reveals these hidden paths, now overlaid by colonial infrastructure, tracing both their disruption and enduring presence.

National Art School’s Cellblock Theatre

Unbound Art Show – 20 March 2025

Young people take centre stage in an upcoming art show where artists from across Australia will donate works in support of the fight against youth homelessness. This year’s theme, 'Horizons of Hope', reflects a commitment to shaping a brighter future for vulnerable children and young people, with a curated selection of never-before-seen pieces from artists including Antoinette Ferwerda, Bobby Clark, Gemma O'Brien, Ken Done, and more.

Bundanon

Thinking together: Exchanges with the natural world – 1 March until 8 June 2025

Bringing together major commissions and works from contemporary artists, this exhibition explores themes of reciprocity, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing between the human and non-human worlds. Featuring artists such as Robert Andrew, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Keg de Souza, the Martu communities, Sorawit Songsataya, and Tina Stefanou, the exhibition reflects on communal making, environmental interconnectedness, and the enduring relationships between people, place, and Country.

Sullivan + Strumpf

And Then Together –  until 29 March 2025

Paris-based Australian artist Gregory Hodge’s latest body of work, developed during his residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, represents his most ambitious exploration of painting yet, refining his signature technique to layer bold, vibrant hues beneath intricate, illusionistic patterns that blur the boundaries between abstraction and recognisable form.

CASSANDRA BIRD

Notes from an Earlier Sky – until March 20, 2025

Jessica Rankin's first solo exhibition in Sydney explores memory, time, and place through intricate hand-embroidered paintings that weave together words, landscapes, and personal history.

Saint Cloche

Eclipse – 12 until 23 March 2025

In recognition of International Women’s Day, this group exhibition brings together works across metal and ceramic sculpture, abstract painting, and landscape painting to explore a shared vision of resilience, grace, and quiet power.

VIC

Bendigo Art Gallery

Frida Kahlo: In her own image – 15 March until 13 Jul 25

Presenting an intimate view of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, this exclusive exhibition features Kahlo’s personal belongings, clothing, make-up, accessories, and medical items, on loan from the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico for the first time in Australia.

TarraWarra Museum of Art

TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles – 29 March until 20 July 2025

Featuring 22 contemporary artists and over 20 newly commissioned works, this exhibition is shaped by curator Kimberley Moulton’s First Peoples curatorial approach, challenging colonial narratives and disrupting prescribed notions of Australian identity.

Bunjil Place Gallery

Floribunda – 29 March until 20 July 2025

Curated by David Sequeira, this exhibition explores the enduring connection between humans and flowers through over 150 works spanning painting, sculpture, photography, fashion, and more. A major collaboration between the National Gallery of Victoria and Bunjil Place, it will features works by international and Australian artists, including Azuma Makoto, Margaret Preston, Akira Isogawa, and Yves Saint Laurent.

The Outsiders Melbourne

The Workroom – until 25 May 2025

This installation by world-renowned street artist Rone opens in Melbourne as part of The Outsiders Melbourne, a ground-breaking exhibition dedicated to showcasing amazing work by artists defying the art establishment. A giant of the Australian street art movement, Rone is renowned for his evocative and immersive site-specific installations that breathe new life into forgotten spaces.

Mildura Arts Centre

Time and Place – until 4 May 2025

Internationally renowned and exhibiting artist, Bruce Munro's physical visualisation of how we recall and often reinterpret memories and moments. The British-Australian artist is renowned for his large-scale light works, and has worked worldwide, transforming landscapes through the medium of light.

QLD

Outer Space

Climate of Violence II: Lamentum – until 5 March 2025

Arianna Nixon and Amy Sargeant’s Climate of Violence: Lamentum transforms the bell tower at Outer Space into a site of resistance and reflection, confronting the rising discrimination against trans communities through a powerful installation that reclaims artistic space, amplifies transfeminine voices, and challenges systemic erasure.

QAGOMA

The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art – until 27 April 2025

Featuring 70 artists, collectives, and projects from over 30 countries, the latest edition of QAGOMA’s Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art brings groundbreaking new works to Brisbane, offering a dynamic exploration of artistic expression across Australia, Asia, and the Pacific, including co-curated projects that reveal rarely seen artforms and cultural contexts.

Edwina Corlette

Sight Lines – 26 February until 18 March 2025

Born from time spent on Bundjalung Country, Bridie Gillman traces the shifting landscapes between Brays Creek and Murwillumbah, capturing the rhythm of ridgelines, fence lines, and shadow lines along the winding road. Through fresh gestures and explorations of colour, these paintings hold a quiet tension—balancing awe and unease, observation and translation, as they invite slow looking and deeper reflection on place.

WA

Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA)

Form and feeling: artists’ studies of the twentieth century – until 4 May 2025

Bringing together figurative oil paintings and rarely seen preparatory drawings from The State Art Collection, this exhibition examines the central role of drawing in twentieth-century British and Australian art, tracing how artists like Stanley Spencer, William Dobell, and Frank Auerbach transformed preliminary sketches into finished works while shaping the trajectory of Modern art in Australia.

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)

In Her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matrilineal Legacy – until 30 March 2025

Bringing together seven Australian artists who pay homage to the women who have shaped their lives –grandmothers, mothers, artistic matriarchs, leaders, ancestors and forebears – this exhibition celebrates and acknowledges the vital, transformative and nurturing pathways these women have forged, delving into themes of activism and empowerment through a compelling mix of new and existing works.

SA

Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA)

Radical Textiles – until 30 March 2025

Spanning 150 years of innovation and tradition, this major exhibition explores the radical potential of textiles – from William Morris to Sonia Delaunay – highlighting how artists and designers have used fabric as a tool for activism, resistance, and storytelling, with works drawn from AGSA’s collections alongside new commissions.

JamFactory

Gathering Light – until 30 March 2025

Curated by JamFactory’s CEO and Artistic Director Brian Parkes, this exhibition showcases six exceptional South Australian glass artists working with hot blown glass in distinct and innovative ways. Celebrating Adelaide’s global reputation as a hub for studio glass, the exhibition also highlights its enduring connections to the renowned Pilchuck Glass School, founded by Dale Chihuly in 1971.

ACT

National Gallery of Australia

Masami Teraoka and Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints – until 26 July 2025

The National Gallery will showcase Masami Teraoka’s ukiyo-e-inspired works, including his Hawaii Snorkel Series (1992–93) and the newly acquired AIDS Series/Makiki Heights Disaster (1988), alongside historic ukiyo-e prints to mark the 30th anniversary of Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS.

100 Flowers Falling – until 10 March 2025

Also at National Gallery – Lindy Lee will illuminate the building's facade for 10 nights from 8–11pm, blending cosmic imagery, ancient Chinese symbolism, and sound to explore identity, belonging, and the duality of self through the story of Ch’ien, a young woman torn between duty and independence.

TAS

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

On Island  – until 21 September 2025

Borrowing its name from Flinders Island’s local vernacular, On Island explores the deep connections between artists and Lutruwita/Tasmania, weaving together narratives of place, history, and ecology through works from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery collection that reflect on invasion, industry, and climate within a global artistic dialogue.

QVMAG

Gentle Protagonist – until 23 March 2025

The first-ever public exhibition of Michael McWilliams, one of Australia’s most celebrated artists, known for his whimsical yet thought-provoking depictions of Tasmanian wildlife and landscapes. Balancing humour with a keen environmental awareness, this landmark survey explores McWilliams’ life, career, and deep connection to the natural world—offering an unmissable glimpse into his uniquely observant art.

NT

Laundry Gallery

WERRKNO II – until 8 March 2025

An exhibition showcasing 33 original works on paper by senior women artists from Maningrida Arts & Culture, highlighting the rich artistic traditions of Kunibídji country on the northern coast of Arnhem Land.

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

ACTION! Film and War – until 1 June 2025

From frontline footage to cinematic retellings, film has long shaped our understanding of Australia’s experience of war. This exhibition explores how Australians armed with cameras have recorded history – whether as a professional duty or personal testament—while also highlighting the role of movies in providing comfort, reframing narratives, and sharing war stories with new audiences.

Araluen Arts Centre

Immerse & Nourish – until 6 April 2025

These energising works from the Araluen Collection bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists for an exploration of water – both surface and subterranean – as a life-giving force, from the soakwater systems of the desert to distant rockholes, oceans, and beaches, offering a sanctuary for reflection and nourishment.