As we near the end of the year and the silly season ahead, the galleries around Australia have been gearing up to put on some of their best. From major feminist exhibitions in Sydney to a survey of one of Australia’s most influential and experimental abstract artists in Melbourne – there's plenty going on in the art world.

For all the exhibitions happening across the country in November, read on.

NSW

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Dangerously Modern – until 15 February 2026

The first major exhibition to focus on the vital role of Australian Women Artists in Europe, from 1890–1940. With more than 200 works, it focuses on the vital role of these Australian women in the emergence of international modernism.

China Heights

Between Lands – from 14 Novmeber 2025 until 6 December 2025

Shaun Daniel Allen’s fourth solo exhibition charts a journey through resonant spaces encountered over the past eighteen months. These works document the flow of water, land, and life, compressing time to merge past, present, and future into a single visual field.

Sullivan+Strumpf

A Fine Line – from 13 November 2025 until 13 December 2025

Julia Gutman deepens her investigation into the fragile, fragmented nature of selfhood. Through repeated, fractured self-portraits, the artist presents as a multiplied, unstable image – a proxy for all of us – caught in the gap between how we understand ourselves and how we are understood by others.

Balenciaga Westfield Sydney

The Woman Behind The Dress – until 17 November 2025

To celebrate their new store opening, Balenciaga invites guests to experience an exclusive in store exhibition featuring special archival pieces by Cristóbal Balenciaga. You will need to register for a time slot online in order to attend.

COMA

Rehearsal – until 8 November 2025

Swiss-Australian artist Oliver Wagner's solo presentation foregrounds the unseen act of painting – labour, speculation, and care – as a form of choreography, a rehearsal without an audience, a performance that leaves only traces.

CHALK HORSE

Night and Day – until 16 November 2025

Emily Ferretti’s first solo presentation explores the vitalities of matter and life are uttered in the same way as how Virginia Woolf incites within us the amorous, gleaming, vehement substrates of being.

Bundanon

The Hidden Line: Art of the Boyd Women – until 15 February 2026

This exhibition celebrates the women of one of Australia's most prominent artistic dynasties with more than 300 works from five generations, including never-before-exhibited works. The exhibition will present works by Emma Minnie a’Beckett Boyd (one of the rare female artists of her era able to have a full-time artistic practice) and Yvonne Boyd, who with her husband Arthur Boyd, gifted Bundanon to the Australian people, representing one of the most significant acts of philanthropy in the history of the arts in Australia.

VIC

Buxton Contemporary

Stone Soup – from 21 November 2025 until 11 April 2026

A major solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed sculptor Hany Armanious. He is celebrated for his inventive and often playful approach to sculpture, inviting audiences to experience ordinary objects anew. Drawing from the everyday, he recasts found objects in resin at a 1:1 scale, with meticulous attention to colour, texture and form, while allowing subtle imperfections to remain visible.

NGV

Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light – from 28 November 2025 until May 2026

Featuring some of the most iconic images from the twentieth century by the likes of Diane Arbus, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Dorothea Lange, Olive Cotton and many more, this exhibition celebrates the images, lives and stories of more than 80 influential artists working between 1900 to 1975. More than 300 rare and innovative photographs, prints, postcards, photo books and magazines will be displayed from the NGV Collection.

Heide Museum

Song of the Earth – from 26 November 2025 until 9 March 2026

A major exhibition of works by John Nixon (1949–2020), one of Australia’s most influential and experimental abstract artists. This extensive survey is the first to span Nixon’s fifty-year career. Presented five years after his death, it offers a timely celebration of his life’s work.

Sullivan+Strumpf

Puffs – from 27 November 2025 until 20 December 2025

An expansion of Polly Borland’s sculptural practice, launched in 2023, this new series sees her human subjects’ balloon into anamorphic, even alien-like forms. However, the shift in this series is restraint: for the first time, we see silhouettes without the signature padding, revealing the body within.

Villa Alba Museum

Still Point – from 13–23 November 2025

The show will bring together works by emerging and established Australian and international artists responding to the mansion’s storied history. Featured artists in dialogue with the setting will include Anna van der Ploeg, Caroline Collom, Chica Seal, Frances van Hasselt, Helen Redmond, Hermentaire, Joel Sorensen, Katy Papineau, Madisyn Zabel, Marie Bernard, Piet Raemdonck, Sophia Szilágyi, and Colin Pennock.

47 Derby Street, Collingwood

Sixteen Things I Brought Home From New York – Thursday 13 November 2025

Food stylist Chris Yuille presents a one-night-only exhibition featuring mementos from his favourite New York dining spots, beautifully captured by photographer Stephanie Stamatis and transformed into striking posters by AKLR Studio. Enjoy an evening of wine, music, and stories from the city, and take home a poster if one catches your eye.

QLD

ARTCLUB

ARTCLUB – Opening 25 October 2025

Internationally acclaimed designer and artist Heidi Middleton unveiled her revolutionary new retail concept: ARTCLUB, a hybrid gallery, atelier, and retail experience in Brisbane’s James Street precinct. At its heart sits a six-metre gallery wall showcasing Middleton’s original artworks, while five-metre abstract sculptures anchor the interior, forming a surreal, gallery-like landscape.

SA

AGSA

Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi – until 18 January 2026

This exhibition assembles more than 200 landmark works of art that have been acquired into AGSA’s collection over the last ten years of Tarnanthi. Curated by Artistic Director Nici Cumpston OAM, Too Deadly not only reflects on Tarnanthi’s first decade but also recontextualises and re-energises important works, allowing new dialogues to emerge between works of art, showcasing the artistic excellence of First Nations artists from across the country.

WA

Gallery 360

Emergence – from 6–22 November 2025

Internationally exhibited artist Cher van Schouwen's exhibition is a celebration of creativity, colour, community — and a powerful act of giving back. Known for her vibrant portraits, spirited horses, whimsical florals, and richly textured still life, Cher’s work pulses with a refreshing joie de vivre and an unshakable belief in the beauty of life.

NT

MAGNT Darwin

Cyclone Tracy – ongoing

Explore a classic 1970 elevated home, monitor the cyclone at the desk of the Darwin Bureau of Meteorology office much as it looked in 1974, experience the real sound of Tracy brought to life through new technology and remastered sound in a new sound booth and explore 50 years of stories.

ACT

NGA

The Christmas Tree Bucket – until 6 September 2026

Trent Parke’s photographic series is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas. The series showcases Parke’s distinctive and acclaimed visual style and his skilful use of light and colour, to transcendent effect.

TAS

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

The World of Butterflies Exhibition – until 26 January 2026

A special exhibition celebrating the diversity and beauty of butterflies on our planet. Featuring stunning displays of rare and exotic specimens, this exhibition is a must-see for nature lovers and curious minds alike.

Dada Muse

Dante's Divine Comedy – ongoing

A complete suite of 100 authentic water-colour works on paper by Salvador Dali, based on Dante Alighieri's literary classic of the same name. Over 3500 woodblock carvings are said to have been used in the printing process.

Handmark

old ranges, new shores – until 17 November 2025

Adrian Barber's latest painting series have their origins in journal notes, simple drawings, photographs, memory and imaginings from when he, over two consecutive summers, camped on the southernmost shores of the new Lake Pedder and explored the waters, islands and inlets in his kayak.