Artist's CV

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013
A tree struck by lightning, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA

2012
Sub/Dub, BREENSPACE, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Gardenesque, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2011
The Garden of the Forking Paths, Galerie Sabine Schmidt, Cologne, Germany
Display Sweet, MOP, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Display Sweet, Brisbane Homeshow (offsite project for Griffith University Art Gallery), QLD, Australia
Gardenesque, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2010
A bush knot, Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Fiction_Non_Fiction, Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA

2009
Bark Art, BREENSPACE, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2008
You are Here - Central Park Draguerreotypes D.70-76, Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
ReOrientalism, Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2007
Scenic Root, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Draguerreotypes, BREENSPACE, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Draguerreotypes, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
Karaoke’ing the Photograph, Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2006
Looking at Works of Art in the Light of Other Works of Art, Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2005
Making the third cup of tea from one tea bag, Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Chemical Blonde, TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Skirting the Issue, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2004
Ich kann den Wald vor lauter Hols nicht sehen, Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen, Germany

2003
Draguerreotypes, ArtKitchen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
EnTropical, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2002
Dragbaar Belvedere, M.A.F., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Trompe Loeil, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Society4Beautification, Bedrijfsresturant van de Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003
Draguerreotypes, ArtKitchen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
EnTropical, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2001
UnReal Estate Germany, Horst Schuler Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
A Photocopy Zip2Gether Triumphal Arch, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Building the Ideal Homo, Performance Space, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Inverted Belvedere, Artspace Offsite project, Taylor Square, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2000    
UnReal Estate, ArtKitchen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and The Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

1999    
Casuarina Hunting Lodge, (with Rafael von Uslar and Grahame Rowe), Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Australia

1997    
he Memorial Project, (with Peter Todd), Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

1996    
Villa Manus, The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Ah Men, Artspace Witzenhausen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995     
The Persistence of Memory, Stelling Projects, Leiden, The Netherlands

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
Logical Expressions and Variations, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
Against the Grain, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA
New Year 2013, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA

2012   
Trending Towards the Untamed: Artists Respond to the Wild Garden, Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, USA
Lie of the Land, Australian Embassy in the United States, Washington, DC, USA
There was a world, once, Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany
Swedish for Argument, University of Technology Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Against The Grain, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, USA

2011   
The Disobedient Mirror, MOP, (offsite project of Griffith University Art Gallery), Sydney, NSW, Australia

2010   
Hardbodies, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2009   
Animamix Biennale – The Real Unreal,  MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China
The Sunny Side Up, Thatcher Projects. New York, NY, USA
Institute for Kontemporary Esthetic Arousal, at PULSE MIAMI, Miami, FL, USA

2008   
Wonder, Singapore Biennale, Singapore
I.K.E.A., Pulse (Commissioned feature), New York, NY, USA
Lines in the Sand: Botany Bay Stories from 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2007   
Perfect for every occasion – Photography Now, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2006   
Ten[d]ancy: Artistic interventions for Elizabeth Bay House, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2005    
Surfaces Paradise, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Countenance, WurttembergischerKunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

2004
Migrating Identity, Arti et Amitaci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Was ist deutsch? Ich geriet vor dieser Frage in immer groessere Verwirrung Praxis, Bayreuth, Germany

2003
Hung, drawn and quartered, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Homostrata, Artspace, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2001
Box, Wren Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Wallpaper, Powerhouse Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Kunstrai, Amsterdam, The Netherelands

2000
Blondies and Brownies, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1999
Kunstrai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1998
Edifying Sappho and Socrates, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Traffic of Night in Paradise, Vleeshuis Amerika.  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cool II, Kunstcentrum de Boterhal, Hoorn, The Netherlands

1997    
Art in Chains, Chains, Koln, Germany
Cool Art, Art Kitchen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995    
Un-Frieden, sabotage von wirklichkeiten, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany

PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2012  D.101 Toohey’s Forrest, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital Public Art Commission. Inside and outside artwork embodying a whole of building approach – including public art, furniture and signage. Client: Departments of Public Works and Health (Queensland Government) Hames Sharley (Architects)
2009  D.88 Istana Park Orchard Central, Singapore in collaboration with DP Architects and developers The Far East Organisation. A 3-storey, 250sqm integrated artwork at the entrance of the shopping mall
          D.87 Battery Park, A wrap around panorama applied directly to the curved foyer wall of 4 Broad St, Manhattan. Architects Loffredo Brooks Architects P.C. 239 cms x 900 cms
2007  D.51 Parramatta Park, The Justice Precinct, Parramatta, Sydney, in collaboration with Bate Smart Architects. A 23 x 7m integrated artwork in the foyer of the Trial Courts Parramatta. Construction by Multiplex

COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, TX, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA
Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Fogg Museum Harvard, MA, USA
Musee d'art Contemporaine, Lyon, France
Musee fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, USA
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard, MA, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SELECTED CURATORIAL AND PUBLISHING PROJECTS SINCE 2002
2006    Guest Editor, Photofile Issue 77, (better than) The Real Thing
2004    'Take a Bowery', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2003    Parthenogenis, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2002    Cerebellum, The Performance Space, Sydney

SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITINGS SINCE 2002
Gary Carsley, 'What a difference a gay makes', das Superpaper, no. 29, November 2011, pp. 40–43
Wes Hill, ‘Into the trees: The forking paths of Gary Carsley’, Art and Australia, 49 No. 1, 2011, pp.49–51
Gary Carsley, 'Display Sweet’, das SUPERPAPER, no. 20, August 2011, p
‘D.95 ‘display sweet’’, catalogue for The Brisbane Home Show, RNA Showgrounds, a Griffith University Art Gallery Offsite Exhibition, Brisbane, 2011
‘Zone: Gary Carsley in Singapore’, Indesign, no.40, 2010, pp.203–5
‘Art in this issue’, Insight, Westpac Private Bank, no.2, 2009, pp.145–148
‘Points of Interest’, Rafael von Uslar, for Gary Carsley: You are here D.70/a-D.75, Margaret Thatcher Projects, Berlin
‘Layers of history, Layers of Experience’, Indesign, vol.33, May 2008
Katrina Strickland, ‘Building Blocks’, The Australian Financial Review, arts, 11 October 2007
Elizabeth Fortescue, ‘Wood works for panel man’, The Daily Telegraph, 14 September 2007
‘Scenic Root, #4.07’, Art Gallery New South Wales, Contemporary Projects, 2007
‘Bombay Blues’, Art India, March, 2007
Sally Breen and Tania Doropoulos, 'Ten[d]ancy: Artistic interventions for Elizabeth Bay House', catalogue essay, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 2006
‘Drag/Mash’, Eyeline, Issue No. 72, Spring, 2006
‘Any Queeries - Gary Carsley Draguerreotypes’, Darling Publications, Cologne
Catalogue essay, ‘Drag/Mash & The King Pins’, Kaliman, Sydney, 2005
‘(Un)Dressing the Self – Identity in a Vestmentary Age’, In Migrating Identity SEB Foundation, Amsterdam, 2004
Catalogue essay, Take a Bowery – The Art and Larger than life of Leigh Bowery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2004
‘Karma Chameleons’ Art India, March, 2004
‘Mirror Mirror’, with Lorcan O’Neill, September, 2004
‘What Now’, Art India, December, 2004
‘Asian Traffic’, Broadsheet, Vol. 33, December, 2004
Catalogue essay, Parthenogenesis, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2003
Peter Hill, ‘Be not Afraid’, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 17–24 April 2003
Catalogue essay, Entropical. Institute of Modern Art. November 2003
Catalogue essay, Cerebellum, Performance Space. Sydney, 2002
‘Take a Bowery’, Photofile, December 2002
Simon Rees, ‘Flooding the Frame: Gary Carsley’, catalogue essay for Trompe-l’Oeil, Rosyln Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 2002