Daniel Boyd

• Born 1982, Cairns, Australia
  Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Education

• 2005      BA, Australian National University School of Art, Canberra

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2024
  Dreamland, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US
  
  2023
  Daniel Boyd: RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION), Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany. Traveled to Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  
  2022
  Tacit Testudo, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  
  2021
  Treasure Island, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2020
  Daniel Boyd: Pediment/Impediment, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  AND THE HORIZON SWALLOWED THE TORTOISE, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Sandpiper Dance, STATION, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2019 
  VIDEO WORKS, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
  Recalcitrant Radiance, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea 
  
  2018 
  Rainbow Serpent, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  LIGHT WORK - TRIBUTE SYSTEM, STATION, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2017
  Daniel Boyd: Bitter Sweet, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, Australia
  Floating Forest, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Daniel Boyd: Hello Darkness, Dark Mofo, Hobart, Australia
  
  2016
  Far North, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Green Room, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  I build my language with rocks, STATION, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2014
  Pineapples in the Pacific, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Treasure Island, STATION, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2013
  New Hebrides, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Daniel Boyd: History is Made at Night, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
  Daniel Boyd: A Darker Shade of Dark, Glasshouse Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, Australia
  
  2012 
  Daniel Boyd, KALIMAN/RAWLINS, Melbourne, Australia
  The Transit of Venus, Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  A Darker Shade of Dark, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Up in Smoke Tour, Natural History Museum, London, UK
  
  2010 
  Revised Filters, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2009
  Freetown, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  
  2008
  Let's stay together, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  I'm Still in Love With You, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  
  2007
  Fatal Impact - Invasion of the South Pacific, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  
  2006
  THE RIGHTEOUS WILL REIGN..., Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  
  2005
  Polly Don't Want No Cracker Neither, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Untitled, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024
  Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
  The First 40 Years, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  
  2023
  Living Patterns, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
  Hans-Ulrich Obrist Archive - Chapter 1: Édouard Glissant, Luma Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland
  Archibald Prize 2022, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Australia
  Archibald Prize 2022, Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, Booragul, Australia
  The National 4: Australian Art Now, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Campbelltwon Arts Centre, Campbelltown, Australia; Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Bonna, Dhaka Art Summit, National Art Gallery, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  
  2022
  Do we dream under the same sky, Okayama Art Summit 2022, Okayama City, Japan
  Sydney Road Blaks, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
  What a Shadow Feels Like, curated by Ellinor Pelz, STATION, Melbourne, Australia 
  Creation Stories, a project by Simon Denny and Karamia Müller, Gus Fisher Gallery & Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand 
  The History of Forgetting, Chateau Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
  Archibald Prize 2022, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Traveled to Bunjil Place, Melbourne, Australia; Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, Australia; Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, Australia; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
  Kathmandu Triennale 2077, 4th Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal
  This language that is every stone, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia 
  Dingo Project, curated by Djon Mundine OAM, Ngununggula, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Bowral, Australia
  
  2021
  Splendide Mendax, Daniel Boyd + Zac Langdon-Pole, STATION, Melbourne, Australia
  UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  This searing light, filtered for shadows, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
  INBETWEEN, 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
  Close Contact, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  Experimenta Life Forms: International Triennial of Media Art, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Australia. Traveled to The Lock-Up, Newcastle, Australia; Tweed Regional Gallery, South Murwillumbah, Australia; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Australia
  Markings from Country, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia
  
  2020
  On the Frontline of Contemporary Art: from the Taguchi Art Collection, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
  Eight Days in Kamay, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  Under the stars, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
  
  2019   
  AUSTRALIA. ANTIPODEAN STORY, Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
  Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Violent Salt, Artspace Mackay, Mackay, Australia
  Giant Leap, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Casula, Australia
  Caught Stealing, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
  Where The Oceans Meet, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza, Gabriela Rangel, and Rina Carvajal, Museum of Art and Design, Miami Dade College, Miami, US
  National Anthem, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2018   
  Au, curated by Luis Bosci, STATION, Melbourne, Australia 
  Boundary Lines, Griffith University Art Museum, South Brisbane, Australia
  Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Divided Worlds, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  The Shape of Things to Come, curated by Melissa Keys, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
  A beast, a god, and a line, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Traveled to Para Site, Hong Kong; TS1 Yangon, Yangon, Myanmar; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland 
  
  2017
  Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
  Countercurrents, Adelaide Festival, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia
  Mondialité, curated by Hans Ulrich and Asad Raza, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
  Resolution: New Indigenous Photomedia, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Australia
  Defying Empire, curated by Tina Baum, 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia. Traveled to Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia; The University of Queensland Art Musem, Saint Lucia, Australia; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Australia; Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura, Australia; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia; Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia
  
  2016   
  Colonial Artlives, Salamanca Arts Centre, Battery Point, Australia
  Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Painting. More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
  Unclebrother (All Summer in a Day), Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, US
  Sixth Sense, National Arts School Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  The Shadow Never Lies, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  Black, White and Restive, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
  Panorama, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia
  The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  
  2015   
  All the World's Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  
  2014   
  Whorled Explorations, curated by Jitish Kallat, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
  A Time for Dreams, curated by David Elliot, 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
  Whisper in My Mask, curated by Natalie King and Djon Mundine, TarraWarra Biennial, Tarrawarra, Australia 
  Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
  Saltwater Country, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, Australia. Traveled to Embassy of Australia, Washington D.C., US; Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, Australia; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Gladstone, Australia; Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns; Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, Australia; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia; Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, Australia; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Australia; Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, Australia
  
  2013   
  Bungaree: The First Australian, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, Australia
  Debil Debil, curated by Marcia Langton, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Under the Sun: The Kate Challis RAKA Award, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
  Future Primitive, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2012    
  The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 7), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, Australia
  Bungaree: The First Australian, curated by Djon Mundine, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, US
  
  2011   
  One Caption Hides Another, Bétonsalon, Paris, France
  Life is risk / Art is risk, National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
  Places We Know, People We Know, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn, Australia
  
  2010   
  True Story, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  We Call Them Pirates Out Here, curated by David Elliott, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Nyah-bunyar (Temple), Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  Wilderness: Balnaves contemporary painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  
  2009   
  Octopus 9: I Forget to Forget, curated by Stephen Gilchrist, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2008   
  Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  Great Collections, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, Australia
  Western Australia Indigenous Art Award, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  Man: Depicting Contemporary Masculinity, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, Australia
  Lines in the Sand: Botany Bay Stories From 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, Australia
  
  2007   
  Culture Warriors, curated by Brenda L. Croft, National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia. Traveled to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington D.C., US
  If you see something say something, Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia
  
  2006   
  Someone Shows Something to Someone, Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra, Australia
  Right Here Right Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
  From the Edge, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
  From the Edge, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  
  2005   
  What the World Needs Now, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
  Superspective, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia
  No War Fundraiser, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  CHECKPOINT, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Selected Projects

• 2023
  Solo presentation in FUTURE sector, Art Busan, Busan, Korea
  Solo presentation in FOCUS sector, ART SG, Singapore
  
  2019
  Circular Quay Precinct, collaboration between Daniel Boyd and Sir David Adjaye, Lendlease, Sydney, Australia (to be completed in 2022)
  Absorption, Kaldor Public Art Project 34, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
  
  2018
  For Our Country – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander memorial, Memorial Sculpture Garden Commission, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia
  
  2016
  What Remains, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  
  2014 
  Foyer Wall Commission, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
  Macquarie Bank Commission, Macquarie Bank, Martin Place, Sydney, Australia
  
  2012   
  Darker Shade of Dark, QT Hotel, Sydney, Australia
  
  2010   
  Seven Versions of the Sun, Kangaroo Point Park, Brisbane, Australia

Selected Awards

• 2022
  Archibald Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  
  2020
  For Our Country – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander memorial, Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture, National Architecture Awards, Canberra, Australia
  
  2016   
  International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency, New York, US
  
  2015   
  Young Artist Award, Awards for the Visual Arts, Melbourne Art Foundation, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2014   
  Bulgari Art Award (Winner), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  
  2013
  Under the Sun: the Kate Challis RAKA Award, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  Artbank Collection, Sydney, Australia
  Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia
  BHP Billiton, Melbourne, Australia
  Buxton Contemporary Collection, Melbourne, Australia
  Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, Australia
  Credit Suisse, Sydney, Australia
  Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
  Kadist Collection, Paris, France
  Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra, Australia
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland, New Zealand
  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
  National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  Natural History Museum, London, UK
  Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia
  Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
  University of Queensland Collection, Brisbane, Australia
  University of Sydney Art Collection, Sydney, Australia