Current Exhibitions
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'The China Project' exhibition | Hong Hao | Long March in Panjiamyuan A (detail) 2004 | Type C photograph on paper | Purchased 2006 | Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
Exhibition highlights
'American Impressionism & Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met'
The Queensland Art Gallery is the only venue in the world to show the exhibition 'American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met', curated by Dr Barbara Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art... Read more
Thru the Lens: Palm Island youth photography project
In 2007, local non-government organisation Bwgcolman Future Inc ran a filmmaking and photographic workshop for Palm Island youths, facilitated by photographer Peta O’Neill... Read more
Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas
A visionary and often eclectic search for artistic and spiritual connections between cultures and countries is at the core of Tim Johnson’s art. This major survey exhibition will range from Johnson’s light performances, films and artist books of the early 1970s to his mature collaborative paintings... Read more
Spencer Finch: As if the sea should part and show a further sea
American artist Spencer Finch explores the peculiarities of human perception. He brings a poetic sensibility and a rigorous scientific approach to a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, photography and installation... Read more
150 Years: Photography in Queensland from the Gallery Collection
This exhibition explores the Gallery’s holdings of photographs made in Queensland in the years since the state was formed in 1859. It will be the Gallery’s first profile of the broad sweep of Queensland photography from its beginnings to the present day... Read more
Peopled: Contemporary Art from the Collection
‘Peopled: Contemporary Art from the Collection’ brings together a number of recent acquisitions as centrepieces for a display that considers artists’ and audience’s enduring fascination with the human form. People depicted in art appear in a variety of public and private social contexts, attesting to contemporary artists’ rumination on representations of our own kind... Read more
Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Indigenous Australian art from the Collection
Since the 1970s Indigenous Australian artists have continually pushed and expanded their artistic practices and movements, and as a consequence our understandings of Indigenous Australian art and culture have grown markedly. The once established boundaries of authenticity were being broken and reconstructed by Indigenous artists expressing a range of Indigenous voices through diverse media... Read more
Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection
‘Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection’ celebrates the significance of contemporary Chinese art and the Queensland Art Gallery’s commitment to developing a unique collection of works from the 1980s to the present. A period of enormous change in China, the past three decades have seen the flowering of contemporary art as a response to social, political and cultural transformation... Read more
Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul
Zhang Xiaogang is one of the foremost artists of the Chinese Avant-garde. Best known for his evocative ‘Bloodlines: The big family’ paintings of the 1990s, his deeply personal practice explores the volatile history of China’s recent past... Read more
William Yang: Life Lines
Photographer and performer William Yang has consistently recorded his life since the early 1970s, from his family history in far north Queensland to the overlapping artistic and gay scenes of his adopted home of Sydney, to his travels around Australia and to China. His works provide a unique chronicle of Australian cultural life, and offer rare insights into the experiences and stories of Australian–Chinese people... Read more
