Mother India
video plays by Nalini Malani
11 Feb – 20 May 2012
The focus of this display is a 15-metre long video projection, featuring an emotive and politically charged sequence of images addressing gender violence in India.
Making sense
contemporary LA photo artists
11 Feb – 13 May 2012
Photographs by artists based in Southern California, whose work deals with relations between landscape and architecture, high and low culture, representations of the body, politics and irony, word and image.
Eugenia Raskopoulos
footnotes
23 Feb – 13 May 2012
In this video installation, Raskopoulos performs a series of actions that accumulate letters into words, in English and Greek, using her own limbs as the writing instrument or surface.
Dragon
18 Jan – 6 May 2012
Celebrating 2012 as the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, this exhibition showcases artworks that carry the dragon motif.
New contemporary galleries
featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection
21 May 2011 – 2 May 2012
The Art Gallery of NSW now holds Australia’s most comprehensive representation of contemporary art. This is the first display in our new contemporary galleries, featuring the John Kaldor Family Gallery.
ARTEXPRESS 2012
22 Feb – 22 Apr 2012
A dynamic and popular exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts, 2011.
Picasso
masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
12 Nov 2011 – 25 Mar 2012
This exhibition is the most significant Picasso exhibition to come to Australia. Part of a world tour, the Art Gallery of NSW is the only Australian venue.
20th-century Australian collection
17 Sep 2011 – 12 Feb 2012
Key themes and artists in Australian art from the early 20th century through to the 1970s, including Grace Cossington Smith, Margaret Preston, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale and Arthur Boyd.
Dobell Prize for Drawing 2011
2 Dec 2011 – 5 Feb 2012
The most respected award for drawing in Australia, the annual Dobell Prize has always been the subject of discussion and debate about the nature of drawing.
Ms&Mr
XEROX MISSIVE 1977/2011
8 Dec 2011 – 5 Feb 2012
Blending fact and fiction, this mesmerising video installation uses appropriated sound and footage to fabricate an impossible exchange between the late sci-fi author Philip K Dick and his one-time muse and wife Tessa.
What's in a face?
aspects of portrait photography
24 Sep 2011 – 5 Feb 2012
An exhibition of more than 45 photographs from the collection, which focuses on some of the crucial points in the history of photographic depictions of the human face.
One hundred flowers
1 Sep 2011 – 15 Jan 2012
Showcases some of the artworks that have been added to the Gallery’s world-class Asian collection in the last five years.