ANNE ZAHALKA

Born Sydney, 1957

EDUCATION

1976 Art Certificate, Stages I and II, East Sydney Technical College

1979 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts

1989 Post Graduate Diploma, Sydney College of the Arts

1994 Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000 Leisureland, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Manly Art Gallery and Museum

1999 Leisureland, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

1998 Woven Threads II, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Woven Threads, Gallery 4a, Asian Australian Artists Association, Sydney

1997 Open House, Fotogalerie in der Alten Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany

Woven Threads, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, and Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania

1996 Collectors, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1995 Open House, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

1994 Gesture, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1993 Gesture, City Gallery (now Anna Schwartz Gallery), Melbourne

1992 Details, City Gallery , Melbourne

1991 Details and Resemblance I, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Artists, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide

1990 Artists, City Gallery, Melbourne

1989 Resemblance I & II, Chameleon Gallery, Tasmania

Bondi: Playground of the Pacific, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney; Cambelltown Bicentennial Regional Art Gallery; Orange Regional Art Gallery

1988 Resemblance I, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Camerawork Gallery, London

Resemblance I & II, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

1987 Resemblance I, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Resemblance I, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1986 The Wanderer upon a Castle came ..., Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

The Tourist as Theorist: (theory takes a holiday), Kino Eiszeit, Berlin, International Super 8 Festival

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000 Sporting Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Disparate Journeys, ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales

1999 Sydney Metropolis,Museum of Sydney, Sydney

1998 Unhomely, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea

The Body in Question, Wessel + O'Connor, New York, USA

ICONS: Pictures of the City, Galerie Fotohof, Salsbourg, Austria

Signature Works, 25th anniversary exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography

The Innovators, SH Irvin Gallery, Sydney

Silver, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, College of Fine Arts — past Faculty, COFA

Haimish, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne

After the Masters, Master of Fine Arts 1993-1997 Selected Work, Ivan Dougherty Gallery

1997 Distanz und Domicil, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany

Artists in the House, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney

1996 Prospect, Photography in Contemporary Art, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt

Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1995 The Work of Art: On-going Work, The State Library of New South Wales, Sydney

Double Vision, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Canberra School of Art, Canberra

Beach, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

The Wandering Jew, The Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne

Decadence:10 Years of exhibitions at 200 Gertrude Street, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

1995 The Object of Existence, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

1994 Sydney Photographed, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1993 Luminaries, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne (part of 5th Australian Sculpture Triennial)

Locations, Artspace, Sydney

1992 Empty Land/Southern Crossing, Camerawork Gallery, London

Locations, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

1991 A Constructed Reality, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Contemporary Colour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Fertile Ground, Griffith University College, Queensland

1990 As idle objects lie (collaboration with Felicia Kan), First Draft West, Sydney

The Readymade Boomerang: Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

8" x 10" Fundraising Exhibition, South Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Adelaide

Defective Models: Australian Portraiture 19th and 20th Centuries, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Twenty Contemporary Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and national tour

Australian Photography, City of Waverley Collection, Waverley Art Gallery, Melbourne

1989 Re-model, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

Collaborations (collaboration with Brenda Ludeman and David O’Halloran), Artspace, Sydney

re: Creation/Re-creation, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1988 The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788 - 1988, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Artisans (collaboration with Brenda Ludeman and David O’Halloran), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

Here and There, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Stories of Australian Art, Commonwealth Institute, London

1987-8 Fortune, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide

1987 Window to Window, Deakin University, Victoria

Pure Invention, Parco Gallery, Tokyo and toured Japan, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, and South Australia

From the Newsagency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1986 Suspending Belief, The Observatory, Brisbane

The Landscape Re-presented (with Geoff Kleem), Union Street Gallery, Sydney

Elsewhere, Biennale of Sydney satellite exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1986 Union Street, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne and Kelvin Grove College, Brisbane

In Full View, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, and Queensland Art Gallery

The Repeated Image, Griffith University, Brisbane

1985 Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Photodramas, Artspace, Sydney and Chameleon Gallery, Tasmania

1985 Rushes, Union Street Gallery, Sydney

...outside the poem...inside the dream...a story unfolds..., (with Suzie Coyle), Union Street Gallery, Sydney

Curator’s Choice, Developed Image Gallery, Adelaide

1984 Manipulated Work, Images Gallery, Sydney

Future Unperfect, Artspace, Sydney

1983 1984 Show, Images Gallery, Sydney

New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney and toured nationally

New Light, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1982 50th Anniversary of the Building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1982 Harbour Bridge Exhibition, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney

Graduating Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, and toured nationally

1981 Four Photographers, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney

1980 Aspects of Sydney (Polaroid exhibition), Martin Place, Sydney

 

GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

1986 Visual Arts/Craft Board grant and residency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1989 Artist-in-Residence, Gertrude Street Artists’ Spaces, Melbourne

1989 Artist-in-Residence, Bondi Pavilion Community Centre, Sydney

1990 Visual Arts/Craft Board, Professional Development Grant

1991 Visual Arts/Craft Board, Project Grant

1996 Visual Arts/Craft Board, Professional Development Grant

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Australian Bicentennial Collection

Australian National Gallery

Art Gallery of South Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Waverley Art Gallery

National Gallery of Victoria

Albury Regional Art Gallery

Monash University Collection

Griffith University Collection, Queensland

University of Tasmania

Artbank

International Polaroid Collection, U.S.A.

Curtin University Collection

Melbourne University

Private Collections

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Baranowska , Carmela "Last Tango in Adelaide", Sunday Star, Auckland, July 14 1991

Best, Sue Sydney Photographed, catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1994

Borgermeister, Rainer "Resemblance", Art & Text #29, Sydney, 1988

Buchler, Pavel "Anne Zahalka, Theory Takes a Holiday", Portfolio #31, UK, June 2000

Butler, Susan "Anne Zahalka at Camerawork", Creative Camera

Carruthers, Ashley "Woven Threads review

Catalano, Gary "Mapping the Art of Australia", The Age, Melbourne, 13 Nov. 1987

Cruickshank, Alan "After ‘Now’", European Photography, April/May, 1989

Dennis, Anthony "Sands of Time", Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend, supplement, Sydney, December 1989

Dupain, Max "High Court Under Fire at Bondi", Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 10 October 1981

"Let’s have a bit of a pictorial blood-letting", Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 20 December 1983

Engberg, Juliana Beach, catalogue, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 1994

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Farrar, Jill "Striking Resemblance", Vogue, Sydney, September 1988

Fitzgerald, Michael "Myth and Reality on the Beach", The Weekend Australian, Sydney, June 1990

Fox, Judith "Duo reworks old themes to make the invisible visible", Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 14 May

Freiberg, Freda "Neighbourly Fictions", The Age, Wednesday 27th September 1995

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Game, Ann "Sense of Place", Bondi: Playground of the Pacific, catalogue, Waverley Library, 1989

Genocchio, Benjamin Review of Leisureland, The Australian, Friday, August 2000

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McNamara, T.J. "Perspectives on Art", New Zealand Herald, July 11 1991

Moore, Catriona "Manipulated Image", review, Art Network #17, Spring, 1984

Nelson, Robert "Focus on photographerswho click as artists", The Age, Wed. 27th Oct., 1999

"Union Street", review, Art Network, Spring, 1985

Neville, Greg "Images of an inventive construction", The Age, Melbourne, 4 February 1992

"Three Exhibitions show directions", The Age, 18 November 1988

Nilsson, John Peter "Sydney Biennale", Astonbladt, Sweden, April 21 1990

Osborne, Margot "Breaking down the artistic cliche", The Advertiser, South Australia, July 13 1991

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Willis, Anne-Marie "Photodramas", review, Art Network, Winter 1985

Wilson, Peter "Down Under", Sunday Mail Magazine, 21 June 1987

Here and There: overseas residencies and recent Australian artists, Monash University, 1987

Zahalka, Anne Leisureland, catalogue, published by the artist1999

Woven Threads, catalogue, published by the artist and Community Aid Abroad, Melbourne, 1997

Gesture, catalogue, published by the artist, 1995

Fortresses and Frontiers, postcard catalogue, published by the artist, Sydney

Artists, catalogue, published by the artist, 1990

Resemblance , catalogue, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1987

Reproduction of work/s: Photo-Discourse, critical thought and practice in photography, Sydney College of the Arts publication, Sydney, 1981

The Sydney Harbour Bridge 1932-82, reproductions of work, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1982

"Australian Photography Today", European Photography #23 (pp. 55-58)

"Camera Natura", On the Beach, #7 & 8, Sydney

"... and the winner is...", Fade to Black, artist pages, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, 1985

Occasional Visits, postcard book representing six women photographers, 1986

On the Beach #3/4, Sydney, artist page, Summer-Autumn, 1984 (pp. 54-55)

Visionaire 30 , The Game, 1999

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A Sea Change, Australian Writing and Photography, ed. Adam Shoemaker, Olympic Arts Festival 2000