Mike Parr b. 1945

  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Screen Artist)
Working across a range of media that includes performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, drypoint etching and photography, Mike Parr is regarded as one of the most successful Australian artists of his generation. Parr has realised over 1000 works within the context of his self-imposed 'Self-Portrait' series.
Tags: Performance art, Conceptual art, Body, Printmaking, Printmaker
exhibited at
Pages, The Museum Collection
Date
1992
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
My Head is a Map - A Decade of Australian Prints
Date
1992
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
100 breathes radio dictionary alphabet/heamorrhage black box performances '92
Date
1992
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art Exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Performance
exhibited at
Survey of Recent Work
Date
1991
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO. Also toured: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, WA

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Off the Wall / In the Air: A Seventies Selection
Date
1991
Place
Monash University Gallery & Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Opening Transformations
Date
1991
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mike Parr, Artist in Residence 1990 - 1991
Date
1991
Place
Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mike Parr
Date
1991
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

A collection of works plus the launch of a monograph – no further info.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report and archive index cards

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Printmaking, Drawing
exhibited at
15th Annual Fremantle Print Award Exhibition
Date
1990
Place
Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, WA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Edge 90: The New Work (Art & Life in the Nineties)
Date
1990
Place
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Glasgow, London, Rotterdam
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Drawings from the Self Portrait Project, 1983 - 1990
Date
1990
Place
City Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
I think of drypoint in terms of Braille and Excavation, Prints of Mike Parr
Date
1990
Place
The Drill Hall Gallery, ANU & National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mike Parr: artist in residence 1990/91
Date
1990
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

The exhibition consisted of four works: photographs, prints, laser photocopies and an installation.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Mike Parr: artist in residence 1990/91, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 1991; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Mike Parr: artist in residence 1990/91, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 1991
ISBN 0 7325 0356 6

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Printmaking, Installation, Photography, Mixed media
exhibited at
Prints by Mike Parr
Date
1990
Place
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Butler, Roger, Prints by Mike Parr. Canberra: Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund for the Australian National Gallery, 1990
[15]p : ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Printmaking
exhibited at
Mike Parr/John Nixon
Date
1989
Place
City Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Prints and Australia: Pre Settlement to Present
Date
1989
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Prints and Installation
Date
1989
Place
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Drawings in Australia: Drawings, Watercolours and Pastels from the 1770s to the 1980s
Date
1988
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Advance Australia Art Painting
Date
1988
Place
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788 - 1988
Date
1988
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description

ALSO TOURED: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Contemporary Art to China
Date
1988
Place
State Museums of Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai & Guangzhou
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Edge to Edge (Australian Contemporary Art to Japan)
Date
1988
Place
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Description

ALSO TOURED: Old and new Hara Museums, Tokyo, Nagoya

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
British International Print Biennale
Date
1988
Place
The Bradford Museum, Bradford, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Parallax
Date
1987
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Bicentennial Perspecta
Date
1987
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Subsequent international tour

Type
Exhibition