Adam Cullen b. 9 October 1965

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
Adam Cullen delighted in confronting both his fellow artists and the establishment with his works that explored crime, masculinity and cowboy culture through a lens of bleak humour.
Tags: Grunge, Addict, Pig's head, Guns, Diabetes, Archibald Prize
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performed at
Home Economics
Date
18 December 2012
Type
Performance
Note
with Cash Brown
exhibited at
They You Trust, Them You Don't
Date
2009
Place
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://tolarnogalleries.com/
exhibited at
Let's get lost
Date
2008
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
exhibited at
Stupid Heaven
Date
2007
Place
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.greenaway.com.au/
exhibited at
I AM THE CHESSE
Date
2007
Place
Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.kalimangallery.com/
exhibited at
Between the Lines: Works on Paper 1995- 2005
Date
2006
Place
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://tolarnogalleries.com/
exhibited at
Product of Compulsion
Date
2005
Place
Michael Reid Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.michaelreid.com.au/galleries-info?gid=1
exhibited at
Maintaining the Rage
Date
2005
Place
Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.kalimangallery.com/
exhibited at
Adam Cullen: our place in the Pacific
Date
2003
Place
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Newcastle Gallery exhibition archive; http://www.moranhealthcare.com.au/art/acul.htm (06/09/03)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Painting
exhibited at
Adam Cullen: future dirt
Date
2003
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

This latest exhibition of new works, previously shown at Yuill/Crowley Gallery in Sydney was Adam Cullen’s first in Adelaide in four years and since winning The Archibald Prize in 2002.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.cacsa.org.au/archives/index_frames.html (06/12/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Drawing, Painting
exhibited at
Blind side
Date
1999
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

A group of new paintings that presented a particularly idiosyncratic view of contemporary Australian life filtered through the inner-suburban environment, painted on large sheets of foam-core with enamel, spraypaint and ink, Cullen’s paintings moved from a certain lyricism to a more internal form of menace.

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

Exhibition Catalogue:
Blind side/ Adam Cullen. Adelaide, SA: Experimental Art Foundation, 1999
ISBN 0949836427

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting
exhibited at
Adam Cullen: new drawings
Date
1998
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

New drawings described as inappropriate realism.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue; National Library of Australia catalogue; http://www.client.internode.on.net/gallery/cullen1.htm

Exhibition Catalogue:
Touch and go/ Adam Cullen. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of new South Wales, 1998.
1 folded sheet 93p) ; 21 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Drawing
exhibited at
Disbursment register budget
Date
1994
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

This work was an array of empty beer bottles on a sheet of MDFG board, a half burnt wax candle head on an empty stereo cabinet and a series of drawings of piano key boards in Texta pen, on the ripped out pages of a register/accounts book (disbursement register). It used ideas of the abject and also layered scratchy metaphors into a consideration of a (pointless) action or repetition, in which an action, or the contained, was always denied.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation

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