Destiny Deacon b. 1957

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Video Artist)
Destiny Deacon is a Melbourne based photographer, mixed media, printer, installation artist, broadcaster, writer and performer. She has shown her work in over 120 exhibitions in Australia and internationally.
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exhibited at
Gazette
Date
2009
Place
Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/2/Destiny_Deacon/1148/
exhibited at
Whacked
Date
2007
Place
Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/news/releases/2007/10/25/137/
exhibited at
Walk and don't look blak
Date
2004
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description

Touring exhibition: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ; Cultural Centre Tjibaou, Noumea; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC.
Walk & don’t look blak is comprised of approximately fifty artworks made after 1990 by Destiny Deacon, one of Australia’s most renowned artists. The exhibition includes major video, performance, and installation pieces, as well as two key photographic series Forced into images (2001) and Postcards from Mummy (1998) which both featured at Documenta 11 in 2002.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/fromyear/2001/toyear/2012/exhib-date/2006-08-17/exhib/destiny-deacon-walk-and-don-t-look-blak
exhibited at
Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art
Date
2000
Place
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Description
Type
Exhibition
Ceremony, Identity and Community
Date
1998
Place
Flinders Art Museum, City Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Raise the Flag
Date
1994
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tyerabarbowaryaou 2
Date
1994
Description
Type
Exhibition
Australian Perspecta
Date
1993
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition

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Balmain Bugs'.>] [<ExternalResource: Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994), 'An Eccentric Orbit: Video Art in Australia', New York, USA.>, <ExternalResource: Sherman Galleries (2004), 'Clinton Nain', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: National Gallery of Victoria (May 2011), 'Destiny Deacon'.>, <ExternalResource: Artfacts.net (January 2011), 'Destiny Deacon'.>, <ExternalResource: National Gallery of Art, Canberra (2000), 'Re-take: Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Photography'.>, <ExternalResource: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney NSW (2011), 'Destiny Deacon'.>, <ExternalResource: World News Network (2011), 'Destiny Deacon'.>, <ExternalResource: Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2001), 'Destiny Deacon: Forced into Images'.>, <ExternalResource: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (2001), 'Destiny Deacon (Kuku/Erub/Mer) - Forced Into Images', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (2009), 'Destiny Deacon, Gazette, 2009', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: 2008 Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions - Forms That Turn (2008), 'Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser'.>, <ExternalResource: Museum of Contemporary Art (November 2004), 'Destiny Deacon: Walk & don’t look blak', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Fraser, Virginia (2008), 'Making a show of it: Indigenous entertainers and entrepreneurs in 1950s Melbourne', City of Melbourne, Art and Heritage Branch, Exhibition Catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: Ron Hurley (2011), 'Tyerabarrbowaryaou II - I Shall Never Be A White Man'.>, <ExternalResource: Koorie Women Mean Business (2004), 'Victorian Aboriginal Womens Awards 2000'.>, <ExternalResource: Richard Bell (2004), 'Dolled Up'.>, <ExternalResource: Jill Bennett (2005), 'A Concept of Prepossession'.>, <ExternalResource: Daniel Browning (17 October 2010), 'The Black Mile'.>, <ExternalResource: Eddie Chambers, INIVA and Boomalli Aborginal Artists Co-operative (1994), 'True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Artists Raise the Flag', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Leichhardt, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Brenda Croft (2004), 'A Date with Destiny'.>, <ExternalResource: Felicity Fenner (2005), 'Siteseeing: Trauma and Place in the Work of Destiny Deacon, Tracey Moffatt and Darren Siwes'.>, <ExternalResource: Virginia Fraser (2004), 'Not Much of a Soul to Bare'.>, <ExternalResource: Eleanor Harding (1989), 'Aboriginal Fitzroy', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Natalie King (2004), 'Episodes: A Laugh and a Tear in Every Photo', Sydney, NSW.>]