JAN NELSON

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
NETWORKS (cells & silos), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

2009
On the Line, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

2008          
Optimism, GoMA
50 years of the John McCaughy Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
Selected works from the Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

2006
Tainted Love, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
The New Contemporary Collection Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Decade Acquistions 1996 - 2006, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Artists for Kids Culture, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction

2005
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
NGV Collection Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Exiles and Emigrants, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2004
Clouded Over, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia
2004, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
SWOON, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2003
See Here Now, Vizard Foundation Collection of the 1990s, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Bushfire: Our Community responds, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2002
Iconografias Metropolitanas, 25th Bienial De São Paulo, Brazil
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong
Australian & European Photography, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Fieldwork: Australian Contemporary Art 1968-2002, Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne
Shhh!, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Federation, A Celebration, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2000
The Retrieved Object, Linden Arts Centre, Melbourne
Video Take, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels

199
Leisure and Pleasure, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1998
...So Far, Sync Grey Area Space, Melbourne

1997
The 1980's, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1996
Tangibility? Three Installations: Stephen Bush and Jan Nelson: South Face; John R. Neeson: Sixth Location; Clair Barclay: Untitled, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
works on paper, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1001 Feminine Breaths, Dave Graney / Jan Nelson, for "Women We, Love"; International Women's Day, Epsom Rd, Ascot Vale, performance

1995
Perspecta 95, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
South Face, A Collaboration between Jan Nelson and Stephen Bush, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Decadence, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Lovers, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

1994
The Aberrant Object, Women Dada and Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Artists Thinking about Science, Australian Network for Art; Technology, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Selections from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1993
Confess and Conceal, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; National Gallery of Art, Singapore; National Gallery of Bangkok, Thailand; National Gallery of Art, Kuala Lumpur; Art Centre of Manila, Philippines; Australian Embassy, Jakarta
Interim Space, Jan Nelson and Stephen Bush, Smith Street Post Office, Collingwood
Jan Nelson and Stephen Bush, a collaborative project, Temple Studio, Melbourne 1992
Intimate Objects, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Skin, Contemporary Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Inherited Absolute, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Works on Paper- by Contemporary Australian Artists, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

1991
Contemporary Landscapes, Deakin University, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane

1990
Anonymous, West Melbourne Studio
Group show, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1989
re: recreation/Re-creation, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1988
A Celebration, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Australian Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Philip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

1986
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Gothic Sensibilities, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Shipwrecked, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship 1987, Australia
Backlash: Australian Drawing Revival 1976-1986, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gothic Perversity and its Pleasure, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne; Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
Quiddity, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne; Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide
Young Australians, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and touring
Voyage of Discovery, Dallas
What is this thing called Science?, University Gallery, University of Melbourne

1985
Australian Perspecta '85, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Group Show, Gertrude Street Artists Spaces, Melbourne

1983
Graduate Show, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne