MIKE PARR

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
Edelwiess, Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna (forthcoming)
Mike Parr: Brain Coral, National Art School Gallery, Sydney

2011
The Golden Age, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
Fresh Skin like a Baby, performance, closed session, Sydney

2010
The Hallelujah Chorus, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

2008
The Titled Stage, Detached, Hobart
Milk, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
MIRROR/ARSE, Revolutions – Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney
 
2007
Salto Mortale…The Nothing Self Portraits, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

2006
Blameless, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Volte Face: Mike Parr Prints & Preprints 1970-2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Downward Envy, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2005
Cut Your Throat An Inch At A Time: A Survey of the Work of Mike Parr 1970 - 2005, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
The Underworld, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

2004
The Mass Psychology of Fascim Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay (collaboration with Adam Geczy), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne

2003
We are all monochromes now, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
ÆTHER / AWE, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

2002
Mike Parr – Close the Concentration Camps, performance, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, Melbourne
Mike Parr – Malevitch (A Political Arm), performance, Artspace, Sydney

2001
Aluminum from the Mouth, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Bloody idiot Parr, of course. Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts
Water from the Mouth, performance, Artspace, Sydney
Ziv & Drawings from the Self Portrait Project, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2000
…de Kooning, de Kooning …, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
ARCO, Madrid, Anna Schwartz Gallery
Mike Parr, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
John Nixon / Mike Parr, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Cologne
Shallow Grave, performance, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1999
Wrong Face, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
3 Collaborations, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Deep Sleep [The Analytical Disabling of Mind and Matter], Nixon/Parr performance, Old Parliament House & Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra
Shadows of a Monument 1, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

1998
Photo Realism, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
The Rest of Time, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Blood Box, performance, Artspace, Sydney
Boobialla / Couta, performance, COFA, Sydney
The End of Nature, performance, Baltic Sea, Sweden

1997
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Dead Sun, performance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Delay in Glass, performance, Fukui Biennale, Japan

1996
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Self Portrait Project: Head on a Plate, New York Studio School
The Infinity Machine, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The White Hybrid (Fading), performance, Artspace, Cowper Wharf / Artspace, Sydney
Unword, performance, University of Western Australia, Nedlands

1995
The Illusion of the End, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Day Break, performance, Scene Shop at the Cultural Centre of Manila

1994
Mike Parr, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Echolalia (the road): Prints from the Self Portrait Project: Mike Parr 1987 - 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Fathers II (Tthe Law of the Image), Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
100 Breaths / 100 Songs from (ALPHABET / HAEMORRHAGE) Black Box of 100 Self Portrait Etchings 5, 1993 – 1994, performance, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (Performer: John Breheney)
Waste, performance, Ivan Doughterty Gallery, Sydney
The Bridge, performance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1993
100 Breaths from (ALPHABET / HAEMORRHAGE) Black Box of 100 Self Portrait Etchings, 2, performance, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Pinch, performance, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Mike Parr, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney
Black Mirror/Pale Fire, Various Routes, Whistle/White, 3 performances, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Sydney
Visiting Australian Artist, performance, Kunst, Sydney

1992
City Gallery, Melbourne
Survey of Prints, Delany Gallery, Perth
ALPHABET / HAEMORRHAGE, 17 performances at Arthaus Perth; 4 performances, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; 4 performances, City Gallery, Melbourne; 9 performances, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and Memory of a Monochrome (for John Nixon), A-Atrophy, Field/Felled, 3 performances, School of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Black Box of 100 Breaths, performance, Australian National Gallery, Canberra; and 4 performances for the Biennale of Sydney at The Gunnery
The Shelf (with John Nixon), installation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1991
3 Installations, City Gallery, Melbourne
Mike Parr, Artist in Residence 1990 – 1991, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne
Mike Parr, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Survey of Recent Work, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

1990
I think of drypoint in terms of Braille and Excavation, Prints of Mike Parr, The Drill Hall Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, curator: Roger Butler
Drawings from the Self Portrait Project, 1983 - 1990, City Gallery, Melbourne
A Survey of Prints by Mike Parr, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Köln Art Fair, Germany

1989
Mike Parr/John Nixon, City Gallery, Melbourne
Prints and Installation, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Prints, Milburn + Arte Gallery, Brisbane

1988
North, Milburn + Arte Gallery, Brisbane

1987
The Slot (Photography), Reproduction Zero, The I of God (Untitled Self Portraits), United Artists, Melbourne
The Green Self Portraits, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Acid Rain, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane

1986
The Red Sea, Siegel Contemporary Art Inc., New York
The Satellites of Death, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane
Three Works, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1985
Portage, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; Fine Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart

1984
Towards the Other Side (Self Quotations) (three drawing series), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery

1983
Black Box: The Theatre of Self Correction Part 2, The Performance Space, Sydney
Cloacal Corridor (O Vio Prote/O Vio Proto/O Vio Loto/O Théthé) Self Portrait as a Pair or Self Portrait as a Pun, drawing installation; Identification Number 1: Rib Markings in the Carnarvon Ranges, North/West Queensland, Christmas 1975, photoseries; Screenings of Rules & Displacement Activities Parts 1, 2, 3, performance presentation from George Brecht’s Water Yam, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1982
A-Atrophy (Self Portrait at the age of 37), (drawing installation), Art Projects, Melbourne

1981
Screening of Rules & Displacement Activities Parts 1 & 2, Museum des 20 Juhrhunderts, Vienna; Dany Keller Galerie, Munich; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; National Art School, Dublin
Rules & Displacement Activities Part 3 (nine Photoseries), Black Box 1: The Theatre of Self Correction / The Third Biennale of Sydney Portfolio, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane,
Plain Images (with Robert Owen), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Alexander Mackie College, Sydney

1980
Screening of Rules & Displacement Activities Parts 1 & 2, together with slide lectures, Western Australia Institute of Technology, Perth

1978
Screening of Rules & Displacement Activities Parts 1 & 2, lectures, Bela Balaczs Studio for Experimental Film, Budapest

1977
Cathartic Action/Social Gestus Number 5, performance, The Sculpture Centre, Sydney
The Emetics/Primary Vomit Blue (I am Sick of Art), (performance), Watters Gallery, Sydney

1974
Information Centres 1 & 2, Contemporary Art Society Gallery, Adelaide; Central Street Gallery, Sydney

1973
Performance, Actions, Videosystems, Galerie Impact, Lausanne; Galerie Media, Neuchâtel
Mike Parr (with Peter Kennedy), Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Trans-Art 1: Idea Demonstrations (with Peter Kennedy), Inhibodress Gallery, Sydney, Veste Sagrada and Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
1971
Word Situations Number 1, Inhibodress Gallery, Sydney
Word Situations Number 2: Wall Definition, Inhibodress Gallery, Sydney: Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1970
Light Pieces and Painted Constructions, Reid Gallery, Brisbane