Del Kathryn Barton
Born in 1972 in Sydney, Australia, Del Kathryn Barton is one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists working today. Barton received her BFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1993. She is the only woman to have twice won the prestigious Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2008, 2013) and in 2017 she had her first major retrospective, ‘The Highway is a Disco’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Recent solo exhibitions include r u a bunny? albertz benda, New York (2017); Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale and the Rose, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia (2016); and the highway is a disco, ARNDT Gallery, Singapore (2015). She has participated in many group exhibitions, among them Like-ness, albertz benda, New York, USA, (2016); Dark Heart, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Adelaide, Australia, (2014); Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia, (2012), Lightness and Gravity, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, (2012); Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia, (2010/11); 2009 Wynne Prize for Landscape, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (2009) Half a World Away: Drawings from Glasgow, Sao Paulo and Sydney, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo, New York, USA (2002).
Her work is found in the collections of Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; and the Tiroche deLeon Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel, among others.
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Del Kathryn Barton: Love Wants to Give
November 18 - December 16, 2022 Los AngelesRead more -
Fragmented Bodies
February 27 - April 18, 2020 New YorkRead more -
Gallery 181
San Francisco July 11 - September 12, 2019Read more -
Del Kathryn Barton: sing blood-wings sing
February 28 - April 13, 2019 New YorkRead more -
Del Kathryn Barton: r u a bunny?
June 1 - August 3, 2017 New YorkRead more -
Group Show: like·ness
January 14 - February 13, 2016 New YorkRead more
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Del Kathryn Barton's feature film debut, Blaze
Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 The coming of age genre gets reimagined in this astonishing drama about a family in crisis. Simon Baker stars as the attentive...Read more -
Del Kathryn Barton in Australian Love Stories: Family, Friends, Fanatics and Foes (and everything in between!)
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia March 20, 2021March 20 - August 1 2021 Reconnect and reflect with our new major exhibition, Australian Love Stories (in real life!) as we explore love, affection...Read more -
Del Katheryn Barton in Know My Name: Australian Woman Artists from 1900 to Now
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia November 14, 2020Part 1: November 14, 2020 - May 9 2021 Part 2: June 12, 2021 - June 26, 2022 An initiative of the National Gallery of...Read more -
Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia November 17, 2017November 17, 2017 - March 12, 2018 The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) presents a major solo exhibition of one of Australia’s most popular artists,...Read more
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Del Kathryn Barton to start Puff, the Magic Dragon film 'by end of year'
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#KnowMyName: Recognizing Australian Women in Art
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A New Exhibition of Western Floral Art Examines Life Through Religion, Marriage, Death, Love, And Eroticism
A.A. Cristi, Broadway World Adelaide, January 27, 2020 -
Double act: artists Del Kathryn Barton and Kaylene Whiskey on their debut joint exhibition
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Del Kathryn Barton's prices put her in Australia's top 10 living artists
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Brie Ruais puts all of her body weight into each sculpture she makes
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Artist Del Kathryn Barton's atheistic devotion
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Review: Del Kathryn Barton
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Embracing Femininity in Florid and Fierce Portraits
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Dazzling Facets
Juliet Helmke, Modern Painters, June 30, 2017 -
Spiders, Bunnies and Armani Suits: Del Kathryn Barton Hits New York
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12 Exhibitions to See in New York this Summer
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Art World Editors’ Picks: 10 Things to See in New York This Week
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11 Must-See Art Shows Opening This Week
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Del Kathryn Barton: Mother, Daughter, Dancer
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Del Kathryn Barton moves into live-action film with RED
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Adelaide festival 2017 program: Cate Blanchett and Shakespeare get dark, weird, and surreal
Steph Harmon, The Guardian, October 26, 2016
DEL KATHRYN BARTON
Born in 1972 in Sydney, AUS
Currently lives and works in Sydney, AUS
EDUCATION
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New
South Wales, Sydney, AUS
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AUS
Art and Australia, Sydney, AUS
Artbank, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, AUS
BHP Billiton Collection, Melbourne, AUS
Esk Collection, Launceston, AUS
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, AUS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AUS
RACV Collection, Victoria, AUS
The Flinders Collection, Melbourne, AUS
The Acacia Collection, Melbourne, AUS
The International School of Tourism, New South Wales, AUS
The University of Sydney Union Collection, Sydney, AUS
The Students Association, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS
UBS, Sydney, AUS
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 albertz benda, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2024 Art SG, Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre, SG
2023 of her own nature, Pavilion Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, UK
In the company of Morris, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, AUS
2022 Del Kathryn Barton, albertz benda, Los Angeles, CA
the women who fell to earth, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Blaze, Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY
2019 I wanted to build a bed for all the tired beds, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Sydney, AUS
The Nightingale and the Rose, Devonport Regional
Gallery, Devonport, AUS
Del Kathryn Barton: sing blood-wings sing, albertz benda, New
York, NY
2018 Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco, National Gallery
Victoria, Melbourne, AUS
2017 r u a bunny?, albertz benda, New York, NY
soft river yr girl, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney AUS
2016 angel dribble, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale and the Rose, The
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, AUS
2015 the highway is a disco, ARNDT Gallery, SG
2014 electro orchid, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2013 pressure to the need, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2012-13 The Nightingale and the Rose, Newcastle Art Gallery, New South
Wales, AUS
2012 the nightingale and the rose, Heide Museum of Modern Art,
Melbourne, AUS
del kathryn barton new work, RoslynOxley9 Galley, Sydney, AUS
2011 satellite fade-out, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2009 the stars eat your body, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2008 the whole of everything, Karen Woodbury Gallery
Melbourne, AUS
2007 Del Kathryn Barton, Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW, AUS
2006 please. don't stop. Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2005 thank you for loving me, Karen Woodbury Gallery,
Melbourne, AUS
2004 Girl, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2002 Drawings and Objects, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2001 Drawings from California, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, AUS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 In the Arms of Unconsciousness: Women, Feminism and the
Surreal, Sydney, AUS
Go Figure: The Germanos Collection, curated by Euan
Macleod, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2022 Semi Permanent, Carriageworks, Sydney, AUS
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
Cinema Museum, Thessaloniki, GR
water[shed], Bett Gallery, Hobart TAS, AUS
2021 Re-gathering, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, AUS
Australian Love Stories, National Portrait Gallery,
Canberra, AUS
Archie 100, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS
2020 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AUS
Fragmented Bodies, albertz benda, New York, NY
2016 Like-ness, albertz benda, New York, NY
2015 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Jupiter Hall,
Paddington, Sydney, AUS
Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art,
Melbourne, AUS
2014 Express Yourself: Romance was born for kids, National
Gallery of Victoria The Gold Award, Rockhampton
Art Gallery, AUS
Dark Heart, 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art
Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AUS
2013 The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, AUS
2012 Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, AUS
Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart
TAS, AUS
Lightness and Gravity, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, AUS
2011 The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, AUS
Wattle - Contemporary Australian Art, The Cat
Street Gallery, HK
Out Of The Comfort Zone, Customs House, Sydney, AUS
Basic Instinct, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2010 Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, NZ
Freehand, Recent Australian Drawings, Heide Museum of
Modern Art, Melbourne, AUS
Artist's Self Portraits, The University Of Queensland Art
Museum, Brisbane, AUS
Wilderness, Balnaves Contemporary Painting, Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sydney, AUS
Feminism Never Happened, Institute of Modern Art (IMA),
Brisbane, AUS
2009 The Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery,
Wentworth Falls, NSW, AUS
The University of Queensland Nation Artist's Self- Portrait
Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum,
Brisbane, AUS
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2009,
Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, AUS
to whom it may concern: the written word in contemporary
art, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
IKEA Home Project, Carriage Works, Sydney, AUS
Red Exhibition, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation,
Sydney, AUS
Newtown Diaries, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Wynne Prize for Landscape, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney, AUS
Figuration Now, Karen Woodbury Gallery,
Melbourne, AUS
Selected Recent Acquisitions 2007-2008, UQ Art
Museum, Brisbane, AUS
2008 Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery Triennial,
Queensland, AUS
Leading Lights, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, University
of NSW, Sydney, AUS
Beastly, MOP projects, Sydney, AUS
neo-goth: back in black, The University of Queensland
Art Museum, Brisbane, AUS
Melbourne Art Fair, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Show Me Your World, Gitte Weise Galerie, Berlin, DE
The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, AUS
2007 Strange Beauty, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts,
Melbourne, AUS
Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, AUS
The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, AUS
2006 Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Karen Woodbury Gallery,
Melbourne, AUS
Girl Band, Deloitte Foundation, Sydney, AUS
Fantastic Voyage, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2004 National Works on Paper 2004, Mornington Peninsula
Regional Gallery, Victoria, AUS
Del Kathryn Barton, Cathy Blanchflower, Derek
O'Connor, Monika Tichacek, Karen
Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2003 Octopus 4: More Real Than Life, Gertrude
Contemporary Art Spaces,
Melbourne, AUS
After Dark, My Sweet, Kudos Gallery, COFA, University
of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS
2002 National Works on Paper 2002, Mornington Peninsula
Regional Gallery, Victoria, AUS
Half a World Away: Drawings from Glasgow, Sao Paulo
and Sydney, Hallwalls Contemporary
Arts Centre, Buffalo, NY
Circus, The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, AUS
2001 Anxiety: The Drawn Figure, Ivan Dougherty Gallery,
CoFA, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, AUS
Context, Kudos Gallery, COFA, University of New
South Wales, Sydney; Wattspace
Gallery, Newcastle, New South
Wales, AUS
Dissonance 2001, Kudos Gallery, COFA, University of
New South Wales, Sydney, AUS
AWARDS
2020 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
2018 The Archibald Prize (Finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Alice Prize (finalist), Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2017 The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
(finalist), Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers
Hill, VIC
2016 The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (finalist) , Woollahra
Council Chambers, Sydney, AUS
Best Short Animation (Winner) 6th AACTA Awards, AUS
Screen Australia Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories Feature
Film Funding
Best direction in an animation (Winner), Australian
Directors Guild
2015 Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short
Film, MIFF (Melbourne International Film
Festival)
AFTRS Creative Fellowship Grant
Generation 14plus competition nominee, 65th Berlinale Film
Festival, Berlin, DE
2013 Screen Australia Short Animation Production Funding
The Archibald Prize (Winner) Art Gallery of New South Wales
2011 The Archibald Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales
2009 The Wynne Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales
2008 The Archibald Prize (Winner), Art Gallery of New South Wales
2007 Dobell Drawing Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New
South Wales
The Archibald Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New
South Wales
1996 The Traveling Blake Prize for Religious Art (finalist), Orange
Regional Gallery
Bicentennial Art Gallery; Hibiscus Gallery
1995 The Sulman Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Blake Prize for Religious Art (finalist), Mitchell Library
Gallery