Ian Howard

Curriculum Vitae

CV - Solo Exhibitions

· 2026 When Everything Melts, Rogue Gallery, Redfern (August)

· 2024 Animals, Rogue Gallery, Redfern

· 2023 Triumphalism, (with Xing Junqin) 798 International Art Exchange Center, Beijing

· 2023 50 Monuments of the 2020s, Rogue Gallery, Redfern

• 2018 Trade War Art, with Xing Junqin, Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo China

• 2018 Gallipoli to Gilgandra, a Coo-ee from the Dardanelles, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2017 Boats at Sea, Life at Home, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane

• 2015 Vietnam’s Phantoms, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2014 Walls – Internal and External, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne

• 2013 Borderline Art, (with Xing Junqin) Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2012/13 Portrait & Landscape, Maitland Regional Gallery

• 2012 Jaguar at Greestone, Greestone Gallery, Lincoln

• 2011 Portrait & Landscape, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2010 Larger than Life, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

• 2009 North Korea – War with Flowers, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2008 Larger than Life, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2007 Disguised Bodies, Weeping Walls, (with Xing Junqin) Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2005 Just in Case, (with Xing Junqin) Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2005 Personal and Material, Capital Normal University Gallery, Beijing

• 2003 Khyber Passing, Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne

• 2003 Cool Images – Hot Sites, Australian Studies Centre, Berlin

• 2002 A Bridge Too Far, (with Xing Junqin) Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2000 Great Wall(s), Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2000 Speaking Place, Redback Gallery, Brisbane

• 2000 Surface Tensions, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing

• 1999 Cries and Whispers, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

• 1998 Endgame, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1997 Foreign Bodies, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra

• 1997 Ministries of Consequence, Savode Gallery, Brisbane

• 1996 Prisoners of Reason, Slaves to the Heart, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1995 Land•Property•Power, Savode Gallery, Brisbane

• 1994 The Aesthetics of Death, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1993 Images of the 20th Century, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

• 1992 one World, (Touring Exhibition), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

 Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1990 décor, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

• 1990 Out of the Cities of Hope, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1989 Intelligences of an Underground Man, (touring survey exhibition)

 Centre for the Arts Gallery, Hobart

 College Gallery, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide

 Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth

• 1988 Furnishings, Camera Lucida Gallery, Sydney

• 1988 Within the Institution, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1988 Timing, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1987 Twelve, First Draft, Sydney

• 1983 Property as Landscape, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1980 Lonely Westerners of the East, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1977 Works Upon Our Physical Culture, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1976 Soft Journalism, Musée d'art Contemporain, Montreal

• 1972 A Return to Subject Matter, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1967 New Society Paintings, Canberra Civic Centre Gallery, Canberra

CV - Selected Group Exhibitions


·  2026 Taking the Lead, Like a Galloping Horse, Xing Junqin Art Museum, Shouyang, Shanxi  

·  2025 Curious Animals, 798 International Art Exchange Center, Beijing

·  2024 Global Gambits and Playful Revisions, Art Space on The                   

          Concourse, Sydney

·  2023 Vibrations in Australian Drawing, Macquarie University Art       

          Gallery and Cowra Regional Art Gallery  

·  2022 Between Spaces, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane

·  2022 Artists4Ukraine, See Street Gallery, Meadowbank TAFE

·  Gimme Shelter, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane

·  2020 Coming up for Air, Rogue Gallery, Redfern

·  2020 Love in the time of COVID-19, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide + Berlin

·  2019 Word of Mouth, Palazzo Contarini della Porta di Ferro, Venice and

           Grau Projekt Gallery, Melbourne

·  2019 Sharing and Coexistence, CUMTB Library Gallery, Beijing

• 2016 WAR, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 2016 Black Mist Burnt Country, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney — touring nationally 2016–2019

• 2016 War – A Playground Perspective, Newington Armoury, Sydney

• 2015 Follow the Flag, National Gallery of Victoria, Ian Potter Centre

• 2015 Slow Burn, Delmar Gallery, Sydney

• 2014 Five Decades at Watters Gallery, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

• 2014 Wildcards, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria

• 2014 VISTA II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

• 2013 Camouflage Cultures, Sydney College of the Arts Galleries

• 2013 Anti Atlas des frontières, Musée des Tapisseries, Aix en Provence, France

• 2012 New Australian Galleries, Art Gallery of New South Wales

• 2011 Artists’ Books, Monash University Library, Clayton

• 2011 Journeys, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart

• 2011 Buffer Zone, The Armory, Sydney Olympic Park

• 2011 KWASS – Together in Harmony, Seoul, Korea

• 2011 SET IN STONE, National Art School, Sydney

• 2011 Magic Spaces, Today Art Museum, Beijing

• 2009 Viet Nam Voices 2, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney

• 2008 Freestyle Books, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane

• 2008 Mao to Now, Newington Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park

• 2007 Dark Side of the Moon, McClelland Sculpture Park, Melbourne

• 2007 Five x Five, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney

• 2007 Artist Makes Video, Dell Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane

• 2007 Blake Prize for Religious Art, NAS Gallery, Sydney

• 2006 5x3 Lips and Teeth: Correlation of this World, Today Art Museum, Beijing

• 2006 Who Cares?, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

• 2006 Colonial to Contemporary, Dell Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane

• 2005 National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

• 2005 Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing

• 2005 Bleak Epiphanies, Virginia Wilson Art, Sydney

• 2005 The State of Peace, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, national tour

• 2004 Shaping Memory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra

• 2003 Future Cinema, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

• 2003 Dislocations, Artspace, Sydney

• 2002–2003 Future Cinema, ZKM, Germany

• 2002 Points of View, UTS Gallery, Sydney

• 2002 Appliance, Solarch Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney

• 2002 Viet Nam Voices, Queensland Museum, Brisbane

• 2001 ‘striking’, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

• 2001 Histories in the Making, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney

• 2001 Viet Nam Voices, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne

• 2001 Morphologies, Artspace, Sydney

• 2000 Moving Cities, Berlin, Germany and Singapore

• 1999 Artrage, art works for television, Griffith University, Australian tour

• 1999 War Myth and Memory, VCA Gallery, Melbourne

• 1999 Cinderella’s Gems, national touring exhibition

• 1999 Shifting Currents, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney

• 1998 Kedumba Drawing Award, Wentworth Falls, NSW

• 1998 Toys, University of Newcastle Gallery, Newcastle

• 1998 Drawing From Light, Waverley City Gallery, Wheelers Hill, Victoria

• 1997 Giao Lúu – Confluence, an Asialink project, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and touring Australia          1

• 1997 Sarajevo, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney

• 1997 Viet Nam Voices, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney

• 1996 Solitary Confinement, Boggo Road Gaol, Brisbane

• 1994 Aussemblage!, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

• 1994 Dante in Australia, Parliament House, Canberra

• 1994 Political Boats, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane

• 1993 Identities: Art from Australia, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

• 1993 Dante in Australia, Centro Dantesco, Ravenna, Italy

 Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong

• 1993 Borders of the Mind, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa

• 1992 Artists' Regional Exchange, ARX3, Perth

• 1992 In Black And White, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney

• 1992 Manu et Mente, Sydney

• 1992 X Biennale Internazionale Dantesca Di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy

• 1991 Off the Wall, In the Air: A Seventies Selection, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

• 1991 Electricka Symbiotica, Airspace, Sydney

• 1991 Faber Castell Drawings, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney

• 1991 Alchemy and Artifact, Orange Regional Gallery

• 1991 Sydney – From the City to the Fringes, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney

• 1990 Mixed Media – Mass Media, Painters Gallery, Sydney

• 1990 Amnesty International Figurative Art Award, Painters Gallery, Sydney

• 1989 Inside the Greenhouse, Tin Sheds, University of Sydney

• 1989 Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

• 1989 Intimate Drawings, Coventry Gallery, Sydney

• 1989 Imaging Aids, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

• 1988 Towers of Torture, Tin Sheds, University of Sydney

• 1988 Australian Art of the Last Twenty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane

• 1988 Drawing in Australia: From the 1770's to the 1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

• 1987 Australian Collage, Holdsworthy Contemporary Galleries, Sydney

• 1986 Gravity's Angel, Wangaratta Community Art Space (touring Regional Galleries – 1987)

• 1986 Oz Drawing Now, Holdsworthy Contemporary Galleries, Sydney

• 1984 Soft Attack, Artspace, Sydney

• 1983 Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of N.S.W.

• 1983 Recent Australian Works on Paper, Art Gallery of N.S.W.

• 1982 Sound Barriers, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

• 1982 Works on Paper, Watters Gallery, Sydney

• 1980 Continuum, NAS60 – AMC 80, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

• 1980 Capital Permanent Purchase Award, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria

• 1979 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria

• 1977 Watters at Pinacotheca, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

• 1976 The Road Show, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria

• 1973 Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of N.S.W.

• 1966–1969 Young Contemporaries, C.A.S., Sydney

CV - Film / Video Productions

• 2009 Venice Biennale 2009, video documentary

• 2007 Moving House, video work

• 2005 Porosity Studio Beijing, video documentary

• 2003 Sweet Stalking, Interactive DVD

• 2002 International Drawing Research Institute, CCTV production

• 2002 Great Art Schools of the World, CCTV production

• 2000 Surface Tensions, Howard’s work as subject of CCTV documentary

• 1998 Endgame, video work

• 1997 Handcrafted Cinema, *The Animation of Caroline Leaf*, Executive Producer (Director Eric Roberts)

• 1997 Millennium Shift – Art of the New World Order, Executive Producer (Producer/Director Ian Lang, Script/Associate Producer Judith Hewitson)

• 1996 Art of Place, Executive Producer (Producer/Director Ian Lang, Script/Associate Producer Judith Hewitson)

CV - Works in Collections

• Art Gallery of New South Wales

• Art Gallery of Western Australia

• Artbank

• Australian War Memorial

• National Gallery of Australia

• Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn Collection, National Gallery of Australia

• Faber Castell Collection

• Glen Waverley Regional Gallery

• Gotham City Council

• Griffith University Art Collection

• Lismore Regional Gallery

• Manly Regional Art Gallery

• Melbourne University

• Mildura Regional Art Gallery

• Monash Gallery of Art

• Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane

• National Library of Australia, Canberra

• National Gallery of Victoria

• Parliament House, Canberra

• Private Collections in Australia, Asia, Europe and America

• Queensland Art Gallery

• Queensland University of Technology, Art Collection

• Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery

• University of New South Wales

• University of Sydney Union Art Collection

CV - Board Membership

Previously

• Member of Board, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize

• Chair, National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)

• Executive Member, Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools

• National Advisory Committee, Queensland Art Gallery's Asia Pacific Triennial

• NSW Member, Winston Churchill Fellowships Committee

• Member, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

• Director of Board, Australia Centre for Photography

• Chairperson, Visual Arts Committee, Arts Queensland