In the lead up to the National Gallery of Victoria’s 150th birthday celebrations in 2011, the NGV today announced three outstanding acquisitions by renowned Indigenous artists, Rover Thomas (1926-98) and…

Land Marks, drawn almost entirely from the NGV’s collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, looks at the history of Indigenous art in Australia and acknowledges some of its great masters of tradition and innovation. It also traces the evolution of new forms of painting and sculpture in Indigenous Australi

This exhibition celebrates Aboriginal art of the ‘New Wave’: the daring and visionary use of colour by Indigenous artists throughout Australia. In defiance of preconceptions that the quintessential colours of Aboriginal art are natural ochres, Colour Power unveils its opposite – a farrago of great colourists, working with new medi

Fieldwork surveys the most important developments in Australian art from 1968 to the present. This exhibition takes as its point of departure the influential exhibition The Field, held to celebrate the reopening of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968.

This is a triennial exhibition and award that celebrates the ongoing achievement of some of Australia’s most distinguished contemporary artists. The award was established by Joan and Peter Clemenger through a generous gift to the NGV in 1991. This is the fourth award in the serie

John Glover (1767–1849) was arguably the most important landscape painter working outside Europe in the 1830s and is widely recognised as the finest Australian landscape painter of the early colonial period. This exhibition presents more than 100 of the artist’s works including paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sketchbo

This triennial exhibition and award celebrates the ongoing achievement of some of Australia’s most distinguished contemporary artists. Established by Joan and Peter Clemenger through a generous gift to the NGV in 1991, the award is national in scope and brings into dialogue the works of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artist

Kitty Kantilla is one of Australia’s most remarkable Indigenous artists, celebrated for her innovation, unique style and mastery of a range of mediums. This major retrospective documents the breadth and beauty of her work and continues the sequence of special exhibitions focusing on aspects of Tiwi Ar

Cosmo McMurtry is major work by critically acclaimed New Zealand contemporary artist Michael Parekowhai. Concerned with popular culture and identity politics, Parekowhai’s works interrogate the history and impact of New Zealand’s colonial past via both Maori and pakeha (non-indigenous) perspecti

Featuring more than 60 works from five desert communities in Central Australia – Ernabella, Fregon, Utopia, Yuendumu and Kintore – Across the Desert charts the development of batik in Australia, showcasing the NGV’s unrivalled collection of Indigenous tex

Coinciding with the International Year of Astronomy, Shared Sky explores the cultural experience of the night sky over our southern continent. From Warmun in Western Australia to Melbourne in Victoria, artists of different cultural backgrounds and locales explore humanity’s enduring psychological engagement with the southern stars over the centuries.

Unnerved explores a particularly rich, dark vein found in contemporary New Zealand art. The psychological or physical unease underlying many works in the exhibition is addressed with humour, parody and poetic subtlety by artists across generations and mediums.

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The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is home to the Australian art collection – including works by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities, open 10am–5pm, closed Mondays.

Entry to the NGV Collection is free; however entry fees may apply to special exhibiti

This is a triennial exhibition and award that celebrates the ongoing achievement of some of Australia’s most distinguished contemporary artists. The award was established by Joan and Peter Clemenger through a generous gift to the NGV in 1991. This is the sixth and final award in the serie

Opening 27th November, the National Gallery of Victoria will present a beautiful selection of over thirty barkcloths in Wisdom of the Mountain: Art of the Ömie, the Gallery’s first exhibition…