Exhibition Archive List

Explore the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) rich history of exhibitions across Australian, First Nations and international art, design and architecture. This archive traces the exhibitions presented by the NGV since the opening of the NGV International in 1968, beginning with the landmark exhibition The Field.

As part of an ongoing NGV Archive project, these pages are continually evolving. Information is updated regularly, and details may be refined over time. For research purposes, we recommend verifying key information against primary source documents.

1990s

Contempora5, 16 Sep – 24 Oct 99
Exploratory behaviour: contemporary art from the permanent collection, 28 May – 30 Jun 99
Greek Vases from the Permanent Collection, 7 Mar – 30 Jun 99
Tyger of Wrath: William Blake in the National Gallery of Victoria, 28 Apr – 30 Jun 99
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award 1999, 3 Apr – 9 May 99
Treasures of Asian art: selections from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd collection of the Asia Society, New York, 12 Mar – 10 May 99
Starting out: VCE top CATS from 1998, 3 Mar – 12 Apr 99
Maiolica: Ceramics of Medieval and Renaissance Italy, 16 Jan – 22 Mar 99
European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, 24 Dec 98 – 30 Jun 99
Look Again! Contemporary Prints and Drawings from the Collection, 18 Dec 98 – 15 Feb 99
Shimotsuke: The Japanese Art of Paper Dolls, 3 Dec 98 – 10 Jan 99
The Slowness of Speed: Contemporary Korean Art, 13 Nov 98 – 22 Feb 99
The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 1998, 30 Oct – 14 Dec 98
Reason and Folly: The Prints of Francisco Goya, 25 Sep – 7 Dec 98
Emily Kame Kngwarreye-Alhalkere-Paintings from Utopia, 8 Sep – 22 Nov 98
Art of Glass: Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 5 Sep 98 – 23 Feb 99
Raiki Wara: Long Cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait, 4 Sep – 19 Oct 98
Sublime Space: Photographs by David Stephenson 1989-1998, 28 Aug – 19 Oct 98
Recent Aquisitions, 26 Aug – 16 Sep 98
Great Icons of Aboriginal art from the National Gallery of Victoria, 11 Aug – 28 Feb 98
Rosslynd Piggott: Suspended Breath, 3 Jul – 17 Aug 98
New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes, 30 Jun – 10 Aug 98
A Matter of Style: 19th Century Glass and Ceramics, 27 Jun – 16 Nov 98
Psychogeographica: Mapping the Interior. Recent Work by Ruth Johnstone, 26 Jun – 14 Sep 98
Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination, 24 Apr – 26 Jul 98
Yolngu Art of Elcho Island, 15 Apr – 2 Aug 98
The Bridge, 1 Apr – 30 Apr 98
Imperial Austria: Treasures of Art, Arms and Armour from the State of Styria, 25 Mar – 11 May 98
Worlds in Miniature: Etchings of Jacques Callot and Wenceslaus Hollar, 20 Mar – 15 Jun 98
Starting out: VCE top CATS from 1997, 12 Mar – 19 Apr 98
Value Added: Contemporary Jewellery, 14 Feb – 30 Apr 98
Contemporary International Works from the Permanent Collection, 10 Jan – 1 Mar 98
From the Earth I Arise: The Ceramics of Maguerite Mahood, 8 May – 21 Jun 98
Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition 1998, 30 Apr – 8 Jun 98
Russell Drysdale 1912-1981, 19 Dec 97 – 9 Mar 98
Continental Coloured Glass, 17 Dec 97 – 8 Feb 98
The John McCaughey Memorial Prize 1997, 3 Dec 97 – 23 Feb 98
Imaging the Land, 21 Oct – 24 Nov 97
Treasures from the Australian Prints and Drawings Collection, 13 Dec 97 – 2 Feb 98
A History of Andres Serrano, 10 Oct – 12 Oct 97
Cicely and Colin Rigg Craft Award, 10 Oct – 3 Dec 97
Australian Hollow Ware, 8 Oct – 7 Dec 97
Ikebana, 3 – 12 Oct 97
Rembrandt: A Genius and his Impact, 1 Oct – 7 Dec 97
Rembrandt Etchings in the National Gallery of Victoria, 1 Oct – 7 Dec 97
Recent Acquisitions, 4 Sep – 5 Oct 97
Second Nature: Peter Peryer, Photographer, New Zealand, 3 Sep – 29 Sep 97
Ginger Riley, 17 Jul – 22 Sep 97
Lit from Within: Amish Quilts from Lancaster County, 2 Jul – 18 Aug 97
In Relief: Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts, 17 Jun – 13 Sep 97
Ngundungunya: Art for Everyone, 12 Jun – 14 Sep 97
Contempora5, 3 Jun – 28 Jul 97
Graeme Hare: Photographs, 23 May – 7 Jul 97
Starting Out: VCE Top CATs, 8 May – 19 Jun 97
I Had A Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s, 23 Apr – 16 Jun 97
Women’s Body Paint, 19 Apr – 9 Jun 97
Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition 1997, 16 Apr – 12 May 97
Australian Art in the 1980s, 28 Feb – 26 Apr 97
San Marco and Venice, 26 Feb – 15 Jun 97
The Imprint of Stone: 200 Years of Artists Lithographs, 22 Feb – 28 Apr 97
Tom Roberts, 12 Feb – 6 Apr 97
Papunya: The Origin of a Modern Art Movement, 20 Dec 97 – 5 Apr 98
Treasures from Prints and Drawings, 21 Dec 96 – 17 Feb 97
A Marriage of Styles: British Art of the 1950s and 1960s, 13 Dec 96 – 27 Jan 97
Underground London: The Photographs of Robert Whittaker 1965 – 1970, 11 Dec 96 – 27 Jan 97
Contemporary Australian Decorative Arts, 7 Dec 96 – 23 Feb 97
Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, 4 Dec – 10 Mar 96
Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art, 27 Nov 96 – 17 Feb 97
Men of High Degree, 20 Nov – 13 Mar 96
Modern Masters from the Museum of Modern Art: The William S. Paley Collection, 25 Oct – 1 Dec 96
Beauty in Truth: The Botanical Art of Margaret Stones, 17 Oct – 16 Dec 96
Annie Leibovitz: Photographs 1970 – 1994, 2 Oct – 11 Nov 96
The Evocative Brush: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in the National Gallery of Victoria, 20 Sep – 9 Oct 96
The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, 20 Sep – 9 Oct 96
Harold Hughan, 19 Sep – 6 Dec 96
Couture to Chaos: Fashion from the 1960s to Now, 11 Sep – 11 Nov 96
Athol Shmith: Fashion Photography from the 1940s to 1970s, 11 Sep – 18 Nov 96
Abstraction: Signs. Marks and Symbols, 28 Aug – 18 Nov 96
Brett Whiteley: The Retrospective, 2 Jul – 16 Aug 96
Turner, 27 Jun – 10 Sep 96
British Watercolours and Drawings in the Age of Turner, 27 Jun – 10 Sep 96
Black Attack, 25 Jun – 29 Aug 96
Decorative Arts in the Age of Turner, 24 Jun – 16 Sep 96
Contemporary Australian Photography, 8 Jun – 10 Sep 96
Bill Henson: Works from the 46th Venice Biennale, 22 May – 17 Jun 96
Godfrey Miller, 15 May – 17 Jun 96
Starting Out: VCE Top CATs 1995, 8 May – 19 Jun 96
Contemporary Australian Metalwork, 18 Apr – 24 Jun 96
International Studio Glass, 20 Mar – 10 Jun 96
An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 8 Mar – 6 May 96
Fauves: An Explosion of Colour, 29 Feb – 13 May 96
Vision of Kings: Art and Experience in India, 23 Feb – 28 May 96
Dots, 15 Feb – 28 May 96
Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition, 14 Feb – 28 May 98
Levy, Moon, Rushworth, 7 Feb – 17 Apr 96
British Studio Ceramics, 16 Jan – 19 Mar 96
Bark Art Rarrk, 1 Jun – 10 Sep 96
TECAA2: Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australia Art, 15 Mar – 2 May 96
Fred Williams: A Working Method, 15 Dec 95 – 12 Feb 96
Arthur Streeton 1867-1943, 8 Dec 95 – 12 Feb 96
Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Australian Decorative Arts, 5 Dec 95 – 5 Feb 96
C95, 28 Nov – 29 Nov 95
Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Campaign Commemorated in Glass, 1 Nov – 31 Dec 95
Robert MacPherson: 1975-1995, 25 Oct – 27 Nov 95
Louise Bourgeois, 20 Oct – 27 Nov 95
Renaissance Drawings from the Uffizi, 18 Oct – 4 Dec 95
Figures in the Sand, 1 Oct 95 – 12 Mar 96
Black Room: Photographs by Farrell and Parkin, 8 Sep – 9 Oct 95
The Wild Ones: Expressionist Prints from Munch to Beckman, 8 Sep – 9 Oct 95
Painted Porcelain, 5 Sep – 24 Oct 95
Contemporary Australian Art, 2 Sep – 17 Oct 95
Moët and Chandon Touring Exhibition 1995, 8 Aug – 28 Aug 95
Australian Art, 1 Aug – 4 Sep 95
Three Centuries of Wedgwood: Art, Industry and Design, 28 Jul – 9 Oct 95
In the Time Before Morning: Aboriginal Art from the Jim Davidson Collection, 25 Jul – 28 Aug 95
Matisse, 19 Jul – 3 Sep 95
Cohn Award, 10 Jul – 14 Aug 95
Italian Gold, 8 Jul – 14 Aug 95
VicHealth National Craft Award, 30 Jun – 31 Jul 95
Starting Out: Top CATS 1994, 30 Jun – 31 Jul 95
Sam Fullbrook: Racing Colours, 7 Jun – 24 Jul 95
Narratives, Nudes and Landscapes: French 19th Century Art, 4 May – 17 Jul 95
Klaus Moje glass: a Restrospective Exhibition, 27 Apr – 19 Jun 95
Victory over the Sun: Russian Books and Prints 1912-1935, 14 Apr – 29 May 95
Power to the People: The Art of Mike Brown, 7 Apr – 15 May 95
Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century, 3 Mar – 9 Apr 95
Tibetan Buddhist Kalachakra Sand Mandala, 1 Mar – 26 Mar 95
Point and Counterpoint: Influence and Innovation in the Arts of China and Japan at the National Gallery of Victoria, 16 Feb – 24 Apr 95
Aspects of Australian Printmaking 1984-1994, 25 Jan – 27 Feb 95
Fairweather, 16 Dec 94 – 19 Feb 95
Victorian Views: Photographs of the Landscape 1850s – 1920s, 13 Dec 94 – 6 Feb 95
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1994, 8 Dec 94 – 9 Jan 95
E. Phillips Fox 1865 – 1915, 9 Nov 94 – 30 Jan 95
Power of the Land: Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, 13 Oct 94 – 5 Dec 95
Australia Gold, 13 Oct – 4 Dec 94
Parasols and Pagodas: The Influence of Chinese and Japanese Porcelain on Eighteenth Century European Ceramics”, 22 Sep – 2 Nov 94
Eunos Presents Renoir: Master Impressionist, 18 Sep – 30 Oct 94
James Gleeson: Paintings from the Past Decade, 9 Sep – 3 Oct 94
Echolalia (the road): Prints from the Self-Portrait Project: Mike Parr 1987-1994, 27 Jul – 29 Aug 94
Albrecht Dürer In the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 22 Jul – 5 Oct 94
The Colin and Cicely Rigg Craft Award 1994, 20 Jul – 22 Aug 94
Time Surfaces: Colour Laser Prints by Sue Ford, 15 Jul – 22 Aug 94
Works from the Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 15 Jun – 18 Jul 94
Robert Prenzel: His Life and Work, 3 Jun – 11 Jul 94
The Full Spectrum: Colour and Photography in Australia 1860s-1990s, 27 May – 4 Jul 94
Art of the Rainbow Snake, 14 May – 11 Jul 94
Do something with a Blundstone, 1 Apr – 30 Apr 94
Arthur Boyd Retrospective, 30 Mar – 23 May 94
Garden of Earthly Delights: The Work of Fiona Hall, 2 Mar – 11 Apr 94
Creators and Inventors: Australian Women’s Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, 19 Feb – 21 Mar 94
Dry Docks and Slipways, 19 Feb 94
Art of the Himalayas: Treasures from Nepal and Tibet, 16 Feb – 10 Apr 94
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, 3 Feb – 13 Mar 94
The Seventh Ārit (Elemental Landscapes: 1975 – 1993), 7 Dec 93 – 24 Jan 94
Worth to Dior: Twentieth Century Fashion From the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 26 Nov – 7 Feb 94
Shell Presents Van Gogh: His Sources, Genius and Influence, 19 Nov 93 – 16 Jan 94
Felix H. Man: Collector – Publisher – Photographer, 6 Nov 93 – 21 Feb 94
Felix H. Man Memorial Prize, 6 Nov 93 – 31 Jan 94
Alan Sumner, 26 Oct – 7 Feb 94
Bark Paintings from New Guinea, 17 Sep – 15 Nov 93
Marking Time: Mike and Doug Starn, 15 Sep – 31 Oct 93
Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, 10 Sep – 25 Nov 93
Contemporary Works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2 Sep – 10 Oct 93
Minton: The First Hundred Years, 1 Sep – 17 Oct 93
Actors, Courtesans, Warriors and Travellers: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 12 Aug – 25 Oct 93
The Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection: Part 2, 9 Jun – 2 Aug 93
In a New Light: Aspects of Australian Pictorialist Photography, 1 Jun – 10 Aug 93
Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and Angels, 3 May – 16 Aug 93
Chihuly in Australia: Glass and Works on Paper, 24 Apr – 24 May 93
Globe Theatre Embroideries, 24 Apr – 23 May 93
Floral Art, 16 Apr – 19 Apr 93
Heritage of Namatjira, 18 Mar – 31 May 93
Constance Stokes 1906-1991, 3 Mar – 19 May 93
TECAA: Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, 23 Feb – 16 May 93
Rembrandt to Renoir: European Masterpieces from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 19 Feb – 10 May 93
Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, 12 Feb – 3 May 93
Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement Between the Wars, 16 Dec 92 – 1 Mar 93
Hugh Ramsay 1887-1906, 15 Dec 92 – 8 Feb 93
Sites of the Imagination: Contemporary Photographers View Melbourne and Its People, 10 Dec 92 – 10 Feb 93
The Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection: Part 1, 5 Dec 92 – 1 Feb 93
Adam Fuss: Photograms, 23 Oct – 22 Nov 92
Inge King: Sculpture, 13 Oct – 18 Nov 92
Max Dupain: An Australian Photographer, 18 Sep – 18 Oct 92
Great Impressions: A Centenary Exhibition celebrating the founding of the European Old Master collection of the NGV, 16 Sep – 23 Nov 92
Ngingingwala Jilamara Kapi Purugunparri: Our Designs on Bark, 12 Sep – 2 Nov 92
Balenciaga: Masterpieces of Fashion Design, 10 Sep – 26 Nov 92
Seven Master Printmakers: Innovations in the Eighties from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 18 Aug – 27 Sep 92
Diane Arbus Photographs, 9 Jul – 31 Aug 92
Contemporary Australian Hollow Ware, 8 Jul – 31 Aug 92
Esso Presents Rubens and the Italian Renaissance, 20 Jun – 30 Aug 92
Being and Nothingness: Bea Maddock – Work From Three Decades, 11 Jun – 24 Aug 92
Tutu Gorgeous: A Celebration of Thirty Years of the Australian Ballet, 2 Jun – 23 Jul 92
Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle, 28 May – 3 Aug 92
Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery, 7 May – 29 Jun 92
Of Dark and Light: The Art of John Perceval, 30 Apr – 12 Jul 92
Sidney Nolan: A Seventy-fifth Birthday Celebration, 23 Apr – 18 May 92
Heartlands: An Exhibition of Old and New Cartoons by Kaz Cooke, 1 Apr – 27 May 92
The Landscape Mezzotints of Turner and Constable, 20 Mar – 1 Jun 92
Australiana Cast Iron, 20 Mar – 16 Apr 92
Felix H. Man Memorial Art Prize, 4 Mar – 30 Apr 92
Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition, 20 Dec 91 – 25 Mar 92
The art of Frederick McCubbin, 18 Dec 91 – 1 Mar 92
A Constructed Reality: Aspects of Contemporary Photography, 16 Dec 91 – 17 Feb 92
Yosl Bergner, 14 Dec 91 – 7 Feb 92
Australian Watercolours 1802-1926, 5 Dec 91 – 10 Mar 92
Photography: Felix H. Man: A Pioneer of Photojournalism, 14 Nov – 16 Dec 91
John Olsen retrospective, 1 Nov 91 – 3 Feb 92
Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from the Bibliotēque Nationale, 25 Oct – 8 Dec 91
Head First, 7 Oct – 30 Oct 91
Ian Fairweather 1981-1974: A centenary commemoration in the Australian Art Project Gallery, 25 Sep – 6 Nov 91
The Life and Work of Wolfgang Sievers, 7 Sep – 25 Nov 91
Rupert Bunny: An Australian in Paris, 24 Jul – 17 Oct 91
Deborah Halpern, Fiona Murphy: Ceramics, 12 Jun – 4 Aug 91
Kundat Jaru mob: an exhibition of photographs by Jon Rhodes and the Kundat Jaru community 1986-1989, 9 Jun – 17 Oct 91
Ascher Scarves, 8 Jun – 13 Aug 91
Picasso in Victoria, 4 Jun – 26 Aug 91
Michael Leunig Introspective, 1 Apr – 3 Jun 91
From Studio to Stage: Costumes and Designs from the Russian Ballet in the Australian National Gallery, 20 Mar – 17 Jun 91
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, 5 Mar – 29 May 91
New York Style: Photographs of Jan Groover and Robert Mapplethorpe, 27 Feb – 26 May 91
New Acquisitions from the Department of Photography, 1 Dec 90 – 3 Mar 91
Spirit In Land: Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land, 28 Nov 90 – 3 Mar 91
New Acquisitions Australian Art, 13 Nov 90 – 26 Feb 91
New Acquisitions: Department of Prints and Drawings: A selection of works acquired 1986-1990, 11 Nov 90 – 3 Mar 91
New Acquisitions Aboriginal Art: 1989-90, 11 Nov 90 – 3 Mar 91
Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, 13 Sep – 28 Oct 90
The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magificent, 7 Sep – 25 Nov 90
John Williams: Photographs, 1 Sep – 25 Nov 90
Indian Miniatures from the Princely Courts of Rajasthan, 15 Aug – 15 Oct 90
Paint Up Big: Warlpiri Women’s Art of Lajamanu, 8 Aug – 7 Oct 90
The Enchanted Stone: The Graphic Worlds of Odilon Redon, 7 Jul – 2 Sep 90
Albert Tucker: A Retrospective, 21 Jun – 12 Aug 90
Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers, 2 Jun – 26 Aug 90
Benwell and Potter, 16 May – 8 Jul 90
Recent Acquistions from the Costume and Textile Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 8 May – 2 Oct 90
Donald Friend 1915-1989: Retrospective, 14 Apr – 6 Jun 90
Vienna and the Early Twentieth Century, 1 Apr – 24 Jun 90
So to live as to dream: photographs by Les Walkling, 3 Mar – 27 May 90
Renaissance to Baroque: Italian Art from the Collection, 13 Feb – 1 Apr 90
Merric Boyd Studio Potter 1888-1959, 3 Feb – 6 May 90

1980s

German Expressionism: The Colours of Desire, 20 Dec 89 – 18 Feb 90
Graphics of the 70s: Federal Republic of Germany, 13 Dec 89 – 29 Jan 90
Clifford Last Sculpture: A Retrospective Exhibition, 23 Nov 89 – 29 Jan 90
Athol Shmith: Fashion photography from the 1940s to the 1970s, 21 Oct 89 – 25 Feb 90
The Art of Knitting, 11 Oct 89 – 22 Apr 90
Angry Penguins and Realist Painting in Melbourne in the 1940s, 14 Sep – 11 Nov 89
William Blake in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 14 Sep – 19 Nov 89
Modern European and American Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, 14 Sep – 29 Oct 89
The Stephen Kellner Art Award, Aug – Sep 89
Sets and Series: Recent Australian Prints in Gallery, 1 Jul – 27 Aug 89
Generations: Photographs by Ponch Hawkes, 1 Jul – 15 Oct 89
Mythscapes: Aboriginal Art of the Desert, 29 Jun – 20 Aug 89
Irises and Five Masterpieces, 29 Jun – 3 Sep 89
New Acquisitions: from the Department of Photography, 24 Jun – 15 Oct 89
Strong Points, 1 May – 4 Jun 89
Freestyle: Australian Art to the 60s to Now, 18 Apr – 13 Aug 89
Moet and Chandon Collection, 25 Mar – 16 Apr 89
Les Blakebrough Retrospective, 10 Mar – 23 Apr 89
Celebrations! Photographs from the Australian Collection, 4 Mar – 28 Jun 89
The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788 – 1988, 1 Mar – 30 Apr 89
Picturesque Sensibility: A Nineteenth Century British Photography Album, 25 Feb – 11 Jun 89
Australian Legal Group Print Collection, 9 Feb – 9 Jul 89
Poetry, Passion, Politics: Selected 19th Century Prints from The Permanent Collection, 21 Jan – 30 Mar 89
Dragon Emperor: Treasures from the Forbidden City, 16 Dec 88 – 19 Feb 89
Australian Photography: the 1980s, 9 Dec 88 – 19 Feb 89
Images of Religion in Australian Art 1940 – 1988, 1 Dec 88 – 30 Jan 89
Fashion Accessories from the Permanent Collection, 14 Nov 88 – 24 Sep 89
Lustig and Moar Architectural Prize, 25 Oct – 4 Dec 88
Foundation: The First Decade of Collecting, 21 Oct – 20 Nov 88
Aboriginal Art of the Top End: Circa 1935 – early 1970s, 8 Oct – Dec 1988 88
The Smorgon Family Collection of Contemporary American Art, 4 Oct – 13 Nov 88
New Aquisitions from the Department of Photography, 25 Sep – 27 Nov 88
Excursions into the Postmodern: Five Melbourne Photographers, 10 Sep – 27 Nov 88
Les Walkling, 10 Sep – 17 Nov 88
George Baldessin Etchings, 20 Aug – 18 Dec 88
Bulawarri/Bugaja: A Special Place, 12 Aug – 25 Sep 88
1988 Australian Biennale: From the Southern Cross: A View of World Art c. 1940 – 88, 4 Aug – 18 Sep 88
A Study in Genius: Master Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, 29 Jul – 11 Sep 88
A Sixtieth of a Second: Portraits of Women 1961 – 1981 by Sue ford, 25 Jun – 4 Sep 88
Venetian Masters, 17 Jun – 16 Oct 88
International Ceramics 1988: Participating Artists from the First International Ceramics Symposium in Australia, 25 May – 10 Jul 88
Rembrandt: in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, 19 May – 10 Jul 88
Masterpieces from the Hermitage, Leningrad: Western European Art of the 15th – 20th Centuries, 17 May – 3 Jul 88
Australian Tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop 1976 – 1988, 11 May – 10 Jul 88
Photographs by John Cato, Wolfgang Sievers and Marc Strizic, 1955 – 1975: Aspects of Victorian Photography, 2 Apr – 19 Jun 88
Featherston Chairs, 30 Mar – 7 Aug 88
Irish Gold and Silver: Treasures from the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, 17 Mar – 3 Jul 88
Australian Jewish Artists from the Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, 11 Mar – 22 May 88
Fred Williams : A Retrospective, 27 Feb – 4 Apr 88
Looking Great in ’88, 24 Mar – 31 May 88
Tina Wentcher, 1887 – 1974 : a centennial exhibition, 19 Sep – 26 Sep 87
Circle Path Meander: Central Australian Paintings from the Carnegie Collection, 15 Dec 87 – 20 Mar 88
John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, 11 Dec 87 – 31 Jan 88
Hatches, Matches and Dispatches: Christening, Bridal and Mourning Fashions, 25 Nov 87 – 31 Jan 88
Four Australian Jewellers, 27 Oct – 13 Dec 87
From Robert Adam to Biltmoderne: The Architect as Designer, 27 Oct 87 – 28 Feb 88
William Blake and His Visionary Circle: Selected works from the collection, 14 Oct – 29 Nov 87
The ANZ Bicentennial Art Commissions, 1 Oct – 25 Oct 87
The Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, 16 Sep – 25 Oct 87
Weather Board Creek Falls, Jameison’s Valley, New South Wales: Eugene von Guerard, 1862: The ANZ Art Collection, Melbourne., Sep – Oct 1987 87
Ten International Photographers, 29 Aug – 13 Dec 87
Mayakovsky: Twenty Years of Work, 19 Aug – 27 Sep 87
Young Australians : the best of young Australia, 12 Aug – 6 Sep 87
Salsipuedes: John Walker Monotypes, 8 Aug – 27 Sep 87
Justin O’Brien: A Birthday Tribute, 31 Jul – 13 Sep 87
Ceramic Showpieces from the Shepparton Art Gallery, 22 Jul – 23 Aug 87
Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 26 Jun – 26 Jul 87
Charlie Tjaruru Tjungurrayi: A Retrospective 1970 – 1986, 6 Jun – 19 Jul 87
Sidney Nolan: Landscapes and Legends: a retrospective exhibition: 1937 – 1987, 3 Jun – 26 Jul 87
Man, Sun, Space: Graphic Art of Rufino Tamayo, 21 May – 30 Aug 87
Australian Contemporary Photographers, 15 May – 16 Aug 87
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, 28 Apr – 10 May 87
Edvard Munch: Death and Desire, 24 Apr – 7 Jun 87
Backlash: The Australian Drawing Revival 1976 – 1986, 22 Feb – 5 Apr 87
Drysdale: Photographer, 21 Feb – 21 Apr 87
Field to figuration : Australian art 1960-1986 : works from the National Gallery of Victoria, 21 Feb – 29 Mar 87
Danish Decorative Arts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 4 Feb – 15 Mar 87
Flowers and Fruit, 9 Jan – 15 Feb 87
Roger Kemp: Sacred Images, Sep – 4 Oct 86
Helge Larsen and Darani Lewers: A Retrospective, 9 Dec 86 – 15 Feb 87
Exchanging Views: Student Exhibition, 20 Nov 86 – 1 Mar 87
Harry Callahan: Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 12 Nov 86 – 4 Jan 87
The Apothecary’s Shelf: Drug Jars and Mortars, 15th to 18th century, 1 Oct 86 – 22 Feb 87
American Masters of the Sixties: A selection of lithographs from the Henry and Dinah Krongold Collection of Contemporary Prints, acquired through The Art Foundation of Victoria, 1984., 26 Aug – 27 Nov 86
Australian Landscape Photographed: An exhibition of photographs from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 18 Jul – 2 Nov 86
The Calligraphy and Painting of Shu Chuanxi, 26 Jun – 20 Jul 86
Master Drawings from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 15 May – 20 Jul 86
Renewing the Dreaming, 26 Apr – Nov 1986 86
Sculptures by Lenton Parr, 22 Apr 1986 –
Modern Australian Masters, 15 Mar – Sep 1986 86
Early Australian Silver and Colonial Masters, 12 Mar 86
Events: photographs from the permanent collection, 7 Mar – 6 Jul 86
Colour and Transparency: the watercolours of Lesley Dumbrell, Robert Jacks, Victor Majzner, 22 Feb – 27 Apr 86
Cross Currents: jewellery from Australia, Britain, Germany, Holland, 20 Feb – 1 Apr 86
The Romance of Realism, 21 Dec 85 – Oct 86
Peter Rushforth: Retrospective Exhibtion, 4 Dec 85 – 9 Feb 86
Heidelberg and Before: Watercolours and Drawings from the permanent collection, 1802 – 1908, 14 Nov 85 – 9 Feb 86
Golden Summers: Heidelberg and Beyond, 30 Oct 85 – 27 Jan 86
Milestones in the Art: Famous Photographs in Gravure, 24 Oct 85 – 2 Mar 86
Constance Stokes: Retrospective Exhibition, 18 Oct – 15 Dec 85
Representations of Animals in Rajasthani Paintings, 15 Oct 85 – 25 May 86
Ville Venete, 26 Sep – 20 Oct 85
Hirokuni Ceramics, 20 Sep – 17 Nov 85
Yosl Bergner: A Retrospective Exhibition, 11 Sep – 8 Dec 85
The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings 1971 – 1984, 7 Sep 85 – 1 Apr 86
Treasures from Australian Churches, 3 Sep – 5 Nov 85
Claude Monet: Painter of Light, 15 Aug – 29 Sep 85
Pop Art 1955-70, 26 Jun – 11 Aug 85
Turner Abroad: France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, 23 May – 30 Jun 85
Tradition and diversity: A selection of Australian Ceramics from the National Gallery of Victoria, 10–30 May 85
Celebrating Ceramics, 1 May – 15 Sep 85
Photographs of America 1935 – 1943, 1 May – 8 Sep 85
John Passmore 1904 -84: Retrospective, 23 Apr – 30 Jun 85
Blake Drawings, 30 Mar – 12 May 85
Victorian Vision: 1834 onwards. Images and Records from the National Gallery of Victoria and the State Library of Victoria, 13 Mar – 5 May 85
A Century of Australian Landscape, Mar – Aug 85
Zhu Da the Mad Monk Painter, 20 Feb – 9 Apr 85
Art and Social Commitment: an end to the city of dreams 1913 -1948, 25 Jan – 6 Mar 85
Picture Postcards, 12 Jan – 10 Mar 85
Bathurst and Melville Island Graveposts, 7 Dec 84 – 24 Mar 85
Kunwinjku Bim: Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board, 7 Dec 84 – 4 Aug 85
David Davies 1864-1939, 4 Dec 84 – 6 Jan 85
Close-Up: Brocade. Embroidered. Printed Textiles from the permanent collection, 4 Dec 84 – 29 Sep 85
The Great Decades of Australian Art: selected masterpieces from the J.G.L. collection, 21 Nov 84 – 28 Jan 85
Henri Cartier Bresson, 10 Nov – 30 Dec 84
Australian Sculpture Now: Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, 6 Nov 84 – 28 Jan 85
Flowers and Fables: A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745 – 1769, 1 Nov 84 – 10 Feb 85
Lenton Parr Sculpture, 26 Oct 84 – 17 Feb 85
Honoré Daumier (1808 – 1879) : Political and Social Caricature, 20 Oct 84 – 17 Mar 85
Phillip Guston: The Late Works, 18 Aug – 16 Sep 84
Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections, 8 Aug – 16 Sep 87
Picasso, 28 Jul – 23 Sep 84
Kamakura Bori: Japanese traditional wood carving and lacquering by Michiko Suganuma, 12 Jun – 29 Jun 84
International Photography: 100 images from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 9 Jun – 4 Nov 84
The 19th Century Australian Landscape: a selection of drawings and watercolours from the permanent collection, 25 May – 8 Jul 84
Vienna 1913: Josef Hoffmann’s Gallia Apartment, 11 Apr – 10 Jun 84
Lace and Beads in Fashion from the Permanent Collection, 10 Apr – 21 Oct 84
The Art of Rupert Bunny and E. Phillips Fox: Paintings from the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1 Apr – 18 Nov 84
Albrect Durer (1471 – 1528): Engravings from the Permanent Collection, 9 Mar – 13 May 84
Architecture and Photography 1848 – 1982: Photographs from the collection, 3 Mar – 3 Jun 84
The America’s Cup, 2 Mar – 18 Mar 84
Four Thousand Years of Rings: A Selection from the Ring Collection of the Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, 27 Jan – 25 Mar 84
Vox Pop: into the Eighties, 15 Dec 83 – 12 Feb 84
William Blake (1757-1827): Watercolours and Prints from the Permanent Collection, 15 Dec 83 – 19 Feb 84
Antwerp Alterpiece, 10 Dec 83 – 31 Jan 84
Portrait of Elizabeth by Five South Australian Photographers, 2 Dec 83 – 26 Feb 84
Fred Williams: The Pilbara Series, 22 Nov 83 – 30 Jan 84
Epstein at the National Gallery of Victoria, 18 Nov 83 – 29 Apr 84
The New Art: Selections from the Michell Endowment, 17 Nov 83 – 29 Feb 84
Sidney Nolan: the City and the Plain, 12 Oct – 27 Nov 83
Noel Counihan: Selected Prints 1931-1981, 4 Oct – 4 Dec 83
Australian Ceramics, 1 Oct 83 – 15 Jan 84
Axel Poignant: Photographs 1922 – 1980, 30 Sep – 20 Nov 83
The art of Blamire Young, 16 Sep – 16 Oct 83
Eric Wilson, 16 Sep – 16 Oct 83
Clothes of the Year, 23 Aug 83 – 25 Jan 84
Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers, 13 Aug 83 – 30 Apr 84
George Baldessin : sculpture and etchings : a memorial exhibition, 3 Aug – 18 Sep 83
Fabric and form : new textile art from Britain, 2 Aug – 4 Sep 83
Harold Hughan: A Retrospective Exhibition in Honour of his Ninetieth Birthday, 11 Jul – 25 Sep 83
The Great Eighteenth Century Exhibition, 6 Jul 83 – 30 Jan 84
In the lucky country : panoramas by Jilian Gibb, Anthony Green and Merryle Johnson., 1 Jun – 18 Sep 83
Klytie Pate Ceramics, 25 May – 3 Jul 83
Japan: Masterpieces from the Idemitsu Collection, 20 Apr – 12 Jun 83
Streeton in France 1918, 2 Apr – 30 Jun 83
From Goya to Stella : a selection of important prints and drawings acquired since June 1981, 25 Mar – 29 May 83
Fred Kruger 1831-1888, 11 Feb – 5 Jun 83
The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize 1983, 11 Feb – 27 Mar 83
Australian Screenprints 1982, 3 Feb – 20 Mar 83
Purchases from the Caltex-Victorian Government Art Fund, 3 Aug – 12 Sep 82
The Entombed Warriors : An Exhibition of the Terracotta Figures of Warriors and Horses of the Qin Dynasty of China, 21 Dec 82 – 6 Feb 83
At Home and Abroad: The English Traveller in the Early 19th Century, 16 Dec 82 – Jan 83
Town, Country, Shore & Sea: British Drawings and Watercolours from Anthony Van Dyck to Paul Nash, 14 Dec 82 – 23 Jan 83
A Sunburnt Country: Australian Landscape from Colonial Times to the Present, 11 Dec 82 – 27 Feb 83
The Painter as Potter: Decorated Ceramics of the Murrumbeena Circle, 10 Dec 82 – 6 Mar 83
Reflections of Childhood: From the Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 30 Nov 82 – 31 Jan 83
Australia at the 1982 Venice Biennale: Works by Peter Booth and Rosalie Gascoigne, 18 Nov 82 – 16 Jan 83
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<a href="/exhibition/laurie-wilson/Laurie Wilson, 19 Nov 82 – 6 Feb 83
The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank, 15 Oct – 28 Nov 82
Contemporary Australian Ceramics, 25 Sep – 17 Oct 82
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Italian Old Master Drawings: A Selection from the Permanent Collection, 3 Sep – 31 Oct 82
Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from The Royal Library, Windsor Castle, 28 Aug – 6 Oct 82
The Ewing Gift, 17 Aug – 17 Oct 82
The Artist and the Printer: Lithographs 1966 – 1981, 9 Jul – 29 Aug 82
Australian Metalwork and Jewellery in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1 Jul – 19 Sep 82
Honouring the Year of the Tree, 2 Jul – 7 Nov 82
Portraits by Camera II, 2 Jul – 7 Nov 82
Popism, 16 Jun – 25 Jul 82
Palm-Leaf and Paper: Illustrated Manuscripts of India and Southeast Asia, 11 May – 6 Jul 82
William Blake and His Circle: Selected Works from the Collection, 6 May – 27 Jun 82
The World of Edward Hopper: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, 20 Apr – 30 May 82
Formed in Wood: Australian Furniture from Early Colonial Times to the Present Day, 28 Mar – 30 Jun 82
Australian Heritage – The Forest, 20 Mar – 16 May 82
Sidney Nolan – Works on Paper Retrospective, 18 Mar – 2 May 82
Portraits by Camera From the Collection, 12 Mar – 20 Jun 82
A Selection of 20th Century Costumes and Textiles from the Permanent Collection, 9 Mar – 29 Aug 82
Enamel, 12 Feb – 21 Mar 82
The Everard Studley Miller Bequest: A Selection of Portraits from the Permanent Collection, 5 Feb – 14 Mar 82
Australian Artists’ Videos, 21 Dec 81 – 17 Jan 82
Paul Sandby Drawings, 18 Dec 81 – 25 Jan 82
Aspects of New Realism, 8 Dec 81 – 28 Feb 82
Chinese Paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: 14th – 20th Century, 2 Dec 81 – 17 Jan 82
Frederick McCubbin and Two Painting Traditions, 18 Nov 81 – 28 Feb 82
Landscape, Australia, 6 Nov 81 – 28 Feb 82
Australian Ceramics from the Permanent Collection, 6 Nov 81 – 7 Feb 82
Some Recent Acquisitions 1979-1981, 16 Oct – 15 Nov 81
The Cinzano Glass Collection, 10 Oct – 15 Nov 81
<a href="/exhibition/joy-hester/Joy Hester, 30 Sep – 6 Dec 81
Survey 16: John Firth-Smith, 4 Sep – 18 Oct 81
The J. And J. Altmann Collection of Australian Silver, 2 Sep – 1 Nov 81
The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, 19 Aug – 27 Sep 81
Friedlander in Australia 1977 with the Kenneth Embling Collection of Australian Photographs of the 1880s, 24 Jul – 1 Nov 81
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals, 17 Jul – 13 Sep 81
Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, 7 – 23 Jul 81
The Camera and Dr Barnardo, 19 Jun – 19 Jul 81
Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Commission 1981, 19 Jun – 12 Jul 81
Contemporary Australian Prints since 1975: A Selection from the Permanent Collection and Development Collections, National Gallery of Victoria, 5 Jun – 20 Sep 81
A Selection of Traditional Costumes and Textiles, 1 Jun – 30 Nov 81
Fabulous Fashion 1907-67, 26 May – 5 Jul 81
Survery 14: Martin Sharp, 15 May – 4 Jul 81
The Idea of a Great Gallery, 6 May – 24 Jun 81
The Pure, The Beautiful and the True, 5 Jun – 28 Jul 81
One Man’s Vision – the Graphic Works of Odilon Redon: An Exhibition from the Collection of Edward Binney 3rd, 17 Apr – 24 May 81
The Jaguar and the Feathered Serpent: Pre-Hispanic Art of Mexico and Guatemala, 14 Apr – 30 Nov 81
One Hundred and One Teapots, 2 Apr – 3 May 81
Contemporary Nihonga Paintings, 1 Apr – 30 Jun 81
Aboriginal Australia, 13 Mar – 19 Apr 81
Max Klinger: Love, Death and Beyond, 26 Feb – 12 Apr 81
Selections from the Michell Endowment, 17 Feb – 3 May 81
Horizons and Beyond, 9 Jan – 3 May 81
Australian Ceramics from the Collection, 30 Dec 80 – 29 Mar 81
The Sensuous Line: Indian Drawings from the Paul F. Walter Collection, 19 Dec 80 – 12 Jan 81
French Painting: The Revolutionary Decades 1760-1830, 17 Dec 80 – 15 Feb 81
Eugene von Guérard, 12 Dec 80 – 25 Jan 81
E.P. Phillips & E.Carrick Fox – Paintings from the Ministry for the Arts, 12 Dec 80 – 25 Jan 81
Verve and All that Jazz: An Exhibition of the French Art and Literary Journal, 10 Dec 80 – 5 Feb 81
High Street Studio Realists: Marcus Beilby, Ken Wadrop, Ray Beattie, 7 Dec 80 – 8 Feb 81
Towards Abstraction: Australian Watercolours and Oils, 20 Nov 80 – 28 Feb 81
Looking into History: France 1760 – 1820, 19 Nov 80 – 7 Feb 81
The Compleat Country Gentleman (an Exhibition for the Blind), 5 Nov – 14 Dec 80
Aspects of Woven Tapestry: Works by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, 4 Nov – 14 Dec 80
The Joseph Brown Collection, 31 Oct – 7 Dec 80
Fred Williams: Works in the National Gallery of Victoria: Paintings – Goauches – Prints, 16 Oct – 30 Nov 80
French and Australian Photographs from the Collection: Eugéne Atget, Brassaï, Ruth Maddison, Laurie Wilson, 12 Sep – 7 Dec 80
Paintings from Rajasthan in the National Gallery of Victoria, 10 Sep – 19 Oct 80
The Ritzi and Peter Jacobi Tapestries and Soft Drawings, 29 Aug – 28 Sep 80
Italian Old Master Engravings from the 15th to 18th Centuries, 29 Aug – 5 Oct 80
Lambert War Sketches, 1 Aug – 26 Oct 80
Image and Idea: A View of Contemporary Ceramics in Britain, 1 – 31 Aug 80
Survey 13: Imants Tillers, 26 Jul – 24 Aug 80
The Art of Margaret Preston, 18 Jul – 17 Aug 80
Australian Watercolours 1880-1920, 11 Aug – 31 Oct 80
Micky Allan – Botany Bay to To-day and Jillian Gibb – One Year’s Work, 4 Jul – 7 Sep 80
Printmaking Techniques, 2 Jul – 6 Aug 80
Pompeii AD. 79, 27 Jun – 24 Aug 80
Survey 12 – On Paper (Micky Allan, Mandy Martin, Sally Robinson, Jenny Watson), 21 Jun – 20 Jul 80
Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia 10th to 16th Century: Selected from Australian Collections, including the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Bodor Collection, 6 Jun – 20 Jul 80
William Blake – Works from the Collection, 5 Jun – 13 Jul 80
America and Europe: A Century of Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, 1 May – 8 Jun 80
Survey 11 – Bea Maddock, 26 Apr – 8 Jun 80
Contrasts in Culture: Artefacts from the Collection of the National Museum of Victoria, 18 Apr – 18 Oct 80
Wedgwood Ceramics of the 18th Century, 16 Apr – 1 Jun 80
Leonardo Michelangelo and the Century of Genius – Master Drawings from the British Museum, 12 Apr – 28 May 80
Art Nouveau in Australia, 21 Mar – 20 Apr 80
19th Century Photographs from the Collection, 21 Mar – 29 Jun 80
American Photographs from the Collection to 1950, 20 Mar – 29 Jun 80
Aboriginal and Oceanic Decorative Art (Travelling Art Exhibition), 28 Feb – 28 Mar 80
Australian Drawings of the Thirties and Fourties in the National Gallery of Victoria, 21 Feb – 1 Apr 80
Converting the Wilderness: The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia, 15 Feb – 9 Mar 80
Fifteen Sculptors, 14 Feb – 23 Mar 80

1970s

The Kangaroo in the Decorative Arts, 18 Dec 79 – 3 Feb 80
Recent European Drawings, 14 Dec 79 – 3 Feb 80
Modern American Photographs from the Collection/ Anthony Green in America, 30 Nov 79 – 16 Mar 80
Hearth and Home: Handicrafts and Pastimes from the Victorian Era, 2 Nov 79 – 2 Feb 80
The Lady and the Unicorn: Twenty Four Etchings by Arthur Boyd, 26 Oct – 9 Dec 79
Australian Drawings of the 1940s and 1950s, 26 Oct – 16 Dec 79
USSR Old Master Paintings, 17 Oct – 2 Dec 79
European Painting: 16th to 19th Centuries and Australian Painting of the 19th Century, Oct 79 – Feb 80
Australian Colonial Portraits, 29 Sep – 21 Oct 79
Allan Lowe Pottery 1929-1979, 12 Sep – 21 Oct 79
Survey 10: Tom Arthur, 8 Sep – 4 Nov 79
The Drawings of Walter Richard Sickert, 7 Sep – 21 Oct 79
Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico, 24 Aug – 23 Sep 79
Through the Eyes of the Child, 16 Aug – 16 Sep 79
Forest 1974-79 by John Riches/ In the Himalayas 1971-73-77 by Max Pam, 14 Aug – 25 Nov 79
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Prisons (Le Carceri), 2 Aug – 2 Sep 79
Pleasing Pastimes for Children, 1 Aug – 2 Sep 79
Emile Antoine Bourdelle, 6 Jul – 19 Aug 79
Survey 9: Janet Dawson, 6 Jul – 19 Aug 79
Uses of Photography in Europe, 6 Jul – 19 Aug 79
Walter Burley Griffin: The Three worlds of Walter Burley Griffin, Architect: U.S.A, Australia and India, 21 Jun – 29 Jul 79
David Hockney: Color Photographs, 8 Jun – 1 Jul 79
Japanese Dolls, 28 May – 24 Jun 79
The Art of the Japanese Package, 18 May – 24 Jun 79
Survey 8: Ivan Durrant, 12 May – 17 Jun 79
Europe in the Seventies, Apr – May 79
The Poetical Circle: Fuseli and the British, 24 Apr – 27 May 79
It’s A Plastics World, 12 Apr – 27 May 79
Claus Bury: Drawings and Objects, 4–29 Apr 79
East Meets West, 1 Mar – 1 Apr 79
Five Artists from Heidelberg, 1 Mar – 30 Jun 79
Marc Clark: sculptures 1968-1978, 22 Feb – 16 Mar 79
Drawings by Marc Clark, 22 Feb – 31 Mar 79
Costumes and Accessories from Central Asia, 27 Feb – 20 Mar 79
Ettore Sottsass Jr.: From the End Product to the Product’s End, 20 Feb – 11 Mar 79
Survey 7: Robert Boynes, 16 Feb – 25 Mar 79
Realms and Islands: Aspects of Three Oceanic Cultures, 15 Feb – 30 Nov 79
Australian Pottery 1900 – 1950, 18 Jan – 8 Feb 79
William Blake, 21 Dec – 11 Feb 78
The Craft of the Book, 1 Dec 78 – 11 Feb 79
Korean Folk Art, 14 Dec 78 – 4 Feb 79
Cazneaux 1878-1953: Australian Pictorialist, 17 Nov 78 – 28 Feb 79
Kaufmann and the Pictorialists, 16 Nov 78 – 28 Jan 79
Plug in and Switch On…Aspects of Art and Technology in the 20th Century, 14 Nov – 3 Dec 78
Colonial Crafts of Victoria, 4 Nov 78 – 14 Jan 79
Performing Arts Museum Exhibition, 31 Oct – 17 Nov 78
Hermitage and Tretiakov Master Drawings and Watercolours, 27 Oct – 17 Dec 78
Australian Flora in Art, 25 Oct 78 – 31 Jan 79
Survey 6: Tony McGillick, 21 Oct – 26 Nov 78
Tapestry and the Australian Painter: Two years of work by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, 20 Oct – 26 Nov 78
Navajo Blankets, 12 Oct – 12 Nov 78
Photography- Kevin Hoffman-Natural Forms, 5 Oct 78 – 28 Feb 79
More Than Just A Look: An Exhibition for the Blind, 5 Oct – 5 Nov 78
Concreto and Visuale: Contemporary Italian Poetry as Form and Image, 20 Sep – 8 Oct 78
Roger Kemp: Cycles and Directions 1935-1975, 5 Sep – 1 Oct 78
Survey 5: Ewa Pachuka, 1 Sep – 15 Oct 78
Treasures of a Decade, 23 Aug – 15 Oct 78
Balinese Traditional Painting, 16 Aug – 19 Oct 78
The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle, 11 Aug – 8 Oct 78
Six Series, 10 Aug – 1 Oct 78
Wendy Ramshaw and David Watkins, 4 Aug – 3 Sep 78
Tribal and Traditional Textiles, 25 Jul – 4 Aug 78
Survey 4: John Lethbridge, 21 Jul – 27 Aug 78
Jewellery 1900–76: a survey of 20th century jewellery from the Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Pforzheim, Germany, 21 Jun – 23 Jul 78
Australian etching 1978, 16 Jun – 30 Jul 78
Survey 3: Robert Rooney, 9 Jun – 16 Jul 78
Laurie Wilson’s Landscapes and John Rhodes’ Australia, 6 Jun – 6 Aug 78
El Dorado Columbian Gold, 26 May – 2 Jul 78
The Spirit and the Subconscious: Georgiana Houghton and Roy Opie, 16 May – 18 Jun 78
Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne, 28 Apr – 4 Jun 78
The Art of John Peter Russell, 31 Mar – 7 May 78
Hans Heysen Centenary Retrospective 1877 – 1977, 25 Mar – 30 Apr 78
Survey 1: John Davis, 17 Mar – 24 Apr 78
2nd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles 1976, 23 Feb – 12 Mar 78
Rembrandt Etchings, 9 Feb – 9 Apr 78
Collection Pieces: Australian Crafts 1970–77, 3 Feb – 12 Mar 78
John Glover, 1–30 Sep 78
Paul Nash: Photographer and Painter, 26 Apr – 28 May 78
Bill Fontana (Sound Sculpture), 1–26 Mar 78
Antarctic Photographs 1910 – 1916: Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, 20 Dec 77 – 19 Feb 78
Mike Brown: Embracing Chaos, a Survey of Work 1961 – 1977, 16 Dec 77 – 5 Feb 78
British Drawings, 15 Dec – 5 Feb 77
British Painting 1600–1800, 7 Dec 77 – 15 Jan 78
Woodcuts and Linocuts: selected relief prints from the collection late 19th-20th century, 17 Nov 77 – 5 Feb 78
Illusion and Reality, 14 Oct – 20 Nov 77
Victorian Tapestry Workshop Commission, 10–24 Oct 77
America 1935–1943: Photographs from the US Farm Security Administration, 5 Oct – 18 Dec 77
An Exhibition of Nihonga by Leading Japanese Artists, 6–25 Sep 77
Sir William Angliss Memorial Art Prize, 6 Sep – 2 Oct 77
Francisco Jose Goya Y Lucientes: Los Caprichos 1799, 1 Sep – 13 Nov 77
Jewellery 1900-1976: A Survery of 20th Century Jewellery from the Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Pforzheim, Germany, 12 Aug – 25 Sep 77
Jose Lopez/ Luis Medina- America, America!, 5 Aug – 2 Oct 77
M. Napier Waller 1893-1972, 28 Jul – 28 Aug 77
Master Drawings from the Albertina, 21 Jul – 28 Aug 77
Jean Arp: Sculpture, Reliefs, Works on Paper, 1 Jul – 7 Aug 77
On Tour: 10 British Jewellers in Germany and Australia, 29 Jun – 17 Jul 77
Jan Saudek: Story from Czechoslovakia, my country/ Australian New Work: Anthony Green, Sandra Irvine, Merryle Johnson, Julie Millowick, 8 Jun – 31 Jul 77
From France: A Selection of Works from the Department of Prints and Drawings, 3 Jun – 10 Jul 77
Sculpture of Thailand, 20 May – 12 Jun 77
David Evison, 12 May – 15 Jun 77
Freedom from Prejudice: An Introduction to the Australian Collection in the National Gallery of Victoria (Brian Finemore Memorial Exhibition), 11 May – 10 Jul 77
Bill Brandt- Paul Strand: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, 7 Apr – 2 Jun 77
Heritage of American Art: Paintings from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 30 Mar – 8 May 77
Sol LeWitt: Wall drawings at Sydney and Melbourne, 29 Mar – 1 Aug 77
150 Years of Lithography, 10 Mar – 29 May 77
Lee Friedlander, 16 Feb – 3 Apr 77
Walter Burley Griffin, 11 Feb – 27 Mar 77
The Chinese Exhibition: A Selection of Recent Archaeological Finds from the People’s Republic of China, 19 Jan – 6 Mar 77
The Arts of Asia, Closed 12 Feb 78
Reciprocal Interaction Between Eastern and Western Art, 17 Dec 76 – 27 Feb 77
James Rosenquist: Gallery A, 15 Dec 76 – 6 Mar 77
European Cribs, Icons and Paintings: Voluntary Guides Christmas Exhibition, 14 Dec 76 – 7 Jan 77
Edward Weston: Fifty Photographs 1886- 1958, 11 Dec 76 – 13 Feb 77
Paintings from the Collection of Allen D. Christensen, 7–26 Dec 76
Seen and Not Heard: Dolls and Toys 1800 – 1950, 24 Nov 76 – 20 Jan 77
Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge’: The Photography of Henri Mallard, 5 Nov – 8 Dec 76
Australian Art in the 1870s, 29 Oct – 21 Nov 76
Albrect Dürer: Engraving and Woodcuts, 27 Oct – 12 Dec 76
Peter Kennedy and John Nixon: Two Contemporary Artists, 6–31 Oct 76
Form and Freedom: A Dialogue in Northwest Coast Indian Art, 14 Sep – 17 Oct 76
Australian Landscape Drawing 1830 – 1880 in the National Gallery of Victoria, 10 Sep – 24 Oct 76
Adventure in Swedish Glass: 16 Artists from Kosta-Boda and Orrefors, 8–26 Sep 76
Textiles of Indonesia, 3 Sep – 17 Oct 76.
André Kertész: Photographs 1914–1975 from the Collection, 1 Sep – 31 Oct 76
Barlach / Kollwitz (Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz), 28 Jul – 2 Sep 76
Fernand Leger, 29 Jun – 22 Aug 76
Fred and Mary Marer Ceramics Collection, 8–30 Jun 76
Kodak Collection/ Modern Australian Photographs, 27 Apr – 22 Aug 76
David Hockney Prints: Selected from the Collection of the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 22 Apr – 6 Jun 76
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Organic Structures and Soft Forms, 21 Apr – 30 May 76
Minimal Art, 27 Feb – 28 Mar 76
Blake Watercolours, 19 Feb – 11 Apr 76
The Hats of a Lifetime: Thomas Harrison of Melbourne, 17 Feb – 28 Mar 76
Max Dupain Photographs 1930-1975, 22 Jan – 7 Mar 76
Contemporary Japanese Prints, 15 Jan – 15 Feb 76
Stuart Brisley, 30 Nov – 5 Dec 76
British Artist’s Prints, 12 Dec 75 – 11 Jan 76
10th Japan Art Festival, 27 Nov 75 – 4 Jan 76
David Goldblatt: South African Report, 21 Nov 75 – 4 Jan 76
Twelve Australian Lithographers, 7 Nov – 7 Dec 75
Artist’s Artists: Sculpture Group F, 28 Oct – 30 Nov 75
Australian Jewellery, 21 Oct – 16 Nov 75
“Wimmin”: Six Australian Women Photographers, 3 Oct – 16 Nov 75
Archaic Chinese Bronzes in Australian and New Zealand Collections, 3 Oct – 2 Nov 75
Three Printmakers: Maddock, Shomaly and Baldessin, 18 Sep – 2 Nov 75
Artist’s Artists: Sculpture Group E, 12 Sep – 18 Oct 75
Performance, Documents, Film, Video, 28 Aug – 28 Sep 75
Syntactics, Tony Kirkman, Performance, 24 Aug 75
Victorian Olympians, 12 Aug – 4 Sep 75
Artist’s Artists: Sculpture Group D, 7 Aug – 7 Sep 75
Festival Designs by Inigo Jones: Drawings for Scenery and Costume from The Devonshire Collection Chatsworth, 24 Jul – 7 Sep 75
300 Years of Chinese Paintings, 23 Jul – 11 Aug 75
Crafts Victoria ’75, 9 Jul – 3 Aug 75
The California Aesthetic- West Coast American Folios/ Of Tender Years – A Photo Essay in Colour: Bill Henson, 6 Jul – 31 Aug 75
August Sander/ Frank Sutcliffe, Jul – Aug 75
Artist’s Artists: Drawings, 27 Jun – 27 Jul 75
Artist’s Artists: Sculpture Group C, 24 Jun – 27 Jul 75
Grace Crowley, 24 Jun – 27 Jul 75
Tamarind: Homage to Lithography, 19 Jun – 20 Jul 75
Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse, 28 May – 22 Jun 75
Art and Language, 28 May – 8 Jun 75
Artist’s Artists: Sculpture Group B, 13 May – 15 Jun 75
Environments: St Kilda -Richard Crawley and The Edge- Wes Stacey, 8 May – 19 Jun 75
Artist’s Artists: Painting, 1 May – 15 Jun 75
Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles, May – Jun 75
Jewish Ritual Silver, 25 Apr – 19 May 75
Krimper: A Memorial Exhibition of the Furniture and Woodwork of Schulim Krimper (1893-1972), 9 Apr – 4 May 75
Artist’s Artists: Sculpture Group A, 5 Apr – 5 May 75
Lady of Fashion 1800-1935 (The Schofield Costume Collection), 25 Mar – 4 May 75
Graphic Communications: HSC Folio Work, 25 March – 4 April
Exploration: An Exhibition of Photographs by John Cato and Laurie Wilson, 27 Feb – 27 Apr 75
Cecil Beaton, 28 Jan – 20 Feb 75
Rya Rugs, Jan – Feb 75
Australian Ceramics, 20 Dec 74 – 12 Jan 75
Lionel Lindsay Wood engravings, 13 Nov 74 – 9 Feb 75
Paul Klee, 12 Nov – 8 Dec 74
One Hundred Modern Chairs, 4 Sep – 6 Oct 74
Two Masters of the Weimar Bauhaus, Lyonel Feininger and Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, 30 Aug – 6 Oct 74
Gilbert and George, 29 Aug – 2 Sep 74
Some Contemporary European and American Prints from the Permanent Collection, 17 Jul – 25 Aug 74
Graphic Art of German Expressionism, 14 Jun – 14 Jul 74
Chinese Ceramics from Private Collections, 21 May – 7 Jul 74
Master of Suiboku, 27 April – 1 May
Hollar Prints, 26 Apr – 3 Jun 74
Grace Cossington-Smith, 27 Mar – 28 Apr 74
17th Century Pastoral Holland: Master prints and drawings from the Rijksmuseum with landscapes from the Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery of Victoria, 23 Mar – 21 Apr 74
Cartier-Bresson’s France, 7–31 Mar 74
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 15 Feb – 17 Mar 74
Some Recent American Art, 8 Feb – 10 Mar 74
Hommage à Jean Lurçat, 12 Dec 73 – 15 Jan 74
Constable Prints, 27 Nov 73 – 13 Jan 74
John Constable: The Natural Painter, 5 Nov – 2 Dec 73
Print Council of Australia Print Prize Exhibition, 18 Oct – 18 Nov 73
A Brief Survey of Australian Photography from the National Gallery and the Kodak Collection, 9 Oct 73
Medieval Manuscripts from the State Libraries and the National Gallery of Victoria, 2–12 Oct 73
Blake and his Contemporaries, 17 Sep – 14 Oct 73
Object and Idea: New Work by Australian Artists, 11 Sep – 21 Oct 73
Bill Brandt, 3 Aug – 2 Sep 73
Clay and Fibre: Marea Gazzard and Mona Hessing, 27 Jul – 26 Aug 73
The Style of the Twenties, 18 Jun – 24 Aug 73
Andy Warhol Screenprints, Jun – Jul 73
Noel Counihan: Paintings, drawings, prints 1943 – 1973, 25 May – 24 Jun 73
Architecture in Finland, 7 May – 10 Jun 73
Turner – Liber Studorium, 2 May – 3 Jun 73
Picasso Master Printmaker, 22 Mar – 24 Apr 73
Jack Manton Collection of Australian Painting, 6 Feb – 5 Aug 73
Dennis Spiteri: Missa Passionis, 1970-72, 8 Feb – 8 Mar 73
Durer and Rembrandt: The New Testament, 8 Feb – Mar 73
The Sistine Chapel: a photographic exploration, 9 Feb – 24 Apr 73
Tapestries from the Vatican Collection, 10 Feb – 8 Mar 73
Five Paintings on Loan from Private Collections, Jul 73
Member’s and Patron’s Prints from the Print Council of Australia, Mid-Dec 73
Blake’s Illustrations to the Divine Comedy, Dec – Feb 72
Andor Meszaros, 23 Nov – 18 Dec 72
Master Diploma – Age Gallery, 20 Nov – 18 Dec 82
Fifty Years of Press Photography, 15 Nov – 10 Dec 73
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the Father, Oct – Nov 72
Surrealism, 19 Oct – 19 Nov 72
Polish Printmakers 1972, 11 Oct – 8 Nov 72
Tauromaquia by Goya, 3 Oct – 5 Nov 72
Vitrographs by Sir George Pollock, Sep 72
Toys by Artists, Oct 72
Ten Years of the Australian Ballet: Costumes and Designs, 25 Aug – 8 Oct 72
Hundred Treasures, Aug – 17 Oct 72
Exhibition of Australian Etchings, Aug 72
Glimpses of Asia, 1–20 Aug 72
Did I Love A Dream: an exhibition of the Pre-Raphaelites, the English Art-Craft and Aesthetic Movements, The Symbolists and Decadents and Art Nouveau., 14 Jul – 18 Aug 72
The Australian Landscape, 5 Jul – 6 Aug 72
Iconography of Van Dyck, 1 Jun – 16 Jul 72
A Memorial Exhibition of fifty English wine glasses and vessels of the 17th and 18th centuries from the William and Margaret Morgan Endowment., 26 May – Jun 72
Rupert Bunny, 21 Apr – 18 Jun 72
Aboriginal handcrafts from the Ernabella Presbyterian Mission, 11–30 Apr 72
Italian Drawings of the 15th and 16th Centuries, 23 Mar – 30 May 72
Jewelery Exhibition from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 21 Mar – 16 Apr 72
Rainbow, 3–13 Mar 72
The Power Survey of Contemporary Art, 4 Feb – 18 Mar 72
Italian Painting 1940 – 1960, 9 Dec 71 – 16 Jan 72
Nine Young Sculptors, 24 Nov – 5 Dec 71
From Cézanne through Picasso: 100 Drawings from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11 Nov 71 – 2 Jan 72
Art from Canada’s West Coast, 10 Nov – 12 Dec 71
Master Diploma of the National Gallery of Victoria Graduate Exhibition, 14–31 Oct 71
Frontiers: an exhibition of five contemporary Australian photographers, 12–31 Oct 71
Scultura Italiana, 8 Sep – 3 Oct 71
Melbourne University Collection, 19 Jul – 15 Aug 71
Morris Louis, 16 Jul – 29 Aug 71
Space Age Photography, Jul – Sep 71
Harald Szeemann in Australia: I want to leave a nice well done child here, 5 Jun – 4 Jul 71
Halas and Bachelor, 1–20 Jun 71
Dürer and his time, 21 May – 11 Jul 71
Pierre Bonnard, 13 May – 30 June
Union Festival of the Arts, 19 Apr – 1 May 71
The knife, the spoon and the fork: an exhibition of cutlery from the Deutsches Klingenmuseum, Solingen, 1–25 Apr 71
70 Years of British Art, 23 Mar – 23 Apr 71
Paint-it-yourself, 17 Mar – 11 Apr 71
Bill Vaznan’s Worldline, 5–23 Mar 71
Monumental Brasses from the Collection of Dorothy Plowright, 16 Feb – 14 Mar 71
Brassai: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, 3 Feb – 10 Mar 71
Four Aspects of Asian Art, 12 Jan – 7 Feb 71
Japanese Woodblock Prints, 7 Jan – 7 Feb 71
Leon Golub, 30 Nov 70 – 3 Jan 71
1970 Felton Presentation, 26 Nov 70 – Jan 71
The Anonymous Years, 4 Nov – 18 Dec 70
Watercolours, 23 Oct – 18 Nov 70
Robert Cremean, 20 Oct 70
Heroic Landscape: Williams, Streeton, 20 Oct – 23 Nov 70
The Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture in Aluminium, 29 Sep – 20 Oct 70
French Tapestries, 26 Sep 70 – 30 Jan 71
The First Leasing Art Prize 1970, 22 Sep – 25 Oct 70
Ten Printmakers 1970, 18 Sep – 19 Oct 70
Stanislaw Halpern: Retrospective Exhibition, 15 Sep – 7 Oct 70
Children in Perspective, 20 Aug – 20 Sep 70
Recent British Painting, 6–30 Aug 70
Air: A Phillip Morris Exhibition, 18 Jun – 19 Jul 70
Eric Thake: A Retrospective Exhibition, 21 May – 4 Jul 70
The Portrait of Mexico, 12 May – 7 Jun 70
Landfall: The Captain James Cook Bi-Centenary Exhibition of Australian Art, 7 Apr – 28 Jun 70
Blake Watercolours, 3–28 Apr 70
Sidney Nolan: Paradise Garden, 2–28 Apr 70
Arthur Boyd’s Australia, 2 Apr – 4 May 70
Australia’s Parrots from the National Photographic Bird Index, 2–30 Mar 70
Lloyd Rees Retrospective, 4 Feb – 9 Mar 70

1960s

The Print Council of Australia Third Print Prize Exhibition 1969, 15 Dec 69 – 20 Jan 70
The Perceptive Eye: representing five photographers from the Kodak Collection, 9 Dec 69 – Jan 70
Art of Malaysia, 11 Nov – 2 Dec 69
Design With Paper, 10 Nov 69 – 10 Jan 70
Christo: Wool Works, 1–30 Nov 69
Eskimo stone carvings, Nov 69 – Jan 70
Rembrandt 1606 – 1669, 3 Oct – 7 Dec 69
The Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture in Aluminium: 1969, 2 Oct – 2 Nov 69
Richard Stankiewicz- Welded Sculptures, 1 Oct – 13 Nov 69
Frances Hodgkins 1869 – 1947: A Centenary Exhibition, 26 Sep – 2 Nov 69
5000 Years of Pakistan Art and Archaeology, 25 Sep – 26 Oct 69
Augri Laurens bronzes, 24 Sep – 26 Oct 69
Banners from New York, 1 Sep – 2 Nov 69
Paintings from the 1920s and 1930s, Sep – Oct 71
Art Directors Club of Melbourne 3rd Annual Exhibition, 22–29 Aug 69
Printing & Allied Trades, 11–16 Aug 69
The Aubrey Gibson Collection, 28 Jul – 17 Sep 69
Portraits of Newsmakers: Commissioned for the Covers of TIME, The Weekly News Magazine, 7 Jul – 1 Aug 69
H.R Hughan Retrospective Exhibition, 17 Jun – 20 Jul 69
Fashion: Reality and Record, 13 Jun – 3 Aug 69
Trois Tendances de L’Art Français Contemporain / Three Trends in Contemporary French Art, 29 Apr – 1 Jun 69
Art of the Space Age, 14 Mar – 13 Apr 69
Print Council of Australia Print Prize Exhibition 1968, 16 Jan – 16 Feb 69
Master Drawings of the 17th Century from the Witt Collection, 28 Nov – 30 Dec 68
Belvedere Op Art Exhibition, 26 Nov 68 – 5 Jan 69
“Alcorso Sekers” Travelling Scholarship Award for Sculpture 1968, 18 Nov – 29 Dec 68
Design in Scandinavia, 4 Oct – 10 Nov 68
The Field, 22 Aug – 28 Sep 68

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