David Noonan (born 1969) is an Australian artist who lives and works in

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. His work was shown at

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in 2006.

Early life and education

Noonan was born in

Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resid ...

, Victoria, Australia. He received his BFA (Painting) in 1989 from

Ballarat University College The University of Ballarat, Australia was a dual-sector university with multiple campuses in Victoria, Australia, including its main Ballarat campus, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide that were authorized by the university to provide diploma, un ...

and his MFA in 1992 from

Victorian College of the Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus of the ...

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

Work

His work is included in the March 2020

Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

at the

Art Gallery of South Australia The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ...

, which is titled "Monster Theatres".

Solo exhibitions

2020 *Stagecraft, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, VIC, Australia 2019 *Tapestries, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia *A Dark and Quiet Place, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA, Australia 2018 *A Dark and Quiet Place, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2017 *A Dark and Quiet Place, Modern Art, London 2016 *Lead Light, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2015 *Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia *Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA *Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium 2014 *Au 8, Rue Saint-Bon, Paris, France 2013 *Foxy Production, New York, NY, USA *Collages, Au 8, Rue Saint-Bon, Paris, France *Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2012 *Modern Art, London *Origami, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium 2011 *Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA *Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2010 *David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA *SPIEL, Washington Garcia (off-site), The Mitchell Library, Glasgow 2009 *Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2008 *Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium *Chisenhale Gallery, London *MARKUS, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia *Art : Concept, Paris, France 2007 *Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 2006 *David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2005 *Images, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia *Four New Films, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand *Films and Paintings 2001–2005, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia *HOTEL, London 2004 *they became what they beheld, Foxy Production, New York, NY, USA *they became what they beheld, Three Walls, Chicago, IL, USA *Paintings, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2003 *Before and Now, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia *Miriam Hall, (with Starlie Geikie), Clubs Projects Inc., Melbourne, VIC, Australia *SOWA (with Simon Trevaks), Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Australia *SOWA (solo and collaboration with Simon Trevaks), Foxy Production, New York, NY, USA 2002 *Waldhaus, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia *The Likening (with Simon Trevaks), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2001 *The Likening (with Simon Trevaks), Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2000 *more apt to be lost than got (with Simon Trevaks), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia 1998 *Saturn Return, 1st Floor, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 1997 *head on, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia *head on, Centre for Contemporary Art, Adelaide, SA, Australia 1995 *Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 1993 *POOL, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia *Type 1-36, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Selected collections

Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, VIC, Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia British Council, London CAA Art Museum, China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium City of Stonnington, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA Depart Foundation, Rome, Italy Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, Canada Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA Mona – Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, TAS, Australia Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA Saatchi Gallery, London Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC, Australia University of Ballarat Art Collection, Ballarat, VIC, Australia Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA Zabludowicz Collection, London

Early life and education

Work

Solo exhibitions

Selected collections

References

Further reading