D Harding works in a wide variety of media to explore the visual and social languages of their communities as cultural continuum. A descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, they draw upon and maintain the spiritual and philosophical sensibilities of their cultural inheritance within the framework of contemporary art internationally.
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Harding’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2021); Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2021); Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2019); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2019, 2015); and Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). Their work has also been included in group exhibitions throughout Australia and overseas, including at Tate Modern, London (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2020); PAC Milano, Milan (2019); Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France (2019); Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (2019); Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2018); Liverpool Biennial (2018); TarraWarra Biennial (2018); Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2017); Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2017).
Their work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Tate Modern, London; Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane; Queensland Art Gallery ǀ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
In July 2019 Harding was awarded a Doctorate of Visual Arts from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. They are currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at QCA.
b. 1982 Moranbah, Queensland. Lives and works, Brisbane
Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, Central Queensland
Education and Academia
2020-ongoing
- Postdoctoral Fellow, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane
2016-2019
- Doctorate of Visual Arts, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane
2013
- Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane
2009-2012
- Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane
Solo Exhibitions
2021
- Through a lens of visitation, Monash University Musuem of Art, Melbourne
- There is no before, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth
2019
- Iterative Work, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
- Dale Harding: Current Iterations, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- The Golden Mile, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2018
- The Drive Home, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2017
- To cast a bright shadow, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2016
- I refuse you my death, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2015
- White Collared, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2012
- Colour by Number, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Group Exhibitions
2022
- ARS22: Living Encounters, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (upcoming
- rīvus, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, The Cutaway, Barangaroo, Sydney
2021
- A Year in Art: Australia 1992, Tate Modern, London
- On Fire: Climate and Crisis, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
- Cry of the Land, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
- On Earth, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
- Out of Place, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University
- Indigenous Art Program 2021: HYPERLOCAL, Brisbane, curated by BlakLash Creative
- Ritual: the past in the present, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns
- Sovereign sisters: domestic work, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
- Conversations on Shadow Architecture, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2020
- Things Entangling, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, in partnership with KADIST, Tokyo
- 20:20, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury
- First, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe
- Notes on Perception, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2019
- AUSTRALIA. ANTIPODEAN STORIES, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
- Tradelines, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Bundaberg
- 15th Biennale De Lyon Art Contemporain, Fagor Factory, Lyon
- I, Object, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Surface Tension, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
- Shared Connections, Blaklash Projects, Brisbane City Council Indigenous Art Program, Brisbane
- Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscapes, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
- Vis-ability, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
2018
- Soon enough: art in action, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
- Beautiful world, where are you?, 2018 Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
- Continental Drift: From Blak to Black, CIAF, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns
- From Will to Form, 2018 TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC
2017
- National Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
- Australian Collection (permanent exhibition), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
- Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
- dOCUMENTA (14), Athens and Kassel
- The Dust Never Settles, University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia, Australia
- The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Close Enough: Young Queensland Artists, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Sunshine Coast, Australia
2016
- Re-visioning Histories, Bundoora Homestead, Darebin, Victoria
- Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
- 15 Artists, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Redcliffe, QLD
- For Collective Unconscious, Artspace, Auckland, NZ
- With Secrecy and Despatch, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
- Ua numi le fau, Gertrude Contemporary, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2015
- GOMA Q, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Shimmer, South Australian Museum, Jam Factory, Adelaide
2014
- Seoul – Sydney: Contemporary Korean and Australian Prints, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul, South Korea; UNSW Art and Design Campus, Sydney
- Outlaws, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda
- Solid!, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
- SafARI 2014, Cross Arts Projects, Sydney
2013
- Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize 2013, finalist
- The GAS: Graduate Art Show, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
- On Men, FELTspace, Adelaide
- string theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
- Down the Rabbit Hole, Project Gallery, Webb Gallery and POP, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University; USQ Art Gallery University of Southern Queensland
- interconnectivity, The Backdoor Gallery, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
- My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, (QAGOMA), Brisbane
- Projecting our future 2013 by Tony Albert, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2012
- Apertivo, Project Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane
- Sovereignty, Webb Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane
- Addition3, Addition Gallery, West End, Brisbane
- The GAS: Graduate Art Show, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
- Pay Attention project by Tony Albert, unDisclosed National Indigenous Art Triennial, NGA, Canberra
2011
- Second year sculpture, Project Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane
2010
- Pay Attention project by Tony Albert, Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington
Awards
2019
- Tate/MCA Acquisition, supported by Qantas
2016
- 15 Artists Acquisitive Prize, Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection
2013
- University Medal, Griffith University, Brisbane
2009-13
- Griffith Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
2012
- GAS 2012, Graduate Art Show Award, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
Public Artworks
2020
- Blue Breaths; Site Survey (Metro Arts), Metro Arts, Brisbane
2018
- Spine 1 (universe), Spine 2, Spine 3 (radiance), University of Sydney, Sydney
Collections
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Artspace Mackay, Mackay
- Griffith University Art Collection, Brisban
- Kadist
- Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
- Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury
- Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
- Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Tate Modern, London, UK
- University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
- University of Sydney, Sydney
Publications
2021
- Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation. Edited by Hannah Mathews and Dale Harding. Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art; Sydney: Powered by Power, 2021.
- Dale Harding: There is no before. Edited by Megan Tamati-Quennell. New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, 2021.
2017
- Dale Harding: Body of Objects. Edited by Angela Goddard, with an Interview by Hendrik Folkerts. Brisbane: Griffith University; Kassel: documenta 14, 2017.
Selected Bibliography
2021
- “Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation,” by Hilary Thurlow, MeMO, May 8, 2020, https://memoreview.net/blog/da...;
- “Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation,” by Sheridan Hart, Art Guide Australia, April 30, 2021, https://artguide.com.au/dale-h...;
- Out of Place. Edited by Oscar Capezio. Canberra: Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, 2021.
- "Dale Harding: The creek is nourished by many sources," by Hamish Sawyer, Vault, August 2021, https://vaultmagazine.com/ISS3...
- "Self Improvement: The Art of Dale Harding," Richard Glover in conversation with Dale Harding and Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Self Improvement Wednesday, ABC Radio National, July 21, 2021, https://www.abc.net.au/radio/s...
- "Artist Dale Harding joins forces with mother Kate ...," The Art Show with Daniel Browning, ABC Radio National, July 14, 2021, https://www.abc.net.au/radiona...
2020
- Things Entangling. Edited by Kyongfa Che and Elodie Royer. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in partnership with KADIST, https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/....
2019
- “Dale Harding’s Narratives of Displacement,” Hendrik Folkerts, Frieze 22, September 2019, https://frieze.com/article/dale-hardings-narratives-displacement.
- "Bridging the divide," Ann Stephen, Muse: Art, Culture, Antiquities, Natural History 22, 2019, pp. 15-17. https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/chau-chak-wing/our-research/muse/muse-issue22-mar-2019.pdf
2018
- “Dale Harding: Always Painting, Always Sculpting,” Tim Walsh, ArtAsaiaPacific 111, Nov/Dec 2018: 68-69.
- “'This is our time,’” Conversation with Tim Walsh, Art + Australia Online, Nov 2018: http://www.artandaustralia.com/online/discussions/our-time.
- “How TarraWarra Museum of Art is Part of the Art,” Theo Chapman, Australian Financial Review, 17 August 2018.
- "Dale Harding in Conversation with Hilary Thurlow," Conversation with Hilary Thurlow, eyeline 90, 2018.
2017
- “The Present Continuum: A Conversation on Carnarvon Goge, Ambivalent Artifacts, and Reproduction as Artistic Method in the Work,” Conversation with Hendrik Folkerts, Mousse Magazine 57 (2017): 244-49.
- “Dale Harding, Daniel Boyd: The Australian Collection Commissions,” Bruce Johnson McLean, Artlines, no. 4 (2017): 25-31.
- “Telling the Story of Australian Art,” Kyla McFarlane, Artlines, no. 3 (2017): 22-31.
- “Stand Up: Remembering the 1816 Appin Massacre,” Jessica Neath, Eyeline, no. 86 (2017): 66-69.
- “The art of Station Time: the Aboriginal experience of pastoralism in Australia,” Darren Jorgensen, World Art 7, no. 1 (2017): 107-122.
- “Dale Harding,” Tina Baum, Defying Empire exhibition catalogue, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2017, 69-70.
“We Start with the First Australians,” Kyla McFarlane, QAGOMA Blog, September 2017, https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au.... - "Dale Harding discusses his incredible year,” Interview with Louise Martin-Chew, Art Guide Australia, September 2017, https://artguide.com.au/dale-h... exhibition catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2015.
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‘GOMA turns its attention close to home in new exhibition,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, July 10 2015.
“The Minimalism, Hessian and Steel,” Darren Jorgensen, Das Superpaper, no. 3 (2014): 50-53.
2014
- Outlaws exhibition catalogue, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, VIC, 2014.
- Dale Harding, artist. The Weekend Edition, Brisbane, 13 March 2014.
2013
- My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia exhibition catalogue, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, QAGOMA, 2013. Artlink, vol. 33, no. 3, 2013, p. 92
- ‘String theory’, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, August 31, 2013.
- string theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art catalogue, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2013.
2012
- Edition 3, Addition3 exhibition catalogue, Addition Gallery, Brisbane
- ‘Colour By Number’, aired on AWAYE!, Radio National, Saturday 29 September 2012.
- “Colour by Number,” Angelita Howell, Artlink, 32, no. 4, (2012): 92.
- Hetti Perkins, “Colour by Number: Dale Harding” (catalogue essay), Metro Arts, Brisbane, 2012.
unDisclosed, 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial catalogue, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2012.
Dale Harding: ‘Environment is part of who you are’, Tate
Dale Harding’s Narratives of Displacement by Hendrik Folkerts
Things Entangling (Exhibition Catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Bridging the divide by Ann Stephen, University of Sydney
'This is our time', Dale Harding in Conversation with Tim Riley Walsh
Form x Content artist talk, Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation: MUMA
Further reading, Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation, MUMA
The art of Station Time: the Aboriginal experience of pastoralism in Australia by Darren Jorgensen
Exhibitions
Off-site Exhibitions
- Apr 15 – Sep 4, 2022Megan Cope, D Harding, Judy Watson‘Reclaim the Earth’Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- Apr 8 – Sep 4, 2022D Harding‘ARS22: Living Encounters’Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
- Mar 12 – Jun 13, 2022D Harding, Robert Andrew‘Biennale of Sydney’Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; The Cutaway