MICHAEL RILEY MICHAEL RILEY Born 1960 Dubbo, Australia Wiradjuri/Gamilaroi people Lives and works in Sydney, Australia Solo exhibitions* 2000 'Cloud & Empire', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 1999 'Fly Blown', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, Sydney 'Yarns from the Talbragar Reserve' , Dubbo Regional Art Gallery 1995 ‘They Call Me Niiggarr’, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1994 ‘Fence Sitting’ Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1992 'Sacrifice', Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1991 ‘A Common Place: Portraits of Moree Murries’ Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, Australia; UK 1990 ‘Portraits by a Window’ Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Selected group exhibitions* 2002 'Photographica Australis’, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain; Australia 2001 'FedFest', RMIT Capitol Theatre, Melbourne 'Indicium: Identity in Australian Contemporary Photomedia', The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea; Australia 2000 'Being Aboriginal', NSW Trade Investment Centre, Sydney 'Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art: 2000 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art', Art Gallery of South Australia 1999 'Natural Disasters/Disasters Unnatural' Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 1998 'The Art of Place: Fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award', Canberra 'Co-Existence: Australian Artists Against Racism', Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 'Flesh and Blood: A Sydney Story 1788–1998', Museum of Sydney 'Re-Take: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Photography', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1997 'Indigenous Australians', Australian Museum, Sydney 1996 'Chip On The Shoulder', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, Sydney 'National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award', Old Parliament House, Canberra 'Guwanyi: Stories of the Redfern Aboriginal Community', Museum of Sydney 'Abstracts — New Aboriginalities', Royal Albert Memorial Hall, Exeter, UK 1995 'On a Mission', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, Sydney 'Dhaguu Yandhal: Where To Now?', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, Sydney 1994 'Urban Focus: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1993 'ARATJARA: Art of the First Australians', Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalem, Düsseldorf, Germany; Denmark 'Kodak Acquisition Fund: 10th Anniversary Show', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 'NAIDOC Exhibition', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1990 'The Image Black', International Touring Exhibition through Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade 'Tagari Lia: My Family: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Australia', Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland; UK 1989 'A Koori Perspective', Artspace, Sydney 'Boomalli Breaking Boundaries', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, Sydney 'Gomileroi-Moree Mob', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, Sydney '40,000 + 4', Bondi Pavilion, Sydney 1988 'ANCAAA — Association of Northern & Central Australian Aboriginal Artists — Boomalli', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, Sydney 'De-Facto Apartheid', The Performance Space, Sydney 'Art and Spirituality', Exhibition Hall, Sydney Opera House 1987 'Boomalli Au-Go-Go', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, Sydney 1986 Macarthur College of Advanced Education, Nepean 'Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Photography', NAIDOC, Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Sydney 1984 'Koori Art '84', Artspace, Sydney 1983 'Contemporary Aboriginal Art Exhibition', Bondi Pavilion, Sydney Qualifications, grants & awards* 2000 Tudawali Award for Direction in a Documentary (Blacktracker) 1991 Bronze Medal for Direction, NY Film Festival (Poison) 1993–98 Trained as a documentary maker/producer/director with ABC TV 1988–92 Trained as a producer with Film Australia 1987 Founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-Operative, Sydney 1983–85 Sydney College of the Arts (studied photography) 1982 Koori photography course, The Tin Sheds, Sydney Collections* Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra Macarthur College of Advanced Education, Nepean Moree Regional Gallery National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Museum of Australia, Canberra State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Sydney International Airport The University of Sydney * All Australia unless otherwise stated Selected bibliography Croft, Brenda L. ‘Blak Lik Mi’. Art and Australia, vol.31, no.1, Spring, 1993, pp.63–7. Fink, Hannah. ‘Cracking up’. Australian Humanities Review, July 1999, viewed 9 July 2002. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-July-1999/fink.html Genocchio, Benjamin. ‘Dreaming in urban areas’. Eyeline, no.35, Summer 1997–98, pp.34–6. Kean, John. ‘Political theatre in Beyond the Pale’. Artlink, vol.20, no.1, March 2000, pp.68–9. Lee, Gary. ‘Picturing: Aboriginal social and solitical [sic] photography’, Artlink, vol.20, no.1, March 2000, pp.45–9. Papastergiadis, Nikos, Farquharson, Alex & Hirschmann, Jack. ‘Aboriginality and its audience’. Left Curve, no.21, 1997, pp.65–71. Phillips, Sandra (ed.). Racism, Representation and Photography. Inner City Education Centre Cooperative, Stanmore, NSW, 1994. Artists and Works Print friendly version