Tony Albert, Sanné Mestrom & Sam Leach are among a group of artists featuring in the new exhibition, ‘I will tell you my story’ at UTS Gallery. Curated by Talia Smith, the exhibition invites new perspectives on the UTS Art Collection. The exhibition is on display until April 1 2022
Tony Albert has been commissioned to create a new work for Public Art Fund’s upcoming multi-city (New York, Boston, Chicago) exhibition ‘Global Positioning’. This showing of new artworks by 20 international artists explores our fundamental shared humanity across the boundaries of geography, culture, language, history, and politics
includes Tony Albert with Warakurna Artists
Curated by Erin Coates
Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth | Until 28 January 2018
The Clothing Store, Carriageworks, Sydney
Participants are invited to join the Clothing Store artist in residence for a special workshop exploring his practice through hands-on activities. Construct vintage playing card sculptures and create a self-portrait using stickers collected throughout Tony Albert’s career.
Tony Albert & Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore
5 Lock Road, #01-06
Gillman Barracks
25 February – 26 March 2017
On the morning of Sunday 23 January 2011, a farmer in Yogyakarta discovers a crop circle in his rice paddies. Local Air Force launches an aerial investigation, photographing the 70m diameter geometric pattern from a helicopter. The resulting press release concludes the crop circle was imprinted by a UFO from the height of 1000 feet and from a number of different angles.
In Tony Albert & Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Tony Albert presents a new series of work titled Crop Circles of Yogya, developed during his residency at the Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta (supported by Asialink). Albert appropriates farmer’s conical hats into wearable UFOs, takes portraits of Yogyakarta locals wearing the objects, and then highly embellishes the subsequent photographic prints with stickers of widely recognisable pop culture symbolism. Notions of otherness – the ‘Alien’ – are subverted through the saturation of Western iconography adorning these images. Exploring how developing countries engage with the Western world, and vice versa, Albert interrogates imagined and constructed understandings of otherness. Situating himself as a visitor, Albert engages local tradition, personal narrative, and collectively relatable symbolism, to ask – who is the Alien here?
TONY ALBERT
Young & Free | An Australian Discourse
Bega Valley Regional Gallery
Zingel Place, Bega
10 February – 18 March 2017
Leading Australian artists Abdul Abdullah, Joan Ross, Liam Benson and Sullivan+Strumpf artists Alex Seton and Tony Albert deliver works from their recent history that expose, play with and question broad contentious contemporary themes of Australian culture.
Young & Free showcases artists whose work discusses ideas of colonialism, nationalism, and hot button issues around immigration policy, patriotism, Indigenous affairs and gender identity.
2017
Group Show
Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
27 January – 18 February 2017
TONY ALBERT + TIMOTEUS ANGGAWAN KUSNO
Kerjasama #3
Cemeti Art House
D.I. Panjaitan 41, Yogyakarta
15 October – 1 November 2016
Kerjasama, or ‘Collaborate’, is a reciprocal visual arts residency between Australian artist Tony Albert and Indonesian artist Timoteus Anggawan Kusno. Kerjasama #3 is the third phase of the residency program, where both artists bring together their collaborative works for a final presentation and an artists’ talk on 20 September 2016.
TONY ALBERT
Finalist
2016 Archibald Prize
Art Gallery of NSW
16 July – 9 October 2016
