Artist Profile
Richard Bell
(Status : Public)
Coordinated by Jazmin Wilkins
  • Selected Collections

    - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;

    - Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane;

    - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;

    - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

    - University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane;

    - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane;

    - Griffith University, Brisbane;

    - Artbank, Sydney;

    - Gold Coast City Art Gallery;

    - Flinders University, Victoria;

    - Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville;

    - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;

    - National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa;

    - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions

    2013A Suppository of All Wisdom, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

    2011-2013Uz Vs. Them, touring Tufts University, Boston; University of Kentucky, Kentucky; Victoria H Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver; Indiana University Art Museum, Indiana.

    2011You’d Believe Me If I Was A White Man, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

    2009I Am Not Sorry, Location One, New York, U.S.A.

    2009Richard Bell: Provocateur, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.

    2008 – Scratch An Aussie, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2013My Country, I Still Call Australia Home, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

    2012 – Propositions, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

    20104th Auckland Triennal: Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, Auckland, New Zealand.

    2009 – Terra Nullius, ACC Galerie, Weimar & HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany.

    2007Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial, NGA Canberra.

    2006Parallel Lives: New Painting in Australia, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne.

  • Awards

    2013Creative Australia Fellowship, the Australia Council for the Arts.

    2004 – Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

    2003 – Winner, National Telstra Indigenous Art Award, Musum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory.

    1993 – Winner, National Aboriginal Art Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre.

  • Selected Bibliography

    Richard Bell, Bell’s Theorem: Aboriginal Art – It’s a White Thing!, Published online at http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/great/art/bell.html, 2002.

    Richard Bell, Richard Bell: Uz vs them, American Federation of Arts, New York, 2011.

  • Selected Articles

    Brenda L. Croft, “Aboriginal art: It’s a white thing isn’t it?”, Artonview 36 (2003-2004): 40-41.

    Fiona Foley, “The art of politics/the politics of art”, Photofile 77 (2006): 80.

    Bruce McLean, “Richard Bell: matter of fact”, Artlink 30, no. 1 (2010): 40-43.

    William Pym, “Mockery gives way to magic”, Art AsiaPacific 69 (2010): 82-87.

    Adam Geczy, “The air-conditioned desert: Curating aboriginal art”, Art Monthly Australia 250 (2012): 44-46.

  • Interviews

    -This interview was recorded for the ABC Radio program Weekend Arts, on July 13, 2013.


    -This Youtube interview was filmed at the opening of Bell’s show ‘Lessons on Etiquette and Manners’, at Monash University Museum of Art. The video was published on March 18, 2013.


    -This interview was recorded by the State Library of Queensland, as an educational tool for school students. It was uploaded on September 21, 2011.

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