Mike Parr b. 1945

  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Screen Artist)
Working across a range of media that includes performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, drypoint etching and photography, Mike Parr is regarded as one of the most successful Australian artists of his generation. Parr has realised over 1000 works within the context of his self-imposed 'Self-Portrait' series.
Tags: Performance art, Conceptual art, Body, Printmaking, Printmaker
exhibited at
In Place (Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia
Date
1997
Place
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Description

Subsequently toured UK & Europe

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Real Thing
Date
1997
Place
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Bulleen, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
6th Biennale of Havana
Date
1997
Place
Havana, Cuba
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
(Solo exhibition)
Date
1997
Place
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Dead Sun
Date
1997
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO. Performance

Type
Exhibition
Note
curated
exhibited at
Fukui Biennale 7
Date
1997
Place
Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Dead sun: an installation by Mike Parr
Date
1997
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Dead sun: an installation by Mike Parr from the Gallery’s Australian collection. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997
1 folded sheet (4p) : ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Self Portrait Project: Head on a Plate
Date
1996
Place
New York Studio School, New York, USA
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Infinity Machine
Date
1996
Place
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia
Date
1996
Place
OXY Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Description

ALSO TOURED: Hakone Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Dong-Ah Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
No Exit: The Guinness Contemporary Art Project
Date
1996
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Spirit + Place
Date
1996 - 1997
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
No exit: the Guinness contemporary art Project: Maureen Burns, Luc Courchesne, Mike Parr
Date
1996
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
No exit: the Guinness contemporary art Project: Maureen Burns, Luc Courchesne, Mike Parr. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996
ISBN 0731088190

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Installation
exhibited at
The Illusion of the End
Date
1995
Place
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Kedumba Drawing Award
Date
1995
Place
Fairmont Resort, Leura, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Bridge
Date
1994
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO. Performance

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mike Parr
Date
1994
Place
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Echolalia (the road): Prints from the Self Portrait Project: Mike Parr 1987 - 1994
Date
1994
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
25 Years of Performance Art in Australia
Date
1994
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

ALSO TOURED: The Performance Space, Sydney, NSW; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Qld; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, WA; Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Vic.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Antipodean Currents
Date
1994
Place
The Kennedy Centre, Washington, USA
Description

ALSO TOURED: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Downtown, NY, USA (1995).

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Fathers II (the law of the image)
Date
1994
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

On entering the gallery, this piece consisted of a white wall which contained a black rectangle at its centre this seemed to be two dimensional, upon closer inspection it turned into an entrance to a dark maze, some eight metres wide and twenty long, with approximately one kilometre of corridor and no other exit.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
100 breaths/100 songs from (alphabet/haemorrhage) black box of 100 self-portrait etchings 5
Date
1994
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

A video, in which the artist held a series of self-portraits onto his face purely through inhaling hard against the paper, leading him to hyperventilate, accompanied live by counter-tenor John Breheny, in full evening dress, taking individual images from the box of 100 self portrait etchings in front of him, and using them as a cue for a sung improvised response.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Mike Parr: The self-portrait project. Melbourne: Bookman Press Pty Ltd, 1994
ISBN 1 86395 043 5

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation, Performance
exhibited at
Pinch
Date
1993
Place
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

SOLO. Performance

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art
Date
1993
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Black Box of 100 Breaths
Date
1992
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

SOLO. Performance. Also at: The Gunnery, Sydney, NSW for the Sydney Biennale

Type
Exhibition