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Name
Mike Parr
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Screen Artist)
Tags:
Performance art
Conceptual art
Body
Printmaking
Printmaker
Birth date
1945
Active Period
  • 1970 -
Residence
  • - Sydney, NSW
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986 - 2006

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  • Downward Envy (exhibited at)
  • Volte Face: Mike Parr Prints & Preprints 1970 - 2005 (exhibited at)
  • Truth and Likeness (exhibited at)
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  • Underworld (exhibited at)
  • Cut Your Throat An Inch At A Time: A Survey of the Work of Mike Parr 1970 - 2005 (exhibited at)
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  • Unscripted: Language in Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Before Night - After Nature (exhibited at)
  • Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Contemporary Photo-media (exhibited at)
  • The Mass Psychology of Fascism Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay (exhibited at)
  • NGV Collection Recent Acquisitions (exhibited at)
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  • The Humours (exhibited at)
  • Film Noir: Politique Blanch (exhibited at)
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  • A Person Looks at a Work of Art... The Michael Buxton Contemporary Australian Art Collection (exhibited at)
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  • Mike Parr - Close the Concentration Camps (exhibited at)
  • Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002 (exhibited at)
  • Lightness of Being: Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia (exhibited at)
  • Aluminium from the Mouth (exhibited at)
  • Anxiety: the figure drawn (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at)
  • ... de Kooning, de Kooning... (exhibited at)
  • Spitting and Biting (exhibited at)
  • Other Stories: Five Australian Artists (exhibited at)
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  • Wrong Face (exhibited at)
  • Home and Away (exhibited at)
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  • Photo Realism (exhibited at)
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  • Blood Box (exhibited at)
  • In Place (Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia (exhibited at)
  • The Real Thing (exhibited at)
  • 6th Biennale of Havana (exhibited at)
  • (Solo exhibition) (exhibited at)
  • Dead Sun (exhibited at)
  • Fukui Biennale 7 (exhibited at)
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  • The Infinity Machine (exhibited at)
  • Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia (exhibited at)
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  • The Illusion of the End (exhibited at)
  • Kedumba Drawing Award (exhibited at)
  • The Bridge (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Echolalia (the road): Prints from the Self Portrait Project: Mike Parr 1987 - 1994 (exhibited at)
  • 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia (exhibited at)
  • Antipodean Currents (exhibited at)
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  • The Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Black Box of 100 Breaths (exhibited at)
  • Pages, The Museum Collection (exhibited at)
  • My Head is a Map - A Decade of Australian Prints (exhibited at)
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  • Drawings in Australia: Drawings, Watercolours and Pastels from the 1770s to the 1980s (exhibited at)
  • Advance Australia Art Painting (exhibited at)
  • The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788 - 1988 (exhibited at)
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  • Edge to Edge (Australian Contemporary Art to Japan) (exhibited at)
  • British International Print Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Parallax (exhibited at)
  • Australian Bicentennial Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Light of Day/Between Lindy Lee and Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • The Green Self Portraits (exhibited at)
  • The Red Sea (exhibited at)
  • The Hand and the Photograph (exhibited at)
  • 33 Male Painters - The Male Sensibility (exhibited at)
  • Prospect 1986: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Origins, Originality & Beyond, The 6th Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at)
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  • Australian Perspecta (None)
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  • Continuum '83 (exhibited at)
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  • 4th Biennale of Sydney: Vision in Disbelief (exhibited at)
  • Screening of Rules &Displacement Activities Parts 1 & 2 (exhibited at)
  • First Australian Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta 1981: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Survey 15: Relics and Rituals (exhibited at)
  • Project 30: Some Recent Australian Videotapes (exhibited at)
  • Self Portrait/Self Image (exhibited at)
  • Venice Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Videotapes from Australia (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • 3rd Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue (exhibited at)
  • Act 1: An Exhibition of Performance and Participatory Art (exhibited at)
  • The Emetics/Primary Vomit Blue (I am Sick of Art) (exhibited at)
  • 10th Biennale de Paris (exhibited at)
  • Post - Object Art in Australia and New Zealand: A Survey (exhibited at)
  • Project 9: Documents, Film, Video (exhibited at)
  • Documents, Film, Video, Performance (exhibited at)
  • Concepts (exhibited at)
  • Performance, Action, Videosystems (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (with Peter Kennedy) (exhibited at)
  • Summer Festival Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Action, Film, Video (exhibited at)
  • Word Situations Number 1 (exhibited at)
  • John Kaldor Art Projects 2, Szeemann: I want to leave a nice, well done child here (20 Australian Artists) (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Art Society Annual Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Light Pieces and Painted Constructions (exhibited at)
  • John Kaldor art project 7: an Australian accent (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Rules and markings: photographs by Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr: artist in residence 1990/91 (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr: A-Artuad (against the light) self portrait at sixty-five (exhibited at)
  • Portage: Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr: close the concentration camps (exhibited at)
  • 150 programmes and investigations (exhibited at)
  • Rules and displacements part II (exhibited at)
  • Fathers II (the law of the image) (exhibited at)
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  • Mike Parr (exhibited at)
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  • Malevich [A Political Arm]: Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr: close the concentration camps (curator of)
  • Recent Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Performance Festival (performed at)
  • Events/Structures (performed at)
  • Group exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Word Situations Number 1 (exhibited at)
  • Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions - Forms that Turn (exhibited at)
  • ARTIST MAKES VIDEO : art rage survey 1994 - 1998 (exhibited at)
  • Blameless (exhibited at)
  • Downward Envy (exhibited at)
  • Volte Face: Mike Parr Prints & Preprints 1970 - 2005 (exhibited at)
  • Truth and Likeness (exhibited at)
  • colour(less) (exhibited at)
  • Underworld (exhibited at)
  • Cut Your Throat An Inch At A Time: A Survey of the Work of Mike Parr 1970 - 2005 (exhibited at)
  • Drawing Centre (exhibited at)
  • Unscripted: Language in Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Before Night - After Nature (exhibited at)
  • Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Contemporary Photo-media (exhibited at)
  • The Mass Psychology of Fascism Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay (exhibited at)
  • NGV Collection Recent Acquisitions (exhibited at)
  • Prints from the Collection (exhibited at)
  • The Humours (exhibited at)
  • Film Noir: Politique Blanch (exhibited at)
  • We are all monochromes now (exhibited at)
  • A Person Looks at a Work of Art... The Michael Buxton Contemporary Australian Art Collection (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr - Malevitch (A Political Arm) (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr - Close the Concentration Camps (exhibited at)
  • Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002 (exhibited at)
  • Lightness of Being: Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia (exhibited at)
  • Aluminium from the Mouth (exhibited at)
  • Anxiety: the figure drawn (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at)
  • ... de Kooning, de Kooning... (exhibited at)
  • Spitting and Biting (exhibited at)
  • Other Stories: Five Australian Artists (exhibited at)
  • 3 Collaborations (exhibited at)
  • Shadows of a Monument 1 (exhibited at)
  • Wrong Face (exhibited at)
  • Home and Away (exhibited at)
  • Trace: Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Five Continents and One City: Second International Salon of Painting (exhibited at)
  • The Possibilities of Portraiture (exhibited at)
  • Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Southern Reflections - An Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art to Northern Europe (exhibited at)
  • Photo Realism (exhibited at)
  • The Rest of Time (exhibited at)
  • Blood Box (exhibited at)
  • In Place (Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia (exhibited at)
  • The Real Thing (exhibited at)
  • 6th Biennale of Havana (exhibited at)
  • (Solo exhibition) (exhibited at)
  • Dead Sun (exhibited at)
  • Fukui Biennale 7 (exhibited at)
  • Self Portrait Project: Head on a Plate (exhibited at)
  • The Infinity Machine (exhibited at)
  • Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia (exhibited at)
  • No Exit: The Guinness Contemporary Art Project (exhibited at)
  • Spirit + Place (exhibited at)
  • The Illusion of the End (exhibited at)
  • Kedumba Drawing Award (exhibited at)
  • The Bridge (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Echolalia (the road): Prints from the Self Portrait Project: Mike Parr 1987 - 1994 (exhibited at)
  • 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia (exhibited at)
  • Antipodean Currents (exhibited at)
  • Pinch (exhibited at)
  • The Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Black Box of 100 Breaths (exhibited at)
  • Pages, The Museum Collection (exhibited at)
  • My Head is a Map - A Decade of Australian Prints (exhibited at)
  • Survey of Recent Work (exhibited at)
  • Off the Wall / In the Air: A Seventies Selection (exhibited at)
  • Opening Transformations (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr, Artist in Residence 1990 - 1991 (exhibited at)
  • 15th Annual Fremantle Print Award Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Edge 90: The New Work (Art & Life in the Nineties) (exhibited at)
  • Drawings from the Self Portrait Project, 1983 - 1990 (exhibited at)
  • I think of drypoint in terms of Braille and Excavation, Prints of Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr/John Nixon (exhibited at)
  • Prints and Australia: Pre Settlement to Present (exhibited at)
  • Prints and Installation (exhibited at)
  • Drawings in Australia: Drawings, Watercolours and Pastels from the 1770s to the 1980s (exhibited at)
  • Advance Australia Art Painting (exhibited at)
  • The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788 - 1988 (exhibited at)
  • Australian Contemporary Art to China (exhibited at)
  • Edge to Edge (Australian Contemporary Art to Japan) (exhibited at)
  • British International Print Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Parallax (exhibited at)
  • Australian Bicentennial Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Light of Day/Between Lindy Lee and Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • The Green Self Portraits (exhibited at)
  • The Red Sea (exhibited at)
  • The Hand and the Photograph (exhibited at)
  • 33 Male Painters - The Male Sensibility (exhibited at)
  • Prospect 1986: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Origins, Originality & Beyond, The 6th Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at)
  • 5/5, Fuenf Vom Fuenften (exhibited at)
  • Portage (exhibited at)
  • Queensland Works 1950 -1985 (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta (None)
  • Australia: Nine Contemporary Artists (exhibited at)
  • An International Survey of Recent Paintings and Sculpture (exhibited at)
  • Towards the Other Side (Self Quotations) (exhibited at)
  • An Australian Accent: Three Artists, Mike Parr, Imants Tillers, Ken Unsworth (exhibited at)
  • Black Box: The Theatre of Self Correction Part 2 (exhibited at)
  • Presence and Absence (exhibited at)
  • Australian Art in Amsterdam (exhibited at)
  • Attitudes to Drawing (exhibited at)
  • Continuum '83 (exhibited at)
  • Eureka (exhibited at)
  • A-Atrophy (Self Portrait at the age of 37) (exhibited at)
  • 4th Biennale of Sydney: Vision in Disbelief (exhibited at)
  • Screening of Rules &Displacement Activities Parts 1 & 2 (exhibited at)
  • First Australian Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta 1981: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Survey 15: Relics and Rituals (exhibited at)
  • Project 30: Some Recent Australian Videotapes (exhibited at)
  • Self Portrait/Self Image (exhibited at)
  • Venice Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Videotapes from Australia (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • 3rd Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue (exhibited at)
  • Act 1: An Exhibition of Performance and Participatory Art (exhibited at)
  • The Emetics/Primary Vomit Blue (I am Sick of Art) (exhibited at)
  • 10th Biennale de Paris (exhibited at)
  • Post - Object Art in Australia and New Zealand: A Survey (exhibited at)
  • Project 9: Documents, Film, Video (exhibited at)
  • Documents, Film, Video, Performance (exhibited at)
  • Concepts (exhibited at)
  • Performance, Action, Videosystems (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (with Peter Kennedy) (exhibited at)
  • Summer Festival Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Action, Film, Video (exhibited at)
  • Word Situations Number 1 (exhibited at)
  • John Kaldor Art Projects 2, Szeemann: I want to leave a nice, well done child here (20 Australian Artists) (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Art Society Annual Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Light Pieces and Painted Constructions (exhibited at)
  • John Kaldor art project 7: an Australian accent (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Rules and markings: photographs by Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr: artist in residence 1990/91 (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr: A-Artuad (against the light) self portrait at sixty-five (exhibited at)
  • Portage: Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr: close the concentration camps (exhibited at)
  • 150 programmes and investigations (exhibited at)
  • Rules and displacements part II (exhibited at)
  • Fathers II (the law of the image) (exhibited at)
  • 100 breaths/100 songs from (alphabet/haemorrhage) black box of 100 self-portrait etchings 5 (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • 100 breathes radio dictionary alphabet/heamorrhage black box performances '92 (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr, Akio Makigawa: 1998 Lowenstein Sharp Arts 21 Fellowship (exhibited at)
  • Venice Biennale 1980 : art from 1968-1980, Australia : Mike Parr, Kevin Mortensen, Tony Coleing (exhibited at)
  • Adam Geczy and Mike Parr: the mass psychology of fascism, zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay (exhibited at)
  • Dead sun: an installation by Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • No exit: the Guinness contemporary art Project: Maureen Burns, Luc Courchesne, Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Prints by Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Kingdom come and/or punch holes in the body ploitic: Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Malevich [A Political Arm]: Mike Parr (exhibited at)
  • Mike Parr: close the concentration camps (curator of)
  • Recent Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Performance Festival (performed at)
  • Events/Structures (performed at)
  • Group exhibition (exhibited at)