DANIE MELLOR
b. 1971, AustraliaDanie Mellor has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, with major solo shows including marru | the unseen visible at QAGOMA (2025), Danie Mellor: Pleasure and Vexation – the strata and spectacle of history Pataka Art + Museum, New Zealand (2018) and the 10- year survey exhibition Exotic Lies Sacred Ties at the University of Queensland Art Museum, touring to Tarrawarra Museum of Art, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and Artspace Mackay (2014). His work has been presented in landmark international projects such as Primordial: SuperNaturalBayiMinyjirral at the National Museum of Scotland during the Edinburgh International Festival (2014). Mellor has also been featured in leading biennales and museum exhibitions including the NGV Triennial (2023), For an image, faster than light the inaugural Yinchuan Biennale, MoCA Yinchuan, Magic Object the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2016), the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial at QAGOMA (2015), unDisclosed the second National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia (2012), Sakahàn: International Survey of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada (2013), Australia at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2013), Culture Warriors the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennale at the National Gallery of Australia (2008) and Story Place: Indigenous art from Cape York and the Rainforest at Queensland Art Gallery (2003).
Danie Mellor’s work is held in major public, private, and corporate collections both nationally and internationally. These include the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the British Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, National Museums Scotland and Fondation Opale in Switzerland. His work is also represented in leading Australian state institutions such as the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, along with the New Parliament House Art Collection and the Wesfarmers Collection. Mellor’s work is further represented in numerous regional galleries and university collections across Australia, and he has received multiple awards and major public commissions throughout his career.
Courtesy Cassandra Bird
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