KATE BEYNON



Throughout her multi-disciplinary practice, Beynon employs her distinct visual style to depict the hybrid reality of today's multicultural global citizen. Laden with real and fictional characters, mythological beasts and symbolic talismans, and informed by a diverse range of pictorial traditions including European art history, Chinese painting, comic books, animation, film, graffiti, calligraphy and fashion, Beynon's work is a nexus of influences that negotiate a global landscape marked bypolitics of race, identity and culture.



Selected individual exhibitions include: Auspicious Charms for Transcultural Living, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2008; Mixed Blood and Migratory Paths, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2005; and Kate Beynon 1994-2002, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 2002.

Selected group exhibitions include: Mythopoetic: women artists from Australia and India, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2013; Re-Picturing the Feminine: New and Hybrid Realities in the Art Worlds, Open Eyed Dreams (OED) Gallery, Cochin, India, 2012; The Naked Face: Self-portraits, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011; and The China Project, Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2009; Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 2007; TarraWarra Biennial 2006 – Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, 2006; The Plot Thickens: The Narrative in Australia Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004; Fieldwork; Australian Art 1968 - 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002; Upstream: International Art Event, 400-year Anniversary of Dutch East Indies Co., The Netherlands, 2002;Tales of the Unexpected, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2002;Our Place: Issues of Identity in Australian Art, Monash University in Prato, Italy, 1999; and Perspecta 99, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999.