Stephen Bush

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Born: 1958
Lives: Born in Victoria, Australia. Lives and works in Me

Education
1976-78 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Fine Arts
1979 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts

Solo Exhibitions
2007 Fiddleback, Goff + Rosenthal, New York, NY
2007 Stephen Bush, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2006 Hoevelaken, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Penetrol, Goff + Rosenthal, New York, NY
2004 Lumber, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Blackwood Skyline, Stephen Bush: work in progress #5, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne
2002 Brighter Later Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Grey Flannel Mori Gallery, Sydney
1999 Overlander Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1997 Fall Collection, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1996 A Picture Exhibition, Fatouhi Cramer Gallery, New York City, USA
1995 Venetian Red, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1994 The Lure of Paris, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Claiming: An Installation of Paintings by Stephen Bush, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
1989 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Plow: Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions
2008 Future Tense: Reshaping The Landscape, The Neuberger Museum Of Art, Purchase, New York
2005 Berlin Art Fair, Goff & Rosenthal Gallery
NADA Miami, Goff & Rosenthal Gallery
2004 Scope New York, Stephenson fine art
The Plot Thickens, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Atelier, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart
Art Position 04 Morat, Switzerland, Stephenson fine art
Before night after nature, Monash University Museum, Melbourne
2003 National works on paper , Mornington Peninsula Gallery
Home & Away, Monash University Faculty Gallery
Three-way abstraction, Monash University Museum of Art
Scope LA, Stephenson fine art
Scope Miami, Stephenson fine art
2002 The Monash University Collection: four Decades of Collecting, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2000 Melbourne Savage Club Art Prize, Melbourne
Unpacked, MCA, Sydney. Jane Campion
A Studio in Paris SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney NSW
Bootylicious Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Our Place: Issues of Identity in Recent Australian Art, Collection from Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Palazzo Vaj, Prato, Italy
H2O, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Western Australia University, Perth International Arts Festival
Sebastian, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Hazlehurst Arts Centre, Orange, Noosa, Toowoomba, Hervey Bay, Grafton Regional Gallery and Bendigo Art Gallery
Redlands Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW
All creatures great and small, Old Gold Museum, Melbourne
1999 Leisure and Pleasure, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Signs of Life: Melbourne International Biennial
On the Road the Car in Australian Art, Heide MOMA, Melbourne
1998 Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, Geelong Art Gallery and regional tour
Views of Melbourne (NGV Collection) Regional Gallery tour of Victoria
Garth, West Space Gallery, Melbourne
1997 The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, Geelong, Hamilton, and Bendigo Art Galleries.
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize 1997, National Gallery of Victoria
1996 After Image: Painting Photography, The Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne & regional tour 96-97
Tangibility? Three Installations: Stephen Bush & Jan Nelson: South Face; John R. Neeson: Sixth Location; Claire Barclay: Untitled, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania
Food in Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! MCA, Sydney
Compost, Adelaide Festival, curators - John Barbour & David O'Halloran
How Say You, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Colonial Post-Colonial, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1996 Works on Paper, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1995 South Face: Jan Nelson & Stephen Bush, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
Recent Acquisitions, Deakin University Art Collection, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
NON, ether ohnetitel, Melbourne
Smorgon Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Decadence, 200 Gertrude Street Artists Space, Melbourne
If you're creative you can get stuffed, Continental Cafe, Melbourne
1994 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1994, National tour
Tableaux, Works from the Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, curator - Juliana Engberg
Bad Toys, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art. Melbourne
A Four Art, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Survey 14: Images of the Geelong Region, Geelong Art Gallery
Interim Space, Smith Street Post Office, Collingwood
A Collaboration Project-Jan Nelson & Stephen Bush, Temple Studio, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Vic
Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Group Show, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne
A Four Art, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Works on Paper, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Domino 1, Merryn Gates, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne
Angelic Space, curator Juliana Engberg, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Contemporary Landscapes, Deakin University, Geelong
The Story So Far, curator Peter Timms, Exhibitors Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Platform, Spencer Street Melbourne
Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne
Anonymous, West Melbourne
1990 Scotchman Hill Award, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
1989 Australian Art Post 1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne.
1988 Artisans: Collaboration/Installation with Geoff Lowe, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University Union, Melbourne
9x5 - The Wilderness Society Exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Stephen Bush and Janet Burchill, curator Peter Cripps, The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Emu Plains, and 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Newcastle Award, Newcastle Gallery
1987 Large Paintings from Artbank, Ivan Doughey Gallery, Sydney
1987 Quiddity, curator Louise Neri, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
The New Romantics, curator Graeme Sturgeon, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney and regional galleries tour
1986 Fears and Scruples, curator Naomi Cass, University Gallery,
University of Melbourne
Young Australians, National Gallery Victoria & National tour, 1986-88
Voyage of Discovery, Dallas, Texas, USA
1985 New Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Views, curators Joe Pascoe and Svetlana Karovich,
Geelong Art Gallery and Victorian Regional Gallery tour 1985-6
1983 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV, Melbourne
Bon Atoir Print Show, Hobart Tasmania
1982 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1981 Emerging Painters, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

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