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2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
10 August 2024 to 3 November 2024
Who's Who Portrait Exhibition
10 August 2024 to 3 November 2024
A People's Press—Noel Counihan
until Monday 10 March 2025
Permanent Collection
until Sunday 17 August 2025
Upcoming
Social Studies
9 November 2024 to 9 February 2025
Rauschenberg & Johns—Significant Others
16 November 2024 to 9 February 2025
The Sweet Spot—Between Art & Design
16 November 2024 to 9 February 2025
Learn Space—Design + Play
21 November 2024 to 9 February 2025
2025 Future Creatives
22 February 2025 to 30 March 2025
Past
MAKE Award—Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design
10 August 2024 to 27 October 2024
Double Vision—Mapping Dürer in a Time of Crisis: Raymond Arnold and Ian Westacott
3 August 2024 to 27 October 2024
Cutting Through Time—Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print
18 May 2024 to 28 July 2024
Learn Space—Japanese Printmaking
18 May 2024 to 28 July 2024
The O'Donohue & Kiss Gift
23 March 2024 to 28 July 2024
Dianne Fogwell—Prescience
23 March 2024 to 28 July 2024
Jacobus Capone—Forewarning (Act 4): Demarcation
23 March 2024 to 28 July 2024
Future Creatives 2024
9 March 2024 to 5 May 2024
John Nixon—Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints
18 November 2023 to 11 March 2024
genU studio artists—RISE
21 October 2023 to 11 March 2024
Kungka Kuṉpu (Strong Women)
21 October 2023 to 25 February 2024
Water connects us all
21 October 2023 to 25 February 2024
The Housing Question
26 August 2023 to 29 October 2023
Phenomena
22 April 2023 to 22 October 2023
Graphic Investigation—Prints by Postwar Émigré Artists in Australia
22 July 2023 to 15 October 2023
2023 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards
29 July 2023 to 8 October 2023
Who's Who Portrait Exhibition
29 July 2023 to 28 August 2023
Kathy Temin—Home Dis—play
11 February 2023 to 20 August 2023
The Changing Sky
18 March 2023 to 16 July 2023
Back to Back Theatre—Portrait
18 March 2023 to 16 July 2023
Clarice Beckett—Atmosphere
1 April 2023 to 9 July 2023
Atmospheric Lab
1 April 2023 to 9 July 2023
JamFactory ICON Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder
25 February 2023 to 16 April 2023
A Tale of Two Cities—Prints from the Colin Holden Collection
17 September 2022 to 13 March 2023
The Gertrude Editions
15 October 2022 to 13 March 2023
Parallel Universe—Recent Acquisitions 2021–22
12 November 2022 to 13 March 2023
Future Creatives 2023
4 February 2023 to 13 March 2023
Mandy Martin—A Persistent Vision
5 November 2022 to 5 February 2023
Learn Space—Draw!
12 November 2022 to 25 January 2023
Collection Leads: Rose Nolan—Word Work
17 September 2022 to 6 November 2022
Craft Contemporary
1 October 2022 to 31 October 2022
Learn Space—Pop—up cinema
1 October 2022 to 30 October 2022
Brook Andrew—Hope, Peace, and Paradise
16 July 2022 to 23 October 2022
Spowers & Syme
16 July 2022 to 16 October 2022
Barbara Brash—Holding Form
25 June 2022 to 9 October 2022
Learn Space—Pop—up cinema
12 September 2022 to 25 September 2022
2022 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
25 June 2022 to 11 September 2022
Who's Who Portrait Prize—a children's exhibition
6 August 2022 to 28 August 2022
Learn Space—Kid's Costume Lab
19 March 2022 to 10 July 2022
Sally Smart—P.A.R.A.D.E.
19 March 2022 to 3 July 2022
Ponch Hawkes—500 Strong
19 March 2022 to 3 July 2022
The Personal is Political
12 March 2022 to 19 June 2022
Dianne Fogwell—Prescience
5 March 2022 to 19 June 2022
Barbara Campbell—ex avibus
5 March 2022 to 19 June 2022
Kerrie Poliness—Blue Wall Drawing #2
6 November 2021 to 13 June 2022
Dowel Jones & Geelong Weaving Mill
17 March 2022 to 3 April 2022
Exhume the grave—McCubbin and contemporary art
14 August 2021 to 6 March 2022
Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize
6 November 2021 to 20 February 2022
Learn space—celebrating 125 years
2 October 2021 to 20 February 2022
Frederick McCubbin—Whisperings in wattle boughs
2 October 2021 to 13 February 2022
2021 Geelong acquisitive print awards
18 September 2021 to 17 October 2021
Collection leads: Zilverster (Goodwin & Hanenbergh)—Amator
22 May 2021 to 17 October 2021
Who's who portrait prize
14 August 2021 to 26 September 2021
Lillian O'Neil—Evening (Wall commission #3)
10 August 2021 to 10 October 2021
Sarah Walker—Her small white hands (Wall commission #2)
11 June 2021 to 10 October 2021
2021 Geelong contemporary art prize
11 June 2021 to 22 August 2021
Blanche Tilden—ripple effect: a 25 year survey
8 May 2021 to 1 August 2021
We see recognition—a children's art exhibition
11 June 2021 to 1 August 2021
RONE in Geelong
27 February 2021 to 16 May 2021
The Cinema—RONE: making of the muse
27 February 2021 to 16 May 2021
Framing the figure—contemporary photography and moving image works from the collection
21 November 2020 to 25 April 2021
Kait James—Souvenirs (Wall commission #1)
16 January 2021 to 25 April 2021
Scenic Victoria—Land, sea, city
22 June 2020 to 18 April 2021
A shining light—recent acquisitions 2019–20
28 September 2020 to 21 February 2021
Jacky Redgate—HOLD ON
7 March 2020 to 14 February 2021
Thirdspace
28 September 2020 to 31 January 2021
Pop—up cinema—Namatjira Project
1 January 2021 to 31 January 2021
Collection leads: Kate Beynon—kindred spirits
29 February 2020 to 17 January 2021
Pop—up cinema—Arthur Boyd: Testament of a Painter
11 November 2020 to 31 December 2020
Who's who portrait prize—a virtual exhibition
21 August 2020 to 27 September 2020
Going public—portraits from the Colin Holden Collection
29 February 2020 to 5 August 2020
Resonance+Reflection—design ideas for an expanded Geelong Gallery
22 February 2020 to 5 August 2020
Pop—up cinema—Smart's Labyrinth: Every picture a defeat
1 July 2020 to 31 July 2020
We see recognition—a virtual exhibition
9 April 2020 to 3 June 2020
The Look
7 March 2020 to 17 March 2020
Learn Space—The Look
7 March 2020 to 17 March 2020
Stephen Bram—abstract painting
23 November 2019 to 23 February 2020
Raymond Arnold—Elsewhere world (Final consolidated A–H)
30 November 2019 to 23 February 2020
Turmoil & tranquility—recent acquisitions 2018–19
30 November 2019 to 1 March 2020
Colour + line + shape
9 November 2019 to 1 March 2020
Digitisation lab
30 November 2019 to 4 February 2020
2019 Geelong acquisitive print awards
20 September 2019 to 24 November 2019
Collection leads: John Scurry—small paintings
14 September 2019 to 24 November 2019
The Greatest Team of All—treasures from the Bob Gartland Collection
20 September 2019 to 10 November 2019
Who's who portrait prize
14 September 2019 to 13 October 2019
The Moon
15 June 2019 to 1 September 2019
Learn Space—Destination Moon
15 June 2019 to 1 September 2019
Offsite: We see recognition—a children's art exhibition
25 May 2019 to 9 June 2019
Sidney Nolan—from the collection
16 February 2019 to 2 June 2019
John Wolseley and Ms. M. Wirrpanda—Molluscs / Maypal and the warming of the seas
30 March 2019 to 2 June 2019
Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly series
2 March 2019 to 26 May 2019
Learn Space—the man behind the mask
2 March 2019 to 26 May 2019
Bauhaus centenary—Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack
23 February 2019 to 26 May 2019
Vital Signs—smart city, living city
14 March 2019 to 24 March 2019
Recent acquisitions 2017–18
28 November 2018 to 24 March 2019
Learn Space—Patterns & Puzzles
1 December 2018 to 24 February 2019
Akio Makigawa—Water drawing no. 1
8 December 2018 to 17 February 2019
There is no there—Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano
8 December 2018 to 10 February 2019
Distant lands
1 December 2018 to 10 February 2019
Cuttings—Elizabeth Gower
1 September 2018 to 25 November 2018
Views of Geelong and beyond—treasures from the Geelong Gallery collection
8 September 2018 to 25 November 2018
Pattern Play
2018 Archibald Prize
22 September 2018 to 18 November 2018
Who's who portrait prize
15 September 2018 to 18 November 2018
Learn Space—The Studio: Alice Oehr
22 September 2018 to 18 November 2018
My Geelong—our Gallery
28 July 2018 to 9 September 2018
Brook Andrew—rethinking Antipodes
14 April 2018 to 2 September 2018
Learn Space—The beehive
28 July 2018 to 2 September 2018
2018 Geelong contemporary art prize
9 June 2018 to 19 August 2018
Beginnings—Indigenous art from the collection
16 May 2018 to 22 July 2018
We see recognition—a children's art exhibition
19 May 2018 to 8 July 2018
Reimagine—the world according to children's books
24 March 2018 to 27 May 2018
Jörg Schmeisser—looking back: prints from the collection of Laurence O'Keefe and Christopher James
17 March 2018 to 27 May 2018
An exchange of treasures—Roberts and McCubbin from the Art Gallery of Ballarat
26 February 2018 to 27 May 2018
Learn Space—View of Geelong
16 December 2017 to 13 May 2018
Offsite: Mindscapes—the Geelong Gallery collection at the Australian Club
17 February 2018 to 11 May 2018
Outrage, obscenity and madness—Elizabeth Gertsakis
17 February 2018 to 6 May 2018
Antipodean views
16 December 2018 to 8 April 2018
Kylie on Stage
9 December 2017 to 4 March 2018
Recent acquisitions 2016–17
13 December 2017 to 25 February 2018
Views of Geelong and beyond—treasures from the Geelong Gallery collection
21 October 2017 to 10 December 2017
Who's who portrait prize
21 October 2017 to 10 December 2017
2017 Archibald Prize
28 October 2017 to 10 December 2017
Learn Space—The Studio: Alice Oehr
28 October 2017 to 10 December 2017
Fred Williams in the You Yangs
19 August 2017 to 5 November 2017
Learn Space—Our landscape: Lewis Brownlie
18 August 2017 to 15 October 2017
Born into space—sculpture from the collection
18 August 2017 to 15 October 2017
The You Yangs—Mark Dober
14 August 2017 to 15 October 2017
2017 Geelong acquisitive print awards
14 August 2017 to 8 October 2017
A human form
10 December 2016 to 17 September 2017
Still life painting—Adam Pyett
20 May 2017 to 16 July 2017
Let's talk recognition—a children's art exhibition
20 May 2017 to 9 July 2017
Luminous relic
8 April 2017 to 9 July 2017
Prized
18 March 2017 to 9 May 2017
Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists
25 February 2017 to 7 May 2017
Atmospherics—the Geelong Gallery collection
18 June 2016 to 13 March 2017
My Geelong—our Gallery
12 November 2016 to 2 April 2017
A print legacy—in memory of Dr Colin Holden
15 October 2016 to 13 March 2017
Tricking the eye—contemporary trompe l'oeil
26 November 2016 to 12 February 2017
A question of scale—maquettes and small sculpture from the permanent collection
17 October 2015 to 4 December 2016
2016 Geelong contemporary art prize
10 September 2016 to 13 November 2016
Where we find ourselves—Jo Scicluna
20 August 2016 to 6 November 2016
Who's who portrait prize
17 September 2016 to 9 October 2016
People Like Us
18 June 2016 to 21 August 2016
Selected watercolour and gouache paintings from the collection
16 July 2016 to 11 September 2016
Black to blackest
25 June 2016 to 14 August 2016
Land of the Golden Fleece—Arthur Streeton in the Western District
27 February 2016 to 13 June 2016
Let's talk recognition—a children's art exhibition
21 May 2016 to 10 July 2016
Geelong Botanical Gardens revealed
30 April 2016 to 19 June 2016
Grand designs—architectural subjects in photography
17 October 2015 to 15 May 2016
JamFactory Icon—Giles Bettison: pattern and perception
20 February 2016 to 29 May 2016
A certain light—recent acquisitions
12 December 2015 to 25 April 2016
Ex libris—the book in contemporary art
22 February 2014 to 25 May 2014
A curious nature
24 November 2012 to 10 February 2013
In search of the picturesque—the architectural ruin in art
21 April 2012 to 24 June 2012
James Whitley Sayer 1847–1914
8 December 2012 to 28 January 2013
The silent wilderness—19th century Australian landscapes
18 September 2010 to 21 November 2010
The Great War—a graphic legacy
14 June 2014 to 24 August 2014
Print traditions—sources of Australian printmaking
14 June 2008 to 10 August 2008
True crime—murder and misdemeanour in Australian art
1 November 2008 to 1 February 2009
Eugène von Guérard—View of Geelong
Rodick Carmichael—the Australian years
6 August 2005 to 25 September 2005
Ernest Decimus Stocks 1840–1921
6 August 2005 to 25 September 2005
Painted porcelain—decorated British ceramics 1750–1850
13 June 2005 to 24 July 2005
More than a memory—the art of Elizabeth Parsons
10 April 2004 to 13 June 2004
Augustine Dall'Ava—sculpture and drawings 1983–2003
16 April 2003 to 1 June 2003
Andrew Seward—a botanical album: drawings, prints and photographs 1999–2004
6 August 2004 to 26 September 2004
Giant—ancient & historic trees
29 November 2003 to 15 February 2004
Travels with Charles Travers Mackin
16 November 2002 to 19 January 2003
All That Glitters—Australian colonial gold and silver from the Vizard Foundation
12 December 2001 to 3 March 2002
William Buckley: Rediscovered
12 May 2001 to 8 July 2001
Geelong Gothic
25 July 1998 to 23 August 1998
Victoria: Buildings and Builders—Geelong & District
18 October 1997 to 30 November 1997
People, Prints and Patronage: the developments of the Geelong Art Gallery's print collection 1900–19
11 May 1996 to 9 June 1996
Geelong's Colonial Silversmiths
26 February 1988 to 24 April 1988
Cartoons and caricature in contemporary art
30 January 1998 to 8 March 1998
Queens & Sirens—Archaeology in 19th century art and design
26 September 1998 to 1 November 1998
Making Their Mark—Colonial Artists of the Western District
14 December 1996 to 2 February 1997
Swansea and Nantgarw—Welsh porcelain in Australia
12 March 1993 to 2 April 1993
Painters of the past
11 October 1991 to 24 November 1991
Alexander Webb 1813–1892
8 December 1989 to 28 January 1990
Drawing on Nature—images and specimens of natural history
6 March 1992 to 12 April 1992
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