ADRIENNE DOIG - CURRICULUM VITAE

Born 1963

1996 Graduate Diploma Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
1986-89 Bachelor of Visual Arts, College of Fine Arts Sydney
1982-83 Certificate Art and Drama, Ryflkle Folkehogskule, Norway

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 OH MY GODDESS!, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2023 It’s All About Me!, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba
2023 It’s All About Me!, Tamworth Art Gallery
2022 It’s All About Me!Benalla Art Gallery
2021 It’s All About Me!, Cowra Regional Art Gallery
2020 What Do We Want?, installation AGNSW as part of Archie Plus Sydney
2020 It’s All About Me!Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2020 Picture Me, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2018 Extra, Martin Browne ContemporarySydney
2018 Adrienne Doig  from the Archive Research Library Art Gallery of NSWSydney
2015 Look Out, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2013 Splendid, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2012 AD in Arcadia Ego, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2010 Flora and Fauna, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
2005 Some People, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2004 The Two of Us, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2002 My Life as a Doll, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
2001 Domestic Drama, The Salon, Vienna, Austria
2000 Feelings, (with Peter Spilsbury) Spectrascope , The Performance Space, Sydney
          Undercover, Briefcase Sydney
1999 The Other Woman, The Performance Space, Sydney
1997 Cheap, Pendulum, Sydney
1996 Monster, Pendulum, Sydney
1994 Animal, Context Studios, New York
1990 I Should Be So Lucky, Museum Station, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2022 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award Finalist, Deakin University Melbourne
2022 New Stitches curated by Lyniece Keogh, Tamworth Regional Gallery
2021 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award Finalist, Deakin University Melbourne
2021 Australian Women’s Art Prize, Finalist, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney
2021 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta
2020 Australian Women’s Art Prize, Finalist Resilience Exhibition, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney
2019 Over Under Around and Through, Deakin Univeristy Art Gallery, Curated by James Lynch and Claire Muir
2019 Territory, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2019 Australian Women’s Art Prize, Finalist Resilience Exhibition, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney
2018 Australian Women’s Art Prize, Finalist Resilience Exhibition, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney
2016 Birds – Flight Paths in Australian Art, Curated Danny Lacy, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery
2016 Best in Show, Dogs in Australian Art, Orange Regional Gallery
2015 Labours of Love Australian Quilts, 1850 – 2015 curated by Louise Mitchell, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2014 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery
2013 Post. Remix. Connect., The University of Queensland Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize, The University of Queensland Art Musuem, Brisbane
2013 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta
2013 It is What It Is, curated by Tia McIntyre, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor
2013 Close to Home, curated by Rilka Oakley, Blue Mountains City Gallery, Katoomba
2013 Birds, curated by Naomi McCarthy, Penrith Regional Galley, Penrith
2012 Hello Dollies, curated by Shirley Dabourne, Penrith Regional Galley, Penrith
2011 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta Victoria
2011 Hands On Curated by Cash Brown, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sutherland Shire
2010 The Blake Prize, National Art School Sydney and Touring 2010
2008 Stitched, Curated by Susan Gibb, Penrith Regional Gallery
2007 Multiple Personality, Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham Mop Gallery, Sydney
2006 Truth and Likeness, Curated by Miichael Desmond, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Girl    2006 Band, Curated by Barbara Flynn, Deloitte, Sydney
2006 Figure8, Curated by Barbara Flynn for Deloitte, Sydney
2005 Micro Masters, Action Heros Curated by Alexander Taylor, Blindside Melbourne
2005 Material Girls and Boys, Curated by Barbara Flynn, Deloitte, Sydney
2004 14, (stations of the Cross) with The Song Company, Sydney Town Hall, Sydney
2003 Flags/Bandana (with Peter Spilsbury and Stefano Romano) Via Farini, Milano
2002 Briefcase 50, Boutwell Draper gallery, Sydney
2002 Sound Video, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
2001 Sunburn, Kampnagel (K3) Hamburg, Germany
2000 Muse, Academy Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2000 The Tie Show Briefcase Sydney
1999 Seven Easy Pieces, Kudos, Sydney
1998 Home, South, Sydney
1998 Wardrobe, Travelling Exhibition
1996 Untitled, The Performance Space, Sydney
1996 The Hit Series, Teststrip, Auckland
1995 Art Hotline, The Performance Space, Sydney
1995 Clever Girls, curated by J. Hardy & M. Wasson, COFA Gallery
1993 Stations of the Cross, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992 Cultural Products Office, World Trade Headquarters, Sydney
1992 10th Tamworth Fibre/Textile Biennial, Travelling Exhibition
1992 One Day Show, An Art Hotline Event, Bond Store, Sydney
1991 Triad, Curated by Tess Horwitz, Gallerie Constantinople, Canberra
1990 Endangered Spaces, Artspace, Sydney

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions Since 2008, Melinda Rackham and Elvis Richardson, 2023
Step Into My Shoes, (Fausto Santini Please), Steven Miller Issue 326 Sumer 2020-2021
It’s All About Me!, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery catalogue 2020
Adrienne Doig It’s All About Me!, Artist Profie 2020
Interview, The Art Guide, Tracey Clement, June 2020
Connected Online: New Art for New Times. Artlink Julianne Pierce, August 2020
Extra, The Art Guide, Tracey Clement, Dec 2018 – January 2019
Someone Like Me, Art Collector Issue 72, Louise Martin Chew, April – July 2015
Funny, crafty women make a serious point about our expectations of art, The Guardian,
Andrew Frost 01/10/13
Someone to watch over you, Portrait Magazine, Carrie Kibbler, 22/01/13
AD in Arcadia Ego, Catalogue Essay, Rilka Oakley 2013
Dogs in Australian Art, Steven Miller pub Wakefield Press 2012
Adrienne Doig, Art Guide, Tracey Clement, March/April 2012
Making Art Connections, Bates, Booth  O’Keefe, McGraw Hill 2010
All Stitched Up on Domesticity, 
Daily Telegraph, Vicky Roach, 12/6/10
Everyday Tasks and Fey Imaginings, Flora and Fauna CatalogueAnne Loxley 2010
Stitched Catalogue Susan Gibb November 2008
A glimpse of a shared Humanity,
 Marion Halligan, The Age 16/12/2006
New Ways to Paint the Soul, Margot Date, Sydney Morning Herald 21/12/2006
In Search of truth from Likeness, Jorian Gardner, Canberra Review November 2006
Is the truth of portraiture vested exclusively in likeness? Miichael Desmond, Portrait Vol 21 2006
Girl Band Catalogue, Barbara Flynn October 2006
Figure8, Catalogue, Barbara Flynn March 2006
Sunday Arts ABC Television Interview with Michael Veitch 2005
Gallery Pics, Spectrum, Lenny Anne Low, Sydney Morning Herald 21/2 2005
Reviews Alex McDonald State of the Arts 22/2 2005
MIcro Masters, Action Heros, Alexander Taylor July 2005
Material Girls and Boys, Catalogue essay Barbara Flynn March 2005
A Head for Structural form…Anne Loxley, Sydney Morning Herald 18/5 2004
A Real Doll, Christine Elsasser, The Dolls House Magazine UK April 2003
Doig Dressed to the Nines, Anne Loxley Sydney Morning Herald 20/11/2002
Air Studios, Catalogue, Austrian Federal Chancellery July 2001
Spectrascope, John Conomos Post West Summer 2001
Spectrascope, Keith Gallash Real Time August 2000
Metro, Sebastian Smee Sydney Morning Herald May 26 2000
Artlink, volume 19 # 3 1999
Architecture Body Parts & Language Erin Branigan Real Time June1999
Art Beat, Bruce James, Sydney Morning Herald – 28/7 1998
Art Beat, Bruce James, Sydney Morning Herald – 23/5 1997
Art Beat, Bruce James, Sydney Morning Herald – 5/7 1996

AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES

2020 Small Grants Quick Response Create, NSW
2014 American Academy in Rome, Rome
2007 Moya Dyring Studio, Cite International, Paris
2003 Studio Residency, Milan, Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council
2001 Austrian Federal Chancellory Studio Residency Vienna
1996 Project Grant, New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council
1992 Project Grant, Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council
1982 Scholarship, Minnefondet Foundation Norway

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of NSW National Art Archive 
Artbank,Sydney
Baker and MacKenzie, Sydney
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Deakin University Art Gallery
Deloitte, Sydney
Gallery of Modern Art
Harry Seidler and Associates, Sydney
HOTA Gold Coast City Art Gallery
National Museum of Australia Canberra
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
O’Hallorans Pty Ltd, Sydney
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest
Principal Advisory Services, Sydney
Private collections in Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Italy and Norway
Queensland Art Gallery
Tamworth Regional Gallery

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