ALISON ALDER
Alison Alder CV

ALISON ALDER
Honorary Associate Professor, ANU School of Art and Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Australian Prime Ministers 1–16. Australian Parliament House, ACT
2018/19 Newscrap. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
2017 One To Eight. Museum of Australian Democracy. Old Parliament House, ACT
2015 Death of a Broadsheet. Megalo Gallery, Australian Capital Territory.
2014 Carcass. Canberra Museum & Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
2013 Cutting Out Stories of Lanyon. Lanyon Homestead, Australian Capital Territory
2011/12 Dirty Water. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australian Capital Territory
2010 Cutting History: 2. Kala Art Institute Project Space, Berkeley, USA
2009 Cutting History. Helen Maxwell Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
2009 Carcass. Helen Maxwell Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
2007 Outback. Helen Maxwell Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
Out there & Outback. Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Victoria
2004 Drink. Helen Maxwell Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
2000 Road to Somewhere. Helen Maxwell Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
1998 Kujurra Mampaly Nyirrila. with Peggy Jones, Araluen Centre, Northern Territory
1997 Kujurra Mampaly Nyirrila. with Peggy Jones, aGOG and Telegraph Stn, Tennant Creek Northern Territory
1995 Florals. aGOG, Australian Capital Territory
1991 A Country Show. aGOG, Australian Capital Territory

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Tearing/Cutting. Impact 12, University of Western England, UK
2022 Hit Print! Queen Elizabeth Terrace, ACT
2022 Sustaining the Art of Practice. Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA
2022 Techniques of Persuasion–2nd Strike. Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
2022 Making: Acts of Resistance. Rusten House Art Centre, NSW
2021 Newsroom. Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2020 First Firsts. Cross Art Projects, Sydney, NSW
2020 Know My Name. National Gallery of Australia
2020 Let All the Birds Fly. Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2019 Activism. Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT
2019 The Way We Wear. Australian Embassy Gallery, Washington DC, USA
2019 Hi-Vis: Australian Posters 1979-2019. Interference Archive, Brooklyn, USA
2018 Unfinished Business. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2018 State of the Union. Ian Potter Museum of Art, VIC
2018 Propaganda. Mornington Peninsular Regional Art Gallery, VIC
2018 PrintLab presents: The News Network 2. Forrester Gallery, New Zealand
2018 The News Network. C3 Gallery, VIC
2018 20 Years. Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT
2018 The Point. Nishi Gallery, ACT
2017 Kinmen International Printmaking Exhibition. Kinmen, Taiwan.
2017 Widening the Gap. Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2017 Aura: Repetition, reproduction and the mark of the artist. Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, ANU SoA&D Gallery
2017 Yunlin Art Together. Yunlin County, Taiwan
2017 Transmit Politic. ANU SoA&D Foyer Space
2016 The Uniform Project. Craft ACT, Australian Capital Territory
2016 MCA: ARTBAR. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2016 Broadcast: The News Network. RMIT, Melbourne
2016 Innervisions. International Print Center, New York. USA
2016 Future Feminist Archive. Cross Art Projects, New South Wales
2016 Too Hot to Handle: International Graphics on Global Warming, Pollution, & Climate Justice. Centre for the Study of Political Graphics, Mercado La Paloma, Los Angeles, USA
2016 Talk Back. Tuggeranong Art Centre, Australian Capital Territory
2015/16 Australian Galleries. National Gallery of Australia
2015 The Point Is. 107 Projects, Redfern, New South Wales
2015 Fremantle Print Award. Fremantle Art Centre, Western Australia
2015 Late Edition. Impact9. Dunpin Gallery, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2015 Yilan International Invitational Printmaking Exhibition. Yilan Museum of Art, Taiwan
2015 Bimblebox 153 Birds. Impress Printmakers Studio & Gallery, Brisbane; State Library of Queensland, Queensland.
2015 See you at the barricades. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, New South Wales
2015 Some Posters/Local Positions. Cross Art Projects, Sydney, New South Wales.
2014/15 Interchange. Silpakorn University, Thailand; ANU School of Art Gallery, ACT; Mosman Art Gallery, New
South Wales; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, New South Wales
2014 Protest Songs: Artful Actions. Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2014 Jeannie Thib: Imprint–print portfolio. Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2014 Inspired. Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Australian Capital Territory
2013 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award. Western Australia
2013 The Triangle. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australian Capital Territory
2013 Megalomania: 33 years of posters. Megalo Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2013 Bad Girls. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australian Capital Territory
2013 Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention. Counihan Gallery, Melbourne; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Northern Territory
2012 Merchants of War. Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
2012 Conflicted. Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
2012-13 Roads Cross: Contemporary Directions in Australian Art. Flinders University Art Museum & Art Gallery, Adelaide; Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Darwin; Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2012 Ghost Citizens:Witnessing the Intervention. Cross Art Projects, NSW
2012 Volume One: MCA Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, NSW
2011 Challenge of Place: Central Australia. Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2011 A Guiding Hand:Prints & Directors 1967-2011. Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC
2010 Beneath the Skin. Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2010 New Acquisitions. Canberra Museum & Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
2010 Artroom5. Adelaide, South Australia
2010 Alice Prize. Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2009 Making it New: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art. Museum of Contemporary Art, New South Wales
2009 Paper Cuts. Araluen Centre, Northern Territory
2009 In Residence. Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
2008 Signs of Change. Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY; Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA.
2008 Artroom5, Adelaide, South Australia
2008 New Social Commentary 08. Warrnambool Art Gallery. Victoria
2008 Alice Prize. Araluen Centre, Northern Territory
2007 Myself by Myself. Helen Maxwell Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
Nuclear Matters. Powerhouse Museum, New South Wales
2006 Alice Prize. Araluen Centre, Northern Territory
2004 Megalo 25 X 25. Touring through regional galleries
2003 Without Classification. John Curtin Gallery, John Curtin Uni, Western Australia
2000 Triptych. Helen Maxwell Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
1996 Great Lengths. Araluen Centre, Northern Territory
1995 Out of Line. State Library New South Wales
1993 Australian Poster Art. National Gallery of Australia, Australian Capital Territory
1992 The Lie of the Land. Powerhouse Museum, New South Wales
1990 Now We Are Ten. Redback Graphix Retrospective, Tin Sheds Gallery, NSW
1988 Right Here Right Now. Tin Sheds Gallery NSW and Touring
1987 Shocking Diversity. Print Council of Australia and touring
1986 Redback Retrospective. Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales
1985 Working Art. Art Gallery New South Wales
1982 Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition. School of Art Gallery, ACT
The All Australia Poster Show. George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, Australian National Gallery

COLLECTIONS

Interference Archive, USA
New York City Public Library Print Collection, USA
The Commonwealth Club, Australian Capital Territory
University of New South Wales
National Gallery of Australia
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Yilan Museum of Art, Taiwan
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Australian War Memorial, Australian Capital Territory
Australian National Library, Australian Capital Territory
Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
New South Wales State Library
Kerry Stokes Collection, Western Australia
Powerhouse Museum, New South Wales
Wollongong University, New South Wales
John Curtin University, Western Australia
ACT Legislative Assembly, Australian Capital Territory
ACT Library, Australian Capital Territory
Megalo Print Studio, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Centre for Political Graphics, Los Angeles, USA
Araluen Art Collection, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, University of Western Australia
Canberra Museum & Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, New South Wales
Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
Flinders University Art Museum & City Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
State Library of Queensland
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australian Capital Territory
Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
Chang Mai Print and Paper, Thailand

AWARDS/COMMISSIONS

2022 City Commission. ACT Government Creative Recovery & Resilience Program
2020/21 Associate. Australian Parliamentary Library
2020 ANU VC/Clare Burton Award for Justice and Equity
2019 Finalist. Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC
2018 Australian War Memorial: Propaganda commission
2016 Art Monthly Australasia. Commission – The Uniform Project.
2015/16 Fellow. Australian Prime Ministers Centre, Museum of Australian Democracy, Australian Capital Territory
2015 Future Feminist Archive. Contemporary Art and Feminism, University of Sydney
2015 The Known World, 8th Australian Print Symposium commission: Limited edition print. National Gallery of Australia.
2014 Open Studio. Guest Renter Residency, Toronto, Canada.
2013 Highly Commended. Fremantle Art Centre Print Award.
2013 Artist in Residence. Lanyon Homestead. ACT Heritage, artsACT & ACT Museums & Galleries
2012 Artist in Residence. Alice Springs Art Foundation, Alice Springs
2010 Alice Prize (winner). Alice Springs Art Foundation, Northern Territory.
2010 Centre for Contemporary Prints, Residency, Connecticut, USA
2009 artsACT Project Grant
2008 Artist in Residence, Megalo Print Studio, ACT
2007 Vice Chancellors Commendation for Masters Thesis Excellence, Monash University
2006 Monash University Postgraduate Academic Merit Scholarship
2004/05 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Research Grant
1996/97 Australia Council, International Year of Tolerance Fellowship
1997 ArtsNT Artists Grant
1987 Australia Council for the Arts, Community Arts Board Fellowship,
1984/85 Australia Council for the Arts, Trainee-Artist-in-the-Community