Wondering what’s on the art menu in May? The good news is that we’ve done the heavy lifting for you and put together a non-exhaustive list of exhibitions that take over our favorite galleries. So what’s on the art menu in May? There’s the Sydney Biennale, the Brisbane Street Art Festival, Joi Murugavell’s exhibition at Chippendale’s Peach Black Gallery and From impulse to action at the Bundanon Art Museum. As for the rest? You’re just going to have to keep reading to find out. Here’s what’s happening in art across Australia in May 2022.
New South Wales
Heights of China
Murnawar Doonoochnggul
Niah McLeod
Opens May 6, 2022
Station Gallery
Residues
Isadora Vaughan
May 7 – June 11, 2022
Granville Center Art Gallery
Disturbed Destiny
Organized by Nur Shkembi with artists: Abdul Abdullah, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Hoda Afshar, Safdar Ahmed, Khadim Ali, Phillip George, Khaled Sabsabi, Omar J Sakr, Shireen Taweel and Hossein and Nassiem Valamanesh.
Until May 10, 2022.
Bundanon Art Museum
From impulse to action
Arthur Boyd, Dean Cross, Rochelle Haley, Tina Havelock Stevens, Kate Jones, Jo Lloyd, Emily Parsons-Lord, Izabela Pluta, Uncle Steven Russell & Aunty Phyllis Stewart, Skye Saxon, Vivian Cooper Smith, Shan Turner-Carroll and Kaitlen Wellington.
Until June 12, 2022.
Biennale of Sydney
river
Until June 13, 2022
Contemporary Jerico
Anna Pogosova
May 19 – June 11, 2022
UNSW Galleries
Foldable planes
Until July 17, 2022
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Drought
Sidney Nolan
Until June 5, 2022.
Last night
Robert Hirschman
Until June 5, 2022.
N. Smith Gallery
intertwined
Dylan Mooney
Until May 7, 2022.
Turalayinthi Yarta
james tyler
Until May 7, 2022.
National School of Fine Arts
NAS NEO
Every Thursday evening until July
Ngununggula
the earth abounds
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Abdul-Abdullah
May 28 – July 24, 2022
Black Peach Gallery
Joi Murugavell
Until May 2, 2022.
Olsen Gallery
Naive and sentimental paintings
John Young
Until May 7, 2022
Penthouse Verona
silent language
Arran Russell
May 3 – May 7, 2022
Michael Reid
yawkyawk
Owen Yalandja
Until May 15, 2022.
Roslyn Oxley9
the women who fell to the ground
Del Kathryn Barton
May 6 – May 28, 2022
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Our way of eating
Until June 14, 2022.
Cement fondue
Virtue & Virtuosity
Until May 22, 2022.
Lauren Berkowitz, Troy Emery, Maya Kilic, Chantal Fraser, Heather Phillipson, Sally Gabori, Tully Arnot, Camille Henrot and Tristan Jalleh.
CIV
Koori Heritage Trust
Off the Wall – Celebrating the Making of First Peoples Marks
Until May 15, 2022.
Station Gallery
Particle days
Jon Cattapan
Until May 14, 2022
Resort work
Marianne Tubbs
May 21 – June 25, 2022
nests
Sam Martin
May 21 – June 25, 2022
TDF collection
weather in the north
Gemma Leslie
April 30 – May 5, 2022
National Gallery of Victoria
Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection
Until August 21, 2022.
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Sidney Nolan: In Search of Heaven
Until May 29, 2022.
Under Lamp Light
Albert Tucker and Patrick Pound
Until June 13, 2022.
Sometimes I miss the applause
Dean Cross
Until May 29, 2022.
Shepparton Art Museum
Art in Conflict: A Traveling Exhibition on the Australian War Memorial
The land I see is nowhere else
Nosra Latif Qureshi
Until July 31, 2022
Bendigo Art Gallery
Until July 17, 2022.
Washington
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Tracks we share: the contemporary art of the Pilbara
Until August 29, 2022.
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
National Hatched Graduate Fair
May 14 – July 17, 2022
Fremantle Arts Center
Exhibition Revealed in 2022: New and Emerging Indigenous Artists from Western Australia
May 7 – July 24, 2022
LAW
Canberra Museum and Gallery
Connection Point: Established Contemporary Fiber Textile Artists from ACT and NSW
March 5 – June 8, 2022
National Portrait Gallery
Shakespeare at Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London
Until July 17, 2022.
National Gallery of Australia
Smart Jeffrey
Until May 15, 2022.
4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony
Until July 31, 2022.
National Film and Sound Archive
Australians and Hollywood: A story of craftsmanship, talent and ambition
Until July 17, 2022.
QLD
Brisbane Street Art Festival
May 7 – May 22, 2022
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
Fine lines
Until May 2022.
Gallery Aster + Asha
sweet thoughts
Nathan Beard (WA), Jack MacRae (QLD), Kevin Diallo (NSW), Carla Adams (WA), Inbal Nissim (VIC) and Maddison Kitching (VIC).
May 14 – May 15, 2022
Redland Art Gallery
Sequence
Kyra Mancktelow
Until May 8, 2022.
Brisbane Museum
Making Place: 100 views of Brisbane
Judy Watson, Richard Randall, Noel McKenna, William Bustard, Vida Lahey, Jane Grealy, Danie Mellor, Kenneth Jack, Sam Fulbrook, Charles Lancaster, Robert Brownhall, Margaret Olley, Stephen Nothling, Margaret Cilento, Lloyd Rees, Paul Davies, Mia Boe and more.
artisan
With Ojos y Dientes
Paula Quintela
Until June 4, 2022.
HER
jam factory
The Ripple Effect: A 25-Year Investigation
Blanche Tilden
Until May 1, 2022.
Bioregional organizations
Kyoko Hashimoto
Until May 1, 2022.
ACE open
Metaverse
Organized by Patrice Sharkey
Until May 14, 2022
Art Gallery of South Australia
Embodied absence
Chiharu Shiota
In progress
Pure Form: Japanese sculptural ceramics
May 21 – November 6, 2022
Flinders University Art Museum
The imagination of data: fears and fantasies
Until July 8, 2022.
NT
Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery
Walk Through a Songline
Until June 26, 2022.
Charles Darwin University Gallery
Long water: fiber stories
Until July 9, 2022.
Araluen Arts Center
Desert Mob Retrospective
Until June 1, 2022.
TAS
art crowd
Murdie Nampijinpa Morris
Until May 20, 2022.
Museum and Art Gallery of Tasmania
Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewelery
Until May 15, 2022.
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Sublime Tao
Tony Smith
Until November 6, 2022.
Museum of old and new art
Jean-Luc Moulène and his teams
Until May 9, 2022.
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Pictures:
One: Carla Adams ‘Offerings to King Moon (A Death Lily, a Pomegranate, a Silver Coin and a Beautiful Shell)’ 2022
watercolor on paper 30 x 21 cm
Two: Anna Pogossova “Red Mountain”, 2022
Three: Sophie La Maitre ‘And as the storm approached’ 2022 acrylic on paper 15 x 21 cm