Exhibition History
Art Prize Participation
Salon Des Refuses 1992— Finalist
Blake Prize 1996— Finalist
Sulman Prize in 2007— Finalist
Calleen Art Award 2010— Finalist
Gallipoli Art Prize 2011— Finalist
Bathurst Community portrait prize 2010— Winner.
International Public Collections
The National Gallery of South Africa – Cape Town
Constitutional Court Collection, Johannesburg South Africa
Ifa Lethu Foundation Collection, South Africa
University of South Africa – Tshwane/Pretoria
Australian Public Collections
Orange Regional Gallery – NSW. Australia
EXHIBITIONS [Individual]
2015 – memorate.com.au – Anzac Installation. Gallery 2 – Orange Regional Gallery
2012 – Sun Shining—Blood Everywhere: Survey exhibition of the art of Victor Gordon, Orange Regional Gallery
2008 – Victor Gordon at Blacksphere Fine Art, 217 Swan Street Richmond, Melbourne VIC
2005 – VANITAS Victor Gordon—Survey exhibition, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange NSW
2003 – Victor Gordon, The J.C Goodhart Gallery, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill NSW
1996 – Crawford Gallery, 220 Liverpool Street, East Sydney
1995 – Red Easel: Installations Nos. 5 & 6, 551 King Street, Newtown Sydney NSW
1994 – Red Easel: Installations Nos. 2, 3, & 4, 551 King Street, Newtown Sydney, NSW
1993 – Red Easel: Installations No.1 551 King Street, Newtown Sydney, NSW
1993 – CBD Gallery (formerly W.I.N.D.O.W) Sydney, NSW
1991 – Installation: ‘PRETEXT’ W.I.N.D.O.W Gallery, Sydney NSW
1990 – Robin Gibson Galleries, Sydney NSW
1990 – Installation: ‘Behold The Lands Where Satan Reigns’ Waterside Workers Federation Hall, Sydney NSW
1984 – ‘Homage a Guillaume Apollinaire’ (Cross Disciplinary Collaboration) Harrewyns Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
EXHIBITIONS [Selected Group Shows]
Forthcoming:
2016 – Best In Show – Orange Regional Gallery – NSW
2016 – Call + Response – Orange Regional Gallery – NSW
Past
2014 – Brave New World – 20 Years of in South African – National Gallery of South Africa – Cape Town
2014 – 20/Twenty – A Clearer Vision, Growing the Mandela Legacy. Hghlights from the Ifa lethu Foundation and Unisa Art Gallery Collections. Tshwane/Pretia
2014 – Humour in Art – Orange Regional Gallery – NSW
2013 – “Coming Home – Art repatriated by Ifa Lethu Foundation” – South African Season in France May/June 2013 curated by Curate.a.Space
ENSA Nantes supported by the eThekwini International Relations project and SA French Season – Nantes. France
2012 – Food Art Expo – Orange Regional Gallery – NSW
2012 – Ifa Lethu Foundation’s “Coming Home” exhibition. South African Arts Ministry cultural contribution to the 2012 London Olympics. Bargehouse Gallery, Oxo Tower Wharf complex. South Bank SE1 London UK
2012 – Year of the Dragon, BLOCK B Gallery TAFE Western Orange campus March Street, Orange NSW
2011 – Highlights from the Ifa Lethu Foundation’s Coming Home exhibition. Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London UK
2011 – Coming home, Menier Gallery, 51 Southwalk Street, London UK
2011 – Home and away—A return to the south, An exhibition of the Ifa Lethu and Art against Apartheid collections. Drill Hall Gallery—Opened by the Hon. Malcolm Fraser AC CH. – Australian National University, Kinsley Street, Acton Canberra ACT
2011 – Home and away—A return to the south, An exhibition of the Ifa Lethu and Art against Apartheid collections. Durban Art Gallery Durban, Kwa Zulu-Natal South Africa
2011 – Gallipoli Art Prize— Finalist Gallipoli Memorial Club, 12 Loftus Street, Sydney NSW
2010 – Home and away—A return to the south An exhibition of the Ifa Lethu and Art against Apartheid collections. The Old Townhouse (Die Ou Tuinhuis) Gallery Greenmarket Square, Cape Town South Africa
2010 – Bathurst Community Portrait Prize—Winner , Bathurst Regional Gallery, 70–78 Keppel Street, Bathurst NSW 2795
2010 – Art a l’ Orange Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Bondi Beach, Sydney NSW
2010 – Home and away—A return to the south, An exhibition of the Ifa Lethu and Art against Apartheid collections. Old Fort, Constitution Hill, 1 Kotze Street Johannesburg, South Africa
2010 – Calleen Art Award—Finalist, Cowra Art Gallery, 17 Darling Street, Cowra NSW
2010 – Vercingetorix & Boadicea, BLOCK B Gallery, TAFE Western Orange campus March Street, Orange NSW
2009 – BLOCK B Gallery, TAFE Western Orange campus March Street, Orange NSW
2008 – ART 2 ART @ BLOCK B Gallery, TAFE Western Orange campus March Street, Orange NSW
2007 – Sulman Prize—Finalist, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road Sydney NSW
2005 – Food Art Expo Orange Regional Gallery, Civic Square, Byng Street Orange NSW
2004 – From this place—Artistic reflections on the impact, of war on society, Cowra Art Gallery, 17 Darling Street Cowra NSW
2003 – Re-connections A satellite exhibition of the Drawing connections II, conference COFA, UNSW. The Muse Gallery, Ultimo Sydney NSW
2003 – Love your work, The Muse Gallery, Ultimo Sydney NSW
2002 – Outback Futures, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill NSW
2002 – Broken Hill Hospital, Foyer Painted panel for patchwork
2001 – “Where Are You 2” Geo Centre, Gypsum Street, Broken Hill NSW
1998 – Laying turf, Nelson Street Gallery, Annandale Sydney NSW
1998 – Insieme, Trapezium Gallery, Werrington Penrith NSW
1997 – Blake Prize Show—Finalist, Mitchell Library, Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW & National Tour
1995 – MBK 1, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Bondi Sydney NSW
1994 – “Eight”, T.A.P. Gallery, East Sydney NSW
1993 – Newtown Festival “Walk the Street” King Street, Newtown Sydney NSW
1992 – Send a Ship to Cuba, The Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Sydney NSW
1992 – Salon des Refuses—‘The Reject Show’—Finalist, Archibald Satellite exhibition S.H.Ervine Gallery, Sydney NSW
1991 – “Cultural Iconographies” Sydney Carnivale Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney NSW
1989 – Amnesty International, Figurative Art Painters Gallery, Sydney NSW
1988 – China Crisis’ Exhibition Pailou Plaza, Sydney NSW
1987 – “Works on Paper” Berrima District Art Society, Bowral NSW
1987 – “Art against Apartheid” Opened by the Hon. Gough Whitlam Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney NSW
1987 – “Prisoner of War” End Conscription Campaign Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1985 – “Posters against Apartheid” ERC (Economic Research Committee) Wits SRC, Johannesburg, South Africa
1980 – Graduation Exhibition, Wits Great Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa
1979 – Third Year Show, Gertrude Posel Gallery Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa
1979 – “New Signatures” South African Association of the Arts Pretoria, South Africa
Read more … about the Artist
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