Luke Roberts
Born Alpha, Queensland, Australia in 1952
EDUCATION
1974 Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2001 MFA, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Pope Alice Walking to the new Jerusalem, Melbourne Art Fair performance event, Melbourne
Kunstkamera – an overview, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2013
AMOROMA… Burning Love, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2012
Screening of artist’s film and book launch at GoMA, Brisbane
2011
AlphaStation/Alphaville, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2010/2011
AlphaStation/Alphaville, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
AlphaStation/Alphaville, photo-based and video documentation of ongoing projects in Central Western Queensland assisted by John Elliott
2008
Does this show make my arse look big?, conceptual fashion-based exhibition proposed for public artspace
2006
You Are Not Alone, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Alpha Paintings (Frontiers), Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2005
Paradise Regained: Headlands and Skylands, Redland Art Gallery
Luke Roberts Is Dead, conceptual event
2004
Arrivedeci Rivoli, Bellas Gallery Brisbane
2003
Missing Person: Alice Jitterbug Photographed, Bellas Gallery
2002
Mu Pavilion Installation, Sydney Biennale, MCA, Sydney
Aloha Eloha, Stranger Than Fiction, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Venice Paintings/Alpha Paintings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2001
1+1=8, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2000
Dressed up for Paradise (Beyond the Great Divide), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Forbidden Universe, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997
Snakes and Aliens, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Mu Consciousness raising exercises and Pope Alice sightings… Sala Diaz, San Antonio and Texas USA
1996
Clutch, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Dispersion, Randall Street Studio, Brisbane
1994/1995
WUNDERKAMMER/KUNSTKAMERA, Gallery 14 Project, Queensland Art Gallery
1994
Lot 204: Luke Roberts, a Closet, a Painting, a Duchesse and a pair of oversize hand carved wooden salad servers, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
My Heart is Full, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1993
All Souls of the Revolution (detail) + Objects of My Affection, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1992
18 Paintings in Search of a Glossary (Life), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
The Wonder of You, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1991
The Veto of Reason, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1990
Wunderkammer, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Objects of My Affection, Site, Brisbane
1989
Without Closure, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Artist’s Videos, National Arts Week, Brisbane
1988
Logic Assassinates, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1987
1+1=3, ongoing photographic work
1986
Plan 9, The Compartners, Amsterdam
Touring Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1985
Name Dropping, St. Olofspoort, Amsterdam
1984/1986
Touring Exhibition, Queensland Arts Council
1984/1985
Der Kunstler Als Narcis/Das Leben Ist Kunst Ist Kitsch Screening and Discussion of the Artist’s own films, Hannover Fachhochschule + Braunsweig Film Academie, Fed Rep. Germany and performance series , Alles Alice Ueber…
1984
Alpha Centenary, commemorative envelopes, Australia Post
1982
Luke Roberts, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1980
Pope Alice Presents Luke Roberts, Spring Hill Gallery, Brisbane
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Voice and Reason, GoMA, Brisbane
OpShop, Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
2012
Sculpture is Everything, GoMA, Brisbane
Where you live now, British School at Rome, Italy, June
Sexualising the City, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, October
Re-Story, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, Canada June – August
Archibald Prize exhibition, AGNSW, Sydney
2011
Femmes&Hommes, curated by Jessica Bridgfoot, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
Three Views: Gallery Photographers, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Pingyao International Photography Festival 2010, Imagining the Everyday, Pingyao, China
James Sourris Collection, Briabane Club, Brisbane
Multiplicities: Self portraits from the Collection, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
NEW 2010, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2009
National Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Wunderkammer detail, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
I Am the Message, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
Quirky: from the collection, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
I have not been myself lately…, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Artscape: The Art Life: Who Made Who?, ABC TV
2008
Oooga-booga, Pope Alice Xorporation with Proppa Now, George Petelin Gallery
2007
Morimura, Mishima, Roberts Art Gallery New South Wales
The Visitors, Penrith Regional Gallery
Multiple Personality, MOP, Sydney
2006
Queensland Live, Queensland Art Gallery touring exhibition
Colonial to Contemporary, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2005
Baroque and Neo-Baroque, The Hell of the Beautiful, Domus Artium (DA2) Salamanca, Spain
Beyond Real, Australian Centre for Photography
Points of View: Australian Photography 1985-95, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2004
Don’t call it Performance, El Museo del Barrio, New York
Sailor Style, National Maritime Museum, Sydney
the world may be post-dated: Luke Roberts and Jennifer Maklem, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
2003
Parthenogenesis, Ivan Doughety Gallery, Sydney
No lo Llames Performance, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and touring Spain
One Square Mile, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
the world may be post-dated: Luke Roberts and Jennifer Maklem, University of Waterloo Art Gallery and touring Canada
2002
13th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Stranger than Fiction, Australian Center of Photography, Sydney
1997
PS1 National and International Studio Artists exhibition, PS1, Institute of Contemporary Art, Clocktower, New York
1996
The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery
Gramercy Park International Hotel Art Fair, New York
ARCO’96 International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid
Asia-Pacific Hotel Art Fair, Brisbane
Recollection, Brisbane City Art Gallery and Museum, Brisbane
1995
Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Mary MacKillop: A tribute, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, New Parliament House, Canberra
1994
Remain in Light, AGLASSOFWATER project, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1993
Happiness is a Loaded Brush. Outside the Walls of Jericho (with Beattie Millis), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Dislocations: Body, Memory, Place (curator Marcus O’Donnell) Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria
1990
Eating People is Wrong, (with Scott Redford), AGLASSOF WATER, Brisbane
1989
All Souls Day (with Urszula Szulakowska), Artspace, Sydney
Slow Information (with Scott Redford), Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane
Running Man (with Scott Redford), AGLASSOFWATER, Brisbane
1988
The World Is Full of Objects (with Scott Redford), slide documentation
Redford/Boyd/Roberts (with Scott Redford and Adam Boyd), Arson Street, St. Kilda, Melbourne
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2012
Artist scholar, British School at Rome, Italy
2010
Artist in Residence, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton
2008
AlphaStation/Alphaville, Professional Development Grant, Arts Queensland
2006
Residency, Walter Reid Cultural Centre, Rockhampton
1999
Arts Queensland Professional Development Grant
1996
Fellowship Residency, P.S.1 Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, New York
1995
Winner, Mary MacKillop: A Tribute, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1989
New Image Research Award, Australian Film Commission
Premier’s Encouragement Award
REMM Art Award
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe Gallery, Alpha, Australia
James Hardie Collection, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Kamloops Art Gallery, BC, Canada
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, Australia
University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Australia
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
