Heaps Decent is an Australian organisation empowering young people through skills building, cultural access and creativity.
Working with underrepresented and marginalised youth, our participatory program of music and visual media activities provides a pathway to discovery, personal growth and agency through self-expression.
Daniel Boyd
September 15, 2017
Daniel Boyd was recently included in Mondialité , curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza at the Boghossian Foundation, Villa Emain, Brussels. Boyd is currently included in the National Indigenous Art Triennial 2017: Defying Empire at the National Gallery of Australia and will present his major solo exhibition Daniel Boyd: Bitter Sweet at Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland in July, 2017. Boyd’s work has also been exhibited in the 20th Biennale of Sydney :The future is already here- its just not evenly distributed curated by Stephanie Rosenthal (2016); All the World’s Futures curated by Okwui Enwezor at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Regarding Picasso: Contemporary Artists Responses to His Art at the Musée Picasso, Barcelona (2014); the Moscow International Biennale for Young Arts: A Time for Dreams, Moscow (2014); the Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Whorled Explorations, Kochi, India (2014) and the 2014 TarraWarra Biennale: Whisper in My Mask, TarraWarra.
Boyd has held solo exhibitions at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2016), Artspace, Sydney (2013) and at the Natural History Museum in London (2012). In 2016, Boyd was awarded an International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency, New York. Boyd was also recipient of the Bulgari Art Award in 2014, as well as two major commissions for Macquarie Bank and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Boyd’s work has been included in notable group exhibitions as Countercurrents, (2017) Adelaide Festival, SAMSTAG Museum of Art, Adelaide (2017); The Shadow Never Lies, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016); Future Primitive, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2013); The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 7), Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane (2012) and We Call Them Pirates Out Here, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2010). Boyd’s paintings are held in major public collections in Australia including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland.
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