Past Exhibitions

Carousel

Carousel is a series of one-off presentations offering intimate and focused encounters with some significant and some rarely seen artworks from the Murray Art Museum Albury Collection.

Year 12 Art Show

Enjoy an insight into the creativity, innovation and unique perspectives of young people from the Murray region who completed their HSC and VCE during 2020.

Olive R Odewahn: A Country Life

A charming collection of photographs by a pioneering female photographer that capture life in rural Australia in the early-mid twentieth century.

20:20

20:20 is the culmination of a year of endeavour by twenty contemporary Australian artists, commissioned to produce a full museum of new work.

Gindaymanha: Play, to have Fun

An exhibition of local students' work created in conjunction with the Home program.

Lorraine Connelly-Northey: On Country

An epically scaled foyer installation by internationally celebrated Waradgerie artist Lorraine Connelly-Northey.

Bethany Thornber: Thylaseen

Have you seen a Thylacine? Bethany Thornber's large scale installation on MAMA's Roller Door extends the artists investigation into the sacredness of natural places.

COLLECTION

COLLECTION celebrates the vital cultural resource during this period of instability and uncertainty, with a selection of works from the MAMA Collection.

Brian Fuata: Phrase Signatures - A Rehearsal

Brian Fuata unveils his new text based performance over the next three issues of Art Monthly, in a takeover of our usual advertising space.

Andrew Liversidge: Those So-Called Infinite Horizons

A new site-specific installation by Andrew Liversidge, repurposing MAMA's advertising billboards as a canvas for an artwork that questions our current economic system.

National Photography Prize 2020

A showcase of the finalists in this year's National Photography Prize, highlighting the most innovate photo-based practices from across Australia.

Glenda Mackay: Detritus

An exploration of grief, loss and memory through collage, sculpture & installation.

James Tylor: Economics of Water

Economics of Water maps the damage that has occurred to the Murray Darling river system in a series of photographs taken in Menindee and Tallangatta.

Year 12 Art Show

A showcase of the year's top graduating HSC and VCE students from the region.

Pets

A celebration of the colourful, weird, cute, sometimes troubling, but ultimately loving relationships between pets and the humans that care for them.

Bethany Thornber: parks and wreck

Wiradjuri artist Bethany Thornber explores ideas of boundaries and the setting apart of National Parks in her colourful, symbolic works.

Nginhagu: Belonging to this Place

Enjoy the creations of local primary school students that have been inspired by Wiradjuri language and culture.

Beth Peters: REST

Woven lines create the detailed drawings of Chiltern-based artist Beth Peters.

Certain realities

An exhibition of sculpture, painting and performance that recognises the role of artists as agents of social investigation.

Chris Ellis: Moments on the Murray

A new collection of oil paintings celebrating the tranquility of the Murray River.

Kevin Gilbert: A Message to be Heard

A collection of linoprints and poetry by Kevin Gilbert, a late 20th Century Wiradjuri artist.

Elizabeth Rankin: Pyjama Girl

Explore the intrigue and mystery of the Pyjama Girl case through the eyes of a young child attending the police exhibit at the Royal Easter Show

Zzzzz: Sleep, Somnambulism, Madness

Zzzzz presents work by Australian and international artists exploring the realm of sleep, subconscious, dreaming, delirium, and altered states in a world too busy to rest

Susie Losch: New Old Stock

A new collection of joyful, weird, and unexpected sculptures by Kiewa Valley artist Susie Losch.

Linda Lees: Curves and Crisp Edges

Linda Lees plays with form, scale and sharp finishes in her new collection of ceramic sculptures.

John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new

A comprehensive survey of the work of one of Australia's greatest living artists.

CATPC - the artists from the plantation. A portrait by Baloji, 2018.

A portrait in film of a Congolese artist cooperative that are buying back and transforming former plantations through the making and selling of art to the global art market.

Sarah Goffman: Bridge to Asia

Hundreds of small plastic sculptures create a fantasy world beneath a 13m suspended bamboo bridge

Andrew Tenison: Let Me Imagine You

Inspired by a photograph of a WWII soldier found in an op shop, Andrew Tenison imagines the life and experience of the serviceman through a series of staged scenes captured in hand printed silver gelatin photographs.

Plastic Palace: Raffaello Rosselli

An experimental architecture project exploring Australia’s hard plastic waste crisis.

Year 12 Art Show 2018

Celebrate the creative achievements of graduating Year 12 Art Students from the Murray Region.

Mark Eliott: Tales from the sky and land, day and night, sea and sand

Individual stories told through glass sculptures in each of the five Wonder Cupboards.

Margaret Sprouster: Up ahead

Serene paintings of landscapes and birds in flight from Albury based artist Margaret Sprouster.

Sidney Nolan: Ned Kelly Series

The iconic series that captured Australia's most infamous outlaw, a masterclass in Australian art history.

Sentient

Explore the history and culture of the Murray River with artist James Nguyen and curator Abigail Moncrieff.

Nghadi Ngurang: My Home

Nghadi Ngurang is an exhibition of work created by school students that participated in the Nghadi Ngurang arts & language education program.

Leon deMontignie: The Life and Death of an Unknown Artist

Scenes of suburbia, country towns, parks, loneliness, alcoholism, homelessness, and despair are depicted with realism, humour and compassion.

Immortality

After we are gone from the earth, how will we be remembered? Immortality examines the role artists play in forming these artefacts for the future.

Cornélia Selover: I Wish You Were There

Intricate patterns, repeating numbers, and blocks of colour map the universe of artist Cornélia Selover.

Mechelle Bounpraseuth: Westside Story

Peek inside the kitchen cupboards of suburban Australia with ceramic scenes by artist Mechelle Bounpraseuth.

Ash Laing: Flagging Opinion

Flagging Opinion examines the role of the Australian Flag in contemporary Australian life, and investigates the schisms of esteem, novelty and identity.

Michael Riley

Michael Riley's groundbreaking photographic work and visionary films have made a profound impact on Australian art.

National Photography Prize 2018

The MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize is Australia's oldest photography celebration. Each of the 12 finalists presents a series of contemporary works in the pursuit of a $30,000 first prize.

The Watched

The Watched considers the impact of surveillance on daily life.

Ngurrambaa

An exhibition of prints from artists that have worked with Cicada Press, an indigenous print workshop in Sydney.

Nat Ord: Rise!

Rise! captures women of power from the Murray region in their environment, by photographic artist Nat Ord.

Material Sound

Experience sound within a series of installations designed by six contemporary Australian artists.

2017 Archibald Prize

Australia's most prestigious portrait prize presents a who's who of Australian culture, from politicians to celebrities and from sporting heroes to artists.

Year 12 Art Show 2017

Celebrate the creative achievements of graduating Year 12 Art Students from Albury, Wodonga & Corowa.

Julia deVille: Theoria

Julia deVille draws upon symbols of death from past eras, in a series of five tiny installations in MAMA's peepboxes.

Land & Title

A survey of contemporary Australian art drawn from the MAMA Collection.

Children's Illustrated and Picture Books from Poland

This exhibition brings together the best historical and contemporary examples of illustrated children's books from Poland, curated by Kinga Duda and Michał Jachuła

Grant Stevens: Art by Accident

Grant Stevens presents digitised representations of natural scenes on MAMA's indoor and outdoor screens in Art by Accident.

Landmarks

This exhibition celebrates works of art that are inextricably linked with landscape from some of the world’s most significant and influential artists of the 21st century.

Catherine Pancake: Nature is Hungry

American filmmaker Catherine Pancake presents a video work exploring the ethical dilemma adult children face as land is passed down from one generation to the next.

Lorraine Connelly-Northey: On Country

A major new commission by internationally celebrated Waradgerie artist Lorraine Connelly-Northey.

20th Anniversary Windmill Trust Exhibition

Windmill Trust awards an annual scholarship to rural and regional artists. This exhibition follows the careers of past scholarship winners.

Nguram-gang: Home District

Nguram-gang: Home District is an exhibition of work created by school students that participated in the Nguram-gang arts & language education program at MAMA.

Albury-Wodonga Artists Society: White Light

White Light celebrates the play of light in artworks, by members of Albury Wodonga Artists Society.

Joanna Lamb: The Real Thing

Joanna Lamb examines domestic, suburban living through a collection of contemporary still life works.

Nick Dorey: The drowning of Hermaphroditus

Nick Dorey seeks balance and harmony in the material world.

Yao Jui-Chung + Lost Society Document + Sandy Hsiu-Chih Lo

Mirage: Disused Public Property in Taiwan

NAIDOC Week Posters 1972 - 2017

Every year since 1972, a poster has been produced to mark NAIDOC week. Using the posters as a visual history, we see the evolution of NAIDOC week and the change in focus throughout each era.

Catherine Stewart: Habitus

Vibrant contemporary landscape paintings from 2016 MAMA Art Prize winner Catherine Stewart.

Kate Mitchell: Art by Accident

Art by Accident features five artworks by multi-disciplinary artist Kate Mitchell.

Anne Zahalka: The Landscape Revisited

Working with iconic images from Australian art, Anne Zahalka explores the construction of our Australian identity.

Tyler Grace: The Chronic Diaries

A series of self-portraits by photographer Tyler Grace chronicling the experience of living with long term illness.

Being Tiwi

A celebration of the stories and culture of contemporary art from the Tiwi Islands

Primavera at 25: MCA Collection

A collection of works by artists who have previously exhibited in Primavera, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia's annual exhibition dedicated to showcasing the work of young Australian artists.

Rose Wilson: The Disappearing Farmer

Portrait artist Rose Wilson captures the faces of a disappearing generation of Australian farmers from the Victorian highlands.

Feeling of France: John Lamb

Photographer John Lamb captures the spirit of France in these lively streetscapes from Paris and Southern France.

Two Brains are Better Than One: Isabelle Toland and Jasper Knight

Playful installation of large-scale Stegosaurus sculptures grazing in and around MAMA and QEII Square.

Shop That Museum

An exhibition of by five commercial artists Christine Battocchio, Faith Colwell-Beaver, Lorraine Connelly Northey, Kerrie Docker and Margaret Wilmot.

Summer - Bondi to Barcelona: Rex Dupain

Photographer Rex Dupain chased the sun from Bondi, Australia to Brighton in the UK, Bay of Naples, Italy, Harlem and Coney Island in New York City, and Barcelona, Spain, capturing quintessential Summer moments on film.

Yours. 70 years of collecting

Come inside MAMA’s ever expanding art collection, gathered over 70 years, and curate your own exhibition.

FOUND: Mylyn Nguyen

Discover a secret world behind MAMA's hidden peep boxes, featuring found objects and busy beetles.

A Continued Conversation: Calista Lyon

Featuring vivid portraits of 157 Tallangatta Valley residents, this exhibition highlights the social and economic pressures shaping the future of rural towns.

A Language of the Vanishing: Claudia Terstappen

In these two photographic collections, Claudia Terstappen reveals much about life in her depiction of death.

David Taylor: Kati-Thanda 15 Below

Stunning, vivid aerial photographs of Lake Eyre taken by local photographer David Taylor and his son Rowand.

Silent Tears: Belinda Mason

This multidimensional photographic exhibition reveals the lived experience of women with disability who are subjected to violence and women who acquired disability as a result of violence.

MAMA Summer Pop

Come to MAMA for a POP of colour and fun during the summer holidays. This fun, colourful exhibition includes life-size cartoon characters, giant stuffed animals and teeny tiny scenes for the little ones.

Year 12 Art Show 2016

The annual Year 12 Art Show celebrates the achievements of graduating student artists in Albury.

True Colours: Daniel Mudie Cunningham

A decade after the Cronulla riots, 'True Colours' remakes Cyndi Lauper’s hit music video of the same name.

Between the Desert and the Moon: Central and Western Desert Artists

A collection of Aboriginal art showcasing the cultural and creative diversity in the Western Desert communities of Central Australia.

FACEY: Schools Portrait Exhibition

This summer MAMA is celebrating creative youth. FACEY features portraits painted by local primary school students under the guidance of Albury High School mentors.

Skill, Discipline, Training: Richard Lewer

Sports-mad artist Richard Lewer, who recently won the $100,000 Basil Sellers art prize, explores the camaraderie that comes with winning and losing in Skill, Discipline, Training.

Stephanie Jakovac, Inga Hanover & Bec Bromley Humphries

MAMA brings together three local artists exploring themes of communication, femininity and childhood in this multi-dimensional show.

Domestic Theatrics: Nina O'Brien

Moments never destined for the family album; Domestic Theatrics is a photographic series that explores the reality of siblings played out in the suburban backyard every day.

Here & Now: Jo Davenport

Jo Davenport's latest exhibition features gestural paintings that speak of her relationship with nature and experiences with her environment.

SPEED: The Fast and The Curious

Buckle up for SPEED – an original exhibition of contemporary art and a fun program of events inspired by our love affair with fast moving machines.

Unsettling Memories

A new exhibition drawn from the MAMA collection, these works stir up memories that lurk in the shadows, capturing the uncertainty, fear, innocence, and not-quite-knowing of childhood.

Drawn through Space: Ariadne's Thread - Nadia Odlum

A mind-bending installation that will thread its way around the MAMA Foyer and provide the backdrop for a collection of hands-on interactive activities utilising thread, string, line art.

Black | White: Sam Juparulla Wickman

Juparulla Wickman's latest works invite viewers into the creative world and experience of the Western Desert.

Yindyamarra: Respect, go slow, take responsibility

This animated film teaches the importance of Yindyamarra - Respect of country - in Wiradjuri language and culture.

Mumula Giilang: Grandfather Story - Bethany Thornber

Emerging artist Bethany Thornber captures the vivid storytelling of her Grandfather in this multidimensional exhibition.

Jo Bertini: Hortus Conclusus - the Enclosed Garden

Leading Australian contemporary artist Jo Bertini, has drawn inspiration from the Murray region for her stunning exhibition of large scale oil paintings depicting the local landscape.

MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize 2016 Exhibition

More than 100 works by 65 established and emerging photographers will be on show, and available for purchase throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Lament: Nicole Welch

This first video work of photographer Nicole Welch extends her signature style into time-lapse film.

Resolved: Journeys in Australian Design

An exhibition of 12 compelling works by designers from the highly acclaimed "Workshopped" exhibitions held in Sydney.

Brush with Border Artists

This latest exhibition by members of the Albury Wodonga Artists Society brings together small individual works depicting something personal to each artist. The exhibition showcases the diversity and talent in the region, inviting you to explore their collective and individual identities.

History of the National Photography Prize

Discover the treasures in the archives of Australia's oldest photographic prize.

Sidney Nolan & Australian Galleries: The Australian drought of the 1950's

A rare opportunity to see Sidney Nolan’s lost drought photographs, which will also be available for sale.

The One on One: Ella Sowinska

Why are we so fascinated with the private lives of others?Ella Sowinska casts a humorous light on popular and addictive genre of reality TV devoted to dating. The One on One focuses on the first date and the absurd act of filming it, in all its awkward, staged glory.

Soul Journey: Jim van Geet

Acclaimed Australian portrait artist Jim van Geet will bring a selection of stunning oil paintings to MAMA in April and if you like them, you can buy them.

Wanderlust: Dorin Folkerts-Di Novo from the James Brooks Collection

A beautiful collection of impressionist watercolour landscapes from avid traveller and artist Dorin Folkerts-Di Novo.

Aqua Luminous: Chris Ellis

Aqua luminous refers to the effect of light on water. In his latest collection of work, regional artist Chris Ellis delves deeper into his lifelong fascination with the Riverine Ecosystems, and the play of light on water throughout the seasons.

AgX: Grayson Cooke

AgX is an art-science project about material memory and forgetting; it features time-lapse macro-photography of photographic negatives being chemically destroyed. The project asks people to reflect on their own photographic collections, and the possibility of their disappearance.

Marilyn: Celebrating an American Icon

MAMA's first international blockbuster exhibition celebrating the enduring cultural phenomenon of Marilyn Monroe.

Dance me to the end of night: Mona Ryder

An installation melding the rich, visceral religious iconography with a raw, post-apocalyptic tribal aesthetic. Visitors are invited to enter into an enigmatic ballroom setting that is about to come alive.

Translating Wetlands: Nat Ward

The natural environment of the wetlands and Murray River are the inspiration for these large scale paintings by local artist Nat Ward.

Consilience: as the world turns

Time-lapse video work investigating how time and place affects both our sense of embodiment and our perception of ourselves.

Richard Bell: Imagining Victory

Richard Bell: Imagining Victory is a significant exhibition by leading Australian artist Richard Bell, centred on a trilogy of recent video projects.

Sour Crude

eX de Medici combines swirling, psychedelic colours and delicate brushstrokes – the legacy of the artist’s acclaimed tattooing practice – to expose modern-day forces such as corruption, consumerism and corporate greed.

Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier

Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier examines the major contribution to French art made by three key figures: Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879), Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901).

A Notion of Home - Catherine O'Donnell

In her grandest works to date, 2012 Albury Art Prize winner, Catherine O'Donnell brings together two major works that will adorn the MAMA Foyer this summer.

The cubic structural evolution project, 2004

A hands-on installation by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Become an architect by using Lego to create endlessly re-forming structures limited only by imagination.

Eastern Interiors

Eastern Interiors: explorations from Bathurst to Albury is the first MAMA partnership with external curators and commercial galleries.

CURRENT

Bringing together a mix of disciplines including sound art, video art and photography to focus on the Kiewa Hydro Scheme CURRENT draws out themes of environmental sustainability, environmental art, sonic and spatial practice, and soundscape ecology.

Contemporising the modern - Photography from the 20th and 21st Century Gift of The Russell Mills Foundation

A collection of 50 works gifted to MAMA by The Russell Mills Foundation, a collection that celebrates 20th Century Australian photography.

The Little People Project

Scattered throughout MAMA are four 'peepholes' strategically positioned in wall cavities about 50cm from the floor, inviting children to open the door and delight in the mini-exhibitions designed just for them.

MAMA Here MAMA Now

MAMA Here MAMA Now is a retrospective look at the MAMA journey.

Wiradjuri Ngurambanggu

Wiradjuri Ngurambanggu showcases a stunning body of work from across Wiradjuri Country that challenges the perception of Aboriginal art.

Sonic Splendour

Regional artist, Andrew Pearce, delivers a new exhibition of music videos filmed throughout the local region.

Deborah Kelly: No Human Being is Illegal (in all our glory) + Venus Variations

20 life-sized collaborative collage portraits by artist Deborah Kelly, commissioned for the 19th Biennale of Sydney.

MAMA Foyer Screen

Daniel Mudie Cunningham’s three channel video installation Hold Your Breath (2011) recalls, ten years after the event, the horrific image of office workers falling to their deaths from the World Trade Center.

Icons from the Collection

Icons from the Collection dusted off some of the amazing artworks usually kept in storage in the gallery collection for all to see.

Jacques Callot: Etchings from the Daniel Gift

Jacques Callot was one of the great artists of 17th century Europe and the one most responsible for turning the technique of etching into an art form. The etchings displayed in this exhibition were collected by a leading authority on Jacques Callot, Howard Daniel, who gifted the work to us in the 1990s.

Harvest: Richard Janson

Harvest was the first solo exhibition of Richard Jason, winner of the 2012 Susan Moorhead Memorial Award. Referencing 17th century Dutch still life painters, Janson used a manual camera and handheld light effects during long exposures to paint.

Attack: Japanese midget submarines in Sydney Harbour

In 2012, to mark the 70th anniversary of the event, Mosman Art Gallery commissioned artist Ken Done to interpret and respond to this remarkable story. The result was a compelling and culturally sensitive body of work that dealt with the themes of empire, self-sacrifice, death, destruction and honour.

Ancestral Powers and the Aesthetic: Arnhem Land painting and objects from the Donald Thomson Collection

Arnhem Land painting and objects from the Donald Thomson Collection; a Museum Victoria touring exhibition.

Susan Moorhead Memorial Award 2012

Featuring finalists in the biennial award for emerging visual artists living in the Albury Wodonga region.

Drawing on Drysdale: Russell Drysdale from the AlburyCity Collection

Celebrating the centenary of one of the great Australian artists of the 20th Century.

Albury Art Prize 2012

Featuring finalists in one of New South Wales’ oldest municipal art awards

Delightfully Deco Albury

Delightfully Deco Albury was a blockbuster exhibition which showcased Albury's embrace of Art Deco in the 1920s and 1930s.

Mining the Collection

Featuring works from AlburyCity's seven cultural collections.

The Wandering by Andrew Pearce

Solo exhibition by 2009 Susan Moorhead Memorial Award winner Andrew Pearce

Catherine O'Donnell: Venetian Visions

Large-scale charcoal drawings of Venetian city landscapes by Albury Art Prize winner Catherine O’Donnell

2010 Archibald Prize

Featuring works from the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Archibald Prize, one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious art awards.

Los Caprichos - Francisco de Goya

Presenting an early edition of Los Caprichos, a set of 80 etchings by the iconic Spanish artist first published in 1799.

2010 National Photography Prize

Featuring finalists in the National Photography Prize run by Albury Regional Art Gallery, which has become established as a centre for excellence and innovation in photography.

Zhongiian: Midway

A Wollongong City Gallery touring exhibition of works by 14 contemporary Chinese and Australian artists.

Bill Henson: early works from the MGA Collection

Presenting 29 exquisitely printed photographs from many of Henson’s major series from the 1970s through to the early 1990s.

Intimate Transactions

Dual-site interactive installation combining projections, sound and furniture.