Australia

Terra Foundation-supported Events

Biennale of Sydney

$200,000

Sydney, Australia

2023

To support the 24th edition of the Biennale of Sydney, opening in spring 2024. The Biennale proposes an event of joy and celebration, invoking a spirit of abundance and generosity while honoring resilience and resistance. With representation across all continents, this Biennale works beyond borders that separate cultural practices of different genealogies. It is largely indebted to the many lineages across Australia, especially to movements and practices in which First Nations communities and migrants have played key roles. The Biennale is accompanied by several scholarly and artistic publications in online and print form, as well as a plethora of seminars and public programming.

National Portrait Gallery of Australia

$300,000

Parkes, Australia

To support Facing New Worlds, an exhibition illuminating the stylistic and thematic affinities woven through portraits created on opposite sides of the Pacific during the “Age of Empire” from 1760 to 1860. The exhibition travels to the State Library of Victoria (Australia) and is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture, University of Sydney

$556,300

Sydney, Australia

2019

To support a three-year visiting professorship and research program devoted to Native American art at the Power Institute Foundation. The program introduces Native American art to Australian students and initiates research on connections between the Indigenous cultures of Australia, Asia-Pacific, and North America.

University of Queensland Art Museum

$269,276

St. Lucia, Australia

2018

To support Robert Smithson: Time Crystals, the first exhibition in Australia to focus on sculptor, photographer, and pioneering land artist Robert Smithson. The exhibition travels to Monash University Museum of Art (Melbourne, Australia). An exhibition catalogue will be produced.

National Portrait Gallery

$7,000

Parkes, Australia

2017

To support research travel to Washington, D.C., New York City, New Haven, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco to prepare for the exhibition New World Faces: America and Australia 1780-1850.

Art Gallery of South Australia

$7,000

Adelaide, South Australia

2017

To support a research trip to the United States to visit Pittsburgh and New York City to prepare for the exhibition Andy Warhol and Photography.

University of Sydney

$24,500

Sydney, Australia

2017

To support “Transatlantic Gardens and Enlightenment Ideas in American Art,” a two-day international symposium co-organized by the University of Sydney and the University of Southampton. Ten speakers will investigate how ideas about, and representations of, landscapes developed and were transmitted across the Atlantic in the 18^th century. It will be hosted at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate.

National Gallery of Australia

$250,000

Canberra, Australia

2017

To support American Masters: 1940–1980, a survey of American post-war art and the profound impact that American artists had on the cultural and artistic lives of Australians. The exhibition includes major works by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and many others. This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.

Continental Shift: Nineteenth-Century American and Australian Landscape Painting

$393,191

Perth, Australia

2016

To support a partnership between the Terra Foundation, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth), the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne, and the University of Western Australia (Perth). The program consists of comparative exhibitions of nineteenth-century landscape paintings from Australia and the United States presented at the two art venues, which serve as the focus for related university courses, international symposia, and a publication.