BIOGRAPHY
QUALIFICATIONS:
1993 Doctor of Creative Arts: University of Wollongong 1976 Advanced Dip.T. (Fine Art): Torrens C. A. E. 1974 Certificate Hot and Flat Glass: Georgian College, Canada 1974 Master of Science, Education: Alfred University, USA 1971 Certificate Printmaking: SA School of Art 1970 Certificate Ceramics: SA School of Art 1966 Awarded Post Graduate Year: SA School of Art 1965 Diploma of Art Teaching: SA School of Art
REPRESENTED:
National Gallery of Australia: Canberra National Art Glass Collection: Wagga Wagga, New South Wales National Gallery of Victoria: Melbourne, Victoria Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery: Launceston, Tasmania Queensland Art Gallery: Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery of South Australia: Adelaide, South Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia: Perth, Western Australia Banyule Collection: Victoria Latrobe Valley Arts Centre: Victoria The Art Trust: Australia Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology: Melbourne, Victoria University of South Australia: Adelaide, South Australia Flinders University: Adelaide, South Australia Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Collection: Niijima, Japan Notojima Glass Art Museum Notojima, Japan International Collection of Modern Glass Art: Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Auckland Institute and Museum: Auckland, New Zealand Wustum Museum of Fine Art: Racine, Wisconsin, USA Museo Municipal De Arte En Vidrio De Alcorcon: Madrid, Spain Marinha Grande National Museum: Marinha Grande, Portugal The World of Glass: St Helens, Merseyside, England Private Collections: Australia, Japan, New Zealand, USA, Singapore, UK Private Commissions: Australia, USA, Singapore, USA Public Commissions: Australia
AWARDS and HONOURS:
2007 Grant: Austrade Government of Australia 2006 Grant: Department of the Arts, Government of S A Austrade, Government of Australia 1995 Cultural Exchange Grant: Australia/Korea Foundation 1988 Cultural Exchange Fellowship Bank of Tokyo 1980 Grant: Department of the Arts, Government of South Australia 1975 Grant: Crafts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts 1974 Phi Kappa Phi
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: [Selected]
2009 INTO THE FOURTH DECADE: a retrospective, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW 2006 30 YEARS IN GLASS – The art of Gerry King ARTSingapore, Singapore 2002 Habatat Galleries: Detroit, Mi., USA The Glass Gallery: Bethesda, MD, USA 1999 Galerie L, Hamburg Germany Museo Municipal De Arte En Vidrio De Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain Gallery Nova Imagem, Lisbon, Portugal 1998 Glass Artists' Gallery, Sydney Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne, Fusions Gallery, Brisbane 1992 City Gallery of Wollongong, NSW Gallery L, Hamburg, Germany 1991 Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, 1990 Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Solander Gallery, Canberra 1988 Solander Gallery,Canberra 1982 Handmark Gallery, Hobart Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan Solander Gallery, Canberra 1981 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne 1980 Studio 20, Adelaide 1979 Studio 20, Adelaide | AUSTRALIAN CURATED:
2009 Furnace: Contemporary Australian Glass Deloraine, Tasmania 2007 The Hobart Prize, Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, Hobart 2001 Federation Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Deloraine, Tasmania Presiding Officers' Centenary Acquisitive Craft Prize: Parliament House, Canberra GlassState 2001: JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide The Evolution of Australian Glass: Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria Resource Finance Corporation Prize: Volvo Gallery, Sydney & touring 2000: 'Australia's Best': Sydney 2000 The Games of The XXVII Olympiad, IOC VIP Lounge 1992 International Directions: Art Gallery of W A, Perth 1988 4th National Studio Glass: Wagga Wagga City Gallery, NSW 1985 Australian Hot Glass: Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 3rd National Glass Biennial: Wagga Wagga City Gallery, NSW 1983 2nd National Glass Biennial: Wagga Wagga City Gallery, NSW 1981 1st National Glass Biennial: Wagga Wagga City Gallery, NSW 1980 Batman Invitational Exhibition: Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS: [Selected]
2010 Heysen Sculpture Biennial: The Cedars, Heysen Estate, SA Palmer Sculpture Biennial, Palmer, SA 2009 Annual Summer Show: Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania SOFA New York New York, USA 3 from New York Compendium Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Maestros-Australian Studio Glass & Ceramics SABBIA GALLERY, Sydney 2008 Hinterland,Country Arts SA Travelling South Australia Festival Exhibition, Aptos Cruz Galleries, Adelaide refigured/refined,Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, SA Palmer Sculpture Biennial, Palmer, SA Open Slather, Ausglass Members’ Exhibition, Canberra 2007 Mastery-In Contemporary Glass,The Arts House, Singapore Bombay Sapphire Exhibition, New Zealand, Singapore Salute, SABBIA GALLERY, Sydney Co][ect, V & A Museum, London. UK, Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, 2006 Australian Glass 2006, Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Canada The Bombay Sapphire Blue Room: Auckland, New Zealand Mastery: Gaffer Studio Glass Gallery, Hong Kong new masters : new glass: SABBIA GALLERY, Sydney Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York 2005 The 34rd Annual Invitational: Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI. USA
INTERNATIONAL CURATED:
GlasHart Fort Vuren, Holland 2003 Contemporary Glass by Australian Artists: Taiwan Craft Design Centre, Taipei, Taiwan A Thirty Year Perspective: Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space Washington, DC, USA 2002 Bombay Sapphire Prize: London and touring, UK Mitsukoshi International Glass Festival: Tainan, Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan 2001 The International Exhibition of Glass: Kanazawa, Japan Hsin Chu International Glass Art Festival: Hsin Chu, Taiwan 1999 Creative Australia: Osaka, Japan 1997 En Verden i Glass: Hadeland Glassverk. Norway 1996 The Glasmuseum – The First 10 Years: Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark 1995 Ausglass: Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark and touring 1994 World Glass Now: Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan The Art of the Object: South America, touring 1992 The International Exhibition of Glass: Kanazawa, Japan 1991 International Glass Art: Galerie Fur Angewandt Kunst, Munich, Germany 1990 The International Exhibition of Glass: Kanazawa, Japan 1988 The International Exhibition of Glass: Kanazawa, Japan 1984 Glass from Australia and New Zealand: Darmstadt, Germany 1981 Glass from Australia, Canada, USA and Japan: Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/Kyoto, Japan |