Education
2023 Certificate IV in Arts and Cultural Administration
1992 Master of Arts, University of New South Wales, COFA
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, COFA
Selected Exhibitions
2026 Edited group show across 4 Galleries, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
2026 Inaugural Exhibition for Abstract and Minimal Art 2026, Shikora Arts, Cortland, NY (virtual)
2025 Colour Orbs, Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne
2025 8th Non-Objective Art Biennial – BEYOND... AU-DELÀ... ÖTE, curated by Selin Yağmur Sönmez and Erdem Küçükköroğlu, AYN Earth Studio, Istanbul
2025 4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Arts (ABORA 4), curated by Beata Geyer, Articulate project space, Sydney
2024 Opening, Zoe Wang Curates Melbourne Art Space, Melbourne CBD
2023 Summer Show, Studio Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2021 Covimetry, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2020 Image_Object, curated by Paul Snell, Poimema Gallery, Tasmania
2020 Opening, curated by Kate Alstergren, Studio Gallery, Sydney
2020 Covimetry, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland (curated by Mark Starel)
2019 Spring Show, Studio Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Colortalk, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Formal, curated by Paul Snell, Poimema Gallery, Tasmania
2019 Penumbra, group show, Olsen Gruin, New York
2018 Antumbra – A Summer Group Show, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Wave, curated, BSA Project Space, Northern Rivers
2018 2 x 2, group show, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Slurp – A Gastronomy of Color, solo show, Five Walls, Melbourne
2017 0ppler, curated by Mel Prest, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn
2017 Mixed Tape, Palmer Art Projects, Sydney
2017 Chromatopia, curated by Louis Blyton, Melbourne
2017 100 years after De Stijl, Openlucht Museum De Lakenhal
2017 Visual Discrepancy, curated for Crawford Gallery, Sydney (2 person)
2017 Trans, curated by Kyle Jenkins, Raygun Projects, Toowoomba
2017 Samenhang, with Jasper van der Graaf and the collection of Camiel Andriessen, Het Kunstgemaal, Netherlands
2017 Dirty Filthy Painting, curated by Michael Cusak, BSA Project Space, Northern Rivers
2017 Line and Space curated by Suzie Idiens, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
2017 Colour and Form, Olsen Gallery, Sydney Contemporary 17, Sydney
2017 The Shape of Things curated for Artpiece, Mullumbimbi
2016 Drawing Conversations, National Art School, East Sydney
2016 Connect & Collect, SJICA, San Jose, CA
2016 Lavender Strike, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2016 The White Collection, Conny Dietzschold Gallery
2016 Hydrography lll, LaKaserna Artspace, Bad Nieuweschans, Netherlands (curated by Henriëtte van't Hoog and Iemke van Dijk)
2016 Engaged Drawing, curated Beatrice Bea, Yifat Gat, Artothèque, Miramas
2015 Nolan Projects, organized by John Adair, Nolan Foundation, Wales, UK
2015 Volume, curated by Mary Judge and Enrico Gomez, Schema Projects, New York
2015 Formal Watercolor, Museum Waterland, Purmerend, Netherlands, curated by Piet Knook
2015 Territory of Abstraction, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, curated by Christine Pfister
2015 Paperazzi 4, Janet Kurnowski Gallery, New York
2014 un·bound·ed, bi-coastal and international show focusing on conceptual & reductive practices, Root Division, San Francisco
2014 Doppler Shift, curated by Mary Birmingham, New Art Center, New Jersey
2014 Abstract Realities, Jan Van de Ploeg, Brent Hallard, Richard Van der Aa University of Southern Queensland
2014 Dressed in Pink, Raygun Art Projects, Southern Queensland
2014 Hard-Edge Abstraction, curated by Kasarian Dane and Catherine Tedford, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York
2014 Paperazzi 3, Janet Kurnowski Gallery, New York
2013 Sydney Non Objective Turns 100, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
2013 The Big small Graphic Art Show, Graphic Studio Daglicht Eindhoven
2013 LIGHT SPACE PROJECTS 2013: Rituals of Exhibition II by The Talent Agency, H Gallery Chiang Mai, Thailand
2013 DOPPLER, curated by Mel Prest, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Hydrography - Abstract in Watercolor, De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands, curated by Iemke van Dijk and Henriëtte van 't Hoog.
2013 Rituals of Exhibition curated by Gilbert Hsiao and Giles Ryder Don't Be Selfish, Phayao Thailand
2013 Paperazzi 2 Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York
2013 Right and Other Angles curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones at Soft-spot
2013 Never Underestimate a Monochrome organized by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz through Abstraction at Work Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art
2012 Index #3, publication and exhibition organized by Justin Andrews, Melbourne
2012 Dripping Color Amazement, curated by Brent Hallard, Galerie oqbo, Berlin
2012 Never Underestimate a Monochrome organized by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz through Abstraction at Work, sponsored by the University of Iowa Museum of Art
2012 Doppler Stop, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin and Zagreb?Supermarket 2012 IS Projects/SNO/PARISconcret, Stockholm?
2012 Paparazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 VOID289, UNVOID curated by Naoshi Okura KOBE Biennale, Japan
2011 A Romance of Many Dimensions ?Brooklyn Artist's Gym, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Saturation Point International Survey of Reductive Art, London
2011 Gifting Abstraction Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, curated by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz, NY
2011 Sugarmountain 2 Galerie van den Berge, curated by Clary Stolte, Goes, NL
2011 Chase the Tear NIAD curated by Timothy Buckwalter, Richmond, CA
2011 Recent Movements in Non-objective Art Reuten Galerie, NL
2011 1st International Festival of Non-Objective Art Organized by Roland Orpük Pont de Claix, Grenoble, France
2011 Plane Speaking McKenzie Fine Art, curated by Valerie McKenzie, NY
2010 Informal Relations Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA), curated by Scott Grow
2010 Touch + Paris ParisCONCRET
2010 Hydrography: Abstracts in Watercolor RC de Ruimte in IJmuiden, curated by Iemke van Dijk and Henriëtte van ’t Hoog
2010 25 x 25 traveling Sydney Melbourne, New IS-Projects box, curated by Guido Winkler
2010 Fuzzy Logic Thompson Gallery The Cambridge School of Weston, MA
2009 Editionen aus Deutschland den Niederlanden und der Schweiz - Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn GKG Bonn
2009 Trans: Form | Color Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
2009 Personal Space three person show with Richard Roth and Henriette van 't Hoog
2009 parisCONCRET, Paris
2009 Kosmos Light and Space curated by Guido Winkler Is projects, Leiden, curated
2009 I-S Box
2009 Trans:formal Pharmaka, Los Angeles
2009 Pour faire simple parisCONCRET, Paris
2008 T-show Polverara, Italy
2008 The Space Between San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2007 Trans Weltraum, Marienplatz Munich
2007 U-shape Minatomirai Yokohama
2007 Solid Space storefront, Setagaya, Tokyo
2007 New Wall Drawings Bus-Dori Projects, Tokyo
Museum Exhibitions
2017 Openlucht Museum De Lakenhal, 100 years after De Stijl, The Netherlands
2016 LaKaserna Artspace, Bad Nieuweschans, The Netherlands
2015 Museum Waterland, Purmerend, The Netherlands, Hydrography III
2014 Visual Art Center, New Jersey, Doppler Shift
2013 De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands Hydrography
2012/13 University of Iowa Museum of Art & Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Never Underestimate a Monochrome
2010 Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Informal Relations
2008 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, The Space Between
1990 S. H. Irvine National Trust, Fresh Art, curators: Felicity Fenner/Anne Loxley
1986 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sulman Prize, Juried exhibition
Curatorial Work
2018 Wave, Byron School of Art Gallery, Mullumbimby
2017 Visual Discrepancy, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
2014 Unbounded Root Division, San Francisco
2012 Dripping Color Amazement Galerie oqbo, Berlin
2011 A Romance of Many Dimensions, ?Brooklyn Artist's Gym, NY
2010 Touch + Paris, ParisCONCRET, Paris
2009 Trans: Form | Color Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
2009 Trans:formal Pharmaka, Los Angeles
2009 Touch, Bus-Dori Project Space, Tokyo
2008 Bus-Dori Suitcase, Bus-Dori Project Space, Tokyo
Review/publication
Catalogues
TRANS: Form | Color, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, 2009
Doppler Shift, Exhibition Catalogue, New Art Center, New Jersey, 2014
Retour aux Bases / Back to Basics, Pont de Claix, Grenoble, 2011
Index #3, publication, Melbourne, 2012
Articles & Reviews
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, reviews for Lavender Strike (2016) and Visual Discrepancy (2017)
The Link, Architectural Magazine, Berlin, 2017
Brooklyn Artist’s Gym Review, Eric Sutphin, An Exercise in Seeing, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle, review by Kenneth Baker, November 2009
Artweek, review of The Space Between, SJICA, June 2008
Eyeline, “Minimal Painting by Brent Hallard,” September 1988
Imperfect Geometries, Sydney Morning Herald, 1988
Sydney Morning Herald, “Powerplay,” October 1990
ArtLink, “Non-profits and Their Artists,” Spring 1994
Selected Publications
Joan Waltemath, Unbounded boxed set of prints, 2014
Doppler NY (2013) and Doppler Europe (2012)
Kunstbeeld, Nr. 9, Sugarmountain 2, 2011
ARTKRUSH micro review by Christopher Elam, 2004
Interview, Brent Hallard – Imperfect Geometries, by Adriane Boag, First Draft, 1988
