Keith Looby (b.1940)
Biography
1940 Born Sydney
1955-1960 Studied at the National Art School, East Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
1964 Carpini Gallery, Rome, Italy
1965 Viotto Gallery, Turin, Italy
1967 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1968 Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1969 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1970 Nineth Adelaide Gallery; Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne; Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
1972 John Gild Gallery, Perth
1974 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle; Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1975 Macquarie Galleries, Canberra; History of Australia, ANU; Students Union, Canberra;
1976 Hughes Gallery, Brisbane; Abraxis Gallery, Canberra; Macleay Museum, Sydney;Von Bertouch, Newcastle
1977 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
1978 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane; Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
1979 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane; Australian Galleries, Melbourne; Bonython Gallery, Adelaide; John Curtin House, Canberra
1980 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane; David Reid's Gallery, Sydney; Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1981 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1983 Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney; Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane; Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
1985 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1986 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane; Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney; Praxis Art Gallery, Perth
1987 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1988 Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1989 Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1992 Canberra School of Art Gallery; Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1995 Australia Centre, Manila, Philippines
1996 Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1998 Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2000 Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Hardware Fine Arts Gallery, Sydney
2002 Solander Gallery, Canberra
Selected Group Exhibitions
1978 India Triennial, New Delhi
1982 - NSW House, London
1987 - MOCA, Brisbane
1987 - Queensland Art Gallery and Kyoto, Japan
1988 - ROSC Triennial, Dublin
1988, 90 Ray Hughes Gallery, Venice, Italy
1998, 90 Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2000-01 Federation, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2002 Favourites selected by Jeffrey Smart & Margaret Olley, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Selected Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Australian State Galleries and most regional Australian galleries
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Delal Academy, New Delhi
major private collectors
Selected Awards
1969, 1970 & 1972 Darcy Morris Prize for figurative religious painting
1971 & 1973 Georges Prize
1972 Travelodge Prize
1973 Blake Prize
1973-74 ANU Canberra Artist-in-Residence
1974 Sir John Sulman Prize
1975 Swan Hill Pioneer Art Prize
1975 Latrobe Valley Purchase Prize
1976 Mornington Peninsula Drawing Prize
1978 Dalby Purchase Prize
1981 Australia Council New York studio residency
1984 Archibald Prize
1992 Canberra Artist of the Year
Selected Bibliography
Jeffrey Smart, Present Day Art and Australia, Sydney Ure Smith, 1970
Terence McMullen, Keith Looby: The Artist as Idealist, Art and Australia, 1974
Kym Bonython/Elwyn Lynn, Modern Australian Painting 1970-75, Art and Australia, 1974
Rodney Cavalier, LoobyÕs Labour, Challenge, 1978
Owen Thompson, Child of the Push, Penthouse, 1980
Humphrey McQueen, Suburbs of the Sacred, Penguin, 1988
Nikki Barrowclough, Hanging Offences, Good Weekend, 1989
Keith Looby and Karl Marx, Australian Society, 1989
John McDonald, All Roads Still Lead to Rome, Sydney Morning Herald, August 1980
Peter and Susan Ward, In a Different Light: Australian Artists Working in Italy, QUP, 1991
Bernard Smith, Australian Painting 1788-1990, Third Edtion, Melbourne OUP, 1991
Christopher Allen, Art in Australia: From Colonization to Post Modernization, Thames & Hudson, 1997
John McDonald, Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001, December 2000
Max Gillies interview by Vanna Walsh, I Was There, Sunday Life Magazine, 2001
Terry Ingram, Unchic the new Chic Ð Looby takes top place in pecking order, The Australian Financial Review, 2003
Selected Publications
Keith Looby, Jeffrey Smart, Hemisphere, 1971
Keith Looby, John Hopkins, Hemisphere, 1974
Keith Looby, Ken Whisson, Art and Australia, 1975-76
Keith Looby, Jan Senbergs, Art and Australia, 1976
David Campbell & Keith Looby, The History of Australia, Sydney Macleay Museum, 1976
Keith Looby, To The Artmaster, 10 letters, 1981-98
Keith Looby, View From the Moon From the Edge of the Ruck, Australian Art Review, 2003
Keith Looby has also written for a number of Australian journals including The Canberra Times, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Courier-Mail, Hobart Mercury, The Bulletin, Quadrant, and Art Monthly