Robert Rooney (b. 1937)
Biography
1937 Born 24 September, Melbourne, Australia
1954-57 Swinburne Technical College, Melbourne, Australia
1972-73 Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
1980-82 Art critic, The Age, Melbourne, Australia
1982 Melbourne art critic, The Australian
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1999 'A Paris Pair: New Paintings', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1995 'That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1993 'In Storyland and Other Infant Abstractions', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1991 'Collage Collectibles', Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia
1990 'From the Homefront: Robert Rooney: Works 1953-1988', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1988 'Silly Symphonies, or At Last the 1968 Show, Part One: New Paintings', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1985 'One Complete Abstraction Included in Every Picture', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1984 'As You Were', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1983 'As You Were (New Paintings)', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1981 'Eltham Factory Landscape, A Fete Worse than Death, Portraits: Complete Photographic Works 1979-81', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1979 'Portraits 1979-79', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1978 'Survey 3: Robert Rooney', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1975 'Selected Works 1970-75', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1975 'Project 8: Robert Rooney', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1973 'Dale Hickey/Simon Klose/Robert Rooney', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1972 'Robert Rooney/Simon Klose (Collaboration)', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1972 'Information: Robert Rooney', Brighton Polytechnic, Brighton, England
1970 'Superknits and Snaps', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1969 'Canine Capers and Cereal Bird Beaks', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1968 'New Paintings: Kind-Hearted Kitchen-Gardens and Slippery Seals', Strines Gallery, Melbourne
1964 Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
1963 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1960 'I Rise in Flame', Richman Galleries, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
1999 'The Persistence of Pop - works from the Monash University Gallery', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1998 'Wall to Wall', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1998 'Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium', Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1998 List Structure, Sherman Galleries, Goodhope, Sydney
1998 'Art and Furniture of the 1960s', Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1997 'The Real Thing', Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1997 'This Pop Life', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1997 'Geometrical Art in Australia 1941-1997', University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
1997 ' I had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996 'Archival Permanence: Time and Timelessness in 100 Years of Australian Photography', Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria and Waverley Art Gallery, Melbourne
1996 'Art of Collecting No.2', Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1996 'A Blast from the Past: Works from the 60s', Geelong Art Gallery
1996 'TECCA 2: Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1995 'Downtown: Rushca, Rooney, Arkley', Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1995 'Double Vision: Artists' Portraits of Artists', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
1995 'The MCA Collection: The Loti Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Art', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1994 'The Beach', Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1994 'Salon', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1994 'Love and Ruin: Art and St Kilda in the 20th Century', St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
1994 'Photosynthesis', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1994 'The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80s', Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1993 'Art of Collecting', Linden Gallery, Melbourne and Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
1993 'The Changing Face of Melbourne', Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1992 'Collecting Art: Critics Choice, Macquarie Galleries', Sydney
1992 '1960 to the Present: Australian Painting', 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1991 'Off the Wall/In the Air: A Seventies Selection', Monash University Gallery and Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1991 'Freedom of Choice', Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
1991 'Selected Works from the University of Melbourne', Deakin University Gallery, Geelong
1991 'Australian Art: 1960 to the Present', 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1990 'Acquisitions 1984-1990', The University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
1990 'Crouch Prize Winners', City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1990 'Defective Models: Australian Portraiture, 19th and 20th Centuries', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1990 'The Complex Picture: Australian Painting in the 1980s', The College Art Gallery, South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide
1990 'The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art', The Eighth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Bond Stores, Sydney
1989 'Inhibodress 1970-1972', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1989 'Acquisitions 1984-1990', Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
1989 'Sets and Series: Recent Australian Prints from the Collection', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1989 'Annotations', 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1989 'Freestyle: Australian Art: 60s to Now', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1988 'The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788-1988', Australian Bicentennial Authority and The Art Gallery of South Australia
1988 'Form within Form', Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1988 'Suburbanism', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Group Exhibition, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1988 'Australian Art Post - 1960', Deutscher Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne
1988 'Australian Art of the Last 20 Years', Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Queensland
1988 'Contemporary Works from the University Collection', Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1988 '1968-1988', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1987 'Salon', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1987 'Love and Ruin: Art and St.Kilda in the 20th Century', St.Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
1987 'Australian Painting: 1960 to the Present', 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1987 'The Monash University Collection: Selected Paintings and Sculptures', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1987 'Contemporary Art in Australia: A Review', Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1987 'What is this Thing Called Science?' Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne
1987 'Contemporary Australian Painting', Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1987 'Innocence and Danger: An Artist's View of Childhood', Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
1987 'In Print Vol.1: Artist's Books', Power Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney University, Sydney
1987 'Australian Art 1960-1986: Field to Figuration', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1986 'MIMA (Modern Image Makers Association) September Exhibition', Glasshouse Theatre, RMIT Union House, Melbourne
1986 'Fears and Scruples', Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne
1986 'Paintings 1955-1985', 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
1986 'Origins, Originality and Beyond', The Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1986 'The Source', Centre for the Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1986 '33 Men Painters (The Male Sensibility)', Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
1985 'Selected Works from the Last Two Decades', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1985 'Thirty Years On: A Survey of Works on Paper', Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1985 'Visual Tension', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1985 'Photostats', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
1985 'Meaning and Excellence', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
1984 'Meaning and Excellence', ANZART, Australian and New Zealand Artists in Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
1984 'The Field Now', Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1984 'A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1983 'Recent Australian Painting: A Survey 1970-1983', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1983 'A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art', Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1982 'Hawthorn Artists', Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne
1982 'Preston to Phillip: A Survey, 10 Years of Art Education', Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
1982 'A Photographer's Choice', School of Arts, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Toowoomba, Queensland
1982 'Australian Art of the Last Ten Years: The Philip Morris Collection', Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1982 'Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
1982 'POPISM', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1981 'Some Recent Acquisitions', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1981 'Pinacotheca Artists at Watters', Watters Gallery, Sydney
1980 'Self-Portrait/Self-Image', Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1978 'Artist's Books: Book Works', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1978 'Roadshow Exhibition 1: Works on Paper', Regional Development Program, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
1977 'Acquisitions 1976 and 1977', Ballarat City Art Gallery, Victoria
1976 'The Road Show: Attitudes to the Car', Shepparton Arts Centre, Victoria
1976 '1st Pan Pacific Biennale: Colour Photography and its Derivatives', Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
1975 The Crouch Prize, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1975 'Selected Paintings from the Monash University Collection', Exhibition Gallery, Department of Visual Arts, Monash University, Melbourne
1975 'Artist's Artists', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1973 'Recent Australian Art', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1971 'Georges Invitation Art Prize', Georges Art Gallery, Melbourne
1971 'The Situation Now: Object and Post-Object Art?', Contemporary Art Society Gallery, Sydney
1971 'Four Pinacotheca Artists Using Photography' (with Klose, Hickey and Cutforth), Inhibodress, Sydney
1970 Group Show, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1968 'The Transfield Art Prize', Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
1968 'Georges Art Prize Exhibition', Georges Art Gallery, Melbourne
1968 'The Field', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1967 'The Perth Prize for Drawing', Western Australia Art Gallery, Perth
1966 'Contemporary Australian Drawing', Newcastle City Art Gallery, New South Wales
1965 'New Generation 1965', Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne
1964 'Survey 64', Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne
1963 'Survey 63', Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne
1961 'Young Painters Exhibition', Contemporary Art Society, Eastside Gallery, Melbourne
1961 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1960 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne
1959 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne
1958 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne
1957 'Poem', Contemporary Art Society, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1957 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1956 'Inaugural Gift Exhibition', Contemporary Art Society, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1955 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Preston Motors Showrooms, Melbourne
1954 'Contemporary Art Society Drawing Exhibition', Mirka's Studio, Melbourne
1954 'Contemporary Art Society Commemorative Exhibition', Tye's Gallery, Melbourne
Awards
1975 Co-winner, The Crouch Prize, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (with Imants Tillers, Aleks Danko and Peter Booth)
Collections
Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia
City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Australia
City of Port Philip, Victoria, Australia
Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Freemantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
High Court Collection, Canberra, Australia
Kings Park Secondary School, Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
Naracoorte Art Gallery, South Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, Townsville, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
BHP Collection, Australia
BP Collection, Australia
Coca Cola South Pacific
Deutscher Bank Collection
National Australia Bank Collection
Western Mining Collection