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