Richard Dunn

Research

As university artist-in-residence, Richard Dunn's role is to promote art practice as research, supervising Postgraduate students working mainly in the Fine or Media Arts, although their discipline focus could be in any of the college's studios.

Richard Dunn studied architecture at the University of New South Wales, sculpture at National Art School and is a graduate in painting of the Royal College of Art, London. Richard Dunn was PS.1 Fellow, NY, in 1984/5 and director of Sydney College of the Arts from 1987 - 2001. He was visiting professor at Royal Fine Art Academy, Oslo in 2000 and guest professor at Künstakademie Düsseldorf for the winter semester 2003/4. His work responds, in the present, to the opportunities presented by pop and minimalism, through the filter of conceptualism. He exhibits paintings, installations, photographs without the limiting boundaries of style or medium. Richard Dunn's background has prepared him to work with students whose focus is firmly on international contemporary art irrespective of medium or approach. Further research interests include the relationship between visual art, art in public space and architecture; the interaction between space, music/sound, video/film and the context for visual art.

Richard Dunn has written on the relationship of art and architecture, addressing, by analogy, the body and space. Gallery work equally addresses the physical response to space, and the material that defines it, but also to the its cultural conditions; the history and aesthetics of modernism and modernity represented by the industrial revolution, photography and the heroic period of modernism in art and architecture. Recent solo museum exhibitions have been in Germany.

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Exhibitions

Richard Dunn: Blichdicht, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany, 2004

Beijing Biennale, Millenium Monument, Beijing, China 2003

Monochromes, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2000

Richard Dunn: Nomad, voxxx.galerie, Chemnitz, Germany, 2000

Southern Reflections, Gøteborgs Konsthallen, Sweden; Galleria Otso, Helsinki; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, 1999

Innenseite, Universität Ghk Kassel, Germany, , 1997

Objects and Ideas: Revisiting Minimalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1997

Richard Dunn: Selected Work 1964 - 1994, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1994

Construction in Process IV: My Home Is Your Home, Artists Museum, Lødz, Poland, 1993

The Dialectic Image – Selected Work 1964 - 1992, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992

Art From Australia: Eight Contemporary Views, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore; Gedung Seni Rupa, Jakarta, Indonesia; National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, 1990

Prospekt 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein & Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1989

Edge to Edge, The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan, 1988

Mass, The New Museum For Contemporary Art, New York, 1986

Selections 30, The Drawing Centre, New York, 1985

5/5, Fünf Vom Fünften, daadgalerie, Berlin, 1985


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Key Publications

Ingrid Mössinger, Ingrid & Metz, Katharina (eds), Blickdicht: Damenstrümpfe in Chemnitz/Installation Richard Dunn/Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Edition Leipsig, Leipsig, 2004

Dunn, Richard, ‘Reminiscence of the Factory in Beijing’ in Huang Rui, ed., Beijing 798: Reflections on Art, Architecture and Society in China, Timezone8 + Thinking Hands, 2004, Beijing

Butler, Rex, ‘The Case of Richard Dunn’ in A Secret History of Australian Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2002

Grøgaard, Stian, ‘Richard Dunn: Complexity and Signature Style’ in The Restless Object: Twelve Conversations on Contemporary Art, unipax, Oslo, 2001

Smith, Smith in Jane Farver, Luis Camnitzer, Rachel Weis, (eds) Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum, New York, 1999

Maloon, Terence: 'The Dialectical Image', in Richard Dunn: The Dialectical Image - Selected Work 1964-1992, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992

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