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About Stephen HaleyBACKGROUND INFORMATION
BACK TO THE FUTUREAustralian artist Stephen Haley builds a bridge between the discoveries of the Renaissance and the 21st century. The development of the vanishing point and, with it, linear perspective laid the foundations for the modern, technologically dominated world of images. In the cityscapes of the early Renaissance, buildings were depicted through a measured gaze upon carefully ordered urban spaces. Haley creates an equally ingenious vision of the highly structured environments in which we live and work today. Using 3D technology, he produces compelling illusions, only to disrupt them through repetition and the incorporation of real urban panoramas. His is a visual art of the fugue, in which carefully organised underlying themes give rise to images of the modern world. His works, which he calls “virtual photographs”, are scientifically informed visual commentaries on present and future developments.Stephen Haley holds a doctorate from the University of Melbourne, where he also taught art history. His academic research has explored the relationship between society and reflection in depth. His artistic thinking today is informed by the idea of networks, encompassing the internet and the other interconnected systems and dependencies of modern life: “The network encompasses us all. It has the power to restrict us, but also to connect us. It can oppress, but it can also radiate dizzying beauty – depending on how and by whom it is used.”According to Haley, physical space is increasingly being designed according to models created in virtual environments. “The mirror has become a symbol of our time. We stand at a historical turning point where reality is disappearing into simulation.” The scholar's ideas find their perfect visual counterpart in his almost unsettlingly beautiful images of a particular vision of the future.Horst KlöverBETWEEN REALITY AND VIRTUALITYStephen Haley's artistic exploration of urban space extends far beyond the depiction of architecture. His works are both images of the world we inhabit and reflections on how that world is created. What initially appears to be an urban landscape reveals, on closer inspection, a complex perspective on the relationship between humanity, space and technology.This inquiry runs throughout his decades-long career. As early as “New Estate & Nature Strips” (2002), he placed the designed environment of modern life at the centre of his work. In subsequent exhibitions such as “Cities, Factories, Walls and Malls” (2018), “Formwork and Forgeries” (2020) and “Unsettled” (2022), he continued to develop his exploration of urban structures. Architecture emerges not only as an expression of human creativity, but also as a reflection of the social systems that shape our everyday lives.The connection between artistic practice and scholarly reflection defines Haley's distinctive approach. With a doctorate in art history and many years of university teaching experience, he combines analytical precision with visual imagination. His works move between painting, photography and digital image-making, opening up a space in which the boundaries between reality and simulation become increasingly blurred.His artistic achievements have been recognised with numerous awards, including the ANZ Visual Art Fellowship (2004) and the Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2016). His works are held in major collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria and the Bendigo Art Gallery.Haley's art does not simply transport us into a possible future. It reveals just how deeply that future is already embedded in the images of our present.VITA
Stephen Haley was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1961. He studied history, philosophy and painting at renowned institutions in his home city and in 2005 received his doctorate from the University of Melbourne with a thesis on the significance of the mirror in contemporary culture. The combination of art and scholarship has shaped his work ever since, as well as his academic career: for many years he taught at Australian universities, including as Head of Painting at the University of Melbourne, which appointed him Honorary Senior Fellow in 2023.
His works, exhibited internationally, are held in major collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria and the Bendigo Art Gallery. Numerous awards recognise his artistic achievements, among them the ANZ Visual Art Fellowship (2004), the R & M McGivern Acquisitive Prize for Painting (2006) and the Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2016).
Exhibitions
2020 Formwork and Forgeries, Mars Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2019 DigiCiti, Art Central, Hong Kong, China 2017 Out of Place, Survey Exhibition 2004–2017, curated by Simon Lawrie, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Langwarrin, Australia Reverse Photography, Rupert Bunny Art Fellowship Award Exhibition (collaborative photography with Penelope Davis), St Kilda Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Changing Places, Mars Gallery at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney, Australia 2012 Somewhere About Now, Survey Exhibition 2006–2012, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2011 Here is There, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia 2008 Projected Worlds, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia 2007 Selected Video Works: Stephen Haley, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, Australia 2006 Projector, 18th Street Arts Centre, Los Angeles, USA Solo Exhibitions
2021 The McClelland Collection: 50 Years of Spatial Practice, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Australia 2018 Chaos and Order: 120 Years of Collecting at RMIT, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2017 Digital: The World of Alternative Realities, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne, Australia 2011 2112: Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2010 At Home in the World, LUMAS Galleries worldwide 2009 Shelter: On Kindness, Melbourne International Arts Festival, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2004 The Spirit of Football, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Siggraph, Super Computing Conference, Pittsburgh, USA 2003 Glacier (touring exhibition), curated by Darren Wardle and Suzanne Davies, Benalla Art Gallery, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, QUT Art Museum Brisbane, Australia 1998 Deacons Graham and James / Arts 21 Award, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia Group Exhibitions
2008 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia Macarthur Cook Painting Prize, FortyFiveDownstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Australia When I think about Art, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia 2007 Penelope Davis, Stephen Haley, Joyce Khol, Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, USA The Director’s Lounge 2007 Contemporary Art and Media, Berlin, Germany U-Turn, Glendale Art College Gallery, Glendale, Los Angeles, USA The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC Maroondah City Council Collection Highlights, Maroondah Art Gallery, VIC Macarthur Cook Painting Prize, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne, Australia Living Elvis, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2006 Random Access, curated by Robert Lindsay, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria Resistance is Futile, VCA Gallery, Victoria
Melbourne Reign, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaReunion, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2005 The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria World Year of Physics Art Prize, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Savage Club Invitation Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Industrial Strength, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia 2004 The Spirit of Football, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Sigraph, Super Computing Conference, Pittsburgh, USA ANZ Visual Art Fellowship, ANZ Bank Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Young Collectors, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Spring, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FloraNova, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Boogie, Jive and Bop, Curator Malcom Bywaters, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia2003 The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC Glacier, Curators Darren Wardle and Suzanne Davies, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Victoria Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales Queensland Art Museum, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland Boogie, Jive and Bop, Curator Malcom Bywaters, Launceston Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania Hobart School of Art, Hobart, Tasmania Red Spot Special, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Hallelujah, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney 2002 Suburban Echo (Stephen Haley, Howard Arkley, Alex Danko, Darren Wardle; Curator Robert Lindsay), McClellan Regional Gallery, Mornington Home Front, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia Third Nature, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria Recent Acquisitions 1999 – 2002, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Victoria Clear Seeing, UMPA Art Prize Exhibition, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia Innovation Exhibition, Innovation: Arts-Media-Design National Symposium Part 2, The VCA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2001 Glacier, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Here There Elsewhere: Suburban Themes, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Office of Utopic Procedures, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia A4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2000 A Brush With Death, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1999 The Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship 1999, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia A Four Art, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Deacons Graham and James/ Arts 21 Award, Museum of Art, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Stable, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
Diversity, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre of Art and Design, ChurchillA-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia Talk Artists Run Space, Melbourne, Australia Pinoak Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1997 Deacons Graham and James/ Arts 21 Award, Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Whim: Humour in Art, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Autumn Show, La Trobe St. Gallery, Melbourne.
Christ I’m Pissed Off, Stop 22 Gallery, Fringe Arts, Melbourne, AustraliaWork, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia 1996 See Spot Run, Next Wave Festival, Temple Studios, Melbourne, Australia Shifting Ground: Moonee Valley Invitation Art Prize, City of Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Australia 100 Years of Footy, The Artist’s Garden, Melbourne, Australia A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia 1995 Destinazione - Arte: Platform Artists Exchange Exhibition, Villa Spinola, Genova, Italy Rupert Bunny Foundation Selected Artists Exhibition, City of Port Phillip, Melbourne, Australia Save Albert Park Nine by Five Invitation Exhibition, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne ArtWorkz 7, 101 Collins St Gallery, Melbourne, Australia A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia 1994 Power and Site, Next Wave Festival, Gallery Gecko, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia Out West, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia Endangered Species, Linden Gallery, St.Kilda, Melbourne, Australia The Room Outside, Argyle St. Studios Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia 1993 Slide, Gertrude St Gallery, 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia Small Works, Fitzroy St. Gallery, St.Kilda, Melbourne, Australia Young Melbourne Artists, Leonard Joel’s’ Auctions, Melbourne, Australia 1992 ArtWorkz Four, 101 Collins St Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Mass Hang, Deutscher Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia Daventry Art Prize, Monash Studios, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia 1991 All Stock Must Go, Swanston St. Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia First National Student Art and Design Show, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Australia RMIT Graduate Show, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia 1990 Verisimilitudes, Swanston St Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
