Represented by Utopia Art Sydney, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, NSW, 2017
Tel: 61 2 9699 2900  Fax: 61 2 9699 2988

Born Sydney 1954

solo exhibitions

2010 ‘Curve’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2008 'Christopher Hodges: from the collection', Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW
2007 'Totems', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2006 'Zinc', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2003 'On Reflection', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2001 'Intersection', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2000 'Painted Sculpture', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1999 'New Lines', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1997 'form & substance', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'form & substance II', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1995 'Loose', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1994 'New Relations', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1993 'New Paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1992 'Abstract', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1991 'Prints', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1990 'A Sense of Place - New York and Sydney Paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1989 'Space-Man', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1988 Installation, Loren Bertrond Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
1987 'The Edge', Milburn + Arte, Sydney, NSW
1986 Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
1985 Coventry, Sydney, NSW
  Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
1984 Coventry, Sydney, NSW
  Arts Council Gallery, Canberra, ACT
  'Trophy Room', Coventry, Sydney, NSW
1979 - 1983 Coventry, Sydney, NSW

group exhibitions

2011 ‘Heads’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  ‘AAA – Australian Abstract Art’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2010 ‘Paper’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  ‘Silent Spaces’ Macquarie University Art Gallery, NSW
  ‘in [two] art’, the Agapitos/Wilson Annual, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  ‘KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair’, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2009 'Winter Brooches 2009', Studio 20/17, Sydney, NSW
  'The 23rd Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition', New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
  '2009 Korean International Art Fair', CO-EX, Korea
  'pinned & framed', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'small & wall', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2008 'Public Sculpture', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair', Royal Exhibition Building, VIC
2007 'Ex Libris - Bookplates from our Collections', State Library of Queensland, QLD
  'Turning 20', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2006 'University of Western Sydney Acquisitive Sculpture Award 2006', McCarthur Campus, Sydney, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2006', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Sculpture 2006 - Applied Arts - Form & Function', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Bits and Pieces - abstract art', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2005 'from big things little things grow', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Art & About', AMP Centre, Sydney, NSW
  'Art & About - Open Gallery', George, Park, Macquarie, Elizabeth, College and Alfred Streets, Kings Cross & Taylor Square, Sydney, NSW
  'National Small Sculpture Prize', Woollahra Municipal Council, Double Bay, NSW
  'Sydney v Melbourne', Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC
  '10th Sydney Art on paper Fair', The Sofitel Wentworth Exhibition, Sofitel Wentworth, Sydney, NSW
  'Museum II', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Significant Objects - Sculpture 2005', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'New Ideas 2005', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'A Stroke of Art', The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW
  'Colour in Abstraction', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2004 'University of Western Sydney Acquisitive Sculpture Award 2004' University of Western Sydney, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2004', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'National Small Sculpture Prize', Woollahra Municipal Council, Double Bay, NSW
  'Sculpture 2004 - Object, Artefact & Adornment', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Depth of Field - Anamorphosis', artists explore 'Absolute Matte' a new paint from Chroma Australia, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Three Colours - White', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'A Stroke of Art', The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW
2003 'Three Colours - Blue', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'National Works on Paper', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
  'Sculpture 2003 Gazzard and Hodges', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Sculpture 2003 - Dangerous Toys', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Celebrate', BBA Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Ned Kelly Framed', S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Sculpture in the Vines', - Harvest Festival in the Hunter Valley, NSW
  'A Stroke of Art', The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW
  'Sculpture by the Sea', Sydney, NSW
  'Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize', Woollahra Municipal Council, Double Bay, Sydney, NSW
2002 'Birthday Show', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'New Objects/New Things', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'The Year In Review', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Sculpture By the Sea', Bondi, Sydney, NSW
  'Redlands Westpac Art Prize', Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2002', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Sculpture in the City', Martin Place, Sydney, NSW
  'Solstice', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Sculpture from the Sea', Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW
  'Lines II', Fireworks Gallery, QLD
  'Sculpture 2002', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2001 'Surface Tension', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
  'Sculpture in the City', Martin Place, Sydney, NSW
  'The Hutchins Art Prize', The Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart, TAS
  'Museum', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Woollahra Sculpture Prize', Wollahra Council Chambers, Sydney, NSW
  '8th International Works on Paper Fair', Byron Kennedy Hall, Fox Studios, Sydney, NSW
2000 'The 2000 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2000', Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC
  'Reconciliation Prize, 5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award 2000', Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
  'Shell Fremantle Print Award', Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
  'Lindesay 2000' Exhibition, Lindesay House, Sydney, NSW
  'Lines', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1999 'Sculpture by the Sea', Sydney, NSW
  'Pride of Place: the CS Energy Gift & City of Ipswich Collection', Ipswich, QLD
  'Silver: 25th anniversary exhibition College of Fine Arts- Past Faculty', Ivan Dougherty Gallery and Studio Block, College of Fine Arts, NSW
  'New Sculpture 1999', Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1998 'Three Sculptors', Neil Taylor, Marea Gazzard, Christopher Hodges, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Sculpture by the Sea', Sydney, NSW
  'Toys by Artists', The University of Newcastle, NSW
  '1998 National Works on Paper', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
  'Primary Colours: Blue', Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
  Symbiosis', New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale; Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Major Paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1997 'Bronze', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Conrad Jupiters Art Prize', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
  'Artists For Tranby', Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney, NSW
  'Portraits' Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Flagging the Republic', Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
  'Nineteeninetyseven', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Faces of Hope', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
1996 'The Theresa Byrnes Foundation Inc. Westpac Art Auction', Sydney, NSW
  'Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Paperwork', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'new paint new work', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Kunst Rai', Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
  'Works on Paper', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
  'The Gesture', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Flagging the Republic', Sherman Galleries; New England Regional Art Museum; touring exhibition, NSW
  'Contemporary Australian Abstraction', Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
1995 'Ironsides', The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
  'Pathways', Queensland Art Gallery, QLD
  'It's About Time', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, NSW
  'Works On Paper', Utopia Art Sydney. NSW
  'International Works on Paper Fair', Mitchell Galleries, State Library of NSW
  '1995', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Obsession', Wagga Wagga City Gallery, NSW
1994 'ACAF 4', Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC
  'Aussemblage!', Auckland City Art Gallery, NZ
  'Commitments', Artspace, Sydney, NSW
  'Obsession', Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW
  'The Range', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1993 'Chandler Coventry a Private Collection', Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW
  'After the Field...', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'After the Field...', Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW
  'Commitments', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
  International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney, NSW
1992 'A.C.A.F.3', Melbourne, VIC
  'New Works 1992', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1991 'Long Hot Summer', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1990 'King of the Mountain', Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
  'New Year-New Art', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Balance 1990', Queensland Art Gallery, QLD
  'Visual Instincts', Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  Noosa Regional Art Gallery, QLD
  Second Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
  'Gold Coast Invitational Prize for Sculpture', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
1989 'Expressive Space: Sculpture in the '80s', Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT
  'Intimate Drawings', Coventry, NSW
  The Henry Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Regional Gallery, VIC
1988 'New Art', Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT
  First Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
  'Peinteurs Aborigines', Arte Productions, Paris, FRANCE
  'A New Generation', Australian National Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT
  'Ben, Combas, Hodges and Enright', Milburn and Arte, Sydney, NSW
  'Nature and Technology', Sanctuary Cove Art Event, QLD
  'Art Collegium', University of Technology, Sydney, NSW
1987 'Ten Years On', The Works Gallery, C.A.I., Sydney, NSW
  'Foire De L'Art Contemporian', Arte Productions, Nice, FRANCE
  'Les Peinters Australiens', Arte Productions, Galerie Christian Cheneau, Paris, FRANCE
  'Big Paintings From Artbank', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1986 'Nustart', Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
  'Big Abstract Drawing', Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1985 'Small Works', Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
  'Perspecta', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
  'In All Directions', Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
1984 'Painters Sculpture', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC
1983 'Exhibition of Finalists, Copper Industries Sculpture Award', Wollongong City Art Gallery Sculpture Centre, Sydney, NSW
1982 'Recent Works', Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1981 'Continuum NAS 60-AMC 80' Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney and Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
  'Australian Artists Pay Tribute to Howard Hinton', Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1980 Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1979 Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW

collections

  National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria
  Queensland Art Gallery Westpac, New York
  Allens Arthur Robinson, Sydney Artbank
  Campbelltown City Art Gallery C.O.F.A. University of NSW
  Coventry Collection Grafton Regional Gallery
  Holmes a'Court Collection James Hardie Library Collection
  University of Western Sydney,
Macarthur Campus
New England Regional Art Museum
  New Parliament House, Canberra Philip Morris Collection, NGA
  Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
  Griffith University Collection University of New England
  Wollongong City Art Gallery University of Sydney
  Ipswich Regional Art Gallery Air New Zealand
  The Hutchins School Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

awards & commissions

2011 Longrain Sydney, sculptures for Shortgrain Bar
2010 Private commission, ‘Mermaid’, Whale Beach
  St Vincent’s Hospital commission, ‘flower for a friend’
2009 Longrain, Sydney, 10th Anniversary wall sculpture, ‘wave’
  Mosman Art Trust and Mosman Municipal Council, ‘the white flower’ sculpture installed in Hunter Park, Balmoral
2007/8 Rouse Hill Town Centre Sculpture Commission
2006 Longrain, Melbourne, sculpture and wall hanging
2005 Macquarie University Sculpture Park
2004 Private commission, Dover Heights, Sydney
2003 Crown Casino, foyer installation, Melbourne
2001 Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart
2000 Bathroom signage for Tetsuya's Restaurant, Sydney and London
1999 Tattersalls Club, Sydney, foyer installation
1998 '1998 National Works on Paper Award', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
  New England Regional Art Museum sculpture commission
  Medina Apartments, sculpture for entry/reception, Melbourne
1997-1998 Darling Harbour Parkroyal, artwork for reception and public spaces
1997 12th Floor Cambers Public Spaces
1996 Parkroyal Parramatta, paintings for public spaces
1994 Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown City Art Gallery

references

COBURN, Daniel,  Video Documentary, 1987
DRURY, N. (ed.) 'Images 3: Contemporary Australian Painting', Craftsman House, 1998
GLOBAL ARTS LINK exhibition cat. 'Pride of Place: the CS Energy Gift & City of Ipswich Collection'
EISENBERG, J, 'A View of the Collections', New England Regional Art Museum, 1997 illust p.57
HANSFORD, Pamela, 'Perspecta 1985', essay
MELLON, James, Artist Interviews, Victorian State Library, 1986
HARDY, J (Ed), 'It's About Time', exhibition catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
HOOPER,B/GREGORY,W/MILBURN,M, 'The Edge', Cat. Milburn- Arte, 1987
PETELIN, G, 'Nature and Technology', 1987
SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE exhibition cat. 'The Hutchins Art Prize', The Long Gallery, Salamanca TALMACS, R, 'The Edge'
TALMACS,R, 'Space-Man', 1989, essay
QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY, 'Balance 1990 - Views, Visions, Influences', exhibition catalogue, illustration p45 & 56
TALMACS, R, 'Abstract', 1992, exhibition catalogue essay
UTOPIA ART SYDNEY, 'Loose', 1995 exhibition catalogue
NIAGARA GALLERIES, 'Contemporary Australian Abstraction', 1996 exhibition catalogue
UTOPIA ART SYDNEY, 'Form and Substance', 1997 exhibition catalogue
VARIOUS, 'Amnesty International Faces of Hope', exhibition catalogue, 1997
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, 'Toys by artists' exhibition catalogue, 1998
Place, Hobart, 2001
LOXLEY, Anne, 'Art & About' exhibition catalogue, 2005

public talks

'Papunya Painting: Public Conversation', National Museum of Australia, 2008
‘The Dreamers’  Yiribana Aboriginal & Torres Strait Art Gallery, Art Gallery of New South  Wales, July, 2009
‘Sculpture in the Landscape’, National Trust of Australia (New South Wales)
Garden Semiinar Day, Lindesay, Carthona Avenue, Darling Point, NSW , July, 200
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illustrations

‘Art & Australia’ vol 48/2, 2010,  p 242 ‘Donald Judd: the Great Arranger’
'Qantas Magazine', October, 2006, p213
'National Geographic - Traveller', May/June, Vol. 23 No. 4, p36, 2006
'Gourmet Traveller', January, 2006
Cover Illustration 'The Domain' (The Sydney Morning Herald), October 27th , 2005
'Belle' Magazine, April/May 2005, p100
'Sculpture by the Sea' advertising image for 2003 Sculpture by the Sea, SMH, Art Almanac etc, 2003
'Sydney Morning Herald' (Good Living), April 18-24, 2000
Tattersalls Club newsletter, February, 2000
'Vogue Apartment Living', No 1, 2000, p91, 93
'Artbank' issue 3 Spring,1999 p 4
'Sydney Morning Herald' (Good Living), September 21, 1999
'House & Garden', December, 1999 p120
Frontispiece, The University of Sydney Union Annual Report, 1996
Cover illustration 'Ulitarra' 11:1997 Ulitarra Literary Association Incorporated, 1997
'Sculpture by the Sea' poster and catalogue, 1999
'Sculpture by the Sea' calender, 2008

collaborations

'Skin & Division: Michael Eather and Friends', Brisbane City Gallery, 1997

christopher hodges

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