Robert Andrew
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Milani Gallery
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2024
Robert Andrew is a descendant of the Yawuru people. Yawuru Country is the lands and waters in and around Rubibi (the town of Broome) in the Kimberley region, Western Australia. Born in 1965 in Perth, Australia, Andrew now lives and works in Meanjin (Brisbane). His recent solo exhibitions include ‘Held within a word’ at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA, Perth, 2023), and ‘Within an utterance’ at Museum of Old and New Art (MONA, Hobart, 2022). Andrew’s work has been presented in major group exhibitions in Australia and Internationally including: ‘23rd Biennale of Sydney rīvus’, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022; ‘4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony’, National Gallery of Australia’s (NGA), 2022; ‘TarraWarra Biennial: Slow Moving Waters’, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2021; Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, 2020; ‘Jinan Biennale’, Jinan, China 2020; ‘Yokohama Triennale’, Japan, 2020; ‘The National: New Australian Art’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2019; and ‘Colony: Frontier Wars’, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), 2018. His work is held in the collections of NGV, NGA, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Moreton Bay, Araluen Art Centre, and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. In 2023 he was the recipient of Moreton Bay Regional Galleries’ ‘15 Artists’ acquisitive art prize. Andrew has a Doctor of Visual Arts (2019) and has completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Griffith University, Brisbane.
