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2023
RHINESTONES @ GLUE, Berlin, Germany - Friday 28 - Sunday 30 July 2023.
Curated by PS project space
Participating artists: Albert Weis, Ella Sutherland, Felix Oehmann, Marc Bijl, Riette Wanders, Huseyin Sami, Miriam Glinka, Gerold Miller, Joan Saló, Salomé Ghazanfari, Frank Ammerlaan, Fritz Bornstück, Ronald de Bloeme, Ab van Hanegem and Jan van der Ploeg.
Parts & Cuts, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia - August 2023
Plastic Horizons, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany - June 30 – September 2, 2023
Nova, Sumer Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand TĀMAKI MAKAURAU - May 31 - June 24, 2023
Sumer is pleased to present Nova, the inaugural exhibition at its new location in Ta maki Makaurau. The first exhibition offers a snapshot of the gallery program, both recent and forthcoming. An energetic bringing-together of work by multiple artists: some already associated with the gallery, while others will be names less familiar. And though the show has no prescriptive theme, it is a selection of work that possesses a radiance and newness suggested by the title. Nova has a deliberate focus upon presenting younger and lesser-known artists, with the understanding that the gallery, as the city’s newest addition, will be equally new to many.
Nova includes new and recent works by Sandra Bushby, Xin Cheng, Hikalu Clarke, Ruth Cleland, Eleanor Cooper, Henry Curchod, Tjalling de Vries, Miles Hendricks, Yolunda Hickman, Jesse Hogan, Cindy Huang, Matthew Galloway, Lara Merrett, Michael Morley, Martyn Reynolds, James Oram, Sam Rountree Williams, Huseyin Sami, Bronte Stolz, Ella Sutherland, Zina Swanson, Ava Trevella, Jan van der Ploeg, August Ward, and Anto Yeldezian.
Dallas Art Fair with Taubert Contemporary, Dallas, USA - 20 – 23 April, 2023
Featuring Works By: Joachim Grommek, Julia Gruner, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Axel Lieber, Markus Linnenbrink, Jan van der Ploeg, Joan Saló, Huseyin Sami, Markus Weggenmann, Beat Zoderer
2022
2022 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
The 2022 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize is a signature event that assists with the development of the Gallery's collection while fostering Australian artists and contemporary painting practice in general. Selected from over 400 entries from around the country, this year’s finalists are Clara Adolphs, Benjamin Armstrong, Darcey Bella Arnold, Chris Bond, Stephen Bram, Renee Cosgrave, Greg Creek, Sarah crowEST, Ann Debono, Lucy Fahey, Janet Forbes, Katherine Hattam, Naomi Hobson, Anna Hoyle, Dane Lovett, Fiona McMonagle, Jordan Marani, Sam Martin, Jennifer Mills, Tully Moore, Tom Polo, Victoria Reichelt, Steven Rendall, Brian Robinson, Huseyin Sami, Georgia Spain, Judith Van Heeren and Alice Wormald.
Dallas Art Fair, Taubert Contemporary, Dallas, USA - April 21-24, 2022
Exhibiting works by Markus Linnenbrink, Jan van der Ploeg, Beat Zoderer, Markus Weggenmann, Huseyin Sami, Albert Weis, Timo Nasseri, Dionisio Gonzalez and Adrian Esparza.
Art Central Hong Kong, Gallery Jason Shin, Seoul, May 26 – 29, 2022
Expanded Canvas, Town Hall Gallery Boroondara, Melbourne, Australia
‘Expanded Canvas’ is a major exhibition at Town Hall Gallery exploring the dynamic and innovative nature of contemporary painting.
The traditional grid and two-dimensional picture planes are replaced by modern surfaces, including drop sheets, sign vinyl, virtual space, and the gallery wall itself. Colour spills, splatters, pools and stretches through the gallery space, in artworks that challenge possibilities of scale, form, colour and gesture. Pigment and brushwork are combined with elements from design, sculpture, animation and textiles to create vibrant and unexpected three-dimensional, virtual and ephemeral artworks.
Featuring: David Harley, Lara Merrett, Judy Millar, Tom Polo, Bundit Puangthong and Huseyin Sami. Click the link for more information Expanded Canvas
2021
Dallas Art Fair, Taubert Contemporary, Dallas, USA - August 2021
Modern Pictures, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia - August 2021
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White on White, Gallery Jason Shin, Seoul, South Korea - August 2021
Silvering, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia - June 2021
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2020
Matter and Colour, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany - November, 2020
I Dream In Colour, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia - September, 2020
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Apparition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia - June, 2020
Participating artist: Maria Cruz, Anthony Johnson, Lucina Lane, Todd McMillan, Sarah Mosca, Jonny Niesche, Huseyin Sami, Tony Schwensen, Gemma Smith, Nicola Smith, Jelena Telecki, Brendan Van Hek
RONDO, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia - February, 2020
Participating artist: Julie Fragar, David Haines, Lucina Lane, Todd McMillan, Elizabeth Pulie, Huseyin Sami, Koji Ryui, Gemma Smith, Tony Schwensen, Jelena Telecki, Brendan Van Hek, Justene Williams
2019
Art Berlin, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany - Group Exhibition
12 – 15 September, 2019
Exhibiting Artists:
JOACHIM GROMMEK, AXEL LIEBER, MARKUS LINNENBRINK, SYLVAN LIONNI, MUTTER & GENTH, HUSEYIN SAMI, MARKUS WEGGENMANN, BEAT ZODERER
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia - Group Exhibition
12 - 15 September, 2019
Exhibiting Artists:
Gemma Smith, Jonny Niesche, Oliver Wagner, Maria Cruz, Huseyin Sami, Lucina Lane, Anthony Johnson, Todd McMillan
Who Dunnit, Taubert Contemporary - Group Exhibition
6 July – 31 August, 2019
Exhibiting Artists:
LARS ARRHENIUS, ADRIAN ESPARZA, RICHARD FAUGUET, MANUEL FRANKE, GEISSLER & SANN, DIONISIO GONZÁLEZ, JOACHIM GROMMEK, JULIA GRUNER, JIA, AXEL LIEBER, MARKUS LINNENBRINK, SYLVAN LIONNI, GEROLD MILLER, MUTTER & GENTH, HUSEYIN SAMI, JAN VAN DER PLOEG, MARKUS WEGGENMANN, BEAT ZODERER
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Silver Jubilee, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia - Group Exhibition
2 May - 15 June, 2019
Exhibiting Artists: Julie Fragar, Matthys Gerber,Todd McMillan, Christopher Hanrahan, Sarah Mosca, Jonny Niesche, John Nixon, Elizabeth Pulie, Koji Ryui, Huseyin Sami, Tony Schwensen, Gemma Smith, John Spiteri, Brendan Van Hek
The Matter of Presence, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia - Solo Exhibition
7 May - 25 May, 2019
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Chroma, Gallery One Four, Seoul, The Republic of Korea - Solo Exhibition
13 June - 3 August, 2019
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Ramsay Art Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia - Group Exhibition
25 May - 25 Aug 2019
Held every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize invites submissions from Australian artists under 40 working in any medium.
Finalists have been be selected by an international judging panel: Russell Storer, Deputy Director (Curatorial and Research), National Gallery of Singapore, Richard Lewer, contemporary artist, and Dr Lisa Slade, Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, Art Gallery of South Australia.
Finalists works will be exhibited in a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 25 May to 25 August 2019. The winner will be judged from the exhibition and announced on Friday 24 May 2019. Through the generosity of the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation, the winning work is acquired into the Gallery’s collection.
Participating Artists
Liam Benson (NSW) Jessica Bradford (NSW) Ry David Bradley (VIC) Eric Bridgeman (QLD) Lina Buck (VIC) Dale Collier (NSW)Julia deVille (VIC) Kuba Dorabialski (NSW) Emily Ferretti (VIC) Tom Freeman (WA) Tarryn Gill (WA) Nathan Hawkes (NSW) Sophia Hewson (VIC) Hayley Millar-Baker (VIC) Viv Miller (VIC) Pierre Mukeba (SA)Vincent Namatjira (SA) Phuong Ngo (VIC) Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran (NSW) Jahnne Pasco-White (VIC) Huseyin Sami (NSW) Isadora Vaughan (VIC) Sera Waters (SA)
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Dallas Art Fair, Taubert Contemporary, Texas, United States - Group Exhibition
13th June - 3rd August, 2019
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2018
Art Miami, Taubert Contemporary, 4 Dec 2018 – 9 Dec 2018
Exhibiting Artists: Adrian Esparza, Joachim Grommek, Axel Lieber, Huseyin Sami, Jan van der Ploeg, Markus Weggenmann, Beat Zoderer.
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Tactile Space, Taubert Contemporary Berlin, Germany
Julia Gruner, Huseyin Sami -24 Nov 2018 – 26 Jan 2019
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A Vacant Space, Artbank Gallery, Sydney, Australia - Group Exhibition
A Vacant Space is an outcome of Artbank’s emerging curators program and brings together a diverse range of artworks from the Artbank collection, as well as select number of loans that capture the palpable moments surrounding an action or event. We are told that actions speak louder than words, but what about that moment before an action, or the time that immediately follows? Gestures have the ability to shift time, to bend it, leaving a gap, an aching space in their wake. Artists have long used movements, actions and gestures in their work to bend time and space, and to highlight the way in which bodies relate to the environment around them. A Vacant Space is an outcome of Artbank’s emerging curators program and draws on the Artbank collection, in addition to a number of select loans, to explore how actions are captured by artists, and how they use these moments to question our place in the world.
Artists include: Ian W. Abdulla, Kim Buck, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Olive Cotton, Bridget & Alison Currie, Cherine Fahd, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Honey Long & Prue Stent, Kate Mitchell, Nicole Monks, Clare Rae, Kirion Robinson, Huseyin Sami, Simone Slee, Salote Tawale and Hossein Valamanesh.
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Sydney Contemporary, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia - Group Exhibition
13-16 SEPTEMBER 2018 | CARRIAGEWORKS
EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Joyce Hinterding, John Nixon, Huseyin Sami, Gemma Smith.
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The Night Before, Sydney, Australia - Group Exhibition
Curated group show in Sydney featuring artists: Hany Armanious, Rebecca Baumann, Laren Brincat, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Adrian De Giorgio, Biljana Jancic, Daniel McKewen, Jonny Niesche, Huseyin Sami, Brendan Van Hek, Tina Havelock Stevens.
Geelong Gallery, Victoria - Group Exhibition
Shortlisted for the 2018 Geelong contemporary art prize.
The 2018 Geelong contemporary art prize is a signature event that assists with the development of the Gallery’s collection while fostering Australian artists and contemporary painting practice in general.
Showcasing the best of contemporary Australian painting practice, this $30,000 acquisitive award and biennial exhibition will feature works by Natasha Bieniek, Seth Birchall, Amber Boardman, Andrew Browne, Jon Campbell, Nancy Constandelia, Yvette Coppersmith, Ann Debono, Troy Emery, Emily Ferretti, Patrick Francis, Nyarapayi Giles, Peter Graham, Camille Hannah, Katherine Hattam, Euan Heng, Gregory Hodge, Carissa Karamarko, Madeleine Kelly, Mason Kimber, Anna Kristensen, Darren McDonald, Laith McGregor, Fiona McMonagle, Amanda Marburg, Sam Martin, Tully Moore, Jan Murray, Louise Paramor, Sally Ross, Huseyin Sami, Andrew Taylor, Kate Tucker, Sharon West, Bradd Westmoreland and Alice Wormald.
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Sarah Cottier Gallery, Untitled Statement, Sydney, Australia - Solo presentation
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia - Group exhibition
Equal Area: Lee Kun-Yong
Lee Kun-Yong – one of Korea’s most influential conceptual artists – is known for performances that explore the connection between the human psyche and the gestures of the body. This exhibition, Equal Area, features photographic documentation of Kun-Yong’s performances from his close-to six-decade career. It also includes four performances and live interventions by Australian artists over the five weeks of the exhibition.
Many of Kun-Yong's performances incorporate acts of repetition to test the relationship between logic and actions. Australian artists Huesyin Sami, Daniel Von Sturmer and Emily Parsons-Lord build on this idea to present their own works and performances in collaboration with Kun-Yong’s work.
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Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, Sydney, Australia - Group Exhibition
National Art School
Shortlisted for Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize.
The selected established artists for 2018 are: Richard Bell, Vivienne Binns, Vicente Butron, Richard Dunn, Sarah Goffman, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Gail Hastings, Tim Johnson, Lindy Lee, Stephen Little, Hilarie Mais, Jonny Niesche, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Kerrie Poliness, Elizabeth Pulie, Huseyin Sami, David Serisier and Jenny Watson.
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Rockhampton Art Gallery, Australia - Group Exhibition
Gold Award 2018
Shortlisted for 2018 Gold Award at Rockhampton Art Gallery.
One of the richest art prizes in Australia, the Award has been made possible through a generous bequest to the then Rockhampton Art Gallery Trust from the Estate of Moya Gold (1928-2000), a philanthropist who understood the joys and opportunities the arts and education can bring to a community and society.
Other shortlised artists: Tony ALBERT (QLD), Richard BELL (QLD), Dale FRANK (NSW), Jan NELSON (VIC), Huseyin SAMI (NSW), Gemma SMITH (NSW).
2017
Artspace, Sydney, Australia - Group Exhibition
Superposition of three types
Participating artists: Sydney Ball, Rebecca Baumann, Ry David Bradley, Julian Day, Shelley Lasica, Lara Merrett, Spence Messih, Elizabeth Newman, Jonny Niesche, Huseyin Sami, Nike Savvas, Gemma Smith and Brendan Van Hek. Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor and Talia Linz.
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Read the Frieze review by Wes Hill here.
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Good Times, Sydney, Australia - Solo presentation
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Sophie Gannon Gallery, Paintings, Melbourne, Australia - Solo presentation
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Verge Gallery, Unlimited Support, Sydney, Australia - Group exhibition
Koji Ryui, Huseyin Sami & Brendan Van Hek.
Unlimited Support is an artist led project that uses the formal qualities of installation, painting and sculptural work to look at what constitutes a support. The three artists employ supports in their work in diverse and distinctive ways, and in this exhibition they explore points of connection and difference in how they think through the potential of engaging with supports.
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Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Sydney, Australia - Group exhibition
Shortlisted for Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize.
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2016
National Gallery Australia, Victoria - Group Exhibition
Shut Up and Paint
Participating in Shut Up and Paint an exhibition that celebrates and examines contemporary painting.
Drawn from the NGV Collection, Shut Up and Paint includes significant international painters, and a number of Australian artists, whose work can be seen to lay the recent groundwork of transformations within the discipline. Shown in dialogue with these well-known practitioners is a significant display of recently acquired works, many never before seen in Australia. A number of these recent works test the boundaries of what might be considered painting today, as artists explore a more fluid relationship between it and other forms of art making, and reconsider painting’s place in a contemporary world.
25 September 2016 - February 2017
Shut Up and Paint
Read Art & Australia article The State of Painting, which comments on thoughts on Painting. More Painting, ACCA; Shut Up and Paint, NGV International; Geelong Contemporary Art Prize 2016.here.
Geelong Gallery, Victoria
2016 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize Shortlisted for the 2016 Geelong contemporary art prize - Group Exhibition
The 2016 Geelong contemporary art prize is a signature event that assists with the development of the Gallery’s collection while fostering Australian artists and contemporary painting practice in general.
Showcasing the best of contemporary Australian painting practice, this $30,000 acquisitive award and biennial exhibition will feature 33 works by Penelope Aitken, Robert Andrew, Xiao Bai, Kate Beynon, Warren Breninger, Hector Tjupuru Burton, Deidre But-Husaim, Magda Cebokli, Trevelyan Clay, Jonathan Crowther, Marieke Dench, Shaun Gladwell, Julia Gorman, Michael Gromm, Marie Hagerty, Peter Hill, Naomi Hobson, David Jolly, Col Jordan, Ash Keating, Chris Langlois, Donna Lougher, Viv Miller, Jennifer Mills, Jan Murray, John Nixon, Rosslynd Piggott, Adam Pyett, Sally Ross, Brad Rusbridge, Huseyin Sami, Kate Tucker and Jurek Wybraniec.
10 September - 13 November 2016
2016 Geelong contemporary art prize
The King's School Art Painting Prize 2016
Shortlisted for the The King's School Art Painting Prize 2016 - Group Exhibition
26-28 August 2016
Vivid Sydney - MCA
Vivid Sydney today announced that the creative vision of Western Sydney artist Huseyin Sami will illuminate the heritage-listed façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), when the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas returns in 2016 (27 May – 13 June 2016).
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St Jeromes Laneways Music Festival Exhibition - Sunday Punch
Participating in St Jeromes Laneways Music Festival Exhibition - Group Exhibition curated by liam garstang and mikhaela rodwell.
7 February 2016
Sunday Punch
2015
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Whispers from a band of Myth Makers - Solo Exhibition
Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne - Sometimes a new fiction will do - Solo exhibtion
Shortlisted finalist for the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, a national acquisitive award for small sculpture. The guest judges for the 2015 Prize include art advisor and curator Barbara Flynn, collector and philanthropist Penelope Seidler AM and Art Gallery of NSW director Dr Michael Brand.
10 - 25 October 2015
Awarded the 2015 Plinth Prize.
Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney - Group exhibition
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW - Georgia Brown, Terrence Combos, Charles Dennington, Hossein Ghaemi, Gregory Hodge, Karena Keys, Mason Kimber, Anna Kristensen, Stephen Little, Jonny Niesche, Kenzee Patterson, Elizabeth Pulie, Todd Robinson, Huseyin Sami, Tim Silver, Mark Titmarsh, Marian Tubbs, Justene Williams, Coen Young, Louise Zhang
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW
6 June - 23 August 2015
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Group exhibition
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY - John Armleder, Ross Bleckner, Andy Boot, Ernst Caramelle, Dejan Dukic, Dale Frank, Matthys Gerber, David Jolly, Linda Marrinon, Olivier Mosset, Dorothy Napangardi, Andreas Reiter Raabe / Franz West, Huseyin Sami, Anne Schneider, Peter Tyndall, Gordon Walters
13 February - 14 March 2015
2014
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Solo exhibtion
The Art of Ending a Conversation
11 July - 2 August 2014
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Group exhibtion
20/200
13 March - 17 April 2014
Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne - Solo exhibition
Syntax of Thicks and Thins
2 April - 30 April 2014
Flower Pepper Gallery, CA, United States - Group Exhibition
THE SEASON OF SPRING Curated by Daniel Rolnik
March 1 - April 4, 2014
2013
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Summer Group exhibition
Maria Cruz, Matthys Gerber, Christopher Hanrahan, Moya McKenna, Todd McMillan, Jamie North, John Nixon, Koji Ryui, Huseyin Sami, Gemma Smith, Justin Trendall, Jonathan Zawada.
21 January - 1 February 2014
'Never Underestimate a Monochrome' has travelled to Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, United States
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Solo presentation
I mark you, I cancel you, I Dirty you
4 May -11 April, 2013
Opening Thursday 4 May, 6 - 8pm
Alaska Projects, Sydney - Group exhibition
With Koji Ryui and Brendan Van Hek
Opening 2 April 2013
More information here.
2012
Campelltown Arts Centre, Australia - Group exhibition
Shortlisted for 2012 Fisher Ghost Art prize
Participating in the project 'Never Underestimate a Monochrome', University of Iowa Museum of Art, United States. Participating artists include: David Batchelor (Scotland/UK), Emilio Chapela (Mexico), Jason Corder (Kenya), Jaime Davidovich (Argentina), Bruno Dubner (Argentina), Maria Jose Duran (Chile/USA), Anoka Faruqee (USA), Stacy Fisher (USA), Ken Friedman (Australia), Babak Golkar (Canada), Michelle Grabner (USA), Billy Gruner / Sarah Keighery (Australia), Brent Hallard (Japan/USA), Beth Harland (UK), Lynne Harlow (USA), Sue Hettmansperger (USA), Odili Odita (Nigeria), Naoshi Okura (Japan/Sweden), Karina Peisajovich (Argentina), Pineapple Park (Australia), Dai Roberts (UK), Huseyin Sami (Australia), Lizi Sanchez (Peru/UK), Claudia Sbrissa (Canada/Italy/USA), Suzanne Stroebe (USA), Hadi Tabatabai (Iran/USA), Sherwin Tibayan (Philippines/USA), Douglas Witmer (USA), Horacio Zabala (Argentina), Patricia Zarate (Colombia/USA)
More information here.
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Group exhibition
Masculin Féminin (part 2)
MATTHYS GERBER, MATT HINKLEY, TODD MCMILLAN, JAMIE NORTH, KOJI RYUI, HUSEYIN SAMI, JUSTIN TRENDALL
Opening Friday 23 March, 6-8pm
Undertaking Artspace studio residency, Sydney June 2012
2011
Selected finalist for RBS Emerging Artist Award exhibition, Sydney Australia
Shortlisted for 2011 Woollahra Small Scuplture prize, Sydney, Austrailia
Participating in public art project in Perth Cultural Centre curated by Artsource WA. Project commencing in November 2011.
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Group exhibition
Artists: Ron Adams, Julie Fragar, Diena Georgetti, Christopher Hanrahan, Matt Hinkley, John Nicholson, John Nixon, Elizabeth Pulie, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Koji Ryui, Huseyin Sami, Jan van der Ploeg, Justene Williams, Jonathan Zawada.
Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney - Solo presentation
Mark Maker Makers Make
Opening Thursday 24th February, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs till 14th May 2011
Uplands Galley, Melbourne - Solo presentation
Are you cool and symmetrical
Opening Wednesday 2nd March 6-8pm
Exhibition runs till 25th March 2011
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Solo exhibition Prime Cuts
Opening Thursday 24th March 6-8pm
Exhibition runs till 14th April 2011
The exhibition coincides with Art Month Sydney and I will be presenting an artists talk in the gallery Saturday the 26th March
2010
8 Colours of fun project created by Smarties Australia.
JWT Sydney has launched a campaign for Smarties that followed 8 kids who were each teamed with an artist to create an artwork inspired by one of the eight Smarties colours. The artists were a mix of musicians, sculpters, dance choreographers, photographers and spoken word and installation artists. Director Summer Agnew of Curious Films shot the project around Sydney over four weeks with post handled by FSM and music by Nylon.
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney - Solo exhibition
B&W
11 June - 10 July 2010
Simon Denny, Julie Fragar, Marco Fusinato, Matthys Gerber, Christopher Hanrahan, Matt Hinkley, Reuben Keehan, Olivier Mosset, John Nixon, Huseyin Sami, Justin Trendall, Jan van der Ploeg
Opening Friday 11 June, 6-8pm
Undertaking Blacktown Arts Centre Studio residency
Sydney College of the Arts
The Fauvette Louriero Travelling Scholarship Survey Exhibition at SCA Gallery, Sydney, Australia (with Jess MacNeil)
Opening 3 March - 26 March 2010
UTS Gallery Sydney - Group exhibition
Twenty/20
9 March - 9 April 2010
Opening Tuesday 9 March 6-8pm
Twenty/20 is a group exhibition of twenty emerging, mid-career and established Australian painters. Curated by Ron & George Adams (founding directors of MOP Projects, an influential artist-run initiative in Sydney), the exhibition showcases a diversity of contemporary painting ranging from photo-realism, abstract, minimal, process-based and street art inspired practices; highlighting the innovation and rigor of painting practitioners in Australia today.
2009
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia - Solo exhibition
I wish I was a Fauve in 1905
Shortlisted for 2009 Woollahra small sculpture prize, Sydney, Australia
RBS Emerging Artist Award - Group exhibition
Shortlisted for RBS Emerging Artists Award, RBS Tower, Sydney, Australia
Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia - Group exhibition
Persuasion Equation
8 August - 20 September
Curators:Peter McKay CACSA (SA), Melissa Keys, PICA (WA) and Reuben Keehan, Artspace (NSW). Participating artists: Chris Bond (Vic), Catherine Bell (Vic), Huseyin Sami (NSW), Akira Akira (SA) and Matthew Hunt (WA)
This exhibition aims to explore the role of the curator in the presentation of contemporary art and to look at their relationship to living artists. Each curator will develop a theme and share the same five artists to work with them in developing and presenting their exhibitions. The Curators will not correspond with each other about the exhibition nor will the artists discuss the comparative approaches and themes that each curator is exploring. This show will present challenges to curators, artists and audience alike. Co-ordinated and conceived by Jan Duffy
Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia - Solo exhibition
Everything is Everything
Curated by Consuelo Cavaniglia
Undertaking Fremantle Arts Centre residency
Kunst Projects, Berlin, German - Solo exhibition
Blue Blah! And other works
11 July – 31 July 2009
Uplands Gallery,Melbourne, Australia
Problem Solving: Express Yourself
Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie, A Constructed World, Claire Fontaine, Ester Partegas, Jota Castro, Hany Armanious, Steve Carr, Koji Ryui, Raquel Ormella, Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Liv Barrett, Christopher LG Hill, James Deutsher, Matthew Griffin, Renee So, Poklong Anading, Tony Garifalakis, Huseyin Sami, Guy benfield, Jon Campbell, Ida Ekblad
4a Center for Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (with Koji Ryui) - Solo exhibition
Painter I am Why Not
30 April – 6 June 2009
Invited to participate in DesignEX 2009, Latitude exhibition, Melbourne
Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia
(with Gary Galego) 30 April – 2 May
Awarded Marketing Grant for NSW Artists (NAVA)
2008
Awarded Janet Holmes A Court Artist Grant (NAVA)
Artspace, Sydney, Australia - Group exhibition
Point of Origin
12 September - 12 October 2008
DORA ECONOMOU, CEAL FLOYER, JACK JEFFREY, TARAS POLATAIKO, HUSEYIN SAMI, ROLANDE SOULIERE, KELLY WOOD
Curator: Gary Pearson
Undertaking Artspace Studio Residency to coincide with international group exhibition ‘Point of Origin’, Sydney Australia
Awarded Australia Council New Work Grant
2007
Undertaking Parramatta Artists Studio Residency, Sydney Australia
2006-07
Undertaking CCA Contemporary Arts Center Residency, Kitakyushu, Japan
Awarded CCA Contemporary Arts Centre Scholarship