Hany Armanious

HANY ARMANIOUS

1962 Born, Egypt. Lives and works in Sydney, Australia


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013
Solo show, Galerie Allen, Paris
Set Down, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland New Zealand
we go out inside, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2012
The Plagiarist of My Subconscious, Southard Reid, London
The Golden Thread, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne

2011
The Golden Thread, 54th Venice Biennale (curator Anne Ellegood, Australian Pavilion)

2010
Birth of Venus, Foxy Production, New York, USA

2009
Running Man, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
Uncanny Valley, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2008
The Oracle, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, USA (curated by Anthony Huberman)

2007
Year of the Pig Sty, Foxy Production, New York, USA
Castillo/Corrales and Galeries Balice with Foxy Production, Paris
Year of the Pig Sty, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
Morphic Resonance, City Gallery of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

2006
Morphic Resonance, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Intelligent Design, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Frontiers Are My Prison, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand

2005
Central Core Component from the Centre of the Universe, Ocular Lab Inc., Melbourne, Australia

2004
The Centre of the Universe (Central Core/Hard Core/Soft Core) Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Stopping the World, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
The Cult, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2003
Art Nouveau Barbeque, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Views of Space, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand

2002
Selflok, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, Australia

2001
Neo Phantom Thing (with Mary Teague), Lord Mori Gallery, Los Angeles , USA
Selflok, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles , USA

2000
Semi-Automatic, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1999
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1997
Gallery Thomas Taubert, Dusseldorf, Germany

1994
Snake Oil, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
Cast Recording, Prism Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Direct Democracy, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
In the House of Martha and Mary, Darren Knight Gallery (with Patrick Hartigan and Neil Jones)

2012
Mutatis Mutandis, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Chinatown: the sequel, ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
you, your sun and shadow, Anderson Gallery, VCU arts, Virginia, USA

2011
Colour Bazaar: Nine Contemporary Works, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2010
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before & After Science, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

2009
Tonight, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Zero..., Milan, Italy
Double Hemisphere, Foxy Production, New York, USA

2008
Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA
Noli Me Legere, Michael Lett, Auckland
Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennial, curated by Charlotte Day, Healesville, Victoria Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2007
Nueva Dimension, Hats Plus, London (organised by Dick Evans)
Surface Wave, Foxy Production, New York

2006
Before the Body-Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Busan Biennale, Busan Korea
Adventures with form in space, Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Uncanny Nature, Australia Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (curator Rebecca Coates)

2004
Art & Industry Urban Arts Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand
Every Day Minimal, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Fantasy Island, A Block Project, Michael Lett, Auckland

2003
Surface Tension, BLOCK, Sydney, Australia
MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Islands in the Stream, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Bloom, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

2002
Necessary Fictions, DeChiaria Gallery, New York, USA
Line Up, The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Field Work: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2001
Painting: an arcane technology, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia

2000
Verso Sud, curated by Franz West, Palazzo Dorio Pamphilly, Valmonte
GOLD!, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Moet et Chandon fellows exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Drive, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Australia
Plastika, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Australia

1999
The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland

1998
Moet et Chandon Touring Art Prize, National Gallery of Australia (Fellow 1998)

1997
On Dialogue, Hausan Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Contempora 5, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

1996
Rapport, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

1995
Volatile Colonies, Johannesburg Biennale, Museumafrica, Johannesburg, South Africa

1994
Virtual Reality, National Gallery of Australia, Australia
Localities pf Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Jeden Tag, Christine Konig, Vienna, Austria

1993
Aperto, Venice Bienalle, Venice, Italy (curator Achille Bonito Oliva)
Monster Field, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Wits End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

1992
The Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney, Australia

1991
Australia Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW, Australia


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2013
T.J McNamara, 'Light and illumination', The New Zealand Herald, 6 April 2013 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10875819

2012
Anna Davis, `Hany Armanious', MCA Sculpture Series, (Sydney: MCA, 2012)
Helen Hughes, ?Hany Armanious - The Golden Thread?, Art Guide, March 2012
Dan Rule, 'Casting about for images to re-evaluate the building blocks of the mundane', The Age, January 25 2012
Robert Nelson, `The Golden Thread', The Age, March 7 2012.pdf

2011
Roberta Smith, `Artists Decorate Palazzos and Vice Versa', The New York Times, June 8 2011
Sebastian Smee, ?Vanity Case: Sebastian Smee on the 54th Venice Biennale?, The Monthly, July 2011
Anne Ellegood (ed.), Hany Armanious - The Golden Thread, exh. cat. Australian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Australia Council for the Arts, 2011, pp.152
Oliver Krischer, ?Plundering the Uncanny Valley, Hany Armanious?, Art Asia Pacific, No. 73, May/June 2011, pp. 120-129
Max Delany, 'Reflections on ILLUMInations-The 54th Venice Biennale', Art and Australia, Issue 49 No. 1, pp34-37
Stephanie Holt (ed.), Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread, (Sydney: Australia Council for the Arts, 2011)
Rosalie Higson, ?Venetian window for alchemist,? The Australian, April 26, 2011, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts

2010
McGarry, Kevin, ?Asked and Answered: Hany Armanious,? T Magazine, December 6, 2010, http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes. com/2010/12/06/asked-answered-hany-armanious/
Michael Wilson, ?Hany Armanious, Birth of Venus,? Time Out New York, June 17, 2010, p. 68
Adam Fulton, ?Digging the fdirt all the way from Leichhardt to Venice Biennale,? Sydney Morning Herald, February 19, 2010, http://www.smh.com.au/

2009
Adam Jasper, ?Unreality Bites,? Art World 8, April/May, 2009. pp. 74 - 80

2008
Adam Jasper, ?Hany Armanious - Pragmatic metaphysics, painstaking copies and infinite pedastals,? Frieze 114, April, 2008, pp. 154 - 155

2007
Roberta Smith, ?Hany Armanious,? The New York Times, November 23, 2007, E40
Robert Leonard, ?Catalogue of Errors,? Morphic Resonance: Hany Armanious, Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art and City Gallery, 2007, pp. 20 - 30
Jason Markou, ?The Sorcerer?s Crocs,? Morphic Resonance: Hany Armanious, Brisbane, Institue of Modern Art and City Gallery

2006
Before the Body-Matter, exhibition catalogue, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Jacqueline Millner, ?Review of Adventures with Form in Space: The Fourth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project,? Eyeline, no. 62, Summer 2006/2007, p. 62
Palmer, Daniel, ?Looking Back: Retrospectives,? Frieze, mo. 104, December - January 2007, p. 132
Ashley Crawford, Preview of ?Uncanny Nature,? The Age, Sunday, September 3rd
Dougal Phillips, Review of ?Adventures in Form and Space, Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project 2006,? Art and Australia, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2006, p. 280
Morphic Resonance, Institute of Modern Art, exhibition catalogue, 2006
Andrew Frost, ?In the heart of the wood,? Australian Art Collector, Issue 38, October - December 2006, pp. 154 - 163 Sebastian Smee, ?Dot Complimentary,? The Weekend Australian, September 9 - 10, 2006, pp. 18 - 19
John Mc Donald, ?Lights, action, entertainment,? Review of Adventures with Form in Space: The Fourth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, in Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 9-10, 2006, pp. 16-17
Rebecca Coates, ?Hany Armanious? in Uncanny Nature, exhibition catalogue, Australia Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Selekta exhibition catalogue, West Space, Melbourne
Jason Markou, ?Hany Armanious,? Adventures with form in space, Balnaves Foundation Sculpture project, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Art Life, Review of Intelligent Design, http://www.artlife.blogspot.com/
Diana Simmonds, ?Two artists showcase latest work,? Inside Entertainment, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, June 18, 2006 p. 3 Sunanda Creagh, Review of Totemistical and Intelligent Design, `Open Gallery?, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 10-11 2006 p. 16
Betsy Brennan, ?The Alchemist,? Vogue Living, January/February 2006 pp. 85 - 86

2005
Jason Markou, ?Turns in Arabba,? exhibition catalogue, Michael Lett, Auckland
Julie Gough, ?Art in Review for 2005,? Art in Australia, Vol. 43, No. 2, Summer 2005 p. 276
Alex McDonald, ?Where the Wild Things Are,? 25 May 2005, www.stateart.com.au/sota/reviews/default.asp?fid=3497
John Daly-Peoples, ?Eyeing the follies of insipid world culture,? Fine Arts, National Business Review, 21 January 2005, p. 42
Andrew Clifford, ?Cosmic campground,? The New Zealand Herald, 19 January 2005, p. 6
Tessa Laird, ?Thank you for recycling,? New Zealand Listener, 28 January 2005, p. 50
Sunday Star Times, About Town, The Guide, January 16, 2005, New Zealand
Jane Davidson and Robert Leonard, ?Hany Armanious,? Gallery News, Nov-Feb 04-05
Hany Armanious, ?Hany Armanious? catalogue essay, National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, 2005, p. 14 2004
Peter Hill, ?Free installations,? Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), July 17-18, pp. 8-9
Anthony Byrt, ?Art is a bunny rabbit,? Listener, March 27 2004, p. 62
Anthony Byrt, ?The Creepy Contemporary Sublime,? Broadsheet, Feb-May, vol. 33 no. 1, pp. 53 - 55
?Bloom mutation, toxicity and the sublime?, (exh. cat) Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, curated by Gregory Burke

2003
Simon Rees, ?Hany Armanious at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,? Flash Art, vol. 36, no. 232, October 2003, p. 48
Michael Desmond, ?Hany Armanious,? Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 3, September - November, p. 35
Chris Piper, ?Strange Magic,? Silver Limbo, Issue 1, p. 30
Peter Hill, ?Zero Hour,? Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition `Spectrum,? 2-3 August, 2003, pp. 12 - 13
Dominque Angeloro, ?Down the rabbit hole,? Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), July 25 - 31, 2003, p. 26
Margaret Plant, ?The Journey from Field to Fieldwork 1968 - 2003,? eyeline # 51, Autumn - Winter, 2003, pp. 44 - 46 Stephen Naylor, ?Getting into the Giardini di Castello: Australia?s representation at the Venice Biennale,? Art & Australia, 40th Anniversary Issue, Winter, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 594 - 601
Mark Titmarsh, ?Time and Tide: Decadal Shifts in Australian contemporary art,? Art Monthly Australia #160, June, pp. 16 - 19 Stuart Koop, ?Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 1, March, April, May, pp. 8 - 11
Daniel Thomas, ?S & D at NGVA,? Art Monthly Australia no. 157, March 2003, pp. 27 - 32

2002
Charles Green, ?Into the 1990s: the decay of postmodernism,? Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003), pp. 100 - 111
Alex Gowronski, ?Dividing Lines,? Broadsheet - Contemporary Visual Arts + Culture Newspaper, vol 31, no. 1, March - May, p. 25
Andrew Frost, ?Mea Culpa,? Australian Style, January, p. 28

2001
Eve Sullivan, ?Hany Armanious: Prostrated offerings from a twentieth-century alchemist,? Art & Australia, vol. 39, no. 2, p. 230, 231
Fergus Armstrong and Amanda Rowell, Selflok, catalogue essay, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
?Hany Armanious Interview,? UCLA Hammer Museum, http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibits/hanyarmaniousinterview.htm Courtney Kidd, ?Elfin Magic,? Sydney Morning Herald, 11 July
Natalie King and Bala Starr, ?Suspended Animation,? Painting: an arcane technology (exh. cat.), Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Lara Travis, ?Off with the pixies,? Like Art Magazine, no. 14
Lara Travis, ?Hot Prospects,? Vogue Australia, February
Coutney Kidd, ?Romance within barbarism,? Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, Jul 11

2000
Rex Butler, ?Hany Armanious,? Artext, no. 68, February - April
Benjamin Genocchio, ?From shock to schlock,? The Weekend Australian, Edition 1, Saturday 28 October, p. R19 William McAloon, ?At the Wheel,? Listener, March 25, p. 36, 37
Greg Bourke and Hanna Scott, Drive catalogue essay, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand
Megan Dunn, ?Auto Art,? Identity
Edward Colless, ?Hany Armanious,? Like Art Magazine, no. 11, p. 50,51
Hanna Scott, ?At the gallery,? 25.07.00 (journal source not known)
?The Subterranean Hany Armanious,? Vogue #2, p. 74


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Newcastle Regional Gallery, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Australia
Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand
Dakis Joannou Foundation, Athens, Greece
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA


AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2004
Artist in Residence, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland New Zealand

1998
Moet et Chandon Fellow

1997
Finalist, Contempora5

1993
Australia Council, Los Angeles Studio