Ricky Swallow

David Kordansky Gallery, ‘COMPONENTS’, New York, United States

Modern Art, ‘Sand In My Joints’, London, United Kingdom

David Kordansky Gallery, ‘BORROWED SCULPTURES’, Los Angeles, United States

David Kordansky Gallery, ‘Shoulders’, Los Angeles, United States
Modern Art, ‘4’, London, United Kingdom

Maccarone, ‘New Work’, New York, United States

David Kordansky Gallery, ‘/SKEWS/’, Los Angeles, United States

Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

The Huntington Art Gallery, ‘Ricky Swallow and Lesley Vance’, San Marino, United States (Two-Person)
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, United States
Modern Art, Independent Art Fair, New York, United States
Modern Art, London, United Kingdom

National Gallery of Victoria, Ian Potter Centre, ’The Bricoleur’, Melbourne, Australia
University of Queensland Art Gallery, ’Watercolours’, Brisbane, Australia
Christchurch Art Gallery, ’Watercolours’, Christchurch, New Zealand

Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, United States
The Suburban, ’Ballad of a Thin Man’, Oak Park, United States
Darren Knight Gallery, ’Recent Work’, Sydney, Australia

Douglas Hyde Gallery, ‘Ricky Swallow’, Dublin, Ireland
Kunsthalle Wien, ’Younger Than Yesterday’, Vienna, Austria

MoMA PS1, New York, United States
Modern Art, ’Long Time Gone’, London, United Kingdom
Art Gallery of Western Australia, ’The Past Sure is Tense’, Perth, Australia

Australia Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, ‘This Time Another Year’, Venice, Italy

Darren Knight Gallery, ‘Killing Time’, Sydney, Australia
Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, ‘Killing Time’, Melbourne, Australia

Tomio Koyama Gallery, ‘Field Recordings’, Tokyo, Japan

Andrea Rosen Gallery, ‘Tomorrow in Common’, New York, United States
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, ‘Wooden Problem’, Los Angeles, United States
First Floor Artists and Writers Space, ‘Sculpture Now’, Melbourne, Australia

University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, ’For those who came in late’, Matrix 191, Berkeley, United States
Harnish McKay Gallery, ’Above Ground Sculpture’, Wellington, New Zealand
Museum of Contemporary Art, ’Swallow/Swenson’, Sydney, Australia
S.M.A.K., ’Casino 2001’, Ghent, Belgium
Hot Rod Tearoom, ’Individual Ape’, Oslo, Norway

Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, ’Plastruct’, Los Angeles, United States
Darren Knight Gallery, ’Unplugged’, Sydney, Australia
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ’Ricky Swallow: Above Ground Sculpture’, Dunedin, New Zealand
UKS Gallery, ’Brand New Master Copy’, Oslo, Norway
Metro Arts, ’Spin Me Round’, Brisbane, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, ’Uncommon World’, Canberra, Australia

Studio 12, ’The Multistylus Programme’, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
The Ian Potter Museum of Art, ’Contempora 5’, The Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia

Darren Knight Gallery, ‘Repo Man’, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Biennale Exhibition, ‘All This And Heaven Too’, Adelaide, Australia

Grey Area Art Space, Inc., ‘The Lighter Side of the Dark Side’, Melbourne, Australia
Teststrip, ‘Small World’, Auckland, New Zealand
200 Gertrude Street, ‘Diorama’, curated by Charlotte Day, Melbourne, Australia

Fine Arts, Sydney, ’Francis Upritchard, Ricky Swallow, Fiona Connor, Hany Armanious’, Sydney, Australia
Orange County Museum of Art, ‘Ordinary Extraordinary’, Costa Mesa, United States

Karma, ‘4 x 4’, New York, United States

Kemper Museum, ‘Infinite Regress: Mystical Abstraction from the Kemper Collection and Beyond’, Kansas City, United States

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, ‘Generation X: 50 Artworks from the Chartwell Collection’, Wellington, New Zealand

Modern Art, ‘Paris’, Paris, France

Birch Contemporary, ‘Micah Lexier, Five Shapes’, Toronto, Canada

The Bunker Artspace, ‘Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody’, West Palm Beach, United States

Gordon Robichaux Gallery, New York, United States

David Kordansky Gallery, ‘20’, Los Angeles, United States

Parker Gallery, ‘Wishing Well: A benefit exhibition to support gene therapy research’, Los Angeles, United States

Dunes Gallery, ‘Beginners’, Portland, United States

Buxton Contemporary Art Museum, ‘nightshifts’, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Reading Room, ‘SMOKE’, curated by Ed Davis, Melbourne, Australia

Heide Museum of Modern Art, ‘w-Hole’, Melbourne, Australia

Mu.ZEE, ‘Friends in a Field: Conversations with Raoul De Keyser’, curated by Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, Oostende, Belgium

Geelong Gallery, ‘The Gertrude Editions’, Geelong, Australia

Adams and Ollman, ‘Dear John’, Portland, United States

Modern Art, ‘Group Show’, London, United Kingdom
Georgia Museum of Art, ‘Inside Look: Selected Acquisitions from the Georgia Museum of Art’, Athens, United States

Ahmanson Gallery, ‘In Quest of Beauty: Assemblage, Assemblage in the Ahmanson Collection’, Irvine, United States


Firstsite, ‘Bronze Age c. 3500 BC - AD 2018’, organized by Dr. Neil Wenman and Mary Beard, Colchester, United Kingdom

National Gallery of Australia, ‘Bodies of Art: Human Form from the National Collection’, Canberra, Australia

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, ‘Obsession: Devil in the detail’, Mornington, Australia

Home@735 Gallery, ‘2018 Invitational’, Sydney, Australia
Galerie Greta Meert, ‘Wiggle’, Brussels, Belgium

The Michael Buxton Centre of Contemporary Art, ‘The shape of things to come’, curated by Melissa Keys, Parkville, Australia

Ahmanson Gallery, ‘Define gravity: Sculpture in the Ahmanson Collection’, curated by John Silvis, Irvine, United States

CANADA, ‘WORKING/NOT WORKING’, curated by Matt Connors, New York, United States

National Gallery of Victoria, ‘Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s, Melbourne, Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, ‘Australian art and the Russian avant-garde’, Sydney, Australia
Ipswich Art Gallery, ‘Works from the Collection’, Ipswich, Australia

Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘99 Cents or Less’, organised by Jens Hoffman, Detroit, United States

Geelong Gallery, ‘Tricking the eye - contemporary trompe l'oeil’, Geelong, Australia

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, ‘Tempest’, curated by Juliana Engberg, Hobart, Australia

Les Arts Décoratifs, ‘L'esprit du Bauhaus, l'objet en question’, curated by Olivier Gabet, Paris, France

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, ‘Today Tomorrow Yesterday’, organised by Natasha Bullock, Sydney, Australia

Modern Art, ‘Theories of Modern Art’, London, United Kingdom

Thomas Dane Gallery, ‘Blind Architecture’, curated by Douglas Fogle, London

Blum & Poe, ‘Business in Front b/w Blue White Red’, organised by Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, United States

Corbett vs. Dempsey, ‘Other Planes of There’, Chicago, United States

Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial, New York, United States
The Machine Project Field Guide to The Gamble House, Pasadena, United States

Hammer Museum, ‘Made in LA’, Los Angeles, United States

Ensemble Poirel–Nancy, ‘Quiz: Sur une idee de Robert Stadler’, Paris, France


Galleria Il Capricorno, ‘A Personal Choice’, Venice, Italy

Heide Museum of Art, ‘Future Primitive’, Melbourne, Australia

Murray White Room, ‘Everyday’, Melbourne, Australia

David Kordansky Gallery, ‘Grapevine~ Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Micheal Frimkess, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Peter Shire’, curated by Ricky Swallow, Los Angeles, United States

Wallspace, ‘Ten Years’, New York, United States

Casey Kaplan, ‘Mind is Outer Space’, New York, United States

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, ‘Labour and Wait’, Santa Barbara, United States

White Flag Projects, ‘Coconut Water’, St. Louis, United States

Office Baroque, ‘Notes on Neo-Camp’, curated by Chris Sharp, Antwerp, Belgium
Studio Voltaire, ‘Notes on Neo-Camp’, curated by Chris Sharp, London, United Kingdom

Santa Barbara Arts Forum, ‘A Handful of Dust’, curated by Laura Fried, Santa Barbara, United States

Museum of Art and Design, ‘Against the Grain’, New York, United States

The Hepworth Wakefield, ‘To Hope, To Tremble, To Live: Modern and Contemporary Works from the David Roberts Collection’, Wakefield, United Kingdom

Marc Foxx Gallery, ‘Pale Ontology’, Los Angeles, United States

Wallspace, New York, ‘The Mystery Trend’, United States

Art Gallery of South Australia, 2012 Biennial of Australian Art, ‘Parallel Collisions’, Adelaide, Australia

Mary Mary Gallery, ‘Construct’, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Taut and The Tame, ‘I Do This, I Do That-Joe Bradley & Ricky Swallow’, curated by Matt Connors, Berlin, Germany
National Gallery of Victoria, ‘10 Ways To Look At The Past’, Melbourne, Australia

The Aspen Art Museum, ‘Sculptors Drawing’, Aspen, United States

Museum Of Contemporary Art, ‘Almanac, The Gift Of Ann Lewis AO’, Sydney, Australia

The British Museum, ‘Out Of Australia’, London, United Kingdom

Haunch Of Venison, ‘Mythologies’, London, United Kingdom

Tarrawarra Museum Of Art, Tarrawarra Biennial 2008, ‘Lost & Found, An Archeology Of The Present’, curated by Charlotte Day, Melbourne, Australia

Monash University Museum Of Art, ‘The Ecologies Project’, Melbourne, Australia

Aspen Art Museum, ‘Imaginary Thing’, curated by Peter Eeley, Aspen, United States

Modern Art, ‘Effigies’, London, United Kingdom

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘Makers and Modelers‘, New York, United States

Darren Knight Gallery, ‘Sculpture’, Sydney, Australia

Rubell Family Collection, ‘Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection’, Miami, United States

Yokohama Museum of Art, ‘Goth: Reality of the Departed World‘, Yokohama, Japan

Aspen Art Museum, ‘Sculptors Drawing‘, Aspen, United States

Modern Art, ‘Summer exhibition‘, London, United Kingdom

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘Reboot-The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection‘, Dunedin, New Zealand

The Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Getting Emotional‘, Boston, United States

Modern Art, ‘Strange Weather‘, London, United Kingdom

Art Tower Mito, ‘Living Together is Easy‘, Mito, Japan,
National Gallery of Victoria, ‘Living Together is Easy‘, Melbourne, Australia

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, ‘The Ten Commandments‘, Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Dresden, Germany

Art Gallery of New South Wales, ‘Still Life‘, Sydney, Australia

Emily Tsingou Gallery, ‘Variations on the Theme of Illusion‘, London, United Kingdom

Z33, ‘Guided By Heros‘, curated by Raf Simons, Hasselt, Belgium

Stazione Leopolda, ‘The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes‘, curated by Raf Simons and Francesco Bonami, Florence, Italy

Tate Liverpool, ‘Remix‘, Liverpool, United Kingdom

SMAK, ‘Casino 2001‘, Gent, Belgium

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘Good work‘, Dunedin, New Zealand
City Gallery, ‘Good Work‘, Wellington, New Zealand

Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Utopia / ROR‘, Helsinki, Finland

Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany

Andrea Rosen Gallery, ‘Keith Edmier, Ricky Swallow, Erick Swenson‘, New York, United States

National Gallery of Australia, ‘Uncommon World‘, Canberra, Australia

UKS Gallery, ‘Brand New Master Copy‘, Oslo, Norway

Overgaden Gallery, ‘Rent‘, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Ian Potter Museum of Art, ‘Contempora 5‘, Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne International Biennial, ‘Signs Of Life‘, Melbourne, Australia

Synaesthesia Music Store, ‘Walkmen‘, with David Jolly and David Noonan, Melbourne, Australia

36 Wellington St, ‘Rubik 3 Video vs Watercolour‘, Melbourne, Australia

Stripp Gallery, ‘Hobby Core‘, curated by Ricky Swallow, Melbourne, Australia

Art Gallery of South Australia, ‘All This And Heaven Too‘, Adelaide Biennial Exhibition, Adelaide, Australia

200 Gertrude Street Gallery, ‘Diorama‘, curated by Charlotte Day, Melbourne, Australia

Platform 2, ‘Gathering‘, curated by Ricky Swallow, Melbourne, Australia

’Doyle Lane: Weed Pots’, David Kordansky Gallery, New York, United States

’Doyle Lane: Weed Pots’, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, United States

Honoree, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Fall Gala, New York, United States (2018)
Contempora 5 Art Award, Australia (1999)
Emerging Artists Grant, The Australia Council (1998)

Artist in Residence, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, United States (2015)
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand (2000)
Centre of Visual Arts, Cardiff, United Kingdom (2000)

Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia (1993—1997)