CURRICULUM VITAE: JUAN DAVILA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Born 1946 in Santiago, Chile
- 1965-1969 Law School of the University of Chile
- 1970-1972 Fine Arts School of the University of Chile
- Moved to Australia in 1974. Lives in Melbourne
- Artist, Editor Art and Criticism Monograph Series in Melbourne
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
- 1988 Centro Cultural de la Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima
- 1994 Juanito Laguna, Chisenhale Gallery, London
- 1995 Juan Davila, Recent Jet Sprays, Plug In Inc, Winnipeg, Canada
- 1996 Rota, Galeria Gabriela Mistral, Santiago
- 1999 Recent Drawings, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
- 2000 Love’s Progress, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Art Fair 2000, Melbourne
- 2002 Woomera, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
- 2002 Juan Davila: Works 1988-2002, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
- 2003 Recent Works, “Courbet’s Origin of the World Renamed”, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
- 2005 Juan Davila, Prints and Drawings, 1980s-2005, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
- 2006 Juan Davila, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- 2006 Juan Davila, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 1982 POPISM, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- 1983 From Another Continent: Australia, the Dream and the Real, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
- 1989 Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
- 1989 Vollbild, NGBK, Kunstlerbahnhof Westend, Berlin
- 1989 The Australian Exhibition, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
- 1990 Transcontinental, 9 Artists from Latinamerica, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
- 1991 El desafio a la colonizacion, 4th Biennale of Havana, Cuba
- 1991 La cita transcultural, ICI, Buenos Aires
- 1992 America, Bride of the Sun, Royal Fine Arts Museum, Antwerp
- 1994 Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London
- 1994 Cartographies, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- 1994 Cocido y Crudo, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
- 1998 Sao Paulo Biennale, Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros
- 1999 A sangre y fuego, EACC Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain
- 2001 William Buckley: Rediscovered, Geelong Art Gallery, Australia
- 2001 A Bush Burial-variations on a theme, Geelong Art Gallery, Australia
- 2002 Icon Interior, Howard Arkley and Juan Davila, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
- 2003 Witnessing to Silence, Art and Human Rights, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY BY THE ARTIST
- 1990 'Letters to Guy Brett', Transcontinental, Nine Latin American Artists, Guy Brett, Verso, London and New York
- 1995 'Dear A & D Reader', Art and Design, Art and Cultural Difference issue, London
- 2001 ‘Art or Mart?’, Meanjin 60, 4, 128-132, Melbourne
- 2002 ‘A Brief Commentary by the Artist’, catalogue Juan Davila: Works 1988-2002, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
- 2003 ‘Woomera’, Artlink, vol 23 n.1, pp 18-19, Adelaide
- 2003 Courbet’s “Origin of the World” Renamed, catalogue, Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne
- 2004 ‘Courbet’s Curtain’, Meanjin 63 (1) pp 211-218, Melbourne
- 2004 ‘Edwardian Mirage’, Meanjin 63 (3) pp 33-36, Melbourne
SELECTED CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS
- 1982 La historia de la pintura chilena (The History of Chilean Painting), Gaspar Galaz and Milan Ivelic, Catholic University of Valparaiso Ed.
- 1982 'Popism', Paul Taylor, Real Life 9, New York
- 1982 The Visual Arts and the Law, Shane Simpson, The Law Book Co., Sydney
- 1984 'A New Internationalsm', Gordon Bull, Domus 77, Italy
- 1984 'POPISM: The Art of White Aborigines', Paul Taylor, Flash Art 112, Italy
- 1984 La Cita Amorosa, Nelly Richard, Francisco Zegers Ed., Santiago
- 1984 'Australische Kunst der Gegenwart in Paris', Anna Bock, Kunstforum Bd.69 1/84, Germany
- 1985 'Love in Quotes, on the Painting of Juan Davila', Nelly Richard, Hysterical Tears, Greenhouse Publications, Paul Taylor Ed., Melbourne
- 1987 'Juan Davila', George Alexander, Revue d'art contemporain 46, Brussels
- 1987 'Art in Chile', Guy Brett, Art Monthly 104, London
- 1990 'Transcontinental, Ikon/Cornerhouse', Adrian Searle, Artscribe, Summer, London
- 1992 'The Migration of Images: Inscriptions of Land and Body in Latin America', Charles Merewether, catalogue America, Bride of the Sun, Royal Fine Arts Museum, Antwerp
- 1992 Ecstasy and Economics, Meaghan Morris, EMPress, Sydney
- 1993 'La Culture Planetaire: hegemonie et resistance', Guy Brett, Le Grand Atlas de L'Art II, Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris
- 1994 The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Alan McCulloch and Susan McCulloch, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards
- 1994 Cocido y Crudo, Dan Cameron, catalogue Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
- 1998 White Aborigines, Ian McLean, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
- 1999 ‘Quotation and Iconoclasm in the Work of Juan Davila’, Benjamin Genocchio, Collapse 4, Vancouver, Canada
- 2003 ‘Artists and Human Rights: Witnessing to Silence’, Caroline Turner, Witnessing to Silence, Art and Human Rights, Caroline Turner and Nancy Sever (eds). Canberra: Australian National University
- 2005 ‘Of Love and Modernity: The Lament of Joshua Smith’, Kate Briggs, Radical Revisionism, an Anthology of Writings on Australian Art, Rex Butler (ed.). Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art
- 2006 ‘Juan Davila’. Guy Brett and Roger Benjamin with writings by Juan Davila. Carlton: The Miegunyah Press in association with Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- Australian National University Collection, Canberra
- Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
- Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
- Lady Cruthers Collection, Perth
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
- Silvester Stallone Collection, Los Angeles
- Smorgon Family Collection, Melbourne
- State Library of Victoria