Ana Pollak - CV
1958 Born in Sydney, Australia
1987 > Lives and works on Dangar Island, NSW
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Continuum, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2022. Headlines, Orange Regional Gallery
2020 Palimpsest, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2012 Flux, The Edge Art Space, Brooklyn, NSW
2010 Opus 2, Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney
2009 Ace Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2008 Fluvial, Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney
2007 Ode to Oysters, Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Group Artists, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2023 An Exhibition of New Works, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2023 Abstract, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
2023 Landscape, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2023 Abstraction, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2021 Abstract 2021, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2020 Abstraction, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2018 Sticks and Stones, Nock Art Foundation, Hong Kong
2017 Drawn Together Painted Apart, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
2017 Makers Mark, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2016 Moment of Light, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
2016 Salon Des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2015 Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
2014 Drawing out, Dobell, Australian Drawing Biennale 2014, Art Gallery NSW
2013 The Edge Art Space, Brooklyn, NSW
2013 Artarmon Galleries, Sydney
2012 Remarking, Remaking, Blacktown Art Centre, Sydney
2012 Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW
2008 Seventh Drawing Biennale 2008, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
2008 Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW
2008 Downstream, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney
Studies
1978-80 Diploma of Art, Alexander Mackie School of Art, Sydney.
1976 Studies in Drawing, Byam Shaw School of Painting & Drawing, London
Grants & Awards
2007 Dobell Prize for Drawing, Australia
1983 Experimental Film Grant, Australian Film Commission
1980-84 Artist in residence, North Rocks School for Blind Children, Sydney; Australia Council with School P & C
Collections
Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, NSW
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Residencies
2017 Hong Kong. Nock Art Foundation
Bibliography
2019 Linda Adair: Three Women Artists in Country 2019, Rochford Street Review
2014 Anne Ryan: Drawing Out, Dobell Australian Drawing Biennale 2014, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
2013 Alan Sisley: Dobell Exhibition Draws to an end, Orange Regional Gallery
2012 Hendrik Kolenberg; Helen Campbell; Anne Denham Ryan:
Contemporary Australian Drawing. 20 years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing, essay, Art Gallery NSW
2012 Li, Wenbin, Abdullah M I Syed.
Remarking / Remaking: Contemporary Australian drawing connections, Blacktown Arts Centre
2008 Cummings, Elisabeth: Downstream, Catalogue introduction, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
2008 Cross, Elizabeth: Seventh Drawing Biennale, Catalogue essay, ANU Drill Hall Gallery
2008 Sykes, Jill: How last year's Dobell was spent, Look (Art Gallery of NSW), July
2007 Smee, Sebastian: Pencil it in, Weekend Australian, September 8-9
2007 McDonald, John: Insistent work a brave choice, SMH, August 24
2007 Schwartzkoff, Louise: Up the creek without a palette, SMH, August 24
2007 Smee, Sebastian: Perfect example of where to draw the line, The Australian, August 24
2007 Higson, Rosalie: Oysters the pearl of Dobell Prize, The Australian, August 24