COOK, Michael
BIOGRAPHY
Born 25 August 1968, Brisbane
Heritage Bidjara people of south-west Queensland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Hear no... see no... speak no..., Queensland Centre for Photography/Andrew Baker Art
Dealer at The Depot Gallery, Sydney
Civilised, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne
2012 Civilised, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Broken Dreams, October Gallery, London, UK
Through My Eyes, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, Victoria
The Mission, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne
2011 Uninhabited, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2010 Through My Eyes, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 My Country, I still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art form Black Australia,
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Photo LA: The 22nd International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, Santa
Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, USA
Debil Debil—Australian Ghosts, Carriageworks, Sydney
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
Queensland
2012–13 UnDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra; Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland; Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of
Art, University of South Australian, Adelaide; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo,
New South Wales
2012 The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Queensland Art Gallery/
GoMA, Brisbane
29th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museums and Art
Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
My Country: Works from Indigenous communities that celebrate their heritage,
University of Western Sydney Art Gallery, New South Wales
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
Queensland
SCAP 2D 2012: Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2D, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland
Omission, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Where the art leads: new explorations by Queensland Indigenous artists, Cairns
Regional Gallery, Queensland
All I need is everything, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland
Pairs, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne
2011 Face Up: A Look at portraits from the collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
Queensland
Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2011, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
Queensland
2010 15th Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
AWARDS
2012 Finalist, 29th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museums
and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Finalist, SCAP 2D 2012: Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2D, Caloundra Regional Gallery,
Queensland
Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art
Gallery, Queensland
2011 Winner, ‘People’s Choice Award’, Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2011, Art
Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Winner, ‘Visual Artist of the Year’, 17th Annual Deadly Awards—the National Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Awards
Finalist, Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2011, Art Gallery of Western
Australia, Perth
Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art
Gallery, Queensland
2008 Winner, ‘Visual Artist of the Year’, 14th Annual Deadly Awards—the National Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Awards
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Parliament House, Canberra
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Artspace Mackay, Queensland
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
La Trobe University, Melbourne
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland
University of Western Sydney, New South Wales
University of Wollongong, New South Wales
Alex Mackay Collection of Erotic Art, Brisbane
Alstonville Art Collective, New South Wales
Dr Clinton Ng Collection, Sydney
Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Daryl Hewson Collection, Brisbane
TEWRR Collection, Brisbane
The Bowerman Collection, Brisbane
The Gene and Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney
The M Collection, Melbourne
The Owen and Wagner Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
