SCOTT REDFORD - NAP CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
SCOTT REDFORD is an Australia based artist and sometime curator and writer. He was born on the Gold Coast in 1962. He has exhibited nationally since 1983 and internationally since 1997. In 2001/2002 Redford was the recipient of the Australia Council Residency at the KunstlerhausBethanien, Berlin. Major exhibitions Redford has participated in include 2004: Australian Culture Now at NGV Australia and ACMI, Melbourne; the 1993 and 1999 Australian Perspecta at AGNSW; the 1996 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art at AGSA; Photographica Australis Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan and Asian tour; Fieldwork: Australian Contemporary Art 1968-2002 at NGV Australia; Blondies and Brownies: Aspects of Racism and Multiculturalism in the New and Old Worlds at AktionsforumPraterinsel, Munich. Recent major group exhibitions that have included Redford’s work are HIGH TIDE: Currents in Contemporary Australasian Art at Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland and the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; the 2006 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art; and Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund at the NGV Australia, Melbourne; Optimism: Contemporary Australia GOMA, Brisbane 2008
Redford’s work has been the subject of seven publications, five accompanying part survey exhibitions: “Surf or Die: Writings on the Art of Scott Redford”, Art & Oceania Publications, Gold Coast 1996; “Scott Redford: Guy in the Dunes”, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1997; and “1962: Scott Redford Selected Works 1983-92”, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane 2003 and “Scott Redford: ½ Way: Collage Works 1994-2004” Griffith University, Brisbane 2004and “The Content Of These Paintings Is Secret, Known Only To The People Of Surfers Paradise: Scott Redford and the Gold Coast” 2005 published by the Gold Coast City Art Gallery and Bricks Are published by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 2006 Scott Redford Introduces Reinhardt Dammn QAGOMA, 2010.
Works by Scott Redford are held in the National Gallery of Australia; most Australian State galleries; many regional galleries; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Parliament House, Canberra and numerous private museums and collections.
SCOTT REDFORD CV
Born 1962, Gold Coast, Queensland
Lives and works in Brisbane / Melbourne
Solo exhibitions
2025 Gestural Paintings / Masonite NAP CONTEMPORARY, Mildura.
2025 RECKLESS (1982-85) / And how it's made NAP CONTEMPORARY, Mildura.
2025 US + THEM (RODS) NAP CONTEMPORARY, Mildura.
2024: Auto Rothkos, NAP CONTEMPORARY, Mildura.
2024: Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney.
2020 Scott Redford, Absolute Guzzler, GUZZLER, Melbourne
2019 BAD Boys – Mission Impossible FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2019 BAD Boys – ARTCASTS FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2015 Fun + Games = FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2014 Scott Redford – Burn Rate / Parallel World, 11m2, Berlin
2010 Introducing Reinhardt Dammn, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Melbourne
2010 Reinhardt Dammn: Ruined In A Day, Hesier Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Reinhardt Dammn: New Single, Out Now Criterion Gallery, Hobart
2008 On The Beach, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2008 Reinhardt Dammn: Anytime Baby, Gould Galleries at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2008 Reinhardt Dammn: Cold War, Breenspace, Sydney and IMA, Brisbane
2007 Photo: Sculpture, Theatre etc…Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2007 Sculpture, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
2007 Blood Disco, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2006 No Place Like Home, Institute of Modern Art at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2006 Bricks Are Heavy, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2005 The Content of these Paintings is Secret, Known Only to the People of Surfers Paradise: Scott Redford and the Gold Coast, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2005 This Side of Paradise, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2005 Surf Paintings/ Heavier Than Heaven, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
2004 ½ Way: Collage Works 1994-2004, Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2003 I’ve Got My Spine / I’ve Got My Orange Crush, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2003 1962: Selected Works 1983-1992, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2003 Surf Paintings / Somebody’s Son, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2002 I Need More, KunstlerhausBethanien, Berlin
2002 Urinals: Broadbeach, Surfers Paradise, Fortitude Valley, Austallungenbei Horst Schuler, Dusseldorf
2002 Spiritual Australia, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Photo: Bleach Room (Kurt), AktionsforumPraterinsel, Munich
2001 Surf Paintings / Yield Brother, Austallungenbei Horst Schuler, Dusseldorf
2001 Spiritual Australia, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Surf Paintings = Already Gone, Sutton Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Surf Paintings / Futurist City, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1999 Surf Unbe, Austallungenbei Horst Schuler, Dusseldorf
1999 We are the Language (Kurt), Metro Arts, Brisbane
1998 To Have and Have Not 7066 AD, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997 When Doves Cry, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Anyone Who Had a Heart, Sutton Gallery, Brisbane
1996 Learn by Heart, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1996 Everything that happens in culture happens because it is needed / PURE MASSACRE – silverchair, Artspace, Sydney
1995 Spilt Milk, Sutton Gallery, Brisbane
1995 Photo: Surf or Die, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Automatic for the People, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Abstraction is the Enemy of the People, (given)/ Keanu Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1994 Nostalgia Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1994 (rosetta stone), Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1993 Minus Objects, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
1992 Equation, Eagle Street Pier, Brisbane
1992 Painting is Constructed, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and Umbrella Studios, Townsville
1991 Object + Gesture, Mori Gallery, Brisbane
1991 Teeming Surface, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
1991 101 x Work,Mori Gallery, Brisbane
1990 After Drawings by My Younger Brother Adam McCaull, Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
1989 Works on Paper 1986-1989, Mori Gallery, Brisbane
1988 Painting as Phenomena, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1988 Cold War, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1987 Flag of Convenience, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1987 Love and Sadness, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
1987 M.A.C.H.I.N.E., Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1986 Love + Pride, Institute of Modern Art, Brisban
Selected group exhibitions
2026 SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art, National Art School, Sydney
2026 Custom Car Commandos, Peepshow, Melbourne
2025 Roslyn Dixon, Scott Redford, Ken Reinhard, NAP Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair
2023 Spring1883 Fair w/ NAP Contemporary, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne.
2018 Small Mercies, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2017 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks Sydney
2017 A SWEEP: Old and New works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2016 Second Nature, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne
2014 Asis Contemporary, Conrad Hong Kong
2014 Cross Over, Merricks House Art Gallery, Victoria
2014 The Long Hot Summer, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Allsorts, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2010 Director’s Choice, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2010 Scott Redford Vs Michael Zavros IMA, Brisbane
2010 Un-Australian QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2010 Present Tense: An Imagined Grammer of Portraiture in the Digital Age NGP, Canberra
2010 Zen to Kawaii: The Japanese Effect QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2010 Multiples GOMA. Brisbane
2009 Clemenger Prize NGV, Melbourne
2009 National Artists’ Self Portrait Prize University of Qld Art Museum, Brisbane
2008 Optimism: Contemporary Australia GOMA, Brisbane
2006 21stCentury Modern: 2006
2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2006 Magicians of the Sea, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2006 SOFA Chicago, USA.
2006 Represented by Australian Contemporary High Tide: New Currents in Art from Australia and New Zealand National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 Supercharged: the Car in Contemporary Culture Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morewell (and tour)
2006 Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgan Fund National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2006 Epic Lismore Regional Gallery
2006 Queensland Live Gladstone Regional Art Gallery (and tour)
2006 Landscape Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Identity and Desire: Australian Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
2005 Unscripted: Language in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2004 2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria and Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2004 Surface Tension, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2003 Photographica Australis, National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, Singapore Art Museum and 11th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh
2003 Shilpalaka Academy One Square Mile, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2003 Untitled: Abstraction from the Contemporary Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2003 Conceptualism in Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2003 See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
2003 Staring in the Dark, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2003 Gobbledygook, Centre of Attention, London
2002 Fieldwork: Australian Contemporary Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2002 6 ft + Clean: Surf + Art, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast and touring nationally
2002 With and Without You: Revisitations of Art in the Age of AIDS, Sydney Gay Games Festival, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2001 So You Wanna be a Rock Star, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2001 Blondies and Brownies: Racism and Multiculturalism in the New and Old Worlds, AktionsforumPraterinsel, Munich
2000 Sporting Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2000 Minimal, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2000 Monochromes, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2000 Blondies and Brownies, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
2000 Surrender: I Wanna Give You Devotion, Aeroplastics (&Damasquine), Brussels
1999 The Plate Australian Perspecta: Art + Politics / Talkback, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1999 Deconstructionism: Life Back into Art, South Bank Corporation, Brisbane
1999 Bad Rice … Fooling the Gods, Iaspace, Hong Kong and Dimension Endowment for Art, Taipai
1998 Graphic, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Bad Rice … Fooling the Gods, Span Gallery, Melbourne and Performance Space, Sydney
1998 Edifying Sappho and Socrates, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival and Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
1997 This Pop Life, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1997 Still Life Still Lives, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1997 Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
1997 Lawyers, Guns and Money, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1997 ambient (male) identity, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
1997 Bad Gay Art, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival Gallery, Sydney
1996 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1995 Moet & Chandon Art Fellowship Touring Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and touring nationally
1995 Mao Tse Tung Hour, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, QLD
1994 Aussemblage Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland Photosynthesis, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1994 Active Agents: AIDS Art in Australia, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1994 Remain in Light QUEER Photography, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1993 Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1993 Installation and Objecthood, Milburn Gallery at Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney and touring
1992 YOU ARE HERE, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and touring nationally
1992 Gail Hastings, Mathew Jones, Anne McDonald, Scott Redford, Black, Sydney
1991 Reference Points, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Rules for Drawing, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1990 Strange Harmony of Contrasts, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and touring nationally
1990 Architecture of Light, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1989 Salle de Reconnaissance, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1989 Pure, Mori Gallery, Sydney and Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
1989 Stealing Blind, Artspace, Sydney Colour Blind (Red), Mori Gallery, Sydney
1989 Victory over the Sun, First Draft, Sydney
1988 A System of Differences, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1988 The Studio Artists, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1987 Lines of Force, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1986 Young Contemporaries, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1985 Queensland Works 1950-1985, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
1985 Guttersnipers, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1985 Exchange x 4 Artists, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
1985 Brisbane Hot, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1985 Visual Tension (Brisbane Insert), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1983 No Names, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1982 Gold Coast City Art Prize, Gold Coast Council Chambers, QLD
Selected public collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Dundee Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland
National Gallery of Victoria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Parliament House, Canberra
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Griffith University, Brisbane
Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Museum of Brisbane
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
University of Queensland Art Museum
ArtBank, Sydney
BHP Billiton Collection, Melbourne
Vizard Collection, The University of Melbourne
QUT Art Museum, Queensland
Lismore Regional Gallery
Newcastle Region Gallery
Monash University Collection Artwork
public commissions
2006 High Surf Signage, GOMA, Brisbane
2006 Signage, Stones Corner, Brisbane
2000 Roma St Parklands, Brisbane
1996 Griffith University, Nathan Campus Qld