Simryn Gill
Simryn Gill’s practice engages with photography, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, writing and publishing to consider questions largely around context, that of places, people, histories and objects and how they intersect and engage. Gill is an artist with a poet’s sensibility and curiosity, fused with a politically nuanced understanding of materials and techniques. Her engagement with impermanence, locality, and memory has been the subject of her many works over the past three decades. Approaching complex concerns with subtlety and understanding, she allows her audience to form theories and feelings from the simplest of actions and arrangements with a formal and unsettling beauty. With Tom Melick, Gill runs Stolon Press, a Sydney based publisher of small run books, pamphlets and posters.
Gill’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently at 1310SW, Melbourne (2024); 1301PE, Los Angeles (2024); Musuem of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2023); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2022); Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne (2021); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020); Drawing Room, London (2019); TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2019); Met Breuer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2019); National Gallery Singapore (2018); Kohta, Helsinki (2018); Lunds Konsthall, Sweden (2017); Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich (2015); Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland (2010); Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. (2006); and the Tate Modern, London (2006). Her work has been included in the Lahore Biennale (2024); Sydney Biennial (2018); Dhaka Art Summit (2018); Moscow Biennale (2013); Documenta 12 and 13 (2007, 2012); 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011); Sharjah Biennial (2007); Singapore Biennial (2006); and in 2013 she represented Australia in the 55th Venice Biennale. Her work is held in significant institutional collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.