biography of Destiny DEACON (1957)

Personal data

Birth : 1957 - Maryborough VIC, Australia
Sex : F
Nationality/Affiliation : Australia

Address

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Representatives

Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi – 141 Flinders Lane – Melbourne VIC, Australia
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Soudan Lane (off 27 Hamden Street) – Paddington NSW, Australia

Education

1979 : University of Melbourne (BA) – Melbourne VIC, Australia
1981 : Trobe University (Education diploma) – Melbourne VIC, Australia

Work

Categorie and medium


Print-Multiple : Photocopy
Photography : C print
Audiovisual-Multimedia : Video
Performing Art : Performance

Subject

family
Daily life

Works

Happy Birthday
Date of creation : 1998
Medium : Photograph
Process : type C color print-photocopy
Supports : photo paper
Size : 41 x 28 cm
 
Wallpaper no. 1
Date of creation : 1998
Medium : Photograph
Process : type C color print-photocopy
Supports : photo paper
Size : 125 x 58 cm
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

Solo exhibitions

1998

Postcards from Mummy
Australian Centre for Photography – Paddington NSW, Australia
1998

It won’t rub off, Baby
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi – Melbourne VIC, Australia
1998

1996

Beauty’s back on duty
Hogarth Galleries – Sydney NSW, Australia
1996

1994

My boomerang won’t come back
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia – Parkside SA, Australia
1994

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

Art shows / fairs

2004

Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Soudan Lane (off 27 Hamden Street) – Paddington NSW, Australia

2003

Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Soudan Lane (off 27 Hamden Street) – Paddington NSW, Australia

The Armory Show 2003
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
03/07/2003 – 03/10/2003
Represented by : Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Soudan Lane (off 27 Hamden Street) – Paddington NSW, Australia

2002

ACAF 8 – Australian Contemporary Art Fair / Melbourne Art Fair
Royal Exhibition Building – Melbourne VIC, Australia
10/02/2002 – 10/06/2002
Represented by : Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Soudan Lane (off 27 Hamden Street) – Paddington NSW, Australia

Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Soudan Lane (off 27 Hamden Street) – Paddington NSW, Australia

The Armory Show 2002
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/22/2002 – 02/25/2002
Represented by : Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Soudan Lane (off 27 Hamden Street) – Paddington NSW, Australia

2001

Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Soudan Lane (off 27 Hamden Street) – Paddington NSW, Australia

The Armory Show 2001
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/23/2001 – 02/26/2001
Represented by : Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Soudan Lane (off 27 Hamden Street) – Paddington NSW, Australia

1998

ACAF 6 – Australian Contemporary Art Fair / Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne VIC, Australia
10/01/1998 – 10/04/1998
Represented by : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi – 141 Flinders Lane – Melbourne VIC, Australia

1996

ACAF 5 – Australian Contemporary Art Fair / Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne VIC, Australia
10/02/1996 – 10/06/1996
Represented by : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi – 141 Flinders Lane – Melbourne VIC, Australia

Group exhibitions

2002

Documenta XI
Kunsthalle Fridericianum – Kassel, Germany
06/08/2002 – 09/15/2002

2001

Mega Wave : Towards a New Synthesis – Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art
Yokohama, Japan
09/02/2001 – 11/11/2001

2000

Biennale of Sydney , n° 12
Sydney NSW, Australia
05/26/2000 – 07/30/2000

Beyond the Pale – Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Art Gallery of South Australia North Terrace – Adelaide SA, Australia
03/03/2000 – 03/19/2000

1999

The Thin Line – Midsumma Gay and Lesbian Arts Festival
Platform Space – Melbourne VIC, Australia
1999

Processes : ARX5
Singapore Art Museum – Singapore, Singapore
1999

Signs of Life – 1st Melbourne International Biennial
The Ian Potter Museum of Art – Melbourne VIC, Australia
05/14/1999 – 06/27/1999

1996

2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Queensland Art Gallery – Brisbane QLD, Australia
1996

1995

Objects of Defiance, Spaces of Contemplation – Africus ’95 – 1st Johannesburg Biennale
Museum Africa – Johannesburg, South Africa
02/28/1995 – 04/30/1995

1994

Arte, Sociedad, Reflexión – 5a Bienal de la Habana
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam – Havana, Cuba
05/06/1994 – 06/30/1994

1993

Australian Perspecta 93
Art Gallery of New South Wales – Sydney NSW, Australia
1993

1990

Pitcha mi Koori
Friends of the Earth Gallery – Sydney NSW, Australia
1990

Bibliography (Selected)

On the artist

Exhibition catalogues

2000

Biennale of Sydney 2000
Sydney NSW, Australia
2000
ISBN : 0959661999

1997

No fixed Dress
Publisher: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi – 141 Flinders Lane – Melbourne VIC, Australia
1997

1993

Destiny Deacon Perspecta 1993
Publisher: Art Gallery of New South Wales – Art gallery road – Sydney NSW, Australia
1993

Legals