Born: 1911 Sydney, Australia

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2017     Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain's Sunbaker, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC

2014     Max Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

2009     In The Black, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

2008     Max Dupain: Selected Works, Byron McMahon Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2004-05 The Female Nude, A Monash Gallery of Art Travelling Exhibition

2004     Max Dupain: Man Ray's Influence, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

2004     Max Dupain's Australians, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2002     Max Dupain's Beaches, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2000     A Sunlit Vision: Photographs by Max Dupain from the Collections, the National Gallery of Victoria, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC

2000     Max Dupain, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, WA

1999     Max Dupain Exhibition Archive, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

1999     Max Dupain: 50 Years of Master Photography, Josef Lebovic, Sydney, NSW

1999     Max Dupain: Sydney, State Library, Sydney, NSW

1998     Max Dupain: South Coast Landscapes, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW

1993     Max Dupain: Surrealist Inspired Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Australia, ACT

1992     Max Dupain: An Australian Photographer, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC

1992     Max Dupain: Photographs, National Gallery of Australia, ACT

1991     Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne (celebrating his 80th Birthday)

1991     Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

1991     Max Dupain: Photographs, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT

1990     Max Dupain Photographs, Australia Week 8, 4 July, Vicenza

1990     Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

1987     Staley Wise Gallery, New York, USA

1987     Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW

1987     Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

1981     Max Dupain: Retrospective, Photographers Gallery, London, UK

1980     Max Dupain: Retrospective, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW

1976     Max Dupain Photographs 1930-1975, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC

1975     Max Dupain: Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

1975     Max Dupain: Retrospective, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

 

2024   Illsley Collection: A Quarter Century of Collecting, Kelli Lundberg Art, Mornington Peninsula, VIC

2024     What Does the Jukebox Dream Of?  Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

2024     Thresholds, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW

2023     Home, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW

2023     100 Faces, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC

2022     Air, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD

2022     Manly by Ferry: Treasures from the Vault, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, NSW

2021     A Kind of Alchemy: Silver gelatin prints from the collection, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, VIC

2020     Wonder + Dread: Art in the Land of Weather Extremes, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, NSW

2019     Contemporising the Modern Australian Modern and Contemporary Photography, Hawthorn Arts Centre, VIC

2019     Fresh: Your Collection, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, NSW

2019     Melbourne Modern: European Art & Design at RMIT since 1945, RMIT Gallery, VIC

2018     Hold Still: The Photographic Performance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

2018     Antipodean Emanations, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC

2017     An Unorthodox Flow of Images, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, VIC

2016     MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize Exhibition, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW

2016     History of the National Photography Prize, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW

2016     Public Image, Private Lives, Family, Friends and Self in Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia, SA

2015     The World if Beautiful: Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Australia, ACT

2015     Modernists: Highlights from the European Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

2015     Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, NGV Australia & The Ian Potter Centre, VIC

2015     Body Parts, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

2015     The Photograph and Australia, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD

2015     Follow the Flag: Australian Artists at War 1914-45, NGV Australia & The Ian Potter Centre, VIC

2015     Ever Present Photographs from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection 1850-1975, Cairns Art Gallery, QLD

2015     The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

2011     What's in a Face? Aspects of Portrait Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

2013     Sugar, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD

2010     Max Dupain and David Moore: Behind the Seen, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW

2008     Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos/Wilson Collection, National Gallery of Australia, ACT

1980     Architectural Photographs, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1964     Creative Vision: An Exhibition of Photography, Workshop Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW

1958     Third Melbourne International Exhibition of Photography, Melbourne Town Hall, VIC

1955     6 Photographers, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW

1932     Interstate Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, Photographic Society of New South Wales 

 

COLLECTIONS

 


Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

University of New South Wales 

Australian National Maritime Museum

State Library of New South Wales

Museum of Australian Photography

Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art

National Library of Australia

Australian National University

Geelong Gallery, Victoria 

Art Gallery of South Australia 

Powerhouse Museum 

National Portrait Gallery

Museum of History New South Wales

University of New England

 


 

Works held in public and private collections worldwide. 

 

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS 

 

1991                 Photograph Bondi chosen to commemorate 150th anniversary of photography in Australia, AusPost

1983                 Awarded an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects

1982                 Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Photography

1982                 Awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for services to Photography

1982                 Awarded Commonwealth Medal 'Photographer of the Year'

1928                 Winner, Carter Memorial Prize, NSW

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Shaune Lakin                    Max and Olive: The Photographic Life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain, 2016

Avryl Whitnall                    Max Dupain - Modernist, State Library of New South Wales, 2007

ANU                               Max Dupain on Assignment. Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2007

Isobel Crombie                  Body Culture: Max Dupain, Photography and Australian Culture, 2004

Jill White                          Dupain's Australians, 2003

AGNSW                           Papers of Max Dupain

Diana Dupain                    Maxwell Spencer Dupain, Sydneian 329, 1993

Max Germaine                   Artists and Galleries of Australia, 1990

Jill White                          Max Dupain's Beaches, Chapter & Verse

Max Dupain                      Australian Camera Personalities: Max Dupain

Contemporary Photography (January-February 1947): 15-16, 56-59

Gael Newton                     Max Dupain,  Sydney: David Ell Press, 1980

Max Dupain                      Max Dupain's Australia, Ringwood, Vic.: Viking, 1986

Helen Ennis                      Max Dupain: Photographs, Exhibition Catalogue, 1991