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