NAP Contemporary presents Scott Redford solo presention at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2024, 5 - 8 September.

Biography:

Scott Redford is a Brisbane 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 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, 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 Aktionsforum Praterinsel, 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 collections.