Daniel Boyd draws on his heritage as a Kudjla/Gangalu man from North Queensland and North Pentecost Island in Vanuatu to interrogate legacies of colonisation. Traversing an archaeology of lost and suppressed histories, Boyd reinterprets artistic and archival material across art, science, history and geography in order to challenge Eurocentric perspectives and romanticised notions that dominate the historical canon. His work acknowledges the multitude of collective, cultural and personal memories at the core of historical imagery, and seeks to create a context for a diaspora of meaning to exist.
Considered one of Australia’s leading artists, Boyd has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include Dreamland at Marian Goodman, New York (2024), RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION), Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2023) and Boyd’s major retrospective exhibition Treasure Island, Art Gallery of NSW, Australia (2022). Recent biennales and group exhibitions include Bonna, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, curated by Cosmin Costinas (2023); Kathmandu Triennale 2077, Kathmandu, Nepal (2022); UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2021-22); Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2018); Mondialité, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Asad Raza at the Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels (2017); The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed, 20th Biennale of Sydney, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal (2016) and All the World's Futures, the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), curated by Okwui Enwezor. Boyd was the recipient of the Bulgari Art Award (2014).
RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)
2023
Gropius Bau, Berlin
installation view
Photo: Luca Girardini
RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)
2023
Gropius Bau, Berlin
installation view
Photo: Luca Girardini
For our Country – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander memorial
2018
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
installation view
RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)
2023
Gropius Bau, Berlin
installation view
Photo: Luca Girardini
Untitled (BDACB)
2023
oil, acrylic, archival glue and charcoal on canvas
141.0 x 110.0 cm
Untitled (HTAALMSTALS)
2023
oil, archival glue and charcoal on canvas
190.0 x 150.0 cm
Sandpiper Dance
2020
STATION, Melbourne
installation view
Sandpiper Dance
2020
oil, acrylic and archival glue on canvas
245.0 x 396.0 cm
Untitled (GSBTGCB)
2019
oil, screenprint and archival glue on paper mounted on poly/cotton
96.0 x 75.0 cm
Ruler, rete
2019
oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and archival glue on polyester
108.0 x 152.0 cm
RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)
2023
Gropius Bau, Berlin
installation view
Photo: Luca Girardini
RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)
2023
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
installation view
Untitled (TRISATSAG)
2020
oil, acrylic and archival glue on canvas
190.0 x 350.0 cm
Untitled (TGRTOPIADL)
2021
oil, acrylic and archival glue on canvas
198.0 x 245.0 cm
'Untitled' in DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY
2022
Okayama Summit, Japan
installation view
zac_dan_install
2021
STATION, Melbourne
installation view
Untitled (IATPIP)
2021
oil, pencil, acrylic and archival glue on decommissioned Natural History Museum, London, skull box
55.0 x 82.0 cm
Untitled (ToVR)
2017-18
oil, charcoal, pastel, pencil and archival glue on canvas
201.0 x 450.0 cm
Untitled (LW)
2017-18
oil, charcoal and archival glue on paper
111.0 x 306.0 cm (polyptych)
Auckland Art Fair 2021
2021
installation view
Untitled (OBD)
2020
oil, acrylic, charcoal and archival glue on canvas
213.0 x 198.0 cm
Untitled (TSATSAG)
2020
oil, acrylic and archival glue on canvas
122.0 x 153.0 cm
UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA
2022
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), South Korea
installation view
Untitled (24° 10’0.012’’ N 90°25’0.011’’E)
2023
Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
installation view
Photo: Foysal Mahamood
Macquarie Bank Commission
2014
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
installation view
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