Tim Johnson (b.1947) is a Sydney artist who has been at the forefront of contemporary art practice in Australia. Influenced by conceptual art, encompassing an extensive range of media, from performance art, live music, photography and painting, his artistic practice is important in the discussions about Australia’s interconnection with Asia and Eastern philosophy in comparison to the Western heritage.
Tim Johnson has been extensively exhibited in Biennales, Documenta IX and has had a major survey exhibition in the Art Gallery of NSW, 2009. Johnson’s work is held in major public collections throughout Australia, including Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; and University of New South Wales, Sydney.
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| 1984 | Born in Sydney |
| 1966-70 | Studied at the University of NSW and the University of Sydney |
| Present | Lives and works in Sydney |
| 2021 | “INTER-ARE,” Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra |
| 2016 | Conspiracies, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney |
| 2015 | Open Source, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2014 | Otherkin, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney |
| Conceptual Work/ New Painting, Milani Gallery, Brisbane | |
| 2013 | The Luminous Ground, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England |
| 2012 | Optic Nerve, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| Presence, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney | |
| 2011 | Supernatural, Milani Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2010 | Emulation, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney |
| Worlds Apart, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne | |
| Painting Ideas, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Brisbane | |
| 2009 Emporium, Lister Gallery, Perth | |
| Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, | |
| Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane | |
| Embedded, Milani Gallery, Brisbane | |
| 2008 | Graphomania, Chapman Gallery, Canberra |
| 2007 | Anomalous, Lister Gallery, Perth, WA |
| Nurture, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane | |
| Tim Johnson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne | |
| 2005 | Far Out, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| Full Moon, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane | |
| Punk Paintings and Prints, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane | |
| 2004 | Serindia, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 2003 | Insignia, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| Threads of Destiny, Mori Gallery, Sydney, (with My Le Thi) | |
| Tim Johnson, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Tim Johnson, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane | |
| 2002 | Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2001 | Tim Johnson, Lord Mori Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
| Presence, Paddington Uniting Church, Sydney | |
| 2000 | What the Eye Knows, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| Collaborations, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane | |
| Far Out, Mori Gallery, Sydney | |
| Pure Land, Chapman Gallery, Canberra | |
| 1998 | Alien Land, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| The Sources are Real, Mori Gallery, Sydney | |
| Tim Johnson and Karma Phuntsok, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane | |
| 1997 | On the Internet, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| CD Installation, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne | |
| 1996 | Chapman Gallery, Canberra |
| 1995 | Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| Non La, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane | |
| 4 Directions, Mori Gallery, Sydney | |
| 1994 | Tim Johnson, Glasgow Museum, Glasgow |
| Asia, Mori Gallery, Sydney | |
| Chapman Gallery, Canberra | |
| 1993 | Shareware, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| Across Cultures, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne | |
| 1992 | Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| Visualisation, Mori Gallery, Sydney | |
| 1991 | Armageddon, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| Chapman Gallery, Canberra | |
| 1989 | A Survey 1956 – 1989, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne | |
| 1988 | Richard Pomeroy Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 1987 | Papunya Revisited, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne | |
| 1986 | Esoteric Landscape, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| Languish, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane | |
| 1985 | Conceptual Painting, Union Street Gallery, Sydney |
| 1984 | The Drunken Boat, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 11982 | The Wheel of Life, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1979 | Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1977 | Gallery A, Sydney |
| 1973 | University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| 1972 | Diary, Voyeur, Fittings, Disclosures, etc., Pinacotheca, Melbourne |
| 1971 | Installation as Conceptual Scheme, Inhibodress, Sydney |
| 1970 | Off the Wall, Gallery A, Sydney |
| 2015 | Art as a Verb, Flinders University Art Museum & City Gallery |
| 2013 | Australia Royal Academy of Arts London, England |
| Four Corners of the World, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea | |
| Wildcards: Bill Henson Shuffles The Deck, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne | |
| Dominik Mersch Gallery at Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin, Germany | |
| Haute école d’art et design, Genève, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Nah Und Fern: Landscape Painting in the 21st Century, Dominik Mersch, Gallery, Sydney | |
| 2012 | The Unseen, the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| Biennale of Sydney, All Our Relations AGNSW, Australia | |
| Exhibition7, Art of Australia, Kunstwerk Sammlung, Nussdorf, Germany | |
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Together in Harmony, Australia-Korea show, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
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| Collaborative Witness: Artists’ responces to the plight of the asylum | |
| seeker and refugee, University of Queensland, Brisbane | |
| Quest for Red, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney | |
| 2011 |
Tell me Tell me: Australian and Korean art 1976-2011, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
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| 2010 | Roundabout, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Who’s Afraid of Red White & Blue, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne | |
| Sacred Spaces, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle | |
| 2009 | Gallery A 1964 – 1983, Campelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney |
| Avoiding Myth & Message: Australian artists and the literary world, | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney | |
| 2008 | The Visitors, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith |
| Peep, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Melbourne | |
| Drawn In, Australian National Gallery, Canberra | |
| An Ever Expanding Universe, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth | |
| Yin Yang, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Open Air, Portraits in the landscape, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra | |
| Lives and Times: A Selection of Works on Tour from The Victorian | |
| Foundation for Living Australian Artists, National Gallery of Victoria | |
| touring exhibition | |
| Avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world, | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney | |
| Selected works from the Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, | |
| The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne | |
| 2007 | Bloodlines Hawkesbury Regional Gallery NSW |
| The Luminescent Ground, Wollongong Regional Art Gallery, Wollongong | |
| Multipicity: Prints and Multiples, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney | |
| Blast, the influence of Manga, Redcliffe Gallery Comple, Redcliffe | |
| Smile of the Buddha, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra | |
| 2006 | The Sound of the Sky, Northern Territory Museum, Darwin |
| Lives and Times, National Gallery of Victoria touring exhibition | |
| 2004 | The State of Art Peace, Manly Art Gallery, and touring |
| Pop, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane | |
| White/Light Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane | |
| MCA Unpacked II – Selections from the MCA Collection, University of South Australia, Adelaide | |
| 2003 | MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
| Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 – 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Parallel Worlds, Tim Johnson and My Le Thi, UTS Gallery, Sydney | |
| Art and About, Sydney Council art event, Sydney | |
| 2002 Imaging Identity and Place, Grafton Regional Gallery, and touring | |
| Points of View, UTS Art Collection, UTS Gallery | |
| Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| White, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane | |
| Contemporary Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra | |
| Tim Johnson, Lord Mori Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
