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Born Macksville, Australia, 1977.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 There Is Something Missing From Your Magic Realism, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne; Totem Totem, Milani Gallery, Brisbane; Floppy, Substation Gallery, Singapore.
2008 Back and Forth, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2006 Little Birds, Neon Parc, Melbourne.
2004 Cut Painting, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2003 Other Paintings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
2002 Recent Paintings, Metroarts Development Space, Brisbane.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 New Psychdelia, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane. 2010 Painting Group, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne; Zen to Kawaii: The Japanese Effect, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
2009 The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Art Museum, Melbourne; Creative Australia and the Ballet Russes, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
2008 New, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane; Neo Goth, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane.
2007 Too Near Too Far, C/O careof, Milan, Italy.
2006 Parallel Lives: TarraWarra Painting Biennale, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria.
2005 A Formula for Figures, First Draft, Sydney.
Prime: New Art from Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Object/Subject, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane.
2004 A Cut Across, Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart.
The Australian Drawing Biennale, ANU Drill Hall, Canberra; 2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2003 In Heterotopia, Various Public Sites, Straight Out of Brisbane Festival, Brisbane; Costume and Memory: Natalya Hughes & Elizabeth Lamont, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Exercise, Studio 11, Brisbane; 1+1 Invitational, Studio 11, Brisbane.
2002 Yellow, Pestorious Sweeney House, Brisbane.
2001 Art From Europe and America, QUT Visual Arts, Honours Exhibition, Palace Gallery & Merivale street studios; Promise 8, Metroarts, Brisbane.
PUBLICATIONS WHERE WORK IS DISCUSSED
Brand S. and Amanda Cuyler. Summer. Brisbane: Brand and Cuyler, 2004.
Gobe, Claire. “Other Paintings: Natalya Hughes.” Eyeline Magazine 52, 2003.
—-. “Natalya Hughes.” Promise 8. Brisbane: University of Queensland and Metroarts,
Gellatly, Kelly. “Fast-Forward Painting,” 2004: Australian Culture Now, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria and The Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Goddard, Angela. Natalya Hughes. Catalogue Essay for Recent Paintings exhibition. Brisbane: Metroarts, 2003.
—-. “Artist Profile: Natalya Hughes.” Artichoke 25, 2008.
Helmrich, Michelle. “Natalya Hughes: Rewriting Seduction.” 2004 Australian Drawing Biennale Catalogue. Canberra: Drill Hall Gallery, 2004.
—-. “Other Paintings: Natalya Hughes.” Courier Mail May, 2003.
Hibberd, Lily. Punctiform Arabesque. Melbourne: Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, 2007.
Hickey, Gary. “Natalya Hughes: Pernicious Beauty.” New. Brisbane: UQ Art Museum, 2008.
Keating, Megan. A Cut Across. Hobart: Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, 2004.
Morrel, Timothy. “Smart Art: Natalya Hughes.” Australia Art Collector 26, 2003.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2009 GCAS and Art Incubator Singapore Residency
2006-08 Gertrude Contemporary Art Space Studio Residency
2004-07 Australian Postgraduate Award
2004 Short listed for the John McCaughey Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2002 Melville Haysom Scholarship and Residency, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
MetroArts Residency, MetroArts, Brisbane.
COLLECTIONS
Queensland Art Gallery, UQ Art Museum, QUT Art Museum, Art Bank Australia and various corporate and private collections.
EDUCATION
2009 PhD in Art Theory/ Art History and Fine Arts, College of
Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney.
2001 Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts, Honours (1st Class), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES
Co-founder and contributor to ‘Local Art’: a print and online publication (2001- 2005)
Represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
