Aida Tomescu's work from the John Curtin Gallery collection will feature in the atrium, opening alongside the John Stringer Prize and Brett Whiteley: In the Studio.
Opening Night: Thursday 24 October
Exhibition: 25 October – 15 December
Bio: Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1955, Aida Tomescu has been living and working in Sydney since 1980. Tomescu studied at the Institute of Arts, Bucharest, was awarded a Diploma of Visual Arts in 1977 and shortly after her arrival to Australia completed a postgraduate degree at the City Art Institute in 1983.
Tomescu has exhibited regularly since 1978; held over forty solo shows to date and participated in national and international exhibitions and events including: Art SG Singapore, Flowers Gallery 2023, ‘The ear in the river and the prayer in the stone’ Fox Jensen Gallery 2022, ‘Folded in Three’ (2022), Flowers Gallery, Art Basel Hong Kong, ‘Unfolding Presence’ Orange Regional Gallery (2021-22), ‘A Long Line of Sand’ (2021) Fox Jensen, Sydney, ‘Know My Name’ (2020-22), National Gallery of Australia, Art Basel Hong Kong (2019, 2018, 2017 & 2015), ‘Permafrost’ (2019), Fox Jensen, Sydney, ‘Wet Wet Wet’ (2019), Fox Jensen McCrory Auckland, ‘The Anatomy of Gesture’, Fox Jensen McCrory Auckland (2017); ‘Abstraction’, National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition (2017-2018); ‘Chromoffection’, Fox Jensen McCrory Auckland (2016), Art Stage Singapore (2015), ‘The Triumph of Modernism’, TarraWarra Museum of Art (2015); ‘Abstraction: The Heide Collection’, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2015); ‘Vibrant Matter’, TarraWarra Museum of Art (2013), ‘The Mind’s Eye’, Art Gallery of South Australia (2013), ‘Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings’, The British Museum, London (2011), ‘Forever Young’, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2011), and ‘Contemporary Encounters’, Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria (2010). In 2009, a major survey exhibition of Tomescu’s works was also held at the Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra.
Aida Tomescu is the winner of the inaugural LFSA Arts 21 Fellowship in 1996 at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. She is also the winner of the Sulman Prize 1996, the Wynne prize 2001, the Dobell Prize for Drawing 2003, by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Tomescu is represented in major art museums, regional galleries, and university and corporate collections within Australia and internationally including; The National Gallery of Australia, The National Gallery Of Victoria, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the British Museum, London.
Image: Aida Tomescu. 2015. Eyes in the Heat I (detail). Oil, pastel and oil stick on canvas. 183cm x 153cm
