DAVID SEQUEIRA
Born 1966, New Delhi, India
Lives and works in Hughes, Australia
Education
2007- Doctoral candidate, Art History and studio RMIT
1992-1993 Postgraduate in Art Curatorial Studies, University of Melbourne
1988-1989 Bachelor of Education, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1984-1986 Diploma of Teaching, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Employment
2002-2007
Museum education/ Public programs contract work, National Portrait Gallery
National Museum of Australia
National Gallery of Australia
1996-2002
Coordinator, Public Programs, National Gallery of AustraliA
1995
Museum Educator, National Gallery of Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2008 48 books about art, University of Sydney Art Gallery
2008 Somewhere, sometime, Ryan Renshaw Gallery Brisbane
2007 All I want is here, Nature Morte, New Delhi India
2006-07 Eternal Rhythms, John Curtin Gallery, Perth
2006 University Art Museum, University of Qld, Brisbane
2004 Seeing things, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2003 The Space Between Us, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2001 David Sequeira Projects, Level 2 Art Gallery of NSW
2001 Concentric Circles: Paintings and Plastic, Scott Donovan Gallery Sydney
2000 David Sequeira, Gallery 4a, Sydney / University Art Museum, Brisbane
1998 A leaf from my book, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1998 Centre, AGOG, Canberra
1998 Chapter, Renard Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1997 thirty-one threads, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1995 there is an order, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1994 Madonna of the Bus Stop, various Melbourne transport shelters
1994 Space and Time, Continental Café, Melbourne
1993 Spatia Concepta, West Space, Melbourne
Commissions
2002 Endless, Australian National University
2002 Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. Building designed by Daryl Jackson and Alastair Swayn
SelectedGroup Exhibitions
2008 Under the influence, QUT, Brisbane
2005 The Roving Eye Gigantic Art Space, New York
2005 The Colour of Music, Central Gallery Adelaide
2004 Flora Nova Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Contour Megalo studio and Gallery, Canberra
2002 Material Witness Tamworth Textile Biennial, Tamworth Regional Gallery
2002 Giant Molecules and Carbon Copies, Penthouse & Pavement Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Australian Art Paper Awards Victorian Arts Centre
2001 Artful Park Centennial Park Sydney, curated byMCA
2001 Rogue Plastic Canberra Contemporary Art Space
2001 Crazy Bargains Galerie Constantinople
2001 Desire RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Primavera Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2000 Triptych Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2000 Plastic by Nature 24 Hr Art, Darwin
1999 The Possibilities of Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery
1999 Moet & Chandon touring exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia
1999 Wearable Galeripadi, Bandung, Indonesia
1997 Patterning touring South East Asia for Asialink
1996 new space Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
Collaborations
1998
re: source/search, National Library of Australia, collaborative installation with
Peter Naumann (part of the National Sculpture Forum)
1998
Patterns of intention Artspace, Auckland, with Patrick Pound
1996-2000
Uday Arts group, Rajasthan, India
1996
…and then the eyes of both them were opened and they realised they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together…collaborative installation with Peter Naumann, The Cube, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1996
collaborations (works on paper) with Wilma Tabacco Canberra Contemporary Art Fair
1995
collaborations (works on paper) with Eugene Carchesio, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Reviews/ Catalogues
2008 Louise Teggart, Living by the Book, Catalogue essay
2007 Margaret Moore, David Sequeira, Art & Australia, review
2006 Ted Snell, Geometry, Colour ,Space, Catalogue essay
2006 Ric Spence, Collating the World, The Western Australian, review
2005 Benjamin Genocchio, The Roving Eye, catalogue essay
2004 Din Heagney, The colours of Sequeira artist profile, Desktop magazine
2002 Robyn Daw, Material Witness catalogue essay
2001 Simon Rees, David Sequeira review Art/text
2001 Peter McNeil, David Sequeira Projects, catalogue essay
2001 Jane Barney, Rogue Plastic catalogue essay
2000 Melissa Chui, David as Akbar: Fiction in the work of David Sequeira, Art & Australia
2000 Melissa Chui, Primavera catalogue essay
2000 Giles, Aughty, review of Primavera The Australian Newspaper, September
2000 Kate Murphy, Broadsheet, March
1999 Scott Brown, Give me something to believe in, Moet & Chandon touring
exhibition, catalogue essay
1999 Andrew Sayers, The Possibilities of Portraiture, catalogue essay
1998 Anna Clabburn, The Melbourne Age 30 Sept 1998
1998 Michael Desmond, Great Stories catalogue essay
1996 Dr Michael Brand, Looking into history, catalogue essay
1998 Morris Low, Patterns of Intention catalogue essay
1996 Anna Clabburn, review, The Melbourne Age December
1995 Peter Naumann, thirty-one threads catalogue essay
1997 Merryn Gates, Patterning catalogue essay
1995 Sasha Grishin Dry and Introspective, Canberra Times, July 1995
Curatorial Projects
2004
Geometry Rhythm Light: Glass and the everyday, Object,centre for craft and design, Sydney
2003
Future Projections, National Museum of Australia
1999
Motel emerging artists in the Canberra Region, Commissioned by the
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra City Motor Inn
Awards
2003 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery
2002 Collex Primavera Acquisitive Prize, Administered by the MCA, Sydney
Grants
2004 Artist in Residence, University of Texas, Dallas
2002 Artist in Residence, Megalo Printmaking studio and Gallery, Canberra
1999 Australia Council Studio, Paris 2000
1997 Arts ACT development grant, National Exhibitions Touring Scheme
1996 Roots of Culture, Moenjodaro Pakistan, funded by: Asialink; Pakistan
National Council of the Arts; Australian High Commission, Pakistan