Queensland Art Gallery

Profile

The Queensland Art Gallery is Queensland's premier visual arts institution and a leading art museum nationally. The Gallery's driving philosophy is to connect art and people.

The Gallery was established in 1895 as the Queensland National Art Gallery. Throughout its early history the Gallery was housed in a series of temporary premises, and did not have a permanent home until the opening of its current architecturally acclaimed building on Brisbane's south bank in 1982.

Since opening, the Gallery's Collection, exhibitions, audiences and programs have grown in size, complexity and diversity. To cater for the community's future needs, during the 1990s the Gallery embarked on extensive research and wide consultation, resulting in the concept of a second building.

The Gallery of Modern Art, which opened in December 2006, complements the Queensland Art Gallery building. Situated at Kurilpa Point only 150 metres from the Queensland Art Gallery building, the Gallery of Modern Art focuses on the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

represented artists

Georg Baselitz      Gordon Bennett      Xu Bing      Montien Boonma      Wie Dong      Heri Dono      Russell Drysdale      Ian Fairweather      Simryn Gill      Cai Guo-Qiang      Fiona Hall      Anish Kapoor      Willem de Kooning      Yayoi Kusama      Rosemary Laing

Kamin Lertchaiprasert      Nalini Malani      Callum Morton      Takashi Murakami      Gabriel Orozco      Nam June Paik      Lisa Reihana      Bridget Riley      David Rosetzky      Jana Sterbak      Lee Ufan      Rachel Whiteread      Ah Xian