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BIOGRAPHY
Ian Abdulla was born in 1947 in Swan Reach, South Australia. His father Jim Abdulla was part Afghan, born in Hawker, South Australia and his mother Jemima was a Ngarrindjeri woman from Raukkan (Point McLeay). He is one of seven brothers and five sisters. He lived with his family at Winkie and later at Cobdogla. Then after 10 years on the Gerard Mission, near Winkie in the South Australian Riverland. Ian went to Adelaide for two years working for Community Welfare as builders labourer. He then returned to the Riverland with the Parks and Wildlife Service. His art career began in 1988 when he attended a silk-screen printing course at the Jerry Mason Senior Memorial Centre at Glossop. He started painting in 1989. Ian paints stories from his life along the River Murray and all the places he has spent time in around Australia.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 upcoming exhibitions
2010
Short Street Gallery
2010
The Early Years, Mendel Art Gallery, Canada
2010
William Mora Gallery
2009
Good Hard Life, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney
2009
The Long and Short of it, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin
2009
Yarns, AP Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide
2007
New Work, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2006
Marree Suite, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2004
Riverland Suite, Adelaide Festival Centre, 2004 Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide
2003
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2001
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
River Land & Memory: the work of Ian Abdulla, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
2000
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1999
Japingka Gallery, Perth, WA
Showing Off, installation, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in collaboration with Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
1998
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1997
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1996
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1995
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1994
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1993
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Looking for a head strainer, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1992
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1991
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
1990
Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award, Darwin, NT
21st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award, Darwin, NT
20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award, Darwin, NT
19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award, Darwin, NT
The 5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra
18th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award, Darwin, NT
16th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award, Darwin, NT
Australian Heritage Art Awards, Canberra, ACT
1996 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Awards, Darwin, NT
AWARDS
2003
SALA Festival, publication prize sponsored by Wakefield Press and supported by Arts SA
2000
Runner-up, The 5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award
1996
Best Painting, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Runner-up, Australian Heritage Commission Art Award
1994
Community Achievement Award, Barmera Council, South Australia
1991
South Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year
PUBLICATIONS
2003
Elvis has entered the building, Wakefield Press
1994
Tucker, Omnibus Books
1993
As I Grew Older, Omnibus Books
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery, Alice Springs
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Australian Museum, Sydney
South Australian Museum, Adelaide
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
AFL Collection, Melbourne
The National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
AFL Collection, Melbourne
The National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
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