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Daniel Boyd (born 1982) is an Australian contemporary artist working in painting, sculpture and installation. He won the Art Gallery of New South Wales ' Bulgari Art Award in 2014 and was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize .
Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island is the artist’s first major exhibition to be held in an Australian public institution. Featuring more than 80 works from across his nearly two-decade career, the exhibition unpacks the ways in which Boyd holds a lens to colonial history, explores multiplicity within narratives and interrogates blackness as a form of First Nations resistance.
Jun 6, 2022 · Daniel Boyd’s solo exhibition Treasure Island, now on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is a deeply political and personal interrogation of Australia’s colonial history.
- Prudence Gibson
Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce our representation of Daniel Boyd With his complex and divergent works spanning an array of historical references from landscape and Western-style portraiture to the traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Boyd seeks to negotiate the identity of art, history and cultural survival through his investigations of oppressed and ...
Born in Gimuy/Cairns in 1982, Boyd – the youngest of three siblings – took to drawing as a child. He began to sell illustrations and small paintings he made of the Gimuy reef to locals and tourists for pocket money, and soon his artistic talents caught the attention of his family. With their encouragement, Boyd studied art at the Australian ...
Daniel Boyd reinterprets Eurocentric perspectives of Australian history, often appropriating images that have played significant roles in the formation and dissemination of that history. Boyd has appropriated portraits of colonial figures such as Captain Cook, Governor Phillip and King George III and accessorised these heroes of empire with ...
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Jun 2, 2022 · Daniel Boyd’s We Call Them Pirates Out Here, 2006. “Satire was a big part of that. I was trying to subversively tell a story without being immediately denied that opportunity,” Boyd explains.
