Ann Stephen

• Modernism
• Australian art
• Conceptual art
• Contemporary art

2020

• Coastline, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney
• Daniel Boyd: Contemporary Art Project #1, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney

2019

• Bauhaus Now!, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne

2015

• Jack Redgate: Mirror Play, University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney                     
• Women in Power, University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney

2014

• Abstraction–Création: J.W. Power in Europe 1921–1938 (with A.D.S. Donaldson), National Library of Australia, Canberra and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2013

• ‘69: Retrieving the black box of Concept art, the University of Sydney with Queensland University of Technology and the Drill Hall, Australian National University
• Atelier Power: The Power Studio, University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney

2012 

• J. W. Power: Abstraction-Création, Paris, 1934, with A.D.S. Donaldson, University Art Gallery, National Library of Australia, Canberra and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
• Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion, with Luke Parker, Sydney Festival with University Art Gallery, Monash University Art Gallery and Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide 
  

2010 

• Kent State: Four Decades Later, with Luke Parker, University Art Gallery, Sydney

2009

• Mirror Mirror then and now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane with University Art Gallery, Sydney and Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide 
• Consuming passions: The collection of Justice Roddy Meagher, University Art Gallery, Sydney
• Cannibal tours, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 

2008

• Modern times: The untold story of modernism in Australia, with Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara, Powerhouse Museum, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Queensland State Library, Brisbane

2002 

• Shanghai Childhood, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

2001 

• Vision of a Republic: The work of Lucien Henry, Centenary of Federation exhibition, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

2019

• Residency, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
• Gordon Darling Foundation grant, Light and Darkness

2018

• Chancellors’s Committee grant, Light and Darkness
• Australia Council grant for Mondspiel with Susan Best, Mikala Dwyer and Justene Williams

2016

• Discovery grant, Australian Research Council, ‘Bauhaus Australia’, with Professor Goad, Professor Edquist, Professor McNamara, Professor Wünsch

2014

• University Art Museums Australia (UAMA) catalogue prize 1969: The black box of Conceptual art
• Chancellor’s Committee grant, Women in Power

2019

• Bauhaus Now!, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne

2018

• ‘Robert Hunter: at the southern edge of the great iceberg of Minimalism’ in Space for the unknown: the art of Robert Hunter 1966-2014, National Gallery of Victoria

2016

• ‘Grace Cossington Smith Black Mountain, 1931’, Georgia O’Keefe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith, Heide Museum of Modern Art and Art Gallery of New South Wales

2014

• ‘What was Euro Pop?’ From Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales

2012 

• J. W. Power: Abstraction-Création, Paris, 1934, with A.D.S. Donaldson, University Art Gallery 
• ‘Ian Burn’, in Less is More: Minimal and Post-Minimal Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art
• Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion, Sydney Festival with University Art Gallery, Monash University Art Gallery and Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide 

2010

• Mirror mirror then and now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
• ‘I am torn between white walls and other places’, Peter Cripps: Towards an Elegant Solution, Australia Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 
• ‘Walking the Styx’, Raquel Ormella, Artspace, Sydney

2009

• ‘Cannibal Tours’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen
• ‘Fernand Léger’ and ‘Jacky Redgate’, in Cubism and Australian Art, The Miegunyah Press

2008

• ‘Eyes Open’, The University Art Museum Collection, The University of Queensland
  

2006

• ‘Flos Mortis: Flowers of Death’, Michael Callaghan: A Survey 1967-06, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
• ‘Annotations: Narelle Jubelin’, 21st Century Modern, catalogue, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia 

2003

• ‘The Conundrum of the Mirror Piece’, Fieldworks, National Gallery of Victoria 
  

2002

• ‘Ian Burn’s Blue Variable’, Monash University Museum of Art Collection 
• ‘Narelle Jubelin’s Old Love’, Monash University Museum of Art Collection

1997

• ‘Kunstler denken’, On Dialogue: Zeitgenossische Australische Kunst, Berlin

2019

• Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture, with Philip Goad, Andrew McNamara, Harriet Edquist and Isabel Wunsche, Power Publications and Miegunyah, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne

2016

• Jacky Redgate: Mirrors, with Robert Leonard, Power Publications, Sydney

2010

• Into the Light: The Cultural Collections of the University of Sydney, with Michael Turner and Jude Philp, The Miegunyah Press

2006

• On Looking at Looking: The art and politics of Ian Burn, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne

1988

• The Necessity of Australian Art, with Ian Burn, Charles Merewether, Nigel Lendon, Power Publications, Sydney

1985

• Badges of Labour Banners of Pride, with Andrew Reeves, Allen & Unwin, Sydney

2019

• Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture, with Philip Goad, Andrew McNamara, Harriet Edquist, Isabel Wunsche, The Miegunyah Press and Power, Melbourne

2010

• Into the Light: The Cultural Collections of The University of Sydney, with Michael Turner and Jude Philp, The Miegunyah Press

2008

• Modern times: The untold story of modernism in Australia, with Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara, The Miegunyah Press and Powerhouse Publishing, Melbourne

2006

• Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967, with Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne

2001

• Visions of a Republic: The work of Lucien Henry, Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney

2020

• ‘The Antipodes through “Native Eyes”’, in The Savage Hits Back Revisited. Art and Alterity in the Colonial Encounter, Reimer Verlag, Berlin

2018

• ‘Dear Tom … About Banners’, in Tom Nicholson: Lines towards Another, eds., Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes, Sternberg Press, Berlin

2017

• ‘A Cartography of Desires and Taboos: The Modern Primitive and the Antipodes’ Andrew McNamara and Ann Stephen, ed., Pam Meecham, Companion to Modern Art, Wiley, London

2016

• ‘Bernard Smith as curator’, The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays in Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics, Power Publications, Sydney

2015

• ‘The modern primitive and the Antipodes: the visual arts and Oceania’ with Andrew McNamara, The Modernist World, eds., Allana Lindgren and Stephen Rose, Victoria University, Canada: Routledge

2012

• ‘Lucien Henry’, The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture, eds. Philip Goad and Julie Willis, Cambridge University Press

2011

• ‘The story of the Sixties … a pile-up on the freeway of advanced art’, with Andrew McNamara, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art, ed., Jaynie Anderson, Cambridge University Press 

2009

• ‘Modernists and Black-fellows: Not just black and white’, Pacific Rim Modernisms, co-eds., Helen Sword and Steven Yao, Toronto: University of Toronto Press

2005

• ‘Soft-Tape: Hard Talk: The early collaborations of Burn and Ramsden’, Conceptual Art, Theory, Myth and Practice ed. Michael Corris, Cambridge University Press 

2000

• ‘Reclaiming Wailwan culture’, Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press

2019

• ‘An Indigenous Intervention: Richard Bell’s Salon des refuses at the 2019 venice Biennale’, Discipline No. 5

2018

• ‘Richard Bell @ Venice: “We don’t really need this…” or do we?’ Third Text online

2017

• “Distel-bild’ ZWITSCHER-MASCHINE, no. 4, 2017.
• ‘The Oceanic Primitivism of Len Lye’s animation Tusalava, 1929’ Art History, Vol. 40

2016

• ‘Portrait of the artist as an ex-war surgeon’, History of Education Review: ‘Universities, expertise and the First World War special issue

2008

• ‘The local presence of Sol LeWitt’, Australian and NZ Journal of Art, Vol 8

2006

• ‘Review: Modernism’, Australian and NZ Journal of Art, Vol. 7, No. 2
• ‘Designing for the World of Tomorrow: Australia at the New York World’s Fair’, reCollections, National Museum of Australia Journal, Vol.1