Born 1959, Dale Frank's career spans more than twenty years. In 1983, he was included in the exhibition Panorama della post - critica: critica ed arte at the Museo Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa along with Thomas Lawson and Anselm Kiefer (curated by Helena Kontova). In 1984 he was included in the Aperto section of the Venice Biennale. Returning to Australia, in 1990 he was included in the 8th Biennale of Sydney (curated by Rene Block). A major solo retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2000. His paintings are held in every major public collection in Australia and in numerous private and corporate collections in Australia, Europe and the U.S. In 2005 Frank won The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. A major new monograph on Frank’s work So Far: the Art of Dale Frank 2005-1980 was published in 2007.
 
Award / Grants
2008 Winner, Metro 5 Art Prize, Metro 5 Gallery, VIC 2007 Shortlisted, Archibald Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of NSW 2006 Second Prize, Redlands Art Prize, Redland Art Gallery QLD
 
Public and Private Collections
Bankers Trust, Sydney, UBS Collection, Zurich, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Zurich Kunsthaus, Zurich Exxon Corp. Collection, New York, Ball State University Collection, Indiana, USA Musee de Ville de Leige, Leige Trans-Art Collection, Milan First National Bank of Chicago Collection, Chicago Westpac Collection, New York Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection, Sydney University of Melbourne Collection, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington Auckland City Gallery, Auckland Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Philip Morris Collection, Canberra IBM Collection, Melbourne Shell Australia Collection, Melbourne Wesfarmers, Perth Monash University Collection, Melbourne Chartwell Collection, Christchurch, New Zealand Jim Wolfensohn Collection, New York Clayton Press Jnr Collection, Los Angeles 
 
Selected solo and group exhibitions
2009 Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 
2008 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia.Optomism, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. Neo Goth, Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 
2007 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 
2006 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 
2004 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Swoon, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Sydney Opera House Gallery, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. On The Beach, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. In Conversation, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 
2002 Fieldwork, Ian Potter Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. ‘Sublime’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. 
2001 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Multistylus Programme, Auckland City Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. low-down, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 
2000 Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dale Frank, Ecstasy 20 Years of Painting", Sydney, Australia. Art Gallery of NSW, Dale Frank, Sydney, Australia. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 
1999 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA. Moral Hallucinations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. Funk de Siecle, Museum of Modern Art Heide, Melbourne, Australia. Exploratory Behaviour, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. 
1998 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Alderton Gallery, "New York Paintings 1985-86", Brisbane, Australia. Mercant Collection, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia. 
1997 Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy. Musee de Arte Modern de la Ville de Liege, ‘Dale Frank Paintings 1982 to 1987’, Liege, Belgium. Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, uSA