David Serisier was born in Orange, New South Wales, Australia in 1958. He holds a BA in English and Australian Literature from the University of Sydney and a BA (Visual Arts) from City Art Institute, Sydney. From 1988 to 1992 Serisier completed post-graduate studies in painting and drawing at the New York Studio School, where he was the recipient of three continuous full scholarships including the Milton Avery Painting Scholarship. In 1997, he was awarded an Australia Council Grant. In 2002, he was awarded the Australia Council Greene Street - New York Residency. Since 1995, Serisier has worked as a lecturer in painting and drawing at the National Art School in Sydney.
Solo Exhibitions
2010
David Serisier 2010 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2008
David Serisier 2008 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2007
David Serisier 2007 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Small Paintings 2002-06 Project Room, Robert Steele Gallery, New York
2006
David Serisier 2006 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2005
David Serisier 2005 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2003
New Paintings Robert Steele Gallery, New York
2002
Paintings and Prints Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
2001
Paintings Annandale Galleries, Sydney
2000
Paintings and Prints, Robert Steele Gallery, New York
Tondos Australian Galleries, Painting and Sculpture, Melbourne
1999
Paintings Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1998
Blue Phase Paintings Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
Paintings Robert Steele Gallery, Adelaide
1997
Paintings Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1995
Paintings Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1994
Recent Paintings and Drawings Anima Gallery, Adelaide
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Lesser Abstraction: Balmain, Donaldson, Hollier, Serisier, curated by Daniel Hollier, MOP,
Sydney
2009
MONO UNO: Australian Monotypes, Margaret Carnegie Gallery, Wagga Wagga
Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Drawcard 2009, National Art School, Sydney
2008
Melbourne Art Fair (Liverpool Street Gallery), Melbourne, Victoria
Summer Exhibition Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2007
Abstraction 6 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
SNO – 28 Sydney Non-Objective/ SNO, Sydney
The Roving Eye Gallery 1601, Washington DC
Summer Exhibition Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Small Pleasures, Painting and Sculpture Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006
The Roving Eye Gigantic Art Space (GAS), New York
Interchange 2 Museum of Contemporary Art, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea
Melbourne Art Fair (Liverpool Street Gallery), Melbourne
Painting, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
50th Anniversary Exhibition Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005
2005: The Year in Art S.H. Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, Sydney
SNO – 12 Sydney Non-Objective/SNO, Sydney
Contemporary Works on Paper Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Melbourne
Bleak Epiphanies: an exhibition of small black things Virginia Wilson Art, Sydney
Walking the Line National Art School, Sydney
Liverpool Street Gallery 2005 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2004
Melbourne Art Fair (Liverpool Street Gallery), Melbourne
Contemporary Prints and Drawings Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Melbourne
Group Show Robert Steele Gallery, New York
2003
Boston, Dumbrell, le Groumellec, Serisier Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Works on Paper Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Abstraction Robert Steele Gallery, New York
2002
Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Biennale Special Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Prints from Whaling Road Studio Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Sydney
Summer Group Show Robert Steele Gallery, New York
Australian Galleries Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Group Show Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney
2001
Ignite National Art School, Sydney
2000
An Extraordinary Printmaker - Diana Davidson Prints from Whaling Road Studio Orange
Regional Gallery, Orange
Blanchflower, Tillier, Serisier and Warren Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Ideas and Influence Annandale Galleries, Sydney
One Heart One World General Assembly, United Nations New York USA; Centro Cultural Sao
Paulo Brazil; Japan Cultural Centre Paris France; Cultural Art Exhibition Centre Hanoi
Vietnam; Customs House Sydney; Nihonbash Mitsukoshi Tokyo Japan
1999
Red Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Three Generations Solander Gallery, Canberra
SILVER: 25th Anniversary Exhibition College of Fine Arts-Past Faculty University of New
South Wales College of Fine Arts, Sydney
1998
One Plus One New York Studio School, New York
Group Show Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Ball, Christofides, Hickey, Rankin, Serisier Robert Steele Gallery, Adelaide
Blue Annandale Galleries, Sydney
A Contratemps Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Dobell Drawing Prize Exhibition Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; George Adams
Gallery; Victorian Art Centre; Melbourne
Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1997
Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1996
Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1995
Optics Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1994
Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Amnesty International Faces of Hope Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Bet Your Life Part 2 Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Fishers Ghost Art Award Exhibition Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown
1993
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition Art Gallery of South Australia; Art Gallery of New South
Wales; Westpac Gallery Victorian Art Centre in association with National Gallery of Victoria;
Queensland art Gallery
Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sulman Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1992
Ecstasy Shop Dooley le Capellaine Gallery, New York
1991
90% Space 90 Degrees Dooley le Capellaine Gallery, New York
1990
Small Works Invitational Bowery Gallery, New York
1987
NSW Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1986
NSW Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Selected Bibliography
2010
SNO – 5 Year Anniversary, catalogue coinciding with SNO 57, Sydney
Prue Gibson, A big subject: colour and light, Australian Art Review, Feb-Apr issue
2008
Sarah Hetherington, The Presence of Light and Colour: Perception and Illusion in the
Work of David Serisier, catalogue essay, David Serisier 2008, Liverpool Street Gallery,
Sydney
2007
Sebastian Smee, Coloured by their emotions, The Australian, May 24
2006
Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch Childs & Alan McCulloch, The New McCulloch’s
Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing,
Melbourne, 2006, p503.
William Wright, A Matter of Light: The Paintings of David Serisier, catalogue essay,
David Serisier 2006, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
John Ewing, The Roving Eye, Artlies, issue 51, Summer 2006, p.119
Betsy Brennan, A Brush with Lush, Vogue Living, Jan/Feb
2005
Benjamin Genocchio, David Serisier, catalogue essay, David Serisier 2005,
Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Lenny Ann Low, Open Gallery, Spectrum Sydney Morning Herald, May 28-29
2003
Roger Boyce, David Serisier Robert Steele Gallery Art in America, Dec 2
Peter Hill, Visual Arts, Spectrum Sydney Morning Herald, June 14-15
Anne Loxley, Visual Arts Sydney Morning Herald, June 4
Benjamin Genocchio, David Serisier Robert Steele Gallery New York Weekend Australian,
March 8-9
Peter Hill, The Quiet Revolution catalogue essay, Robert Steele Gallery
2001
Robert Mahoney, David Serisier at Robert Steele Art in America, May
2000
Ruark Lewis, Tondo Painting catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1999
Sonia Barron, Three Generations The Canberra Times, April 9
Sebastian Smee, The Galleries Sydney Morning Herald, March 30
Nick Waterlow, Silver exhibition catalogue, College of Fine Arts, University of New South
Wales
1998
John Neylon, Arts Adelaide Review, August Edition
Adam Dutkiewitz, Intriguing Abstractions The Advertiser
John Neylon, Ball Christofides Hickey Rankin and Serisier Adelaide Review, October 20
Sebastian Smee, Metro Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 19
1997
Sebastian Smee, Metro Sydney Morning Herald, June 26
Bill Gregory, David Serisier catalogue essay Annandale Galleries
1995 Anna Johnson, Gallery Beat Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 10
Elwyn Lynn, Galleries Sydney Review Weekend Australian, May 14-15
John Neylon, Painting by numbers Festival Review Adelaide Review, March
1993
John Neylon, The Discreet Charm of the Moet Award Art and Australia, vol 1 no 31 spring
1993
Judy Annear, Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition exhibition catalogue
Collections
Artbank
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Charles Sturt University
JP Morgan Chase Bank
National Gallery of Australia
New England Regional Art Museum
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Orange Regional Gallery
University of Queensland Art Museum
Private and corporate collections in Australia and the United States of America
