National Gallery of Australia exhibitions Exhibition Title Opening and Closing Dates 2015 Story of Rama 22 May - 23 August 2015 Streetwise: contemporary print culture 1 May - 7 August 2015 Colour my world 3 April - 30 August 2015 Myth and memory 12 January - 13 July 2015 2014 James Turrell: a retrospective 13 December 2014 - 8 June 2015 Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier 8 November - 15 March 205 NGA Contemporary: Australian Art 8 November - 15 March 2015 Arthur Boyd: Agony and ecstasy 5 September - 9 November 2014 Gifted Artists: Donations by Patrick Corrigan AM 15 August 2014 - 12 January 2015 Alive and Spirited (Children's Gallery) 2 August 2014 - April 2015 Stars of the Tokyo Stage: Natori Shunsen's kabuki actor prints 19 July - 12 October 2014 Robert Motherwell: At five in the afternoon 12 July - 6 October 2014 Bali: Island of the gods 13 June - 3 August 2014 Atua: Sacred gods from Polynesia 23 May - 3 August 2014 Light moves: Australian contemporary video art 18 April - 20 July 2014 Finding your place in the world: Asian Photomedia 25 February - 20 July 2014 Garden of the East: photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s 21 February - 22 June 2014 2013 Gold and the Incas: Lost Worlds of Peru 6 December 2013 - 21 April 2014 William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa 5 October - 3 November 2013 ToyShop: Children's Gallery Exhibition 17 August 2013 - 6 April 2014 Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Remix 20 July 2013 - 27 January 2014 Exhibition Title Opening and Closing Dates Present history: a seletion of photographs of New Zealand 1960s to the present 28 June - 4 November 2013 Turner from the Tate: the making of a master 1 June - 15 September 2013 Creating Worlds (Children's Gallery) 23 February - 4 August 2013 Stars in the river: the prints of Jessie Traill 16 February - 23 June 2013 Kastom: Arts of Vanuatu 8 February - June 16 2013 2012 Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & the Moulin Rouge 14 December 2012 - 2 April 2013 Divine Worlds: Indian painting 1 September -11 November 2012 Carol Jerrems: Photographic artist 25 August 2012 - 28 January 2013 Sydney Long: The Spirit of the Land 17 August - 11 November 2012 Abstract Expressionism (Orde Poynton Gallery) 4 August 2012 - 20 January 2013 Abstract Expressionism (International Galleries) 14 July 2012 - 24 February 2013 Word Pictures (Children's Gallery) 7 July 2012 - 10 February 2013 unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial 11 May - 22 July 2012 Eugene von Guérard: Nature revealed 27 April - 15 July 2012 Play (Children's Gallery) 4 February - 24 June 2012 2011 Penguins and Ice: Photographs of Antarctica 1910 - 2010 23 December 2011 - 25 March 2012 Renaissance: Raphael, Botticelli, Bellini, Titian: 15th & 16th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo 9 December 2011 - 9 April 2012 Good Strong Powerful (Children's Gallery) 1 October 2011 -15 January 2012 Upstairs downstairs: Photographs of Britain 1874 - 1990 3 September - 18 December 2011 Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons 12 August - 6 November 2011 Out of the West: Art of Western Australia from the national collection 8 July 2011 - 1 April 2012 Varilaku: Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands 24 February - 29 May 2011 2010 Ballet Russes: The Art of Costume 10 December 2010 - 1 May 2011 Space Invaders: Australian Street, Stencils, Posters, Paste-ups, Zines, & Stickers 30 October 2010 - 27 February 2011 In the Spotlight: Anton Bruehl Photographs 1920s-1950s 23 October 2010 - 6 February 2011 Connections (Children's Gallery) 16 October 2010 - 18 September 2011 Exhibition Title Opening and Closing Dates Life, Death, & Magic: 2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art 13 August - 31 October 2010 Robert Dowling: Tasmanian Son of an Empire 24 July - 4 October 2010 Hans Heysen 13 May - 11 July 2010 Shimmer (Children's Gallery) 19 February - 4 October 2010 2009 Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond 4 December 2009 - 5 April 2010 Emerging Elders 3 October 2009 - 14 June 2010 McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907-17 14 August - 1 November 2009 Airing of the Quilts 1 August - 11 October 2009 Reinventions: sculpture + assemblage 16 May - 13 September 2009 Soft Sculpture 24 April - 12 July 2009 Silently Stirring (Children's Gallery) 21 March - 8 June 2009 Misty moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915–1950 21 February - 27 April 2009 Degas' world: the rage for change 24 January - 3 May 2009 2008 Degas: master of French art 12 December 2008 - 22 March 2009 Gods, ghosts and men: Pacific arts from the NGA Collection 10 October 2008 - 11 January 2009 Home at last (Children's Gallery) 13 September 2008 - 8 March 2009 National Photography Festival (with the National Library of Australia) 11 July - 12 October 2008 Picture Paradise: The first century of Asia-Pacific photography 1840s - 1940s 10 July - 9 November 2008 Richard Larter: A retrospective 20 June - 14 September 2008 Treescape 12 April - 30 August 2008 Turner to Monet: The Triumph of Landscape 14 March - 9 June 2008 Australian Surrealism - The Agapitos Wilson Collection 16 February - 11 May 2008 2007 National Indigenous Art Triennial 07: cultural warriors 13 October 2007 - 10 February 2008 Black robe, white mist: the art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Otagaki Rengetsu 8 September 2007 - 27 January 2008 Robert Rauschenberg 1967 - 1978 1 September 2007 - 27 January 2008 Drawn in 14 July - 25 November 2007 Exhibition Title Opening and Closing Dates George Lambert: Heroes and Icons 29 June - 16 September 2007 VIP: very important photographs from the European, American and Australian photography collection 1840s – 1940s 26 May - 19 August 2007 Tools and techniques of printmaking 14 April - 22 July 2007 The Story of Australian Printmaking 1801 - 2005 30 March - 3 June 2007 The Birth of the Modern Poster 10 February - 13 May 2007 2006 Grace Crowley: being modern 23 December 2006 - 6 May 2007 Creeping through the jungle 9 December 2006 - 1 April 2007 Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre: Journey to the afterlife 17 November 2006 - 25 February 2007 Revolutionary Russians 23 September 2006 - 28 January 2007 The crafted object 60s - 80s 26 August - 10 December 2006 Abracadabra: The magic in conservation 28 July - 26 November 2006 Imants Tillers: One World/Many Visions 14 July - 16 October 2006 Michael Riley: sights unseen 14 July - 16 October 2006 Rosenquist: Welcome to the water planet 10 June - 12 September 2006 Right here right now: recent Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander art acquisitions 13 May - 13 August 2006 Come rain or shine 24 March - 12 June 2006 Australia and Constable 3 March - 12 June 2006 Constable: impressions of land, sea and sky 3 March - 12 June 2006 Crescent Moon: Islamic art and civilisation in Southeast Asia 24 February - 28 May 2006 2005 War: the prints of Otto Dix 17 December 2005 - 30 April 2006 Against the grain: the woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler 26 November 2005 - 5 February 2006 Imagining Papua New Guinea 8 October 2005 - 12 March 2006 Transformations: The language of craft 11 November 2005 - 29 January 2006 Moist: Australian Watercolours 27 August - 7 December 2005 Bill Viola: The Passions 29 July - 6 November 2005 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 15 July - 9 October 2005 Fullscreen: Explorations in Digital Media 2005 25 June - 5 November 2005 Exhibition Title Opening and Closing Dates Stage Fright: the art of theatre 11 June - 18 September 2005 Margaret Michaelis: Love, loss and photography 7 May - 14 August 2005 An artist abroad: The prints of James McNeill Whistler 25 March - 10 July 2005 FuturePlay: from the house of tomorrow 19 March - 29 May 2005 James Gleeson: Beyond the screen of sight 18 March - 13 June 2005 Grace Cossington Smith: A retrospective exhibition 4 March - 13 June 2005 2004 Margaret Preston: Australian Printmaker 18 December 2004 - 25 April 2005 Surface beauty: Photographic reflections on glass and china 10 December 2004 - 27 February 2005 Vivienne Westwood: 34 years in fashion 12 November 2004 - 30 January 2005 Big spooks 2 October 2004 - 6 March 2005 Printed light: Photographic vision and the modern print 31 July - 7 November 2004 No ordinary place: the art of David Malangi 31 July - 7 November 2004 Sean Scully - Body of light 23 July - 10 October 2004 Montien Boonma: Temple of the mind 23 July - 10 October 2004 From little things big things grow: gather round people and I'll tell you a story 12 June - 19 September 2004 John Glover and the colonial picturesque 24 April - 18 July 2004 Fullscreen: Explorations in New Media 2004 27 March - 25 September 2004 Making pictures 13 March - 30 May 2004 Silk Cut 15 March - 2 April 2004 The Edwardians: secrets and desires 12 March - 14 June 2004 Nam June Paik: A selection from 32 cars for the 20th century playing Mozart's requiem quietly 7 February - 25 April 2004 place made : Australian Print Workshop 31 January - 1 April 2004 Expressions in glass 24 January - June 2004 Summer Scholarship Group 24 January - 29 February 2004 2003 Camera Work 1903 - 1917 13 December 2003 - 26 January 2004 Hard Edge: Geometry in design 15 November 2003 - 11 January 2004 French paintings from the Musee Fabre, Montpellier 7 November 2003 - 15 February 2004 Exhibition Title Opening and Closing Dates Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection 11 October 2003 - 18 January 2004 After image: Screenprints of Andy Warhol 6 September 2003 - 4 April 2004 Jump: Photographers get off the ground 23 August - 2 November 2003 Sari to sarong: Five hundred years of Indian and Indonesian textile exchange 11 July - 5 October 2003 Tactility: Two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre 7 June