ALLAN MITELMAN was born in Poland in 1946 and arrived in Australia in 1953.
He studied at the Prahran College of Advanced Education (1965-68).
Mitelman has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne,
Sydney and Brisbane as well as participating in numerous local and
international group exhibitions including Australian Prints,
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K. (1972);
Twelve Australian Lithographers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1975);
Artists ' Artists', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1975); Modern Prints from Australia,
Japan Print Association/Print Council of Australia, Kanagawa, Japan (1977);
Freestyle: Australian Art - 1960's to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1980);
Reference Points, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane(1992); The Black Show, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong (1993);
Silent Objects : Non Objective Art from Melbourne ,Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand (1994)
and Australian Art - Colonial to Contemporary, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne (1995).
Mitelman's work is represented in major public collections throughout Australia,
New Zealand and America including the Museum of Modern Art, New York;
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne and the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne. The
exhibition, Allan Mitelman. After-images: A survey of works from
1970 -1995, was the first major survey of the artist's work in Melbourne.
Allan Mitelman is currently living and working in Melbourne.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1969 Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
1970 Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
1971 Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
Gallery One-Eleven, Brisbane
1972 Gallery One-Eleven, Brisbane
Warehouse Galleries, Melbourne
1973 Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
1974 Sweeney Reed Galleries, Melbourne
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1975 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1976 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1977 Solander Gallery, Canberra
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1979 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1981 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1985 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1986 312 Lennox Street, Melbourne
1987 312 Lennox Street, Melbourne
1988 312 Lennox Street, Melbourne
Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1989 Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1990 Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1991 Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1992 Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Allan Mitelman: seven prints published by the Australian Print Workshop Melbourne
1994 Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1995 Allan Mitelman, After-images: A survey of works form 1970-95
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Allan Mitelman, After-images: A survey of works from 1970-95
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University,Canberra
1997 Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1999 Galerie Düsseldorf, Paintings and Drawings, A Festival of Perth Exhibition
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1970 Third International Biennale of Graphic Art
Cracow, Poland
Eight Melbourne Printmakers
Arts Council of Australia Exhibition, Canberra, ACT
1971 Australian Imprint
Commonwealth Exhibition, South-East Asia
Contemporary Australian Prints
Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
Australian Prints: Print Council of Australia Exhibition
Cracow, Poland
Images
Commonwealth Exhibition, India (touring)
1972 Australian Prints
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Pratt Graphic Centre, New York
New Generation Painters
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
Georges Invitation Art Prize
Georges Gallery, Melbourne
1974 Australian Graphics
Commonwealth Exhibition, Mexico and South America
9th International Print Biennale Tokyo
1975 Artists' Artists
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Recent Drawings
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Fifty Years of the Macquarie Galleries
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Nineteenth Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
John McCaughey Memorial Invitation Art Prize
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Twelve Australian Lithographers
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Australian Graphics
Festival of Creative Arts and Sciences, Canberra
1976 Outlines of Australian Printmaking
Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria
Western Pacific Print Biennale
Print Council of Australia Exhibition (touring)
East Coast Drawings
Institute of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1977 Australian Colourists
Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth
Modern Prints from Australia
Japan Print Association/Print Council of Australia,Kanagawa, Tokyo
Contemporary Australian Prints
Western Australia Art Gallery
1978 Project 23:
Allan Mitelman and John R. Neeson
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Australian Etching
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Works on Paper: Gunter Christmann, Richard Havyatt,
Allan Mitelman, John Neeson Australia Council Exhibition (touring)
Seven Printmakers
Tasmanian College of Art Gallery, Hobart
1979 European Beginnings: Eight Australian Artists from Europe
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
John McCaughey Memorial Invitation Art Prize
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Works on Paper
Australia Council Exhibition, Australian Embassy,Paris
1980 Contemporary Australian Printmakers I
Museum of Art, University of Oregon, USA
13th International Print Biennale
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Australian Prints
Department of Foreign Affairs Exhibition
(touring Europe and South-East Asia)
1981 14th International Print Biennale
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
John McCaughey Memorial Invitation Art Prize
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Prints since 1975
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Survey of the Seventies
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
1983 15th International Print Biennale Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Drawn Decades: Bill Brown, Fred Cress, Allan Mitelman
The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, NSW (touring)
1985 Thirty Years On - Survey of Works on Paper
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1986 10th International Exhibition of Original Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
Twenty Tears of Australian Abstraction
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Painters Visions
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Paintings: 1955 - 1985
312 Lennox Street, Melbourne
Melbourne Printmakers
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Surface for Reflexion
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Crosscurrents
Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
Works on Paper - 1950's to the Present
312 Lennox Street, Melbourne
1987 John McCaughey Memorial Invitation Art Prize
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Acquisitions 1986 - 1987
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
Director's Choice
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Important Works on Paper
Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
1988 11th International Exhibition of Original Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
200 Years of Australian Drawings
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1989 Prints and Australia: Pre-settlement to Present
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Freestyle: Australian Art - 1960's to Now
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gary Anderson Gallery at EMR:
Stephen Bambury, Joe Felber, Allan Mitelman, Paul Partos
EMR Gallery, Sydney
Australian Painting, Works on Paper and Sculpture
312 Lennox Street, Melbourne
A Selection of 19th and 20th Century Australian Art
Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1990 Recent Acquisitions:Department of Prints and Drawings
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Commonsense
King Street Gallery on Burton,Sydney
Homage to Morandi
Garry Anderson Gallery,Sydney
1991 Commonsense
University of South Australia, Adelaide
Selected Contemporary Australian Art
Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
Microcosm - An Exhibition of Small Works
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1992 Works on Paper: Bambury, Cullen, McCahon,
Mitelman, Morrison, Peebles,Tomkins, Webster
Artis, Auckland, New Zealand
Reference Points: A New Perspective
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
The Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize 1992
McClelland Art Gallery, Melbourne
Henri Worland Memorial Print Award 1972-1992
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
1960 to the Present - Australian Paintings
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Paper Works 3 - Scotland
Seagate Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
A Selection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Australian Art
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1993 Selected Paintings and Sculpture by Australian Jewish
Artists from the turn of the century to the present day
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
The People of the Book - Jewish Aspects of
The University of Melbourne Collection
The University of Melbourne Museum of Art
On Paper Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The Black Show Geelong Art Gallery (touring NSW and Victoria)
Contemporary Australian Drawing from the Collection
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1994 The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80's
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Olsen, Lanceley, Partos, Mitelman, Sansom:
Recent Paintings and Works on Paper
Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Recent Prints from the Australian Print Workshop
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
On Paper
Solander Gallery, Canberra
Twenty Paintings - by Melbourne artists of the 1980's
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Silent Objects: Non-objective art from Melbourne
Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton,
Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
New Prints: Eight Contemporary Artists
New England Regional Art Museum,
Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery,NSW
Modern Australian Painting - from the 1930's to the present
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Printmaking
Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
Modern Australian Painting
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
13th International Triennial f¸r Originalgrafik
Grenchen, Switzerland
1995 In Tandem - Partos, Lanceley, Johnson, Mitelman, Gimblett
Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
Australian Art - Colonial to Contemporary
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
The Situation Now: a survey of local non-objective art
University Art Museum, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Australia Felix
Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
Modern Australian Painting - from the 1930's to the present
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Optics: Allan Mitelman, Jan Riske, David Serisier
Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Works on Paper
Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
New Works on Paper:
Booth, Henson, Kngwarreye, Maudsley,
Mitelman,Nedelkopoulos, Olsen, Senbergs
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
The Experience of Abstraction:
Bonnefoi, Christofides, Gimblett, Griffin,
Leach-Jones, Mitelman
Wollongong City Gallery (touring)
Two Australian Artists-Allan Mitelman, Stephen Wickham
Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Black Attack
National Gallery of Victoria
Silent Rythms
Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2D, 3D
Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1997 Galerie Düsseldorf-21 Years On Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
200 Years of Artists Lithographs National Gallery of Victoria
1998 Primary Colours: Blue
Annandale Galleries, Sydney
The Mecenat Collection
Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The Laverty Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists
Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo;
Konsthallen, Gothenberg; Galerie Otso, Helsinki
Australian Prints From the Gallery's Collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Works on Paper by 20 Australian Artists
Za Moca Foundation, Tokyo
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathhurst
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
Brisbane College of Advanced Education Collection, Brisbane
Burnie Art Gallery, Burnie
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Campbelltown
Christchurch City Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Deakin University, Melbourne
Devonport Gallery and Arts Centre, Devonport
Edith Cowan University Art Collection, Perth
Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
La Trobe University, Melbourne
McClelland Gallery, Melbourne
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S A.
Myer Foundation, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New Parliament House, Canberra
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology Collection, Brisbane
Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton
State College of Victoria Collection, Melbourne
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
The Chartwell Collection, Hamilton, New Zealand
The University of Melbourne Collection, Melbourne
University of Queensland Collection, Brisbane
University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
Warrnambool City Art Gallery, Warrnambool
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
1970 Geelong Art Prize
1972 Henry Worland Memorial Prize
1973 Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council Grant Corio Art Prize
1975 Commission, The Outback Reader-A Collection
of Australian Contemporary and Experimental Short Fiction
1976 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Prize
1976 Wollongong Art Purchase Prize
1977 Bathurst Art Award
Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council Fellowship
Commission, original print for Traversare I
Monash University Studio Series No 2/1992,
Monash University, Melbourne
Acquired, 1998 Biennial National Works on Paper Exhibition,
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
Allen, C., Art in Australia - From Colonization to Postmodernism
(Thames & Hudson, 1997)
Bonython K., Modern Australian Painting 1970 -1975 (Rigby, 1970)
Bonython K., Modern Australian Painting 1975 -1980 (Rigby, 1980)
Chanin E., Contemporary Australian Painting (Craftsman House, 1980)
Drury N., Images 2; Contemporary Australian Painting (Craftsman House 1994)
Drury N., Images in Contemporary Australian Painting (Craftsman House 1992)
Drury N., New Art Three; Profiles in Contemporary Australian Art
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Germaine M., Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand
(Lansdowne Press, 1979)
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(Craftsman House, 1994)
Grishin S., Australian Printmaking in the 1990's - Artist Printmakers 1990 - 1995 (Craftsman House, 1994)
Kempf F., Contemporary Australian Printmakers (Lansdowne Press, 1976)
McCulloch A., Encyclopedia of Australian Art (Hutchison, 1969)
Robbard G. & Smith E., Concise Dictionary of Australian Artists
(Melbourne University Press, 1993)
Robbard G. & Smith E., Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists (Thorpe, 1995)
Thomas D., Outlines of Australian Art; The Joseph Brown Collection (MacMillan, 1989)
Catalogues
Australian Etching 1978 Print Council of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Twelve Australian Lithographers Print Council of Australia,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1975
Bond T., Surface for Reflexion Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1986
Conners A., Seven Printmakers Tasmanian College of Advanced Education,
Hobart, 1978
Cross E., Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 1998-1999
Cross Phillips E., Crosscurrents Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 1986
Davies S., Allan Mitelman: Gentle Lyricist Exhibition 2, Works on Paper,
Visual Arts Board Exhibition, 1978
de Teliga J., Project 23: Allan Mitelman and John Neeson
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1978
Delaruelle J., Allan Mitelman: Paintings and Works on Paper 1970 - 1990
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, 1990
Draffin N., Australian Graphics Australia Council Exhibition,
Mexico and South America, 1974
French A., Contemporary Australian Printmakers 1 Print Council of Australia,
East Coast USA and Canada, 1979
Kolenberg H., New Prints: Eight Contemporary Artists
New England Regional Art Museum, 1994
Krell A., Drawn Decades: Bill Brown, Fred Cress, Allan Mitelman
Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, 1983
Kolenberg H. & Ryan A. Australian Prints from the Gallery's Collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998
Lynton N., The Experience of Abstraction - Six Contemporary Artists
Wollongong City Gallery, 1996
Maloon T., Allan Mitelman, After-images: A survey of works from 1970 - 1995
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 1995
Mollison J. & MacKean M., Australian Prints
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1972
Radford R., Outlines of Australian Printmaking
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 1976
Rainbird S., Selected Australian Works
Queensland University of Technology Art Collection, 1995
Spurway, O., Images Department of Foreign Affairs Exhibition,
India, 1972
Timms P., Stephen Bambury, Joe Felber, Allan Mitelman, Paul Partos
EMR Gallery, Sydney, 1989
Timms P., 'The Black Show' Geelong Art Gallery, 1993
Newspapers and Periodicals
Allen C., 'Minimalism - sensual and cerebral' The Sydney Review May 1989
Allen C., Passive resistance to bombastic statements
The Sydney Morning Herald 26 May 1990
Borlase N., Who's childish? The Sydney Morning Herald 25 February 1978
Catalano G., Davis and Mitelman stand tests of time The Age 5 Oct 1988
Catalano G., Looking below the surface The Age 8 July 1987
Catalano G., Poetry on canvas deceives passing eyes The Age 10 Oct 1986
Cross E., Allan Mitelman Art Network Spring 1985
Davies S., Allan Mitelman - Powell Street Gallery Art Network Spring 1983
Delaruelle J., Demanding attention The Sydney Review Sep 1994
Delaruelle J., Jelle van den Berg: Allan Mitelman Art Monthly June 1989
French B., Staying alert to change Art Monthly July 1996
GQ - a quarterly review of graphic work GQ Tokyo 1974
Green C. & Wickham S., Abstract? West Vol 3 No 2 1991
Grishin S., Minimalist but not theory bound The Canberra Times 14 Feb 1996
Grishin S., Outstanding work meets international standard
The Canberra Times 26 Feb 1994
Grishin S., Signs reduced to a minimum The Canberra Times 13 Oct 1977
Heathcote C., The gentle art of an artist who has learned to efface self
The Age 26 June 199
Heathcote C., Visions of Black Australia The Age 25 June 19983
Holloway M., demand exceeding supply? The Age 18 May 1983
Inwood A., Surveying the boundaries of worlds apart
The Australian 26 May 1990
Kempe J., Det ar langt mellan kontinenterna ë Dagens Nyheter April 8 1998
Langer Dr G., Serene abstracts The Courier Mail 24 June 1972
Lynn E., Serious frames of mind The Australian 29 April 1989
Maloon T., Hang on, these works are worth another look
The Sydney Morning Herald 20 August 1983
Maloon T., Mitelman, the painting as an arena for life
The Sydney Morning Herald 24 August 1985
McCaughey P., A show with all that's fit to print The Age 10 Dec 1969
McCaughey P., Glimmerings of hope for future The Age 12 April 1972
McCulloch A., Artist on the right road The Herald 20 August 1969
McDonald J., No place for quick viewing
The Sydney Morning Herald 13 august 1994
McKenzie R., Mid-career survey: Allan Mitelman.
After Images: -a survey of work 1970 - 1995 The Age 9 August 1995
Murray Harvey N., Prints and graffiti The Canberra Times 24 April 1970
Plant M., Melbourne Printmakers Art Bulletin of Victoria 1973-1974
Roe B., Fireworks at 111 Antiques and Art Australasia August 1972
Runefelt E., Out of Australia's Living Heart ë Svenska Dagbladet 29 March 1998
Rooney R., Allan Mitelman. After images: a survey of works 1970 - 1995
The Australian 4 August 1995
Sisley A., Fundamental truths in abstract forms of Optics
Central Western Daily, 19.08.95
Waite D., Allan Mitelman. After images: a survey of works from 1970 - 1995
Imprint Vol 30 No 3 1995
Warren A., Art quality of charm The Sun 22 July 1970
Warren A., Muted tonings in local work The Sun 19 May 1971
Zimmer J., Allan Mitelman: a survey of works 1970 - 1995
Agenda - Australian Contemporary Art Oct 1995
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