Exhibition Type: Art Fair

1301SW and STARKWHITE return to Sydney Contemporary 2026 with a cohesive presentation that foregrounds perception, the unseen, overlooked, or forgotten, examining themes of memory and material experience. Anchored in a sustained engagement with Modernist legacies, each artist approaches their chosen medium—painting, photography, and sculpture—with a heightened awareness of its material properties and conceptual rigour, emphasising … STARKWHITE & 1301SW | Sydney Contemporary 2026

Starkwhite presents four artists from Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand for Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 in an incisive group show exploring history and place through contrasting contemporary processes across painting, photography and sculpture.  Featuring key works by Sally Gabori, Jonny Niesche, Fiona Pardington and Mark Wahlen, including key examples of Pardington’s bird works … Art Basel Hong Kong 2026

STARKWHITE’s presentation for the 2026 Aotearoa Art Fair brings together artists from New Zealand and abroad in an exploration of abstraction, materiality, and perception. A large central platform supports a constellation of sculptural objects, alongside a suite of repeated pictorial works forming a skyline. Together, these elements create a space that is both disorienting and … Aotearoa Art Fair 2026

1301SW and STARKWHITE’s joint presentation for the 2026 Melbourne Art Fair brings together key artists from Australia and abroad in a refined exploration of abstraction, materiality, storytelling, and perception. Featuring a large central platform that supports a constellation of sculptural objects, sitting in conversation with a suite of pictorial works acting as the skyline. Together, the presentation … STARKWHITE & 1301SW | Melbourne Art Fair 2026

1301SW and STARKWHITE’s joint presentation for the 2025 edition of Sydney Contemporary will take the idea of “tracing” as its overarching theme. Whether it be conceptually rooted in research — to follow a lineage or uncover something — or more visible in both gesture and technique — say the pattern-like nature of a work or … STARKWHITE & 1301SW | Sydney Contemporary 2025

A suite of surfaces. Slick, soft, smooth and shimmering, textured and layered; depicting scenes and senses, topography and anthropology. A group of pictures whose divergent materials and techniques are linked by their preoccupation with surface, where Tim Bučković’s labyrinthine-like application of oils move into Jelena Telecki’s sensual and slippery use of the same medium, both … Tim Bučković, Simone Griffin, Jonny Niesche and Jelena Telecki | Spring1883

For the 2025 edition of the Aotearoa Art Fair Starkwhite will present an expansive booth featuring key examples of gallery artists including Andrew Beck, Mikala Dwyer, Marti Friedlander, Jonny Niesche, Fiona Pardington, Heather Straka, Jamie Te Heuheu.

For the 2025 edition of the Melbourne Art Fair 1301SW and STARKWHITE jointly present a body of key works by leading Australian and international artists including Andrew Beck, Mikala Dwyer, Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick, Simone Griffin, Bill Henson, Jonny Niesche, Seung Yul Oh, Fiona Pardington, Pae White and Michael Zavros. 

For the 2024 edition of Sydney Contemporary 1301SW and STARKWHITE will jointly present a body of work by leading Australian and international artists, but with a reductive palate. Comprised primarily of monotoned and mirrored surfaces, our substantial presentation will stand out as a clear and deeply considered offering that highlights the emotive values of tonal … Sydney Contemporary 2024

Taking an expansive booth of 110sqm, Starkwhite will present key works from gallery artists Bill Henson, Jamie Te Heuheu, Jonny Niesche, Fiona Pardington, Gordon Walters and Michael Zavros among others. Michael Zavros will also present his performance ‘Fifty’ at the Vernissage, kindly supported by Perrier-Jouët.

For the 2023 edition of Sydney Contemporary, 1301SW and Starkwhite jointly present a group of artists whose practices broadly explore painting. Offered as a richly aesthetic, conceptual and materially diverse presentation, featuring significant works by acclaimed artists, such as Billy Apple, Whitney Bedford, Tim Bučković, Petra Cortright, Mikala Dwyer, Robert Moreland, Jonny Niesche, Gerold Miller, … Sydney Contemporary 2023

2024 opens with a solo presentation of Michael Zavros at ART SG, Singapore. Following Zavros’ 2023 acclaimed retrospective ‘The Favourite’ at the Queensland Art Gallery, ART SG offers collectors key new works from Zavros’ extraordinary studio practice including the remarkable ‘The new Belvedere’, the fourth work in his key Versailles series. As Southeast Asia’s largest … Michael Zavros | Booth FC18 | ART SG 2024

Starkwhite is delighted to take part in the Aotearoa Art Fair from 2 – 5 March 2023. Taking an expansive double booth we’ll present major works from Whitney Bedford, Bill Henson, Fiona Pardington, Gerold Miller, Jonny Niesche, John Reynolds,  Gordon Walters and Michael Zavros among others. 

Australian artist Jonny Niesche will create a spatial, immersive experience for his Singapore Art Fair debut, featuring a monolithic sculpture and six new large-scale paintings. Offering attendees a portal from the busy commerce of a fair to an altered state, each element in this intentional composition contributes to the creation of a spatial ambience that … Jonny Niesche | Booth F34 | Art SG 2023

Starkwhite is delighted to take part in the Aotearoa Art Fair from 16- 20 November 2022. Taking an expansive double booth presenting major works from Bill Henson, Fiona Pardington, Gerold Miller, Jonny Niesche, Seung Yul Oh,  Gordon Walters and Michael Zavros among others.  Highlights include Arrow, a new work by Michael Zavros. Arrow shows the artist almost … Aotearoa Art Fair 2022

For the 2022 edition of Sydney Contemporary, 1301SW and STARKWHITE will present a group of significant works by internationally acclaimed artists working across both galleries.  This includes Billy Apple’s noteworthy piece AC / DC (Artist’s Cut / Dealer’s Cut) (1986), which will be the first Australian presentation of the esteemed artist since his passing in … Sydney Contemporary 2022

Starkwhite is pleased to present Conjuring Form by Dane Mitchell at Art Statements from 4 to 8 June 2008, with the support of Creative New Zealand. The critical acuity of Dane Mitchell‘s playful unravelings sees him collaborate with witches and psychics to explore the phantom inhabitants of art galleries, institutions, and sites of cultural significance. … Dane Mitchell | Conjuring Form | Art 39 Basel, Art Statements 2008

Starkwhite will stage a solo presentation by New York-based artist Martin Basher at The Armory Show from 8-11 March 2012. The presentation will feature new paintings and sculptures and will build on elements of recent sculptural projects including a recent Public Art Fund commission, titled MINIMAL CONSUMPTION / REFLECTIVE SUBLIME / ASPIRATIONAL SUNSET ART. In this … Martin Basher | The Armory Show 2012

Stand B76 Starkwhite will present a group show by represented artists at the 2012 Melbourne Art Fair, including: Billy Apple, Martin Basher, Whitney Bedford, Alicia Frankovich, Trenton Garratt, Glen Hayward, Gavin Hipkins (with Karl Fritsch), Matt Henry, Jae Hoon Lee, Dane Mitchell, Seung Yul Oh and John Reynolds. The Melbourne Art Fair is Australia’s premier … Melbourne Art Fair 2012

Starkwhite is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Shanghai-based artist Jin Jiangbo at ART HK 2012 from 17 – 20 May 2012. The exhibition includes Rules of Nature, a landscape executed in the manner of traditional Chinese ink-and-wash painting and staged as a projection. The landscape imagery, however, is steered by the viewer, who by striking … Jin Jiangbo | Art Hong Kong 2012

This year Starkwhite will present a group show of artists at ART HK 11 including: Billy Apple (NZ), Whitney Bedford (US), Matt Henry (NZ), Jin Jiangbo (CN) Hye Rim Lee (KR/US), Jae Hoon Lee (KR/NZ), Seung Yul Oh (KR/NZ) and John Reynolds (NZ) John Reynolds’ Too Big to Fail is a further development of his … Art Hong Kong 2011

Starkwhite will present a new work by John Reynolds (NZ), commissioned for the fair, along with paintings by Peter Stichbury (NZ) and video by Grant Stevens (AUS) at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from 28 – 31 January 2010. John Reynolds: One Hand Read ‘It is good that the words which are least used, least written, … Grant Stevens, Peter Stichbury, John Reynolds | Art LA Contemporary 2010

Starkwhite will present 1001 Nights, an installation by John Reynolds at The Armory Show, NY from 4 – 7 March 2010 Reynolds’ new work embraces 1001 Nights as a point of departure. Folding stories within stories, Arabian Nights tracks, among other things, the somnolence of daily life toward a contemplation of fate and destiny. These … John Reynolds | <em>1001 Nights</em> | The Armory Show 2010

Starkwhite is pleased to present a exhibition of new work by Whitney Bedford (Los Angeles USA), Jin Jiangbo (Shanghai CN) and John Reynolds (Auckland NZ) at Art Beijing from 29 April to 2 May 2010. Whitney Bedford The personal and the historical intertwine in Whitney Bedford’s work. Her subjects include Arcadian landscapes, shipwrecks, icebergs and … Whitney Bedford, Jin Jiangbo, John Reynolds | Art Beijing 2010

Starkwhite will present selected works by Jin Jiangbo (Shanghai), Hye Rim Lee (New York) and John Reynolds (Auckland), at ART HK, 14 – 17 May 2010. Other artists in the exhibition include Whitney Bedford (USA), Matt Henry (NZ) and Peter Stichbury (NZ). Jin Jiangbo In his recent series of photographs Jiangbo investigates the past twenty … Art Hong Kong 2010

Starkwhite will present Table of Dynasties by John Reynolds at the Hong Kong International Art Fair (ART HK), from 14 to 17 May 2009. This is a significant move on two counts for Starkwhite. First, despite the global economic downturn the gallery will continue to participate in selected art fairs during 2009. Starkwhite made its … John Reynolds | <em/>Table of Dynasties</em> | Art Hong Kong 2009

Starkwhite is pleased to present et al.’s altruistic studies_vote more than once at Art Unlimited from 4 – 8 June 2008, with the support of Creative New Zealand. The et al. installation methodology is utilitarian, looking for the value systems residing in readymade text, synthesised speech, sound bites, and incomprehensible, senseless or prosaic fragments – … et al. | altruistic studies_vote more than once | Art 39 Basel, Art Unlimited 2008

Starkwhite will participate in the 2013 edition of the Auckland Art Fair, which runs from 8 – 11 August in The Cloud on Auckland’s waterfront. This year the gallery will present a group show of works by artists including Billy Apple (NZ), Martin Basher (NZ/US), Rebecca Baumann (AU) Jae Hoon Lee (NZ/KR) Seung Yul Oh … Auckland Art Fair 2013

Starkwhite will present Gavin Hipkins’ experimental screen narrative, This Fine Island, at the inaugural edition of Armory Film, 8-11 March 2012. Curated by Moving Image, the screenings will take place during The Armory Show in a dedicated Media Lounge on Pier 94. Hipkins’ background is in contemporary art photography and experimental video art. In 2010, he … Gavin Hipkins | <em/>This Fine Island</em> | The Armory Film 2012

Starkwhite is delighted to announce that the gallery will participate in the first edition of Art Basel Hong Kong 2013, which runs from 23-26 May 2013. Starkwhite has a long association with the Hong Kong’s international art fair having participated in five editions of ART HK. Starkwhite will present THE IMMORTALISATION OF BILLY APPLE, a … Billy Apple® | THE IMMORTALISATION OF BILLY APPLE | Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

Seung Yul Oh: Huggong (Variation 1) “Seung Yul Oh transforms childhood memories into surreal, large-scale installations. His whimsical works experiment with colour, materials and movement as he reanimates games and toys by exaggerating their familiar scale.” 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. Seung Yul Oh will present one of his oversized inflatable sculptures in … Seung Yul Oh | Huggong (Variation 1) | Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary 2013

Starkwhite will present video works by Grant Stevens (AUS) and Clinton Watkins (NZ) in Video Contemporary, the section of Sydney Contemporary curated by Mark Feary. Grant Stevens Supermassive, 2013 Four-channel video Colour and sound 11 mins, 19 secs Grant Stevens is known for his pithy text-based videos exploring vernacular and mass media truisms and recalling … Grant Stevens, Clinton Watkins | Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary 2013

Starkwhite will present a group show at the inaugural edition of Sydney Contemporary 2012. The lineup of artists includes: Billy Apple (NZ/US), Martin Basher (NZ/US), Rebecca Baumann (AUS), Whitney Bedford (US), Jae Hoon Lee (NZ/KR), Ross Manning (AUS), Seung Yul Oh (NZ/KR), John Reynolds (NZ), and Caroline Rothwell (AUS). We will present a group show … Sydney Contemporary 2013

In partnership with the Walters Estate, Starkwhite will present pioneer abstract artist Gordon Walters at Art Basel Hong Kong from 15 -18 May 2014. The gallery will also present a large-scale, commissioned work by Perth-based artist Rebecca Baumann in the Encounters section of the fair, which has been curated by Yuko Hasegawa. Gordon Walters (1919-1995) is … Gordon Walters | Art Basel Hong Kong 2014

23 – 25 March 2017 Booth 1C03 Starkwhite will present a group show at Art Basel Hong Kong exploring various approaches to composing or choreographing color, motion and movement. It will feature the work of pioneer experimental filmmaker Len Lye, along with works by contemporary practitioners Rebecca Baumann, Daniel Crooks, Alicia Frankovich and Grant Stevens … Art Basel Hong Kong 2017

Starkwhite will present a group show at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from 26 – 29 January 2017. The artists include Billy Apple® (NZ), Martin Basher (NZ/US), Rebecca Baumann (AUS), Daniel Crooks (AUS/NZ), Richard Maloy (NZ), Laith McGregor (AUS), Seung Yul Oh (NZ/KR), Gordon Walters (NZ) and Michael Zavros (NZ). Further information will be posted closer to … Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2017

Starkwhite will present an evolving group show at Booth C9 at the Auckland Art Fair focusing on artists with a strong record of participation in international art fairs and national and international exhibitions. Rotating artists through the course of the fair allows the gallery to feature a wider range of work without resorting to an … Auckland Art Fair 2016

Grant Stevens is represented in Pacific Real Time, the inaugural edition of Auckland Art Fair Project Programme curated by Jarrod Rawlins, curator at MONA, Hobart, and Simon Rees, Director, Govett Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth. They selected works for the Project Programme “that are addressed to the dissociative rupture of being … Grant Stevens | Auckland Art Fair Projects 2016