Exhibitions
In 2020, IAC launched four audio and visual exhibitions during the Covid lockdown period. “Wild Hearts & Warm Spirits” is a curated collection of student photography under School of Humanities and Communication Arts' outbound global mobility study program. The artist Zhou Xiaoping’s solo exhibition “Zhou Xiaoping: Spiritual Bonding between Land and People” reflects the connection between people, land and spirit drawing on the artist’s personal experiences in collaborating with Aboriginal artists. “Coronavirus in Children’s Eyes” showcases 20 top artworks selected from a competition launched for artworks by school children in the theme of the global pandemic. Emerging Chinese Australian artist Heli Yang’s solo exhibition “Heli Yang Exhibition: A New Life” tells the stories of three generations in a migrant family.
In 2019, IAC hosted four exhibitions: “Guan Wei: Essence, Energy, Spirit” featuring three distinct series of work from the personal collection of well-known Chinese Australian artist Guan Wei’; “Chasing the Mountain Light” showing different mountains through the camera lens of Yan Zhang who is the Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics at Western Sydney University; “Adam Chang's Pandas and Treasures” featuring a collection of seven paintings by award-wining Chinese Australian artist Adam Chang; “As We Journey Through Life” showing artist Bingbing Chen’s journey of fragility, hope and optimism.
In 2019, IAC hosted two group exhibitions and two solo exhibitions. “The ‘Yunnan School’ of Artists” featuring a group of six recognized Yunnan artists gives an opportunity to understand the development of an historic and contemporary aspect of art practice in China. “‘Three Perfections’: A Mid-Autumn Chinese Australian Artists’ Exhibition” brings together eighteen artworks of five artists who represent almost five different generations in the Chinese Australian community. A solo exhibition by renowned Chinese Australian painter Jiawei Shen showing the collection of eight Archibald portrait paintings. An exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Chinese-Indonesian Australian artisit Jayanto Damanik Tan (Tan Seng Lee).
Between 2016 and 2017, IAC hosted three photographic exhibitions “Everyday Dignity 活着|尊严”, “Meticulous Detail, Gongbi 工笔” and “Between the Village and the Metropolis” delivering a unique photographic experience of China. “Warakurna: All the Stories Got into our Minds and Eyes” is a travelling exhibition of the National Museum of Australia featuring contemporary paintings from the Western Desert community of Warakurna. Western Sydney based artist Shen Wednesday takes Lao Tzu's Dao De Jing's philosophy in her exhibition “Invisible but Visible” at IAC.
