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Daniel Boyd (born 1982) is an Australian contemporary artist working in painting, sculpture and installation. He won the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Bulgari Art Award in 2014 and was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.
Jun 4, 2022 · Highlights include his iconic early work Treasure Island 2005; Untitled (ZVDG) 2014 from his famed History is made at night (Kochi) series; and the intimate Untitled (BAT) 2020, one of the artist’s first large-scale works drawing from his personal archive of lived experiences and memories.
Daniel Boyd is a leading contemporary artist who reinterprets Australian history and colonisation through his distinctive style of image-making. He uses lenses, or clear dots, to fragment and complicate the picture plane, and explores his personal and cultural history in his works.
Daniel Boyd is a Kudjla/Gangalu man from North Queensland who reinterprets Eurocentric perspectives of Australian history in his paintings and sculptures. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is held in the MCA Collection and other public institutions.
Daniel Boyd is an Indigenous Australian multidisciplinary artist. His paintings, installations, and sculptures are informed by his Kudjla/Gangalu heritage, and examine Eurocentric narratives around Australia's colonial history.
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Daniel Boyd draws on his heritage as a Kudjla/Gangalu man from North Queensland and North Pentecost Island in Vanuatu to interrogate legacies of colonisation. Traversing an archaeology of lost and suppressed histories, Boyd reinterprets artistic and archival material across art, science, history and geography in order to challenge Eurocentric ...
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Jun 6, 2022 · Daniel Boyd is a First Nations artist who explores the colonial past and present of Australia and the Pacific. His exhibition Treasure Island at AGNSW features paintings, maps and archival images that expose the violence, exploitation and racism of white settlers and their culture.
