A timeline Of James Gleeson

1947-49 Traveled extensively London. Pairs. Holland. Italy.
1949 Returned to Sydney. Never Returned to teaching
1949-72 Art critic for The Sun newspaper
1962-72 Art critic for The Herald Sun newspaper
1971 Director, Sir William Dobell Art Foundation
Judge, Sao Paolo International Bienal
1972 Appointed to Commonwealth Art Advisory Board
Foundation Member of the Australian Division of International Art Critics
1973 Australian Commissioner, 12th Sao Paulo International Bienal, Brazil
Chairman, Acquisitions Committee, Australian National Gallery
Judge, Tokyo International Bienal of Prints
1974 Awarded AM – Member of Order of Australia
1975-78 Visiting Curator of Australian art, Australian National Gallery
1976-82 Member of the First Council of the Australian National Gallery
1989 Degree of Doctor of Letter, Honoris Causa, Macquarie University, Sydney
1990 Awarded AO – Officer of the Order of Australia

James Gleeson is the leading surrealist painter in Australia, with an active career spanning 60 years.

Education

1934-6 East Sydney Technical College, Sydney
1938 BA Dip Ed, Sydney Teachers Collage
1939-40 Teachers Collage Scholarship, two years training general Primary School Teaching
1943 President, Contemporary Art Society, New South Wales Branch
1945-46 Lecturer-in-art, Sydney Teachers Collage – techniques and art history

Exhibitions

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1950 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1951 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1954-56 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1958 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1961 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1963 Skinner Galleries, Perth
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1964 Johnstone Gallery Brisbane
1965 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
1966-67 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1968 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1969 Bonython Gallery, Adelaide
1970 Macquarie Gallery, Sydney
1971 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1973 Prouds Gallery, Sydney
1981 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1982 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1983 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1986 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Watters Gallery, Sydney
1987 Black Swan Gallery, Fremantle
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
1988 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Watters Gallery, Sydney
1989 BMG Fine Art, Adelaide
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1990 Watters Gallery, Sydney
David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
1991 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Watters Gallery, Sydney
David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
1994 Watters Gallery, Sydney
Paintings from the last decade,
National Gallery of Victoria
1999 Watters Gallery, Sydney
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
2000 Charles Nodrum Gallery
Watters Gallery, Sydney
2001 Charles Nodrum Gallery
Watters Gallery, Sydney
2002 Watters Gallery, Sydney
2003 Watters Gallery, Sydney
Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
Charles Nodrum Gallery
2005 Charles Nodrum Gallery
2005-6 National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria
2008 Benalla Art Gallery
Charles Nodrum Gallery


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1938 Sydney Teachers College, May Marsden’s Students
1939-41 Annual Exhibitions, Teachers Federation Arts Society, Sydney
1939-46 Inaugural Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Melbourne, June 1939
Annual Exhibitions, Contemporary Art Society, Sydney
1948 Joint Exhibition with Robert Klippel, London Gallery, London
1949-50 Annual Exhibitions, Contemporary Art Society, Sydney
1950 ‘110 Years of Australian Art’, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1954 The Blake Prize for Religious Art, 2nd Prize
1955 Exhibition of Contemporary Art in conjunction with the Olympic Games,
‘Contemporary Australian Painters’, Pacific Loan Exhibition on board SS
Orcades – Sydney, Auckland, Honolulu, Vancouver, San Francisco;
then exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
1961 ‘Recent Australian Paintings’, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1963 Australian Painting’, Tate Gallery, London
1978 ‘Contemporary Australian Drawing’, Traveling Exhibition,
Joint Exhibition with Robert Klippel, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1985-89 ‘Modern Australian Painting’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1986 ‘Oz Drawing Now’, Holdsworth Contemporary Gallery, Sydney
’33 Male Artists’, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
‘The New Romantics’, Macquarie Gallery, Sydney
1987 ‘The Age of Collage’, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1988 ‘The Self Portrait’, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
The University of Sydney – Pictures from the collection
1988-89 ‘Creating Australia’, Traveling Exhibition to all States
1989 ‘Levels of Consciousness’, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
1990 ‘The Painters Poet’, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
1991 ‘The Medium Pastel’, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Australian Surrealist Painting’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1993 ‘Surrealism in Australia’, Australian National Gallery
2001 A Century of Collecting: 1901-2001, Ivan Dogherty Gallery, UNSW
Male Nude – A Private View, Charles Nodrum Gallery
Meditations, Mass Gallery, Melbourne