Robert Rooney

Since commencing his exhibiting career in the 1954 Contemporary Art Society annual, Robert Rooney (1937-2017) maintained a relevance and exerted a quiet yet potent influence on contemporary Australian art. He exhibited extensively throughout Australia and his work has featured in such seminal exhibitions as The Field 1968, National Gallery of Victoria, POPISM 1982, National Gallery of Victoria, The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20^th Century Art, The Eighth Biennale of Sydney 1990, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Downtown: Ruscha, Rooney, Arkley 1995, Museum of Modern Art at Heide and 21^st Century Modern - 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia. Survey exhibitions included From the Homefront: Robert Rooney Works 1953-1988, 1990, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne and Survey 3: Robert Rooney, 1978, National Gallery of Victoria. Robert Rooney’s work is held in all major public collections in Australia.