Join us on Thursday, September 25 for an evening with the artist behind the mesmerizing two-channel projection, History is Made at Night (2014), on view as part of the current exhibition Star Witnesses. Audain Chief Curator, Monika Szewczyk, invites Boyd to trace the evolutions of his mercurial practice with an eye to the understandings of the cosmos, and the continuity of life on Planet Earth, that emerge.

Doors at 6:30pm
Talk + Conversation at 7:00pm

Limited copies of Daniel Boyd’s Treasure Island are available in The Diane Evans Bookstore and can be pre-purchased for pick-up at the event.

Admission is by a suggested donation of $10-20, courtesy of BMO Financial Group

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About the Artist
Born in Cairns and now residing in Sydney (Australia), Daniel Boyd’s internationally acclaimed practice has traversed video, installation and painting, in a continuous exercise of imagining against the pressures of colonialism. Drawing on an array of historical references from western-style landscapes to photographic archives, as well as scientific imaging, popular films and intimate family portraits, Boyd’s unique lens is focused on the future of his ancestors among the Kudjala, Ghungalu, Wangerriburra, Wakka Wakka, Gubbi Gubbi, Kuku Yalanji, Bundjalung, Yuggera and ni-Vanuatu Nations. Major solo exhibitions in public galleries include RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION), a joint project with Gropius Bau, Berlin and IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2023); Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia (2022); Contemporary Art Projects #1, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, Australia (2020); Daniel Boyd, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2016); Up In Smoke Tour, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom (2012); and The Transit of Venus - An exhibition with Daniel Boyd, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (2012).

Banner image: Photo by Alison Boulier