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Exhibitions

Thursday 30 October
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Stephen Benwell

People Now: Recent Ceramics and Paintings

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 15 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Eternal Oblivion death and the afterlife

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 23 August – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Chroma II

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Carla McRae & Morgan Blue

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Artists of Yirrikala

Yuṯa Ganydjarr

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nyangulya Katie Nalgood

Friends in Flocks

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Jessie Rose Ford

Re-visiting

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Samuel O’Malley

Knocking From Below

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nyssa Braid and Dan Go

It’s Mothman’s world, we’re just living in it

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Myles Burgess

Still Drifting

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nancy Cover

Flourish

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Glass Futures

Craft
Thursday 18 September – Saturday 1 November

Lindy McSwan

The Steelworks: Women’s Work

Craft
Thursday 18 September – Saturday 1 November

Group Show

Trove: Contemporary Jewellery

Craft
Saturday 27 September – Saturday 8 November

Man Ray and Max Dupain

Untitled

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 6 August – Sunday 9 November

Nell

Face Everything

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 11 October – Sunday 1 March

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 6 September – Monday 23 February

Group Show

Always Modern: The Heide Story

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 13 May – Sunday 25 January

Grace Wood

A Garden is a Mother

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 July – Sunday 16 November

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

The Luminosity Series

West Space
Saturday 23 August – Wednesday 26 November

Lane Cormick

Nicola Daniel Otellario

Daine Singer
Saturday 20 September – Saturday 1 November

Alice Wormald

Window Dressing

Daine Singer
Saturday 20 September – Saturday 1 November

Tschabalala Self

Skin Tight

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 September – Sunday 23 November

Dale Frank

Come on cuz, better luck next time

Neon Parc
Friday 10 October – Saturday 8 November

Adrian De Vries

To Clear A Path Forward

CAVES Gallery
Friday 24 October – Saturday 15 November

Wanapati Yunupiŋu

Ŋäṉarr – Tongue of Flame

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Legacy 2025 - Part II

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 22 October – Thursday 27 November

Wen Pham

Catalyst

Outré Gallery Fitzroy
Friday 17 October – Sunday 9 November

Tschabalala Self

Skin Tight

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 September – Sunday 23 November

ACCA is delighted to present the first Australian solo exhibition of revered American contemporary artist Tschabalala Self. With new and recent large-scale paintings and works on paper and an immersive 3-channel video installation. Skin Tight introduces Australian audiences to a practice celebrated for its beauty and sophistication. Self’s distinctive style combines fabric, collage, and painting with avant-garde printing techniques, making her one of the most in-demand figurative painters working today. In recent years, Self has become increasingly steadfast in her exploration of beauty – something she views as a form of artistic resistance.

Self was born in 1990 in Harlem, New York. Today she works out of her studio in the picturesque Hudson Valley, New York. Her work is inspired by her ancestral and familial ties to New Orleans and is infused with a vibrancy drawn from the Harlem Renaissance, as well as jazz, dance, and performance. Self channels these energies into profound reflections on Black embodiment and experience.

For her exhibition at ACCA, Self has designed a series of contemplative, psychologically charged immersive spaces, filled with striking 2D and 3D works. The exuberant characters that populate Skin Tight push audiences to consider how we construct our identities – and how we both perceive and are perceived by the world around us. Self’s figures are not representative of any singular individual, rather, they are collages of various people and references from throughout her life.

Through cut-outs, sightlines, installation, and wall drawings, Self has created an immersive exhibition experience – one where audiences are encouraged to feel part of the installation. Inside her fantastic worlds, we become active participants in the work, reflecting on themes of exhibitionism, voyeurism, myth making, and identity. By harnessing a multitude of references and media, Self explores the psychological, emotional, spiritual and sexual dimensions of being alive, and continually challenges our perceptions of identity. Skin Tight speaks to both the limitations and freedom of embodiment.

Location

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt St, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia

Date

Friday 12 September – Sunday 23 November

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Website

https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/tschabalala-self-skin-tight/

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Exhibitions

Thursday 30 October
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Stephen Benwell

People Now: Recent Ceramics and Paintings

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 15 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Eternal Oblivion death and the afterlife

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 23 August – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Chroma II

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Carla McRae & Morgan Blue

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Artists of Yirrikala

Yuṯa Ganydjarr

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nyangulya Katie Nalgood

Friends in Flocks

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Jessie Rose Ford

Re-visiting

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Samuel O’Malley

Knocking From Below

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nyssa Braid and Dan Go

It’s Mothman’s world, we’re just living in it

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Myles Burgess

Still Drifting

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nancy Cover

Flourish

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Glass Futures

Craft
Thursday 18 September – Saturday 1 November

Lindy McSwan

The Steelworks: Women’s Work

Craft
Thursday 18 September – Saturday 1 November

Group Show

Trove: Contemporary Jewellery

Craft
Saturday 27 September – Saturday 8 November

Man Ray and Max Dupain

Untitled

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 6 August – Sunday 9 November

Nell

Face Everything

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 11 October – Sunday 1 March

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 6 September – Monday 23 February

Group Show

Always Modern: The Heide Story

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 13 May – Sunday 25 January

Grace Wood

A Garden is a Mother

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 July – Sunday 16 November

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

The Luminosity Series

West Space
Saturday 23 August – Wednesday 26 November

Lane Cormick

Nicola Daniel Otellario

Daine Singer
Saturday 20 September – Saturday 1 November

Alice Wormald

Window Dressing

Daine Singer
Saturday 20 September – Saturday 1 November

Tschabalala Self

Skin Tight

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 September – Sunday 23 November

Dale Frank

Come on cuz, better luck next time

Neon Parc
Friday 10 October – Saturday 8 November

Adrian De Vries

To Clear A Path Forward

CAVES Gallery
Friday 24 October – Saturday 15 November

Wanapati Yunupiŋu

Ŋäṉarr – Tongue of Flame

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Legacy 2025 - Part II

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 22 October – Thursday 27 November

Wen Pham

Catalyst

Outré Gallery Fitzroy
Friday 17 October – Sunday 9 November

Tschabalala Self

Skin Tight

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 September – Sunday 23 November

ACCA is delighted to present the first Australian solo exhibition of revered American contemporary artist Tschabalala Self. With new and recent large-scale paintings and works on paper and an immersive 3-channel video installation. Skin Tight introduces Australian audiences to a practice celebrated for its beauty and sophistication. Self’s distinctive style combines fabric, collage, and painting with avant-garde printing techniques, making her one of the most in-demand figurative painters working today. In recent years, Self has become increasingly steadfast in her exploration of beauty – something she views as a form of artistic resistance.

Self was born in 1990 in Harlem, New York. Today she works out of her studio in the picturesque Hudson Valley, New York. Her work is inspired by her ancestral and familial ties to New Orleans and is infused with a vibrancy drawn from the Harlem Renaissance, as well as jazz, dance, and performance. Self channels these energies into profound reflections on Black embodiment and experience.

For her exhibition at ACCA, Self has designed a series of contemplative, psychologically charged immersive spaces, filled with striking 2D and 3D works. The exuberant characters that populate Skin Tight push audiences to consider how we construct our identities – and how we both perceive and are perceived by the world around us. Self’s figures are not representative of any singular individual, rather, they are collages of various people and references from throughout her life.

Through cut-outs, sightlines, installation, and wall drawings, Self has created an immersive exhibition experience – one where audiences are encouraged to feel part of the installation. Inside her fantastic worlds, we become active participants in the work, reflecting on themes of exhibitionism, voyeurism, myth making, and identity. By harnessing a multitude of references and media, Self explores the psychological, emotional, spiritual and sexual dimensions of being alive, and continually challenges our perceptions of identity. Skin Tight speaks to both the limitations and freedom of embodiment.

Location

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt St, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia

Date

Friday 12 September – Sunday 23 November

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/tschabalala-self-skin-tight/

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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