Michael Cook

*1968 / Australia

Works

Contacts for the work of Michael Cook

Michael Cook

www.michaelcook.net.au

Solo exhibitions

Enculturation

THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne (AU)
18 Aug 2022 – 10 Sep 2022
Michael Cook

THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne (AU)
8 May 2019 – 29 May 2019

Group

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2026

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (AU)
22 Aug 2026 – 11 Oct 2026

with Abbra Kotlarczyk & Briony Galligan, Hussein Abdirahman Mohamud, Luke Austin, Nathan Beard, Madeline Bishop, Arini Byng, Su Cassiano, Brenda L. Croft, Elise Derwin, Jo Duck, Adam Edwards, Sammy Hawker …
Snap Blak

Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
30 Aug 2025 – 13 Sep 2026

with Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Brenda L. Croft, Destiny Deacon , Fiona Foley, Genevieve Grieves, Naomi Hobson, Vernon Ah Kee, Leah King-Smith, Ricky Maynard, Tracey Moffatt, Michael Riley …
National Photographic Portrait Prize

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (AU)
16 Aug 2025 – 12 Oct 2025

with Hoda Afshar, Atong Atem, Paul Blackmore, Gerwyn Davies, George Fetting, Emmaline Zanelli
On Country: Photography from Australia

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
7 Jul 2025 – 5 Oct 2025

with Tony Albert, Ying Ang, Atong Atem, Sonja Carmichael, Elisa Jane Carmichael , Maree Clarke, David Charles Collins, Brenda L. Croft, J Davies, Adam Ferguson, Robert Fielding, Ricky Maynard …
Photography: Real and imagined

NGV National Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
13 Oct 2023 – 4 Feb 2024

with Malala Andrialavidrazana, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rennie Ellis, Nan Goldin, Barbara Kasten, Dorothea Lange, Loretta Lux, Dora Maar, Man Ray , Zanele Muholi, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott …
100 faces

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
4 Mar 2023 – 28 May 2023

with Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Tony Albert, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Brook Andrew, Atong Atem, Harold Cazneaux, Olive Cotton, Paul Cox, Max Dupain, Rennie Ellis, Sue Ford, Gisele Freund …
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
29 Sep 2022 – 13 Nov 2022

with Narelle Autio, Danica Chappell, Miriam Charlie, Michael Corridore, Rebecca Dagnall, J Davies, Tamara Dean, Marian Drew, Rozalind Drummond, Sophie Dumaresq, Stephen Dupont, Odette England …
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
31 Oct 2020 – 7 Feb 2021

with Narelle Autio, Kate Baker, Tom Blachford, Paul Blackmore, Jane Burton, Danica Chappell, Peta Clancy, Nici Cumpston, Tamara Dean, Stephen Dupont, Jacqueline Felstead, Anne Ferran …
Shifting the Lens: Contemporary Indigenous Australian Photography

Hood Museum of Art - Dartmouth College, Hanover (US)
15 Feb 2020 – 21 Jun 2020

with Tony Albert, Bindi Cole, Fiona Foley, Michael Riley, Darren Siwes, Christian Thompson
Defining Place/Space

Contemporary Photography from Australia

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
6 Mar 2019 – 22 Sep 2019

with Hoda Afshar, Polly Borland, Pat Brassington, Rosemary Laing, Ricky Maynard, Tracey Moffatt, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Patrick Pound, Jacky Redgate, James Tylor, Justine Varga
From where I stand

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
13 Apr 2019 – 14 Jul 2019

with Brook Andrew, Genevieve Grieves
William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
29 Sep 2018 – 18 Nov 2018

with Hoda Afshar, Tom Blachford, Aaron Bradbrook, Danica Chappell, Rowan Conroy, Tamara Dean, Marian Drew, John Gollings, Linsey Gosper, Lee Grant, Janina Green, Ponch Hawkes …
Past Legacy: Present Tense

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

NGV National Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
1 Sep 2017 – 10 Jan 2018

with Ricky Maynard

Events

Rencontres d'Arles 2025

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
7 Jul 2025 – 5 Oct 2025

with Berenice Abbott, Octavio Aguilar, Tony Albert, Jean-Michel André, Claudia Andujar, David Armstrong, Atong Atem, Letizia Battaglia, Kwame Brathwaite, Sonja Carmichael, Elisa Jane Carmichael , Sarah Carp …
PHOTO 2024

international festival of photography

PHOTO Melbourne, Melbourne (AU)
1 Mar 2024 – 24 Mar 2024

with Tony Albert, Fiona Amundsen, Ying Ang, Chloé Azzopardi, Marta Bogdańska, Edward Burtynsky, Anna Carey, Peta Clancy, Zoe Croggon, Bieke Depoorter, Cesar Dezfuli, Liu Di …
2023 Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Australia's preeminent photographic festival

Ballarat International , Ballarat (AU)
26 Aug 2023 – 22 Oct 2023

with Stephen Dupont, Erik Johansson, Aldona Kmiec, Platon, Christian Thompson, Yvonne Todd, Andy Warhol, William Yang
PHOTO 2020

a major new international festival of photography

PHOTO Melbourne, Melbourne (AU)
23 Apr 2020 – 10 May 2020

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Hoda Afshar, Brook Andrew, Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Mathieu Asselin, Atong Atem, Ophelia Bakowski, Paola Balla, Anthea Behm, Jesse Boyd-Reid, Pat Brassington, Gabi Briggs …
Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019

Art Basel HongKong, Hong Kong (CN)
29 Mar 2019 – 31 Mar 2019

with Michele Abeles, Marina Abramovic, Farah Al Qasimi, Sophia Al-Maria, Nevin Aladag, Darren Almond, Eric Baudelaire, Becky Beasley, Vanessa Beecroft, Jacopo Benassi, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), Fatma Bucak …
fotofever 2017

fotofever, Paris (FR)
10 Nov 2017 – 12 Nov 2017

with Christophe Beauregard, Delphine Blast, Francois Delebecque, Beril Gulcan, Thomas Hoepker, Mami Kiyoshi, KUB, Mario Macilau, Igor Makarevich YIGO, Tomasz Myjak, Yoichiro Nishimura, Uwe Ommer …