Michael Riley

♂ *1960-2004 / Australia

Works

Solo exhibitions

BY A WINDOW

A collaboration with Australian Centre for Photography

VERGE Gallery, Sydney (AU)
4 Aug 2016 – 27 Aug 2016
They call me niigarr

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
29 Aug 2012 – 6 Oct 2012
sights unseen

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
22 Feb 2008 – 27 Apr 2008
flyblown

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
5 Mar 2008 – 5 Apr 2008
sights unseen

Museum of Australian Photography, Monash (AU)
16 Nov 2006 – 25 Feb 2007
sights unseen

National Gallery, Canberra (AU)
14 Jul 2006 – 16 Oct 2006
Cloud and Sacrifice

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
25 May 2005 – 25 Jun 2005
Cloud & Empire

Moree Plains Gallery, Moree (AU)
6 Jun 2003 – 20 Jul 2003

Group

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, Michael Cook, Brenda L. Croft, Destiny Deacon , Fiona Foley, Genevieve Grieves, Naomi Hobson, Vernon Ah Kee, Leah King-Smith, Ricky Maynard, Tracey Moffatt …
Stargazing

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
25 Nov 2023 – 18 Feb 2024

with Amos Gebhardt, Michaela Gleave, Harry Nankin, Trent Parke, Patrick Pound, Kate Robertson, David Stephenson, Christian Thompson, Zan Wimberley, Jemina Wyman
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, Michael Cook, Olive Cotton, Paul Cox, Max Dupain, Rennie Ellis, Sue Ford …
WHO ARE YOU

Australian portraiture

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (AU)
1 Oct 2022 – 29 Jan 2023

with Brook Andrew, Atong Atem, Rennie Ellis, Petrina Hicks, Tracey Moffatt, Anne Zahalka
Old ways, new ways

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
2 Apr 2022 – 26 Jun 2022

with Tony Albert, Lisa Bellear, Peta Clancy, Brenda L. Croft, Dianne Jones, Leah King-Smith, James Tylor
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, Michael Cook, Fiona Foley, Darren Siwes, Christian Thompson
The Look

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (AU)
14 Sep 2019 – 9 Feb 2020

with Hari Ho, Ingvar Kenne, Julian Kingma, Robin Sellick, Nikki Toole, Bruce Weber
WALL POWER: Contemporary Australian Photography

Australia House, London (GB)
17 May 2018 – 21 May 2018

with Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Narelle Autio, Destiny Deacon , Marian Drew, Shaun Gladwell, Bill Henson, Rosemary Laing, Tracey Moffatt, Fabian Muir, Catherine Nelson, Deborah Paauwe …
Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia

me Collectors Room, Berlin (DE)
17 Nov 2017 – 2 Apr 2018

with Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Richard Bell, Brenda L. Croft, Nici Cumpston, Destiny Deacon , Fiona Foley, Vernon Ah Kee, Christian Thompson
An unorthodox flow of images

Melbourne Festival

Centre Contemporary Photo, Melbourne (AU)
29 Sep 2017 – 12 Nov 2017

with Laurence Aberhart, Francis Alys, Paul Batt, Charles Bayliss, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Brassai, Pat Brassington, Jane Brown, Sophie Calle, Christian Capurro, Steve Carr, Mohini Chandra …
Curtain Call

final exhibition

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
24 May 2017 – 8 Jul 2017

with Paul Adair, Narelle Autio, Roger Ballen, Pat Brassington, Jane Brown, Danica Chappell, Brenda L. Croft, Merilyn Fairskye, Merilyn Fairskye, Anne Ferran, Anne Ferran, Chris Fortescue …
Photography & place

Australian landscape photography 1970s until now

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
16 Mar 2011 – 29 May 2011

with Simone Douglas, Peter Elliston, Anne Ferran, Simryn Gill, Bill Henson, Douglas Holleley, Rosemary Laing, Marion Marrison, Ricky Maynard, Ian North, Paul Ogier, Debra Phillips …
Reveries: photography and mortality

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (AU)
27 Apr 2007 – 5 Aug 2007

with Olive Cotton, Max Dupain, Carol Jerrems, David Moore (AUS), Anne Noble, William Yang
Holy, Holy, Holy

Gold Coast Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise (AU)
26 Mar 2005 – 1 May 2005

with James Cochran, Darren Siwes
8th International Istanbul Biennial

"Poetic Justice"

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
19 Sep 2003 – 16 Nov 2003

with Can Altay, Alexander Apostol, Knut Asdam, Kutluğ Ataman, Fikret Atay, Txomin Badiola, Zarina Bhimji, Monica Bonvicini, Tania Bruguera, Gerard Byrne, Filipa Cesar, Attila Csoergoe …

Events

Sandy Edwards, curator, will discuss the work of Michael Riley

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)