Olive Cotton

*1911-2003 / Australia

Solo exhibitions

OLIVE COTTON (1911-2003) Australian Photographer

Josef Lebovich Gallery, Sydney (AU)
7 Oct 2009 – 31 Oct 2009

Group

Women Photographers 1900–1975

A Legacy of Light

NGV National Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
28 Nov 2025 – 3 May 2026

with Berenice Abbott, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Ilse Bing, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Mikki Ferrill, Trude Fleischmann, Sue Ford, Ponch Hawkes, Annemarie Heinrich, Florence Henri, Ruth Hollick …
Masters of Australian Photography: 1935-1994

Michael Reid, Sydney (AU)
9 Jan 2025 – 1 Feb 2025

with Mervyn Bishop, Greg Weight
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, Paul Cox, Max Dupain, Rennie Ellis, Sue Ford, Gisele Freund …
The Photograph and Australia

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
4 Jul 2015 – 11 Oct 2015

with Charles Bayliss, Harold Cazneaux, Max Dupain, Anne Ferran, Paul Foelsche, Sue Ford, Simryn Gill, Frank Hurley, Carol Jerrems, Ricky Maynard, Tracey Moffatt, David Moore (AUS) …
The photograph and Australia

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
21 Mar 2015 – 8 Jun 2015

with Charles Bayliss, Harold Cazneaux, Max Dupain, Anne Ferran, Paul Foelsche, Sue Ford, Simryn Gill, Frank Hurley, Carol Jerrems, Ricky Maynard, Tracey Moffatt, David Moore (AUS) …
Australian & Int'l Photography

Josef Lebovich Gallery, Sydney (AU)
24 May 2014 – 5 Jul 2014

with Charles Bayliss, Rex Dupain, Max Dupain, Paul Foelsche, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Emil Otto Hoppe, David Moore (AUS), Matthew Sleeth, Jozef Vissel
What's in a face? aspects of portrait photography

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
24 Sep 2011 – 5 Feb 2012

with Ben Cauchi, Destiny Deacon , Max Dupain, Paul Foelsche, Nan Goldin, Carol Jerrems, Loretta Lux, Man Ray , Darren Sylvester, Edward Weston, Iwao Yamawaki
VIP: very important photographs 1840s–1940s

from the European, American and Australian photography collection

National Gallery, Canberra (AU)
26 May 2007 – 19 Aug 2007

with Anton Bruehl, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Frantisek Drtikol, Max Dupain, Walker Evans, William Henry Fox Talbot, Man Ray , Lisette Model, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Edward Steichen
Reveries: photography and mortality

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

with Max Dupain, Carol Jerrems, David Moore (AUS), Anne Noble, Michael Riley, William Yang
In a New Light: Australian Photography 1930s-2000

National Library of Australia, Canberra (AU)
2 Dec 2004 – 28 Mar 2005

with Alec T. Bolton, Jeff Carter (AUS), Harold Cazneaux, Destiny Deacon , Peter Dombrovskis, Max Dupain, John Bertram Eaton, Jim Fitzpatrick, Roger Garwood, Fiona Hanson, Bruce Howard, Frank Hurley …

Events

Sydney Contemporary 2018

Australasia's international contemporary art fair

Sydney Contemporary, Sydney (AU)
13 Sep 2018 – 16 Sep 2018

with Roger Ballen, Jeremy Blincoe, Jeff Carter (AUS), Patricia Casey, Catherine Cloran, Tamara Dean, Max Dupain, Stephen Dupont, Carol Jerrems, Ash Keating, David Moore (AUS), Athol Shmith …