William Yang

♂ *1943 / Australia

Works

Solo exhibitions

William Yang

Michael Reid, Berlin (DE)
15 May 2025 – 20 Jun 2025
SEEING AND BEING SEEN

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
27 Mar 2021 – 22 Aug 2021
Stories of Love and Death

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
17 Feb 2016 – 5 Mar 2016
Old New Borrowed Blue

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
2 Feb 2011 – 26 Feb 2011
Life Lines

The China Project

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
28 Mar 2009 – 28 Jun 2009
Claiming China

Australian Centre Photo, Sydney (AU)
1 Feb 2008 – 8 Mar 2008
ENNGONIA

Mineralien-Museum, Essen (DE)
15 Oct 2006 – 10 Dec 2006
Selected Photographs 1968 - 2003

Logan Art Gallery, Logan Central (AU)
25 Nov 2005 – 7 Jan 2006
Selected Photographs 1968 – 2003

Gold Coast Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise (AU)
24 Jul 2004 – 5 Sep 2004
images from Miscellaneous Obsessions

Stills South, Sydney (AU)
1 May 2003 – 30 Jun 2003

Group

Suburban Sublime

Australian Photography

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
10 Aug 2024 – 17 Aug 2025

with Pat Brassington, Virginia Coventry, Ponch Hawkes, Bill Henson, Naomi Hobson, Carol Jerrems, Lindy Lee, Ruth Maddison, Lin Martin, Tracey Moffatt, Nicholas Nedelkopoulos, Glen O’Malley …
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 …
Under the sun

Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
6 May 2017 – 6 Aug 2017

with Peta Clancy, Christopher Day, Destiny Deacon , Michaela Gleave, Nasim Nasr, Julie Rrap, Christian Thompson, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Daniel von Sturmer, Justine Williams
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 …
Season10

Stills Gallery, Sydney (AU)
17 Nov 2010 – 29 Jan 2011

with Narelle Autio, Pat Brassington, Petrina Hicks, Mark Kimber, William Lamson, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Robyn Stacey
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, Michael Riley
Altre famiglie // Other families

Palazzo Cavour, Torino (IT)
10 Nov 2006 – 7 Jan 2007

with Kader Attia, Daniel & Geo Fuchs, Luigi Gariglio, Nan Goldin, Marianne Greber, Lyle Ashton Harris, Stefano Scheda, Ingo Taubhorn
Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
19 Nov 2005 – 29 Jan 2006

with Pat Brassington, Destiny Deacon , Sandy Edwards, Anne Ferran, Rosemary Laing, Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Robyn Stacey, David Stephenson, Ingeborg Tyssen, Anne Zahalka
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, Olive Cotton, Destiny Deacon , Peter Dombrovskis, Max Dupain, John Bertram Eaton, Jim Fitzpatrick, Roger Garwood, Fiona Hanson, Bruce Howard …
Home

Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester (GB)
16 Jan 2004 – 22 Feb 2004

with Anthony Lam, Dinu Li, Ellinda Siu, LIU Xiao Xian
Jia (Family, House, Home)

Fringe Club, Hong Kong (CN)
4 Feb 2004 – 18 Feb 2004

with Lindy Lee

Events

Head On Photo Festival 2025

Featuring over 110 exhibitions, 700 artists, and a variety of talks and events.

Head On Photo Festival, Sydney (AU)
7 Nov 2025 – 30 Nov 2025

with Yannis Kontos, Ludovica Limido, Verónica Mastrosimones, George Meijers, Gustavo Minas, Birgit Neiser, Alain Schroeder, Tace Stevens, Sergei Stroitelev, Julie Sundberg
24th Biennale of Sydney

Ten Thousand Suns

Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU)
9 Mar 2024 – 10 Jun 2024

with Monira Al Qadiri, Tony Albert, Serwah Attafuah, Destiny Deacon , Köken Ergun, Chitra Ganesh, Josh Kline, Agnieszka Kurant, Lawrence Lek, Tracey Moffatt, Sergei Parajanov, Agnieszka Polska …
2023 Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Australia's preeminent photographic festival

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

with Michael Cook, Stephen Dupont, Erik Johansson, Aldona Kmiec, Platon, Christian Thompson, Yvonne Todd, Andy Warhol
Sydney Contemporary 2023

Australasia's international contemporary art fair

Sydney Contemporary, Sydney (AU)
7 Sep 2023 – 10 Sep 2023

with Tony Albert, Elger Esser, Murray Fredericks, Janet Laurence, Christian Thompson
Head On Photo Festival 2018

Head On Photo Festival, Sydney (AU)
5 May 2018 – 20 May 2018

with Nancy Borowick, Pat Brassington, Debi Cornwall, James Whitlow Delano, Shoufay Derz, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Craig Holmes, Frank Hurley, Marcus Lyon, Nasim Nasr, Thom Pierce, Norio Takasugi …