'A landscape for Lona' by Jan Senbergs
Awards and Prizes
Born Latvia 1939
1950 - Moved to Australia
1950s- Apprenticeship in Silk-Screen printing
2009
Capriccios, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2008
Jan Senbergs: From Screenprinter to Painter, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney
2007
Angahook – Otway, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2006
Jan Senbergs Drawing, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria and touring in
2007
2005
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2004
Long Arm Drawing, Albury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Jan Senbergs, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne
2003
Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2002
Jan Senbergs, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne
Long Arm Drawing, Monash Univeristy Faculty of Art and Design Gallery,
Melbourne
2001
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales
Maritime Museum, Sydney
Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Four Decades, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2000
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
New England Regional Gallery, Armidale, New South Wales
1999
Armidale 42 Exhibition - Ian Potter Museum Melbourne University,
Victoria
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
1996
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1995
Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1994
Jan Senbergs: Imagined Sites – Imagined Reality, Museum of Modern Art at
Heide, Melbourne
1992
Powell Street Gallery, Sydney
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1991
Australian Galleries, Sydney
1988
Voyage Six, Antarctica, Powell Street Gallery
1986
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1984
Mining Landscapes – Mt Lyell, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart,
&
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
RMIT Gallery, Selected Works- toured regional centres and the
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1983
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Copperopolis – Mt. Lyell
1981
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, Port Liardet Paintings
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Port Liardet Paintings
1979
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, Port Pastels
1976
Albert Hall, Canberra
University Gallery, Melbourne, Jan Senbergs – Paintings.
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1975
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria, Jan Senbergs 1965-75
Crossley Gallery, Melbourne – Screen prints
1974
Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil
1973
University of Western Australia
1972
Gallery A, Melbourne
1969
Rudy Komon Gallery, Melbourne
1966
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
Georges Gallery, Melbourne
1964
Georges Gallery, Melbourne
1962
Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1960
Richman Galleries, Melbourne
2011
Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas,
British
Museum, London
Blue Chip XIII: The Collectorsʼ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2010
Impressions, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
About Place, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Drawings 1, Drawing Out Festival of Drawing
2010, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
On this Island: One Mountain Eleven Answers, N G Art Gallery, Sydney
On This Island, Meeting and Parting, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and
Arts Centre, New South Wales
2009
Blue Chip XI: The Collectorsʼ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2007
Fondamenti Nove, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2006
Blue Chip VIII, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Heart v Mind, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria
Australian Drawing Part 1, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2003
William Buckley Rediscovered, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Abstraction III, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2002
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2001
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001, NGA and touring
Australia
Earth Fire Water: Elements of the Landscape, Metro 5, Melbourne
1999
Clemenger Art Award Finalistsʼ Exhibition, National Gallery of
Australia, Melbourne
1998
Decalogue – Ten Years of Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Sth
Korea
1997
Swingtime – 1960s and 1970s, University of Western Australia, Perth
1996
Australian National University Art Collection, touring exhibition
Four Visions of Antarctica, Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales
Expressive Figuration, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1995
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1990
The City and Beyond, touring QLD, NSW & Victoria
1989
The Australian Legal Group – Contemporary Print Collection Exhibition,
Australian
Embassy, Washington DC
1987
Painters and Sculptors of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery and Museum
of Modern
Art, Saitama, Japan
1986
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Backlash Drawing Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Field of Figuration Australian Art 1960-86, National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne
1985
The Dam, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1984
Freemantle Drawing Prize, Freemantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
1983
L.J.Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Recent Australian Painting 1970-83, Art Gallery of South Australia
1980
Contemporary Australian Printmakers 1, PCA, touring USA, Canada & UK
1979
Images – Aspects of Image Painting in the 1960s, VCA, Melbourne
1978
Contemporary Australian Drawing, AGWA, QAG & AGNSW
Tribute to George Baldessin, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1972
Australian Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
George Couch Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1968
Bradford Print Biennale, City Art Gallery, Bradford, UK
Australian Art Today, Albert Hall, Canberra and touring
Ten Printmakers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Prints, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
1966
6th International Graphics Exhibition, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
International Biennale of Graphic Art, Cracow, Poland
International Print Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
Helene Rubinstein Travelling Scholarship, Art Gallery of South Australia
Inaugural Exhibition, Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Prints Today, Smithonian Institute, Washington DC
The Mertz Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting, Art Gallery of
South
Australia
The Mertz Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966
1965
Survey: Leonard Crawford, Leonard French, George Johnson, Roger Kemp,
Jan
Senbergs, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Young Australian Painters, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
1964
Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne
1963
Georges Invitation Prize Art Prize, Melbourne
Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Art Gallery of
New South
Wales, Sydney
1961
Italian Government Travelling Scholarship Exhibition
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Awards
and Prizes
1964 - Commendation Prize, Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne
1966 - Helena Rubenstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Adelaide
1968 - University of Tasmania Print Prize, Hobart
1969 - Newcastle City Art Prize, New South Wales
1969 - Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne
1970 - Launceston Art Purchase, Queen Victoria Art Museum and Art
Gallery, Tas
1975-6 - Creative Arts Fellowship, Australian National University,
Canberra
1976 - Sir William Angliss Art Prize, Melbourne
1982 - Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne
1983 - L.J.Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, QAG, Brisbane
1984 - Fremantle Drawing Prize, Western Australia
1986 - Honorary Award, Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa, RMIT, Melbourne
1991 - Kedumba Drawing Prize, Leura, New South Wales
1994 - William Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
1991-93 - The First Bush Block, Governor Phillip
Tower, Sydney; First Government House
1989 - Birth of a University, Bond University, Queensland
1987 - Bicentenary Series of Paintings, ANZ Bank (commissioned by TMAG)
1985-86 - The 10th Anniversary Commission and Touring Exhibition of
Paintings, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories
1979 - Tapestry, National Bank of Australia (woven at VTW)
1978-80 - Relief Mural, The Lobby, High Court of Australia Canberra
Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, USA
Federal Court, Melbourne
High Court of Australia, Canberra
Law Council of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery, Washington DC, USA
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Various regional, university, college, corporate and private collections
in Australia and USA.