RHYS LEE

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Rhys Lee has held solo exhibitions since 2000 in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Germany, Paris and New Zealand. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2019), the Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne (2015), the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2012), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (2001), The University of Queensland National Artist's Self Portrait Prize (2009), the Doug Moran Prize at the State Library of New South Wales (2009) and international commercial galleries in the USA, UK, Germany, France and Belgium. Rhys Lee has a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Graphic Design from the Queensland College of Art (1997). A monograph on the artist was published in 2009. Lee's work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia; the National Library of France; Mima Museum, Brussels and Artbank.

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NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY SPRING1883 EXHIBITION REVIEWED FOR MEMO BY AMELIA WINATA

… the spirit of Spring: the mix of kitsch… and old-world luxury… Downstairs at Nicholas Thompson, for example, the suite was excessively crammed with works—to good effect. Heidi Yardley’s sexy lady paintings (Babylon and Design for Scandal, both 2023) were placed on chairs that had been draped with the room’s silky curtains. Think sleazy boudoir.…

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NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY SPRING1883 EXHIBITION IN ART GUIDE’S TOP PICKS OF THE FAIR

At the sneak peak of Spring1883 at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, one gallerist declared the event “the art fair that artists love”. Rather than meaning something insular, they meant the spirit of fun and community when around 30 of Australia’s top commercial galleries (and a couple from New Zealand), situate artwork within the old grandeur of…

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RHYS LEE INTERVIEWED IN ‘TO BE’ MAGAZINE BY SAŠA BOGOJEV

RHYS LEE “PAINT KNOWS…”  Words SAŠA BOGOJEV Rhys Lee is a visual artist living and working in Aireys Inlet, Victoria, known for melding ethereal forms with a playful touch of street art—fusing representation and abstraction—through lively oil and acrylic colour palettes. In the wake of several upcoming intercontinental exhibitions—showing in galleries across Athens, London, Melbourne and…

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RHYS LEE IN ‘VAULT’ EDITOR ALISON KUBLER’S TOP 10 PICKS FOR EXPLORE SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2021

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RHYS LEE IN ‘GOING DOWN UNDER: RHYS LEE PRESENTS SERIES OF NEW PAINTINGS AT NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY, MELBOURNE’ BY SASHA BOGOJEV IN ‘JUXTAPOZ, ART AND CULTURE’ ONLINE

Going Down Under: Rhys Lee Presents Series of New Paintings @ Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne Following the tradition of an annual solo presentation that started back in 2015, Nicholas Thompson Gallery is currently running the final week of Recent Paintings of new works by Rhys Lee. The artist told Juxtapoz, “The show came about by…

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RHYS LEE ‘RECENT PAINTINGS’ EXHIBITED BY NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY IN MELBOURNE ART FAIR AND OCULA’S ONLINE VIEWING ROOMS 1 TO 7 JUNE 2020

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