KEZ HUGHES

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BIOGRAPHY

Melbourne based painter Kez Hughes has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts, and has held solo exhibitions since 2006 in Melbourne. She has been exhibited in group exhibitions since 2004 in Melbourne, Brisbane, Ballarat and Gippsland and internationally in Sri Lanka at art spaces including Margaret Lawrence Gallery at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Ballarat Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Federation University, RMIT School of Art, West Space, TCB and BUS Projects.

Kez Hughes is a recipient of the 2006 Roger Kemp Memorial Award at the Victorian College of the Arts and the 2016 APEX Art Fellowship, New York. She has been a finalist in the 2023 Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the 2019 and 2017 Arthur Guy Memorial Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery, the 2024 and 2019 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize at Bayside Art Gallery and the 2009 Williamstown Art Prize.

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WORKS

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Kez Hughes 'Congress' 2025 oil on linen 112 x 87 cm $7,900
Kez Hughes 'Hold your breath, after Persephone, Archaeological Museum Aidone, Sicily' 2024 oil on linen 112 x 87 cm $7,900
Kez Hughes 'Sentinel' 2025 oil on linen 70 x 60 cm $3,900
Kez Hughes 'Refuge' 2025 oil on board 70 x 60 cm $3,900
Kez Hughes 'The information' 2025 oil on board 70 x 60 cm $3,900
Kez Hughes 'Night' 2025 oil on board 35.5 x 28 cm $2,200
Kez Hughes 'Outlaw' 2025 oil on board 35.5 x 28 cm $2,200
Kez Hughes 'Supernatural' 2025 oil on canvas, framed 35.5 x 35 cm $2,900
Kez Hughes 'Picture of the earth, after Venus Torso, c.100 BC' 2024 oil on board 30.5 x 25.5 cm $2,000
Kez Hughes 'Talisman' 2024 oil on board 25 x 19.8 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Tangara, 325-300 BC, Louvre Museum, Paris' 2024 oil on board 25 x 20 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Oracle' 2024 oil on board 25 x 19.8 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'The diviner' 2024 oil on board 25 x 19.8 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Rift, after Head of an Amazon, British Museum, London' 2024 oil on board 25.5 x 20.5 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Sightseer, after Votive fragment, Louvre Museum, Paris' 2024 oil on board 25.5 x 20.5 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Hey cutes, after Terracotta roof decoration, 550 BC, Louvre Museum, Paris' 2024 oil on board 25.5 x 20.5 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Virtuoso' 2025 oil on board 25 x 20 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Poem' 2025 oil on board 25 x 20 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Hypnos' 2025 oil on board 25 x 20 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Prediction' 2025 oil on board 25 x 20 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Aún aprendo' 2025 oil on board 25 x 20 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'The artist' 2025 oil on board 25 x 20 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Aurora' 2025 oil on board 25 x 20 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'The ancients' 2025 oil on board 20 x 20 cm $1,700
Kez Hughes 'Isle' 2025 oil on canvas 25.5 x 20.5 cm $1,900
Kez Hughes 'Lullaby' 2025 oil on board 25 x 20 cm $1,900

PAST EXHIBITIONS

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NEWS

KEZ HUGHES ACQUIRED BY ARTBANK

By Nicholas Thompson

Kez Hughes’ painting Revolution of capital from her July exhibition has been acquired by Artbank. Artbank is part of the Australian Government Office for the Arts, in the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts.  Established in 1980 by the Australian Government, Artbank’s two core objectives are to provide direct support to Australian contemporary…

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KEZ HUGHES REVIEWED IN THE AGE’S WEEKEND PICKS

By Nicholas Thompson

“For a while Kez Hughes was creating paintings of other artworks and sculptures from ancient and classical periods, but now her focus has enticingly shifted to temperamental landscapes and lightly surreal scenes. Partly inspired by a recent trip to Naples and the volcano Vesuvius, the paintings foremost hold a sense of time: that past moments,…

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KEZ HUGHES PROFILED IN ‘ART GUIDE AUSTRALIA’ MAY/JUNE 2024

By Nicholas Thompson

‘It is with deep consideration that Hughes reimagines objects, challenging the relationships that exist between the original artist, the viewer and herself. The act of looking is integral. We are left wondering which of these three protag¬onists holds the position of main voyeur: what is Hughes looking for? By considering objects of the past, transmuted…

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KEZ HUGHES FINALIST IN 2024 BAYSIDE PAINTING PRIZE

By Nicholas Thompson

Kez Hughes is a finalist in the 2024 Bayside Painting Prize Established in 2015, the Bayside Painting Prize is one of the most generous non-acquisitive painting prizes in the country. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth…