Marian Goodman Gallery now represents Daniel Boyd, a rising Indigenous Australian artist. Boyd is among the few Indigenous Australian artists represented by a significant blue-chip gallery outdoors his dwelling nation.
The gallery mounted a solo present for the Sydney-based artist earlier this yr, and can embrace works by him in its sales space at Artwork Basel in Switzerland this June. An exhibition on the gallery’s Paris area can also be forthcoming.
Boyd has steadily been constructing his repute as one of many nation’s most carefully watched artists. His work was included in the principle exhibition of the 2015 Venice Biennale, organized by Okwui Enwezor, in addition to the 2016 Sydney Biennale and the 2015 Kochi-Muziris Biennale.He additionally was the topic of main solo exhibitions on the Artwork Gallery of New South Wales (in 2022) and the Gropius Bau in Berlin (2023).
Born in Gimuy/Cairns on the northeast coast of the nation, Boyd has heritage that spans a number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations together with Kudjala, Ghungalu, Wangerriburra, Wakka Wakka, Gubbi Gubbi, Kuku Yalanji, Bundjalung, Yuggera and ni-Vanuatu.
Boyd is greatest recognized for his portraits and landscapes that construct on the Indigenous Australian custom of dot work, which started to obtain larger consideration within the worldwide artwork world after artists from Western and Central Australia rose to fame. Boyd’s work, nonetheless, additionally intention to depart from this custom, shifting it towards Gestalt theories of notion and away from narrative storytelling.
“Daniel is probably the most extremely regarded up to date artist of Australia from his era,” Philipp Kaiser, the gallery’s president and companion, instructed ARTnews in an emailed interview. “As a lot as his work offers with particular historic considerations, it additionally expands on bigger urgent points which are related globally.”
Kaiser stated he first encountered Boyd’s work on the 2015 Venice Biennale, the place he “was struck by the simplicity and magnificence of the work and the advanced underpinnings of how his works negotiate problems with illustration, identification, historical past, and tradition.”
Since then, Kaiser has been following Boyd’s profession and eventually was in a position to meet him final yr throughout the run of the Gropius Bau exhibition, by way of artist Anri Sala, who can also be represented by Marian Goodman. That led to the gallery present in January, which Kaiser stated acquired “an important response from establishments, non-public collectors, and critics.”
Kaiser added, “Daniel’s inventive apply and considerations resonate with our program, which champions artists with formidable and visionary work. The Gallery has had a historical past of offering a vital US platform for worldwide artists since its founding and developed an ever-more world focus for the reason that early ’90s. We’re thrilled that Daniel is becoming a member of us.”