Tony Albert Australia (Aboriginal), 1981-.
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About Tony Albert
Australian Aboriginal artist Tony Albert was born in Townsville Queensland in 1981. He was awarded a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane in 2004. His work focuses on the difficult issue of race relations. In 2013 Tony Albert was commissioned to create an artwork for the Sydney Hyde Park War Memorial to commemorate indigenous soldiers, and in 2014 was awarded both the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize and the $50,000 Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award. He was the recipient of the 2016 Fleurieu Art Prize. His first major institutional solo exhibition Visible was at the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane in 2018. He has exhibited his work at the Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France; the Singapore Art Museum; the National Museum of China, Beijing; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. He was also included in the 10th Biennial of Havana, Cuba. He has shown his work commercially in solo shows and group exhibitions since 2005 throughout Australia and in several overseas galleries.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Tony Albert from 2017 and in total 21 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 12 (57%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $11,045 for Am I, Are You, Are We sold by Cooee Art Leven in June 2023. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Tony Albert are held by the Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia and a further six major public national galleries (see list below).
Tony Albert is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.
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