Artist Bio
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Samantha Hobson
DOB: 1981
BORN: Lockhart River, QLD
LANGUAGE GROUP: Kuuku Yau
COMMUNITY: Lockhart River, QLD
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
- The Nahum Collection, London
- Owen and Wagner Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover
- Samurai Gallery Australia
AWARDS
2009 26th NATSIAA – Finalist and People’s Choice Winner
2018 King & Wood Mallesons Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) Art Award – Finalist
2001 Laura Festival, Queensland – Second Prize; Painting
2001 Laura Festival, Queensland – Second Prize; Works on Paper
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Samantha Hobson – Reef/Life, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2017 Samantha Hobson: The Reef & Other Stories, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2010 My Country … My Land, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2009 Our Life … Our Way, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2008 Life is our land … our culture, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2008 Our life … is land … is culture, October Gallery, London
2008 Ngayu Aalmana Ngaachi Ngatangku (Growing up with Country), Vivien Anderson Gallery,
Melbourne
2007 Modern Day Life, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2007 From My Country, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2006 Land to Sea, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2005 From My Country – Land and Sea, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Yuma Kuyi Pi’l (Fire and Water), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Kalmaa-na Waympa Wimpa (From the bush to the sand beach)’, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2003 Lanthalantha (Fire), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Yuku Untana (Fuel for the Fire), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2001 ‘ee be right b’um bye’, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2000 From the Top, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Group Exhibitions
2021 The Women’s Show: 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2021 We Choose to Challenge, Coo-ee Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
2020 Lockhart Art Gang – Sharing Our Stories, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Lockhart Legends, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Large Showroom; Large Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Defining Tradition | the colurists, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2017 60 Xv30, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2017 Sand, Salt, Spirit, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
2017 A SWEEP continues, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2016 Rosella Namok & Lockhart River Painters, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2012 Reunion: New paintings by Samantha Hobson, Rosella Namok and Fiona Omeenyo – Vivien Anderson, Melbourne
2008 Women’s Law, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2006 Unchartered Territory, October Gallery, London, England
2006 Histoires de Terre et Mer: Peintures Aborigenes de Lockhart River, Australie, Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie du Morbihan, Lorient, France
2006 Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition: shifting tides, moving sands, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
2005 Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Art and Crafts from Tropical North Queensland Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
2004 Colour Power: Aboriginal Art post 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2004 Lockhart River Artists, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2004 Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2003 Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2003 Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn, Artspace Mackay, Cairns Regional Gallery, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2003 Water: Prints from Lockhart River and the Tiwi Islands, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane2003 Artworks from FNQ + Torres Strait Islands, Artworkers Alliance, Brisbane
2003 The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Ngaachi Ngampula (Our Country), Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2003 Lockhart River Gang, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2002 Lines II, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Inaugural exhibition, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Gallery, Ian Potter Museum of Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2001 Dreamtime: Zeitgenossische Aboriginal Art/The Dark and The Light: Austria
2000 Lockhart River Print Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery Parma Belong Sandbeach: Painting and prints by Lockhart River Art Gang; Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane
1999 Message Stick, touring exhibition of the Lockhart River Art Gang, funded by Visions Australia
International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
1999 Lockhart River Art Gang Exhibition, Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane