Tony Ameneiro

TONY AMENEIRO C.V.

Selected Awards

2022 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive - Print Award Swan Hill VIC
2020 Kangaroo Valley Art Prize Kangaroo Valley NSW
2018 Australian Print Triennial Print Award People’s choice Award - shared Art Vault Mildura
2012, ’07, ’04 ‘96 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award Works on Paper Campbelltown Art Gallery NSW
2009 Geelong Acquisitive Print Award, Geelong Gallery, Victoria. Acquired
2007 Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Cntr WA
2004 Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Art Award Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, NSW. Acquired

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Landscape with Rock Orchard Street Gallery, Taralga, NSW
2021 Landscape with Rock Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
2018 Head Over Head Megalo Print Studio Gallery Canberra
2017 Head Over Head Devonport Regional Art Gallery
2016 Head Over Head Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2016 Head Over Head Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW
2015 (Artist in Residence) Annabel Wallace Gallery, Boorowa, NSW
2014 Recent Drawings Art Vault, Mildura, Vic
2013 Flowering Heads Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2013 Flowering Heads Annabel Wallace Gallery, Boorowa, NSW
2013 Head to Head Art Vault, Mildura, Vic
2012 Flowering Heads David Stein & Co, Sydney, NSW
2011 Night Skulls and Lily Heads Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria
2010 The Night Lily Head Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
2007 Recent Works Impressions on Paper, Canberra
2007 Skulls and Lilies, Lilies and Skulls Marianne Newman Gallery Sydney NSW
2005 Recent Prints and Drawings Bowerhouse Gallery, Milton, NSW
2005 Selected Locations CTC, Robertson, NSW
2004 Location Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
2001 Road Edge – Park Edge New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
2000 Pole to Post James Harvey Gallery, Balmain, NSW
1998 Pictures in C.D. Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, NSW
1985 Tony Ameneiro - Prints and Drawings Camera Lucida Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
1984 Camouflaged Cakes James Harvey Gallery, King St, Newtown, NSW

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
’Intaglio’ Megalo curated exhibition – web- Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, Canberra ACT
’Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive 2020’ VIC

2019
Kedumba Drawing Award Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba NSW

‘Alumni’ Sturt Gallery Mittagong, NSW

‘Collection Focus PCA’ John Curtin Gallery Perth WA
’The Journey of Violets’ PG Gallery Fitzroy Melbourne VIC

2018
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize 2018 PLC. Sydney

2017
’Fremantle Print Award 2017’ Fremantle Arts Centre WA
Artists in Residence Annabel Wallace Gallery NSW
Burnie Print Prize 2017 Burnie Regional Art Gallery TAS
’Continuum’ Goulburn Regional Art Gallery NSW

2016
Primavera Queenscliff Galery & Workshop, VIC
MONO Metropolis Gallery Geelong VIC
Contemporary Paper Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
’National Works on Paper Award’ Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
Charles Sturt University Art Exhibition
’2006-2016: A Decade of Printmaking’ Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
’Limited Edition’ Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive 2016 VIC
’Between a Rock and a Hard Place’ Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, Canberra ACT

2015
’Exchange’ 21 years SHPrintmakers Sturt Gallery Mittagong
Megalo Print Studio & Gallery ACT
Muswellbrook Art Prize Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW
Burnie Print Prize 2015 (acquired) Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania

2014
City of Hobart Art Prize 2014 (Highly Commended) Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery TAS
International Print Biennale 2014 Hatton Gallery University of Newcastle Newcastle U.K.
’Efflorescent’ Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2014 Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
"Prints 25" - Print Council of Australia Prints Whitehorse Artspace Gallery, Melbourne VIC
“New(s)” Southern Highlands Printmakers Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

2013
Kedumba Drawing Award 2013 Kedumba Gallery, Katoomba, Blue Mountains NSW
Art on Paper Award Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney NSW
Burnie Print Prize 2013 Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Fair Trade TAFE Teachers’ exhibition Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Elements Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
Pentimenti Prints Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW
Stone to Paper - Lithographs from Lancaster Press Firestation Print Studio & Gallery VIC

2012
Dobell Drawing Prize 2012 Art Gallery of NSW ( final Dobell Drawing Prize at AGNSW)
Contemporary Prints from the Collection Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW

2012
Artists for Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria
Sentinels and Showboats Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive 2012 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
’Mono Uno’ Albury City Gallery, NSW
’Pentimenti Prints’ - a variable Print Exchange Folio FCA Gallery University of Wollongong
Also at Tipografia Grifani Donati, Citta di Castello, Italy and Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Sydney, NSW

2011
Prints & Drawings Study Room, re-opening exhibition Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Duality 2011, Banyule Award for Works on Paper Banyule Arts Centre, Ivanhoe, Victoria
Geelong Acquisitive Print Award Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
2011 Artists for Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria
’Alone Off the Press’ Left Hand Gallery Braidwood NSW
VARIO print exchange Goulburn Regional Art Gallery also shown Brisbane, Hawaii, Ireland
Burnie Print Prize 2011 Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania

2010
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Museum of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
& at the National Archives Canberra, ACT ( Highly Commended )
2010 Artists for Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria
’Skeletons in the Collection’ Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
’Joseph Banks: a Regional Response’ Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2009
’Collaborations’ Lancaster Press Gallery Melbourne
Geelong Acquisitive Print Award Geelong Gallery VIC
Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints Glen Eira City Council Gallery VIC
2009 Artists For Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria
Staff Show, West Wollongong TAFE Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, NSW
’Now & Then’ Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW
13th CPM National Print Awards Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW (Highly Commended)
’Spirit’ Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
Mono Uno Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
’The Gib’ Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW
Burnie Print Prize Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize 2009 PLC Croydon Sydney

2008
Lancaster Press Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
’Flora, Still Life Moving Fast’ Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney NSW
Artists For Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria
’On Pape'r’ Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Museum of South Australia, Adelaide, S.A.
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre, W.A.
Southern Highlands Printmakers Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
Stock Show Port Jackson Press C.A.P.Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Best Of The Print Exchange Print Zero Studios , Ballard, Seattle USA

2007
Burnie Print Prize 2007 (Acquired) Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize PLC, Croydon, Sydney
Recent Acquisitions in Context Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
Relief Method: prints from the City Collection Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre. WA
Just Imagine, Y-Curate Wollongong Art Gallery NSW
Milestones Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong, NSW
Geelong Print Award Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW

2006
’Dobell Drawing Prize’ 2006 Art Gallery of NSW Sydney
Printmakers Gallery Inaugural Exhibition Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Ergon Energy Central Queensland Art Award Rockhampton Art Gallery (Commended)
Staff Show West Wollongong TAFE Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, NSW

2005
Biennale Jogja VIII, 2005 Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Hand Pulled Prints XII, The Stonemetal Press International Juried Exhibition Texas USA
’Stock Show' Port Jackson Press Melbourne VIC
Print Zero Studio Print Exchange II & III University of Wyoming, USA
Southern Highlands Printmakers Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW
Fresh - new acquisitions Wollongong Art Gallery NSW
Staff Show West Wollongong TAFE Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong

2004
Hutchins Art Prize Hobart, Tasmania
Silk Cut Award 2004 Melbourne, Victoria
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards VIC
Print Zero Studio print exchange Seattle & Laramie USA
Florida Printmakers Print Exchange Uni. of Miami USA
’The Tree in Changing Light’ Bower House Gallery, Milton, NSW
’Staff Show West Wollongong TAFE’
Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong NSW

2003
Dobell Drawing Prize Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney NSW
Trees Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollahra NSW
Important Works on Paper Rex Irwin Gallery
Hutchins Art Prize Hobart TAS
Geelong Print Award 2003 Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
50-Fifty New England Regional Art Museum NSW
The Printed Image Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW
’Love Your Work’ The Muse, Sydney Institute of TAFE

2002
Important Works on Paper Rex Irwin, Woollahra, NSW
Shell Fremantle Print Award Fremantle, WA
Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Art Award Toowoomba, Queensland
People’s Choice Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
Incline, Southern Highland Printmakers Long Gallery, University of Wollongong, NSW
Heads - TAFE staff show, & Landmarx Long Gallery, University of Wollongong
Pocketsized James Harvey Gallery, Clovelly, NSW
Sub 500 Dickerson Gallery, Woollahra, NSW

2001
’Important Works on Paper’ Rex Irwin Gallery
Woollahra NSW
’Drawing Show’ James Harvey Gallery Balmain NSW
Prelude - TAFE staff show Long Gallery, University of Wollongong NSW
Segment - TAFE staff show Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong NSW
’A Heritage of Health’ Wollongong Art Gallery NSW
’Encore’ TAFE staff show Wollongong City Art Gallery
Art on Paper Award Hazelhurst Regional Gallery NSW
Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC

2000
TAFE staff show Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong NSW
Silk Cut Award 2000 Melbourne, VIC
’Illawarra Visions’ Wollongong Art Gallery NSW
Invitation Exhibition Art Arena Gallery Wollongong NSW

1999
’Réveries’ Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong
New Acquisitions Wollongong City Art Gallery NSW
’Sema-Phoros’ Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong NSW
Animalistic James Harvey Gallery, Balmain, NSW

1998
End of Term Show, End of Year Group Show Korunna Gallery, West Wollongong TAFE,

1997
Australian Printmedia Awards Casula Powerhouse Art Centre NSW
’Redundant’ Korunna Gallery, West Wollongong TAFE

1996
Tamara Acquisitive Art Prize Tamworth Art Gallery NSW
12th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery VIC

1994
’Abstract Papers’ First Draft West, Annandale, NSW
’This is Not a Book’ First Draft West, Annandale

1984
AW Faber Castell Art Prize Boronia Art Gallery, Mosman, NSW

1981
Graduation exhibition Alexander Mackie CAE, Sydney

1978
Ameneiro, Selby, Weir, Young Stephen Mori’s Student Gallery Leichhardt NSW

1977
HSC Touring Art Exhibition The NSW Department of Education

Selected Collections
British Museum, London, UK
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
State Library of Victoria
National Museum of Wales UK
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
City of Fremantle
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Warrnambool Art Gallery
Wollongong City Gallery
University of Wollongong
University of NSW, Art Collection
John Curtin University Charles Sturt University
University of South Australia
University of Ballarat
University of Miami, USA
University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA
Print Council of Australia
Canson Australia Pty Ltd.
City of Whitehorse Royal Perth Hospital
Brisbane Grammar
Brisbane State High school
Downlands College
Genazzano College
St Michael’s Grammar School
Illawarra Grammar
Melbourne Grammar St Ursula’s College
Tintern Girls’ Grammar Westbourne Grammar
Various other institutional and private collections Australia and overseas

Commissions
Illawarra Coke Company (I.C.C.)
Illawarra Area Health Service (I.A.H.S)
Stalker Theatre Company
Print Council of Australia (P.C.A.) Member Print Commission 2002 and 2006

Selected Bibliography
ART MONTHLY Issue 259, "Head to Head" by Jan Jones May, 2013
ARTLINK Vol 27 no4 “Fremantle Print Awards” by Judith McGrath. 2007
ARTLINK Dec 2008 “Fremantle Print Awards” by Mariyon Slany
ART MONTHLY Dec 2009 #226 (Artnotes p70) October 2007 #204 (W.A. News)
THE AUSTRALIAN ”Tech-savvy printmakers find photo finish offers a winning style”
Ted Snell Fri Sept. 28 2007
CANBERRA TIMES “Beyond the blockbusters: five remarkable art exhibitions in 2018” Sasha Grishin Dec. 20 2018
CANBERRA TIMES ”Tony Ameneiro's Head over head at Megalo Print Gallery” Sasha Grishin March 1st 2018
CANBERRA TIMES ”Lithography with an All Star Cast” (‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place) Sasha Grishin May 14 2016
CANBERRA TIMES Exchange: Celebrating 21 years of the Southern Highlands Printmakers full page review & Photos, by Sasha Grishin October 9 2015
CANBERRA TIMES ”Eclectic Mix of Prints” full page review & Photos, by Sasha Grishin Wed May 2nd 2007
CANBERRA TIMES ”Print Impressions” Helen Musa, Article and Photos
THE ILLAWARRA MERCURY “Local Lily Draws an Impression”, page article plus photo, Jan 22 2011
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Jan 22 2011
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Feb 1 2009
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD April 10 2002 Metro pg 15
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Oct 27 2001 Metropolitan pg11,
PERIPHERY “Jewel Case The Work of Tony Ameneiro” No. 36 Spring 1998 pg 15-16.
IMPRINT (Quarterly Journal Print Council of Australia) Vol 39 No 2 ”Location” pg 13.
“Moments of Slippage” Summer 2004 Vol 39 No 4
IMPRINT (Quarterly Journal of Print Council of Australia) Summer ’96 Vol 31 No 4 pg 11, pg18. Winter ’98 Vol 33 No 2 pg 18 Summer ’98 Vol 33 No 4 pg21 Summer ’99 Vol 34 No4 pg21 Spring 2000 Vol 35 No3 pg17. Autumn 2001 Vol 36 No1 pg16, Spring 2002 Vol 37 No3 pg 14, Spring 2004 Vol 39 No 3 pg 7, Winter 2004, Vol 39 No 2 ”Location” pg 13.Summer 2004 “Moments of Slippage” Summer 2004 Vol 39 No 4 pg 17. Spring 2006 Vol 41 no 3. pg 18. Winter 2007, Vol 42 No 2 “New Works” pg 26. Winter 2013 Vol 48 No 2 pg 23 “Flowering Heads” by Tom Middlemost
PERGAMENT (Parchment, Publ. Jan Thorbecke Verlag GmbH) pg 385-388 ISBN 3-7995-4202-7
SILK CUT AWARD 2000, 2004 & 2009 Catalogue published Duroloid Pty Ltd, 2000 & 2004 & 2009
“Shell Fremantle Print award 2002” & 2007 & 08 Catalogue published Fremantle Arts Centre 2002, 2007, 2008
“Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Art Award 2002” Catalogue published Toowoomba Reg. Gallery 2002
“Hutchins Art Prize 2003 & 2004” Catalogue published 2003 and 2004
“Location” Catalogue for Exhibition published by Wollongong City Art Gallery 2004
“The Dobell Prize For Drawing 1993-2004” published by A.G.N.S.W 2005 pg 54
ISBN 0-7347-6376-X
“ The People’s Choice ” Published by Wollongong City Art Gallery, 2005
“ Just Imagine ” Published by Wollongong City Art Gallery, 2007 (re - Published 2008) ISBN 0-9758372-1-4
“ Flora, Still Life Moving Fast” Pub. Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery & Arts Centre, 2008 ISBN 978-1-921437-08-3
“Mono Uno” Thomas A Middlemost 2009 ISBN 978-1-86467-212-1
“ The Gib ” Catalogue Sturt Gallery 2008 ISBN 978-0-9805947-0-6
“ 50/50 Survey of Contemporary Printmaking” Print Zero Studios Catalogue 2009 ISBN 978-0-9844173-0-8
“Seeking Images” (Catalogue TAFE Staff show Goulburn Regional Gallery, 2009 )
ISBN 978-0-9805947-1-3
“Joseph Banks: a Regional Response” (Catalogue Goulburn Regional Gallery, 2010 ) ISBN 978-0-9807642-0-8
“Marks and Motifs ( prints from the PCA collection) ” (Catalogue QUT, Queensland University of Technology, 2006 ISBN 1 74107 1305
“Burnie Print Prize 2011” Catalogue, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania ISBN 978-0-9808003-4-0
"Duality" 2011 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Catalogue, Banyule Arts Centre ISBN 978-0-9803626-5-7
“A Place For Art, The University of Wollongong Art Collection” ISBN 978-1-74128-204-7
“EFFLORESCENT - a Contemporary Take” catalogue Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW 2014. ISBN 978-0-9875863-0-8
“The ART VAULT 5th Anniversary” catalogue publ. 2013 ISBN 978-0-646-91248-6
“International Print Biennale 2014” published by Northern Print Newcsatle upon Tyne 2014 ISBN 978-0-9927842-0-1
“Just Paper” catalogue published 2015 ISBN 978-0-9942530-2-6
”Continuum” catalogue published 2017 ISBN 978-0-646-97375-3
“Australian Print Triennial” Print Award Finalists catalogue published Latrobe University Art Vault Mildura ISBN 978-0-9944662-0-4
NWOP 2016 catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, pg 11 pg 77 ISBN 978-0-9580956-0-0
”Landscape with Rock” exhibition catalogue Dr Thomas A Middlemost 2021 ISBN 978-0-6451821-0-1