Tony Albert is a Brisbane-based artist born in North Queensland. His family comes from Cardwell, situated in the rainforest area of the far north. In 2004 Albert completed a degree in Visual Arts majoring in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art.
Major group exhibitions for 2007 include: The Visitors, Penrith Regional Gallery; the 2007 Arc Biennial, QUT Art Museum; The Revenge of Genres, Les Brasseurs in Liege Belgium and Cité International des Arts, Paris; the 24TH Telstra National Aboriginal &Torres Strait Island Art Award, Northern Territory Museum and Thresholds of Tolerance, Australian National University, Canberra.
Albert was awarded the 2007 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, receiving an acquisitive prize of $25, 000. His work is recognised by Institutional collections in Australia, including the National Museum, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Griffith Artworks, Brisbane.
Albert’s work reflects political, historical, environmental and cultural issues relevant to Indigenous people in today’s society. Provoked by the stereotypical representations of Indigenous Australians in mainstream culture, Albert’s paradoxical wordplay examines cultural alienation and displacement.
