Painter and printmaker Andrew Antoniou completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Winchester School of Art and a Master of Art at the Central School of Art, London in 1974. Antoniou has held 7 solo exhibitions with Australian Galleries since 2006 and has exhibited internationally in the United States at Davidson Galleries in Seattle from 1987 – 2001. He has held solo exhibitions at Wollongong, Muswellbrook, Goulburn, Tweed River, Shoalhaven, Orange and Maitland Regional Galleries, and became a member of the Royal Society of Etchers in London in 2001.
Andrew Antoniou has been a Finalist in various major prizes including The Dobell Drawing Prize, AGNSW; the Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery; The National Works On Paper Prize, Victoria; the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Sydney; the Hutchins Drawing Prize, Hobart; the Swan Hill Drawing Prize, Victoria and the Banyule Works On Paper Prize, Victoria. Antoniou was awarded the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Prize in 1988, the Warringah Art Prize in 1994 and the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award in 1998. He won the Tyree Tycan Drawing Prize in 2005 and the Swan Hill Drawing Prize in 2014. He was Awarded an Australian Print Council Commission in 2004 and 2014 and was acquired by the Ketumba Drawing Collection in 2012.
Andrew Antoniou has taught at most universities and art schools in NSW over 30 years including National Art School, Sydney College of the Arts, COFA, Canberra School of Art, Newcastle University, Woollongong University, University of Western Sydney. His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in the UK.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
The Australian Print Triennial is a major international art event spearheaded by The Art Vault that will bring …
Congratulations to Andrew Antoniou who has been selected as a finalist in the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) at Grafton …
The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is a $25,000 acquisitive art award among the most significant of its kind in the country. Inaugurated …
Image above: Rodney Forbes Shrove Monday 2010 oil on canvas 122 x 138 cm (private collection) In a collaboration between …
Glenn Morgan’s work is currently on view in a public art exhibition at the soon-to-be-completed State Library Station, Franklin Street …
Congratulations to Glenda Orr who has been presented with a highly commended award in the 2021 Artists’ Book Award for …
Image above: Philip Noakes Eclipse I 2019 Britannia silver and sterling silver (1503gms) 30 x 29 x 6 cm and …
Congratulations to Greg Johns, who has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Andrea Stretton Memorial Invitation to exhibit …
Rosalind Atkins and Heather Shimmen have been involved in a long-distance international arts exchange project between a group of twenty …
‘If Collaboration Is the Method, Activism Is the Intention’ FEM-aFFINITY brings together female artists from Arts Project Australia and wider …
Above image: Jennifer Keeler-Milne, Wattle, 2020, charcoal on paper prepared with acrylic, 114 x 180 cm A huge …
Image above: Danielle Creenaune Silent falls: Carrington 2020 stone lithograph and chine colle 52 x 43 cm Congratulations to the …
Image above: Cameron Hayes Angry angels help Adam with the first dictionary 2020 oil on canvas 198 x 254 cm …