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Ann Stephen

Senior Curator, University Art Collection

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BA (Hons) MA (Hons) PhD听QUT

Ann Stephen's curatorial career over four decades has been in public and university museums. She joined Sydney University Museums as the senior curator of the University Art Gallery in 2009, and has been responsible for the University Art Collection and developing the art exhibition and publication program.

As President, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (2011鈥14), Ann has been a mentor for early career academics as well as many colleagues in art history and art curatorship. She has an established national and international publishing record in modernism and conceptual art and in 2015 was invited to join the Scientific Committee of the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies.

She has been awarded two ARC grants and many prizes for her academic work. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2009. Since 2014, she has been chair of听Art Monthly Australasia.

Research interests

  • Modernism
  • Australian art
  • Conceptual art
  • Contemporary art

  • Kirtika Kain, Penelope Gallery CCWM, 2026
  • Migrating Modernism: The architecture of Harry Seidler,听San Marco Art Centre, Venice, 2025
  • 听J.W. Power: Art, War and the avant-garde,听CCWM, 2025
  • Union Made, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, 2024
  • 听Ian Burn, MAMCO, Geneva, 2023
  • Light & Darkness, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, 2022
  • Coastline, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, 2020
  • Daniel Boyd: Contemporary Art Project #1, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, 2020
  • Bauhaus Now!,听Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 2019
  • Jack Redgate: Mirror Play,听University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney, 2015
  • Women in Power,听University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney, 2015
  • Abstraction鈥揅r茅ation:听J.W. Power听in Europe听1921鈥1938 (with A.D.S. Donaldson),听National Library of Australia, Canberra and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2014
  • 鈥69: Retrieving the black box of Concept art, the University of Sydney with Queensland University of Technology and the Drill Hall, Australian National University, 2013
  • Atelier Power: The Power Studio, University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney, 2013
  • J. W. Power: Abstraction-Cr茅ation, Paris, 1934, with A.D.S. Donaldson, University Art Gallery, National Library of Australia, Canberra and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2012
  • Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion, with Luke Parker, Sydney Festival with University Art Gallery, Monash University Art Gallery and Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, 2012听
  • Kent State: Four Decades Later, with Luke Parker, University Art Gallery, Sydney, 2010
  • Mirror Mirror then and now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane with University Art Gallery, Sydney and Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, 2009
  • Consuming passions: The collection of Justice Roddy Meagher, University Art Gallery, Sydney, 2009
  • Cannibal tours, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2009
  • Modern times: The untold story of modernism in Australia, with Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara, Powerhouse Museum, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Queensland State Library, Brisbane, 2008
  • Shanghai Childhood, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2002
  • Vision of a Republic: The work of Lucien Henry, Centenary of Federation exhibition, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2001

  • Gordon Darling Foundation grant, J.W. Power: An Australian avant-gardis,听2023
  • Gordon Darling Foundation grant, Ian Burn: Collected Writings,听2021
  • Australian Institute of Art History/AAANZ research grant, Ian Burn: Collected Writings,听2020
  • Residency, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019
  • Gordon Darling Foundation grant,听Light and Darkness, 2019
  • Chancellors鈥檚 Committee grant,听Light and Darkness, 2018
  • Australia Council grant for听Mondspiel听with Susan Best, Mikala Dwyer and Justene Williams, 2018
  • Discovery grant, Australian Research Council, 鈥楤auhaus Australia鈥, with Professor Goad, Professor Edquist, Professor McNamara, Professor W眉nsch, 2016
  • University Art Museums Australia (UAMA) catalogue prize听1969: The black box of Conceptual art, 2014
  • Chancellor鈥檚 Committee grant,听Women in Power, 2014

  • 鈥楬irschfeld Mack and the Albers鈥, in听Anni and Josef Albers, National Gallery of Art, Canberra, 2024
  • Bauhaus Now!, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, 2019
  • 鈥楻obert Hunter: at the southern edge of the great iceberg of Minimalism鈥 in听Space for the unknown: the art of Robert Hunter 1966-2014, National Gallery of Victoria, 2018
  • 鈥楪race Cossington Smith听Black Mountain, 1931鈥,听Georgia O鈥橩eefe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith, Heide Museum of Modern Art and Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2016
  • 鈥榃hat was Euro Pop?鈥櫶From Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2014
  • 'J. W. Power: Abstraction-Cr茅ation, Paris, 1934'听with A.D.S. Donaldson, University Art Gallery, 2012
  • 鈥業an Burn鈥, in听Less is More: Minimal and Post-Minimal Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2012
  • Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion, Sydney Festival with University Art Gallery, Monash University Art Gallery and Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, 2012
  • Mirror mirror then and now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2010
  • 鈥業 am torn between white walls and other places鈥,听Peter Cripps: Towards an Elegant Solution, Australia Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2010
  • 鈥榃alking the Styx鈥,听Raquel Ormella, Artspace, Sydney, 2010
  • 鈥楥annibal Tours鈥, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, 2009
  • 鈥楩ernand L茅ger鈥 and 鈥楯acky Redgate鈥, in听Cubism and Australian Art, The Miegunyah Press, 2009
  • 鈥楨yes Open鈥,听The University Art Museum Collection, The University of Queensland, 2008
  • 鈥楩los Mortis: Flowers of Death鈥,听Michael Callaghan: A Survey 1967-06, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, 2006
  • 鈥楢nnotations: Narelle Jubelin鈥,听21st Century Modern, catalogue, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2006
  • 鈥楾he Conundrum of the Mirror Piece鈥,听Fieldworks, National Gallery of Victoria, 2003
  • 鈥業an Burn鈥檚 Blue Variable鈥,听Monash University Museum of Art Collection, 2002
  • 鈥楴arelle Jubelin鈥檚 Old Love鈥,听Monash University Museum of Art Collection, 2002
  • 鈥楰unstler denken鈥,听On Dialogue: Zeitgenossische Australische Kunst, Berlin, 1997

  • JW Power: An Australian avant-gardist, co-authored with A.D.S. Donaldson,听National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2025
  • Ian Burn: Collected Writings 1966-1993, contributing editor, Power Publications, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter und Franz K枚nig, 2024
  • Light & Darkness: Late Modernism and the JW Power Collection, contributing editor听Power Publications, Sydney, 2021
  • Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture, with Philip Goad, Andrew McNamara, Harriet Edquist and Isabel Wunsche, Power Publications and Miegunyah, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2019
  • Jacky Redgate: Mirrors, with Robert Leonard, Power Publications, Sydney, 2016
  • Into the Light: The Cultural Collections of the University of Sydney, with Michael Turner and Jude Philp, The Miegunyah Press, 2010
  • On Looking at Looking: The art and politics of Ian Burn,听The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006
  • The Necessity of Australian Art, with Ian Burn, Charles Merewether, Nigel Lendon, Power Publications, Sydney, 1988
  • Badges of Labour Banners of Pride,听with Andrew Reeves, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1985

  • Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture,听with Philip Goad, Andrew McNamara, Harriet Edquist, Isabel Wunsche,听The Miegunyah Press and Power, Melbourne, 2019
  • Into the Light: The Cultural Collections of The University of Sydney,听with Michael Turner and Jude Philp,听The Miegunyah Press, 2010
  • Modern times: The untold story of modernism in Australia,听with Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara,听The Miegunyah Press and Powerhouse Publishing, Melbourne, 2008
  • Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967,听with Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara,听The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006
  • Visions of a Republic: The work of Lucien Henry,听Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney, 2001

  • 鈥楾he Antipodes through 鈥淣ative Eyes鈥濃, in The Savage Hits Back Revisited. Art and Alterity in the Colonial Encounter, Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 2025
  • 鈥楳apping a dialogue between the possible origins of IBMR and Art & Language鈥, 2023
  • 听Charting Space: The cartographies of Conceptual Art, Manchester Uni. Press鈥楾he Antipodes through 鈥淣ative Eyes鈥濃, in听The Savage Hits Back Revisited. Art and Alterity in the Colonial Encounter, Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 2020
  • 鈥楧ear Tom 鈥 About Banners鈥, in听Tom Nicholson: Lines towards Another, eds., Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes, Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2018
  • 鈥楢 Cartography of Desires and Taboos: The Modern Primitive and the Antipodes鈥 Andrew McNamara and Ann Stephen, ed., Pam Meecham,听Companion to Modern Art, Wiley, London, 2017
  • 鈥楤ernard Smith as curator鈥,听The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays in Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics, Power Publications, Sydney, 2016
  • 鈥楾he modern primitive and the Antipodes: the visual arts and Oceania鈥 with Andrew McNamara,听The Modernist World, eds., Allana Lindgren and Stephen Rose, Victoria University, Canada: Routledge, 2015
  • 鈥楲ucien Henry鈥, The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture, eds. Philip Goad and Julie Willis, Cambridge University Press, 2012
  • 鈥楾he story of the Sixties 鈥 a pile-up on the freeway of advanced art鈥, with Andrew McNamara,听The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art, ed., Jaynie Anderson, Cambridge University Press, 2011听
  • 鈥楳odernists and Black-fellows: Not just black and white鈥,听Pacific Rim Modernisms, co-eds., Helen Sword and Steven Yao, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009
  • 鈥楽oft-Tape: Hard Talk: The early collaborations of Burn and Ramsden鈥,听Conceptual Art, Theory, Myth and Practice听ed. Michael Corris, Cambridge University Press, 2005
  • 鈥楻eclaiming Wailwan culture鈥,听Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, 2000

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  • 鈥楢n Indigenous Intervention: Richard Bell鈥檚 Salon des refuses at the 2019 venice Biennale鈥, Discipline No. 5, 2019
  • 鈥楻ichard Bell @ Venice: 鈥淲e don鈥檛 really need this鈥︹ or do we?鈥櫶Third Text听online, 2018
  • 鈥淒istel-bild鈥櫶,听no. 4, 2017
  • 鈥楾he Oceanic Primitivism of Len Lye鈥檚 animation听Tusalava, 1929鈥櫶Art History,听Vol. 40, 2017
  • 鈥楶ortrait of the artist as an ex-war surgeon鈥,听History of Education Review: 鈥楿niversities, expertise and the First World War special issue, 2016
  • 鈥楾he local presence of Sol LeWitt鈥, Australian and NZ Journal of Art, Vol 8, 2008
  • 鈥楻eview: Modernism鈥,听Australian and NZ Journal of Art, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2006
  • 鈥楧esigning for the World of Tomorrow: Australia at the New York World鈥檚 Fair鈥,听reCollections, National Museum of Australia Journal, Vol.1, 2006

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Phone: +61 2听9351 4004
Email:听ann.stephen@sydney.edu.au