Mary Cherry Contemporary

Selected works

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2026

The Sitters, Solo presentation at the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne.

2025

Hidden Mothers, Mary Cherry, Melbourne.

2024

Drawings for Maeve, 138 Gallery, Melbourne.

A women’s right to make poor choices’ BUS Projects, Melbourne.

2017

MILF, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne.

2016

The Transit Lounge’, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne.

2015

Little Windows’, BUS Projects, Melbourne.

I used to do my hair with rollers now I use a spray can and pliers’, Seventh Gallery Night screen.

2011

Internal, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Group Exhibitions

2026

MOTHER, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Groundswell, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castelmaine.

2025

Castlemaine Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum.

Auto Photo: A life in Portraits, CCP Exhibition/RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.

Protest is a creative Act, Museum of Australian Photography

SPRING1883 Art Fair, (Room 120) Mary Cherry Contemporary, Melbourne

Decade, Caves Gallery, Melbourne

Object Theatre, with Georgina Cue, TCB Gallery Inc, Melbourne.

2024

Katherine Hattam & Ruth O'Leary, LON Gallery, Melbourne.

Love, Labour, Lost, Mary Cherry, Melbourne.

Feeling, Drawing, Thinking. MEJIA Gallery, Melbourne.

Women on Women, Central Goldfields Gallery, curated by Annabel Brown

2023

Linden Postcard Show, 2023/24, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne.

Disguises, MEJIA, organised by Ruth O’Leary, Melbourne.

2018

Unfinished Business, perspectives on art and feminism, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.

2017

Real Life Fantasies, curated by Patrice Sharkey, WestSpace Gallery, Melb.

I Love Pat Larter, Neon Parc, Melbourne.

INSIDE, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney.

2016

Chin Chin Wall of Art Projection Space, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

Wink, supervised by Donald Holt, Greenwood Street Projects, Melbourne.

The Joke, Neon Parc, Melbourne.

Westspace Fundraiser Auction, Melbourne.

Debut, BLINDSIDE Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne.

2015

As if: Small Print, Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne

Control, Merry Crisis Art Space, Sydney.

What would a Feminist Methodology Sound Like? Westspace Gallery.

Boulevard, curated by Matthew Linde, Gertrude Contemporary.

2014

The Artist interprets Highpoint, Fort Delta, Melbourne.

Benglis 73/74, Sutton Projects, TCB Arts Inc, Neon Parc.

Made and Found, Group Show, TAKT A.I.R. Berlin, Germany.

2013

Dual, New Low Gallery, Melbourne.

2012

Drawing Twenty Twelve, BFA Graduate Exhibition, RMIT drawing, Melbourne.

Living Art, Aalto University Project Space Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.

2010

New Collectables, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

2009

Cancer Council Victoria Arts Awards travelling Exhibition, 120 Collins, Shepparton Art Gallery, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Kyneton Arts Festival, Gippsland.

2008: Top Arts, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

AWARDS/GRANTS/OTHER

2026

Lorne Community Connect Arts Hub Photography prize, Finalist.

Punctum x La Trobe Art Institute Artist-in-Residence.

2025

Regional Arts Victoria Quick Response Grant recipient.

Woollongong Art Prize, Finalist.

Castlemaine Exoerimental Print Prize, Finalist.

Maldon Portrait Prize Finalist.

2017

BalletLab McMahon Contemporary Art Award Finalist.

2015

Monash University, Fine Art Honours Prize.

2014

Studio resident, TAKT Artist in Residence, Berlin.

2012

RMIT Travel Grant.

John Storey Junior Memorial Scholarship.

2011

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Link Arts Union Grant Funding (new video work)

2009

Outstanding Young Artist Prize, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia