Naoise Halloran-Mackay

b. 1997 Naarm/Melbourne

Email: naoise.halloran@gmail.com

Instragram:@na0ise

Select exhibitions and achievements:

Current:
Bus Projects Fundraiser - 25 Artists for 25 years
Brunswick, Victoria. July 22 - August 15

Upcoming:
Exhibition: ‘Canopy’ with Felix Oliver at Sutton Gallery project space.
Fitzroy, Victoria. August 8 - August 29

Solo Exhibition: ‘Horizonites’ at Mary Cherry Contemporary.
Collingwood, Victoria. August 29 - September 19

Melbourne Sculpture Biennale 2026: Soft Systems.
Billilla Mansion, Brighton October 8 - 25

Group Exhibition: Berninneit Cultural Centre.
Millawul/Phillip Island, Victoria. - October 24 - December 13

2026
Group Exhibition: ‘After the Earth’ at Bett Gallery, Nipaluna/Hobart

Group Exhibition: ‘House’ at Animal House Fine Arts, Naarm/Melbourne

2025
Solo Exhibition: ‘Shelter’ at Firstdraft, Sydney

Recipient: Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship - Shark Island Institute Residency

Group Exhibition: ‘In My Prime’ at Sullivan + Strumpf, Melbourne

Group Exhibition: Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship 2026 at Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Fair: ‘Spring 1883’ - Mary Cherry Contemporary, Melbourne

Acquisition: Two works acquired by the Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney NSW

Group Exhibition: ‘The way a stranger looks,’ curated by Tabitha Glanville at Bus Projects

Group Exhibition (Online) : 'Small Paintings,’ Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK

2024

Exhibition: ‘The Space of Light’ Naoise Halloran-Mackay and Virginia Cuppaidge at the Fiona & Sidney Myer Gallery

Guest speaker: ‘Art Forum’ public lecture series - University of Melbourne - Faculty of Fine Arts and Music

Group Exhibition: ‘Nest Dreams’ at 138 gallery

Group Exhibition: ‘Gargoyle’ at VCA Artspace

Group Exhibition: ‘The softest place on earth’ at No Vacancy

2023

Solo Exhibition: ‘Quincunx’ at TCB Gallery

Group Exhibition: ‘Tech support’ at TCB Gallery

Group Exhibition: ‘Look through the square’ at Parasite Project

2021

Solo Exhibition: ‘Skyline II’ at Stockroom Kyneton

2019

Recipient: Macfarlane Fund Art Residency (Kyneton)

Recipient: Metro Tunnel Creative Project grant

Group Exhibition: Stockroom Kyneton

Solo Exhibition: ‘Calder skyline’ at Chin Chin Melbourne

Solo Exhibition: ‘Let me die with a hammer in My Hand’ at Red Gallery

2018

Graduate exhibition: (BFA) - Victorian College of the Arts (Painting department)

Recipient: Tolarno Hotel art award

Recipient: Gogo foundation art award

2017

Group Exhibition: ‘What Archives are good for’ at Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West