Hanna Kay

Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel
Art education: Tel-Aviv, Israel and Vienna Austria
BA Semiotics and Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia.

Since 1970 has been practicing as an artist in; Tel-Aviv Israe, Vienna, Austri, a decade in New York and a decade in Sydney. In 2000 moved to live in the Upper-Hunter Valley, NSW.

Before arriving in Australia in 1989 exhibited in Museums and galleries in Israel, across Europe and the U.S.A. In Australia has been exhibiting regularly in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. In addition, had survey exhibitions in selected Regional Galleries and Museums, and participated in numerous group exhibitions in both commercial and public art galleries.

2011 Undertow - Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
          Undertow - Dalby Regional Art Gallery, Dalby, QLD
          Circularity - Wilson St. Gallery @ Danks, Sydney

2010 Undertow - Moree Plains Regional Art Gallery, Moree
          Undertow - Australian Jewish Museum, Melbourne
          Weightlessness - Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery
          Undertow - Maitland regional Art Gallery, NSW
          Undertow - Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD
          Undertow - Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2009 Waterways - Wilson St. Gallery, Sydney
          Undertow - Tamworth Regional art Gallery, NSW

2007 Habitat - Wilson st. Gallery, Sydney
          Habitat 2 - John Miller Galleries, Newcastle

2006 Absence/substance - New England Regional Art Museum
          Moree Plains Regional Art Gallery, Moree, NSW

2005 Weightless - Span Galleries, Melbourne

2005 Marked - John Miller Galleries, Newcastle

2004 Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2002 Echoes - Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney

2000 Child's play - Span Galleries, Melbourne

1999 Child's play - Paul Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide

1998 Games - Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney

1996 Traces - Paul Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide

1995 Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney

1994 Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
          Paul Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide

‏1993 Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney

1992 Paul Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide

1990 BMG Fine Art, Sydney

2010 Finalist Countryscape Art Prize (highly commended)

2009 Surrealism in the 70's- touring exhibition across the USA
          Finalist Countryscape Art Prize (highly commended)

2008 Finalist Norvil Landscape Art Prize – won the prize.
          Finalist Country Energy Landscape Prize
          Finalist Fleurieu Biennale SA

2007 Muswellbrook Regional gallery – winner open art prize

2006 Finalist Country Energy Landscape Prize
         "My Place, My Time, Myself" New England Regional Museum, Armidale

2004 Span Galleries, Melbourne

2003 Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
          Finalist Country Energy Art Prize

2001 New England Regional Art Museum

1999 Kedumba Drawing Award, Blue Mountains, Sydney

1999 "We are Australians", Victoria Arts Centre (touring exhibition)

1998 Finalist 28th Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT

1997 Dobell drawing prize, The Art Gallery of NSW

1997 "Faces of Hope", The Art Gallery of NSW

1997 "Urban Details", commissioned by the 1997 Sydney Festival

1995 The wandering Jew: myth and metaphor,
           The Australian Jewish Museum Melbourne
           Recognising the Republic, Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney

1993 Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney

1990 21st Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT (Selected for touring show)

1990 BMG Fine Art, Sydney and Adelaide

Selected articles and publications: 
              

The love of women – illustrations for classic and contemporary erotic poetry, Bitan Israel (1970)
"Bress" magazine, Amsterdam 1978
"Heresies" magazine, New York 1978
"Heresies" magazine, New York 1979
"Omni" magazine, New York 1979
"Omni" magazine, New York 1980
"Omni" magazine, (Omni Art Collection), New York 1981
"Omni" magazine, New York 1983
Art in America, New York February 1982.
The Jewish Times, Sydney May 1990, April 1994, May 1999
The Adelaide Advertiser, June 1992, July 1994
The Adelaide Review, July 1992, July 1994, May 1999,
The Sydney Morning Herald, August 1993, September 1995, January 1997
"4x5: contemporary art in Israel and abroad", Aug. 1995
Visibly Female: Feminism and Art Today, Hilary Robinson, Univers New York 1988
The Heroine's Journey, Maureen Murdock, Shambhala, Boston & London 1990
"New Art Four" Craftsman House Australia (1990)
"Images in Contemporary Australian Painting", Craftsman House Australia (1992)
Art Link Vol 11, Australia 1993
Images 2, Craftsman House Australia (1994)
Dictionary of Australian women artists, Craftsman House Australia (1994)
Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, Sydney University 1995
Hermes, magazine of literature and art, Sydney University 1995
4x5: contemporary art in Israel and abroad, November 1995
Collection of drawings for "Woman - first person singular" by Rebecca Rass, Bitan Israel (1995)
"New Visions, New Perspectives: voices of contemporary australian women artists",
Anna Voigt, Craftsman House Australia (1996)
Collection of drawings for "The Gatekeeper's Wife" by Fay Zwicky,
Brandl & Schlesinger Australia (1997)
"Images 3", Craftsman House Australia (1998)
Australian Artist March 2002
Hunter Style January 2003
"Terminal Magazine" 21st art, autumn 2006 New York, Tel Aviv
Notes from the Shed – an illustrated journal Palgrave, Macmillan Art Publishing (2007)
50 + : half a century of collecting in Muswellbrook Regional Arts centre (2008)
The international encyclopaedia of Surreal Art, first German edition (2009)
Undertow – an exhibition commissioned by the Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW. (2010)
Weightlessness – paintings 2004-2010, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, Indiana University Press, no. 19 Spring 2010
Epoch Times, Issue 314, Oct 2011

Selected press reviews: 

1970 -1989 - Davar, Ma'riv, Ha'aretz, World of Art, Ha'ir, Yediot Haharonot, New York Times, Connecticut Times, Die Zeit, Die Presse, Art Forum, Arts New York,
1990 - 2010 - The Sydney Morning Herald, The Adelaide Advertiser, 4x5: contemporary art in Israel and abroad, Canberra Times, Art in Australia, The Newcastle Herald.

2007 - Turning the Pages - Art and Science Environmental public project http://www.turningthepages.com.au
1999 - to present; Lecturer at the School of Culture and Languages, University of Sydney