VERNON AH KEE: Blow Your House In

VERNON AH KEE: Blow Your House In
September 12, 2009 to January 3, 2010
Artist Talk & Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, September 11, 2009 @ 7:30pm

Free event!

For the exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Vernon Ah Kee was invited to participate in the MacKenzie Art Gallery’s first artist-in-residence program, which took place August 17 to September 4, 2009. Blow Your House In features some of Ah Kee’s text based works in addition to portrait-based drawings produced during the residency.

Vernon Ah Kee is a conceptual contemporary artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Born in North Queensland, Australia, Ah Kee is of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yindingji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples. His work is represented in several public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and the National Gallery of Australia. In 2007, he was included in the National Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors (National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia) and he has staged solo exhibitions at Artspace, Sydney and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane in 2008. His work was also included in the 2008 Biennale of Sydney and at the 2009 Venice Biennale in Once Removed, a group show from Australia addressing issues of displacement, indigenousness and the environment.