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Rennie Ellis: Posthumous Exhibitions
 
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Up the Cross: Rennie Ellis and Wesley Stacey, Museum of Sydney
2009 Heroes & Anti-Heroes, Kristian Pithie Gallery, Melbourne
2008 No Standing Only Dancing: photographs by Rennie Ellis, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia
Federation Square, Melbourne Victoria
see Robert McFarlane (Sydney Morning Herald) review

Sign of the Times: The Fashion Photography of Rennie Ellis, (Projection Window)
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Victoria
2007 The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
  Of the Flesh, Daylesford Foto Biennale 07 Convent Gallery, Daylesford Victoria
view exhibition on line
2006 Rennie Ellis: Aussie All, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Read "Aussies All" by Simon Elliott
 
Group Exhibitions
2010 Candid Camera, Australian Photography 1950s-1970s, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Sin City, Justice and Police Museum, Sydney
2009 AC/DC Australia's Family Jewels, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Australian Photography 1858 - 2009, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Same, Same But Different, Kristian Pithie Gallery, Melbourne
Black & White: Documenting Indigenous Australia Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne (touring exhibition)
2007 Focus on Women, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
  Australian Rules: Around the Grounds, Monash Gallery of Art, Mebourne (touring exhibition)
  Peacock Variations, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2006 Australian Visit, Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle Denmark (in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra)
  International & Australian Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
  People in Photography , Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
2004 Masters of Fare, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

Rennie Ellis: Exhibitions held in his lifetime

Solo Exhibitions

1971
Kings Cross, with Wesley Stacey Gallery A, Melbourne and Yellow house, Sydney
1975
Aussies All, 500 Collins Street, Melbourne
1976
Heroes and Anti-Heroes, with Carol Jerrems, The Photographer's Gallery, Melbourne
1978
The Way of Flesh, The Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney
1980
Through The Looking Glass, with Peter Kelly and Glen O'Malley, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1992
Carnival in Rio, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Art Centre, Melbourne
1994
Carnival in Rio, L'Otel, Sydney
Cup Fever, Myer, Melbourne
1995
Portrait Nus, L'Otel, Sydney
1996
Further Observations, The Photographers' Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Portrait Nus, George Gallery, Melbourne
1998
Further Observations, United States Consulate, Melbourne
Life's Still a Beach, The George Gallery, Melbourne
1999
Life's Still a Beach, The Australian Embassy, Paris, France
Images of the Subcontinent, Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne
Further Observations, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
2002
Naked Chefs, Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions
1973
Children, Brummels Gallery of Photography, Melbourne
1975
Snapshots, Australian Centre for Photography
Recent Australian Photography, Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs, touring exhibition which travelled through Asia
1977
Five Photographers, Benalla Art Gallery
1978
The Phillip Morris Arts Grant 5th Annual Exhibition, Adelaide
1979
Australian Photographers, The Phillip Morris Collection, Hyde Park, Sydney
1980
Australian Photographers, The Phillip Morris Collection, Alexander Gardens, Melbourne
1981
Faceless Nudes, Paraphernalia, Melbourne
1982
A Photographers Choice, School of Arts, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Toowoomba, Queensland

also at Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

1983
Australian Street Photography- The 1970's, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1988
Shades of Light; Photography and Australia 1839 - 1988, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1992
Uncommon Australians - Towards a National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria
Sites of the Imagination - Contemporary Photographers' View Melbourne and its People, National Gallery of Victoria
1993
The Big Little Picture Show, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Picture Freedom, The Photographers' Gallery, London
1994
One, Kirkcaldy Davies Gallery, Melbourne
1995
On the Edge, San Diego Museum of Art, U.S.A.
A Collectors Choice, The Photographers' Gallery, Melbourne
Venus Suite, Caelum, Melbourne
1996
Best Mates, Toast II Gallery, Sydney, also Rialto, Melbourne
Erotique, FAD Gallery, Melbourne
The Australian Photographers' Collections, Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney
Delirium, FAD Gallery Melbourne
1997
Club Cred, with Josh Ellis, The Continental Cafe, Melbourne
1998
Waterproof, Expo, Lisbon, Portugal
1999
Family, National Gallery of Victoria
Twenty Photographers, Melbourne Arts Club
2002
Watermarks, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Documenting Australians, A Pictorial History of Australian Photography, Monash Gallery of Art , Melbourne
Images of Australian Men, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Just Married, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

ACMP Collection 6, Melbourne Museum

2003
POL: Portrait of a Generation, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
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