Touring Exhibitions

Andrew Snelgar, Ngemba people, installation view, 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2022, image courtesy the University of Queensland Art Museum © the artist, photographer: Marc Pricop

About

For over three decades, the national collection has been shared in communities across Australia and the world through dedicated touring exhibitions.

Touring exhibitions share a diverse range of art and artistic perspectives. Featuring history’s best-known artists alongside leading contemporary artists, the touring exhibition program aims to demonstrate the breadth of artmaking in this country.

National Gallery touring exhibitions are made possible through the generous support of the Gallery’s partners and donors.

The Aboriginal Memorial touring Europe. St Petersberg. Loading cargo into the nose of plane.

The Aboriginal Memorial touring Europe. St Petersberg. Loading cargo into the nose of plane. 2000 Image: Beata Tworek-Matuszkiewicz

Patricia Piccinini, Skywhales: Every Heart Sings Touring Event, Melbourne, 2022, © Patricia Piccinini, photo by Damien Hayes

National Gallery staff installing Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia at National Gallery, Singapore, 2022

Image of exhibition install with Australian First Nations works and blue wall detail

Various works, installation view, Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, National Gallery Singapore, 2022. Photo by: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures

Joel Bray, Wiradjuri people, Giraaru Galing Gaanhagirri, 2022, installation view, 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2022, image courtesy the University of Queensland Art Museum © the artist, photographer: Louis Lim

What's On

Find out what touring exhibitions are on near you.

WHAT'S ON TOUR
a large dot painting in bright colours

Stories

Touring Exhibition

Touring the collection

Helping the Gallery to be a truly national institution, the Touring Exhibitions team share how they tour the collection here and overseas.

Read Time 14 minutes
First Nations

Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curator Tina Baum shares the art, histories and realities of the world’s oldest continuous living culture.

Read Time 21 minutes
The Balnaves Contemporary Series

The red thread of history

Two women sit on a timber bench, within a gallery space, surrounded by paintings and work of art suspended from the ceiling and walls

Artists Judy Watson, Waanyi people, and Helen Johnson have forged a dialogue on the roles of women in contemporary and colonial Australia.

Read Time 20 minutes
The Kenneth E. Tyler Collection

Buy the Whole Damn Thing: The Tyler Collection

Man in an art workshop using a large paint roller to press paint ink on stone

78 artists, 7400+ works of art and 120,000 archive photographs. Curator David Greenhalgh shares how the collection came to call the Gallery home.

Read Time 19 minutes

Contact

If you’re interested in hosting a National Gallery Touring Exhibition, please reach out via touringprogram@nga.gov.au

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Touring Exhibition

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists

On Tour
The interior of a bedroom with bookshelves, Window and Bed; painted in choppy strokes of yellow, green, blue and red

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
25 Nov 2023 – 18 Feb 2024

The Know My Name: Australian Women Artists touring exhibition follows the National Gallery’s major two-part exhibition of Australian women artists.

Touring Exhibition

Yayoi Kusama
THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS

Past Exhibition
A small bright yellow room with black dots and a mirrored box in the middle

Art Gallery of South Australia
1 Apr 2022 – 13 Mar 2023

Artist Yayoi Kusama invites viewers to immerse themselves in her world to participate in an experience of both claustrophobic and infinite space.

Collection

National Gallery On Tour

hot air balloon sculptures flying over The Grampians mountain range

The national collection is for all Australians and is shared in communities across Australia and the world through touring exhibitions.

Touring Exhibition

Art Cases

two young girls are smiling and holding objects they have taken out of a large orange case

Our five Art Cases travel to schools, libraries, community centres, galleries and aged care homes to inspire creativity, inclusivity, and learning.

Touring Exhibition

Single Channel

On Tour

Ellenbrook Arts, WA
17 Nov – 16 Dec 2023

This exhibition draws together key contemporary video works from the national collection.

Touring Exhibition

Touring the collection

Helping the Gallery to be a truly national institution, the Touring Exhibitions team share how they tour the collection here and overseas.

Read Time 14 minutes