Born 1964. Lives and works in Sydney
BFA, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Giant Badges, Galerie pompom, Sydney
New Flags, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
New Earths, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
‘Open the pod bay doors please HAL’, Galerie pompom, Sydney
New Skies, Other Worlds, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney
My Trip to Mars, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney
Adam Norton: New Work, Gallery 9, Sydney
Space Pop 2000, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
The Mars Project, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill
Interplanetary Society, Gallery 9, Sydney
Space Flags, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Extraterrestrial Highway, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Ad Astra, Gallery 9, Sydney
Road Trip, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Camouflage Suit Experiment, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Big Science, Gallery 9, Sydney
Tank Project, City of Sydney By George! Art in the Laneways, Sydney
UFOlogy, Gallery 9, Sydney
Generic Escape Capsule, MOP Projects, Sydney
The Amplified Man Project 2, Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
The Amplified Man Project, MOP Projects, Sydney
Blast Goggles and Gas-Proof Snorkel Kit, 3 Foot Square Gallery, Sydney
Homemade Devices for Surviving Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Attack, First Draft Gallery, Sydney
101 Ways to Defy Evil and How to Draw Your Way Out of It, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
(upcoming) Chrome City, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, USA
(upcoming) Contour 556, Canberra
Cementa19, Kandos, NSW
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney
Moon Landing – The Giant Leap, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Space, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC
1919 Salon, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and touring nationally to 2020
Flame Seed, Incinerator Art Gallery, Sydney
Blank Spaces for the Imagination, Bondi Pavilion Gallery
Beyond Belief: The Sublime in Contemporary Art, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Black Mist, Burnt Country, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney and touring nationally to 2019
3rd Biennale – Project Daejeon 2016: COSMOS, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea
WAR – A Playground Perspective, Armory Gallery, Newington Armory, Sydney
OUTER SPACE, curated by Adam Porter, Casula Powerhouse
Conquest of Space: Science Fiction and Contemporary Art, curated by Andrew Frost, UNSW Galleries
Hope of Wrecks, St Albans Museum, St Albans Hertfordshire UK
Ten out of 10, MOP Projects, Sydney
Sometimes making something leads to something, Kunstvlaai 2012, St Nicolaas Lyceum, Amsterdam, NL
Crisis Complex, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
Drawing Lines in the Sand, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
House Inspection: Interior Motives, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
Boundary Line, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art, Performance Space, Sydney
Twenty/20, UTS Gallery, Sydney, and Dubbo Regional Gallery, Dubbo, NSW
The Great Reclamation, Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Our Lucky Country (still different), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea
The Visitors: The Australian response to UFOs and Aliens, Penrith Regional Gallery
Our Lucky Country (difference), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea
Brainstorms, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Not Worried, Raid Projects, LA, USA
Giant Badges City of Sydney City Art Laneways
Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
Finalist, Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse
Finalist, Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Finalist, Blacktown City Art Prize, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Finalist, The Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
Artist in residence, Waverley Artist Studios
Artist in residence, 18th Street, Santa Monica, California, USA
Work Trade residency programme with Andrea Zittel, A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA, USA
Artist in residence, Waverley Artist Studios
Artist in residence – Artspace, Sydney
Finalist, The Blake Prize, COFA Galleries
Artist in residence, Museums & Galleries NSW, ACR program, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill
Artist in Residence, Artspace, Sydney
Finalist, 41st Muswellbrook Open Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW
Finalist, The 2011 City of Albany Art Prize, Albany, Western Australia
Artist in Residence, FraserStudios, Sydney
NAVA, Artist’s Grant
Finalist, Public Art Commission by Global Switch, Ultimo, Sydney
NAVA Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant
Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Finalist, New Social Commentary 08, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria
Artist in Residence, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea
Finalist, ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
Artist in Residence, Toos Neger Studio, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Noelle Faulkner, ‘Signs of Life: Adam Norton’s Giant Badges’
Mars Gravity Simulator, conference paper for the 2018 Mars Society Conference, Pasadena, USA
Richard Perram, ‘A terrible beauty is born’, exhibition catalogue essay for Beyond Belief: The Sublime in
Contemporary Art
Andrew Frost, ‘Possible Futures: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art’, Artlink Issue 36:4 December, pp.18-25
John McDonald, ‘Black Mist, Burnt Country’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October
J D Mittman, ‘Atomic Testing in Australian Art’, exhibition catalogue essay for Black Mist, Burnt Country
Eleanor Zeichner, ‘The First Man on Mars’, exhibition catalogue essay
Carrie Miller, ‘The Scientist’, Art Collector, Issue 73 July-September, pp.116-125
On the World Stage: Adam Norton, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Art Collector, Issue 67 Jan-Mar, pp80-81
The Mars Project, Jenia Ratcliffe, ABC Open, 17 October
Men are from Mars – especially Adam, Craig Brealey, Barrier Daily Truth, 12 October, pp.1-2
Isobel Philip, An Echo in Outer Space, The Art Life, March 5
Oliver Watts, Fly Me to the Moon, Interplanetary Society exhibition essay
Carrie Miller, Interplanetary Society, The Art Life, February 22
Janis Ferberg, ‘Crisis Complex’, un Magazine, Issue 6.2 – December, pp.134-135
Clare Lewis, Adam Norton: Seeing Red, essay for the book Nine Projects
Altair Roelants, ‘Adam Norton’s Mars Gravity Simulator’, Art Monthly Australia, July #241, pp.8-9
Andrew Frost, ‘Imagining the Future: Awfully Wonderful at Performance Space, Sydney’, Art Monthly Australia,
July #241, pp.5-7
Dan Rule, ‘Adam Norton: Extraterrestrial Highway’, The Age, April 16
Isobel Philip, ‘The Edge of the Void’, www.theartlife.com.au, August 13
Bill Chalker, ‘Art, Life and UFOs’, Ufologist Magazine, Vol.13 No.4 Sept-Oct ‘09, p.46
Mark Brown & Sophie Kouyoumdjian, ‘Live Lanes – By George!’ Runway, Issue 13
Clare Lewis, ‘Adam Norton: a maverick who might survive’, Big Science exhibition catalogue essay
Bryony Nainby, ‘New social commentary 08’, Artlink, vol 28 #4
Phil Han, ‘Military carriers roll through Sydney’, ninemsn, October 10
Martin Corben, ‘The paranormal at Penrith draws response from believers’, ABC Radio, 14 February
Davis Teh, ‘Hi-tech/lo-tech: Sydney gallery drift – Brainstorms’, Eyeline, No. 58, p.46
Andrew Frost, ‘Group Therapy’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 34, p.89
Dominique Angeloro, ‘Field of Dreams’, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 12
Nine Projects
Mars Gravity Simulator – http://vimeo.com/23024940
Mars or Bust – DVD 1min 17secs
Tank Project – DVD 4mins 44secs
Reverse Shoes Demonstration – DVD 1min 28secs
Camouflage Suit Experiment – DVD 9mins 59secs
How to Turn a Car into a Nuclear Shelter – DVD 4mins 30secs
Manual for Generic Escape Capsule
Brochure 2 – The Amplified Man Project, Zigoto Press
Brochure 1 – Homemade Devices for Dealing with Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Attack
Wollongong Art Gallery
University of Technology Sydney Art Collection
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane, Queensland
Artbank Australia
PrintROOM, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
College of Fine Arts Student Association, University of NSW, Sydney
College of Fine Arts Library, University of NSW, Sydney
Exeter College, Oxford University, UK
Malvern College, Worcestershire, UK