Born 1974. Lives and works Bendigo, VIC
PhD Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
Advanced Certificate in Permaculture Design (intensive course with David Holmgren)
Blue Ridge Moon, Galerie pompom, Sydney
The Improbable Outside, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
The Hereafter, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Mono Nuovo, Galerie pompom, Sydney|
Imagining Alternatives, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
Imagining Alternatives, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
Dwelling, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Staged Alternatives, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Take Me to Magic Mountain, MOP Projects, Sydney
Phantom in the Corner, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Care in Action, curated by Jacqueline Millner, Australian National University, Art and Design Space
The Heroine Paint: Kylie Banyard and Amber Rose Wallis, curated by Kezia Geddes, Lismore Regional Gallery
The view from here: Women artists in the UNSW Art Collection, University of New South Wales, online
2019 The National 2019: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Art from Down Under: Australia to New Zealand, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, North Carolina, USA
Another Green World: Landscape in the 21st Century, curated by Dr Andrew Frost, The Western Plains Cultural Centre
2016-17
The Mnemonic Mirror, curated by Kylie Banyard and Gary Carsley, UTS Gallery, Sydney
Something immeasurably better, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Interiors/Exteriors, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney
Forever is an optimistic view, curated by Lisa Sammut, Archive, Sydney
Sydney Painting Now, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Future’s Knot, curated by Peter Johnson, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
Democracy of Drawing1, Airspace Projects, Sydney
Stockland, Galerie pompom, Sydney
+1 Marrickville Garage’s inaugural show, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
Speculative Spaces, curated by David Eastwood, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Magic Mountain, curated by Debbie Pryor, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
Magical Thinking, joint exhibition with Marian Tubbs, Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation, supported by Louis Vuitton, Sydney
Alive and Well, Firstdraft Gallery fundraiser
Group Show, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Pirate Utopias, Index Space, Sydney
Launch exhibition Runway issue 19: Life Printed Matter, The Papermilll, Sydney
Second Nature, The Papermill, Sydney
Tim Olsen Art Prize, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Kudos Prize, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Total Eclipse of the Heart, Blankspace Gallery, Sydney
Screamers, Midnight Cinema, Hobart
2014 BANYARD AND ADAMS, Fleet, curated by OH YEAH COOL GREAT, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Anonymous Séance and the Domes of Silence, BANYARD AND ADAMS (collaboration with Ron Adams), ALASKA Projects, Sydney
Finalist, The King’s School Art Prize
Finalist, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Finalist, Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea
Arts NSW NSW Artists’ Grant Scheme, a funding program administered by the National Association of the Visual Arts on behalf of the NSW Government
Emerging Artist Studio Residency, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
Artist in residence, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
University of New South Wales, COFA Travel Grant
2008-11
Highly Commended, Kudos Art Prize
The Basil and Muriel Art Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Winner of The National Tertiary Art Prize
Varia Karipoff, ‘Studio – Kylie Banyard’, Art Guide Australia, May-June, pp.36-41 Andrew Frost, ‘The Foreseeable Future’, Art Collector, Apr-Jun, pp.144-149 Jacqueline Millner, catalogue essay for The National 2019: New Australian Art
Wes Hill, ‘Kylie Banyard’, Critics’ Picks, Artforum, 26 January Eleanor Zeichner, The Hereafter, exhibition essay
The Mnemonic Mirror, exhibition essay
Jane Somerville, ‘Kylie Banyard’, Artist Profile, Issue 30, pp52-55
Sharne Wolff, ‘Mono Nuovo | Base Camp’, The Art Life, 19 September
Andrew Frost, ‘Dreaming of Another World’, exhibition catalogue essay
Meyer Lynne, ‘Kylie Banyard | Imagined Alternatives’, firstwords, 5 January 2014
Andrew Frost, ‘Firstdraft moving on to a bigger better canvas’, The Guardian Australia, 4 December
Andrew Frost, ‘Imagining Alternatives’, The Art Life, 22 November
Sebastian Goldspink, ‘If I could have…’, Art Collector Issue 65 July-Sept, pp 184-185
Michael Fitzgerald, ‘Hazelhurst Art Award 2013’, Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July
Kent Wilson, ‘Magic Mountain’, The Submachine, 24 January
Timeout Sydney, Beams Art Festival
Sharne Wolff, ‘Not Quite Square’, The Art Life, 25 May
Marian Tubbs, Dwelling exhibition essay
Pictorial feature Runway, issue 19: Life
Pictorial feature Das Super Paper, issue 16
‘The Three Ecologies Workshops’, Artlands Regional Arts Victoria, collaborative workshop series with Andrew Goodman held in Punctum’s Cooling House, Bendigo
‘Andrea Zittel’s A-Z West: An artist’s commune for the 21st Century’ Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art volume 4(1):262-276 07 Jun 2018, issn 2013-8652, (Journal article)
‘A game of hide and seek: negotiating the tricky act of making a self-portrait within the work of Cherine
Fahd’, Women Art Feminism in Australia, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 21 Feb 2018 – 23 Feb 2018
Imagining Alternatives: The Architecture of Counter-Cultural Utopianism, Conquest of Space Symposium, chaired by Andrew Frost, COFA, University of NSW
A Contemporary Politics of the Outmoded, QFP5 Conference Photography and Fictions, QUT and IMA, Brisbane
Artist Talk, Imagining Alternatives, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
Discourse around the History of the DIY Geo Dome, artist talk, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Artists talk, Magic Mountain, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
Looking for Alternatives, conference paper, National Institute for Experimental Art, Experimental Art Conference,
University of New South Wales.
Talking through Practice, Dissonance Conference, University of Newcastle
Artbank
University of New South Wales
Xavier College, Melbourne
The University of Wollongong
Private collections
