David Noonan’s involvement with time based media has produced a significant body of video/film projects since the 1990s. His collaborations with Simon Trevaks including 99 (1999), 100mph (2002), The Likening (2002), and SOWA (2003) were notable not only for their polished production and presentation, but also for their detailed examination of cinematic language. Using hypnotic loops and installations that incorporated elements of the stage settings built for the videos, The Likening, for example, proposed a narrative of psychological horror involving doppelgangers that extended beyond the space of the screen into the gallery itself. SOWA — which took its title from the Polish word for owl — exposed the relationship between the audience and the subject of the video, a woman reading a book, underscoring the voyeuristic tensions between the watcher and the watched.
Noonan’s solo work with film and video is highly aestheticised in its visual stylings and achingly nostalgic for an era of black and white nouvelle vague artistry. Indeed, Noonan’s most recent work with installation — Black and White 8mm Films (2005) —achieved an almost anthropological air, albeit one seen through the pages of mid-century picture magazines such as Life or Look, and combined looped films screened on DVD with monochromatic stain paintings. The negation of an identifiable period “look” for the black and white film images — an owl, a woman wandering through long grass, a mock Tudor house in a forest — cast a strong if ambiguous spell on its audience.
2012
Origami, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
David Noonan, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, UK
2011
David Noonan, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
David Noonan, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010
David Noonan: SPIEL, Washington Garcia (off-site), The Mitchell Library Glasgow, UK
David Noonan, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angles, USA
2009
David Noonan: Scenes, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2008
David Noonan, Baronian Francey, project room, Brussels, Belgium
David Noonan, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
MARKUS, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
David Noonan, Art: Concept, Paris, France
2007
David Noonan, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2006
David Noonan, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2005
Images, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
David Noonan: Four New Films, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
David Noonan - Films and Paintings 2001-2005, curated by Max Delaney, Monash Museum of Art, MUMA, Melbourne, Australia
fields, HOTEL, London, UK
2004
they became what they beheld, Three Walls, Chicago, USA
they became what they beheld, Foxy Production, New York, USA
David Noonan - Paintings, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Before and Now, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Miriam Hall, (with Starlie Geikie), Clubs Projects Inc., Melbourne, Australia
SOWA, (with Simon Trevaks), Artspace, Sydney, Australia
SOWA, (solo and a collaboration with Simon Trevaks), Foxy Productions, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2002
Waldaus, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Likening, David Noonan & Simon Trevaks, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001
The Likening, David Noonan & Simon Trevaks, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
2000
more apt to be lost than got, David Noonan & Simon Trevaks, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998
Saturn Return, 1st Floor, Melbourne, Australia
1997
head on, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
head on, Centre for Contemporary Art, Adelaide, Australia
1995
David Noonan, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1993
POOL, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Type 1-36, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
2012
Daydream Believers, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2011
A Darkness More Than Night, QUAD, Derby, UK
Secret Societies.To Know,To Dare,To Will,To Keep Silence, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
The Devil had a Daughter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Private Life of Plants, Peles Empire, London, UK
Tableaux, Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
The Keno Twins 4, Villa Merkel Bahnwärter Haus, Esslingen, Germany
The Age of Aquarius, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, USA
Peeping Toms, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2010
RIVE GAUCHE /RIVE DROITE An exhibition organized by Marc Jancou, Atelier Azzedine Alaia, Paris, France
The Keno Twins 3, Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne, Germany, curated by Michael Bauer
The British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton
17th Biennale of Sydney, Beauty of Distance, songs of survival in a precarious age, directed by David Elliot
2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The Gathering: Building the Arts Council Collection 1973-2009, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
2009
The Dwelling, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
Remote Memories, Kai 10 Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
Roots, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives, UK
Solaris, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Altermodern, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
2008
Sphinxx, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Persona, Parc Saint-Léger / Centre d'art contemporain, Paris, France
Faces and Figures (Revisited), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, USA
Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennial, curated by Charlotte Day, Healesville, Victoria, Australia
Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
That beautiful pale face is my fate (Lord Byron), Nottingham Contemporary, Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, UK
In Geneva no-one can hear you scream, organised by Marc Jancou, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Revolving Doors an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Stain Pattern; Roger Hiorns, Eva Larsson, David Musgrave, David Noonan, curated by Glenn Sorensen, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007
Tokyo Redux, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Duet, curated by Sylvia Chivaratanond, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
The present order is the disorder of the future, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands
My Flashing Laundrette - Evan Holloway, David Noonan, Adam Putnam, Galleria Raucci / Santamaria, Naples, Italy
Material Photographs, organized by Anthony Pearson, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, USA
HOTEL Gallery swap, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006
The Rings of Saturn, Tate Modern, London, UK
The General Store, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA
Frank Hannon, Jacob Dahl Jurgensen, David Noonan, Foxy Production, New York, USA
2005
Slow Rushes, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
The Four Colour Pen Show, Van Harrison Gallery, Chicago, USA
The Difference Between You And Me, The Ian Potter Museum of Art The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
If the walls could talk: Tony Clark, Callum Morton, David Noonan, Kathy Temin and Jenny Watson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Bad Names for Good Books, curated by Matthew Brannon, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2004
I feel mysterious today, curated by Dominic Molon, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida, USA
Supernatural Artificial: Contemporary photo-based art from Australia, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Instinct, curated by Liza Vasiliou, Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
The Infinite Fill, Foxy Productions, New York, USA
Glad Day, Foxy Productions, New York, USA
2003
Blinky 2: The Screening, Tate Britain, London, UK
Rough Topography, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Art + Film, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Wallpaper, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Melbourne, Australia
2002
Screen Life, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery New Plymouth, New Zealand
200 Gertrude St, Melbourne, Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, Spain
The Team Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Resident, Foxy Productions, New York, USA
Listening to New Voices, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2001
Scenes, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak, Henry Urbarch architecture, New York, USA
The Team Show: A Constructed World, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Egofugal, 7th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Egofugal, Selected Works from the7th Istanbul Biennale, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
the likening, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
2000
Sporting Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
200 Gertrude St Studio Artists 2000, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne, Australia
Garson Garson, Project Space, Melbourne, Australia
Passing Time, Moët & Chandon Commission, curated by Victoria Lynn, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Drive>power Progress>desire, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1999
Primavera, curated by Rachel Kent, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Blockbuster 99, curated by Ricky Swallow, UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Australia
Exhumed II, curated by David Noonan, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Braddon, Australia
Nearest Habitat System, curated by Eliza Huttchison, 1st floor, Melbourne, Australia
SPACE, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Moët & Chandon, touring AGSA Adelaide, AGNSW Sydney, RMIT Storey Hall, Melbourne, Australia, NGA, Canberra, Australia
Where the wild roses grow, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Walkmen, Ricky Swallow, David Jolly & David Noonan, Synasesthesia Music, Melbourne, Australia
1998
Habitat; morning star evening star, Melbourne-Scotland cultural exchange, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Exhumed, Project Space, curated by David Noonan, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Moët & Chandon Touring, NGA Canberra, NGV Melbourne, AGNSW Sydney, QAG Queensland, Australia
Work station, 1st Floor, Melbourne, Australia
Special issue, 1st Floor, Melbourne, Australia
1997
World Speak Dumb, curated by Geoff Lowe & Sarah Ritson,Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Eurovision, curated by Dominic Eichler & Esther Pireni , 205 Russel St, Melbourne, Australia
Klick, curated by Kate Daw, 1st floor, Melbourne, Australia
Mars Field, curated by Alex Pittendrigh, 1st Floor, Melbourne, Australia
1996
See Through Brain, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Klick, Transmission Gallery, curated by Kate Daw, Glasgow, Scotland
Mrs Birds House, collaboration with Jennifer Higgie, Melbourne, Australia
Photography is dead! long live photography!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1995
Lindy Lee & David Noonan, Level 2 Projects, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
1994
Project For Two Billboards: David Noonan and Elizabeth Pulie, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Deception: Melinda Harper, David Noonan & Philip Watkins, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
1993
Australian Perspecta 1993, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2011
Raymond Gill, `Leaders of the pack: the artists who matter', The Sunday Age-Extra, November 13, pp16-17
Dominic Molon, 'David Noonan', Contemporary Art Museum St Louis Exh Cat, September 9-December 30.
Andrew Frost, `Layers of Abstraction', SMH-Metro, March 25-31, 2011, pp.12
2010
RIVE GAUCHE / RIVE DROITE, essays by Alexis Jakubowicz and Yves Aupetitallot, JRP Ringier (ed), Zurich, 2010
Michael Bracewell, “Something Supernatural, This Way Comes”, Tate Etc., January 2010
Volume One: Hayman Collection, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, 2010
Lisa Le Feuvre & Tom Morton, British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, (exh. cat).
Mariuccia Casadio, “Archival”, Vogue Italia, May 2010 N. 411, p 196 - 201
2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before & After Science (exh. cat.), Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010
17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, (exh. cat.) curated by David Elliot, 2010
Jacqueline Millner, “The Video Installations of David Noonan” in Conceptual Beauty (Sydney: Artspace, 2010) pp64
2009
Jessica Lack, “Artist of the week 60: David Noonan”, The Guardian, 21 October 2009
Collage: assembling contemporary art, Black Dog Publishing: London, 2009
Altermodern, (exh. cat.), Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London
2008
Jennifer Higgie, `David Noonan: Seven scenes among many', Art & Australia, Vol. 46, No. 1,Spring, 2008, pp. 112-119
Charlotte Day, Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, (exh.cat.), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
In Geneva no-one can hear you scream, (exh. cat.), Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Busan Biennale, (exh. cat.) Busan, Korea
Claire Armstrong, `David Noonan', Art World, Issue 2, April/May 2008, p. 72 - 81
Faces and Figures (Revisited), (exh. cat.) Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, USA
Davies, Lillian, “David Noonan: Critic's Pick”, artforum.com, February 2008
Ascari, Alessio, “David Noonan', Mousse, issue 13, March 2008, pp. 14-17
2007
Day, Charlotte, “Rings of Saturn Tate Modern,” Art & Australia, Vol. 44, No. 3, Autumn 2007, p. 448
“David Noonan”, Artkrush, Issue #57, 2 May 2007
Gronlund, Melissa, "Future Greats: David Noonan," Art Review, March 2007, pp. 78 - 79, 95
Pearson, Anthony, "Material Photographs," Shane Campbell Gallery, January 2007
Berardini, Andrew, “David Noonan,” artUS, issue 16 January - February 2007, p. 19
Material Photographs, (exh. cat.), organized by Anthony Pearson, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, USA
2006
Taft, Catherine, "David Noonan", Modern Painters, December 2006 - January 2007, pp. 117
Myers, Julian. "David Noonan", Frieze, November 2006, pp. 166
Duncan, Michael, "Critic's Diary Opening Salvos in L.A." Art in America, November 2006, pp. 78
Stewart, Christabel, "His Dark Materials," Tank, Volume 4, Issue 7, 2006, pp. 24 - 25
2005
Laster, Paul, "A Beautiful Horror," Art Asia Pacific, Winter 2005, No. 43, pp 50 - 57.
Fahey, Johannah, "Before and Now: The Work of David Noonan," eyeline (contemporary visual arts), Spring 2005, No. 58, pp 42 - 44
Fahey, Johannah, David Noonan: Before and Now, Thames and Hudson: London, England, 2005
Higgie, Jennifer, and Max Delaney, David Noonan: Films and Paintings 2001-2005, MUMA: Melbourne, Australia Australian Art Collector, No. 31, Jan-March 2005
Laster, Paul, "David Noonan", Art Asia Pacific, Winter 2005
2004
Workman, Michael, “Reviews: David Noonan, Three Walls,” Flash Art, Nov-Dec 2004, pg. 98
Molon, Dominic, They became what they beheld, (exh. cat.), PBICA, Palm Beach, USA, 2004
Vasiliou, Liza, Instinct, (exh. cat.), Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Victoria, pp. 18 - 19
Kerr, Merrily, “The Infinite Fill Show: Foxy Productions,” Time Out New York, August 12 - 19, Issue #463
King, Natalie, Supernatural Artificial, (exh. cat.), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Art + Film, (exh. cat.), Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Korotkin, Joyce B., “David Noonan - Foxy Productions,” Tema Celeste, July 2003, p. 80
Pollack, Maika, “David Noonan: Foxy Productions,” Flash Art, vol. 36, no. 230, May - June, p. 91
Laster, Paul, “David Noonan, SOWA,” TimeOUT, New York, April
Anna Clabburn, Wall\paper, (exh. cat.), Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Melbourne
2002
Garrett, Craig, “Resident at Foxy Productions,” Flash Art, October, 2002
Listening to New Voices, 2001-2002, National and International Studio Program Catalogue, pp. 70-74, PS. 1, The Institute of Contemporary Art, New York
2001
“egofugal,” 7th International Istanbul Biennial (exh. cat.), pp. 140 - 141
“egofugal,” 7th International Istanbul Biennial (exh. cat.), Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 88 - 98
2000
Fenner, Felicity, “Report From Australia - New Life in Melbourne,” Art in America, No. 1, January, pp. 74-75
'Noonan' LIKE art magazine, no. 11, Autumn, 2000, pp. 12-15
Lynn, Victoria, Passing Time, Moët & Chandon, (exh. cat.) Art Gallery of New South Wales
Kent, Rachel, Sporting Life, (exh. cat.), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Burke, Greg, Drive>power Progress>desire, (exh. cat.), Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1999
Engberg, Juliana, “Signs of Life”, Melbourne International Biennial, p. 106
1998
Palmer, Daniel, "Walkmen", Frieze, no.46, May 1998, p.86
"Habitat, morning star evening star, Melbourne-Scotland cultural exchange, pp.25-41
O'Connell, Stephen, "David Noonan: Metaphysical body suits", art/text, no.62, August-October 1998, pp.73-77
1997
Koop, Stuart, "World Speak Dumb", Art & Text, no.58, 1997
Higgie, Jennifer, "head-on", (exb. cat.), the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 1997
Hennessy, Deborah, "Art lover's lost highway", Broadsheet, vol.26, no.2, 1997, pp 6&7
"World Speak Dumb", Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, (exb. cat.), Melbourne, Australia, 1997, p.7
1996
Michael, Linda, "Photography is dead long live photography", (exb. cat.), Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996, pp.7,12
Hutchison, Eliza, "Modern Star Series", Next Wave Festival, (exb. cat.), Melbourne, Australia, 1996
Holiday, Philip, "Deception: Melinda Harper, David Noonan and Philip Watkins", (exb. cat.), 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia, March 1994
1993
Drummond, Rozalind, "Pool", (exb. cat.), Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, November 1993
Hennessy, Deborah, "David Noonan, Australian Perspecta 1993", (exb. cat.), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1993, pp.66-67
Morgan, Paul, "Type 1-36", (exb. cat.), 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia, 1993
Artist writings and artist pages
2007
David Noonan, `Portfolio Par', Palais De Tokyo Magazine, Issue 2, Spring 2007, pp. 57-72
2006
`Life in Film: David Noonan', Frieze, October 2006, p. 42-43
1999
“from #1”, journal published by Witte de With, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1999, pp. 27-28
